Fantasy Craft

Ha, not really. That was something I made for a lark and to learn.

Oh, well then I hope you learned somethin' fun

>So I was write
Jesus fucking Christ I just noticed what I did

Bumpin' with pre-gens.
Hope the thread will survive the night.

Can you speak more about the "Separate cash and Reputation economies"? I've never liked DnDs mountains of gold that are eventually worthless approach.

What would you guys think of a campaign with Feat Exchange (Species)? The idea is that the players are all making monstrous character and could continue to make them even more monstrous as the campaign goes on.

Yeah, gimme a bit

While currency is used for the usual weapons, armor, food, supplies, inns, some things require a higher standing to aquire. That's where reputation comes in. You get a little at the end of each adventure depending on your character options. The GM can of course sprinkle more in as rewards. Using it represents using your good name or calling in favours. All magical items are priced in reputation instead of cash. The worth of them simply can't be measured in currency. Reputation is also used to aquire land, contacts and titles. Everything from a small shop to a private island is bought with reputation. It can also be spent on more temporary favours like court invitations and getting pardoned for crimes.

Titles come in three kinds of renown: military, noble and heroic. The more renown you have the more magical items, holdings and contacts you're allowed to keep at the end of each adventure. Certain favours require a certain level of renown before they can be purchased. Some classes also depend on renown. One example would be the inquisitor that gets bonuses to the intimidate and investigate skills the more noble renown the character has.

If we're talking Crafty Games ITT, has anyone got a link for the Spycraft 2.0 rulebook? Been trying to find it since I heard they were making Kingsman 2

Cash (silver, hereafter) is gained like in any other game, with one exception. Characters have a Lifestyle stat, this is split by the player between Prudence and Panache. Prudence is simply how much silver you get to bank out of everything you earned after you spend it on what-have-you. Thus, you can either invest in items or bank a certain amount based on your Prudence. Panache, being the other half of Lifestyle, gives you personal flair in the form of Appearance (which is for CHA checks) and income. At the end of an adventure or if you haven't gotten your money for a month, you receive a sum that flatly increases as your Panache increases. Silver, once you have it, can be spent on weapons, armor, food, supplies, inns and other mundane things.

Silver can be earned in wildly differing amounts, but character will usually have about 200-300 silver per level at best. Useful items range in cost up to the tens of thousands of silver in gross.

Reputation is gained at the end of an adventure, when awarded by the GM or at other times due to character options. Reputation gained at the end of an adventure is bolstered by a character's Legend stat. Reputation is spent on Renown, Magical Items, Contacts and Holdings. Renown is how well the character is known in a particular way (Noble, Military or Heroic) and affects how many Prizes (cool things) and the difficulty of Favors you can purchase. Magical Items aren't usually purchased, rather when a character wants to keep a found item he must burn a certain amount of his reputation to be able to permanently keep it. Contacts are, essentially, temporary character abilities that you can call in. Holdings are places that you purchase and can upgrade to be cool hideouts, forts and such.

Reputation is usually gained in amounts of 10-25 for a successful adventure and, without GM excess, will cap at about 60 for a truly epic worthy adventure. Expect 2-5 adventures per level. Magic Items cost up to and exceeding 100 reputation. Favors can cost up to ~40 rep. A Contact's cost can vary wildly based on the NPC, up to ~70. Renown usually costs 300 to max out one of the three tracks.

why are health potions so ridiculously weak in FC?

Healing Potions is 1d4 wounds, that's pretty strong. But, you probably meant Vitality Potions which do 2d6 vitality. That's in addition to the 1 vitality per hour of rest, and the 2d6 from the once per day Mend check. Also, when you have 200+ vitality, replenishing that just makes the fight drag on.

even 1d4 wounds is weak, given you can only drink what, two per day? was it just one? The non-healing potions are decent, but these are piss weak. A 4th level soldier is going to have probably at least 56 hp, so why would he ever waste precious silver on an average of 7 points healed? His wounds will be 14ish. They should scale, at least. So like, 1 wounds +1 per two character levels, and for vitality maybe 1d6 per level.

Also, why did they go with a flat hp per level? Why not roll 1d6, 1d9 (lol), or 1d12 per level? Especially considering hp bloat is a common complaint?

There's no point in scaling the wound potions since wounds don't increase much as a character progresses. Just recovering 1d4 wounds could save your life when a crit comes in. As for vitality you recover it so quickly by resting that scaling potions isn't necessary. It will only make fights last longer, nothing else.

As for vitality per level, no one is keeping you from rolling it if you want. I prefer static though.

Scaling healing would break the game.

Randomizing health gains punishes low vitality classes a lot and just trims down high vitality classes a little.

well is vitality bloat a problem or not?

I don't think so, as a person with very little experience in Fantasy Craft. Every character I've seen made by someone who knew the system better than I seems to pump their CON out the ass for their Wounds to be higher.

'Cause, remember, a critical hit ignores Vitality completely