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I posted a thread up on BGG (boardgamegeek) as well. I joined that site on the same day I have joined this one. I have been asked many questions about my design and how it works. Here is what I have posted on there!

I did the math wrong. >.< very sorry. It's only 3960 class/race combinations. With the choice of male or female, you get 7920.

Ok, guys. I know you are excited to know how this has come about. I don't want to disappoint you but the 6 races, 30 classes and 44 professions are incorrect on how I made 7920 class/race combinations. Good guess though. The game is really close to being finished and yes, you can play as many players as you want. The game is made for PVE and PVP. You can create a character and battle against other opponents or you can play through the story line and develop your character by finding new weapons and armor, obtaining new skills, attributes and professions.

This is the trick, many games have attempted it but haven't successfully accomplished the goal since it brings much chaos and unbalancing to the game since it is PVP based. There are 12 basic classes, 66 elite classes, 12 attributes, 12 professions, 162 different skills... exciting? This game can be made into a video game in the future but I designed it into a board game / table top game.

Now for the character customization. The 12 basic classes are; rogue, ranger, summoner, dragon tamer, mage, engineer, knight, warrior, enchanter, conjurer, cleric and priest. Each of these classes have their own unique set of armors and weapon and skills. If you want to be more offensive with weapons, you choose rogue or ranger, if you want to be more defensive, you go warrior or knight. If you want to be an offensive magic damage dealer, you go mage or engineer. If you want to be supportive you go enchanter or conjurer, if you want to be a healer, you go cleric or priest and last but certainly not the least, if you want to have a pet phantom minion or a dragon you choose summoner or dragon tamer.

This is the example of my idea. You get to choose 2 of the basic classes and combine them. Of course, this idea has been done by other games, FF11 and GW1, right? Well, they both had problems with pvp balance because of this. This system has slight problems with balance! It works great! If you chose to be a knight and a mage your elite class will be a darknight. 12 basic classes give you 66 different elite classes. With your elite class you will get new skills. As a darknight you learn your god skill, chaos rising. This skill chokes the life out of your enemies around you lifting them up into the air where you send them flying away from you. Each elite class has their own unique god skill.

Now, you are wondering where the Elvain Phantom Arcmage comes from. Elvain is one of the races. Archmage is an elite class combined with ranger and mage. So where does phantom come from? This is your 3rd basic class you choose. 66x10 for the classes x6 races gives you the 3960. The 3rd basic class doesn't allow you to learn the skills from that class but it gives you only a couple skills free and it allows you to do an elite class change! You know, WOW you can change your class. So can you in this game! Phantom is the summoner's code name for being a sub class (3rd) class. That is how you get Elvain Phantom Arcmage. All the classes are finished and playable. It wasn't easy to create so many combinations.

Have I got you excited yet? I haven't explained the battle system yet! The battle system is used with dice. It's very basic and fun and easy for ages 10+ to play. I wont be explaining the battle system just yet. The rules are still being typed out and the PVE isn't finished. PVE story needs to be worked on, I have no art drawn for the game but the battle system and classes are finished. I know, with this many classes, is the game really balanced? Yes... I have been working on it for a couple years off and on and I have gone through a lot of game testing and changes to create the ultimate and most rewarding unique class/race balanced system I have ever known. I have studied many games out in the market learning what they have done and I can talk to you for hours about what I think of WoW, Diablo, GW1, FF11, Aion, warmachine, warhammer, GW2, and many other games on what they did right and what I think they did wrong and what they could do better.

Anyways, I am really looking forward to making a fan club! I want people to give me advice to the game (I wont tell you the name of the game just yet). I want to post some of the basic classes and have people test the game but I haven't found the best way to post the game yet.

Also, the attributes and professions just to clarify what these are. Each level up you get 1 point for attributes and 1 point for professions. attributes are combat-only skills like strength and intelligence. Professions are non-combat-only skills like thief and tracker. These help you find better items, pick locking, or avoiding traps in dungeons.

My goal is to finish this game and get people excited about being unique than any other player and come up with their own builds that just dominate! Yes, some classes have counters to other classes hehe. It's pvp based.

Lance Stucker - papastucker

P.S. Thank you for all the thumbs up! I will keep adding more information and soon a rulebook with some of the classes for you to play test. I need advice and balancing suggestions. If you think you can help in anyway, send me an e-mail and explain what you think you can do to help out. This game is like WOW on a tabletop with steroids!

Does anyone have any questions?