Planning Meeting 1

From Full Metal Alchemist d20

These are the notes from my planning meeting with Eric and Ruby. Notes that have already been refactored are in italics.

• Eberron warforged a good example for spirit-bound armor Races
• Techniques/nouns as skills along the lines of craft (x) skills. Craft blade. Craft person. Come up with a set a set of skills... architecture. engineering. metalworking. The greater specificity, the greater diversity of resulting character skills
• different classes of alchemist ... feats-based soldier-type alchemist (Roy, Kimblee, Armstrong); researchers (Shou tucker, Marcoh) who manipulate very fine detailed things. feats are trick-based, like the glove. Researchers get skill focii, which let you get very specialized classes
• feats: gate feat ... doesn't get you much or costs you (d off the ability score), but gives you access to things like spirit-binding, soul transfer, circle-free transmutation feats
• bonuses for time spent drawing the circle... default is a standard action, and each step up from that (full, minute, etc) knocks points off the DC. Or, anything requiring a craft check takes time. alchemy
• classes: mechanic. create auto-mail. Alchemist-Researcher (prestige class?), Alchemist-soldier (access to combat feats, fewer skill points), Alchemist-Adventurer (most skill points, broadest selection, no access to special combat feats classes
• Iron Kingdoms rules for mechanical limbs... 10 str/8 dex... more cost, more str/dex. add features like a magical item, make a list automail
• chimaeras as a PC race... shifter race in Eberron ... shifter-specific feats. Or make them a creature template that can become a class, Wild Races-style, and feats that are available thereby races
• Red stuff has points, points can be spent on lowering DC; point-costs for reducing/waiving material requirements; alchemy, Alchemical Items
• superb raw materials/ordinary materials/shoddy materials alchemy
• break alchemy process alchemy
• feat which increases the amount you can transmute feats
• feat: elemental affinity. +2 or +3 to all involving that element, or +1 die w/that element feats
• standard DC table for volume... standard D&D sizes w/DCs alchemy
• Anything that requires element can be spontaneous, anything that requires a craft is formulaic, and circle-free transmutation effectively makes all your formulaic spontaneous alchemy, feats
• some skills that are shape element (element) and craft (thing). OR, shift all the spontaneous stuff toward feats and leave the detailed stuff to skill checks skills
• magical items: red stone. tattoo. circle-bound item Alchemical Items, Equipment
• healing ... feat with skill (craft biology) requisite? the direction the sewing-life alchemist could have gone in, and which dr. marcoh feats
• Trees in elements for fighter-types... elements have linear progression, plus cross-over (paraelemental) feats
• rogue to-hit progression classes
• spontaneous/feat-based: create shelter. hardness 10, 5 hp barrier as full-round action feats
• tier 1
  • elemental attack feat. d6 /lvl
• tier 2
  • elemental shield
• tier 3
  • fireball
• para-elemental

For adventurer-types

• fighter to-hit progression classes

Mechanic

• craft auto-mail

Scoundrel (Hughes)

• classic rogues
• (better lucky than good)
• diplomat/gather info

Soldier class (Mustang's retinue)

• fighter bonus-feats, fighter Hit die, weapons proficiencies,
• weapons specialist (firearms)
• chimaera hand-to-hand
• soul-bound