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Design Goal 1: Familiar d20 resolution mechanics.

Warriors of Eternity utilizes familiar polyhedral dice resolution mechanisms.  When Players need to resolve an action, they will roll a d20 and try to beat or exceed a target number, often a Difficulty Class (DC), an Armor Class (AC), or a Save.

Design Goal 2: Team Building.

Warriors of Eternity utilizes 5 of the familiar 6 Ability Scores: Strength, Dexterity, Constitution, Intelligence, and Wisdom.  Instead of Charisma, PCs get an Ability Score called Aptitude.  Aptitude measures a PCs skill with technology.

There are no Charisma rolls in Warriors of Eternity.

In place of a random binary for social encounters, Warriors of Eternity offers the Bond System.  Players will build Bond with their teammates, including other PCs and GMPCs.  The Bond shared between characters is measured with Bond Points.  Bond Points are currency.  They do not refresh once spent.

You earn Bond Points by acquiring Prompts through emergent interactions at the table.

Prompts are simple statements such as “Reveal a Truth about your PC,” “Reveal a Truth about the World, “Share Food,” and “Learn Song.”

To acquire a Prompt, a Player must do a bit of role play with the GM or one of the other Players.  The Players should work together to explore the Prompt that is being acquired.

You can spend Bond in a number of ways that we will talk about in a different writing, but the goal here is to spend Bond to Level Up.  We will need to iterate the numbers & attempt to keep the economy limited in scale.

As each Player increases Bond in the Team, they increase their own Power and can unlock new Powers.

Design Goal 3: THE POWER

Warriors of Eternity uses the word “Power” whenever practical, even if unnecessary.

Design Goal 4: Goldilocks Heroes

Player Characters start at level 1 and retire after level 10.  The goal here is to simulate the “Goldilocks Level Zone” from beginning of play through the end.  A level 1 Warriors of Eternity PC is much more capable than level 1 PCs in other systems.  Conversely, A level 10 PC will approach a more traditional level 11 or 12, depending on the magic system (which I will write about in its own post).

Design Goal 5: Now You’re Playing with Power

Every Warriors of Eternity PC has a base number of Power Points equal to their level.

PCs spend Power Points to fuel Powers, including special moves, spells, and gadgetry.

PCs’ Power Points refresh with a rest and a scene.

PCs can convert Bond Points to Power Points on a 1-1 ratio.  Equipment and items can also be used to increase a PC’s Power Point total.

Power is what fuels the Hero Team’s fight against the dark forces of Evil.

 

 

Warriors of Eternity is a Table Top Role-Playing Game set in a world of Power, Magic, & Technology.  Warriors of Eternity is inspired by your favorite old-school action fantasy cartoons.  The Realm of Eternity is defined by the Power of Eternity, which is accessible to Player Characters through spells, gadgets, and swords forged in magic.

A major design goal for Warriors of Eternity is to pair a light and modular D20 rules framework to exciting new mechanisms for social interactions and team building.  The desired result of the game design is to create a game that will feel familiar to players of the world’s most popular table top role-playing game, while being easier to teach, and satisfying for those who are looking for mechanisms that guide friendships, alliances, and rivalries within the game world.

The Warriors of Eternity vision includes a synergy of rules that allow for smashing bad guys and building relationships, all while being evocative of a fantastic setting of advanced science and incredible magic.

As creator and lead designer of Warriors of Eternity, I will be utilizing this blog to explore the design spaces at the core of the vision for Eternity.  In forthcoming Eternity DevLog posts, I will explore the evolution of the d20 rules systems utilized in the game’s creation, as well as the various goals and ideals behind the development of the game.  As we move further along in the design and iteration of the game, these Eternity DevLog posts will highlight things we have learned through playtesting, iteration, and re-design.

It is my hope that over the course of the next 15 months or so, we will see this game evolve from the #HeManHack where it started into a fun, playable, accessible gaming system that will satisfy the desires of gamers of varying philosophies and interests.