I don't see (without having playtested this) how gaining more power as the game/encounter goes, is not going to lead to the exact same issue of saving up the best stuff for later, just delayed. Instead of having it right away and not using it, you collect the stuff and have it later, and still don't use it. There's a "simple" (at least on paper aka "in my head") alternative and solution to all this. Could be done in different ways. Just gain your resource according to the difficulty of the encounter. Could be just flat 'gain 2 resource' or done in combination with the following: If the encounter is a final fight, or a tough one, introduce a line or scene or whichever way you want, which is supposed to generate morale, translated as gaining your resource for your encounter. Some kind of short motivational speech to give you goosebumps before the fight starts, done by the players. Could also be fun to have the speech be given by either random players, or in order, but only 1 person per 'big encounter', and depending on how good it was, the GM grants more morale, i.e. more resource for the fight. Alternatively, have equipment, or magic runes/artifacts/jewelery, that grants resource when starting an encounter that includes a boss/elite enemy or whatever type of more lethal enemy might be present. And as for the problem with keeping the resource anyway: Try to incentivize spending it. That could be done with the resource simply fading away, for example: Ferocity/Rage/etc. already sounds like the character will cool off eventually. So during combat, if an enemy is killed, gain a resource. If you do not kill an enemy within the next 2 rounds, lose 1 resource. Or alternatively if you don't deal dmg. Or maybe you need to be always close to enemies to keep it, and if you are not adjacent to enemies or in a certain range, it cools off. Or for every X movement actions you do, you lose resource, like if you don't attack after the second move action + ending your turn, you lose one resource. Etc. There's a million different ways. And that's pretty much how I want to bring different flavours into my classes as well. So many different playstyles can be supported. I have a weapon that allows you to, when spending a resource, forward any "unused" damage (as in, enemy has 6 hp, you deal 10 dmg, so 4 dmg is "wasted") to an enemy adjacent or closeby. Combine that with the skill of generating X resource on turn start for every enemy that is close by, and you have a combo-machine that is all offense and trying to be in the midst of enemies at all times.

So Passwall from early Bethesda games...

lists of prewritten and broadly applicable motivations and pitfalls sound amazing. that would make randomly generating npc's really easy, and as is stated in this short, the players would also have a much easier time if they could fit npc's into certain categories.

I'd like to see/hear your take on, lending, stealing or copying ideas from already existing games, and how far one might go when doing so. I knowm there's nothing that hasn't already been thought about in one way or another, and maybe implemented as well. We stand on the shoulders of giants. And somehow, everyone gets influenced by something. But it is still fascinating to hear others give their point of view on these things. And how much do you want to rely on this for your new game for example.

Hey, could you link back to the original video please? I would love to watch the whole thing but don’t know which video it’s from.

Are they real, or are they Memonek?

Just say an extended “oo” when you roll double zeros. Ooooooo

I love how Matt signs off what would be the final episode of The Chain, what a ride 🖤 2:41:07

I like the idea of the Stormwight basically being Beorn for different animals

I tried working on some homebrew “build your class” style stuff before and it’s real tough! So hats off to y’all for giving it another shot. Can’t wait to see how it turns out!

15:29 SOOO not true

BEAR MAFFIA! Need it now

When it comes to gaining more aspects at higher levels, what if one's fantasy really is super tied to a particular animal? Can one simply complexify/deepen the powers dealing with that animal, or must one utilize more forms/paths?

So does every attack from the 2d6+2 hit? My suggestion would be doing things that fudge with the dice themselves, rather than the modifier. Rogue kit could be "3d6 drop the lowest" (higher average), fighter could be "2d6, less than 3 becomes a 3" (low variance, strong consistency), barbarian could be "1d6 x 2, on 6 add another d6" (high variance, lower average, highest topend)

Bearington is back!

Bars 👏

The class design looks phenomenal in this game. Keep up the good work!

King of the new RPG's!

Oh man, my friend is going to be happy about that. His druid became king of the rats! Hopefully, while this sounds more of a druid barbarian, you'll have smaller critters available.

KING OF THE BEARS

3e surely proved people will happily build characters from the smallest component parts

I'm sorry, did you say "hole"? I'm in.

so...how is it used in combat

This is a cool concept, but this ability, along with any other ability that allows you to traverse levels within a dungeon with needed to see the destination, is to ensure that, as a Director, you are prepared to either set limits on the ability to prevent circumventing prepared material, or at least create dungeons that requires the use of this feature as a direct mechanic of the dungeon.

Your mom has an evolving hole!

Great video thanks for uploading

Keep rockin' you cool people

This is exactly the kind of design that has me super excited for this game

Blimey!

As someone who loves the puzzle of character creation; I'm looking forward to finding all new ways to make pieces fit together differently in the MCDM system. Panther caster here I come!

Good ol' holes.

- Have you seen the MCDM Rpg? - Pretty sure it fell in the hole. - What hole... OH MY GOD!

Am I the only one who immediately thought of using it to make a Team Rocket style pit trap?

I always felt that it's the designer's role to make something easy to digest, no matter how complex. If you made something reeaaally cool but incomprehensible then you failed as a dev. Onboarding and tutorialization is part of the directive and shouldn't ever be an after thought. As an example, Final Fantasy 14 is incredible at this. Most of the FF14 bosses are very complex and baffling. But the way they are structured is almost like a test. The first 1-2 minutes are slow and not punishing. It onboards you to the fight, while giving you time to recover and think. Then slowly it ramps up. It starts varying the attacks, and comboing them. Then in the third part it speeds up as a test of your skill, with the occasional rug pull to spice things up.

So cool!

Back when we thought there might be a "weaponmaster" Tactician subclass, I suggested they could use two kits. But we couldn't think of any other cool stuff for the Weaponmaster, as our game isn't really about weapons. It was James who suggested, "maybe there is no Weaponmaster. ALL tacticians are weaponmasters, and they all get to choose two kits?" Which was immediately, obviously brilliant.

That's super cool!

Fantastic way to have the design convey a weapon master. All aboard the hype train!

I wonder if, perhaps, building a god-relationship would fit better in the character background/inciting incident customization section, rather than the main class-building section: the relationship with one's god/patron is inherently tied to the character's backstory.

I love unique and high-fantasy ancestries. Dwarves and elves are cool, but they’re all done to death. I love when a world is unique in its interpretation of classic fantasy tropes, like the dwarves from MonsterGarden, or these M…ma…muh,.. robots

I'm really hoping the conduit can take some inspiration from 4E invoker and less generic cleric. Can't wait to see it!

I love how y'all handle development 💙

How to make a priest, step one: BUILD A GOD!

Always so cool to hear what you've tried and to peak behind the curtain like this. Love the philosophy you work under.

GO FOR IT

Coming from Pf1e and pf2e I personally love getting to choose options for my characters. My fav class is Oracle from pf1e thats basically just a buffet of choices!

I'm so intrigued by the dual subclass idea. I hope it survives contact with the testers

666 thumbs up! Careful we might summon an illrigger!

In 5e, warlock was always my favorite class just because of Invocations letting you really choose what your class gives you instead of someone else forcing the choices on me