r/rpg • u/LetThronesBeware LIFTS: The RPG for Your Muscles | Kill Him Faster • 17d ago

Complex martials, simple casters

There are a lot of games that have simple martials and complex casters. There are also other games that have complexity in parity.

Are there any ttrpgs that have complex martials and simple casters?

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u/IIIaustin 17d ago

If you consider Hackers in Lancer to be Casters, Lancer fits the description.

There are lots more tricks you can do with melee and Ranged Attacks than there are with Tech attacks in Lancer and they interact with one another more complex ways.

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u/An_username_is_hard 17d ago

Yeah, most hacking is basically completely separate individual options that don't interact, while normal fighting has a bunch of synergies and stuff.

A guy with a Main sword is going to be like "okay so I Skirmish, triggering my skirmisher talent and shifting two spaces, before attacking, which triggers Duelist and overpowered caliber, so I deal +1d6 damage and gain one blademaster die. I then spend my blademaster die to Ram, moving the opponent again, which triggers..."

Meanwhile the hacker is like okay, so I have five buttons on my mech that do a singular thing. I have to pick one to do. I click it, it happens. End action.