Maybe it's not the right thread, because what I would like to see is for Players Guide, GM Guide and Companion . (For PG it's a little late I guess). here is my personal whish-list:
- new drawings for the disciplines
- provide a summary of the ED timeline and different ones for Players Guide and GM Guide (GM Guide includes more unknown events)
- summarize the events of from Prelude to War up to BaW and BiC, if you start afterwards with your Edition. But don't go to much into details.
- Don't change the stories of BaW and BiC to much, to avoid conflicts (Horror Cloud: yes, but what's in there: please no) (Vivane attacked and
heavently damaged: yes, creating P2: better not) by the way my Vivane became a City of massive creature growing, where
People, magical creatures and magical effects make it a dangerous place. And the Invae are back, too
- use old step table D20+D4
- no use for strain (most of the time players forget it to substract it from their lifepoints)
- easier Karma use (for all talents)
- make the casters more special as in the 1stEd. After releasing Arcane Mysteries and the Magic book all casters can do
dispel magic for example
- create clear rules without optional rules. It's ugly to talk to other fans and have 10 different variants of rulesets for the same edition
(I guess most of us already have their own houserules)
- don't let Spells cost Legend Points. Take extra money instead.
- Some new character pictures would be nice too e.g. King Neden or Jada Denairastas, Queen Alachia and maybe some rulers
from Travar
- create a new character sheet, maybe before the new release and provide it as pdf with editable fields on your homepage
- create a new Barsaive Map, maybe more focused on borderlines or warlines between the kingdoms, to show their area of influence (Barsaive,
Iopos, Cara Fahd, the new dwarf kingdom Scytha, etc)
- invent the healer discipline (why a healer must be always a Garlen questor?) A Craftsman is not automatically an Updandal Questor
- make the weaponsmith more exiting. Give him Astral Sight, Access to elementalism spells, or
find something new, like rune creations, which he can place on his armor or weapons (for increasing protection or damage)
- Same is for Troubadour with all the Talents he has only one to make music... maybe you can create some magical songs for him, working
similar as spells. For example song of peace calm down beasts or song of courage negates fear affects on all group members.
- create a new table for defining how damage increases if you are getting hit by a fire cannon of a battle ship or how
the damage would be handled a character may inflict on a behemoth. A character will hit the behemoth very easy
but his damage step is drastically reduced. The other way around a moving person is very difficult to hit by a firecannon,
but if the person is hit, the damage should be 3 to 4 times higher, than a ship do to another ship in combat
- penality with wounds easily say 1 wound = -1 step to all tests (not to damage tests and no toughness checks)
starting at the 2nd wound with penalities confuses part time players..
- And penalities on damage tests (willforce or strenth) are logic, but frustating the players and the fights getting longer and longer
optimize magicians
-wizard may use spells of other disciplines as well belonging to versatitility talent of humans. And make it more attractive.
- elementalist strenghten his healing skills, check all spells and give every elemtal spell to him
(e.g. ignite can be done by a wizard only, but not by an elementalist, funny 1std Ed)
- nethermancer
he is a monster in self-protection, healing, resurrection and damageing.
death cheat spell is ok, but healing spells like recovery belongs to elementalist
please make this guy less multi-tasking
- illu
boah simplify spells they should have a more mechanic effect you don't have to disscuss or endless to explain
(e.g. if spell hits opponent has -3 steps penaltiy to all actions, something like this)
in the hand of a powergamer an illu is a mighty foe for any GM...and blow up the whole group.
This is really a huge list
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