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jfrazierjr
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Old October 20th, 2017, 03:45 PM
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Originally Posted by CapedCrusader View Post
Well, on the separate power bit....

That's not multiple Arcane Backgrounds. Those specifically do not grant the Arcane background Edge. And the Arcane Background is what those resources are attached to. In order to have each power with it's own pool would require a complete re-write of the Arcane Background system. And for only that one thing.

I'm afraid that there is little chance of getting full-blown support for that. It would be HUGELY difficult to set up each power with it's own separate trackable resource pool. Because this is Savage Worlds, not D&D. We're set up differently.

This is one of those places where the fact that we have to support so many different flavors hurts us. Pathfinder/D&D/D20 uses one rule set, and one Setting. We have to be much more flexible. Which means there are levels of detail we simply can't support. It's why we don't support Skill Specialization.

Now, we are looking at a way to allow a Secondary Arcane Background. But only two. We can't afford to re-write the entire system to support the separate powers. It's like Skill Specialization, where it takes a basic concept and spins it on its ear. We're flexible, just not quite that flexible.
I don't know about Zarlor's use case, but at least for my personal one, my thought process was:

Choose race
Race Bootstraps a new Arcane Background
AB bootstraps one or more powers(which share a singular PP point separate from the "normal" picked AB PP pool. )

If two Arcane Backgrounds were allowed would that use case not work? I personally have no requirement for for multiple individual powers, each with their own Power Point pool. If that's what you or others thought I was talking about, I apologize... I suck at written communication(I suck at verbal also, but that's a different story).
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