Has anyone ever made a FFT tabletop rpg?

[Neuromancer]

How are you handling the reaction abilities Neuro?

you could restrict some levels of stats to keep a smeblance of trade-offs.

choose between 3 differently sized number of die to represent your brave/faith. the larger the die you use/brave you would like offsets your characters max pa/sp/hp/mp and so forth. It sounds complicated, but a general table would help depending on how large an offset you chose. you could even make it simpler and say lowest brave is no penalties, second lowest gets -1 to a stat or -10 to hp/mp, the next one gets a -2 to a state or minus 20 hp/mp


Dont know if you even plan to include them. but its something that shouldnt entirely be removed(cause it can really make you think about taking the chance on that unit with HP restore), and its relativly easy to do once you figure out how you want to handle it.


EDIT: HOLY SHIT KAZE! your avatar blinks... i was just scrolling up and i thought i saw the eye move... so i stared at it for a sec and it fucking winked at me xD

Reactions are easy as pie: If you have a Reaction ability equipped, roll percentiles after your opponent makes his Hit roll (which maybe successful or not). If the result of your Reaction Roll is equal or LOWER than your Brave score, the Reaction ability will trigger, otherwise it won't trigger .

[SentinalBlade]

^Very welll thought. kudos

[Neuromancer]

^Very welll thought. kudos . I've yet have to test it, but hopefully I'll be able to come up with a basic demo in a few days.

[Neuromancer]

Okay here's a mockup of the Unit Card template, suggestions on improving it are welcome

[KazeKasano]

That's looking really great, Neuro. Keep it up!

Mine's been on hold for awhile due to finals and such, but I should be back on the project soon! I'm much closer to completing the rulebook now, and should have a playable version pretty soon, if all goes well.

Also looking into the new D&D Minis packs. They've dropped the skirmish game now, and let you see what minis you get in each pack. Heroes and Monsters are separate now, and I might begin making real miniatures for the game.

[Neuromancer]

I'm not 100% happy with the stat icons because they're not as descriptive as I intended: The Evade, MDEF, and Move icons need to be reworked, but I can't think of a more suitable pictogram.

EDIT: In the light of Square's epic crackdown on the CT hackers group, I'm not really sure if I should continue with this.

[Kaijyuu]

EDIT: In the light of Square's epic crackdown on the CT hackers group, I'm not really sure if I should continue with this.

*whack with newspaper*
Bad, bad!
Just stop saying anything until you release it >.> Discouragement is the opposite of what should happen in light of recent events.


As for the icons, I think you should just make them all like the speed one: short, 3-4 letter names. (with the possible exception of attack and m. attack, since they had icons in the original game)

[LastingDawn]

If you let Square's crackdown scare you regarding it, there's obviously a few problems. Square will Not attack anything as insignificant to them as a board game. I'd say rest your paranoia.

[KazeKasano]

Do you think they'd take down a miniatures game that's extremely expandable and uses a metric shitton of their artwork for everything?
These are most definitely NOT simple boardgames we're talking here.

Honestly, I don't see why SE hasn't thought of this themselves, being market milkers as they are.

[Neuromancer]

Alright, updated mockup, with better-looking icons and the evade modifiers granted by equipment:

[Kuraudo Sutoraifu]

The new setup looks a little cluttered, but I do have a suggestion.  For the Male/Female in the upper corner, just make it the male or female symbol.

This looks very awesome though.

[Neuromancer]

The upper right corner symbol denotes the unit type and gender (either human or monster).

[Dome]

No more upgrade of this?

[Neuromancer]

Haven't had much time due to school madness (being an assistant teacher is a PITA), so there's not a whole lot of upgrades worth mentioning yet, just some minor changes to card layout and basic damage formulas. Ergonomics for the game have been a major pain, as you need a brickload of cards to keep track of everything (the basic unit card, equipment cards, item cards, and cards for skills), so I'm looking for ideas to reduce component count.

[Neuromancer]

Alright , here are some pics of the terrain and miniatures: http://img176.imageshack.us/gal.php?g=pict0485.jpg
They're rather crappy but they get the job done.

[Neuromancer]

Yet another update: Final card layout for units and Ability Cards for jobs.
http://img193.imageshack.us/gal.php?g=neostarter.png

[SentinalBlade]

This is actually my favorite topic in the entire general boards. You should post an entire rule list and or example game.

Id love to actually try this with a few people.

[Neuromancer]

I'm working on that, but I was setback because my stupid little brother trashed the comp and I lost all the game data :/.

[KazeKasano]

Not sure how much help this will be, but worldworksgames.com has some really great printable modular terrain in 1" and 1.5" square and 1" hex grids (gridless also available). The .pdfs usually come at about $15, and while the process can take a little work, the payoff seems to be incredible. If I ever get around to finishing my FFT Minis game, I'll use their terrain to play it.

As far as my project goes, I'm considering retooling it to use character sheets, and making it just a more streamlined RPG as compared to the skirmish game it was before.  More on that as I figure it out myself.

[Tersius]

I'm not sure how the cost would compare, but you could use Heroscape's terrain instead of making it yourself.  It would save you a bunch of time and allow you to focus more on the actual rules porting and character sheet creation.

Wiki page of Heroscape:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heroscape