Posts made by Ominous

(Hooray for late night time wasting.)

I had considered an X-Com themed server. I wanted to pull a bit from Delta Green and X-files. Keep the mystery and investigation elements high.

@Lithium

I would change it so that instead of areas have balances, characters have balances, so a character's stats would determine what their deck has in it.

Mystic Empyrean has a system I haven't seen used anywhere else. It's built into the setting of the game, so it would require a adjustment if someone wanted to use it for something else.

The setting is multiverse that has been broken apart. The universe has seven elements that also represent all abilities and skills - fire, light, lightning, water, stone, darkness, and air - arranged in a wheel. If you want to punch someone, that's fire. If you want to sneak by someone, that's darkness.

Each "realm" of the multiverse has a different balance of these elements. When you travel to the realm, you create that realms "world balance" by forming a deck consisting of a number of cards equal to the stats for each element (or a bag of beads with different colored beads for each element). It's easier to fight in a fire oriented realm and to sneak in a darkness oriented realm.

When a player wants to resolve an action they draw a card from the deck. Exact match is a "success and", one step away on the wheel is "success", two steps away is "success but", and three steps away is "failure". If a player doesn't like the result they can redraw a number of times equal to their own score in the element they are trying to use.

@auspice And that is why I love D&D.