No work done on the Nox Engine today but I haven't done a word count in a while so...

32.6 thousand words so far

Still need to do the social mechanics (Speech!), the antagonist section, GM advice, and finish the Talents, not necessarily in this order

So plenty of words left

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It is so fun looking through the #SRD I've been working on for the #NoxEngine #TTRPG and getting to the various systems that get me going like, what the hell was I thinking when I wrote this?
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I enjoy making up spells that play with the #NoxEngine systems

In NE, you have a pool of Action Points and some spells mess around with that, either giving you bonus actions or forcing you to use your actions

Fights! take place in zones or fields within the battlefield, and some spells interact with that, like a firebomb that affects everyone in the same zone

I love how things are coming together 😁🧙‍♀️
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When a god threatened the existence of reality, a brave band of heroes rose up and succeeded in the impossible; they killed a god!

The other gods retreated into the realms of stars, darkness, and whatever else, and now, millennia later, the heroes have become venerated as saints of modern religion.

History is written in power, and the Bloodlands remain as a scar and reminder of the true horror of the fabled deicide.
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The caster can use part of their action to unleash the paradox dice and roll them for a Paradox Effect.

Why use action? Because it means the player must choose between accumulating more paradox or be less effective in the round to suffer a lesser effect.

I kinda like this system because it means a game could see some extended spell slinging action 😁👍🧙‍♀️

(Will work on it some more though)
(4/4 fin)
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As much as I'd like the Nox Engine to include a modular magic system, I just don't think I can manage it without making it too complicated, so I think I'll have to scrap and start over

Or specifically, set the previous aside in case I want to use it later 😅

Anyway, I think I will base the new magic system on Control and give it a sort of health-like system
(1/?)
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I think I've taken the #NoxEngine way further into the realm of complicated than I was planning 😬

Crunch can be great fun at times though, but I think the mechanics need a little trimming

...just a little
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Might just release the current #NoxEngine #PlayTest (alpha) and then update it with new stuff and... Erm, stuff...

Anyway, I'm having trouble wrapping my head around the magic system I want (avoiding Vancian mechanics) so I might just focus on finishing other stuff and get the pre-magic system out.

Will it be balanced? Abso-fucking-lutely not! Not yet, anyway.
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Right now I'm kinda thinking "So what if it's all shit? Put in all the shitty mechanics and then cut out what doesn't work during play test" 🤷‍♂️
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Part of how character creation works (currently) in the #NoxEngine is that you choose two Destinies, which affect your Edge dice, which Skills are your favoured, and what Talents you can learn. This creates YOUR destiny, which you can name and stuff

You could, for example, put together 2 Destinies, Scoundrel and Speaker, and make Spy your personal destiny

This is all well and good, but it isn't very inspiring stuff when making your character, is it?

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#NoxEngine word count: 25k (almost)

Writing a lot of the magic system and as it gets down on paper, might need some rework
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Pirates & Musketeers with Magic & Clockwork

That's pretty much what I'm planning for the #NoxEngine's default setting
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Wrote 20k words in 2 weeks and then took a break for 2 weeks (vacation and family stuff got in the way) BUT I'm going to write in a couple of fixes I thought of during my vacation

First, instead of "rating" for Edges and Skills, I'm going to call them "dice." It's what they are and what they add to your roll, so it makes the most sense (don't know why I didn't think of it 20k words ago 🤷‍♂️)
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@LeviKornelsen I do have an intro post here somewhere...

My name is Óskar, your friendly resident Icelander, and I've made some content for 5e and #Scion2e

I also work on my own #TTRPG, including Grim Fictions and Expeditioners (50% off currently on itch), and currently working on my #NoxEngine

Tell me if this is a bad idea:

This is a dice pool system where you count Strikes on the rolled dice. Number of Strikes over a difficulty (Mark) count as Hits. More Hits = greater success

Social mechanics where you roll against a difficulty set by the target's Conviction. For every Hit, you gain Influence over that target, which you'll use to "buy" requests and favours

Different requests can cost different amount of Influence, and NPCs can have a line they won't ever cross
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On one hand, I want to work on the #NoxEngine and get it to at least play-testing stage while I can

On the other hand, I also want to make a Yule-themed setting for #CypherSystem and have it ready in November 🤔
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New report on Nox Engine word count:

18k words! Three or four chapters have been drafted, am off-handedly putting together the chapter on equipment, still looking at chapters for social mechanics and journeys, and special abilities chapter
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Word count report:

10 thousand words, taking a break for the rest of the evening.
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I have an idea for an alternative rule for explosives in #Scion2e that I'm going to write about in my next blog (or one after that) 🤔

I use a variation of it in #ExpeditionersRPG actually and it'll probably be in #NoxEngine also, because I think it's a genius idea, even if it's not mine originally

This idea involves explosives being treated as their own antagonists, with their own initiative, etc.

I think it could work well with the Storypath system, such as in Scion
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Yay \o/