So a few months back I was reading Kirth Gersen’s fantastically written Kirthfinder series and got to thinking that if I was to build a d20 system, how would I go about building it. With a lot of soundboarding with Christos Gurd and Dayton Johnson I think I’ve hammered out something worth looking at.
It’s called “Saguenay” (originally called “Scottfinder” as a bit of a homage). It’s an update to Pathfinder (and even a bit of 3.5) that introduces a few new aspects (kind of like what Little Red did with Necropunk). There are more shared party resources, kingdom building rules integrated into all levels of play (and mixed with some narrative aspects), a new more organic magic system (spells are more utilitarian, work on a resource rather than being vancian, and scale with level and resource investment), and a new class dynamic (you select 1 of three paths: noble, champion, or squad).
Thematically it’s got elements of the lost in fantasy trope, is more political, it’s very high fantasy, and is more “orderly” (as if the universe was kinda mildly lawfully aligned). Plus you can straight up play as a dragon. How cool is that?
Normally we design kind of behind closed doors, but I kind of wanted to open this concept up to the public. I’d say it’s 20-30% done, but a lot more has been short handed out in note form.
I’m going to open these documents to public editing (I can always revert them or change them if something gets messed up) and the like, so please feel free to provide feedback on the documents, post here to help contribute, or just give us some feedback. Small edits are fine (spelling and grammar stuff), but please post potential contributions here.
I’m intending on making as much of this open source/public domain as I can if/when it is finished.