The Mask of Ice

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Mental: Intelligence (Accuracy), Wisdom (Finesse), Will (Defense) Interaction: Charisma (Accuracy), Comeliness (Finesse), Reputation (Defense) Physical: Strength (Accuracy), Dexterity (Finesse), Toughness (Defense) You have the values 5, 4 and 3, which you assign to stat categories and distribute within them. You then have a certain amount of skill points which you assign to skills, which are based on either a specific stat or a stat category.

Oh, I remembered the last category of stats: Interaction. Remember, with this system we already have 9 stats. So no need to complicate it further. Those types of things are for skills anyway.

It's a horror system, but the stat system's nice and could fit into Bionicle. So basically, you have 3 categories of stats, Physical, Mental, and something else I forgot about which was similar to Will. These were in turn divided into three additional categories: Strength, Finesse and Defense. So your physical stats were: Strength (Strength), Dexterity (Finesse) and Toughness (Defense).

You mean having stats like World of Darkness? Nice idea.

Nope. Let's say we want to play a very absentminded character; we'll need a Wisdom stat so that he'll have low insight, perception, etc.

Edited it (I'm assuming we'll need 10 saving throws, checks or other usages of the Toughness stat to increase Vitality and Endurance): https://dl.dropbox.com/u/72428913/BIONICLE%20RPG/BIONICLE%20Races.docx

Here's the revised Matoran race stats (I removed Skilled/Warrior because I think characters' ranged/melee weapon and armor proficiencies should be determined by their ranks in the ranged weapon usage/melee weapon usage/armor usage skills): https://dl.dropbox.com/u/72428913/BIONICLE%20RPG/BIONICLE%20Races.docx

Let's add and ethical axis to the alignment system along with the moral axis: Lawful, Neutral and Chaotic. So you can be Lawful, Chaotic or Neutral Good, Lawful Chaotic or Neutral (True) Neutral and Lawful, Chaotic and Neutral Evil. Also, I think having a Destiny encourages player favoritism by the GM and railroads characters, thus defeating the purpose of the game.

There's standard arrays, we're not going to roll stats over the internet now are we? Having Perception as a stat makes no sense; it and Insight, Nature, Survival etc. are skills dependent on Wisdom.

d20 averages have always been 10. I say we have a standard array like this: 16, 15, 14, 13, 12, 10, 8 (assuming we'll add Wisdom as a 7th stat, and please, let's make elemental manipulation's ability change according to element, otherwise it'll encourage min-maxing alot, but let's have your Will determine your EE pool.) And include a 4d6 best 3 method for random ability generation.

The ability adjustments there are just absurd. A good rule of thumb would be to make all racial ability modifiers add up to 0. Also, penalties to crafting skills and a few roleplaying drawbacks won't stop munchkins from choosing to play a Toa. I say we give Matoran expertise dice, extra skill points and ability adjustments that add up to 0. Toa are like Matoran but don't have expertise dice or extra skill points, but have elemental manipulation.

I said that just to change the ability adjustments, the elemental features are fine. Also, if we don't give Matoran expertise dice as an exclusive feature, they'll get sidelined by Toa. What I meant by the elemental control issue is this: If you're a Toa of Fire, you use Charisma for elemental control, If you're a Toa of Earth, you use Toughness, etc. Simpler resistances/vulnerabilities speed up play. How about an EE pool like this: If your Toa has a will of 10 (the average for a d20 stat) he has 10 EE at the start of each day. This would work if EE costs for powers were like in the table I posted the link to in the main topic, coupled with the recharge ability.

Let's use the standard ability score system (please, let's add Wisdom, we need that for perception and other mental abilities that don't rely on Intelligence), and only have each subtype grant +2 to one and -2 to another. Other than that, we could just have resistances halve damage and vulnerability double it, and I'm still a supporter of Matoran having expertise dice. Are we using that idea? Toa should have an EE pool equal to their Will, but their skill at elemental manipulation (attack rolls, saving throw DCs, etc. Are we making elemental manipulation a skill along with weapon usage, dodge, etc.) should be based on an ability determined by their element.

Since widgets are mostly unpopular, they could act like an electrum piece in D&D: Half the value of the credit, which I assume is our main currency. My solution to a Nova Blast is this: Ordinary Toa can only do it by expending EE equal to their max EE to create a cloud area effect. This automatically deals 1d6 per the Toa's level damage of their element to all in the area. Doing the 335 cubic kio Nova Blast instantly kills you if you're not a Nuva.