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Just some stuff, don't mind me.
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Just some stuff.
  
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=Time=
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=Injuries=
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: '''Color:''' Yellow
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One of the main complaints about 4e style healing - which is what we're using, basically - is that it can't sensibly model long-term injuries. You heal ''completely'' after a long rest: you get all your hit points back, and all your healing surges, and it's like nothing ever happened.
  
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: '''Gemstone:''' Topaz
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In the course of our games since implementing this particular approach to hit points, one thing I've noticed is that - with the exception of ''regen'' - players don't seem to look for healing until they're down. While this may be a function of our current game being filled with only casters, I've also noticed a general trend of not looking for ways to mitigate damage.
  
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Time deals primarily with time and space, and distortions of them. The Trinity of Remembrance interacts primarily with the "mechanics" of the universe; whereas Reality interacts directly with physics, Remembrance is more concerned with the underlying framework that physics takes place in. Time's goal is to take command of these forces to gain power: through manipulating time and space, the fabric of reality itself can be manipulated, and total power can be achieved, able to manipulate the threads of fate to one's advantage in all situations. This is in direct opposition to the Blue, which demands that causality be respected and the timeline remain static, and Chaos, which subverts Time's command over existence by refusing to acknowledge that time exists to begin with.
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I am hesitant to remove ''regen'' because it feels thematically important to how Trinity works: we've got a significant undercurrent of FF feel going on, and I feel that messing with that would be to our detriment. So I don't want to get rid of it.
  
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To achieve their ends, those who would pursue the power of Time must come to understand time as it truly is: not as a linear arrow, but a nebulous web of existential freedom. All moments exist at all times, even those moments that have not come to pass; as the student of Time's knowledge grows, their understanding of their own personal timeline increases, and they learn to manipulate themselves first and foremost, borrowing power from their past and lending it to their future, stealing it from themselves and gifting it to an alternate version in a parallel timeline. Once the trainee accepts that she herself is immortal through the infinite lives across infinite parallel times she lives, she can tap into her fullest potential: for infinite parallel times means an infinite power source that can never truly be exhausted.
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But at the same time, it's done weird things to our approach to healing and handling wounds and such. So, I think we may try to rectify this.
  
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Once a chronist - as students of Time are known - has determined how to manipulate time and space, she can then learn how to modify them. This gives her incredible power, both over information and the battlefield: she can learn secrets that only her future self knows, and she can turn the very laws of physics on their head, by manipulating objects in time. Of these things, she gives no outward sign: the source of this power is not external or internal, but existential in nature, and the pulling of power from the threads of time requires only concentration and the knowledge of how to do so, nothing more.
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==Overview==
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Hit points are a weird abstraction of your ability to avoid an attack, dodge or otherwise juke around to turn a serious blow into a less lethal one, and just general combat endurance. That we have the ''bloodied'' condition should tell you something about this: basically until you're below 50% hit points, you are essentially untouched. Maybe got a few scrapes and bruises, but you're not actually hurt in any real meaningful way. That said, the LM saying things like "the ''cure'' spell invigorates you and closes your wounds" is just as valid if you are 25% of max HP or 75% - you still have wounds while not ''bloodied'', they're just not dangerous or impairing you in any real way.
  
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Time interacts well with both Magic and the Divine. In Magic, Time finds a common interest in seeking ways to command the universe to one's bidding; mages make comparisons between the leylines they use and the timelines that chronists use, and while they are wholly different in the powers they grant, they are alike in that both leylines and timestreams criss-cross reality, just out of mortal sight. In the Divine, chronists find an ally that understands that their gifts ultimately come from a higher power, and that those powers must be respected; for petitioners, that external power is their patron, who can bequeath or withdraw their gifts as they see fit, while the chronist is at times bound by the constraints of the timeline itself, forced into action or inaction by the actions of the chronist herself in a distant future or far-flung past.
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Injuries are intended to change this.
  
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==Game Mechanics==
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Chronists expend '''quanta''' to shape their '''jikuu''', specific manipulations of time or space that incur specific effects. Each jikuu costs a set number of points.
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To acquire quanta, chronists must '''gather''' it, spending an action on their turn to generate a random amount of quanta dependent upon the action spent to gather. As chronists grow in power, the amount of quanta they gather - and the maximum amount of quanta they can hold at any given time - increase.
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! colspan="13;" style="background:#4A777A;" align="center"|<div style="margin-left:0px;"><font color="white" style="font-size:13.5px; font-family:tahoma;">Broken Arm</font></div>
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| rowspan="2" colspan="2"|At least one of the bones in your arm has been broken, prohibiting its use. If it doesn't heal soon, the break may fester, eventually leading to death. || colspan="2"|'''Attack:''' +12 vs Fort
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|You are cured. || '''Initial Effect:''' You cannot make use of the injured arm. You cannot use two-handed weapons, and you can only wield a single light or one-handed weapon, implement, or shield at a time. You suffer a -2 penalty on Acrobatics, Athletics, and Thievery checks. || The infected break becomes painful. Increase skill penalties to -5, and you cannot use the arm in any way. || Gangrene sets in. Increase the skill penalties to -10, and you cannot use the arm in any way. You lose one healing surge that cannot be regained until you are cured; each subsequent failure causes you to lose an additional healing surge. If you begin the day with no healing surges, you gain ''dead''.
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At the beginning of each turn, if a chronist has any quanta remaining, he suffers a point of '''paradox'''. Each point of paradox incurs a penalty to rolls made to gather quanta. In addition, if the chronist has too much paradox, he also suffers a penalty to ''temporal attacks'' equal to his amount of paradox.
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All chronists gain innate '''blue opposition (UO)''' and '''chaos opposition (CO)'''. These oppositions indicate that chronists are naturally resistant to Blue and Chaotic effects, even those that are beneficial in nature.
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So basically what happens here, is that after a ''long rest'' (or every 24 hours if you're being cheeky and trying to avoid this nonsense), you have to make a check. If you suck, you go down the track (from 1 to 2, to 3, and so on). If you make the check, you get better, and go up the track (from 2 to 1, to 0).
  
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Some specific chronist classes use some of these abilities in unusual ways. Remember to fully read a class's description for explanations of how its specific mechanics may differ from the general.
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The real question is - when would you get these? How do you mitigate them?
  
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==Races and Classes==
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===Getting Injuries===
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The following races and classes are either Blue-aligned or have strong ties to the Blue in some fashion.
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So I've got a few thoughts on when or how you might get these.
  
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===Races===
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First, though, I want to specify - I don't think players can cause these to monsters. These are intended to model long-term effects, and that's an awful lot of book-keeping for the LM to have to deal with if players are causing broken bones and what-not all over the place. That said, these may have "neat effects" that players want to cause - if you're fighting a jerk who's using a two-handed weapon, being able to break one of his arms so that he can't use it anymore is a neat thing to do that players may want to have as an option. So I'm not ruling it out, but in general, as a player, you can maybe somehow cause the initial effect of an injury, but I'm not going to expect the LM to track it any further than that. Narratively, maybe, but certainly not mechanically.
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; [[Race: Thran|Thran]] : Refugees from the far future of an alternate timeline, the thran spent millenia unbinding themselves from causality in a bid to save their world. Unsuccessful, their attempt instead led them to this timeline.
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===Classes===
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Anyway. So, there's a couple options for causing these.
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; [[Class: Epochent|Epochent]] : Epochents are pure chronists, dedicating themselves to the study of time and how to manipulate it. Their temporal abilities yield many strange and varied results, and their ability to literally go back in time is powerful in skilled hands.
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; [[Class: Harrier|Harrier]] : Adepts, harriers combine study of the temporal with study of the arts martial. They focus on speed and agility, using their knowledge of time to give them an incredible edge in combat that allows them to strike between moments, faster than most can follow.
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* '''Crits.''' Rather than taking more damage from a crit, you take an injury instead. I'm not sure if this would be a choice deal - for instance, as a player, you could say "oh, this guy crit me... I'll take an injury instead of the extra damage" sort of thing - or if it's a hard point of getting crit'd. Making it a guaranteed thing feels... overly random and potentially very punishing, though, so I'm not sure.
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* '''Dropping to 0.''' Part of the goal here, I think, is to make players wary of dropping to 0 hit points. It's not a good thing, you don't want to do it. So if we give an injury upon hitting 0, that may encourage players to avoid this happening. That said, it has some issues - it might lead to a death spiral of sorts, which is not cool. That and let's say you get back up with a few hit points after hitting 0, then get smacked again - do you really need another injury?
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** '''Trading injuries for death saves.''' As an addendum to this idea, maybe you can accept an injury instead of accepting a failed death save. This is... really weird, from a narrative standpoint, and basically says "in retrospect, that hit from that hammer hurt a lot more than you thought it did." I'm not sure how okay we are with this kind of retroactive stuff, though.
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* '''Some fraction of hit points.''' Perhaps if an attack does an overwhelming amount of damage to you, it gives you an injury. Say the threshold is your healing surge value - any attack that does more damage than that causes an injury.
  
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; [[Class: Oracle|Oracle]] : While epochents focus on time in a general sense, oracles choose to look forward, attempting to find the best path through the myriad timelines that branch from the current moment. They are able to manipulate the fate of other creatures, bringing weal to friend and woe to foe.
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===Healing Injuries===
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Normal effects that heal hit points don't fix injuries. You need dedicated effects, or to make the checks to get over the injury.
  
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=Keys=
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I am still sometimes disappointed by the limitations of the D&D xp model. We've tried to work around it, but... at the end of the day, combat gives you guaranteed xp, and the LM sometimes give you story rewards.
  
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=Chaos=
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We need to fix this.
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: '''Color:''' Brown
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: '''Gemstone:''' Citrine
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==Overview==
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What are keys? Keys are a small game mechanic that inform your character's ability to gain xp. If you have no keys, you cannot gain xp.
  
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Chaos is chaotic, and its willfulness is sometimes hard to describe given that it has purview over a disharmonious set of concepts. The Trinity of Remembrance interacts primarily with the "mechanics" of the universe; whereas Reality interacts directly with physics, Remembrance is more concerned with the underlying framework that physics takes place in. Chaos, then, seeks to subvert and upend those rules, or disrupt existence in a general sense, desiring the ability to make choices for itself without constraint. This is in direct opposition to Time, which seeks to control and harness causality, the strictest of rules, and Blue, which demands the causal chain be respected and all things be put in order.
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Keys come in many flavors. Races (which really here means "cultures") can give you keys, and your class always gives you a key. You can pick up keys over the course of an adventure, and you might select - or be given - a key at the start of a campaign or adventure, to help give your character motivation.
  
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Of the nine Forces, Chaos is the least-understood, and it is uncertain how it is that anarchists gain their power. The strangest claim is the idea that the world is actually an illusion, and all that happens in it is governed by strange rules in another universe: anarchists who are proponents of this claim that their powers come from cheating in that other world, which translates into effects in this one. Claims such as this are why many are content to not question how it is that anarchists do what they do.
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In play, the purpose of a key is to ''encourage behavior''. For instance, the ''Key of the Barbarian'' gives you xp for using your [[Class: Berserker|berserker]] Provoke class feature, and punishes you for willingly taking on the ''fade'' status (which makes creatures unable or less likely to attack you). This is intended to encourage a certain style of play: in this case, the key makes you want to try to take on foes head-on, while avoiding abilities that would prevent them from engaging you.
  
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Exactly how an individual becomes an anarchist is similarly unclear. Due to their nature, anarchists rarely seek to train others in their ways, and some even deem intentional learning of how to access Chaos as impossible. However, there are also those that claim that they intentionally sought out these powers and stumbled upon them. It seems that any claim one makes about Chaos can be refuted by at least one counter-example.
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The original system that presented keys was a bit too... unfocused, though, and made weird assumptions about how many keys you could have and when you could gain them. I think those assumptions held the idea back. The idea is very much tenable - we just need to work out the kinks.
  
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Chaos interacts well with Psionics and the Void. In Psionics, Chaos finds a similar sense of self-reliance and a fellow free spirit, in the sense that both Chaos and Psionics seek mastery over the self, just in different realms. In the Void, Chaos shares the same sense of rebellion that gave rise to the Void in the first place, and the Void's sense of destruction matches Chaos' understanding of entropy almost perfectly, albeit applied to the whole of reality instead of just the rules of reality.  
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==Keys and your Ring==
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I don't know if a ''keyring'' would actually be a mechanical construct in this layout, but it's a concept to keep in mind, just in case.
  
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==Game Mechanics==
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I see characters as having, at 1st level, at the very least, three keys:
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Anarchists build a '''deck''' out of their '''whims'''. A deck can only have so many copies of a given whim, and the size of the deck is limited based on the anarchist's class and level.
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Anarchists select a set of '''triggers''', which are events chosen from a list. When a trigger occurs, the anarchist can '''draw''' a number of whims from his deck, dependent upon the trigger. The anarchist has a '''max hand size''', which is the maximum number of whims he can hold at once. At the end of his turn, if he has more whims than his max, he must '''discard''' until he has no more than his max.
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* A class key, given to them by their class
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* A background/culture key, given to them by their race, or their background
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* A story key, chosen from a list of keys appropriate to the adventure at hand
  
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When he effects a whim, he discards it.
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This would be an example of a class key...
  
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When the deck is empty, the discard pile is '''shuffled''' and returned to the deck.
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All anarchists gain innate '''blue opposition (UO)''' and '''time opposition (IO)'''. These oppositions indicate that anarchists are naturally resistant to Blue and Temporal effects, even those that are beneficial in nature.
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<div id="Key of the Barbarian">
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{|class="collapsible" width="90%" style="border:1px solid silver; text-align:center; clear:both; font-size:75%; font-family:verdana;"
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! style="background:#e6cc80;" align="left"|<div style="margin-left:15px;"><font color="black" style="font-size:13.5px; font-family:tahoma;">KEY OF THE BARBARIAN</font></div>
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|-style="background:white;" align="left"
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|You revel in the glory of combat.
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|-align="left"
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|'''Key - Class (Berserker)'''
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|style="background:#EFDFB0; padding-left: 2em;"|'''EXPERIENCE'''
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|-align="left"
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|You gain 1 xp when you use your ''provoke'' ability against a standard creature of your level or higher.
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|-align="left"
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|You gain 3 xp when you use your ''provoke'' ability against an elite or solo creature of your level or higher.
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|-align="left"
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|style="background:#EFDFB0; padding-left: 2em;"|'''COUNTER'''
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|If you willingly gain the ''fade'' status, this ''key'' does not yield xp until you take a ''short rest'', and you lose 2 xp. ''(Class keys cannot be bought off.)''
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==Races and Classes==
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These next three I like less, but... well, important to keep ideas flowing.
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The following races and classes are either Chaos-aligned or have strong ties to Chaos in some fashion.
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; Coure : Words.
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; Vulpine : Words.
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<div id="Key of the Berserker">
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{|class="collapsible" width="90%" style="border:1px solid silver; text-align:center; clear:both; font-size:75%; font-family:verdana;"
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! style="background:#e6cc80;" align="left"|<div style="margin-left:15px;"><font color="black" style="font-size:13.5px; font-family:tahoma;">KEY OF THE BERSERKER</font></div>
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|-style="background:white;" align="left"
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|You revel in the destruction of those who would oppose you.
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|'''Key - Class (Berserker)'''
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|-align="left"
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|style="background:#EFDFB0; padding-left: 2em;"|'''EXPERIENCE'''
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|-align="left"
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|You gain 5 xp when you defeat a ''named'' elite or solo creature of your level or higher.
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|style="background:#EFDFB0; padding-left: 2em;"|'''COUNTER'''
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|If you willingly retreat from a combat with a ''named'' elite or solo creature of your level or higher, this ''key'' does not yield xp until you take a ''short rest'', and you lose 2 xp. ''(Class keys cannot be bought off.)''
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; [[Class: Anarch|Anarch]] : Main caster.
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; [[Class: Discordant|Discordant]] : Adept.
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<div id="Key of the Defiant">
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! style="background:#e6cc80;" align="left"|<div style="margin-left:15px;"><font color="black" style="font-size:13.5px; font-family:tahoma;">KEY OF THE DEFIANT</font></div>
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|You encourage your enemies to hit you: it just makes their eventual loss all the sweeter.
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|'''Key - Class (Berserker)'''
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|style="background:#EFDFB0; padding-left: 2em;"|'''EXPERIENCE'''
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|You gain 3 xp whenever you take damage equal to or greater than your ''healing surge value''.
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|style="background:#EFDFB0; padding-left: 2em;"|'''COUNTER'''
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|If you willingly use an ally as ''cover'', this ''key'' does not yield xp until you take a ''short rest'', and you lose 2 xp. ''(Class keys cannot be bought off.)''
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; [[Class: Gambler|Gambler]] : Alt caster.
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<div id="Key of Deliverance">
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! style="background:#e6cc80;" align="left"|<div style="margin-left:15px;"><font color="black" style="font-size:13.5px; font-family:tahoma;">KEY OF DELIVERANCE</font></div>
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|-style="background:white;" align="left"
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|What is best in life? To slay your foes, and hear the lamentations of those dear to them.
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|'''Key - Class (Berserker)'''
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|style="background:#EFDFB0; padding-left: 2em;"|'''EXPERIENCE'''
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|You gain 1 xp whenever you ''bloody'' a creature of your level or higher.
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|style="background:#EFDFB0; padding-left: 2em;"|'''COUNTER'''
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|If you willingly use an ally as ''cover'', this ''key'' does not yield xp until you take a ''short rest'', and you lose 2 xp. ''(Class keys cannot be bought off.)''
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The Blue deals with memory, knowledge, recollection, and causality. The Trinity of Remembrance interacts primarily with the "mechanics" of the universe; whereas Reality interacts directly with physics, Remembrance is more concerned with the underlying framework that physics takes place in. The Blue's first and foremost goal is maintaining memory: events that have occurred ''have'' occurred, and should not be meddled with. This is in direct opposition to Time, which reorganizes the timeline as it sees fit, and Chaos, which has no concern for proper order and pointedly ignores the notion of causality.
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! style="background:#e6cc80;" align="left"|<div style="margin-left:15px;"><font color="black" style="font-size:13.5px; font-family:tahoma;">PUT THE "TORCH" BACK IN TORCH</font></div>
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|The enormous flame for which the city of Torch was named has gone out! You're on a quest to find a way to relight it, and bring prosperity back to the town.
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|'''Key - Story (Iron Gods)'''
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|style="background:#EFDFB0; padding-left: 2em;"|'''EXPERIENCE'''
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|You gain 5 xp whenever you defeat a ''named'' elite or solo creature beneath Torch.
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|You gain 10 xp whenever you discover a new ''zone'' beneath Torch.
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|You gain 20 xp when you relight the fire of Torch, and you ''lose'' this ''key''.
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|style="background:#EFDFB0; padding-left: 2em;"|'''COUNTER'''
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|Whenever you take a ''long rest'' without having spent at least five hands (one hour) in the caverns beneath Torch since your last ''long rest'', you lose 2 xp. If you lose 10 xp in this way, you ''lose'' this ''key''.
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Pursuit of this goal is achieved through accessing the ''akashic record'', which is - essentially - the world's memory. Every event that occurs, every piece of knowledge attained, every fact that exists also exists within the record. Accessing the record is not an easy feat, and requires a certain degree of reorientation of how one looks at the world. To assist in this process, those who study the Blue prepackage concepts and ideas from the world memory into "memes," packets of information that assist budding memeticists - as students of the Blue are called - in utilizing the Blue to the extent of their abilities.
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Because of their interaction and concern with memory, memeticists are also - to some degree - students of the mind. Though largely incidental to their primary skills, memeticists have abilities that seem on the surface to be quite similar to telepathy, though in fact memeticists are reading the information from the world memory and not accessing minds directly. That said, memeticists can "implant" ideas into creatures' minds, by manipulating pointers and other more technical aspects of the world memory, allowing them to interfere with physical reality through manipulating the framework on which reality operates.
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! style="background:#e6cc80;" align="left"|<div style="margin-left:15px;"><font color="black" style="font-size:13.5px; font-family:tahoma;">SAVE THE COUNCILMAN, SAVE THE TOWN</font></div>
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|The councilman Khonnir Baine of Torch has gone missing. Your goal is to find him and, if possible, bring him back to Torch.
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|'''Key - Story (Iron Gods)'''
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|style="background:#EFDFB0; padding-left: 2em;"|'''EXPERIENCE'''
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|-align="left"
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|You gain 5 xp whenever you find a clue related to one of the previous expeditions into the caverns below Torch.
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|You gain 10 xp whenever you find a clue related to Khonnir's whereabouts.
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|You gain 20 xp when you find and return Khonnir to Torch, and you ''lose'' this ''key''.
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|style="background:#EFDFB0; padding-left: 2em;"|'''COUNTER'''
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|-align="left"
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|Whenever you take a ''long rest'' without having spent at least five hands (one hour) in the caverns beneath Torch since your last ''long rest'', you lose 2 xp. If you lose 10 xp in this way, you ''lose'' this ''key''.
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The Blue interacts well with both Technology and Nature. In Technology, Blue finds an ally who understands the importance of causality and structure; some technologists compare the Blue to an incredibly large and impossibly complex computing engine, a comparison that memeticists find difficult to deny. In Nature, memeticists find individuals who share their belief that the natural order must be upheld, that there is a certain way things work and that such structure shouldn't be meddled with. Naturalists appreciate the Blue's focus on the world and its memory, and share in common their ability to look "past" the obvious physicality of the world and interact with what lies beneath the facade.
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==Game Mechanics==
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Memeticists put their '''memes''' into '''active meme slots''', and can use them at will. When she does so, a memeticist can also '''allocate''' that meme into '''memory''', if she has free memory. Memes allocated into memory are significantly stronger, or have other effects.
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After processing a meme, it becomes '''locked''', and is not available for use until it '''recharges'''. At the beginning of your turn, you roll a '''recharge die''', which is 1d6, and all memes with a '''recharge value''' of the result or lower become '''unlocked''' and available for use again. The recharge value of a meme changes dependent upon the highest grade of meme you can access.
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One thing I'm sort of thinking about is that keys are an abstract representation of your character's motivation: adventurers are supposed to be sort of rare, and most people in the world don't rise in level nearly as quickly or as high as PCs. We need to have an in-world explanation for this.
  
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So my idea here is basically that PCs - and some select NPCs, those who get to high levels - have a stupidly significant amount of motivation. This isn't meant to be like... destiny, or anything like that, the idea here is that adventurers are ''driven'' in ways that normal folk aren't.
  
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So there might be some abstract measure of your motivation, call it a number. Let's pick 5. You can't have more keys than your motivation at any given time - this includes quest keys (called story keys, above). Over the course of an adventure, you'll pick up quest keys and lose them when they're complete, which doesn't count against your motivation - you're getting stuff done.
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But say you lose a background key. Those are supposed to represent significant parts of who you are as a person, what drives you to succeed in the world (hence why acting in accordance with them gives you xp). If you abandon something that encouraged you to adventure, that gave you the drive and will to succeed, it naturally follows that you're probably questioning yourself a lot, internally. Your drive is reduced.
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I'm not really sure how to implement that, but I also want to make sure that characters can change - that is, you may transition from hating robots to being a friend of Technology, to try to handle character story arcs.
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Latest revision as of 14:13, 15 February 2018

Just some stuff.

Injuries

One of the main complaints about 4e style healing - which is what we're using, basically - is that it can't sensibly model long-term injuries. You heal completely after a long rest: you get all your hit points back, and all your healing surges, and it's like nothing ever happened.

In the course of our games since implementing this particular approach to hit points, one thing I've noticed is that - with the exception of regen - players don't seem to look for healing until they're down. While this may be a function of our current game being filled with only casters, I've also noticed a general trend of not looking for ways to mitigate damage.

I am hesitant to remove regen because it feels thematically important to how Trinity works: we've got a significant undercurrent of FF feel going on, and I feel that messing with that would be to our detriment. So I don't want to get rid of it.

But at the same time, it's done weird things to our approach to healing and handling wounds and such. So, I think we may try to rectify this.

Overview

Hit points are a weird abstraction of your ability to avoid an attack, dodge or otherwise juke around to turn a serious blow into a less lethal one, and just general combat endurance. That we have the bloodied condition should tell you something about this: basically until you're below 50% hit points, you are essentially untouched. Maybe got a few scrapes and bruises, but you're not actually hurt in any real meaningful way. That said, the LM saying things like "the cure spell invigorates you and closes your wounds" is just as valid if you are 25% of max HP or 75% - you still have wounds while not bloodied, they're just not dangerous or impairing you in any real way.

Injuries are intended to change this.

 

Broken Arm
At least one of the bones in your arm has been broken, prohibiting its use. If it doesn't heal soon, the break may fester, eventually leading to death. Attack: +12 vs Fort
Endurance: improve DC 23; maintain DC 20
0 1 2 3
You are cured. Initial Effect: You cannot make use of the injured arm. You cannot use two-handed weapons, and you can only wield a single light or one-handed weapon, implement, or shield at a time. You suffer a -2 penalty on Acrobatics, Athletics, and Thievery checks. The infected break becomes painful. Increase skill penalties to -5, and you cannot use the arm in any way. Gangrene sets in. Increase the skill penalties to -10, and you cannot use the arm in any way. You lose one healing surge that cannot be regained until you are cured; each subsequent failure causes you to lose an additional healing surge. If you begin the day with no healing surges, you gain dead.

 

So basically what happens here, is that after a long rest (or every 24 hours if you're being cheeky and trying to avoid this nonsense), you have to make a check. If you suck, you go down the track (from 1 to 2, to 3, and so on). If you make the check, you get better, and go up the track (from 2 to 1, to 0).

The real question is - when would you get these? How do you mitigate them?

Getting Injuries

So I've got a few thoughts on when or how you might get these.

First, though, I want to specify - I don't think players can cause these to monsters. These are intended to model long-term effects, and that's an awful lot of book-keeping for the LM to have to deal with if players are causing broken bones and what-not all over the place. That said, these may have "neat effects" that players want to cause - if you're fighting a jerk who's using a two-handed weapon, being able to break one of his arms so that he can't use it anymore is a neat thing to do that players may want to have as an option. So I'm not ruling it out, but in general, as a player, you can maybe somehow cause the initial effect of an injury, but I'm not going to expect the LM to track it any further than that. Narratively, maybe, but certainly not mechanically.

Anyway. So, there's a couple options for causing these.

  • Crits. Rather than taking more damage from a crit, you take an injury instead. I'm not sure if this would be a choice deal - for instance, as a player, you could say "oh, this guy crit me... I'll take an injury instead of the extra damage" sort of thing - or if it's a hard point of getting crit'd. Making it a guaranteed thing feels... overly random and potentially very punishing, though, so I'm not sure.
  • Dropping to 0. Part of the goal here, I think, is to make players wary of dropping to 0 hit points. It's not a good thing, you don't want to do it. So if we give an injury upon hitting 0, that may encourage players to avoid this happening. That said, it has some issues - it might lead to a death spiral of sorts, which is not cool. That and let's say you get back up with a few hit points after hitting 0, then get smacked again - do you really need another injury?
    • Trading injuries for death saves. As an addendum to this idea, maybe you can accept an injury instead of accepting a failed death save. This is... really weird, from a narrative standpoint, and basically says "in retrospect, that hit from that hammer hurt a lot more than you thought it did." I'm not sure how okay we are with this kind of retroactive stuff, though.
  • Some fraction of hit points. Perhaps if an attack does an overwhelming amount of damage to you, it gives you an injury. Say the threshold is your healing surge value - any attack that does more damage than that causes an injury.

Healing Injuries

Normal effects that heal hit points don't fix injuries. You need dedicated effects, or to make the checks to get over the injury.

Keys

I am still sometimes disappointed by the limitations of the D&D xp model. We've tried to work around it, but... at the end of the day, combat gives you guaranteed xp, and the LM sometimes give you story rewards.

We need to fix this.

Overview

What are keys? Keys are a small game mechanic that inform your character's ability to gain xp. If you have no keys, you cannot gain xp.

Keys come in many flavors. Races (which really here means "cultures") can give you keys, and your class always gives you a key. You can pick up keys over the course of an adventure, and you might select - or be given - a key at the start of a campaign or adventure, to help give your character motivation.

In play, the purpose of a key is to encourage behavior. For instance, the Key of the Barbarian gives you xp for using your berserker Provoke class feature, and punishes you for willingly taking on the fade status (which makes creatures unable or less likely to attack you). This is intended to encourage a certain style of play: in this case, the key makes you want to try to take on foes head-on, while avoiding abilities that would prevent them from engaging you.

The original system that presented keys was a bit too... unfocused, though, and made weird assumptions about how many keys you could have and when you could gain them. I think those assumptions held the idea back. The idea is very much tenable - we just need to work out the kinks.

Keys and your Ring

I don't know if a keyring would actually be a mechanical construct in this layout, but it's a concept to keep in mind, just in case.

I see characters as having, at 1st level, at the very least, three keys:

  • A class key, given to them by their class
  • A background/culture key, given to them by their race, or their background
  • A story key, chosen from a list of keys appropriate to the adventure at hand

This would be an example of a class key...

 

KEY OF THE BARBARIAN
You revel in the glory of combat.
Key - Class (Berserker)
EXPERIENCE
You gain 1 xp when you use your provoke ability against a standard creature of your level or higher.
You gain 3 xp when you use your provoke ability against an elite or solo creature of your level or higher.
COUNTER
If you willingly gain the fade status, this key does not yield xp until you take a short rest, and you lose 2 xp. (Class keys cannot be bought off.)

 

These next three I like less, but... well, important to keep ideas flowing.

 

KEY OF THE BERSERKER
You revel in the destruction of those who would oppose you.
Key - Class (Berserker)
EXPERIENCE
You gain 5 xp when you defeat a named elite or solo creature of your level or higher.
COUNTER
If you willingly retreat from a combat with a named elite or solo creature of your level or higher, this key does not yield xp until you take a short rest, and you lose 2 xp. (Class keys cannot be bought off.)

 

KEY OF THE DEFIANT
You encourage your enemies to hit you: it just makes their eventual loss all the sweeter.
Key - Class (Berserker)
EXPERIENCE
You gain 3 xp whenever you take damage equal to or greater than your healing surge value.
COUNTER
If you willingly use an ally as cover, this key does not yield xp until you take a short rest, and you lose 2 xp. (Class keys cannot be bought off.)

 

KEY OF DELIVERANCE
What is best in life? To slay your foes, and hear the lamentations of those dear to them.
Key - Class (Berserker)
EXPERIENCE
You gain 1 xp whenever you bloody a creature of your level or higher.
COUNTER
If you willingly use an ally as cover, this key does not yield xp until you take a short rest, and you lose 2 xp. (Class keys cannot be bought off.)

 

...while this might be a story key...

 

PUT THE "TORCH" BACK IN TORCH
The enormous flame for which the city of Torch was named has gone out! You're on a quest to find a way to relight it, and bring prosperity back to the town.
Key - Story (Iron Gods)
EXPERIENCE
You gain 5 xp whenever you defeat a named elite or solo creature beneath Torch.
You gain 10 xp whenever you discover a new zone beneath Torch.
You gain 20 xp when you relight the fire of Torch, and you lose this key.
COUNTER
Whenever you take a long rest without having spent at least five hands (one hour) in the caverns beneath Torch since your last long rest, you lose 2 xp. If you lose 10 xp in this way, you lose this key.

 

SAVE THE COUNCILMAN, SAVE THE TOWN
The councilman Khonnir Baine of Torch has gone missing. Your goal is to find him and, if possible, bring him back to Torch.
Key - Story (Iron Gods)
EXPERIENCE
You gain 5 xp whenever you find a clue related to one of the previous expeditions into the caverns below Torch.
You gain 10 xp whenever you find a clue related to Khonnir's whereabouts.
You gain 20 xp when you find and return Khonnir to Torch, and you lose this key.
COUNTER
Whenever you take a long rest without having spent at least five hands (one hour) in the caverns beneath Torch since your last long rest, you lose 2 xp. If you lose 10 xp in this way, you lose this key.

 

Yeah... maybe. Might need some work, though.

 

AGAINST THE CORPORATE CONGRESS
You have a deep-seated hatred for the Corporate Congress of Ganymede - and are perhaps even in open rebellion against it.
Key - Background (Iron Gods)
POWERS
You gain a +2 key bonus to attack rolls against creatures with the agent of the corporate congress quality.
EXPERIENCE
You gain 1 xp when you defeat a standard creature of your level or higher with the agent of the corporate congress quality.
You gain 3 xp when you defeat an elite or solo creature of your level or higher with the agent of the corporate congress quality.
You gain 5 xp when you defeat a named elite or solo creature of your level or higher with the agent of the corporate congress quality.
COUNTER
If you willingly associate with, work with, or assist a creature with the agent of the corporate congress quality whose ethos does not match your own, you lose 5 xp and lose this key.

 

GANYMEDIAN ARCHAEOLOGIST
You have a fascination with the weird alien tech that sometimes surfaces on Ganymede.
Key - Background (Iron Gods)
POWERS
You gain the Inventor feat as a bonus feat.
EXPERIENCE
You gain 3 xp when you defeat a standard Technological creature or trap of your level or higher with the alien tech quality.
You gain 5 xp when you defeat an elite or solo Technological creature or trap of your level or higher with the alien tech quality.
You gain 5 xp when you find a Technological item with the alien tech quality.
COUNTER
If you willingly destroy a Technological item with the alien tech quality, you lose 5 xp and lose this key.

 

ROBOT SLAYER
You have a deep-seated hatred of Technology, and especially those creatures that are inherently part of it.
Key - Background (Iron Gods)
POWERS
You gain a +2 key bonus to attack rolls and a +1 key bonus to damage potency against Technology elementals.
EXPERIENCE
You gain 1 xp when you defeat a standard Technological elemental creature.
You gain 3 xp when you defeat an elite or solo Technological elemental creature.
You gain 5 xp when you defeat a named elite or solo Technological elemental creature.
COUNTER
If you willingly make use of a Technology item or device, this key does not yield xp until you take a short rest, and you lose 3 xp. If you lose 15 xp in this way, you lose this key.
If you willingly associate with, work with, or assist a creature with a Technology force alignment quality whose ethos does not match your own, you lose 5 xp and lose this key.
If you gain Technology as a force alignment, you lose 10 xp and lose this key.

 

Motivation and XP

One thing I'm sort of thinking about is that keys are an abstract representation of your character's motivation: adventurers are supposed to be sort of rare, and most people in the world don't rise in level nearly as quickly or as high as PCs. We need to have an in-world explanation for this.

So my idea here is basically that PCs - and some select NPCs, those who get to high levels - have a stupidly significant amount of motivation. This isn't meant to be like... destiny, or anything like that, the idea here is that adventurers are driven in ways that normal folk aren't.

So there might be some abstract measure of your motivation, call it a number. Let's pick 5. You can't have more keys than your motivation at any given time - this includes quest keys (called story keys, above). Over the course of an adventure, you'll pick up quest keys and lose them when they're complete, which doesn't count against your motivation - you're getting stuff done.

But say you lose a background key. Those are supposed to represent significant parts of who you are as a person, what drives you to succeed in the world (hence why acting in accordance with them gives you xp). If you abandon something that encouraged you to adventure, that gave you the drive and will to succeed, it naturally follows that you're probably questioning yourself a lot, internally. Your drive is reduced.

I'm not really sure how to implement that, but I also want to make sure that characters can change - that is, you may transition from hating robots to being a friend of Technology, to try to handle character story arcs.

So really we're just spit-balling here.

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Setting
This section has all the information regarding the setting: geography, political bodies, lore, and all that of that sort of thing. If there is important mechanical information relevant to a topic, it will typically provide a link to the relevant mechanics page, but note that some mechanics pages have lore in them, as well.
This section is home to all of our Trinity-specific d20 mechanics: a mechanical system that, for the time being, is referred to on this wiki as "t20v4." Everything you need to create and play a character within the context of the worlds of Trinity can be found in this section.

 

This section is home to the game system we spent several years developing, called Journey. Note that it is... incomplete, and at this time my efforts are more focused on making t20v4 behave, in some ways, like we wanted Journey to behave.
This section is a very rough record of the various metaplots, campaigns, and games played in Trinity, generally using both the setting and mechanics, as outlined above. This section is more for record-keeping, but might also eventually be used to store logs and such for various games.

 

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