But you could for the profile image, the portrait.

I didn't plan on having portaits, actually. Too time consuming to be worth the effort, and we're running on a limited timeframe. Probably going to have to skip this one. We'll see.

EDIT:

What I mean here is that I don't plan on making separate portrait images. The "portrait" next to the CG window and anywhere else in game is just your regular, in-game sprite.

Tonight I'll be covering gameplay, although I'm going to have to be pretty light on the details for obvious reasons. I can't get to it right now, unfortunately. I'll be back to finish this up later. Before I do, however, a bit of advice on the previous section. There are a few party designs that are just designed for failure. I'll list a couple now.

One man:

This is a team-based game. A single person will get ripped apart right off the bat. You CANNOT beat this game with one person, not even on pitiful. While there may be sections of the game best handled with smaller groups or even a single person, there are also parts where one person just can't get through it. It's easier to have party members wait behind than to find more when you need them. The same, to a lesser extent, applies to very small parties. I would suggest four characters as a bare minimum, and even that seems a bit skimpy.

No healer:

While this game is more about avoiding damage than repairing it, you still need a healer if you don't want party members to bleed to death in every engagement. Don't make a party without a healer, and for most parties keep several healers. There's no excuse on this one.

Nothing but casters:

The healer classes are sorely underpowered in most respects. Their healing isn't very good, and without some way to mitigate damage they will run out of spell slots and die. Arcane classes have the same issue. They're potent only while their spells last, and underpowered the rest of the time. Arcane spells are primarily support and crowd control, they aren't as good as weapons against a single opponent and casters suck with weapons. Even the single-target spells available are limited use mid-range options. They lack the range of other ranged weapons, don't have the power of melee weapons and with the vancian magic system they can't be used very much. You're crippling the party at both long and short range, and preventing them from taking down powerful single targets. Your first boss fight will make you rue this party. It's not impossible to do, but it's a bad idea.

An armed nursery:

Need I even explain this one? They might be good later on, but right off the bat the baby age group is the weakest by far. Giving them nobody to protect them at the beginning while they're still only fit for cuddling is stupid. They are barely useful characters when you start, and it isn't until mid game they become decent. You'll never make it that far on any difficulty level above pitiful if you don't have older characters in your party. I'm not saying you can't use babies in the party, but they can't be the entire party or even the majority.

An armed nursing home:

I probably shouldn't have to explain this one either. The ancient age group is skill-heavy and their only good stat is resolve. Add on their slow progression, healing and movement speed and it's easy to see why they're going to fall apart later on. By mid-game, they've been overtaken by every other age group and by late game they are sorely underpowered. Once again, not saying you can't use them, but you need younger characters later on.

The old and the young:

Baby/ancient combos don't work either. You need people older than babies and younger than ancients for the combatant classes. Not necessarily the adult age group, if you play it right children or elders can handle it, but you can't use babies or ancients for combatants, and combatants are the backbone of your party.

I'll be covering gameplay today. I'll cover creatures sometime soon, although note your definition of "soon" may vary from mine.

Movement and combat actions:
Characters are controlled like a turn-based strategy game. Outside of combat, left click on any character to select them. Once you have selected a character, click on a location and they will move there. Left click on an object for the default action. In all both cases, right clicking will display a wheel menu . In combat, characters are selected for you based on initiative. They will have a limited number of actions they may perform in a single combat round. There are six seconds worth of actions that may be performed in a combat round. Most actions take one, three or six to perform, although some may be in between. For movement, you have a base movement rate (usually NOT a multiple of 6) and your movement takes up an amount of time proportionate to the distance. For instance, if your jogging (default) movement rate is 20m/round and you want to move 10m, this will take three seconds. It will also take three seconds to move 8m, as all movement actions are rounded up. The game uses a grid that is, by default, invisible. When mousing over a location, it will tell you the distance. This grid has each square representing 1m of space.

There are command bars on the bottom and right of your screen (you can hide either of these if you wish, extending the screen) that relate to different commands. By default, the right of the screen relates to global and party commands. The bottom bar relates to individual character commands. For example, a special daily summon ability taken from a boss would appear on the right command bar, while a priest or shaman's normal summons would be on the bottom command bar with the rest of their spells.

The inventory is accessible from the bottom bar, as are combat commands for your character. You can also right-click them to open a command wheel related to themselves, useful if you choose to hide this bar. It also includes the party commands normally found on the right bar. The downside to the wheel menu is that it isn't as fast or convenient.

Attack options:
You will always have more options that just "attack" in combat. With ranged weapons, you will usually have three options: attack, full attack and magazine dump. With a melee weapon, you have three similar options: attack, full attack and flurry, but each of these has at least six additional options: jab, thrust, horizontal swipe, vertical swipe, horizontal swing and vertical swing. For both, once in melee range, you will always have two more: bash and shove. (Although I imagine these will get very little use for melee weapons, they're more useful for ranged users who get caught in a melee.) An enterprising ranged weapon user might choose a weapon or modify theirs so that they can use it more effectively as a melee weapon, although an arrow or bayonet is no match for a real melee weapon. Enemies have a base defence of 10 against ranged attacks within their effective range, and 20 beyond it. Some weapons may be listed as "light", "sidearm", "polearm" or "flail", each of which has special effects based on their classification. See below.

Your basic ranged attack option is usually a single shot, unless you can get more than one shot into a single second. (Then, of course, it'll be one second of shots.) If you can get more than one shot into a second, you will get an additional single attack option for when you only want one. Automatic weapons are special in that they can almost never fire a single shot. They have a minimum number of shots, called a "burst", that they will instead use when you select the single attack option. This is usually a fifth of the number of shots they get in a second. If you use the default attack, an automatic weapon will fire at its normal fire rate for a single second. Each regular attack is aimed and will incur a minimal -1 penalty for each of the previous attacks in the round. If firing multiple shots in a second, each extra shot will incur a -2 and an additional penalty for recoil dependent on the weapon.

Full attack fires as many attacks as you have left in the round at your normal attack rate. For cases when you get more than one shot per round, you can choose the "aimed full attack" option to fire only one shot per second, which is substantially more accurate. For automatic weapons, this option is replaced by a burst-fire option. Your character fires a burst for each second remaining, which is as accurate as you can hope for with an automatic weapon. This gets the same firing penalties as the single attack option, it's just a convenience.

The magazine dump is only available on weapons that hold more ammunition than your other fire options can discharge in a single round, an attempt to empty your weapon's magazine into a target. With most weapons, this simply doubles your normal attack rate. For semi-automatic weapons, there is a set maximum fire rate that they will meet when this action is selected. For fully automatic weapons, this is a basic full attack, and will rarely fail to empty the magazine. This options always takes the entire round, no matter how long it actually takes to empty the weapon. The rest of the time is wasted pointlessly pulling the trigger of an empty weapon. This attack option is also extremely inaccurate, and only useful at close range.

The melee jab option is a quick, accurate attack with very little power. It has decent penetration equal to the user's strength modifier (1/2 strength, rounded down, 1.5x for two-handed) and the weakest damage of any melee attack, doing a single die of damage with no strength modifier. The benefit of this attack is that you get your characters' full strength and agility scores to attack, rather than their modifiers. (If you already get the full score, you instead get 1.5x score.) As a thrusting attack type, enemies get a base innate defence of 10 against this attack. This attack isn't very useful, as melee weapons are very accurate anyway and when you miss you can normally just swing to improve your chance to hit. However, some enemies can be both hard to hit and have damage reduction (fey, for instance) and this attack option works very well against them due to its penetration.

The melee thrust option is a strong attack with decent damage and great penetration. It has great penetration equal to the user's strength score (1.5x for two-handed) and gets bonus bludgeon (regardless of weapon type) equal to the user's strength modifier. It only deals one die of damage, but this die is maximised. As a thrusting attack type, enemies get a base innate defence of 10 against this attack. Great against heavily armoured opponents, who often take very little damage from other melee options, and against whom it is easy to find your weapons deflecting off their armour with other options.

The melee swipe option is a quick, extremely accurate attack with very little power. It has low penetration equal to the user's strength rank (1/10 strength, rounded down, 1.5x for two-handed) it gets as many damage dice as it has normally, but they are always minimised. It gets bonus damage of its damage type equal to your strength modifier. Swipes get full agility and strength to attack, and as a swinging attack type enemies do not get base defence against it. Vertical swipes are similar in most respects, except they do not get a strength bonus on attack and gets an additional -4 to attack, but in exchange for this lack of accuracy they automatically score criticals as long as you actually manage to connect.

The melee swing option is a strong, devastating attack with excellent damage. It has low penetration equal to the user's strength rank, and gets full, regular damage dice. It gets bonus damage of both its damage type and bludgeon damage equal to your strength modifier. Swings get agility and strength modifiers to attack, and as a swinging attack type enemies do not get base defence against it. Vertical swings are similar, except they lack their strength bonus on attack, get an additional -4 and automatically score criticals any time you connect. Great against soft targets due to its good overall accuracy and very high damage. Against soft enemies that are easy to hit, a vertical swing almost always puts them down on the first hit.

The bash option is a quick, hard strike with a single hand. It deals poor damage, but the impact knocks enemies off balance. It always deals bludgeon damage, does not get damage dice and instead deals damage equal to 1+1/2 strength modifier (rounded down) with penetration equal to strength rank. This attack gets strength and agility modifiers to attack, and is a thrusting attack type. This attack ignores the damage reduction provided by guard saves, and on a successful hit gives the target a penalty equal to damage done to attack, active defence and guard saves for the duration of the round. The opponent must succeed a reflex save equal to 10+damage or lose their ability to make attacks of opportunity for the duration of the round, and a fortitude save equal to 5+damage or lose their ability to guard or make reflex saves. Overall, a good attack if you are using a ranged weapon and get caught in melee, as it allows you to back up or flee without being cut down. It's also a good block breaker if you have the strength.

The shove option is a strong, hard strike with both hands. It deals awful damage, has awful attack and awful penetration, but it is immediately debilitating and always available. It always deals bludgeon damage, does not get damage dice and instead deals damage equal to 1+strength rank, with penetration equal to strength rank. This attack gets only strength modifier to attack, and is a thrusting attack type. On a successful hit, the target takes a penalty equal to base damage to attack, active defence and guard saves for the duration of the round. The opponent must succeed a fortitude save equal to 20+damage or be pushed back a distance equal to damage done, a reflex save equal to 15+damage or lose their ability to make attacks of opportunity, reflex 10+damage or be knocked down, fortitude 5+damage or lose their ability to make guard or reflex saves for that round. A decent enough block breaker, but mostly used by ranged weapon users to give themselves a chance to flee from melee.

Special weapon classifications:

Light:
Light weapons are subject to the "weapon finesse" feat, and incur a lower penalty when used dual-wielding and especially when in the off hand. These weapons get a +2 to guard saves, but a -2 against guard saves.

Sidearm:
Sidearms are a more extreme version of light weapons, getting more benefit from "weapon finesse" and incurring even lower penalties when used dual-wielding and when in the off hand. Great for fighters with a lot of agility and weapon finesse, and especially those who favour dual-wielding. These weapons get a +4 to guard saves, but a -4 against guard saves.

Polearm:
Polearms are the step between melee and ranged weapons. Long guns with bayonets count as polearms. Polearms have long reach, but cannot make attacks of opportunity and lose their strength and agility bonuses against enemies an amount closer than the end of their reach equal to the base reach of their user, and suffer an additional -2 for every metre within their reach an enemy gets. Best used in groups, so enemies will have a hard time getting too close to you. Polearms also have low attack modifiers, so accuracy is often an issue and getting through guards can be difficult.

Flail:
Flails are powerful, but laughably inaccurate melee weapons. Enemies get a base defence of 10 against a flail's swinging attacks and 20 against its thrusting attacks. (Yes, it's possible. It's just difficult to get them to jut directly forward and telegraphs your attack like no other weapon will.) These weapons also have very low attack modifiers, and poor penetration modifiers. Their only real advantage is that they do legitimately do a great deal of damage, especially since they get twice the normal strength bonus to bludgeon damage.

Attack of opportunity:
The attack of opportunity can be performed by each character once per round (unless they have the "combat reflexes" feat) against enemies that are trying to perform actions within their reach that leave them vulnerable. This includes moving within an enemy's reach (without making a tumble check), attacking with a ranged weapon (unless firing from the hip), attacking with a polearm (as long as their enemy is not also using a polearm and the enemy's polearm is shorter) casting a spell, reloading or trying to use their inventory. An AoO must be a jab, bash or swipe. If a jab or bash, the attack gets a -2 to attack. If a swipe, -4.

Attack and Defence:
This game uses attack rolls, which most of you should be familiar with. Your character has a value called an attack modifier, and this is added onto a roll of a 20-sided die. If the resultant value meets or exceeds the target's defence, you hit. This game does not have an automatic miss chance or an automatic hit chance. You can hit rolling a 1 if your modifier is high enough, and miss rolling a 20 if your modifier is low enough. However, if you roll a 20 and you still aren't hitting, you roll again and add the new value onto what you already have. With multiple 20s, this continues until either you hit or roll something other than a 20.

Defence is a total of four values: base defence, innate defence, active defence and armour rating/energy defence.

Base defence is dependent on attack type, and will be either 0 for swinging melee attacks, 10 for swinging flails, thrusting melee weapons or ranged weapons within effective range, or at worst 20 for thrusting flails or ranged weapons outside of effective range.

Innate defence is a sum of various factors, most of which come from size, creature type, species and appearance. It is hard to increase. Innate defence is the most reliable defence type, as only the appearance value can be negated, and even then only by the "cold-hearted" feat. Since soldiers and lawmen start with this feat, you won't always have to take it.

Active defence is also a sum of various factors and is fairly easy to increase. However, it is a very unreliable form of defence. It doesn't apply to attacks in combat until you make your first action, it doesn't apply to enemies behind you and it doesn't apply while helpless.

Armour rating is provided by armour and other similar factors, and is intermediate between the two. It's easier to increase than innate defence, and more reliable than active defence. It is reduced by the penetration of enemy weapons, and some special effects reduce or negate it, but for the most part as long as you have a decent amount of it you can rely on it. However, armour rating has one major flaw: it isn't really defence. It represents a chance for an enemy's attack to be deflected, not for it to miss. Many damage types outright ignore it, and the attack maintains its penetration against your other effects. Only a few damage types are impacted, and the most common damage type (bludgeon) isn't one of them. Energy defence does the same thing as armour rating, only it works against a different set of damage types.

Range:
Rather than a simple maximum range, weapons in-game have an effect called a "range increment." When taking a shot, for every range increment between you in the target you get a -1 to attack. In addition to this, every fifth range increment gives you a -1 to penetration. Once penetration reaches 0, this begins to penalize damage, starting with the highest damage type. (If they are tied, the higher bleed damage type goes first.)

Area of Effect:
Area of Effect weapons, such as explosions and spray attacks, perform differently from regular attacks. AoE attacks do somewhat less damage than targeted attacks as a general rule, but they hit every part of the target's body at once. The damage to each part is recorded seperately, but health damage and bleed are treated as if it was a single attack with no multiplier. AoE cannot score a critical hit. AoE effects have an effect called blast increment, which is essentially the same thing as a range increment, except since AoE weapons do not have to make attack rolls the listed value is the range at which it loses a point of both penetration and damage. This value is fairly short, but most weapons still deal damage against soft targets a decent distance away, and the blast is often big enough to pose a danger to its user.

Health damage, nonlethal damage, body damage and bleed:
Damage dealt to an opponent results in four effects. Health damage is just straight-forward immediate damage to the target's health, although the amount of the opponent's health lost is pretty low and doesn't have a serious impact on them by itself unless your weapon is extremely powerful. The next is nonlethal damage, pain for most damage types, which is counted against their health for the purpose of tripping incapacitation thresholds, does not cause shock and cannot kill. Body damage is damage to whatever part of the target you attack (clicking on a specific part selects that part for attack) and impairs the target once you deal a sufficient amount of damage to that part, making it responsible for most of the immediate incapacitation provided by a wound. Bleed is damage over time, which takes ten minutes for most damage types (unless a constitution check is made to reduce the duration) that causes both health damage and nonlethal, and is the effect most likely to kill a character. Note that all of these are based on damage dealt, not base damage, so any defensive trait that reduces the damage type itself will reduce all of these.

Critical hits:
Critical hits are well-placed and well-angled hits that cause additional effects to the target. First is critical health damage, which is a multiple of the weapon's base damage that is inflicted on top of regular health damage. This also comes with critical nonlethal and bleed, although not body damage. Second is damage type critical effect, which is dependent on the damage types you are inflicting and is a special status effect that allows a saving throw. (For example, slashing damage deals MASSIVE bleed on critical hits.) Third is shot placement critical effect, which is dependent on the targeted body part. (For example, attacks to the torso damage strength, agility and constitution.) Damage type critical effects are dependent on damage and critical multiplier, shot placement critical effects are dependent only on damage. Critical hits are extremely deadly, always impair a target and require much more effort than normal wounds to cure. However, criticals are impacted by armour exactly as much as regular attacks, so you still need your weapon to be able to inflict damage against an opponent for a critical hit to make any difference. To score a critical hit, you must hit the target while rolling within your weapon's critical range. If you get to make multiple d20 rolls on a single attack, the last one must be within this range for it to count.

Shock:
As health falls, an effect called "shock" kicks in and inflicts penalties on the individual in question. This starts at 80% with a fairly minimal -1 to initiative, attack, active defence and skill checks. This penalty doubles every 10% beyond that, up to -256 at 0%. At 60%, another -1 penalty to melee/spell damage, movement speed and saving throws kicks in, which also doubles for every 10% beyond that up to -64 at 0%. At 40%, another new effect kicks in, with a -1 to heal rate that doubles every 10% beyond that up to -16 at 0%. At 20% health, a new penalty that gives +1 to enemy critical threat. This doubles every 10% up to +4 at 0%. At 0%, any character vulnerable to shock is dead.

Needless to say, shock can absolutely ruin a character's combat effectiveness by itself. But it's not all there is.

Incapacitation:
Incapacitation is another debilitating effect, one impacted by both health damage and nonlethal. It reduces the number of seconds of actions you can enact per round, and inflicts damage if you enact too many. At 75% health, you don't lose any actions per round, but any more than three seconds and you will take health damage equal to the total body damage you have suffered. (Nonlethal body damage exists and results in nonlethal health damage, regular body damage results in regular health damage.) At 50% health, you are restricted to three seconds per round and taking any more than one second inflicts damage. At 25% health, you are restricted to one second and any action inflicts damage. At 0% health, you cannot make any actions, but will not take any more damage.

Like shock, this is not a pleasant effect and can outright ruin your combat effectiveness fairly quickly.

Damage reduction:
Damage reduction is a common, potent defensive trait. It's not very reliable and is easily negated by penetration due to its generally low numbers and it isn't as effective against high-power weapons as resistance, but it's a good effect for low-damage and low-penetration weapons. Damage reduction is a point effect, which directly reduces the damage dealt by enemy weapons. Damage reduction only works against certain damage types, which are listed in parenthesis, with no listed value meaning it works against every damage type that isn't immune to all reductions. It can often be negated by special circumstances, which are listed after a slash. If there is no special circumstance, then it will be listed as /--. The most common special circumstance is /silver, which means that silver weapons ignore this damage reduction.

Resistance:
Resistance is another common, potent defensive trait. It's more reliable (when from armour) and is harder to negate due to its generally higher numbers, but it isn't as effective against low-power weapons as reduction. Resistance is a percentage effect, which reduces damage by a rounded value proportionate to the damage it is resisting. Resistance is always a multiple of 5. Resistance uses the same symbols as reduction to denote its effect.

Apparel resistances are dependent on apparel type (not to be confused with apparel weight) and the damage type in question. Against those it is strong against, this is 75+15*Enhancement, for those it is weak against this is 25+5*Enhancement, and for those it is neither strong nor weak against this is 50+10*Enhancement. For clothing, all of these are reduced by 25+5*Enhancement.

Immunity:
Immunity is an effect similar to resistance in most respects, which stacks on top of it additively. Immunity is much smaller than resistance, in most cases about 1/5 as strong, and being harder to come by. However, immunity is NOT impacted by penetration, and is never negated or even reduced.

Apparel:
Armour and clothing provide substantial protection, in the forms of armour rating, energy defence, damage reduction and resistance. Armour rating is dependent on weight and quality, energy defence and damage reduction are dependent on weight only, resistance is dependent on quality only, although clothing provides less resistance than armour. Apparel also imposes a penalty on some effects and a cap on some effects, most of which are related to the agility score and its skills, a notable exception being current move rate. Lastly, main body apparel presents a chance for spells with somatic components to fail to cast. (This last one is reduced by class features for caster classes, providing a maximum apparel weight for casting without a somatic failure chance.)

Light clothing:
AR/ED 1, DR 1, Armour Check -1, Armour Cap 20, 5% somatic spell failure.

Medium clothing:
AR/ED 2, DR 2, Armour Check -2, Armour Cap 16, 10% somatic spell failure.

Heavy clothing:
AR/ED 3, DR 3, Armour Check -3, Armour Cap 12, 15% somatic spell failure.

Light armour:
AR/ED 6, DR 6, Armour Check -6, Armour Cap 8, 25% somatic spell failure

Medium armour:
AR/ED 8, DR 8, Armour Check -8, Armour Cap 4, 50% somatic spell failure

Heavy armour:
AR/ED 10, DR 10, Armour Check -10, Armour Cap 0, 75% somatic spell failure

Apparel has health, which is independent of its weight (it does get its own DR and resistance) and can be lost fairly quickly in combat. Damaged apparel provides less protection. At 75%, apparel loses half its AR and ED, at 50% it provides no AR or ED and loses half its DR, at 25% it provides no DR and loses half its resistance (to the nearest 5%) and at 0% it provides no protection at all.

Natural/Mage armour:
Natural armour and mage armour are identical effects that are provided by some races, attributes, feats and spells. Both provide AR, ED and DR equal to their value, and resistance equal to 5x value. This effect is modified by size, with larger characters receiving more DR but less AR and ED. Resistance is not impacted.

Penetration:
Penetration is a special effect present on many weapons that reduces defensive traits such as armour rating, energy defence, damage reduction and resistance. Penetration directly reduces armour rating, energy defence and damage reduction by its value, resistance by five times its value. Since these values can never go below 0, penetration is only effective against opponents that have these values and caps in effectiveness at the highest of these values present on the target. That said, penetration is the most valuable effect against these values, and trading damage for penetration can be a good idea against armoured opponents.

Magic:
Magic in this game uses a Vancian system, which means you get a certain number of spells each day. Preparation takes one hour for classes that prepare spell slots, replenishing spell slots takes eight hours of rest, and one hour of preparation if you must prepare spells. You get a certain number of spells slots from your class of each spell level (usually not very many) and beyond that your caster attribute is added to it. This is equal to your modifier for that attribute, divided by the spell level (1-10) and rounded down.

Towns and Cities:
There are ten cities and countless towns in the game. The difference between the two is fairly simple: cities are separated from the world, must be entered from certain points, are designed to prevent vehicular entry and the guards outside will try to prevent you from taking weapons into the city. For towns, none of these things are true. Both are generally safe areas (although not always) and are the best places to find quests, shops and services.

Non-hostile NPCs:
There are non-hostile NPCs in the game, whose purpose varies from simple chit-chat to bartering and quest-giving. NPCs are also tied to factions, and any actions involving them have consequences. For example, one of the uses of the diplomacy skill is to increase NPC disposition, which also adds points to their faction's disposition towards you, although the faction requires many more points to be influenced. Another example would be harming an NPC, which lowers their disposition and their faction's disposition towards you. Killing an NPC has the same effect, only much more so.

Disposition, factions, superfactions and karma:
Disposition is a measure of an NPC's opinion of you. It comes in two forms, positive and negative. Positive disposition is capped at 100, negative disposition is not capped. The two factors run separately (although some effects on one will impact the other) and both have their own effects. There is a net value, which is used for most effects. At a net of -100, this ceases to have any practical effect. NPCs that have both high positive and negative disposition towards you will behave extremely erratically.

In addition, most NPCs are part of factions. These include things like families, small towns, military units and other similar-sized groups. Factions use the same disposition system and are impacted just as much by every individual action, but they use a 10,000 point scale. Among other things, faction disposition impacts the fame and infamy you have with individual members that recognize you, with faction disposition providing a 1% modifier to individual disposition.

Superfactions and megafactions are extremely large factions. These are basically factions of factions, with megafactions being factions of superfactions. Superfactions use a 1,000,000 point scale and impact the regular factions within them in the same manner as factions impact NPCs. Megafactions perform the same way for superfactions, and use a 100,000,000 point scale. Higher still is the global faction, which impacts every megafaction in the game and any DLC or user-made area in the realm in the same manner as megafactions impact superfactions. This uses a 10,000,000,000 point scale. Last is karma, which is the highest a faction can go. It impacts every global faction in Ginnungagap and uses a 1,000,000,000,000 point scale, which means that any location in a DLC or user-made area will be impacted by it even if they are in a different realm.

Children and babies:
Children and babies are abundant in the game and perform like any other NPC, but with an additional effect: Any negative act committed against a child has the values in all of its negative consequences squared, and for babies cubed. Any positive act involving them has the values in all of its positive consequences doubled, and for babies tripled. Don't hurt the little ones, or the game will make you regret it.

Resurrection:
Resurrection in-game is automatic as long as a character has lives left. Resurrection costs experience levels, and if you don't have the experience you lose all you have and take much longer to come back to life. Not only that, without sufficient experience you'll be reborn as a newborn, complete with slow-dissipating status penalties that one would expect from an infant that actually was fresh out of the womb. (Except, of course, you retain your mind and all memories.) In addition to this, every character has a pre-set number of times they can be resurrected before the resurrections permanently stop. The only way to resurrect a character without using a life burning their experience, or to resurrect one who has no lives left, is the level 10 "wish" spell, which has expensive components and an experience cost.

This is the place where pitiful and sadistic earn their names. They both change the default number of PC lives and resurrection time. Although the others do impact the number of character grades you need to ascend in order to gain extra lives and shorten resurrection time, they don't impact the base value when you start off. By default, you have two extra lives and take one week to resurrect (one month for rebirth) but on pitiful you get three extra lives and take only one day to resurrect (one week for rebirth) while on sadistic you only get one extra life, take one month to be resurrected or one month to be reborn.

I'll be adding more to this post as I go.

This looks like it is heavily based off of the d20 system. Am I correct?

This looks like it is heavily based off of the d20 system. Am I correct?

Bits and pieces. Skill checks, saving throws, attack rolls, things like that. Most of the system is original, though, and even the things based off D20 have been changed a lot.

EDIT:

I also realised I forgot to add information on range increments. I'll go edit that in now.

Edited that in, should be good now.

I noticed you have somatic spell failure, 6 second turns, etc.

You mentioned have 1 second, 3 second, and 6 second actions, you might want to have a definitive list of them. I know you mentioned various actions that seem like they would directly map to these segments, but some actions don't necessarily fit or have a set area from my initial read.

I noticed you have somatic spell failure, 6 second turns, etc.

You mentioned have 1 second, 3 second, and 6 second actions, you might want to have a definitive list of them. I know you mentioned various actions that seem like they would directly map to these segments, but some actions don't necessarily fit or have a set area from my initial read.

Attack actions vary. Speaking, quickened spells, quick steps (uses the tumble skill) and other similar actions are 1-second actions. Casting, nooking an arrow (from the quiver), many quick skill checks are 3-second actions. Summoning, most skill checks, reloading a light crossbow, using the inventory, things like that are 6-second actions. Reloading most weapons, casting ritual spells, changing clothes and a few particularly long skill checks (crafting, for instance) are multi-round actions. There's enough actions in the game I can't really list them all.