Awesome.

Again?

Last thread, the major topics of discussion were a new layer of runes (Refer to chart, they'd be between the True rune and the inner circle), expanding the mechanics and codifying the fluff, and renaming some of the character types (i.e. changing "Rune" to "Glyph", "Sigil", "Symbol" or equivalent, or an entirely new name).

Full list of character types;

Runecaster: Basic magic using class, memorising runes and then linking them together to create spells.

Rune Warrior: Combat class, runes inscribed on armour and weapons and activated during combat manouvers.

Runemarked; Magic user who Tattoo's runes onto their body, for a wider variety of effects, but less depth and power.

Rune Dancer; Magic users who memorises runes, but casts them through body movement (i.e. dances). Take longer to cast powerful spells, but can cast minor spells covertly.

Runefist; Martial artist who magically empowers his martial arts via forms and styles based off certain runes.

Rune Crafter; Highly specialised caster, works runes into objects to empower and enhance them.

Rune Priest; Holy caster, worships the spirits and deities of the runes, calls their power via sacrifice of blood.

Rune mimic; Capable of using/mimicking the runecasting abilities of others (to an extent), but incapable of doing anything on their own.

Forgot my picture

>>2655175
>Air
How come this automatically becomes
>Aer
in my brain?

The name is lacking in awesomeness.

>>2655236

Its the best we got so far. Glance though the last thread to find the other options. Masters of the Mosaic is something I'm pondering, but its kinda long and clunky.

In case people haven't inferred it, spells are cast by combining runes into a symbolic description of the required effect, with some limitations depending on class, i.e. runefists and rune warriors can only use their powers as part of an attack.

Name suggestions based on the culture of the futhorc (Norse rune alphabet), as described in modern Swedish:

Drakslinga (literally "dragoncoil", traditional ornamentation on rune stones)

Rista (literally "cut/carve", the verb used to describe the making of runes)

Rist (the tool for this; in modern Swedish the meaning has changed to "coulter")

Or you can do the usual thing and rip something out of the associated http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norse_mythology

Runes: the RPG

Earthflame sounds damn good.

Rune: the Drawing.

List of possible names posted in previous thread. may kick-start some ideas. (Although i still like Mosaic)

Symbology
Runic Genesis
Runeworld
Patterns of Existence
Broken Truth
(Masters of the) Mosaic
Runes of Power

Majikawl roonz, laddy.

>>2655462
No. Names with "rune" in them = no.

We need some more detail on Runefist martial arts. a description of the stance associated with each major and/or greater rune, and perhaps some basic ideas for attacks and blocks which get combined with runes to use in the martial arts.

>>2655894
>OH GOD LETS ADD WEEABOO FIGHTING TO THIS and IT WiLL BE AWESOME!

>>2655897

Err...sorry to burst your japanophobic bubble, but runefists have been a part of this for a while now, and its recieved a lot of positive attention so far. Also, everything else is western, so why not mix it up a little? Also, you could easily fluff a runefist as a western style boxer, or any number of non-eastern martial arts (Capoeira or Savate, for example)

Mark of Power

>>2655897
LOL THE MOON IS WEEABOO

>>2656013
>Capoeira
>martial arts

hahahaha

>>2656013
Savate just seems wrong for vikings. Runefist should be a hardedged style consisting of powerful punches, disarming kicks, body slams, tackles, elbow slams, headbutts, knee kicks, backhands...

The entire body is a weapon. Disregarding a single 'blade' is outright foolishness.

>>2655172
These sound less like classes by themselves and more like small parts that would be combined to create unique classes. Ironic considering the fact that the game is based on combining runes for different effects.

>>2656041

1) They aren't all vikings (Read the 2nd thread in the archive for more info on world and culture)
2) I'm letting people fluff a runefists martial art as whatever the fuck they want.

>>2656023

Lol, wut?

>>2656057
I should mention I never actually read the first two threads...

I just see runes and think vikings.
And then I see martial arts=lawlweeaboo fightan majicks. Because, as you know, the Japanese created unarmed fighting.
So I just put in my two cents.

>>2656144
A *lot* of people will think the same way as Anon here.

>>2656166
>>2656144

So, what do i do about runefists? Drop them, or completely restructure them as boxers and not-weaboo whatsoever?

Fuck that. unarmed combat rune stuff seems like something that fits in the setting and works well, and also something that could be very fun. unless i have very good reason, Runefists stays.

>>2656120

Look it up. It's not a fighting style, it's a joke.

>>2656144

Wow, you truly are an asshole. Chinese Kung Fu has been for god knows how fucking long before even Japan was founded, and even then it's not the oldest form of unarmed fighting.

>>2656182

Naturally, you're going to engrave weapons with runes. I see no reason why you can't tatoo/paint them on your hands/feet/whatever and do the same thing.

>>2656195

Rune warriors use that style of thing (i.e. marking equipment) while Runemarked tattoo themselves. Runefists don't actively mark themselves with runes. They move and strike in sympathy with the form and mastery of a rune, drawing it out through bodily dedication, training and skill.

>>2656166
No they wont.
Not every martial art has to be "weeaboo"
Boxing has been a British past time for ages, and most of the worlds martial arts aren't even from Asia.
Krav Maga, for instance.

Though that's not so much a fighting style as it is murder.

>>2656192
...
I'd like to suggest to you that England should eat babies.

It was sarcasm.

Well, seeing the rune chart I imagine that Energy and Matter counter each other? Or they can be mixed to my heart's content? If you have a Ákafi rune inscribed one hand and a Logr rune in the other.... can you clap and create a hot mist of scalding vapor?

>>2656182
Well, I still think that they should think like that.
Their body in it's entirety is a weapon. They can tattoo any part of it, and therefor they can strike with or defend with any part of it.

>>2656216
>past time

Oh Edward...

>>2656182
I suggest very no-nonsense martial arts. No high jumps etc., no flash, only crude badassery and gruesome tricks, like the superhuman feats of Icelandic sagas. "You just tore my leg off? OK, I'll balance myself on this tree stump. Come on! Fight!"

>>2656233

Gah...

Runefists don't use Tattoo's. Runemarked may use unarmed combat rune techniques, but they have other options.

Runefists don't memorise runes in the classical sense. they don't need to be told about the mastery or even know the symbol. Instead, they simply repeat a series of stylised movements which, when used in combat, draw out the power of runes.

>>2656325

I'm not going to enforce any form of martial arts. its up to the players to define what they do.

Clarification; Runefists are not the only people who can use martial arts. anyone can learn it. However, they are the only people who are restricted in the use of their abilities only to martial arts techniques.

One thing we need to do is work out is whether we include customised/unique rune trees for certain classes, and how to do them. Some people have suggested mini-trees based off additional source runes (i.e. conflict, joy) or adapting existing rune trees by adding free runes etc to make them more relevant to a classes ability set.

>>2656288
eh? I could have sworn that that was the proper idiom...
Passed time... pasttime...
oh, pastime...

>>2656465
>Gah...

>Runefists don't use Tattoo's
Perhaps I should read those other threads if I'm going to add my two cents...

>>2656774

It usually is a really good idea to have a general idea of what you're talking about before you run your mouth

Stop putting an apostrophe in tattoos.

get back to me when this game is fully functional and in downloadable PDF format

>>2657021

Sorry, i've got no head for grammar, so i get it wrong a lot without noticing.

Also, an agenda for what needs to be done. (In no particular order)

New runes: Free runes, each given its own symbol and name. Anyone's free to come up with them. All free runes fall into one of the already established categories (Lesser, Major, very very rarely Greater) but have no set place within the tree. Anyone can come up with one, just include a translated name and a unique symbol (Don't feel limited to norse).

After the above is done, a new rune chart would be very good. Using the Title "Mosaic", an interesting chart would be a mosaic, with each rune in the traditional tree as an individual tile, with the random other tiles filled in with free runes.

Renaming some classes might be a good idea. any suggestions welcome.

Actually working out the rules might be a good idea too...

>>2657073
That's what we're working on here.
Have a nice day.

>>2657112
I love the way that working out the rules is an afterthought.

>>2656213
Needing to carve the runes into your flesh would be cooler.

>>2657127

I suck that way. The rules always make sense in my head, but i write them virtually incomprehensibly, so i generally let other people screw with them to their hearts content.

>>2657169

Refer to Rune Priests (Need a new name. too Space Wolf). They cast runes with blood. carving into flesh optional.

>>2656774
>Perhaps I should read those other threads if I'm going to add my two cents...
This is why nobody values your opinion. If you for once took a second to know what the fuck you were discussing, people wouldn't call you an idiot.

>>2656216
>I'd like to suggest to you that England should eat babies.
Sounds like a modest proposal.

>>2656325
This. For reference, read Beowulf.

>>2657169
Some Runemarked might do that, potentially for a bonus/penalty tradeoff?

Also, I know it's been mentioned way too many times over the past 3 threads, but we still need a better name. "Mosaic" sounds kind of fruity, and anything including the word "rune" would be redundant to the rest of the game.

Another thing: what to do with races?

>>2657322

Glance at thread #2

Humans as the only PC race (Currently). Other races exist, but not defined. Deep woods populated by Fae, in the style of norse trolls/the fauns from Fauns Labyrinth. Green, woodlike, and unpredictable. Sometimes they'll just play tricks on you, and scare you. other times, you'll be run to the ground, impaled and eaten alive.

Other race ideas appreciated.

>>2657322 Also, I know it's been mentioned way too many times over the past 3 threads, but we still need a better name. "Mosaic" sounds kind of fruity, and anything including the word "rune" would be redundant to the rest of the game.
It would make sense to name it in Proto-Germanic/Norse.

Sample Ideas for Free Runes;
Ice, Communication, Wood, Iron, Mountain, River, Darkness, Sound, Explosion, Height, Motion, Silence, Severing, Plant/Flower, Sand, Mud, etc.
Most of these can be made by combineing two or more other runes, So perhaps a Runecaster can gain Free Runes by mastering and then Mergeing the Component runes.

>>2657546

Looks great. Can we get a Scandinavian, or someone else who knows a cool sounding language, for some translations, and some symbols to go with.

>>2657627
http://www.yorku.ca/inpar/language/English-Old_Norse.pdf

Here's an Old Norse dictionary—go to town. I'd do it myself, but that would be presumptous.

>>2657322
>Sounds like a modest proposal.
It should, that's what I was referencing.

>>2657374
Humans, Elves, and Dwarves.
Askrson, Ljosalfr and the Dokkalfr

Or, as I'm doing for Einherjar, Aesir, Vanir, and Jotun

You need races? Hmm.

Every game ever has Elves, so why not start there? PC's go crazy go nuts over them. First off, their not "LOL PERFECT IN EVERY WAY" elves either, more along the lines of Valenwood Wood Elves. Real grimndark, canabalistic, etc. I know it wouldn't fit too well with the norse mythology stuff...(Would it? i don't know...) so how about a tweest? instead of being 8 foot tall super good looking bastards, how about more traditional santas elves?

Small, nasty teeth, bad tempers. Sounds more like Gnomes...

Translations (For some reason, i can't copy paste, so the special characters aren't included. apologies in advance. When there are multiple terms, i choose based on personal preference)

Ice: Svell
Communication(Speak): Tala
Wood: Holt
Iron: Jarn
Mountain: Fjall
River: Fljot
Darkness: Myrkr
Sound: Heill
Height: Haed
Motion: Atrid
Silence: Pagall
Severing: Deila
Nature: Lund
Sand: Eyrr
Mud: Efja

>>2657755
>>2657677

I'm trying to go for very non-standard races. See the predatory Faun/fae wood-dwellers for the Elf equivalent. After many years of overuse, i now try to avoid elves as much as possible, and them as a PC race is usually something i discourage.

A dwarf equivalent race might be cool. i'll see if i can find some cool lore from mythology/history, to deviate from the generic fantasy dwarves.

Names:
"Riimu" - rune
"riimukivi" - runestone
"runa" - guess
...
ekusutoRIIMUfaitaasuXvaikingu!

On a serious note, how exactly does runemarked use their spells? Touch themself on appropriate locations and go "Shazam!!"?

>>2657755
>>2657796
Eh, Elves and Dwarves in Norse myth were basically the same thing, and they were basically just people.
Elves were people who were good with magicks and knew the secrets of the runes, and Dwarves were people who knew the secrets of making magical items that would kill people, and then taking them back with a "just as planned" smirk.
Fucking Nibelung.

>>2657796

I just suggest this because there's always going to be one guy in the group that's gonna be an elf, and you know it.

Gotta think like the masses. The giant, stupid masses.

Also, dorf's are required, since they are fuck-all awesome.

What do you think about centaurs being played, or in that case, even minotaurs?

Why don't you try to start from northern european mythologies (swedish, finnish, icelandic and norwegian)?

>>2657860
>>2657841

I'm going to try and take sources from a few different twists (i.e. attitude of norse fae, forms of greek fauns).

Centaurs may work quite well, living in the deserts and wide plains, constant nomads wandering in search of new lands. need more thought on this...

>>2657860

Well damn, the only country that seems to have a mythology of its own is Finland. All the others have pretty much same norse mythology, or so the wikipedia tells.

One other thing i just realised i need to sort out: Why the runes are all nordic.

For those who didn't see the previous thread, a brief summary- The continent is a large oval, with points extending up into each pole, while the equator marks a line of tropics (near to the coast) and deserts (far from it). The continent is populated by a variety of cultures (All ripoffs of ancient earth cultures, because i'm lazy). There's no overarching authority. a roman-esque empire existed a few centuries ago, but offended the dwellers in the woods by attempts to colonise the deepwoods, and was torn apart.

The vikings-likes populate the coasts in the areas nearing the poles. however, they have the longest recorded history in the form of saga's and ballads, which go back thousands of years, and tell of a time of unity and collective knowledge. why this ended is unclear, but it appears to have started with the discovery of a new form of rune. (The unrunes)

>>2657919
Convenient, eh? PROTO-EUROPE, FUCK YEAH!

Bumping because, although we've got a list of free runes, we need more symbols. They don't have to be norse at this point (While the nords discovered the true-rune chart, other cultures may have discovered the free runes, or other source runes). Even if you make it up yourself, just post it up and we can paste it into a chart.

>>2658042
May I suggest something else for the downfall of your roman-esque empire? Or a combination of things?

Just saying that the faedudes from the deepwoods destroyed an entire empire is too lame, Makes them way too powerful as an entity(IE if players ever encounter them they will expect to be wiped clean ... yet somehow survive! Gay.). Mayhaps an alliance between the Fae of the deepwood and the monsters and other mythical creatures displaced by the (rapid)expansion of that empire, the clear cutting of forests and taking of plains for farming and cities and such.


Really, haveing some kind of allpowerful superbeing(s) living next door in the woods is too easy.

>>2658556

A very good suggestion. But that'd require some more fleshed out additional races...

My ideas;

Merfolk, who live in the rivers. Secretive but benign, they don't generally bother people, and use illusions to keep themselves hidden. They attacked the roman-a-likes because pollution and increased river traffic were destroying their settlements and killing their people.

Centaurs of the plains and deserts, swiftest beasts on land. some of the greatest hunters ever known, their mastery of the javelin and bow legendary, but also legends persist of their beautiful music and skill with words, rarely heard by human ears. They are relatively well-known to exist, but only from glimpses on the horizon, but their general response at seeing any humans is to run away as fast as possible, little detail about their culture is known. They attacked the romans-esque people after the overpopulated the plains and desert, making their solitude harder and harder to maintain.

More to come.

Bump with Rune of Awesome

This'll probably be responded too harshly, but what about using some of the more simplistic Kanji to represent a couple of free runes? They're quite distinctive symbols, and would fit in pretty well.

>>2657677
>It should, that's what I was referencing.
Pic related. See, this is why people go into sagebot mode at the sight of you.

>>2658042
>One other thing i just realised i need to sort out: Why the runes are all nordic.

In the world's ancient times (before the "Romans" existed, there was a civilization (early "Vikings") that rose to great power by discovering that a few simple symbols and words could have wondrous effects; they discovered/invented runic magic.
Unfortunately, one day the civilization's greatest wizard was researching new runes and discovered the Un-Runes. His mind was unable to contain the power they unleashed, so he went insane and began destroying his fellow wizard's works... and then the wizards themselves.
The mad mage's rampage killed hundreds, including the entire ruling family. The secrets of the runes would have been lost forever had the former scholar not suddenly disappeared without a trace. Those who survived realized what must have happened, and vowed to never again explore knowledge that man was clearly not meant to know. All research immediately stopped, but most still used the runic spells that remained after the mage's frenzied attacks.

In recent years, cults have begun to appear, channeling strange powers that could not be duplicated by any rune combination. Despite the cults' far-flung origins, their seemingly interconnected goals and worship of an eerily similar deity indicate that they may all be led in secret by a single being...

>>2659628
Kind of gay, man. How about some of they glyphs from Thief?

http://thief.nov.ru/glyphs.htm

>>2659891
(cont.) Especially since the whole point of them is to be magical.

>>2659812

That works perfectly. Thank you.

>>2659891

Those look good... thanks for the link.

If I may, I'd like to suggest that you throw in the seal-style Chinese characters, for flavor, if nothing else. I think their forms would work well with the Norse runes, having that same sort of unpolished and unfinished, yet simplified, look.

http://www.internationalscientific.org/CharacterASP/

That's a cool little web app that will take a modern Chinese character and give you all the old, archaic forms, including the seal script and even some oracle bone examples, if those catch your fancy more than the seal characters.

>>2659959 He also declared that all the old documents should be destroyed. This unification and 2200 years of history mean that very few written artifacts survive from before 221 BC.
I RAGED.

>>2659968
It happens man, although, as a Han myself, can't help but laugh at how much cultural genocide we've committed against ourselves.

Honestly, Mao's Cultural Revolution was nothing compared to some of the dynastic shit that occurred.

Anyway, as an example, here is the seal form, on the left, and the oracle form, on the right, for the character 火, meaning fire. (Or various other things depending on context but that's not really important.)

>>2659985
Yeah, it seems to be a worldwide pattern throughout all of history. Doesn't make it less rage-inducing. A total "fuck you" to historians for millenia to come.

>>2659959

I'll look into them after i've finished with the Thief runes. But thank you for the resource. I have a feeling there's a bucketload more free runes where the earlier list came from, so new symbols are always handy.

Any particularly tasty bits of chinese culture or history you think should be included in the settings pseudo-china?

>>2660074
Well, other than the generic East Asian-influenced fantasy stuff, there's always the Romance of the Three Kingdoms. Good amount of stuff to be drawn off of that.

I've not been following these threads as closely as I could have, however, so I'm a bit sketchy on some of the details regarding the background fluff, so I don't have much to say on specifi things you could pull out and use.

This game really needs a 1d4chan entry.

>>2660131

Feel free to make one. I'm unfamiliar with the workings of Wiki's, so i'm not going to start messing around with them yet. Though, there was some discussion of a project Wiki last time...

Also, i've attached the first version of the Free Rune chart. the only thing that needs adding is whether they're lesser, major or greater...

Two ideas
1. name, Symbols, skaldic visions.
2. rune archers, a ranged version of rune fighter

>>2661273

Name, symbol and Skaldic version? Was there a subset of language for skalds or something of the sort?

Rune Warriors aren't limited to melee. They can just as easily mark a ranged weapon and its ammunition with runes, and use it with just as much skill and effectiveness.

>>2662695
Prestige classes? Taking a particular weapon specialisation as a Rune Warrior leads to Archer, Fighter, etc?

>>2662754

Its not a class based system, as such. After you select which type of rune-user you are, how you structure your abilities is up to you. a starting rune warrior could be entirely focused on range, or go for a mix, or even some unarmed/martial arts techniques using equipment like metal gauntlets, punch-knives and knuckle dusters.

Giving this thread a quick-start after the stall

Don't mind me, just posting a list of all current runes to make thinking up new free runes/cool warrior runes easier (i.e. less time spent checking they haven't already been done)

Supreme: Truth

Greater: Life, Faith, Matter, Death, Knoweldge, Energy

Major: Healing, Augmentation, Men, Gods, Earth, Water, Undeath, Mortality, Learning, Divination, Fire, Air

Lesser: Wounds, Sickness, Body, Mind, Destiny, Courage, Blessing, Smiting, Growth, Rock, Ocean, Rain, Necromancy, Rebirth, Decay, Banishment, Details, Secrets, Scrying, Prophecy, Light, Heat, Lightning, Wind

Free: Ice, Wood, Mountain, River, Nature, Speak, Iron, Darkness, Sound, Mud, Height, Motion, Silence, Severing, Sand

SUP guys!!!!

where is Edward ???

I thinking about a runic magic system wat you guys think about it ?

Symbology : The RPG ...good start ?

My ideas:

Supreme/Source: Joy (Fauno), Conflict (Warrior),

Greater:
Fauno: Empathy (Joy in others joy), Sadism (Joy in others pain)

Warrior: Battle (Physical conflict with people or things), Argument (Mental conflict with people or ideas).

Major:
Fauno: Torture (Joy from others physical pain), Torment (Joy from others mental suffering), Charity (Creating joy through actions), Virtue (Creating joy through mentality)

Warrior: Duel (Battles with individuals), War (Battles with groups), Discourse (Argument with individuals), Debate (Argument with groups)

Not sure at to lesser just yet…

Just one more and ready for play

>>2664338
>>2664275
>>2664243

OP here.

What the fuck are you on about?

So When the system will be truly relesed.

>>2664358
Just ignore him. That's what I do.
I thought he was dead.

>>2664358
>>2664358

wow wow wow did you manage to play my game?

here is the sheet.

Edward had played and liked...now he just plays FTRP, totaly forgot about gurps.

>>2664430

What tha fuck happand with you...Edward!

where is your game ? what about Hafling Barbarians that kills Colossus for living ? han

2 games in a row, how about you ?

>>2664430

You really do have a talent of annoying people, don't you?

I'm just bemused as to why he's jumped on my thread.

>>2664325

Taking no notice of the trolling…

Lesser:
Fauno: Agony, Mischief, Ecstasy

Warrior: Honour, Pragmatism, Tactics

Yes, i know the pattern doesn't make much sense and most of my ideas don't seem very practical, but at least its a framework for someone smarter to build something off.

Supreme: Illusion

Greater: Image, Sensation

Major: Seeming, Becoming, Percieving, Experiencing

Lesser: Deception, Obfustication, Transformation, Transmutatoin, Observation, Analysis, Impression, Memory

>>2664577

You Should play FTRP, the only idea built in /tg/ blood that had came out

>>2664794

I think we are brothers .

>>2664911

Fuck off and die

Someone build a Bridge

>>2664955

Earth + Water + River + Iron?

Thanks for the varied comments and ideas that were posted. I'm giving the thread a final bump before going to sleep. Night all.

A potentially better name: Glyphmasters.

(also, bump.)

Holy ever loving crap. Original graph fag here. I love you internet. I'm just going to go ahead and position the first lot of free runes in the original graph.

Water > Ice
Growth > Wood
Mountain > Rock
Water > River
Growth >= Nature
Speech?
Rock > Iron
Darkness = Light
Sound? (Technically high control of Air)
Rock > Mud
Enhancement > Height
Motion? (Energy?)
Silence (See sound)
Severing? (See motion)
Rock > Sand

>>2655109
how about the incorporation of what runes have lent to in our modern day for a name.
like in ancient times the ability to spell was a magical quality persom had, so mabye call it Spellcraft, Runeforge, ooh or Runewalkers, or Rune Lords.

>>2665722
this is also good

>>2665722
IDEA! glyphs could work like telekenetics, but glyphs and runes don't mix like Oil and water.

>>2665957
Problem there is we have to come up with a new glyph tree. and 4-6 more major categories. And then divide those. And then divide those again.
I'm pretty much assuming that should you have the raw power available to summon a fireball, you also have the power to throw it.

>>2664909
>>2664325
>>2664794
>>2663755

So far, we have 96 separate runes, with one main tree and two sub-trees. I'm guessing the illusion one was for the merfolk suggested earlier, like joy was for the wood people (Who are apparently called Fauno...)

How many more runes do we need?

Wasn't there a flower like diagram with various warrior styles and related tactics recently?

I liked this game better when it was freestyle and awesome. Now it's codified and shit.

Inscription: Words Made Flesh
Inkbound: Well of Power (Maybe too punny)
Runic: Untold Alphabets

I like the first one, personally.

>>2666073
That was the Concept stage. Welcome to Details.

>>2666148
>That was the Learning stage. Welcome to Details

Fix'd

>>2666148

Except now the details are removing all of the fun. The fun of the concept was it was a mysterious world where everyone had a little access to this mysterious power and it was up to the player to decide how he used it.

Now it's quickly turning into a class-based system with tiered progression just like every other class based RPG has been moving toward.

So your details have turned the game from a cool indie RPG into another generic RPG with a pseudo Norse theme despite being only marginally Nordic at best.

>>2666193
Who said anything about classes? As far as I'm aware these are all just different ways of using runes.

>>2666206

You have a bunch of different "Archetypes", then, which are all fundamentally different in playstyle and their method while also pondering the addition of "ability trees" to make them feel more unique.

Excuse me for thinking that this was a class-based game.

>>2666217
As terrible as it sounds, I can sort of see the system ending up somewhat similar to WoD

>>2666234

So it'd be a high fantasy game set in a make believe world inspired by the mythologies of ancient Europe and the Far East.

... So it'd be Exalted. Only with runes. Instead of Unisystem with awesome freeform runic powers, like Earthflame originally invisioned it.

I honestly don't see how the game benefits from the change.

>>2666245
Okay, I'm going to come clean. I've only ever played D&D 3.x, CoC, WoD and DH (briefly). I have no idea how this system will turn out, but I've seen no mention of levels, which to me, is a defning aspect of a class based system.
The most numbers oriented thing I can think of right now would be mana, or any other method of using runes. The more mana you pump into a spell, the more powerful/specific it can get. Different uses, different mana growth. But anyway, stop bitching and contribute.

>>2666269

I have contributed. Earthflame just doesn't deal with mechanics ever and then shoehorns in the Storyteller system at the end, so the ideas I've tossed to him will probably never see the light of day.

>>2666245
>Unisystem

Que?

>>2666281
It's not Earthflame that's running this project though. This is pretty much entirely community driven. Also, what's so horrendous about the Storyteller system?

Question: Is there a 1d4chan page for this yet?

Follow-up: What are we calling this (for now) so I can find the page/make one?

>>2666294

The Buffy RPG, Evil Dead RPG, and All Flesh Must Be Eaten all run on the Unisystem system.

>>2666298

So was Artifice. It still ended up being based on Storyteller. And there's nothing wrong with Storyteller. I think Storyteller has its uses. But when I think "freeform rune magic" like Earthflame proposed I don't think of Storyteller's strict, linear progression of abilities all explained from the start.

>>2666329
No idea about the 1d4chan page, but it's being called 'Mosaic' for now

>>2666354

I've thrown up a page, anyone here with more thorough knowlege of the fluff so far can add to it. Looking forward to reading the fluff once it gets organized. I'm actually itching to see the crunch; that's where I can actually help out. Page is here, have at it:

http://1d4chan.org/wiki/Mosaic

Rebirth + Growth + Details = bump for great justice

Ahh, what a lovely sleep. Lets see whats gone on overnight...

>>2666281
I will admit, i'm not good at mechanics. I'm bad at thinking them up, writing them out or balancing them. However, i don't just "shoehorn(s) in the Storyteller system at the end" Eurid uses a variant of the storyteller system, pretty much straight, but that was explicit from the beginning, while ArtifIce uses an admittedly similar D10 mechanic, but has changed massively in the details. It'll be clearer when i finish it.

It is not my intention, and has never been my intention, to use Storyteller for this game.

>>2666298

This post is correct. These games aren't mine. They're /tg/'s. I'm just heading the design team. If i make a mistake, and /tg/ tells me i did, then i will go back and change the game, because there's no point in making a game people won't enjoy, or play and have fun with.

In case you do spot an obvious fault in a game i've done, email me about it, and i'll see what i can do.

Question: Why the seperate rune tree for Warriors? Seems odd that warriors would limit themselves to a particular set of runes - or that nobody else would think to use the Warrior runes.

>>2669102

The extra runes charts are additional, so warriors can use most of the True-sourced runes (However, not faith or knowledge trees). maybe the idea'll be scrapped, maybe it'll spread to every class, but its keeping options open.

>>2669234
Why are warriors not using faith or knowledge?
Maybe not all of them would be useful, but a small bit of details could help you learn weaknesses of your foes, or scrying will tell you his tactcis, or, exactly what he'll do in 6 seconds.
Faith - Holy champion, anyone? Smiting is pretty fucking obvious. Blessing, also pretty fucking obvious. Destiny, not so much, but Courage? Is this not what a warrior's life is built around?

>>2669654

Point taken. dropping the restrictions there seems a good idea...

but i still like the idea of small, additional rune charts...

Well, we can just have the lesser runes trees apply to non-human races (Who, for the most part, aren't designed to be PC's, or at least not work in a mixed group).

Perhaps Freedom as the source rune for the Centaurs?

Hey, just popping in to say a few things.

If your interested in working on this project, to get it properly done, sling me an email or drop into #Mosaic at irc.thisisnotatrueending.com (Port 6667)

Second, we need a couple of executive decisions before we properly move one.

1) Additional rune trees- For classes, for races, or scrap the entire idea?

2) Game tone- when were developing the mechanics, it'll affect the tone of the game. Do we want grimdark realism, or high fantasy epic? high fatality, or plot armour? any thoughts on this'd be good.

Finally, if anyone has opinions of any of the classes, feel free to share them. fluff them out a bit, criticise or modify them, or outright say one shouldn't exist. Projects like this only improve though public editing, and the rune-user types are a core of the system, and thus need to be thoroughly vetted.

>>2664909

This one is a bit odd... for one thing, most of the runes seem to mean very similar things to others, with little defining the differences between them. Anyone want to clarify this?

Back to the first page with you. Get finished!

One more time

>>2670852
>1) Additional rune trees- For classes, for races, or scrap the entire idea?
Totally scrap. Runes just need to be rare and hidden, so that majority of them would be unknown for the majority of people (hidden by some monastic orders - just like new scientific papers these days - or just forgotten and dangerous). When a character tries to learn a new rune, he makes a roll(s) on stat and failure means he gets some kind of damage/affliction. The more runes he already knows, the harder it is for him to learn more (maybe antagonistic runes even harder - e.g. trying to learn fire when he already knows water). And in this case afflictions should be more dangerous too.
Pros? No level ups, no classes, free character development. Each way of using a rune (warrior, fist, priest, etc.) - different skill, not a class.
Cons? Still needs some endurance or mana stat to power runes up. E.g. fire for 1 mana - static candlelike, fire 5 - static campfire or thrown/long-lasting candlefire.

Sorry for lousy english.

>>2672567

That's partially in keeping with what's already been written, but it'd take things in a new and somewhat darker direction. The initial idea was a world where low level magic (i.e. lesser runes) was universal, everyone knowing and using one or two as part of normal life. It was only when you reached the point of knowing many runes (5+) or the higher power runes (major and above) that magic became a more esoteric, mysterious thing.

And even with your idea, that doesn't necessarily remove the possibility of the additional rune charts. The other races are all secretive and little known, and would perhaps guard their own runes with a fierce determination, while the class-specialist rune trees might be secret things, only taught to those who befriend ancient order of that type of rune user.

>>2672621
But that doesn't mean that you'll need to make specific charts. Because it's simpler to give different runes different rarities then make some predesigned societies with their own lists of known runes. If some runes were continiously lost and rediscovered and each and everyone tries to hold his own share of power in secret, then there's no grant, that each society of similar knowledge would have access to similar rune charts.
However, if there're some completely different rune systems (like voodoo runes, thief glyphs, morrowind runes, hieroglyphs and nordic runes) than I think different charts are absolutely accceptable.
But rigid rune ladders are absolutery no-no, except for some logical ones (inquisitorial zeal available only after learning fire and faith or something). Or greater runes as they were explained earlier.

And personally, I'm against magic that's used by each drunk bum in da pub. Because this way it's no more magical then some esoterical stuff for housewifes or simple training like meditation techniques. Or even worse - everyday tool.

Damn. The sleeper I am the worse my english goes. So I'm off for 8-10 hours. Hope this thread won't sage itself till that time.

Life (Amplified) + Rebirth

Live damn it, Live!

>>2672972

The current main chart was meant as universal runes, not particularly tied to any particular race or location. maybe certain nations would specialise in certain runes, but there was nowhere a rune would be completely absent. Then again, scarcity may be an option...

I'm not sure what you mean by the next bit... The idea with additional charts is they express concepts which, rather than directly derive from the ultimate truth of reality, derive from other, lesser concepts, which still hold enough weight to have a web of runes around them.

Eh, we decided to go for commonplace magic. if you run the game, change the setting, if you'll have more fun with it.

Also, idea; To make up for humans only accessing the main rune chart (Assuming were abandoning additional rune charts for classes), the other races have fewer ways to use runes (2-3 per race, one unique, the others the same as human?(

>>2656041
>Hurrrr mom let me take Tae Kwon Do when I was 8 and we spent about 20 minutes talking about Bruce Lee

>>2656216
>aren't even from Asia.
>Krav Maga, for instance.

So, Israel isn't in Asia anymore you say?

>>2656774
How about you just get the fuck off the internet and stop fagging it up for everyone?

samefag that made the Earthsea reference in a previous thread.

I still like the idea that most everyone in an area has learned one rune that corresponds to their area. Like a coastal village learning the sub-minor rune that helps them bring cod from the depths to be caught easier, and the entire village guards this tiny rune jealously. They wouldn't even really need to be fleshed out...maybe just given a name....or maybe its a minor rune that the villagers don't realize the full potential of...

example: a small village in a stormy area knowing that if they carve Elding (lightning) into poles and put them away from their homes, the lightning will strike the pole and not the house. They have it, they just don't know the power that they have.

It would turn the entire party into scholars though, making them study each and every rune they come across in great detail.

>>2657677
Stop trying to rub your stupid onto Norse mythology. No one wants you there.

Alright, I've already read a couple of these threads and I'm feeling kind of lazy about reading this one so here's what I think:

This is looking good thus far. The classes are good, no need for more unless a REALLY good gets suggested.

My main qualm is this: The runes, you have many that are expected (life, death, and all that jazz) but I notice that a few might be missing for the full range of effects. Where is time? What about space (for teleportation)? Obviously many effects can be made using what you have, but some are redundant whilst you leave holes in the overall picture.

I remember reading something about another rune chart for different classes or something...? Don't do this. If you want the world set up to be nice you will have one central rune (truth) which is surrounded by the rest, any side charts that are unconnected would ruin the setup.

Question: Will there be different races, and which races? Please dont go generic elf dorf etc

>>2675148

refer to

>>2658641
>>2657374

I'm not sure at this stage in the project all these new directions etc are a good idea. they'll just have us infinitely backtracking, refining details before we've got the general stuff nailed down. lets just keep the fluff as it is, in general, so far, and see about rules ideas or somesuch.

Daybump

>>2657802

Hoo, isn't that finnish?

Saved from page nine.

I'm thinking that for now, we just leave the existing rune tree as is, and should more runes be needed, GMs can just stick them floating somewhere, or if they want make up a minor tree.

Idea for a plot hook:

One of the oldest Nordic barbarians, who has failed to die in battle, is wandering in search of a worthy death. He is a master Runewarrior, wielding the runes as freely as he wields his blade, and he wields his battleaxe better than any. He's in the area, and has heard of you and your friends power, and seeks you out, to determine whether you may give him a worthy death.

Will you try and reason him, showing your group as too weak to deal with, or attempt to slay him and claim his powerfully-runed armour and weapons?

I'm off /tg/, have a good night.

I'm going back to University soon, so i'll be pretty busy getting back into the swing of it for the next few weeks, and i'll probably not get much time to make threads or work on any games. If you have ideas or whatever, email them to me or post them up on the 1d4chan page, or just make another thread yourself. the channel on the sup/tg/ IRC (#Mosaic) is also there, if you need a place to chat about it, and if you feel like making a wiki for the game, be my guest.

See ya in a couple of weeks.