Point Build System: Difference between revisions

* In ''[[Sins of a Solar Empire]]'', capital ships level up to 10. Three normal skills that can level up to 3 and a super skill with one level. Some of the super skills are game breakers; as such they're only available at level 6. Lvl6 cap ships are notably more powerful than Lvl5.

* ''[[Master of Magic]]'' giveson thedifficulty characterabove "Intro" allows custom Wizard generation. This gives 11 picks to spent on spellbooksSpellbooks and "Retorts"; up to 11 books or 6 retorts total at generation (up to 13 Spellbooks and 6 Retorts at any time, via looting lairs or rival Wizard fortresses). Spellbooks give access to a random subset of spells in one of 5 realms (choosing multiple in the same realm also gives some choice inof one more Common starting spell, so taking 10 in a realm makes ''all'' its spells; youguaranteed canto maxbe outavailable onefor ofresearch; 511 realmsallows to choose 2 Uncommon and have1 Rare Spell, with all itsCommon spells researchableknown automatically), buteach haveadds nothing+1 else)basic [[mana]] income and abilities+2 (ofstarting differentcasting costskill, each above 7th in a Realm also gives +10% Research Points and -10% Casting Costs in that Realm. Retorts give special abilities (cost 1-3 picks, some also require specific choices of up to 6 spellbooks). Also, learning spells of a given rarity, whether by research, loot or trade, requires a number of books in its Realm (Very Rare needs 3). "Arcane" spells (not tagged with a Realm) are available automatically, except Create Artifact given by Artificer retort. Other than this and primary race, starting conditions are almost completely random.

== [[Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game|MMORPG]] ==

== [[Role -Playing Game]] ==

* ''[[Champions]]'' with its ''[[Hero System]]'' was the first [[RPG]] to use a Point Build system; all other RPGs at the time used predefined characters or dice rolls, being directly inspired by ''[[Dungeons and& Dragons]]''.

* ''[[Mutants and Masterminds|Mutants & Masterminds]]''

* ''[[Seventh Sea|7th Sea]]''

* Fudge, a tabletop system''[[FUDGE]]'' has a point based system as one character generation method. The other is a totally subjective system, and there are no levels.

* ''[[Dungeons and& Dragons]]'', originally the [[Trope Codifier]] of dice-based character creation, adopted a Point Buy system as an alternative (and frequently preferred) method.

* ''[[Warhammer 4000040,000]]'', being a [[PVP-Balanced]] wargame, uses it to balance opponents and regulate battle size (and thus length). Each unit in an army costs a certain number of points, and before the game the players agree on the number of points available per side. The armies must also fit a designated minimum and maximum number of units in each category and models in each unit. The more points, the more numerous and/or powerful the units in each army will be. Also, the more units in each army, the longer the game tends to go on, because they take longer to move and determine attack. 500 points is probably the lowest playable total (that's maybe a squad or two, depending on the race), 1,000 is the average game and 4,000 is usually as high as most players will go outside of a multi-player "megabattle"; much more than that and the game would take all day. Also, [[Crack is Cheaper]] than ''[[Warhammer 4000040,000]]'', so it's hard to get past that even when if you want to.

** ''[[Rogue Trader]]'' uses point-build system for ships, which is for some crazy reason ''more crude'' than that of ''[[Battlefleet Gothic]]'', despite the RPG being more detail oriented and usually on a much smaller scale. Also, it's combined with [[Background-Based System|path system]] for character and "Warrant and Ship Origin" path (aside of the background, the latter mostly produces different combinations of starting Ship Points and Profit Factor).

** ''[[Only War]]'' has custom regiment building system. Not very compatible with ''[[Warhammer 4000040,000]]''. Again, it keeps to very small numbers, to the point that this seems to made it harder to expand.

* ''[[New Horizon]]'' is exclusively pointbasedpoint-based, although some traits cost geodites (the setting's currency).

* ''[[Dwarf Fortress]]'' has embark points that are paint both for starting goods and skills; there's also cap on starting skills per dwarf. AdventurerVarious mode"embark givesstrategies", theshape [[Player Chatacter]] starting pointsearly to improve attributes and skills - number differs withmedium difficultystage leveldevelopment.