Expansions!

**Xaekin** Tue Nov 01, 2011 12:35 am

Figured I'd list contents to expansions on the Nailstone ruleset in this thread.

Help with Making Items For the Game:

Adding Races:

Please, feel free to create your own rules and such for it, it's what I did, after all. However, I would take a look at The Original, first.

I'm putting expansions of my own to Nailstone's base here. Feel free to post your own in the thread, or feedback, or whichever.

Vampirism:

Vehicles and Vehicular Combat:

Vehicles are a complex system, so this will take a fair bit.
Now, a vehicle has HP, to represent the state of the vehicle as a whole. Should it hit 0, the vehicle will crash, stop, or sink. It has Def to represent the armor protecting the engine, and finally Dam to represent the number of Weapons aboard. It also has a Spd stat, describing its maneuverability. If Spd hits zero, the vehicle is gone. Essentially the same stats as a character, but there are distinctions when it comes to how combat works, see further down.
Vehicles can be upgraded, within reason, and those upgrades will cost. The cost of each additional point in Def or Dam increases by 6 Gp with each one present (starting from 1), and each is capped depending on the class. The HP of a vehicle can not be upgraded, though it can be restored.
Vehicles are then catagorized by type, there being a cheap type, a fast, weak type, a normal type, and a slow, powerful type for each type of terrain. The following list is a work in progress, suggestions are welcome. The lower value in each range is the default equipment.

Classes for Land Vehicles:

Combat:
To hit - roll [Spd] d6. Handle as normal, Spd is the avoiding skill, use it as the counter stat. If it hits, the attacked ship loses 1 Def.
Damage - Against Vehicles: the attack ship rolls [Dam] d6. The beauty of a large vehicle is that it shoots back when its attacker is in range, so the defending ship rolls Def d6 in response. Damage is linear - the dice are arranged by value, and each row is compared. An uncontested row is considered an automatic success. The side with the most successes wins, and the overpowered vehicle loses 1 Def and 1 HP.
Damage - Against Soft Targets:To hit is calculated the same way the attacking vehicle rolls [Dam] d6 on a hit, and deals that much regardless of Def.
Defending - From Soft Targets: The Spd serves as the amount of skills to avoid a hit, as before, but in terms of damage taken, any successful hit takes 1 Def from the vehicle, unless there is no Def, in which case it takes 1 Spd. Damage rolls as before.
Turrets are vehicles, but Spd is always zero, and they do not die from losing Spd. An attack on Spd results in damage to HP.