youre going to be amazing.

so it’s still like high fantasy but now you really just use two types of die, a d20 and your intensity die, which is a d6 for all characters at the start. and the reason for streamlining dice is because i’m about to completely destroy the magic system by making it tags based rather than individualized spells. and then. i make it so physical attacks also can have tags applied to them.

and then i make a mech ttrpg mounted on top of this system using the tags to design mechs and weapons.

“okay, but what about cantrips?” easy, building a spell that’s below a certain cost (which changes as you level) counts as a cantrip and doesn’t expend mana.

“physical attacks have tags? how is that balanced?” two pools of mana (body mana and mind mana). body mana is generally used for physical actions, mind mana for magical ones.

“can you use body mana for stuff outside of combat, then?” yeah of course.

“okay but how do the mechs fit into this? like why ‘mount’ it on this system?” well, the pilots will also be fully realized adventurers with levels and stuff.

“does mana scale? also what about hit dice?” it’s all intensity now. oops.

“what?” so for example, the mage class would have health intensity 1, body intensity 1, mind intensity 3. so they roll 1 die for health, 1 for body mana, and 3 for mind mana, per level. they’re very heavily specced into magic.

“so what’s the spread on a rogue?” health 1, body 3, mind 1. this can also be altered by subclass though.

1. mages are health 2, body 1, mind 4

“But you’re so smart!”

No. What I am is good at school.

Now that I’m almost 30 none of that is serving me at all in being able to have a typical job or drive or fucking exist at all as an autistic human with no support because, well, guess what, I need support!

It’s. Frustrating.

You have to remind everyone over and over again that you’re a disappointment. That you are worthless “potential” wasted.

I was good at grade school. K-12.

so it’s still like high fantasy but now you really just use two types of die, a d20 and your intensity die, which is a d6 for all characters at the start. and the reason for streamlining dice is because i’m about to completely destroy the magic system by making it tags based rather than individualized spells. and then. i make it so physical attacks also can have tags applied to them.

and then i make a mech ttrpg mounted on top of this system using the tags to design mechs and weapons.

“okay, but what about cantrips?” easy, building a spell that’s below a certain cost (which changes as you level) counts as a cantrip and doesn’t expend mana.

“physical attacks have tags? how is that balanced?” two pools of mana (body mana and mind mana). body mana is generally used for physical actions, mind mana for magical ones.

“can you use body mana for stuff outside of combat, then?” yeah of course.

“okay but how do the mechs fit into this? like why ‘mount’ it on this system?” well, the pilots will also be fully realized adventurers with levels and stuff.

“does mana scale? also what about hit dice?” it’s all intensity now. oops.

“what?” so for example, the mage class would have health intensity 1, body intensity 1, mind intensity 3. so they roll 1 die for health, 1 for body mana, and 3 for mind mana, per level. they’re very heavily specced into magic.

“so what’s the spread on a rogue?” health 1, body 3, mind 1. this can also be altered by subclass though.

so it’s still like high fantasy but now you really just use two types of die, a d20 and your intensity die, which is a d6 for all characters at the start. and the reason for streamlining dice is because i’m about to completely destroy the magic system by making it tags based rather than individualized spells. and then. i make it so physical attacks also can have tags applied to them.

and then i make a mech ttrpg mounted on top of this system using the tags to design mechs and weapons.

“okay, but what about cantrips?” easy, building a spell that’s below a certain cost (which changes as you level) counts as a cantrip and doesn’t expend mana.

“physical attacks have tags? how is that balanced?” two pools of mana (body mana and mind mana). body mana is generally used for physical actions, mind mana for magical ones.

“can you use body mana for stuff outside of combat, then?” yeah of course.

“okay but how do the mechs fit into this? like why ‘mount’ it on this system?” well, the pilots will also be fully realized adventurers with levels and stuff.

“does mana scale? also what about hit dice?” it’s all intensity now. oops.

“what?” so for example, the mage class would have health intensity 1, body intensity 1, mind intensity 3. so they roll 1 die for health, 1 for body mana, and 3 for mind mana, per level. they’re very heavily specced into magic.

“so what’s the spread on a rogue?” health 1, body 3, mind 1. this can also be altered by subclass though.

so it’s still like high fantasy but now you really just use two types of die, a d20 and your intensity die, which is a d6 for all characters at the start. and the reason for streamlining dice is because i’m about to completely destroy the magic system by making it tags based rather than individualized spells. and then. i make it so physical attacks also can have tags applied to them.

and then i make a mech ttrpg mounted on top of this system using the tags to design mechs and weapons.

two unassuming make some noise contestants

and one vic michaelis, primed and ready to deal 8d6 of psychic damage—

results:

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