Yus, also to make it so they aren't just "Humans, but stronger!". Helped by the fact that Penny doesn't display a semblance and her toughness/strength could really be handwaved as being a robot.
Too me it wasn't really touched on enough before the incident. Other than wondering how they would monitor her for the Tourney I don't think the series would have changed if Penny didn't have an aura.
Possible gifts:
I planned for Enchantment to fit a theme, narrow but not too narrow. So, Enchantment: Store Aura. Maybe get it back, maybe explode, maybe make it harder to break...
...Ooh.
Same as with the others, Hidden Depths Perk.
Cool, cool, you can create some pretty awesome Semblances that way. About the Teammates, I've noticed a lack of different body types. I mean, there's only one busty character (whom I doubt anybody without a mind-affecting Semblance could tolerate being around for more than five minutes at a time), and pretty much no bottom heavy characters. Guys seem to be limited to being either short or tall, but it would be interesting to see a guy built like that one sumo guy from HGDK, or maybe a really small effeminate guy that can really kick ass (who totally wouldn't be a rip-off of Richard, one of my favorite characters from Suidoken, no siree). I guess what I'm trying to say is don't be afraid to make your characters unique and distinctive. That's half the fun in the first place!
Hm.
Seems a bit to similar to the original system and I didn't really like it in the first one CYOA. Weapons are actually more of a thing in RWBY than semblances, everyone has something very different when a few Semblances are pretty similar such as the 3 different cloning powers.
I feel like that penalizes people for trying to make a cool, unique weapon. In RWBY.
I want it to be vague but not so vague that it renders distinction impossible or pointless. In RWBY every weapon is pretty much gonna be Melee and ranged by default and likely dust boosted. Everything outside of that is just going to be in the Unique category. I want something where you put thought into not only what you weapon looks like but how it works mechanically and how to use it. Given how much love and effort goes into making the weapon both in and out of the universe I wanted something that show it. Given how unique each weapon is it should a system just as, if not more, customisable than the Semblance section.
I did mean for the categories to be very broad. I'm actually going to go change some things to be less specific.
The points are up in the air for now, the costs of things in the weapons section may change and so too may the starting points depending on how the practice builds turn out. If it seems to tight I'll increase the starter points, if some sections seem like they become very expensive for little I might reduce the prices of things. The weapons section lets you exchange points for more Lien at about 5000 per point though I might change that given the price of weapons is actually fairly small, or at least remove the starter funds there since it begins at 10000 which should be enough that you might not have to spend a single point in the section unless you're going for something really expensive. I'll play around with the price tags a bit.
So, you've been scrimping and saving for a nice "Build Your Own Weapon" kit from weapon magazine, or maybe you just found a sack of cards Lien lying in a gutter that wasn't stolen no sir! Maybe a sack of Lien magically fell from the sky because reasons. In the end you wind up with 2500 Lien and are going to treat yourself to something nice to brutally assault grimm or people you don't like. For every extra point you spend on Equipment you earn an additional 2500 Lien. What ever is left over you multiply by 10 and get to keep when going out in the world. FYI Lien to Dollar conversion is roughly 5 to one
Interesting. Crescent Rose would be between 18-24 hundred depending on how you judge the range, and that's one of the more complex weapons we see, rivaled mainly by Milo+Akuo and Neptune's trident. (I'm going off of the most complex weapons in canon because theoretically you shouldn't need disadvantages to make ends meet until that level and above, average should be easily obtainable with baseline resources.)
Well, most weapons in RWBY are capable of some amount of "Transforming". I'd make it so that having distinct modes that can't both be active at once or switched between quickly as a Pseudo disadvantage. Similar to the advantage on the doc right now, you buy the most expensive form and the other forms only cost 50% or so of normal with a 100 L down charge.
Add-ons:
If this is the base that everything else builds off of, and everyone necessarily buys it, why charge for it at all?
Buy the small stick. The stick is the frame you build off of, the spine or core of the weapon. Only Droids can bypass them by building them into their own body.