Generic (Totally Original) Fantasy Roleplay. Part III.

[Zaleramancer]

Goblin



Strength: Low
Constitution: Low
Dexterity: High
Intelligence: Med
Wisdom: Low
Charisma: Med

Goblins aren't exactly the most impressive creatures. They're small, weak and fragile. Most of them can't quite get when to shut up or flee.. But, goblins are rather agile. They tend to run really fast when they need to, and catching one is hard. Goblins are not, despite popular opinion, stupid. They're rather clever, capable of tinkering with mechanics. Most have a very good sense of space and direction. Goblins are tenuously related to fairies, and as such, most of them will stick loyally to a deal.

*Goblins are smaller than normal. They must use smaller weapons, but they can reach places and are somewhat harder to hit.
*Goblins are sneaky buggers. Few things can hide better than they can.
*Goblins can practically see lies. If you lie to them, they'll see it all but written on your face.

[Celadon's Penultimate]

 Ah, yes, no fantasy roleplay campaign is complete without these.

[Gentleman Vaultboy]

I didn't know we were making monsters. If you can come up with them, I could get appropriate art. Now, lets see, Goblins...




 

[Mik_Hael]

The first three remind me more of the Gremlins.

[Gentleman Vaultboy]

They fit the description given to us though. Small, fast, agile tinkerers.

[Marvelous Miscreant]

Ah goblins, they can be worthy foes or cannon fodder dependent on the version.

[Zaleramancer]

Just noticed this now.

They seem fine.

[Gentleman Vaultboy]

Like this?

[Mik_Hael]

if you remove the wings and the fan tail yeah, pretty much.

[Zaleramancer]

You know..

Based on the current problems with LoC, I'm predicting that the balanced rules for this one is gonna be a living hell..

I'm regretting not just making classes myself like I wanted to..

[Celadon's Penultimate]

But, then again, wanting to is different from actually doing it...therein lies your dilemma.

[Gentleman Vaultboy]

It shoulder be to bad. What rules are there to crunch? Just the skills we get a level up?

Also, did we have a character thread?

[Celadon's Penultimate]

We had an auxiliary knowledge thread.

[Gentleman Vaultboy]

Oh, yeah okay, found it again.

My, she is a supporty thing, isn't she?

So, what sort of balance issues are there going to be, do you think. We should talk about them now, nip em in bud. I can see a few ways that my character could make people stupidly powerful, but by that point we'll probably be fighting things that are stupidly powerful.

[Zaleramancer]

Basically: Everyone has a different rule-set from each other. Each has different abilities, usage-prices and such.

I don't know off hand which ones are going to be powerful, and which will be weak.

And there will be that. Because there are rules- some people will try to become powerful..

I would just make up something free-form-ish, with somethings kept and others minimized.. but everyone's put so much work into this.

I don't want to make all that redundant.

[Gentleman Vaultboy]

Maybe if we had everyone's characters right next to one another, we could see how they all stack up? Then you could get an idea of what to anticipate. I can go into the general thread and gather them up, if you like.

[Zaleramancer]

I'm apparently not good at that sort of thing.

I made the rules for the other one, and look how that's going rule-wise... ._.

[Philote]

I don't foresee this one being like LoC, LoC is pretty unique among are RPs at the moment. It is the only RP where people could get differing levels of power.

In this one, no matter what skills they get at a level, everyone should be considered to have the same power level if we all level up at the same time.

[Gentleman Vaultboy]

Magic items could make a huge difference, as are the things we decide to buy.

[Philote]

Well, we don't really have anything set up for how that works yet. I figured Zale would just give us whatever he wanted and the main power would be determined by skills.