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Thanks I'm working on both the story and the system. I figure automatic rolls will make things more interesting in the role play. I'm trying to implement it in a way that it isn't based on luck of the dice as often as your characters abilities and how you use them.

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Protogonos & Its Lore

It is believed by many that the planet itself is an egg.

The majority of the planet (Protogonos) is covered in massive mountains. Forged through centuries of sky fire hailing its surface. However within a large portion of water, surrounded but untouched by the stalagmites, sat a beautiful Eden. However it was home to savage monsters and primarily Dragons. But there were beings close to human, but one look at you could tell they weren't. They either resemble demons, or angels, and most resemble demons. Then there are some who are bipedal reptilians ranging from small and cute, to huge and scary. Though they might not entirely agree, and have prejudices against each other they all claim to be known as "Descendants". When they die some turn into what they call "Ascendants."

Their history is deep and vague. Not entirely known to even themselves. But they believe their souls are undying, either retaining form as a ever living being, or returning to the planet itself to nourish it. Some even talk of becoming everlasting weapons, or objects. But the most important part is that they can harness their soul's essence to do various manipulations and manifestations. Their belief may vary on who God is, some believe a being came to their world who was so powerful he created a wife from a dragon's heart and they are their children. The more reptilian (and dragon blooded) ones believe he didn't create a wife, he simply altered himself into a dragon to be with a dragon whom he loved. Resulting in the birth of more dragon like forms, and the other demonic or angelic looking beings are a off branch in the gene. But the resulting exceeding number of human looking descendants are from genocides and out breeding of their kind. The truth of the matter is this.

After the birth of the first descendant from the Seraphim being and his fashioned wife the war began. Whether the Dragon Lords felt threatened by the rising alien population or they felt the need to suppress and use the Seraphim and his power for their own gains. They unfortunately knew no other ways than force. This brought the flames of war to ablaze. The Seraphim liberated those under the Dragon Lords rule and interbred his offspring with their kind to form bonds and a deeper alliance. However his people remained almost entirely to themselves and within time grew to a sizable army of ten thousand soldiers all sharing the blood of the Seraphim. While the Dragon horde was staggeringly more than their numbers but despite this a campaign was rarely ever lost by the descendants and their freed dragon allies. Instead they battled only during certain times and situations making their victories powerful but not frequent. This was a long and destructive war with many descendants being enslaved across the lands. But the everlasting powers were harnessed by the Seraphim and his kin while the dragons relied on their bodies which broke and tore under the pure essence of the cosmic and dragon entities uniting before them. And so they lost.

After the war the descended took over the lands of the Dragons. Each area building from on top the rubble of the ancient dragon gods and forming their own lordships. By this time the population of the world was mostly descendant. Dragons did not often breed as they did and could not always compete within the lands of the fair and elegant descendants who thought most dragons and those who looked like dragons were revolting. Mostly dragons who shape shifted and or retained a fair form were successful in breeding with descendants but in doing so lost their dragon heritage. This is why in modern era most dragon descendants remain with others of their like, creating a minority group. The separation of descendants during the war and after resulted in the blood split of Descendants kind. It is known that the descendants bodies adapted through their fast breeding and high mortality rate. This coupled with their soul essence harnessing and manipulating nature around them. Creating descendants who could master all areas of terrain on the Edafos (Map/Land).

Despite the freedom given under the Seraphim's short rule once he departed for the heavens things changed. The modern era demographics are as such. There's slavery still in affect and many old world things still being done. The angelic people are the primary targets for kidnapping and selling. The demonic people are larger in number and the angelic traits are rare. This is due to the interbreeding of dragons with descendants long ago. Though Dragon looking people who are not entirely dragons are a minority they are still more common than angelic people. The safest places are areas that have been mapped in most maps on the land. Everything else is home to anyone living freely in the wilds but mostly bandit gangs and nomadic villages. The real danger are the dragons, marked with skulls on maps. Though Dragons are wise and more intelligent than ever before some, bitter from defeat, chose to breed only to create rebellious offspring. Those that live and eat freely as beasts. Many do not know if they are indeed mindless and stupid or entirely absorbed by the hunger for revenge on the Seraphim's descendants and all who share their blood.

The powers that formed to rule the lands are numerous. Yet they form alliances that combine some of their power into one form. The Kingdoms and Factions are the seats of these world shaking forces. Though the measure of each could be speculated to differ, each and every descendant knows to respect or fear the leaders of any kingdom or faction. This divides the power but primarily it is given to the King and Queens of each Kingdom. They are the true gods of this world now and are not only worshiped willingly by their subjects but hold power that are to most insurmountable. The Factions work with kingdoms to remain from under the Kingdoms heels many would say. But the wise will tell you that it is just to keep the peace. As no faction desires to rule over people. Where does a faction's alliance lay? Look to their HQs and the closest kingdom to them are their promoters. The Merchant Guild is the only one that is entirely neutral with very little prospects beyond stable economy.

The Magoi and the Kingdom of Tearianaris formed an alliance. The combination of the spells the Magoi knew and the technology found, decoded and reconstructed by the Lassa formed what most of the world consider abominations of incredible power. Though the Lassa liked the name "Advanced Apparatus" a lot better. The "thing" was a suite of metal with a intelligence system. The lack of technology was made up for with reanimation spells. Meaning they used the flesh of dead dragons and kept the fresh blood of it going through to keep it pulsing with life. Then they linked the minds of the person inside the suite with the body. This was considered a very dangerous method. Many died testing these in various ways. It was not until the push in technology and funding found under the oceans by the Queen of Tearianaris Tydra Nept did they eventually get it right. Resulting in the few but powerful Advanced Apps created for the Queen and some of her chosen sentinels. The ways of which to create the advanced apps and other forms of technology were of interest to the engineers of the Kingdom of Fotia who too were wise in using industry to bolster their supplies. Using mostly their own designs and some of the knowledge gained to create war machines of their own. Not as capable as the Tearian's but more numerous are their machines in combat, cultivation, and industry.

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@Kibaro
Ok. I plan on just making the dice rolls and such for everyone for the most part. If thats ok with you guys. I just want you to focus mostly on the roleplay.

Ill even make the stats for each weapon, spells and more. In combat it will be based on your weapons damage output roll plus your strength or dex bonus. Spells will depend on intelligence and wisdom.

But as you play and try to attack someone ill let you know if you hit or miss and how much damage you did etc. Ill link to my rolls so you can see it.

Luck will be something ill play with in the background behind each attempt at something. Its a free chance to get what you want if it rolls high enough for you. Though I may scratch it off completely.

Strength:
Endurance:
Dexterity:
Agility:
Perception:
Accuracy:
Wisdom:
Intelligence:
Physical Density:
Resistance:
Luck:
Charm:
Soul:

Weapons:
Type-
Material-
Damage output-
Condition-
Ability-

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Dumo

Stats-
Strength:
Endurance:
Dexterity:
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Perception:
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Wisdom:
Intelligence:
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Heat&Cold Resistance:
Luck:

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@Kibaro Good insight. So it's basically like this. If you are not fast enough to match the movement speed of the one you are attacking you're most likely not to hit. But if you do match it you have to be accurate enough to score a hit on a moving target.

I agree that if you fail to be faster than the attempt to harm on your person you should be hit. Accuracy may be overdoveg it in physical close combat. Projectiles however will have an accuracy roll.

Good suggestion. Ill test out agility vs agility rolls more.

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Well there's a dice system on here that goes as low as 1d1.@PURRfect93

Alright. In combat there will be different rolls for certain things, like for instance a slash with a sword will have an agility check, and in retaliation a dodge from the nonattacker would be agility checked as well. Since 3 is the highest any average person can muster it will be my base for agility judging. If you roll a 7 however that's at least more than twice the agility of an average. So to me I will be judging speed based on agility rolls.

If you attack and roll a 7 and your opponent attempts to dodge they too must roll for agility and if they get a number higher then its an automiss for the attacker. But if the attacker rolls higher or equal he/she will accuracy check against the agility the dodger rolled earlier. This time the agility check is for evasion vs Accuracy. If Accuracy is higher it counts as a hit and then you will roll for either dexterity or strength for damage. Subtract that number by the defense of the one getting hit, there will be a defensive roll for this.

But if it is lower (the accuracy roll) than their agility roll it will be a miss. The one dodging can now counter if they choose to (You can do whatever you want).

For every hindrance that will be a minus 1. A hindrance can be something simple like sun glare, smokescreen, stress, etc. And for each hindrance I'll subtract 1. For every advantage gained or bonus it will be a +1, this includes adrenaline, (Good) Drugs, Territory advantages, etc. Still working on it. But what's the thoughts on this?
@Kibaro

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I agree a 1d60 would have a higher potential but a low chance of getting high numbers. Which is why there will be +1s to it. So far the dice in my mind is the potential one has and the + is your actual base level of skill. Weight lifters can have a 1d20 to strength potential and can roll a 1 on strength feats but the +10 will assure they at least get 11. Another example is a sniper. He can have the potential from his experience to have a 1d10 in overall accuracy and a +5 as his/hers skill set that doesn't dip any lower (unless considerable factors hinder him/her) than a even 6.

So the dice is the potential to max out for higher feats but the +1s count for the persons earned natural status. Im contemplating a 1d2+1 being newbie level. With it going up by 1 for every 2 levels. So a 1d4+2 then 1d5+2, then 1d6+3, 1d8+4, 1d10+5 etc.

Dice Testing and more

ugghhhh wtf

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When character profiles are made Ill read them over and will create a stat sheet. It will include accuracy, agility, etc. I will judge this off your characters experience, size, personality etc. Im thinking of having a dice used depending on your level in each status. Like a d3 or d4 is lowest level. D20 being very high. So you can have high d10 accuracy but low d6 agility

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Nothing concrete yet I'm still working on some systems for character creation. And also while I do enjoy the luck of the dice throw and all I'm not big on the gambling aspect. I've heard of some ridiculous feats in D&D simply by the luck of the dice. Which can be fine in some situations buuuut I'm not big on gambling, more so on strategy. So while there will be a dice system It won't be that majorly based on luck. The confusing mess of words I posted earlier were all factors of combat I could think of off the top of my head. These factors and more are what brings out the realism in combat I think. Which gave me an idea to add or subtract from dice rolls for these factors. For example a sword swing adds whatever improves the swing in some viable way (Strength, training, dexterity etc) and subtracts from what hinders the swing (Air pressure, Fatigue, Mental Stress etc). This could be used for almost any attempt at anything but I think combat and certain physical feats (Like sneaking) are what ill use it on. I'm reading up on different D&D systems. Might end up with my own special blend. Stay tuned and suggest away.