Rules 2.0

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Knave 2e-based

• Str: forceful fighting, feats of strength, athletics, save vs forced movement, grapple
• Dex: speed, agility, nimble fingers, stealth, reflex saves, finesse fighting, escape, backstab dmg?
• Con: load, wounds, fatigue, health saves
• Int: craft, lore, sorcery, alchemy, healing, fortune-telling / divination? talisman-making?
• Wis: marksmanship, wildcraft, navigation, perception, spot trouble saves, save vs deception/misdirection
• Cha: social, Companions, Theurgy, divine bonds?, will save

• pick 2 primary stats, 3 secondary stats
• randomly add 2 pts to primaries, 1 point to secondaries, and 2 chosen pts. can't exceed 3 in a stat at 1st level

• Guard / Grit / Life
• Speed

core mechanic: d20 + stat / bonus vs DC

Edges

• Red-Handed: +1 to attack effect rolls
• Hard To Kill: +1 guard, +1 grit per level, +2 melee and ranged defense?
• Veteran's Edge:
• Sorcery: +A to Int rolls for sorcery?
• Theurgy: +A to Cha rolls for theurgy
• Aptitude: extra Skill feats?
• Abhuman: have mutations

Feats

• skilled: +A to domain
• fortune's favorite (or make it an edge?)
• Animal Companion
• Battle Rage
• Inspiration
• fleet of foot? acrobat? mighty?
• Alertness / Survival Instinct
• subtle casting???
• Gnosis???

Domains

• languages, weapon profs, biome wildcraft, cultures, crafts

Advancement

• +1 Guard, +1 Grit per level
  • +1 Life per level?
• at chargen, choose 2 primary and 3 secondary stats
• when you level, add +1 to a random primary and +1 to a random secondary, and then +1 to any stat of your choice. Can't gain more than 1 to a stat per level, and can't save points.
• feat pts? (+1 per level?)

melee defense = half your attack bonus with your weapon + armor bonus ranged defense = half your Dex + armor bonus? dodge: defend w/ Dex

armor: +1 guard per slot of armor, +1 defense per 2 slots of armor

• max 7 slots
• shield?

attack

• capped at 3 or (level, max 10)
• forceful weapon: str
• finesse weapon: dex
• balanced weapon: str+dex
• projectile: wis
• thrown: wis+dex? +half dex?

everyman options

• alchemy (Int)
• talisman-making (Int)
• poisons (int)
• healing (Int)
• fortune-telling / divination?
• tactician (grant warlord type benefits?) (Int?)
• magitech sorcery (Int)
• ttheurgy (cha)
• craft

all use of Second Sight is like opening your mind, risky. depth of insight and what is beheld affects risk

Magitech Sorcery - carry panoply that takes up slots, hook together and invoke for effects

- system borrowed from Alien RPG dice mechanic: roll a d6 pool, some from ability, some from "stress". Might sum the dice, or look for rolls that beat a TN (e.g. 6). Any 1's on the stress dice trigger a panic check, rolling 1d6 + current stress. Up to 5 or 6, no sweat. Above 6, you start getting impairments, like tremors, or immediate mishaps like freaking and running. At 10+, your rolls are actually failing as a result of panic. you can push a failed / insufficient roll by gaining 1 stress and rerolling, as long as there were no 1s on stress dice (no panic roll). - as a magic system, stress would represent opening your soul to astral power; you are both empowered and strained. Rolling a 1 on a stress die would trigger a backlash roll, which could inflict harm or statuses. - you'd roll extra stress dice for overcasting power (you'd gain stress for overcasting), for overreaching your mana potential, and maybe also because you chose to get your stress up a bit to be rolling extra dice. You could push as well. - stress fades through long rests. - base dice would come from panoply, Int stat, level, etc.

Theurgy - carry relics that take up slots, or forge bonds

Mutations

Alchemy - includes healing and poisons

Encumbrance - light: 5 + half Con slots - medium: 10 + Con slots - heavy: 15 + 1.5 x Con slots

Fatigue / System Strain / Reserve? Wounds?