Martial Overhaul

Martial Overhaul

Hello, it's me again! It's been a while since the last update, but I've been hard at work on this new update with loads of help from my friends! Unfortunately I'm still a senior in college so I had to pause any progress I had at the time to take care of school stuff, buuuuut now that that's over I am back to bring you the Combat Overhaul! As a whole I've had a lot of fun writing this update with my co-devs, so I'm really excited to see how this update changes the game for both the GM's and the Players!

Combat Overhaul

• Martial Rework:
  • Attacks now grant Focus on a success. This makes it so that there are now TWO ways to gain Focus.
  • Masteries:
    • Extra passives that share the same slots as your known Signature Spells.
    • This further incentivizes making semi-caster Planeswalkers.
  • Skills:
    • Tiered 1-5 and cost as much Focus as its Tier
      • Costs as much EXP to learn, but can be upgraded thrice for 1 EXP of any color each
    • Require no roll to use, but have a condition to activating it
    • Consider them like quick-time events in video games
      • Essentially, meet their condition -> pay Focus -> resolve effect.
  • Commands:
    • Now aren't considered Spells or Skills. Whether the effect is part of a Spell or Attack depends on if you use the Command Spell over Command Strike or vice versa.
  • Other Changes
    • Signature Spells only have 3 Slots and they are shared with Masteries
    • Commands only have 2 Slots max
    • Spells and Skills now have to be "prepared" -- 5 at a time at Lvl1, up to 8 at later levels

Other Rulebook Changes

• Favor renamed to inspiration, and now has 3 points instead of just 1.
  • More roleplay, more inspiration, more fun!
• Damage Die upgrades cost 2 EXP now instead of 3
• new Outside Combat:
  • new Stamina - A way to keep track of the ingame passage of time (NOT the exact time of day)
  • Rests given more details especially with regards to its interactions with Stamina
  • Added Job Actions that are associated with Trade Tools
• Archetypes:
  • Bard Passive 1 changed. (The Focus gain was too strong)
  • Starting Inventories Updated
  • Passives named.
  • Max Load is now a consistent 10 modified by BDY
  • All Damage dice lowered (to make way for raising damage die as a level up option)
  • New Archetype: Speedster
• Tags:
  • Most Tags overhauled
  • new keyword: Enfeeble - stops healing.
  • new Status: Exhausted - Action rolls are also modified by current Stamina
  • new Keywords: Tick and Turn - simply: Tick triggers and counts duration every turn, while Turn only counts the Combatant's turns
  • Shapeshift removed
  • Regenerate no longer needs the bearer to not move to trigger the heal
  • Versatile Keyword granted a two-hand bonus
• Items:
  • Added New Items
  • Added more mechanics to the profession-based items like Smith's tools
  • Shortsword, Longsword and Spear given Finesse
  • Longbow and Shortbow given Two-handed
  • Items given Coin values

Spell Changes (Compendium)
Note: Changes to the Compendium were taking a while, but the Database has instead been updated and will be the reference for the Abilities for the time being. This will work like the Planeswalker Sheet (make a copy then filter and sort as you please). It'll need to be copied again after each update, but that's the best I could do for now, please bear with it ^^"

• Concept Tiers reduced to 1-3 (4 and 5 still exist but they're not part of Concepts anymore)
  • As a result most Concepts have received reworks if not numerical tweaks (too many have been changed to include here)
• Other notable Changes:
  • Reparation and Regenerate's Regen values buffed
  • Savagery Removed
  • Area Mastery removed
  • Multi-Target Mastery removed
  • Artifice Concepts given Command Effects