I think you're not understanding the point I was getting across, and certainly, if there is less rules on the page to do with math, we can put more text on the page to explain how to interpret the data in-game. Those who decide to vote no because they are stuck in the mindset of what old proficiency means in-game, show a lack of willingness to understand from my standpoint of view. The amount of tickets that currently roll in based on proficiency abuse is.. none. Absolutely none at all. The only tickets of powergaming or god-rp is from people who don't have proficiency points because they don't have apps. Overly cynical views shouldn't get in the way of progress imo - this system entirely wipes out the capacity for mary sue's and min-maxed character points for maximizing win-rp, and those who vote no without elaborating beyond that stance I've made at the beginning, sort of leave me wondering why they are voting no if they don't take the effort to explain.
Yet you just agreed with me that players do as they want anyway... I haven't voted cause I am not against change, I just find holes and weak points in this change. I agree tweaks to the current system need to happen, but this is only the first option and I'm sure there is more to be explored before deciding on the first suggestion.
How exactly would this work, given the current system of mutations that occur with each level of spell learned? More importantly, how would always having access to 10 spells off the bat likely be justified when the current lore is purposefully made to benefit Elves with more spells due to longevity, whereas humans had to become quite old in order to perform only at only 80% the full capacity? A subrace such as Es-Allar or Saivale would be completely undesirable since they're already not that handsome, but now they're rather stiffed when it comes to intelligence and magic since their shtick is now in the hands of anyone that can use it.
I think it's pretty safe to assume that lore staff would probably put an official hard lock on what age you need to be in order to get a certain build.
You didn't read the system properly. You need certain points to be a certain build (it consumes half of your base points just to be 'ripped'), tutors will still be a thing since schools will exist in lore (but not in points), and schools already are being lowered to around 4 so that players have more lenience in their stories. Not only that, but if all else fails, it's really easy just to name a completely fantastical and obscure school name with a certain weapon combo you like that's only local to your char's unnamed birth place because it fits you.
I actually read it several times and instead took the points from this post and applied them to the current system as opposed to making an entirely new system.
I think a higher spell caps for these races would be a good idea, for elves perhaps elves over 80 get 2 more spells. And the Es-Allar and Saivale get 3 or 4 bonus.
We already re-invented the plans for Magic.
Still up for debate. All races are by default at 0 Strength Average, unless specified otherwise in lore. Then every point in Str increases the cap here, but the cap is not forced, You can choose any level beneath the cap as far as race allows. For example if you are an Orc and have 4 str, you could be Muscular or ripped or toned or athletic, but you have to be Muscular because of race limitations.
To pitch my two cents into this part, forcing a Muscle or Fat level seems restrictive, at least if its only one. Instead of just "Orcs must be: Muscular" making it Muscular Or Ripped. So theres a little variety, just as an example.
Maraya as a race are dead. I want to do some sort of structural niche review at some point. We do kind of really lack a kind of thief/stealing/sneak character, and it would be interesting to give the Maraya some sort of flat invisibility racial ability with boosts to proficiencies while tackling a visual re-work again. But this is not super relevant at the moment. Individual racial boosts are not relevant to the suggestion of the change as a whole.
There already is. Valuur Orcs are limited to Ripped. See my Avatar.
I don't think so. Atraves plays a special kind of role, and I think if a person is too muscular to wield the weapon the way the elves meant, then they will find some other way that works for them.
Whoops, forgot to remove that from my post before I sent it. Put it up for public viewing sake anyway, I suppose.
The current system is way too complicated in comparison to this newly provided system, which is also far more numerically balanced for people who love stats.
I would dare accuse this to be a lack of understanding rather than a lack of simplification. The complicated part comes from rules forcing staff to understand the specifics of all 40+ schools, some of which are extremely strict to their definition as to whether or not you get it. In fact, you almost nailed the system in its vague expressions, except the ??? becomes "put 1 put in 2 sub categories or 2 in 1 sub category for every base point." If you want me to be extremely picky, with schools existing alongside points and about 25% of them having "you get x if you y," there's over 40 schools you have to read through, which don't all tailor to the player's creativity, and each have their very specific cultures / reasoning / practice / et cetera, about 500 words long each school. To make the numbers even scarier, add about 90 different individual proficiencies you can work with, and players having between 20 - 140 points to work with. I didn't quite have the patience, nor am I very good with numbers, so I very likely am providing values too small in comparison to the actuality.
I missed the Strength bit because it wasnt in the same bit as the other stats breakdown, so that helps a bit.
