Well, Let me just throw this out there…

It has gotten so that character race only seems important at time of creation.  I want to change that.  I want things to happen during play where players go, “oh ya… sweet.  Forgot you were an elf!”

So here’s my plan:

When you roll, you can use 1-4 feats to execute a “racial feat”.  Here are the “feats” list by how many successes you spend on it for that roll:

All on action (attack/cast) not reaction (defend, detect, etc.)

Human

Gains experience at 2 times normal

Elf

1. Invisible to previous target for 1 round.  Cannot be dispelled (trick of light)
2. Invisible to previous target and anyone within 10 feet for 3 rounds.
3. Invisible to everyone for 5 rounds.

Half Elf
Gains experience at 1.25 normal
2.  Invisible to previous target for 1 round.  Cannot be dispelled (trick of light)
3.  Invisible to previous target and anyone within 10 feet for 3 rounds.
4.  Invisible to everyone for 5 rounds.

Ghoman

Gains exp at 1.25 times normal
Focus.

2- Can use 4 dice in primary pool for up to 5 rounds
3- Can use 4 dice in primary pool for up to 20 rounds
4- Can use 5 dice in primary pool for up to 20 rounds

Yrog

Focus.

1. Can use 4 dice in primary pool for up to 5 rounds
2. Can use 4 dice in primary pool for up to 20 rounds
3. Can use 5 dice in primary pool for up to 20 rounds

Jdargon
“blink”

1. teleport 5 feet in any direction, change direction facing
2. As per 1, but up to 10 feet, and get another action

Gminar

1. Automatic 3 successes on the next 2 PSC rolls (if within the next 2 rounds)
2. Magic “slides off” for the next 3 rounds (doesn’t dispel, just has no effect.  Includes beneficial spells)
3. Can Dispel on spell stuck, up to level 10

Gorunth

1. Slip into breeyark with no wait time
2. as per one, plus, no penalty to defense
3. as per 2, but does not count as one of 3 times per day, and skill is 2x rather than 1.5 times
4. 1 extra attack per round while breeyark

Dwarf

Power of mother earth

1. 20 points of protection for 10 rounds
2. Earth strike – 15 dmg to all in 15 feat from shockwave plus effects of 1.  (can limit to 90 degrees)
3. Earth strike – 30 dmg to all in 30 feat from shockwave plus effects of 2.
4. Earth strike – 60 damage to all in 60 feet from shockwave plus effects of 3

And, in the spirit of the last post:  The most neglected feat of the week:  My left one.  Hurts like hell since I broke it.  I think something is still wrong.  Going to go see a doctor

Have fun!

I miss you all so much. I hope you aren’t all dying too frequently without me! I promise I will be there. You need to stop cancelling on the weeks I plan on coming!! Srsly! I think you guys are gone as much as I am… Well, I wanted to say a word and tell you I have not abandoned all of you and think about all of you all the time. Much love, and Good hunting, or gaming in this situation!

Luv, Kara

P.S. I can’t wait to show you all my new shirt!!! It’s so great. Not green, but great! You will love it!

Additionally, a couple of items up for discussion in case anyone wants to chime in:

1- I really like the grappling rules that have made it into the manual, and how they handle multiple opponents very well.  I am not however, happy wit the “control” rules we have been trying out.  The more I have been watching ground fights and thinking of the rule, and with all of the practice I have been getting in Judo Class, the less I agree with the control rules.  control can be easily gained, and easily lost with one quick mistake.  I also thin that the new grappling dog-pile rules are borderline too complex… to add control is just over the top.  Please let me know your input, as for now I am looking to pull them from beta testing (as they never actually made it to the manual.)

2- Always on, or hyper mages… I think play test has showed this needs some work.  Perhaps it casts too often… maybe we should spread it out a bit.  I think we may want to do that, but I am fearful that it wil then be underpowered.  Thinking we should try this though:

PSC   1/2+1   1/2   1(if LOC > 3)

1-2     1/day    1/hour   1/10rds

3-5     1/4hrs    1/20rds  1/7rds

6-8     1/2hrs    1/10rds  1/5rds

9-        1/hour   1/6 rd  1/3 rd

1- The website (grimworld.org) should be a alive again shortly

2- I wanted to give an update on the game from last week.

Okay, so basically we went down the mountain, and into a cavern.  Some old guy threw down really cool magical cards, and we fought him and his minions.  In it’s first week of play I think always on magic seemed pretty useful and balanced (thinking of renaming it hyper magic.) But I would love to hear your opinions.  Although I got a bit overexcited with it (animated my robed to bind the wizard… which worked well.  Until I hit him wit a fire spell, which he survived but the robe did not.  Damn!)

Then we went head to head again a group of dwarves front ending a group of elven archers.  We did really well actually… but I still feel like we are working like a bunch people, and not a team… we have several mages, and we need to be sure to leverage them.  We also need to figure out how to use our magics to enable our tanks, well beyond a simple protection spell.  We should have been able to mow through those guys based on the sheer numbers of us, andthe number of points put into these characters.  But, it was really fun.   Welcome back blog, and shortly the website.  yee ha!

There’s really only one notable item in this release: you can now save and open character sheets. Which is pretty huge in my book, so I don’t feel too bad about only one change. File > Save, choose a location, put in a file name, and voila you’ll have a .gcc file that can be opened later for viewing or changing.

The next release of the CharCalc may actually incorporate preferences into the program, where you can change the point allowances (although then you won’t be able to save the character if you do…we don’t need no cheater characters) and the program will automatically open your last open character, as well as track checkable items in the toolbar.