SURVEY QUESTION: MOVES!

[Handsome Jack]

Options (Mix and Match to create a Move!)


Burst Damage
Short Melee: weapons around the size of a dagger. Can include broken bottles, saps, brass knuckles, or even just energy coated fists.

Medium Melee: weapons around the size of a long sword. Can include hammers, clubs, sickles, shortspears, and the like.

Long Melee: weapons around the size of a spear. Can include whips, halberds, scythes, etc.

Slow Ranged: Ranged weapons which fire slowly. Shotguns, rocket launches, or charged energy attacks.

Average Ranged: Ranged weapons which fire as a moderate pace. Semi-automatic handguns, baseballs, etc.

Fast Ranged: Ranged weapons that fire at a quick pace. Machine guns or rapid fire ki attacks.

Debuffs
Damage over Time: Attacks which deal continuous damage over a period of time.

Slow: Attacks which limit an opponent’s movement.

Confusion: Attacks which limit an opponent’s understanding.

Lock: Attacks which can temporarily remove access to a Power.

Buffs
Attack Ally: Moves which can bring in objects or entities that attack foes.

Defend Ally: Moves which bring in objects or entities that defend the user or others.

Area: Moves which can affect multiple targets.

Power: Moves which can grant a Power to an ally.

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This is a really simple list I did up for an example. It only has a few options on it (we’d want quite a few more), but with this list you have nearly infinite flavour for a variety of Buff, Debuff, and Attack Moves. You could make Thor’s Hammer, a Flamebrand, an M4 with Grenade Launcher, a Psychic Wave of Confusion, a Zombie, etc. Each option would be priced individually, with the more options you take, the more expensive the Move becoming. It also removes the need for most if not all Proficiencies, by adding the cost for these into the “Option Costs.” And we should be able to refit all the existing Moves within this system, though the pricing of quite a few would probably increase.

I can't promise it would fix every issue, but it'd be simple to build Moves (just pick the options that fit what you want to do), simple to Price (all the prices for the Move are built from the options), and simple to approve (does the Move include what they purchased and nothing more?).