Shield Hearts

inspiration

#1

I wanted to make a Warframe based adventure and I needed a mechanic for shields, and what I came up with could kinda work as piece of loot in regular games too: Shield Hearts - hearts that regenerate half of themselves every round you don’t take damage in. In a Warframe game all the efforts except basic would be determined by the weapon rather than the character itself. Other ideas I had for a warframe game are:
Mods as loot
Instead of inventory space, each weapon would have it’s own mod space, and capacity which could be increased by formas
Formas as loot
Abilities as milestones (which is like normal ICRPG except with Warframe abilities)


#2

I explored the concept for Mass Effect a while back, and what I did was have Hearts that regen’d outside of moments, even if only for one round.


#4

You could take the Armour/hit mechanic from Blood and Snow?

When the character takes damage they can choose to put it on the shield. Once it takes 1 heart of damage it is broken. If it still has some hp left then it can be repaired.

Shields were pretty throwaway items.


#5

Shields in Warframe are regenerating