New Game

Depends on what kind of game we're looking for.

If we're going combat-based, one "circular" tree with various starting points could be cool.

As a sandbox though, I think we should make various trees with specific starting points, but you can go in as many of those trees as you can. Think tabletop here. Sandbox is an open world. There will be combat, but there will also be many character interactions. Therefore we should have multiple trees like Social (Intimidation, persuasion, seduction, etc.), Survival (tracking, orientation, camp building), Combat (melee weapon, hand to hand, ranged weapon), Movement (Running, dodging, climbing), Stealth (Camouflage, trap detection, quiet movements), Knowledge (lore, medecine, crafting) and more.

With those kind of trees, if someone just wants to intimidate it's way to avoid battle, he can. If someone wants to charge in battle, he can.

Now of course, tabletops have dice rolls. All we would have to do here is decide you need to be level X in persuasion to persuade Y.

I could work on such trees if you want.

Hmm. I dunno if I wanna include crafting or not. Because on one hand, it gives people more stuff to do and more ways to customize, but on the other hand, it would make it so we have to create a whole materials list and a crafting list and a whole tree of crafting skills. Hmm. Maybe there's an easier way to go about it. I guess we could have monsters drop materials and stuff and you can choose to convert it into money or maybe skill points or something. Hm. Yeah, I think I can work out a system for that...

But then we'd need to assign new stat stuff to those things every time which could get...messy.

I think I've got most of the Social and Exploration skills done.

Feel free to look them over. I'm gonna take a break for a bit.

Haven't checked it yet. I'll give you feedback when I'll have the time to look at it.

I have an idea for something. Since I'm having a hard-ish time coming up with a bunch of skills...What if we implemented a combination system where players could mix their skills together?

For the sake of making the roleplaying aspect more interesting, I was already planning on leaving most skills open to interpretation of how they work, being like "Alice uses Power Strike by slamming her blade into the enemy with so much force it creates cracks in the ground" or "Alice uses Flame Sigil, unleashing a pillar of fire" while someone else might say "Alice uses Power Strike by uppercutting the enemy into the sky" or "Alice uses Flame Sigil, unleashing a ray of flames from her hands"

But most of the skills are already so basic that it would be easy to combine them like Dual Techs from Chrono Trigger. It also helps add depth without having to necessarily add more work or more stuff to manage. So you could have Alice cast Flame Sigil while Fjord uses Power Strike to use Flame Strike. It could also give a reason to try pairing with different characters.

I'll poke around with it for a bit and see what I think I guess...