Battle System simple or compex?

[irdeggman]

Originally posted by Birthright-L@May 27 2005, 12:20 PM
Once, instead of unit experience, while running a game I gave an ad

hoc award that turned out to become a regular feature for that game.

All non-irregular non-militia units that succeeded in battle were

given veteran counters which were kept tracked of on the domain record

sheet. During a battle, once per turn per unit, each unit could spend

1 veteran point to gain a +1 to defense, range, melee, and charge. Of

course, what inevitably happened was there was one regent who had two

or three units that just accumulated a large amount of veteran points,

and they were a major part of every battle.



Maybe a concept like that would work a little bit better? It would

need to be expanded on, I think. But maybe having different maneuvers

available by spending veteran points might work... I leave it to the

group to think about.

Sort of like Action Points.

I've always liked AP (and Force Points in Star Wars d20) as a concept. Reminds me of Last Resort Points from Alternity.

Would at least make a good addition to some supplement with variant rules (like an Unearthed Arcana for BR) {Which I still think is a good idea in the long run since there are so many possibilities and house-rules out there that deserve some compilation}.

[RaspK_FOG]

I always thought that that variant rules expansion supplement was a given!

[tcharazazel]

Actually, after talking with Osprey about the Q&D system, we thought about getting rid of the multipliers and replacing them with flat bonuses. Unfortunately, I haven't had enough free time to write it out.

[irdeggman]

Originally posted by tcharazazel@May 28 2005, 09:09 PM
Actually, after talking with Osprey about the Q&D system, we thought about getting rid of the multipliers and replacing them with flat bonuses. Unfortunately, I haven't had enough free time to write it out.

Whenever you get done, e-mail it to me so I have a word copy to use later on.