Giving "Creativity" bonuses in RPG

Srekel · 2003-07-17T10:43:35

A couple of months ago or so, someone mentioned the idea of Creativity, while discussing skills. The idea was that someone that was really good at skill A and really bad in skill B, would be not so Creative, while someone that was good at both A and B would be more Creative, and would be rewarded in some way. Now, what are some smart ways to do this? In thinking about how to implement this in my RPG, I''ve come up with these thuoghts: Hrm, first a quick tour of my skill system Each of the 15 skills have five ranks, Novice, Apprentice, Practitioner, Expert, Master. When using a skill, you get a certain number of Training Points in that skill, and a number of XP. The amount of TPs in a skill affects how skillful you are, and when you reach a certain amount of TPs, you "move up a rank", which can bring some new abilities into play. XP can be converted into either TPs (probably by going to a trainer) in a skill, or (I think) you''ll be able to buy Feats (or Perks, as they are called in Fallout. Basically the idea is to give the character new abilites, or to specialize him/her in some cool way) for them. At certain "Total amount of gained XP"-levels, you gain 1 Feat Point, which you can buy Feats for, or save for later. Now, for the Creativity part: When all (or a certain percentage, I''m not sure about this) of your skills reach a certain Rank (i.e 80% of your skills are Novice or better), you recieve 2 Feat Points. You also recieve 100 XP. It is, in a way, a boring way to solve it. But still, it is a bonus for those who wish to play more, what''s-the-word, all-around good characters instead of maxing out Small Guns and Speech, to take a Fallout example. Can you think of any cooler ways to implement it? I''m pretty sure that I''ll do skill-combinations, i.e. if you are at rank R1 with skill S1, and rank R2 with skill S2, you''ll get some kind of bonus or ability that you couldn''t use if either of the skills had had a lower rank... But that doesn''t really have to do with creativity. Unless I also say that "you need these skills to be at these ranks, AND you need at least Creativity level 2".

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Started by Srekel July 15, 2003 11:34 AM

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July 17, 2003 10:43 AM

Lol, indeed.

I discussed this with my brothers and girlfriend, and I guess we came to the conclusion that

1) It''s lame to MAKE the player play either the warrior, wizard or thief-character. Mixing skills should be fun, but it isn''t fun if you can''t complete the game doing it.

2) The best solution to this, is designing the missions/quests so that they ARE possible to complete in different ways, and somehow let the JoaT-guy actually BENIFIT from knowing a lot of different skills - as it should be.

3) I don''t think, and I think my brothers and my girlfriend agreed with me in the end, that great mission design is A) very hard and B) not enough. I therefore think some kind of Creativity system is needed, for the game to be enjoyable by someone who doesn''t want to play the "simple-minded" characters.

------------------"Kaka e gott" - Me

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