RPG design ideas......I want to know what you guys think

Ok

thanks for the info.
Infernal, I live in Dubbo. Why do you ask though???
It is a pity that we aren't any closer as having a couple of commited gamers around helps.

In my rpg you will not really be gaining 1000% health per lvl. Perhapse 1 or 2, mayb 3 but that is all. Or if you are going wiz style you won't want health anyway. You'll want int. or mana.
So it should be pretty easy to determine as to how much damage things should do. They will just slowly progress i supose.
I will check a angus & robinson and see if they stock D&D.

The style that I am having is that I want it to be as realistic as possible.
while in the fantasy and undead D&D theme.
Basically a couple of sword hits and you are dead.
1 or 2 max arrows will kill you. But to compensate they will have less chance to hit.
Anything you guys strongly think that I should add in I would like to know.

Thanks guys

~sfictre

It's not wether you win or loose, but how you play the game.......
(can't remember who wrote this)

fair enough infernal.

any of you guys have any good ideas for missions??
Or storyline twists??

one thing that I am sick of is the traditional storyline.
for example:
You are the main char and you find out later that your dad was a mighty warrior that saved the city a while back
Main char finds out that his dad is actually the "evil wiz" when he thought that he was an orphan.
Main char is brought up like a slave in the lower classes and finds out that he is actually a wiz or of royal blood.

things like this.
Normal storyline twists that bug you cause they are all so predicitable.

Any way.

let us know what you think

~sfictre
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it dosn't matter whether you win or loose but how you play the game.....
(can't remember who wrote this)

ok,

now before we go on.........do you reckon that you could tell me ALL the functions of a GM. I thought that they had some pretty big set out rules but from what you're saying it dosn't sound like there is many.

Anyway please let me know.

Thanks a million

By the way.......if the GM makes up the storyline/s.......then how can you make it interesting???? I mean....how can you make SURE that it is interesting????
The main reason why this would be a problem is becuase the storyline is VERY in depth. It is complicated and needs to work properly.
There is 3 teams and the story line needs to work for ALL 3 teams.
Basically, 3 teams all aginst eachother.
But if the missions are boring or repetive then people will only focous on the lvl-ing side of things and the abilities side of things.
I don't want that. I want people to be brought into the game....almost like it's real. For that yo work then you need to have it not boring, believeable, fun and an adventure.

thanks again

~sfictre

Ok.....so basically the only thing that the GM dosn't controll is how fast the beast and monsters move and how much they have in the way of special abilities and attack.
They controll the numbers of monsters, the type of monsters, the type of mission, how long the mission is......ect ect.

It would be nice, but can the GM actually play as well?? I don't know if it would go down that well if the GM couldn't........in my BGD group.
Is there some way/s to get around it??

If not, I may just have to write a complicated set of missions. I will definatly have someone that has ultimate controll over the game. For example, he has the last say in a debate over wether someone actually has LOS to a unit that he wants to attack with range. I guess now it is deciding exactly how much power the GM has over the whole game.
Is there some way to have a GM that can play as well????
Maybe the GM should have half stats or something.....a dissadvantage or something to equal out the fact that he knows what's going to happen before it happens........
let me know what you guys think

~sfictre
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it's not whether you win or loose but how you play the game......
(can't remember who wrote this)