@HeavenlySpoon@ttrpg.network I don't know if you're looking for feedback, but something that seems potentially confusing is the different behaviour of the move die between normal and special moves. If I'm reading it correctly for a normal move your "attack roll" (to fall back to d&d terms) is determined by the Move die and the target to beat is the move's Threshold, but for a special move your "attack roll" is your Special die and the target is the Move die. I'm not sure if using the same terminology to refer to two opposite things is the clearest!
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Wow, this is incredibly detailed, very keen to try it out!
I would take a step back and ask if you (and your players) want this to be a tactical combat game (where the focus is making optimal decisions about where to move and which action to take, e.g. Pathfinder), a narrative game (where the focus is telling a good story rather than trying to "win", e.g PbtA), or something in the middle (where you're still trying to solve problems but the decisions aren't so granular, e.g. Blades in the Dark). The more decisions the players have to make the longer combat will take, so set consolidate them until they're going as quickly as you want them to.
I mainly use Freetchio for video games but there's currently direct links to a lot of free tabletop RPGs on there for this event
I know just enough about Pathfinder to think "yeah, that sounds like the kind of beautiful nonsense I should expect for Pathfinder"
Pub was my first thought too. Likely to be pretty quiet on a Sunday evening, and they'll be very happy to have a table of paying customers for several hours.
For one powerful, arrogant wizard it's perfect
I play d&d to escape this kind of thing, lol
Seriously though, using real-world computer security is a great idea!
This could be a full-on one-shot
Does fantasy lead basically block magic as real lead blocks radiation?
Fair enough, you can tell I hadn't read that far yet!
Another bit of feedback: the word "move" is used to mean different things and can be a bit ambiguous. A good example is the paragraph explaining paralysis: "move(s)" is used to mean changing turn order, movement around the grid, and an attack (and I'm still a little confused as to how paralysis works in general!) Might be worth calling "moves" (the attacks that pokémon make) something like "abilities" or "techniques" to make it clearer?