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2017 / 10 / 06

Ferocious Minions incorrectly stated Logic as a prerequisite attribute. However, that was wrong. It should have said Alteration and Energy. It is now corrected.

2017 / 08 / 30

Now while in Shapeshift you acquire only the Agility, Fortitude, Might, and Perception attributes of the new form.

2017 / 08 / 17

Moved Action & Attributes Examples to GM chapter
Add Sustenance boon
Removed Hallucination - Mass feat. Effects moved to second tier of Hallucination feat.
Knockdown effect updated. Now prone targets get +2 to Guard vs ranged and -2 Guard vs melee attacks.
Ferocious Minions now works with the attributes you use to invoke charmed, dominated or summon creature.
Destructive Trance now works with Agility, Energy and Entropy 7.
Domination bane duration is now based on type of domination (Lesser or Greater).
Natural Defense now gives a bonus to both Guard and Toughness defenses.
Skill Specialization now works for rolls that are not for initiative, attacks, invocations, or the defend action.
Attribute Subsitution I now doesn't work for defend actions.
Craft Extraordinary Items: expendable items now require only one full 8-hour day.
Projectile attacks are now known as ranged attacks.
Barrier obscuring property now works with the barrier's area of effect rather than the hardcoded 10'.

2017 / 07 / 01

Battlefield Reflexes renamed to Battlefield Retribution since the word "reflexes" doesn't imply reciprocal damage

2017 / 05 / 19

Standardized all 9-tier feats (Attack Specialization, Defensive Reflexes, and Lethal Strike) in terms of attribute prerequisite and tier grouping. Each is now Tier 1 - 3: Attribute 3, Tier 4 - 6: Attribute 5, Tier 7 - 9: Attribute 7
Lightning Reflexes squash prerequisites, no need to have 5 tier bullet points

2017 / 05 / 09

Scrying bane renamed to Spying for multi-genre friendliness (scrying is inherently magical).
Heal no longer has Alteration as a prerequisite attribute. Don't panic, you can still use the Regeneration boon, which is more in line with what healing does. Alteration allows access to an overly large array of boons.

2017 / 05 / 04

Banes for weapons now allow the listed banes to be invoked even if the attacking attribute could not normally invoke it. The attacking attribute is used to determine power level.
Baneful property WL modifier is now dynamic and allows the chosen bane to be invoked even if neither the item, nor wielder can invoke it. The attacking attribute is used to determine power level.

2017 / 04 / 23

Animation boon can now be accessed via Logic. Minor edits to boon text for multi-genre

2017 / 04 / 22

Expand ranges of boss defenses on Boss NPC table

2017 / 04 / 20

Updated the Artisan perk to add a cap of wealth level 2 to avoid conflict with Craft Mundane Item feat
Armor Mastery feat bonus now specifically an armor bonus rather than directly to Guard (affects Battle Trance).
Clarified that Reach extends range 5'.

2017 / 04 / 10

Clarify sustaining a boon applies to all original invocation targets
Clarify Attribute Substitution replaces the attribute itself, not just the score

2017 / 04 / 01

Truesight boon modified, Power Level 5 reveals extraordinary effects in the area and new Power Level 8 allows for seeing through solid objects.
Added optional rule for Boss Finale, allowing a boss to take immediate triggered actions when reduced to 0 HP.
Multi-genre perk & flaw friendliness fixes -- Outlaw perk becomes Fugitive, Noble perk becomes Upper Class.
Marksman feat renamed to Longshot and modified to include Extraordinary attacks as well.

2017 / 03 / 31

Removed option to use Legend Points after a given roll

2017 / 03 / 26

Reckless Frenzy name changed to Reckless Attack and clarified that it only allows a single extra attack per round.
Phantasm bane area sizes cleaned up. Previously power level 7 area size was the same as power levels 1 - 6.
Provoked bane can now be invoked via Agility
Damaging attacks now deal a minimum of 3 damage. This prevents the un-intuitive phenomenon of having an "exact hit" (roll total equals target's defense) being "success with a twist", which is in part failure, but you hit the target CR so, failing feels wrong.

2017 / 03 / 21

Attack Redirection clarify that you can't redirect the attack to the attacker or yourself

2017 / 03 / 21

Arcane Bloodline has been generalized to apply to more groups, name changed to Legendary Bloodline
Barrier boon clarification - you can't trap a target inside of it
Tweak Persistent extraordinary item trait to prevent abuse.
Stunned bane wording tweak to clarify extra actions don't work
Sentinel feat tweak to require that you first spend a defend action

2017 / 03 / 21

New Chapter Structure (Finalized for going to Print, YAY!)
- Introduction
- 1: Character Creation
- 2: Actions & Attributes
- 3: Feats
- 4: Perks & Flaws
- 5: Wealth & Equipment
- 6: Banes & Boons
- 7: Combat
- 8: Running the Game
- 9: Special Equipment
Sentinel (new feat added) - grants an additional action that can be used only for defend actions once per turn
Clarify that defend action can only grant bonus movement once per round
Battlefield Sentinel renamed to Battlefield Opportunist, Battelfield Defender / Reflxes feat prerequisite dropped, attribute score prerequisite dropped from 5 to 4
Battlefield Defender renamed to Battlefield Reflexes now allowed with Any Extraordinary attribute, pending GM approval
Battlefield Punisher - Knockdown, Battlefield Punisher - Slowed, and Battlefield Punisher - Stunned are all combined and slightly modified to become Battlefield Punisher which requires 10 damage be dealt and can be any bane, this restriction was made necessary by the addition of the Sentinel feat which allows additional defend actions, and allows for many uses of the defend action each turn.
Companion feat fixed to prevent abuse and reduced to 2 feat points. A companion gaining 3 feat points + an extra set of actions for a given turn, means that you spend 3 feat points on a Companion and you gain 3 feat points AND a new character. Companions can now buy feats with the character's feat points and get a fraction of the player's attribute points.
Companion feat point expenditures apply as a feat point reduction in any case where another effect would give you feat points, at present, this applies only to Alternate Form as far as we can tell.
Genesis boon Power Level 5 added (greater quantity of organic matter created)
Genesis boon invocation times streamlined PL 1 is 10 minutes.

2017 / 03 / 20

Companion feat fixed to track with the new max attribute limits
Nullify bane at Power Level 6 effect can not be prevented by any other effect
Multi-Target Attack Specialist fixed to remove compounded attack complexity and a loophole that could allow you to negate all mutli-attack penalties and combine it with Haste for 9 attacks with no disadvantage.

2017 / 03 / 15

Genesis added a new feat for creating short-lived matter that deteriorates / decomposes after 1 hour
Marksman feat modified to confer a single range increment bonus rather than a flat 25'.
Hunter's Foe feat name changed to Sworn Enemy for better genre diversity
Multi-Target Boon Expert (reversed change) feat prerequisite is now from Multi-Target Boon Specialist II
Attribute Substitution now requires Tier 2 for the benefit of boon and bane invocation prerequisites.

2017 / 03 / 12

Extraordinary Items initial release - new chapter Rewards for extraordinary items, mounts & vehicles
Craft Extraordinary Item (formerly Craft Beneficial or Baleful Item) feat completely overhauled, now works with the Wealth Level system and the new rules found in Chapter 8
Craft Extraordinary Item now has Logic as an optional prerequisite
Mounts & Vehicles section moved from Chapter 4 to Chapter 8
Consumable weapon property renamed to Expendable for consistency with new properties in Extraordinary Items section
Deadly property moved from Chapter 4 (Weapons) to Chapter 8 (Extraordinary Items)
Major changes to Weapons table via Extraordinary Items a number weapons were moved to Extrardinary (Laser Rifle, Rocket Launcher, Plasmablade)

2017 / 03 / 11

Boss NPCs expanded the table to level 20 (for larger groups of PCs)
Boss NPCs now have Boss Edge, giving them advantage on attacks, as well boss actions
Boss NPCs now have immunity to Finishing Blows
Phantasm bane wording changes to clarify that the size effect is limited by power level, but it affects all who see it (though they aren't technically targets)
Fatigued bane levels of fatigue effects for level 2 and level 4 swapped to prevent easy access to the loss of significant defense bonuses
Updated Open Legend Community License for minor name change to Seventh Sphere Entertainment
Summon Creature - added hard limit on max number of summoned creatures (equal to your invoking attribute)
Fast Draw feat cost reduced from 2 to 1
Multi-Target Boon Expert feat prerequisite reduced from Multi-Target Boon Specialist II to Multi-Target Boon Specialist I

2017 / 03 / 02

Removed Tech Level from mounts & vehicles, unneccessary complexity
Craft feat is renamed to Craft Mundane Item
Craft Beneficial or Baleful Item feat is renamed to Craft Extraordinary Item
Added caveat that weapons can have multiple properties, allowing the wielder to choose from among them. For example, allowing Area (X', Y' Cone) at the wielders options. They are cumulative for determining Wealth Level.
Added Flamethrower example to the weapons table

2017 / 02 / 26

Added genre diversity to the Wealth Overview tables and the armor table, removed some armor examples and added others
Telepathy boon, after much confusion because the effect is both "broadcast" AND "receive", (note "broadcast" should use Influence while "receive" should use Prescience) it seems best for it to be accessible from both attributes since the effect straddles the two
Summon Creature boon no longer has the "when you invoke this, other summoned minions are dispelled" limitation
Transmute boon no longer affects living target's since that domain is covered by Shapeshift. Replacing the Power Level 8 and 9 efects, are now the ability to transmute simple items into complex ones
Nullify bane is simplified to cancel only one boon affecting the target, but it now prevents the target from benefitting from or havhing the book invoked upon them for 1 minute

2017 / 02 / 12

Clarify Area property's Wealth Level impact
Added Indomitable Resolve feat that increases your Resolve defense by 1.
Clarified that Forceful and Precise weapons can only be used for bane attacks with that particular attribute
Natural Defense feat now increases both Guard and Toughness defenses
Immobile bane now targets Toughness for most bane attacks
Augury renamed to Precognition because augury by definition has ties to the divine. Precognition represents
Boon Focus III clarified to allow boon invocation as a free action, meaning that it only persists if you're conscious to spend an action
Death Blow feat's tier 3 is removed, 15 HP death threshold is too powerful, and the tier 2 Silenced effect was overly complex. There are now 2 tiers
Ritual Magic feat is renamed to Heightened Invocation to more effectively span non-magically oriented genres
Dispel bane is renamed to Nullify to more effectively span non-magically oriented genres

2017 / 02 / 11

Removed redundant Inner Strength perk (was a duplicate of Resilient perk)
Added Targeted Weapons property to manually targeted vehicular weapons
Modified certain Vehicles to have Resolve: Immune to represent mind-influencing banes don't effect them

2017 / 02 / 05

Added Vehicles & Mounts section at the end of chapter 4
Added Tech Level callout before Weapons section in chapter 4
Add Deafened bane to mirror Blinded and Silenced

2017 / 02 / 03

Added rules for Waiting to Act that allow for preparing to react to a given trigger and waiting in general
Clarify that boons don't stack
Renamed Burst weapon property to Area and significantly changed how it works. These weapons always make attacks in their listed size and shape areas, and suffer no penalties for doing so
Add Agility as an optional attribute for invoking Knockdown and Forced Move banes
Clarify how hit points are tracked for Polymorph bane and Shapeshift boon
Polymorph bane is fixed. Previously had variable and overpowered durations as well as being easily abused to transform the target into a form with all attribute scores being 0.
Banished bane is removed. An effect so permanent should be part of the GM's discretion and a story choice rather than automatic and permanent exile from a successful roll (done at-will)
Shapeshift now allows the target to keep their Alteration attribute score when they shift.
Shapeshift is changed so that gaining access to the new forms extraordinary attributes happens at power level 7

2017 / 02 / 02

Summon Creature no longer has a permanent option, creating permanent creatures is reserved as an effect for only the Animation boon.
Animation boon now has the additional effect of automatically invoking the Charmed bane on a newly created creature.

2017 / 01 / 18

Armory Mastery feat effect wording changed from Might to Fortitude to match recent armor changes.
Natural Defense feat Fortitude prerequisites reduced for each tier from 2/3/5 to 0/1/2.
Two Weapon Defense feat wording clarifies the armor bonus is for the Guard defense.
Defensive property of weapons now grants a non-stacking +1 armor bonus, regardless of Defensive level. Defensive Mastery feat wording clarified for its bonus to stack an addition +1 armor bonus.
NPCs now have a new feat open to them (GM Only): Bane Resistance, with two tiers (+5 defense and immunity to a specific bane).
Sylvan Ally perk renamed Nature's Ally.
Shapeshift boon effect layout clarified for Power Level 2. Also, wording improved for multiple genres.
Multi-Target Attack Specialist wording fixed to refer to multi-targeting, not multi-attacks.

2017 / 01 / 15

Added Power Level 2 to Shapeshift boon
You can now move your Phantasm as a free action on your turn, but it must remain within your invocation range.
Defend action clarified. A single defend action can only be used to defend one target. Movement granted by this action doesn't provoke attack of opportunity, nor does it negate the original attack.

2017 / 01 / 13

Breakfall now works in two tier. Tier 1 reduces all falling damage if you are not incapacitated. Tier 2 renders you immune to falling damage if you are not incapacitated. Cost increased to 2.

2017 / 01 / 10

Recalculated weapon's Wealth Level

2017 / 01 / 08

Tweak Delayed Ready property to require the ready action before use, so that weapons with Consumable property don’t get the free benefit of bypassing the ready action

2017 / 01 / 06

Changed armor prerequisites to Fortitude instead of Might. This addresses a balance concern about Might characters having an unfair advantage with their Guard defense since armor had a Might prerequisite that made it difficult for Agility based characters to qualify for. Fortitude is useful for ALL characters as it makes you harder to kill with higher Toughness, HP, and now armor as well.
Battle Trance feat modified to provide bonus to armor for characters with an armor bonus less than 3.
Removed Defensive property from a few weapons since it would prevent them from getting the two-handed bonus to attacks
Unmovable Weapons are now called Stationary since they are ... well ... not unmovable.
Deadly Weapons now require a minimum wealth level of 4, and Deadly does not stack with itself. Only the greatest value among items you wield applies.
Defensive Weapons no longer gain advantage on attack rolls for dual wielding or being used two-handed. This property no longer stacks.
Fix a number of weapon properties and add missing Longsword example
Fix incorrect cost of Extraordinary Defense (now 3 feat points) and Natural Defense (now 2 feat points)
Major Change to Evasion / Resilience Defense - due to the words Resilience and Toughness being too similar, Resilience (formerly Evasion) is now called Guard

2017 / 01 / 02

Major Change to Weapons - Weapons now include multiple examples of each type that shares the same properties and now have a Category which determines the various ways it can be used.
Added a Building Your Own Weapons table that shows the process for building a balanced weapon
Major Change to Evasion - the Evasion defense score has been changed and renamed to Resilience which is calculated as: Resilience = 10 + Agility + Might + Armor and bane defense targets have been changed to accommodate the difference
Major Change to Armor - For multi-genre purposes, and coinciding with the change from Evasion => Resilience, Armor now has three categories: Light, Medium, and Heavy and is simplified in the interest of making it easier to understand where armor that is not accounted for on the table should fall on the spectrum
Battle Trance, Armor Mastery, Natural Defense, Two Weapon Defense are updated to accommodate the new Armor rules
Armor Mastery cost increased to 3. Tier III removed.
Defensive Mastery feat added to accompany shields and new weapons with the Defensive property
Clarify shifting between multiple Alternate Forms

2017 / 01 / 01

Fix Invisible and Blinded banes so they don’t violate Open Legend’s "one roll" principle. Also clean up various other issues with both and add a “lesser” Invisible at PL 5.

2016 / 12 / 31

Close loophole in Summon Creature boon that allowed them to recursively summon others of their type. Also clarified that summoned creatures cannot be revived from zero hit points.
Indomitable Endurance feat was tweaked to allow access via a Will attribute prerequisite, also removed the immunity to natural fatigue since the feat already shields against the first level of fatigue and 2 feat points for such a potent effect is overpowered.
Rename Berserker feat to Battle Trance, and associated feat name updates (Deathless Berserker => Deathless Trance, Destructive Berserker => Destructive Trance, Entranced Berserker => Impervious Trance, Reactionary Berserker => Reactionary Trance)
Resilient was both a feat and a perk, the Resilient perk was renamed to Inner Strength for clarity
Companion feat now grants access to 1 feat per tier, selected from the "Simple Build" NPC creation list in Chapter 7: Running the Game
Changed wording around handling “advantage zero”, other non-action rolls, and the ability to say “advantage x” for any type of die roll. You can now apply "advantage 1" to a Resist roll, for example, but a roll without attribute dice can not be modified beyond Advantage 1 or Disadvantage 1
Tweaked the Power Levels of Persistent Damage bane, they are now: 4 (d6) / 6 (d8) / 8 (d10) / 9 (2d6)

2016 / 12 / 30

Lethal Damage is now part of the Core Rules
Critical Hits are now optional

2016 / 12 / 28

Removed Retributive Barrier in favor of Barrier boon
Forced Move now moves the target a distance in feet based on power level
Projectile Multi-Targeting is now Ranged Multi-Targeting
Attribute Substitution cost reduced to 2. This feat has now two tiers. Attack rolls with the primary attribute are only available at tier 2. Restrictions about primary and secondary attribute category lifted.

2016 / 12 / 22

Intimidated bane renamed to Provoked and reordered alphabetically.

2016 / 12 / 21

Boon Focus wording adjusted in numerous areas, changing references from multi-target to non-single target. Extra text was added to tier 1 to address power level restrictions.
Added Boon: Summon Creature (view)
Clarified that only damaging attacks qualify for bane application when exceeding target defenses by 10 or more
Feats reordered alphabetically

2016 / 12 / 19

Renamed Aid boon to Bolster and changed it's duration to Sustain Persists to accomodate ongoing augmentations that should last for more than just a short one round burst (formerly Aid only lasted 1 round)
Reorder Character Creation steps so that Description comes first
Add Free Actions to combat section and explain how they work
Clarify that banes do not stack, only one instance of a given bane can be on a target at a given time
All references to Supernatural have been changed to Extraordinary to support some genres like far-future and superheroes that sometimes explain the extraordinary with science rather than magic
Fix Druid example missing Creation 3
Fix Arcane Protector example missing Movement 3
Fix Druid example build referencing removed Master Shifter feat, replaced with Boon Focus 2 (Shapeshift) which accomplishes the same

2016 / 12 / 12

Size categories added

2016 / 12 / 9

Ageless removed as feat, added as perk
Elemental Mage is now called Battle Mage
Clarified Multi-Targeting in Chapter 6, no longer says Multi-Attack when hitting multiple foes with a single attack
Missing an attack can now cause 3 damage instead of 5
Haste updated, now each power level grants an additional 5' of movement. Attack disadvantage changed to static bonus to target evasion based on power level. Extra major actions are now made with disadvantage, if a roll is required.

2016 / 12 / 5

Well-Rounded updated, now you gain advantage 1 on action roll outside of combat that are not invocations (bane or boon) for attributes with a score of 2 or less
XP and level clarified, every XP grants a player 3 attribute points and 1 feat point and every 3 XP results in a level

2016 / 12 / 3

Alternate Form updated, now you build your alternate form using the normal character creation rules, though attribute and feat points are determined by the tier level of this feat
Banes are now inflicted for free on 10 over defense instead of 10+ damage

2016 / 11 / 29

You can't use a supernatural attribute if the score is zero
Area attacks changed, now disadvantage is based on shapes (Cube, Line and Cone)

2016 / 11 / 28

Mimic doesn't require Alternate Form anymore, it instead requires Deception 3
Can't choose Alternate Form when creating the secondary form granted by this feat

2016 / 11 / 25

Updated character creation text to reflect new Toughness = 10 + Fortitude + Will formula
Clarified attribute 9 limitation for Companion feat
Removed all prerequisites for Superior Concentration to accommodate any boon including those inovoked by non-supernatural attributes

2016 / 11 / 24

Added Two Weapon Brute feat
Added rules for dual-wielding weapons with the one-handed property for Advantage 1
Close infinite damage loophole in Multi-Attack Specialist feat by introducing a limit on the maximum number of additional attacks you can take
Clarify the time increment steps of Boon Focus, move OR major actions become minor at tier 2
Removed all prerequisites from Energy Resistance to enable characters with no special training to have bloodline-based resistances

2016 / 11 / 23

Modified Natural Defense feat to better reward unarmored characters who invest in it (#105)
Modified Craft Beneficial or Baleful Item feat to allow unlimited invocation at tier 2 and 3x longer creation duration for sentient Tier 3 items. (#143)
Aid boon and Demoralized bane now mirror each other in Power Level and effect
Tweaks to Restoration boon now allow it to function correctly with Boon Focus feat

2016 / 11 / 15

Added Aura boon.

2016 / 11 / 13

Removed attribute prerequisites for Multi-Target Boon Specialist feat.
Decreased first power level of Telekinesis boon from 5 to 4.
Fixed loophole with Boon Access (Shapeshift). Now the Alteration score is limited to character level or 5, whichever is higher.

2016 / 11 / 12

Closed loophole in Boon Access. Now if a boon has multiple attribute prerequisite options, you choose one attribute when you take this feat.

2016 / 11 / 11

Added Barrier boon.

2016 / 09 / 07

Life Drain Bane removed, added to Boons. Heals target for half damage dealt.
New Feats for movement such as Climbing, Swimming and Flying.
Feats that can be lost (Animal Companion, Supernatural Focus, etc) now updated with clause that feat points are regained in the event the item or companion is permanently lost.
Flanking added as an example of Advantage.
Lucky renamed to Diehard, can now use Fortitude or Presence as prerequisite.
Defenses updated with new formulas. Weapon attacks now target Evasion, Supernatural attacks target most relevant defense.
Might has replaced Fortitude as the prerequisite for wearing armours.
Master Shifter feat removed, Boon Focus and Supernatural Focus made it obsolete.
Alteration attribute added to healing boon, definition of healing updated.

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Updating the craft feat given our new wealth system

So, this feat doesn't work with wealth levels. Here's my thought on how to update it:

Tier 1 - You can craft items equal to your Wealth Level.
Tier 2 - You can craft items equal to your Wealth Level + 1.
Tier 3 - You can craft items equal to your Wealth Level + 2.

We would leave things like how long it would take up to the GM based on the item being crafted.

Although it might seem OP to give a means of getting items 2 higher than your wealth level, the downside (other than the feat points invested) is that the equipment is only in the narrow sphere of your craft focus.

Weapon Properties - Versatile

Versatile – The weapon can be wielded either one-handed or two-handed. The wielder can freely switch between the two modes and has all of the benefits and restrictions of each while using the weapon in that mode.

It can be interpreted such that when wielding such a weapon you'd have benefits of Advantage 1 to all attacks, while having a hand free to use another weapons or shield, and would have the restrictions of not being able to use another shield or weapon. (I've seen people that would seriously try to take argue that in a real game.)

Please reword it to avoid that confusion. A possible suggested clarification below:

Versatile – The weapon can be wielded either one-handed or two-handed. The wielder can freely switch between the two modes and has all of the benefits and restrictions of the mode in use at that time.

Did a big overhaul of Shapeshift boon.

https://github.com/openlegend/core-rules/blob/master/boons/boons.yml#L448

Let me know what you think. I tried to clarify the movement mode thing in the "special" heading. Also noticed some disparities between the power level tags and the list in the effects. Think that's all cleared up now.

Attribute and Feat Order Layout

I noticed a couple of things. First of all, the descriptions in Character Creation for the Social and Mental attributes are in the opposite order on the character sheet. I would like them flipped around to match up easier. Additionally, Master Tracker and Heavy Weapon Master are not alphabetized on the Feats listing.

Clarification about Alternate Form feat

I'm having a bit of trouble understanding this text:

While in your alternate form, you can divide your Alteration attribute score amongst your physical attributes. If your Alteration score is higher than a given physical score, you can raise the physical score to a maximum of your Alteration score. If the physical attribute is higher than your Alteration attribute, you can raise the physical attribute by 1 instead.

Does this mean that you can add your Alteration score to your current physical attributes? Or does it mean that you completely re-assign your physical attributes?

Reading bane is missing some info

https://github.com/openlegend/core-rules/blob/master/boons/boons.yml#L335

Power Level 8 indicates two options to choose from, but the second one is cut short and I can't surmise what it is meant to be. Any insights?

Get proper rules source in here with a build that outputs something readable by InDesign

Looking over https://github.com/openadventure/Open-Adventure's @kylemecklem means of using Github as a public table of contents reminded me of something I want to be capable of with this source core. Use a source in either YAML, JSON, XML, whatever, to generate something consumable by InDesign which could separate the image content from the rules text, allow for public contributions to the rules text and expose the rules source for consumption by other endpoints (including the Open Legend website).

💯 🌟 for a long time I've thought it would be nice for the source to be pulled from Google Docs, I've looked into that and it's possible, technically, but would require too much heavy lifting in parsing, since Google's API for docs only outputs since formatting should be managed in InDesign where the programmatically generated output can be massaged. But Google Docs being a great source, a better option might be to go the other way and set up a Google Script that periodically fetches the latest rules from the Github source and overwrites (or versions and bumps) the Google Doc content. This way it would still be a friendly place for non-technical people to ask questions and feel that the core team is listening to / engaging with them.

Maybe ODT would be a valid format, just musing aloud. Looks like the Google Drive node API allows you to export documents, which frustratingly does not have a complete list. The only two that seem relevant, however, is ODT and RTF.

'application/vnd.oasis.opendocument.text'` just now and got back a valid response.

function getDoc(auth) {
  var service = google.drive('v3');
  service.files.export({
    auth: auth,
    fileId: '1-yL5gpXpReo5pnCC0gk8orHZulaaHgca8jY8vKMUd28',
    mimeType: 'application/vnd.oasis.opendocument.text' // https://developers.google.com/drive/v3/web/manage-downloads
  }, function(err, response) {
    if (err) {
      console.log('The API returned an error: ' + err);
      return;
    }
    console.log('response!',JSON.stringify(response))
  });
}

full code here: https://gist.github.com/brianfeister/af0903ced789a22cdf3d

Increase lucky cost and eliminate extra tiers?

Seems like a pretty good feat. I think it should probably be worth 2 points. Also, I could see this one being kinda annoying for the GM (and other players too) if the player can do it more than once a day. I'd suggest keeping it at one tier. Whatta ya think?

Stray half-deleted <li> tags in one of the banes / boons / feats

Two Weapon Brute needs clarification

A few things:

Do we ever define exactly how two weapon fighting works? It just grants an extra attack, correct?
This feat allows you to wield a two handed weapon when dual-wielding. Logically, shouldn't you also be able to wield a two handed weapon in one hand when only using one weapon?

What if we re-title it to Heavy Weapon Master and change the description: You can wield two handed melee weapons in one hand. If you do, you still gain the usual advantage to attack rolls for two handed melee weapons.

Interrupt Action Clarification

https://github.com/openlegend/core-rules/blame/master/core/src/06-combat/01-chapter-six.md#L361

The description here says "after an enemy has rolled a successful attack against yourself or an ally",

But the continuation here only mentions replacing an allies defense score, not that it can replace your own:
https://github.com/openlegend/core-rules/blame/master/core/src/06-combat/01-chapter-six.md#L362

Can you use it to defend yourself?

Finishing blow rules don't match between Core rules and free adventure A Star Once Fallen

In the free adventure "A Star Once Fallen" under "Making a damaging attack" on page 10 it says "If an unconscious creature takes damage, it must make a Fortitude action roll greater than or equal to the damage or else it dies." but in the Core rules under "Finishing Blow" it says "When you suffer an attack while unconscious, incapacitated, or otherwise unable to defend yourself, you must make a Fortitude roll with a Challenge Rating equal to half the damage dealt. If you fail this roll, you are dead."

Is the final rule "CR = half damage" or "CR = full damage"? or is CR full damage for NPCs and half for PCs?

Energy types for Attack Specialization feat

The current rules specify "fire, cold, lightning, acid, poison, and force" as the energy types you can pick.

I'm thinking it might be better to leave this one to the user's imagination and just offer these as examples. Thoughts?

Assist an Ally in wrong location

https://github.com/openlegend/core-rules/blame/master/core/src/06-combat/01-chapter-six.md#L258

It seems to be in the middle of the 'Invoke a Boon' description instead of after it.

Heal boon has the potential to not move combat / story forward

As it stands now, https://github.com/openlegend/core-rules/blob/f072700873a8911b4621780d2e7973408a739790/boons/boons.yml#L122 has the problem of enabling a mechanic that is used frequently (minor action) and can make it too easy for a character to invest in Creation 1 / Spirit 1 to get a "heal every turn" effect that has huge payoff and no risk. David Hynes has proposed that a roll below zero inverts the effect, not in the sense that it damages the target, but rather, a total roll of 7 deals 3 damage to the boon invoker and heals 3 HP to the target.

Would love other people's thoughts on this!

Do dice from the heal boon explode?

I'm assuming yes, but I figure either way we should clarify in the rules text because its an unusual situation.

Psychic ability doesn't have any banes/boons

Was just doing a run through as part of something else and I notice this. Is it deliberate, are we thinking of taking out the psychic ability, or has it just been missed off?

Intimidated bane seems non-standard regarding number of targets.

As is, the intimidated bane increases number of targets based on power level, but isn't that what multi-targeting is for?

What if higher power levels just increased the level of disadvantage. I'm thinking that disadvantage 1 isn't as strong of an effect at higher levels anyway so it won't really redirect attacks the way this bane is meant to.

Range Clarification

I have not completed the document but there is an inconsistency dealing with range.
It is not stated what the numbers for range indicate. It could be assumed to be squares on the battlemap, centimeters on the battlemap, yards, feet, etc.

In the Combat section, the table for Supernatural Attack Range seems to be the only place where it is clearly defined, as each entry is a number followed by the word feet.

I would suggest that you perhaps use a commonly recognized mark for that. Most people use an apostrophe, such as in 20' away, though that's more of a keyboard cheat than the correct prime mark. I did find a page that clarifies the correct characters for ease of reference. I had not been previously aware it was properly called a prime mark. (http://practicaltypography.com/foot-and-inch-marks.html )

I believe using that format consistently throughout the documents will look better and reduce initial confusion, even among those in countries that employ the metric system.

How does multi bane specialist work if the banes target different defenses?

I'm kinda thinking it might make sense to require that you can only choose two banes that target the same defense. That way you avoid weird combos of Charm and Knockdown and the such.

Multi-Attack vs Multi-Target

It's not clear what the difference is between the two.

In the combat section, multi-attack refer as picking multiple targets, but the multi-attack feat refer as making multiple attacks.

And then there's the Multi-target attack feat that reduce the penalty for including multiple targets (like what the multi-attack in the combat section refer to).

So to make it clear, if I target multiple targets in a Melee Attack doest that mean we have to roll once and compare to the defense of every targets ? As if I made a cleave attack that just hit other creatures . And if I use the Multi-attack feat grand me separate attack rolls on every target ?

If that's it, could one the attacks of the multi-attack feat target multiple targets ?? Could one of the attack be a bane one ?

Tl;dr; Is the multi-attack feat simply a way to perform multiple actions in your round ? Or simply a duplicate of multi-target with worse inconvenient ?

Light boon only has 5 power levels, while darkness has 9.

Was this intentional or an oversight? Kinda seems like they would be mirror images of one another.

Simplify Entranced Berserker

For this feat, instead of giving a list of banes (which could potentially expand in the future), what if you just became immune to any bane that targets Resolve. I'm pretty sure that all of the listed ones do.

Rework the Indomitable Endurance Feat

Right now, this feat costs 3 but only protects you from one bane, so it's overpriced, and also just a bit boring.

What do you think of this:

You are immune to the fatigued bane when it is caused by natural sources (such as a forced march, starvation, or swimming long distances). If you suffer the fatigued bane from a supernatural source, you ignore the first level inflicted in any given 24 hour period.

Suggest adding additional tiers to breakfall

Kinda thinking that characters should be able to get pretty epic if they invest in this feat. I mean, eventually a monk should be able to fall limitless height, right?

What if we make it 9 tiers. Each one adds another 10', but the 9th tier makes it unlimited?

Declare Power Level after rolling for banes and boons?

@brianfeister There have been a few discussions about changing the bane/boon process to the following instead of determining your power level first:

Name the bane/boon
Make action roll
Determine Power Level

I like this change, and I think you do too, but I just wanted to confirm before I make it official.

Remapping Defenses

Suggestions:
The first suggestion I have is related to the physical stats. I recommend separating Agility
into two stats, Agility and Precision. This is due to the fact that Agility, as it is now, is
simply a better stat than Might. It contributes to both offense and defense, while Might only
contributes to offense. By splitting this stat into Agility and Precision you can make Agility
the defensive stat and Precision can be the offensive stat. Additionally, the two stats still
have plenty of secondary skill contributions (E.G. Agility: dodge attacks, stealth, perform
acrobatics, escape a grapple. Precision: shoot a bow, pick a pocket/lock, perform sleight of
hand, juggle). Another option is to combine Might and Fortitude into one stat to match the competitiveness of Agility, but it makes more sense to me to split Agility.

My second suggestion is related to the first suggestion. I recommend having agility,
presence, and will contribute to hit points but to a lesser degree than fortitude. This is a
fairly simple change but prevents some scenarios where your caster has more hit points than
your front liner while allowing your defensive stats to still contribute to your hit point
total. My suggested HP contribution is as follows:

Hit Points = 3(Fortitude)+ 2(Presence) + (Agility+Will)+10

The reason being that Fortitude is a major direct contributor to your vitality
whereas Agility allows you to efficiently mitigate damage allowing you to fight longer while
avoiding damage. While Agility is not increasing your hit points directly it does allow you to
fight longer and should have some contribution to HP. The same holds true for Presence and Will
which are mental contributors, and therefore indirect contributors, to resisting damage by
overcoming damage and pushing your body past its limits. Presence, however, contributes to both mental and physical willpower (see my reasoning for this below my third suggestion) giving it two indirect hit point contributions and as such should contribute slightly more than will and agility which only have one indirect contribution.

My third suggestion is that you modify your defense calculations to the following:
Toughness = 10 + Fortitude + Presence
Evasion = 10 + Agility + Armor
Resolve = 10 + Presence + Will
By moving to this strategy you allow Evasion to be your defense stat for getting out of the way
of negative effects including weapon attacks and some spell attacks like a death ray, firebolt,
or fireball where you can intervene your armor/shield between you and the effect or get out of
the way of the attack completely. Your Toughness then becomes how well you resist effects that
target your constitution that are hard/impossible to dodge and need to get their hooks into
you. For example things like a chill wind that would freeze you, a necromantic essence drain
that would sap your vitality, or a poison fog that threatens to suffocate you and corrupt your
body. Finally, this leaves Resolve as a defense against mental attacks that have the same
nature as the examples for Toughness but with respect to the psyche. Meaning that they are hard
to avoid but need to get their hooks into your mind before becoming a threat. For example
attacks such as a banshee's wail, a bard's cutting words, a lethal phantasm, or malefic
visions.
In defense of presence contributing to both Toughness and Resolve. I see social skills as a
mixture of mental and physical contributors that manifest into a new third category. This
supports the idea that Presence is not only your physical willpower but your mental force of
personality. Using this approach to the stat you can see why it would contribute to both
physical and mental defenses to stave off harmful effects.

My fourth suggestion is that you clarify how area of effect attacks accrue disadvantage. The
current wording isn't entirely clear as it seems to suggest that one 5x5x5 cube would impose
disadvantage 3 because it has three 5' lengths. This doesn't seem to be RAI and you might
consider changing the wording to 1 per 5 cubic feet or per 5' cube depending on what the intent
is. For disadvantage 2 at 10x10x10 go with the former, for 5x5x10 the latter. I would suggest 5
cubic feet to make it simpler, and to give players a reason to use area of effect attacks
rather than multi-attacks for hitting multiple targets, which I feel is your intent.

Other than these suggestions I have mostly nit picky naming consistency, and other syntax/wording. I want to say that I really like what I have seen here and would be very interested in playing the game. I believe that the suggestions I have made above would improve what is an already amazing rule set. Thanks for all of your hard work towards breaking down genre limitations and commitment to the community. I will probably continue to contribute as I analyze the rest of your rules in the form of editing oversight if I feel that my input is desired.

Consider additional attributes for battlefield defender

I'm thinking that Agility and Abjuration might also be applicable.

Supernatural Abilities Ordering

https://github.com/openlegend/core-rules/blame/master/core/src/01-character-creation/01-chapter-one.md#L72

This is the first time I've used this, so hopefully I'm not doing anything wrong.

May just be personal preference, but I've noted that the Supernatural abilities are not in alphabetical order, so was just wondering what the reason is for the order, or if maybe they should be alphabetical. Just thinking about speed of finding them on the character sheet etc.

Armor - Shield Advantage

The footnote for Shields from the Armor table in the section Armor says:

^ Grants advantage when using the defend or deflect actions.

This seems to not be consistent with the other mentions of Advantage where it is capitalized and has a value, though in this case I am guessing it's 1.
I'd suggest it be changed to something like the following:

^ Grants Advantage 1 when using the defend or deflect actions.

Clarification on Simple Build NPCs/Monsters

https://github.com/openlegend/core-rules/blame/master/core/src/07-running-the-game/01-chapter-seven.md#L333

Have to say I love having this section in there now as it will help me plan adventures better. But I wanted some help clarifying a few details.

Here it states that the party's level determines the ability scores, but it doesn't give guidelines around how many NPCs/Monsters per party member. If you see what I mean? (e.g. should it be one monster of party level 1 per PC).

Similarly for the boss later:

https://github.com/openlegend/core-rules/blame/master/core/src/07-running-the-game/01-chapter-seven.md#L404

Though I think that assumes a party of four adventurers.

Bane focus is tagged with Might

Don't know too much about github code, but this doesn't seem quite right to me.

"Might" is listed as the only attribute in the tags for Bane Focus. I'm assuming the tags should include either all of the attributes or none of them.

Does Fear bane only affect the target's movement?

https://github.com/openlegend/core-rules/blob/master/banes/banes.yml#L194

Wording wasn't clear. Can the target still use their normal action? Or do they have to spend their entire turn moving away?

Question about Demoralized Bane

https://github.com/openlegend/core-rules/blob/master/banes/banes.yml#L89

I was wondering...

Check my code on Persistent Damage

https://github.com/openlegend/core-rules/blob/master/banes/banes.yml#L503

Just wanted to point out that I added some formatting to Persistent Damage and want to make sure I don't crash the website or anything :-)

Invocation time for polymorph seems high

The casting time is 1 minute, which effectively means it can not be used in combat situations. Thoughts on reducing it to 1 Normal action?

Suggest reducing battlefield sentinel from 3 points to 2

Since opportunity attacks are a sometimes thing, I don't think the benefits of this feat match the cost.

Reference to "standard movement" is not clear

It doesn't even matter if this is incorrect, because I've heard it a million times thus far, get asked often. If it's there, we need to clarify and make it more prominent, maybe with character creation? I don't know. And if it's not there, let's add it.

Does supernatural presence still fit as a feat?

Since this feat is so fluffy, do you think it should instead be re-written as a trait when we get to those?

Unarmed attacks should have at least one property

As far as I can tell weapon attacks and damage are only based on the Attribute they use.
Two handed and swift weapons get advantage, but that's it.

This is especially noticable with bare hands being exactly the same as a one handed longsword.

Not sure what to do about that though.

Heal boon should be a normal action / graduate to move then minor

Resistance Boon could be streamlined

https://github.com/openlegend/core-rules/blob/master/boons/boons.yml#L367

I think that this boon could use some cleaning up. Since the current power levels are not cumulative, there are situations in which PL 3 would be more beneficial than PL 5.

What if we make it like this:

PL 3 = +5 defense
PL 5 = +10 defense
PL 7 = immune to damage

Also, one of the listed damage types is Enchantment, but I don't think that makes sense. Not sure about Psychic either.

Good and evil are both listed as damage types as well, but I think we need to clarify what that means. I'm assuming it would be damage from an extraplanar creature hailing from an aligned plane but NOT just protection from attacks from a good or evil humanoid. Is that what you were going for?

What's the difference between PL 7 and 9 Teleport?

https://github.com/openlegend/core-rules/blob/master/boons/boons.yml#L521

Power Level 9 states that there is no range limit, but PL 7 doesn't actually give a limit. It just says 1 mile per minute of casting time.

Removing Combat Opportunist?

Did we have a discussion about removing combat opportunist because we are changing Lethal Strike to grant advantage?

Clarification about Scrying bane

https://github.com/openlegend/core-rules/blob/master/banes/banes.yml#L560

Scrying provides two sets of rules depending on whether you are scrying a creature or a place. This makes sense. What I don't get is why you can scry a place on another plane of existence, but when it comes to a creature, they have to be on the same plane.

Is the stunned bane meant to prevent sustaining boons?

https://github.com/openlegend/core-rules/blob/master/banes/banes.yml#L651

The current text indicates that in addition to being limited to a single action, a stunned target also cannot sustain boons.

Is this correct? I'm asking because I thought that in a previous discussion you mentioned that the stunned bane can force casters to make hard choices about whether to sustain a boon or take an action.

00-introduction: typo

"Altering a spell that does lightning damage and stuns it’s victims"

When you are using its as a possessive, don't use the apostrophe.

Confused by companion feat

https://github.com/openlegend/core-rules/blob/master/feats/feats.yml#L315

Do companion's always have 3 attributes? If so, how do you calculate the value for the second two?

Here's my suggestion for simplification:

Your companion has three attributes. The primary attribute is determined by your tier. The other two attributes are equal to the primary attribute minus 2.

Tier 1 - Primary attribute equals your level minus 2 (minimum of 3).
Tier 2 - Primary attribute equals your level minus 1 (minimum of 4).
Tier 3 - Primary attribute equals your level (minimum of 5).

Proposed change to alternate form feat

@brianfeister I realized that a lot of the confusion with alternate form is that it reads more like a boon than a feat, and we already have a boon that does this: shapeshift.

So, I propose that we make alternate form simply a path to acquire a narrow version of shapeshift. I'll wordsmith it more if you approve, but basically Alternate Form would do the following:

When you take this feat, specify a specific type of creature to be your alternate form, such as wolf, tree-man, dragon, or shark. As a major action, you may transform into your alternate form or back into your usual form. This transformation is the same as using the Shapeshift boon on yourself, except you do not have to make an action roll to invoke it and you do not need to sustain it.

The new feat would only have one tier. And we would remove the information about getting a pool of points to adjust your physical stats.

Reconsider how resisting the Phantasm bane works.

https://github.com/openlegend/core-rules/blob/master/banes/banes.yml#L283

It seems like phantasm favors the target too much. First, the attacker has to overcome their resolve. Then the target gets a free resist roll every round. And finally, the target gets an extra roll whenever it interacts with the illusion. Conceivably, a target would always be interacting with an illusion.

I propose we just make this like every other bane in that we keep it at the resist roll to end.

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