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Tsunami:
I've been thinking of using Mutants & Masterminds as a basis.
It is completely effect based (no Spell system) and has no classes, so you can simply use the powers there to simulate the furies abilities.

Bosh:

--- Quote from: molten_dragon on November 03, 2009, 02:13:30 PM ---Well, my plan is actually to get rid of classes altogether, and make some major changes to the spellcasting system as well (no vancian casting, instead as use furycrafting, you get more and more tired).  It probably would be simpler to use a different system, but D&D is really the only fantasy rpg system I know well enough to do this kind of thing with.

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Like Tsunami says, I'd STRONGLY recommend M&M for you since its based on D&D and is flexible enough to handle Fury stuff without too much house-ruling.

Khamsin:
I personally used a 3.5 DnD with the six furies assigning them to someone was easy and the way he describes the simple uses tapping into them for strength ETC. and they also could provide a skill bump IE air spot <lensing> and so forth but leaving other uses as a taxing/ per day usage just my two cents don't over-think or put rigidity into it let your players find new and interesting ways to use them  ;D 

KarlTenBrew:
To do it using 3.0/3.5's d20 basis, you need to steal from a few places.  The first is the Wheel of Time d20 supplement, which brings a couple of concepts to the old slots/day casting mechanic that fit furycrafting very well.  The second change is to change daily slots to a stamina/exhaustion based system.

The first concept to pull from Wheel of Time is to apply the Element concept to Furycrafting: Earth, Water, Air, Fire, and Spirit become Earth, Water, Air, Fire, Wood, and Metal.  This lets you assign an ease factor (based on the feats and 'spells' from WoT supplement) based on number of applications to the discipline, and meshes well with the merit-based changes.  Also steal the ability to overchannel (and thereby kill yourself from pure effort in furycrafting, or knock yourself out the same way).  This gives you a basis under the d20 rules to stick with classes if you want, or switch to a classless but level/experience/point-development system.  It would be very hard for me to fully flesh out the details here, but I'm working on it just for these boards...I'll link my final efforts!

JosephKell:

--- Quote from: KarlTenBrew on December 19, 2009, 02:20:55 AM ---To do it using 3.0/3.5's d20 basis, you need to steal from a few places.  The first is the Wheel of Time d20 supplement, which brings a couple of concepts to the old slots/day casting mechanic that fit furycrafting very well.  The second change is to change daily slots to a stamina/exhaustion based system.

The first concept to pull from Wheel of Time is to apply the Element concept to Furycrafting: Earth, Water, Air, Fire, and Spirit become Earth, Water, Air, Fire, Wood, and Metal.  This lets you assign an ease factor (based on the feats and 'spells' from WoT supplement) based on number of applications to the discipline, and meshes well with the merit-based changes.  Also steal the ability to overchannel (and thereby kill yourself from pure effort in furycrafting, or knock yourself out the same way).  This gives you a basis under the d20 rules to stick with classes if you want, or switch to a classless but level/experience/point-development system.  It would be very hard for me to fully flesh out the details here, but I'm working on it just for these boards...I'll link my final efforts!

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I would actually argue that the various Star Wars d20 systems are a better base than any of the d20 spell slot systems.  Then you can have the furies be creatures that can soak vitality damage (drain?) for the character.

I.e. if a person doesn't have an earth fury, using earthcrafting inflicts vitality damage on the character, but if he had an earth fury, the earth fury soaks it (until it is tapped out) first.

But that is what I fiddled with a long time ago.  Now I am redoing it all in a heavily adjusted Exalted setup (mostly Dragon-Blooded charms).

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