That sounds like a great magic system for a fantasy novel series. Not certain about a game, but these sorts of systems that reward character creativity are exactly the sort of things that shape worlds, and get people talking.
@yuvalgabay1023
Жыл бұрын
Its seems fun if the gm knows what he do and the players are not super into optimaztion
@zwojack7285
Жыл бұрын
maybe with four nations, one fighting the other threes, each representing an element.
@rheegret8405
Жыл бұрын
@@zwojack7285 impossible
@LordDragox412
Жыл бұрын
A mighty pirate, scourge of the sea who vowed that every landmass is his enemy, A powerful paladin, the knight of holy light who ends his shift before the fall of night, The lord of the dead ruling from his bone throne -will he ever leave his tomb? That is unknown- without fresh bodies he'd be all alone, (edit: makes more sense now) Master of shadows, number one assassin, kills during day, not once was he seen The Pyromagician, king of fire without a flame his situation is dire, The Snowceress who wields glacial cold without ice nearby she's not very bold, The Sheik of Sahara who commands sand who wishes he could live in a cooler land The druid who can speak with the plants without flora nearby he'd shit his pants, The strongest villain, the mightiest hero If you find their weakness, they'll become zero.
@yuvalgabay1023
Жыл бұрын
@@zwojack7285 and there is on guy who can control all 4
@simonnading
Жыл бұрын
I love this sort of homebrew. As a DM, it let's you play around and have a new way to control things. But it can also lead players to clever loopholes and workarounds. They may take you by surprise, but those are some of the best stories from games.
@Amadeo790
Жыл бұрын
Just watch out for...pissy creative players.
@ibissensei1856
Жыл бұрын
Hahahah. If there is a loopholes, there is all of loopholes by your side as a dm. It will soon transform into a goofy ideas festival, and it will be fun.
@plusRpm
Жыл бұрын
One of my players in my very, very, very homebrew campaign came across a loophole so good, he essentially made himself a BBEG to be taken serious in the next campaign. Love it 😂
@johnnye87
Жыл бұрын
At least you know that loopholes to homebrew are something the player had to come up with themselves. I'd personally much rather experience that than "I'm going to pull this cheese that some guy on Reddit said was the optimal way to play my class"
@simonnading
Жыл бұрын
@@johnnye87 I suddenly remember the first time I dealt with the peasant rail gun in my campaign and had a player storm off because I wouldn't let it work. It's great for passing a note, because that works to move an object at high speed, but speed doesn't add to damage in D&D physics (well, sort of with falling damage, but that has a max), so it's not the superweapon he'd been told about on MySpace. I didn't even have to pull DM fiat to shut it down.
@cvrator
Жыл бұрын
The concept of a shadow having an age is just fantastic
@iang0th
Жыл бұрын
It definitely leaves a lot of room for interpretation, though. I'd argue that night is the oldest shadow in the world, for instance, since it has existed exactly as long as the planet, and the fact that the surface moves underneath it doesn't change anything.
@infinitemind3719
Жыл бұрын
@@iang0th Yeah that’s a hard one for me to think about. A part of me agrees with you, but another part disagrees with because of my definition of a old shadow maybe different and also the fact that it would make anyone using it super OP. I did have a similar question though. How would it react to a huge Undark, in general as well, cavern with giant Bioluminescent mushrooms creating at least dim light almost everywhere? I know it’s specific but I’m running a campaign with such a thing and I now want to try this out with it.
@d4s0n282
Жыл бұрын
@@iang0th idk aboutthat one, the closest I think would be a eclipse(the one where the moonis ahead ofthe sun)
@lunacron
Жыл бұрын
Yeah, but isn't night just a shadow of the Earth and of course that shadow is as old as the Earth itself. So if I have the shadow Focus I can do whatever I want at night, an unlimited number of times. Sure, ill take that one.
@sirshrooma
Жыл бұрын
@@lunacron Pretty sure he would have ruled it as "the last time a light interfered with the shadow you're trying to use" kind of thing. Making deep dark caves and perpetually enchanted darkness's (that have been entirely lightless for who knows how long) the pinnacle of that power.
@mollywantshugs5944
Жыл бұрын
I love this idea. Much more flavorful than spell slots and adds a fun “magic is everywhere but doesn’t just bend to the will of mortals” angle
@truekurayami
Жыл бұрын
I like this idea, though I would use it with about 1/2-1/4 availble slots dependent on caster class. Fussy Focus conditions feel like real magical artifacts that have just been discovered for the first time, or the things of legends being rediscovered, while spell slots would show what the caster has been able to achive on their own. Imagine if a wizards grimoire was a Fussy Focus that allowed them unlimited access to their spells they've learned, though the wizard still has a handful of spells they have "mastered" and can still use without their grimoire at nearly the same level, and a handful of spells they just learned and can bearly use without the grimoire.
@solsystem1342
Жыл бұрын
@@truekurayami That breaks the system though and the narrative aspect.
@elowin1691
Жыл бұрын
@@solsystem1342 System is already broken, the narrative aspect is just tweaked.
@doublemuscle
Жыл бұрын
Madeline pfp my beloved
@Koopaperson
Жыл бұрын
Why would we want s balanced thing? WE CRAVE POWER
@grayrook8637
Жыл бұрын
Idk about that. I played in a game where it was roll 6 keep all of them for our stats AND we got to basically make our own soul bound unique magic items. I had some fun moments but the inherent imbalance just made it not fun. Bounded accuracy is a statistically sound system.
@Rexir2
Жыл бұрын
Also setting up that precedent justifies having busted stuff thrown at the players, defeating the purpose in the process
@stefanomartinelli7344
Жыл бұрын
Me and my Brother with our homebrew wild magic barbarian have let the Power go to our heads. Basically Rolls on a different Wild magic table with really different effects, each One with a positive and a negative outcome at 50%. It Rolls half the proficiency bonus up to lvl 14, then Just Rolls 5d12 for 5 effects, then see if the effect goes good or bad. He can get a combo of something like Speed, Misty step each round, bless and hold person. Last for the full rage. Also each One has the negative, sometimes way worse, and a banishment effect Is on the list. Like the lvl 4 spell. Negative banishment? He goes away for a minute. Yeah. Totally not gonna backfire. At High lvl not only he Rolls lots of effects, It also goes on a large area After lvl 10. So yeah, this could give like 4 conc spell for free on the whole party, or exile the barbarian himself and slow everyone else for a minute. I call It the wild-wild barbarian.
@WillowGreenheart
Жыл бұрын
No.
@Yamikitsune
Жыл бұрын
@Gray Rook I think it's more appropriate that players want powerful OPTIONS and not just powerful characters. My current monk has real good stats, with all positives and the highest 3 were 16-17 at creation. And had free starter feats to boost 1 to 18. By all odds, she should be a big power house by monk standards. I then didn't roll anything over a 10 for about a month. Those high stats didn't mean anything in light of this d20 system. Options can be easily countered by the GM with a narrative element, but just inherently powerful characters are still at the whim of the rolls of the dice
@lucency
Жыл бұрын
One of my players came up with a cool idea where magical power was tied to altitude, so stronger spells required being physically higher off the ground. So wizards used towers because the highest floor would have access to the strongest magic, and a lot of towers had been haphazardly built up over the years to push the boundaries of what they could do in them.
@ksmith4388
Жыл бұрын
So, basically how Jedi wizardry works.
@inventor121
Жыл бұрын
The first wizard to figure out orbital mechanics would have a field day
@Ithtorukk
Жыл бұрын
I have 2 thoughts on this. 1) Mages that could tame/ride flying creatures would be very powerful indeed. 2) Combat mages would become fortnite players. As soon as they see themselves in a combat situation, they start using spire/wall spells or fly to elevate themselves as fast as possible.
@hayuseen6683
Жыл бұрын
Wizards getting piggyback rides...
@NobodyEvenReadsNames
Жыл бұрын
@@Ithtorukk nahhh the wizard in my party is cranking 90s again 💀
@jaesaces
Жыл бұрын
I can imagine a wizard with a squire whose entire purpose is to use the Decanter of Endless Water to fuel the wizard's spells
@Kia044
Жыл бұрын
Also an emergency high level necromancy slot! 🌚
@fidly4
Жыл бұрын
This seems incredible for a narrative heavy game. It will really make it feel like a story where magic is complex and requires skill to use.
@kennysalty6019
Жыл бұрын
I can just imagine a fire focus wizard knowing an army is coming. When the army approaches, they see a great pile of wood, a mile long and several feet high. The wizard calmly turns his back to them, and casts the create bonfire cantrip. And with an inferno suddenly set alight behind him, the wizard turns to face the army once more, with unstoppable fiery magic to throw to his hearts content.
@chris_croissAnt
Жыл бұрын
Let's hope the weather plays along...
@ravenpotter5131
Жыл бұрын
@@chris_croissAntbig enough fires ignore or even alter the weather, just recently a wildfire in Hawaii was spread by a hurricane that hit it, and large wildfires commonly create their own weather patterns; spreading wildly because of extreme high winds caused by massive updrafts from the heat of the fire itself. Long story short, big enough fires will ignore rain, even torrential downpours from hurricanes.
@formdoggie5
Жыл бұрын
If its an army, he wouldn't even need to do that. He'd just wait til it got dark and the army set up camp. There'd be 10x the fires with none of the effort reqired on the Wizards part.
@idiotcube
8 ай бұрын
@@formdoggie5 *POOF* "Hail, weary soldiers! I have some scary campfire stories I'd like to share for you. But I don't think you'll like how they end!"
@youcantbeatk7006
Жыл бұрын
What if there was a literally dark lord who had a shadow focus? He had a bunch of minions that go around casting darkness, hallucinatory terrain, and maddening darkness on loop, spreading shadows. Obviously spreading permanent shadows is dangerous so the players would have to go into the darkness to stop him. However, the deeper towards the center, the older the shadows, therefor the more powerful the Dark Lord and his minions get.
@Robertws
Жыл бұрын
I know you prob forgot about this comment by now, but to jump off this comment you could have most/all clerics and healers use a light focus. This way you have a literal dark vs light story in a campaign.
@youcantbeatk7006
Жыл бұрын
@@RobertwsI never forget anything I post on the internet.
@Tacthetyrant
Жыл бұрын
This would work so well for a more raw magic world! For sure making use of this and the rules for martials in a hardcore game in future
@dust_to_dust
Жыл бұрын
Your martial adjustments sound really good. And the fussy focus idea sounds really tight in a "this is rough, but it's life" sort of way. It forces players to sometimes set up the conditions they need to be at their best, not just be there for free. I like it. Helps balance the "caster - martial" divide even more. Good stuff! (thanks for the share!)
@josiah42
Жыл бұрын
This is exactly how "Adventures in Rokugan" works. This is a 5e professional grade book in the setting of Legends of the Five Rings you can buy and they've figured out the details and balance for you. Playing a caster is so immersive in the setting! You really care about temples, thresholds, and the weather. Please boost this comment so more people learn about Rokugan.
@dacomputernerd4096
Жыл бұрын
Now I'm curious, what does it do differently to balance it?
@josiah42
Жыл бұрын
@@dacomputernerd4096 The main thing is just that the conditions are really well thought out and integrated into the setting. Rokugan is a very specific setting and so there's a lot of reasonable assumptions that can be made about the probability of various conditions. So for example, in a Japanese Shinto inspired setting little shrines are just everywhere on the side of the road, whereas you wouldn't necessarily expect to see that in a corporate American mall. Zee mentioned the abundance of water being really important for a storm cleric. Is your game a traveling game or is the entire campaign set in the desert? I think the thing that made it the most balanced is that instead of having a "flavor" of magic that would enable or disable all of my magic simultaneously, I had different spells with independent conditions. So which spells were powerful at any time was dependent on the circumstance. I had to use spells that were appropriate to the circumstances, rather than spamming my favorite all the time.
@Daehpo
7 ай бұрын
Thank you for this. I want to add for any onlookers that the "Resonances" don't let you cast the "Invocations"(the setting's Spells), but let you add "Empowerments". Empowerments are sort of a mix of Upcasting & Metamagic effects that are specific to their Invocation/Spell. A pretty basic way a DM could implement them is to have situational magic modifiers like "The intense heat of the volcano makes fire magic quicker to cast. All fire spells are Quickened." or "The massive battle & bloodshed empowers necromantic magic. All necromancy spells are treated as being cast at one level higher."
@CRANTIME
Жыл бұрын
I LOVE this idea. As primarily a Druid main, this adds SO much flavour to the stuff I'd wanna do
@Ortorin
Жыл бұрын
But... your focus requires you to be underground. The deeper the stronger the spells you can cast. This idea is perfect for a "monkey paw" style system. lol
@LordDragox412
Жыл бұрын
@@Ortorin Or just requires him to be near flora, the more lush the stronger the spell slots. And then the DM sends the party to the desert :P But when it comes time to fight the boss of the region, deus ex machina, an oasis! But lol nope, it's a mirage, there's just a singular cactus there >:P
@scarletice
Жыл бұрын
@@LordDragox412 This could result in some pretty epic moments for the players. Imagine being in the middle of a desperate fight against a super tough enemy. The party is getting their asses handed to them, when suddenly an eclipse happens, and there just so happens to be a shadow sorcerer in the party. Or maybe the party plans out an encounter against a vastly superior opponent, where they have to plan out a retreating fight where they make the enemy think they are desperately fighting for their lives as they try to run away, when in fact they are luring them to an ancient grotto rich with life energy for the druid to call upon.
@Sandman382
Жыл бұрын
@@LordDragox412 Get yourself someone who CAN cast magic in a desert who can magically generate a forest or something and your druid goes from zero to hero in one spell cast. :P
@blackgriffinxx
Жыл бұрын
I'll make a 2 small tweak. that would kind of balance it out. charges to item- only when it been in a place over flowing with it type of power time out for those charges and you can still do the other stuff
@powercore2000
Жыл бұрын
As dm dependent as it is, being able to fine tune an encounter's feel and reward player creativity is pretty neat. Even passively gives martials an upside since they're very consentient in comparison.
@elonwhatever
Жыл бұрын
*consistent is probably what you meant :p. It means to have a similar output/result over time/multiple iterations. Consentient is a word (though I had to look it up :p), it means to be in agreement/of the same mind.
@powercore2000
Жыл бұрын
@@elonwhatever I didn't even realize the typo into a correct word lol
@oz_jones
Жыл бұрын
@@powercore2000 Are martials sentient though? :p
@powercore2000
Жыл бұрын
@@oz_jones No but they do ask for consent
@58847436
Жыл бұрын
Ok Zee.... now 😂 we need an animated tale of your adventures with the fussy focus rules. This sounds incredible!
@lillydollaghan5204
Жыл бұрын
My groups been running with this in altered form, since we tend to be very Caster Heavy parties and play at 10+ levels. We've mostly started fleshing out the fussy Focus and playing around with it, some letting concentration on Cantrips to produce effects to start the eventual shuffle up the early spell levels - produce bonfire into more fire, eventually into Fireball and that's given spell casters a really dynamic feal. We've really liked it - honestly, especially since we run with allready buffed martial classes. We've found it also helps solve some of the rest issues people can have when playing with very few combats a day.
@dogishappy0
Жыл бұрын
I love the idea of learning an enemy's weakness and overcoming it. Puzzle bosses are great like this, and a fussy focus sounds like an amazing puzzle boss!
@HereticalKitsune
Жыл бұрын
Fascinating idea for sure! Both limiting and empowering spell use in a new, and convoluted way.
@jcrm0078
Жыл бұрын
Sounds like a cool idea. I could see this in a MtG themed adventure focused around mana sources.
@ThePiachu
Жыл бұрын
As someone who doens't play D&D, it sounds cool! Probably not something you'd see in an official publication since it would be too much "mother may I cast my spell?" and so on, but definitely neat. Kind of reminds me of how Exalted does its Sorcery. While you can just use your innate casting abilities, you often augment them with Sorcerous Initiations which give you bonuses based on how you learned magic. So like, a necromancer might get benefits from people giving them burnt offerings ahead of time, someone from a drowned school of magic prepare for magic by drowning themselves ahead of time, while someone from a school would get a bonus from careful study and glyphs. One of the examples in a book I found was water-based initiation that gave you a bonus for being wet. Then the sidebar went "what if I make a little cloud to rain on me all the time?" andswering "then you will be known as gangrenous sorcerer and nobody will be want to be around you. People do be like that though, so if you want to be a sorcerous weirdo, do it!" which was rather fun :D.
@TheLordNeko
Жыл бұрын
I love Exalted. If you like this idea please look into Godbound. I just found it and am super hyped. It's a spiritual successor where you pick words of power that your demigod can use like Earth or Fear. Each word has different uses and each use has 3 tiers of power. Then you have miracles that allow more freeform use of your words. The whole thing is free and very high quality.
@realdragon
Жыл бұрын
As someone who plays DnD it sounds awesome but broken as hell
@laegu5430
Жыл бұрын
Bard Focus that scales to failed seductions they had that day. The more spectacular the failure, the higher the slot
@naomihatfield3015
Жыл бұрын
Inspired by this, I “crafted” a spell focus for our Druid, who is underpowered compared to the rest of the party. Her staff now contains a gem that will +2 increase her casting rolls if/ when she is holding it over dirt/earth. Not a huge boost, but a little, and gives her an edge on her home turf, so to speak. We will see how it works out.😊
@dixbyfloppin6979
Жыл бұрын
Zee please! I beg of you for more info about this insane homebrew! I need to play this at my table Edit: to be clear I really wanna hear more about the martial changes because lord knows they could use it
@dixbyfloppin6979
Жыл бұрын
@JeromeAce111 bruh. Do people actually fall for these blatant scams?
@yappingdog2759
Жыл бұрын
Been a while since your last video. Hope everything is cool with ya zee.
@PineappleZach666
Жыл бұрын
I've been trying to think of a way to add infinite spells without breaking things. This might not be it, but damn is it cool.
@Smashface_McBourbondick
Жыл бұрын
I made a homebrew class with infinite spells, and I limited them by heavily restricting the amount of spells they could have prepared, and by only giving them access to fairly low level spells (they get 1st level spells at level 5, 2nd level spells at 11, and 3rd level spells at 17. Initially they're stuck with cantrips).
@rianfelis3156
Жыл бұрын
Given how often a caster can create their own element, this sounds intriguing. Start with a light cantrip, spend a couple of rounds building power into brighter sources of light while the enemy tries to stop them from visibly charging up until BOOM high level spell dominates the battlefield.
@EvelynNdenial
8 ай бұрын
imagine what a light caster would end up looking like too. armor polished to a mirror shine, covered in lanterns and a belt of alchemic flashbangs.
@Swordsrose86
Жыл бұрын
I have to be honest, as a DnD fence sitter, this whole arrangement sounds BADASS!
@IamJustaSimpleMan
Жыл бұрын
Am I the only one who gets strong "Avatar - the last airbender" vibes from this homebrew? Not so much the magic / bending system itself, but this are exactly the kind of thought processes, struggles and obstacles the bending characters needed to overcome in the show. At least with the elemental themed fuzzy focus. I'll definitely shelf this idea for a future campaign! Thanks a lot!
@ArDeeMee
Жыл бұрын
That series had some excellent world building. 👌
@IamJustaSimpleMan
Жыл бұрын
@@ArDeeMee absolutely 👍🏻
@dryued6874
Жыл бұрын
I think this is the closest you can get to Jojo without playing Jojo.
@Oddmanoutre
Жыл бұрын
It is definitely what is called a Hard Magic system- The rules surrounding how magic works are concrete, consistent, and codified, but they leave enough variables that characters who are smart, prepared, or just lucky can work within the system even when the odds are against them.
@plasmyth5501
Жыл бұрын
This definitely feels like a good way to make spell casting focus more I interesting and desired. Pretty much every game of dnd I’ve played with either completely ignores or just doesn’t know the point of, noir the purpose of spell casting focuses in general.
@tylerray1368
Жыл бұрын
Just imagine the Tempest Cleric pissing himself to cast spells. Op as heck... but also is it really worth it? Being Sir Pissy Boy?
@killerspartan666
Жыл бұрын
Where is Zee
@rime3589
Жыл бұрын
The sourdough starter fussy focus. Stronger the older it is and greatly coveted by all. Just need to feed properly and continuously.
@Cloudwolf785
Жыл бұрын
That is actually a really cool homebrew. Could be very fun for a short campaign where everyone is playing a caster.
@ScatteredTerrain
Жыл бұрын
That’s sounds like it would be really fun with the right group! A really great built in role playing opportunity during combat!
@JD-qq8fz
Жыл бұрын
Cool! Thematic! Ya gotta love homebrew that has a purpose and makes meaningful changes, even if it's unbalanced it still actually adds something of value compared to yet another DarkEdgeSpellBlade class or massive binder of kitsune variants
@KubinWielki
Жыл бұрын
Kinda reminds me of character options in Arcanum: Of Steamworks and Magick Obscura. Some of the backgrounds you could take were "Sky Mage" - bonus to magic power under an open sky, malus when you can't see the sky. Day/Night Mage - bonus during the day/night respectively, malus otherwise. Nature Mage etc. etc. but the fun one that broke the mold a bit was "Sold your soul" - magic bonus applied constantly, but you were forever cursed with a hefty penalty to NPCs' reaction to you, and your alignment could never go above evil. Though obviously, it was nowhere near as cool as in your homebrew, due to the bonus in Arcanum being a simple +20% magic power, and not actually drawing spells from environment, which is a damn great concept for wizards.
@cogspace
Жыл бұрын
This is such a cool idea! I particularly like the shadow focus. I think that one could work quite well in a dungeon crawl heavy game. Plenty of dark places beneath the earth that have not seen the passing light of a torch in untold centuries.
@RPGRelicHunter
Жыл бұрын
Big fan of your content. Can we see something on a non-5th edition D&D game? You talking about something ridiculous in Pathfinder, Shadowrun, Rifts, Deadlands, whatever cause they all are ripe for this kind of artistic expression.
@vegladex
Жыл бұрын
Zee absolutely does the BEST homebrew mechanics. It's always a little messy, probably exploitable, with poor balance overall, but it's *cool as heck* and INTENSELY flavourful! This is a REALLY good one, which I'd love to use someday!
@kairos878
4 күн бұрын
Deathfocus "ok guys lets pilage the next gravjard and put some skulls and bones to my armour " you can never have to many skulls^^
@noahblack914
Жыл бұрын
Would love to see more homebrew like this that cares more about the feel and how fun and interesting it is and less about balance.
@randyselvidge5594
Жыл бұрын
I really like this idea. You could use it to make late game a bit easier only for your main antagonist to flip everything and strip you of that power right before facing them, making their fight much harder as the spell casters are now extremely limited on what spells to utilize.
@randyselvidge5594
Жыл бұрын
Or give it to the player mid game and make a small test, the less they use it, the better it will be later on as less people know about your spell focus' limitations.
@themeanlesbeann
Жыл бұрын
Yeah strip the magic users of their class while the martials get to keep doing their thing... sounds like that wont totally be an issue at the table at all lol
@donnellobrien4123
Жыл бұрын
@@themeanlesbeann The players will have had an entire campaign to prepare for something like this. If they force themselves to fight on the BBEG's terms they would probably lose regardless.
@alonebutkillingit
Жыл бұрын
@@themeanlesbeann exactly what I was gonna say. You aren't a very good dm if your plan is to ruin your players fun. Bad dm alert
@alonebutkillingit
Жыл бұрын
@@donnellobrien4123 Bruv you can not seriously be that close minded. Its the players fault they didn't approach the fight Exactly how "I" wanted. Very bad dming. Its your players game and their story, stop stepping on toes.
@MageSquire
Жыл бұрын
Is there a discord page or something for zee? 👀
@mindlessfool42
Жыл бұрын
Your home brews are so inspirational. A great way to incentivize player involvement and meld mechanics with immersion. Definitely going to use something like it in my own games
@RipDeathriteShaman
Жыл бұрын
This is a really cool idea for how to implement the Magic system into my Magic The Gathering D&D campaign idea. Basically the focus would only work if you were around mana sources for the focus' color of mana
@dorca9308
Жыл бұрын
This is a system that sounds really busted on paper and really fun in practice, I'd imagine playing these rules at a table of all spellcasters would be pretty fun
@fallongarens6734
5 ай бұрын
I got a friend, nickname's Zero, and one of his Homebrew things are physical spell slots - they're an item you wear. And, you can actually equip more than your level should hold - at the cost of taking progressively more damage with each slot to the point of DYING if you fail a save. He likes Hollow Knight, if you couldn't tell.
@MrMaradok
Жыл бұрын
I could see this being very interesting to play - you could even consider giving multiple foci to an Archmage, who’s goal is to collect enough foci to cast THE ULTIMATE SPELL™️
@benthomason3307
Жыл бұрын
"Daggers ignore heavy armor." Well you obviously got this idea from Shadiversity, though personally I'd have chosen to implement the info he gives as daggers having a bonus of some sort against grappled or restrained targets. "Your AC is +2 when weilding a polearm with both hands" Doesn't that defeat the point of using a shield, though? I could go sword&board and get +2 AC with a 1d8 weapon, or I could go halberd and get +2 AC with a d10 weapon that also has double the reach. "Lodged arrows deal an additional 1d4 damage every time you move until removed." I like the principle of that, but it seems a little too powerful as is. I'd nerf this to 1d2 (a coinflip), or even a flat 1.
@jackielinde7568
Жыл бұрын
Zee, you say this is broken. I say this is a great mechanic for a new world or story. Imagine if this is how magic worked FOR EVERYONE. Actually, now that I think about it, it has been done in some form or another in many properties. The anime "The Slayers" had female spellcaster's power tied to "their special cycle", and when "that time of the month" came around, they were completely powerless. The Last Avatar (the series, not the crap movie) had the various bending tied to environmental conditions like the availability of water, status of celestial objects in the sky, if the caster had contact with the ground, etc. I like this idea and it should be developed further. You can have the casting conditions tied to schools of magic, and even expand beyond the standard schools that are found in books. THIS MUST BE A THING. (Let me know if you need help writing the lore and developing the system out more.)
@anastrophethis
Жыл бұрын
I love it in concept! I'm constantly looking for good non-vancian (sp?) magic systems: Magic that's not incredibly narrow, has a little bit of customization to it, doesn't limit to an arbitrary number of spells (or even spell levels), and somehow also doesn't break the game. I usually settle on adding some kind of mental HP and making spellcasting checks to see whether/how much damage is taken, but... it scarcely feels better tbh. ... And if any of my friends would let me use spheres of power I'd try that. XD
@nobunga7151
Жыл бұрын
This is fucking brilliant, but complex. I think this magic system would be wonderful for a high production value campaign.
@Raxxo
Жыл бұрын
Thanks for sharing! I currently run a game where players can supplant spell components with the environment, so I'll probably try a variant of this. Ideas of fussy focuses that come to mind are: *Air: from gust to gale to hurricane *Sound: from clap to boom to a storm's thunder (for a non-stealthy party) *Performance: - from poem to song to duet to theatric play (for a more social/political setting) But a lot of the fun is likely for a player to come up with their own. I don't worry too much of it being broken since t's "fussy" enough to let the group arbitrate a consensus on "balance".
@janiccain
Жыл бұрын
I love the Idea of making magic your own: This is my System that im working on: Every Spell starts as a cantrip, as you level up you get Points and slots ( 1 or 2 max basicly). With those points your level up the cantrip and make a new spell. So firebolt can eventually become fireball, and fireball can eventually be a 9th lvl spell with the range of a whole city - if you use your points to buy aoe. That way you can really choose what fantasy you want to have. Wizards have more spells to customize, Warlocks have more points to spend and so on. I have a similar system for martial classes where they build their own comabt stance/style with points.
@ContagiousRepublic
Жыл бұрын
It sounds like it gives each member of the party a time to shine, and allows the DM to place them where all or none of them will shine. If it can be at least halfway balanced somehow it's be AWESOME.
@nickhoward7419
Жыл бұрын
Maybe we could get some more episodes of The Cold Road? 👉👈 Maybe? If you'd like..
@baronluke8065
Жыл бұрын
I need to see more about the martial buffs at 0:13 a) what specifically are the effects of called shots? 2) do any of the effects stack (like having shot 23 arrows into a creature)? iii) what did you do to piercing weapons like the rapier? Δ) Anything else you'd like to share about the melee system.
@cameli999
Жыл бұрын
This sounds cool and all, but were there more buffs on martials than the ones you listed? I would be interested in stea... BORROWING some of those ideas for homebrewed items.
@dimensionalchaos8422
Жыл бұрын
Day 2 of asking for a animated spellbook on Imprisonment. This spell no one uses is pretty intresting from a storytelling standpoint. I would love to see Skenk MCgenk imprisoned in the maze option by his brother after the grease incident.
@Louigoas
Жыл бұрын
It sounds GREAT, a fine addition to my already working mp magic system
@SS-df5zo
Жыл бұрын
This sounds amazing for a villain in your campaign though and how it could motivate them to reign over a specific area/climate because he has such a focus. Inspired by a lot of early one piece villains. a Caster with a earth Based focus can be an absolute tyrant ruling over the desert cause he can cast Erupting earth, stoneskin and Bones of the earth at will. your party might want to stop him for moral reasons or try to take his powerfull artifact for themselves. you can make a good arc trying to overthrow such a magic user with said magic as reward.
@andrewpeli9019
Жыл бұрын
Miss you Zee! Hope you are well!
@PhosphorusWhite
Жыл бұрын
Feels like this should be less of a magic item and more of a whole class with this as a core mechanic. Maybe even just a sorcerer or wizard subclass? It's a nifty idea.
@matthewstanley1521
Жыл бұрын
Those martial homebrews look pretty cool. Definitely love the dagger effect the most.
@tomisabum
Жыл бұрын
Glad you're not afraid to share openly broken/unbalanced but fun experimental stuff. Also, thanks for cluing into Blades In The Dark, its pretty damn good.
@noskalborg723
Жыл бұрын
This sounds epic. It may be broken. But it makes sense.
@doofs
Жыл бұрын
0:14 the chad martial vs. the virgin spellcaster
@doofs
Жыл бұрын
also, i LOVE this homebrew concept, I learnt FATE awhile back to specifically do more environmental combat. this is SUPER up my alley! i'm trying it the next game i GM!
@EvelynNdenial
Жыл бұрын
so 9th level spells with the water focus would only be castable in a hurricane, down in the setting equivalent of the drake passage with an entire ocean rapidly spinning without obstacles around Antarctica, or where the oceanic currents dump their heat in the arctics and plummet down to the ocean floor.
@dougcustard
Жыл бұрын
Thank you Zee, your videos are a constant delight ☺️
@PhantomPhoton
Жыл бұрын
I'm not a huge fan of homebrew, but this is really great! Thematic, with a real risk/reward element to it! Really awesome!
@theshreddedone8322
Жыл бұрын
What did you do to make martials scarier? I wish to know as a fighter enjoyer.
@DevinParker
Жыл бұрын
This is just the sort of homebrew rule I love: something that adds a cool option for players to get creative with, and through using it the houserule makes the setting more alive with mystique and flavor. Fussy Focuses make for a more magical world than "spell slots that every spellcaster just has for some unexplained reason."
@Zyrdalf
Жыл бұрын
The focus of annoyance. You can only target things that are annoyed at you. The more annoyed the higher the spell.
@FiveDallaHalla
Жыл бұрын
0:51 Tempest Cleric used Rain Dance! It's started to rain.
@Talon323
Жыл бұрын
So I take it lightning based spells could be powerd by a battery.
@hawkthetraveler6344
Жыл бұрын
I always like the idea of casters with more of a focused flavor that I think this would result in.
@LordCHull
Жыл бұрын
This is just how the Winds of Magic work in WFRP.
@ianyoder2537
Жыл бұрын
The storm cleric just needs a decanter of endless water. Problem solved.
@AJPickett
Жыл бұрын
You're a genius.
@keroro407
Жыл бұрын
That magic focus homebrew is amazing if the requirement can be met, for example, for a magic that requires a fire source, they could carry a lantern wherever they go. Similar to other elements. The one requires a shadow, or sunlight can be devastating at the right time. For the one that requires death, you can always keep with you some pets/familiar to sacrifice when you need to use magic, such as a bag full of bettles. Also that homebrew martials. Holy shit, that's scary.
@bombkirby
Жыл бұрын
It's like Geomancy in final fantasy!
@saltypork101
Жыл бұрын
If you keep water in your "wineskin", it's not a wineskin. It's a waterskin.
@philippemarcil2004
Жыл бұрын
This is a really cool idea. I am not sure it is best suited for D&D but it seems like fun.
@doodler31
Жыл бұрын
Super cool! I'll definitely be pocketing this for later. It's also pretty close to the system I'm working on for my own game! Only to make it more balanced, it's only enchantments and more permanent spells that need a source, like a forge for the lore of Iron, or a recently filled space ( such as the home of a recently dead person, or a pair of shoes someone has just taken off) for Void. Normal spells just require a focus of a type like the lore being used.
@ASquared544
Жыл бұрын
This sounds like it could be really fun for a Necromancer. In places of undeath or using your Undead Minions as sources you could power your spells exponentially as your foes fall, but in the absence you could directly convert health and hit dice into spell slots, playing an extremely risky game in hopes to get a few bodies on and then off the ground to allow you to cast other spells. I also feel that Tempest Cleric could’ve gotten creative in using their own blood as a source of power. A lot of room to play with blood tbh.
@bonewizard
Жыл бұрын
Thats cool. Id try this. Maybe for like a 1 shot or something.
@SamWeltzin
Жыл бұрын
That's really cool and creative. Love the martial stuff too.
@paulpardee
Жыл бұрын
That's a really cool idea! I can see the death focus being wicked powerful - bring small sacrificial animals with you to get started and then as the battle goes on, the power compounds. Or a focus like fire could make casting powerful spells be a danger to the user giving them a tactical choice to make. Making the power unlimited but not free is pretty intriguing.
@JayBirdJay
Жыл бұрын
I could imagine this playing really well in the Fate Core (or Accelerated) system. Plus, it has a vaguely Avatar:TLAB vibe to it. Sounds utterly delightful!
@kori228
Жыл бұрын
could we get the martials homebrew you mentioned in the beginning?
@fishibo9505
Жыл бұрын
i love this system, and id love to hear more about those extra martial rules too
@ParanoidCarrot
Жыл бұрын
I have been wondering making a goblin that uses a big gun he carries around, but it works that he puts a potion in it for examble a potion of firebreathing and boom you have the three breaths from the potion, but you are forced to close range. and i been wondering if he would use scrolls or have some rest related spell bottling rolls for him. or if you could ask your party members to give you spells, and then you would roll pass and fail chanses difficulty increasing with the spell power/level. in simple version you would be just a wizard with spell slots representing your ammo. and in homebrew versio you would not have spell slots you would have how ever number the party could carry of potions or scrolls of given spell.
@ParanoidCarrot
Жыл бұрын
ideas thoughts?
@ASquared544
Жыл бұрын
This seems like a great idea!… for a different system!
@dizzydial8081
Жыл бұрын
Sounds like a fun way of separating factions, too. Certain mages with afinity towards certain spell types will constantly find ways of facilitating their magic. You can end up with elaborate contraptions so that ideal conditions are met for their spells to be cast, or faction leaders scheming to expand the territory for their ideal spell type to gain an edge in a war. For example, the shadow spellcasters think of a plan to block out the sun so they can destroy a rival faction that gets power from daylight. The ones needing water can try and flood large landmasses. A world like this would be in constant strife and it's a perfect setup to make a point about balance and harmony.
@Taurgis2
Жыл бұрын
nah screw balance and harmony. metals and industry all the way. if i cant cast Fabricate at all times. life aint worth living
@teh201d
Жыл бұрын
Seems to be a neat mechanic to write a new TTRPG with.
@gex8305
Жыл бұрын
So can you just not be a warlock?
@Snipfragueur
Жыл бұрын
.... So basically you made every class a ranger.
@user-xsn5ozskwg
Жыл бұрын
This is so cool! I could honestly see building a whole system around this style of magic, something like Blades in the Dark where orchestrating the perfect encounter is more important than stats or subsequent rolls.
@alkemyst337
Жыл бұрын
All casters are geomancers 😂 I love this, but only because I'm a weirdo who loves geomancers!
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