Bloom and River RPG Announcement

 While I've mentioned the RPG idea several times, I feel like I should start an official "Launch". Hats in the water, this RPG is getting created. I began testing on August 15th, so I'll say we're now in Pre-Alpha.

This is Bloom and River, Owlis Edition. I am working on the base game first, which explores the journey of trying to make a new society known as Utopia, up until the appearance of the dragon Despair. 

So what needs work: 

Firstly, Base Races. There are plans for several playable races. Those are: Dire Wolves, Dire Canines (Jackals and Coyotes), Dire Foxes, Fire Hyenas. Crimsons. Bohs. Violets. Twayts.

Base Classes: There are plans for ten base classes, with two Exclusive Classes, or special classes that must be obtained later. These classes are: Ritualist, Knight, Fighter, Hunter, Medium, Thief, Engineer, Bard, Ranger, and Coder.

Base Traits - traits are storytelling parts of a character. Traits evolve a character. There may be a flaw versus virtue system, or even an evolution of traits system. 

Base Talents - Talents are skills that aren't necessarily from a class or race (but can be), and are skills anybody can train and learn. These function almost like an additional level system.

Bestiary - what kinds of enemies and monsters you'll find in Wysdom. 

Bosses - Big beasts.

Lairs - Exploration through lairs and levels. Fight various creatures and obtain great treasures. 

Raids - Events that aren't part of the base story but still support the base story. 

 Story - This is based on a story after all. There's currently a story in place for surviving in Wysdom, but an idea of a Wysdom Wilds exploration map.

So when do I expect to be capable of presenting a viable "product"? Oh at least six months. The battle mechanics have been figured out however.

 

Dungeons and Dragons Classes

 So what classes would my characters be in DND in N:Era, is the question today. 

 So firstly, most Wilders would fit very well with Barbarian. Barbarian inherently is the class of the wild man. Ranger also works pretty well, as well as Druid. 

Cyras, would specifically again be a Thief-Bard combo. With a slight Arcane Trickster addition as her prestige class. She's sly, quick of tongue, and highly charismatic.

Lilu might be a straight up Barbarian, with her rage powers. 

Ahmond is a supporter. I always figured she'd be a Cleric, having powers to boost others.  

Rosod meanwhile, works a lot with magic, and since she studies a lot, I would say a Wizard. 

Finally, there's Owlis. Owlis would definitely be a Fighter seeing how great she is at beating others up. However, with all her magic, I'd argue either Warlock or Sorceress would be important. Sorcerers work best with Charisma. She also may have a slight paladin tinge.

Maypol is definitely a Barbarian with high damage per round output.

Karv might be closer to a Ranger, never really hitting that hard, even if he could hit hard anyway.