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imagine those dice pool games from the 80s & 90s.
Now imagine instead of traditional design, they were modern style player-facing.
That's the key "modernized retro" heart of Scope.
DriveThru reference PDFs and a fleshed out core build coming soon!
#TTRPG #IndieDev
Now imagine instead of traditional design, they were modern style player-facing.
That's the key "modernized retro" heart of Scope.
DriveThru reference PDFs and a fleshed out core build coming soon!
#TTRPG #IndieDev
https://twitter.com/ThoughtPunks/status/1644424630151655424
Scope Core has proved especially interesting to some of my readers and testers because while overall it is a much lighter/tighter system than its closest comparison, some aspects are actually more complex. Turned out pleasant surprise, thankfully! Unexpected but cool.
Big classic had trad physical health. Spiritual/mental health offloaded to a fiddly resource/resistance stat.
Scope Core uses 3 distinct health ladders [basically physical, mental, spiritual], each with a penalty track. Down on one track, unable to act *in that category*.
Scope Core uses 3 distinct health ladders [basically physical, mental, spiritual], each with a penalty track. Down on one track, unable to act *in that category*.
From the feedback and from my POV as a designer, there's some introduced *rules complexity* due to 3 tracks and linked 3 categories of stats & skills. But it's also a *tighter design* as all types of health/resistance are combined in unified rules. Emphasis for thought seed.
This is a concept I'd like to pick your brains on at some point when my brain is more on, @DrakeandDice and @NaviMusing. Rules complexity and design focus/tightness contrasted or distinguished.
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