Re: [Arianne-general] Crude RP system (incomplete)

[MIGUEL A. B. L. <mb...@fe...>]

> I extracted as much as possible from Brian docs, and added some few
> things. 
> Below you can read about 4 Attributes, and basic combat. Magic system
> still needs to be finished, I'll take care of that later.

Great.


> For elemental magics we need new special object: rune containing
> essence. 
> There should be 4 kinds of them, but lets stop with 1 now. Rune should
> be really easy to design, it's tetrahedron. One side has O mark, another X,
> and third side has X bound in O. Fourth side has symbol of one of four
> elemental magics. Someone create the rune, please !


 
> Strenght:
> Average human range is 90-120 (log scale!!). To raise your muscle's
> power two times you need to raise Strenght by 9 points. To raise it 4 times - 
> by 18 points. Strenght determines carrying capacity, and combat damage (in
> alfa2),
>  and perhaps ability to push some items.  Let's forget about exhaustion,
>  strenght drops due to overburden by now. Character's initial Strenght
> is 
> dependant of his size.90kg body needs 118 strenght,9kg body needs 88 
> strenght, 450kg needs 140 Strenght. Character can carry a load which
> exceeds 
> his strenght 2 times. For example A giant which weights 450 kg (this
> requires 
> 140 strenght) can carry extra 450kg, total 900.

Good, but let's do it simpler even.
Let's copy strengh values from AD&D.
This was we have a good guideline to create Objects.

 
> Agility:
> Once again it's log scale. To raise your speed 2 times you need to raise
> your Agility by 18 points, to raise it 4 times - by 36 points. Average 
> human's agility is between 60-80. Normal walking human with Agility
> 64 has speed 1 meter per second. A person with Agility 100 walks with
> speed
> 5 meters per second. If a person with Agility 100 carries equipment with
> weight of 1/4 Strenght, the agility drops to 91, that gives 3 meters per
> second. The same person with load 1/2 total has Agility 82, that means 2
> meters per second. With load 3/4 that person has 73 Agility, and moves
> with speed 1.5 meters per second. With full load I guess it would be 64, and
> we know it equals to one meter per second.

Two points: Again, let's copy values from AD&D.
And let's make it to be an static value independent of the load.
On a later time we can modify it.

> Intellect - average human has 60-90, max 128. More complex items and
> weapons need more intellect (crossbows, chained weapons, two handed). Values
> have to be purely conventional here. I can't think of any serious usage for
> Intellect in alfa2, except for magic.

So let's remove it?
 
> Constitution - roughly, it's character HP. All characters have
> constitution 128 at the beginning (regardless of race). Constitution drops 
> with damage taken in such way, that one point is dropped per certain amout of
> damage compared to creature size. Human has size 1, let's say it can take
> 10 damage per 0.1 of size. That would mean that 10 damage taken
> lowers your Constitution by 12.8 points. If you lose all your
> constitution, you die. By now we don't have Recovery attribute, so let's
> say 
> 1 point of Constitution is restored every 1 game hour (that's the rate
> for 128 recovery).

Ummm, ok, Based on Volume size of the creature or on weight of the creature?
Personally I prefer volume.

> ________________________
> Combat, damage and hit determination.
> 
> DAmage:
> Naturaldamage=2^((strength-weapon_weight)/36)

IMO the more the weapon weight the more powerful the attack is...
But again, we want this simple by now so:

Naturaldamage=2^((strength)/36)

Anyway I will prefer something more simple and intuitive.
It is hard to determine for an human the meaning of that formula :)

> Motion=(((strengthattacker+weightweapon)-Weightattacked)/36)
> (How far you push your target with your blow)

Let's ignore motion. 
We want it simple.
 
> By now, let's assume that character ALWAYS hits. There's no
> hit determination rule yet.
> 
> Guardeddamage=(((attacked(agility)-attacker(agility))/2)
> 
> (This reduces damage taken by character)
> If the total is negative than the full force of the attack is felt by
> the attacked character.
> 
> Warning! This rule looks stupid because Perception and React has been 
> removed. Let's try it anyway.
> 
> The final damage calculation is such that:
> 
> Totaldamage=(weapondamage+naturaldamage)-(guardeddamage+armordamage)
> 
> Suggested damage for sword: 20
> Suggested damage for shield: 10 (we assume shield works like standard
> armor now).

ok, It is a good base.
Personally, I will add a few randomness to the system.
Like sword damage is 1-20 and shield 1-10

Regards,
Miguel