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Ooze
Class
- When you kill a creature, you trigger Skill Absorption
- When you pick an item, you trigger Property Absorption
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Skill Absorption
- Triggers Skill Selection
- Triggers Skill Copy
- Triggers Creature Dissolution
Skill Selection
- Among creature’s skills, active or passive
- Unknown skills first
- Rarest skills first
- Only 1
Skill Copy
- Character gains Skill
- Becomes Absorbed Skill
Absorbed Skill
- Can be equipped
- Can be personnalized if active skill
Creature Dissolution
- Physically destroyed
- Cannot be revived
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Property Absorption
- Triggers Property Selection
- Triggers Property Copy
- Triggers Item Dissolution
Property Selection
- Among Implicit, Affix, Unique, Set, …etc.
- Unknown properties first
- Rarest properties first
- Only 1
Property Copy
- Character gains property
- Each current value replaced by the new one if it is better
- Becomes Absorbed Property
Absorbed property
- Can be searched
Item Dissolution
- Gelatinously imprinted
- Physically destroyed
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Explainer
- Fantasy: Plasmoid, Ooze, Blob, Absorbing Gelatin, Multiclass, No Inventory, A.M.A.Z.O. (DC Comics), Cell / Buu (Dragon Ball Z), Glacius (Killer instinct), Fran (Stargate Atlantis - Season 4 - Be All My Sins Remember’d - The Battle Of M7R-227)
- Origin Story: The Ooze is a younger version of the blackhole at the End of Time
Its unstoppable hunger will someday reach a critical mass and become a blackhole - Gameplay: Pick all items. Collect all possible properties. Get the best values for every property. While you cannot stack bonuses from a same key (severe limitation), you can stack infinite properties (Not limited by the size of your equippable inventory. Not limited by the quality of an item. Not limited to bonuses from a single set or a single unique). You can absorb all properties of all items. To gain skills, kill enemies or absorb item properties such as +N to Skill X. Adapt your playstyle to the latest Skills and Properties you absorbed
- Bad properties: For character balance, you absorb any property, even bad ones. You will suffer severe handicaps. Find a way to counter balance them
- Personnalized: Mini-Tree for absorbed skills, including enemies skills. This means every enemy’s skill has its own Mini-Tree. Dev Note: Design the Mini-Trees for enemies skills before designing Ooze’s Passive Tree, so Ooze’s Passive Tree can target these Mini-Trees
- Item: Equippable, Idols, Potions, …etc.
- Gain property: If not already known, add the property to the Properties tab. Otherwise, upgrades its values if the new ones are better. You cannot equip twice a property, regardless of its source (Implicit, Affix, Unique, Set, …etc.)
- Each value: A property can have multiple varying values (20%, 10 seconds, …etc.)
- Current value: Previously absorbed
- Better: Higher or lower, given context. Get the best value between current and new one
- N Conversions: For every enemy, only the most effective element against it is used. So rather than « is converted to cold », it becomes « can be converted to cold if effective »
- Set properties: The N th time you pick a Set item, you can absorb a Level N Set property
- Depack properties: If a property consist of multiple properties packed together, you can only absorb one (Ex: Sinathia’s Set, or many Legendary items)
- Slots-related properties: Properties targeting Offhand, Idol shapes, equipped items, complete sets are useless
- Gelatinously Imprinted: Usable for interactions (narration, forge, keys, …etc.)
- Multiclass Loot: You get the loot of all classes. Extends the number of absorbable properties
- Flash Message: Upon Absorption, trigger a flash message with the new absorbed property
- Creature Dissolution: Hardcore PvP Matches
- Non-Craftable: As a living item, you could in theroy craft your properties. But it is more coherent for the narration to let you absorb higher quality items. Therefore, your properties are not craftable
- Zoom Out: You can zoom out the list of properties
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Inspiration
Fran (Stargate Atlantis - Season 4 - Be All My Sins Remember’d - The Battle Of M7R-227)
Part 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8NdGbHhmx24
Part 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v-Y-whgzM0s
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A.M.A.Z.O. (DC Comics)
This technology (later indicated to involve nanites) allows Amazo’s cells to mimic the physical structure and energy output of organic beings he encounters, empowering him to mimic physical and energy-based abilities (such as the strength of Superman, the speed of the Flash, or the fighting skill of Batman).
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Glacius (Killer Instinct)
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BG3 (Ooze Proposal)
This proposal is the ARPG version of another proposal that I made for BG3.
