Characters

Overview

Genre

Forebearers is a story-driven, dark fantasy RPG with turn-based combat and exploration elements.

Gameplay Focus

Delivering story through zone exploration, scripted story events/beats, turn-based combat built on a foundation of team and character builds that can change the flow of combat and allow for unique strategies to be employed by players.

Appearance

3D, third-person, floating camera, dark aesthetic and color palette, realistic lighting, with rough and rugged environments and characters.

Combat System

Characters start combat with one ultimate point and 1/3 skill points available. Each time an allied character performs a basic attack or an ultimate ability, they are given a skill point.

Characters have certain actions that they can perform during a turn, as described above in the combat flow diagram.

To summarize, players can perform the following actions during turns:

• Attack
  • This action rewards the player with a skill point and also rewards some points toward replenishing their ultimate point (i.e. +0.15 points per attack and once they have 1 or more points they can use an ultimate ability). If the player’s ultimate points or ability points are already at their maximum value, they do not increase.
• Ability/Skill
  • If the player has access to at least one ability point, they can use a skill that turn. This action removes an ability point.
• Ultimate Skill
  • If the player has access to an ultimate point (maximum of one point can be held at any point during combat), they can use their ultimate skill. (This ultimate point is shared across all active playable characters during combat, you cannot use more than one ultimate in a single turn)

When a player performs their turn, this is the order in which the turn is executed