04-18-2016, 10:17 PM
Yeah doing this has always been a hard topic. Due to balance and whatnot that you've spoken of. I wanted to run a Tactics game but a friend wanted me to set up a JP system for them to swicth and im damn lazy.
I don't want to suggest into any of those because complications. If it was me id do something along these lines:
1: Grant a Job Crystal every so often as such but they can change to that job and retain all XP gained. SO a Ninja gets a Black Mage crystal. At the start of the day he can spend and hour with the crystal to switch to that job and lose his Ninja Job. becoming a straight black mage. Only allow it once a day and takes an hour to cast or so yadayada.
2: Do a semi gestalt or (subjob) ive done this before as a player long back. This works more like FF11. They have a main job and choose a second job as a sub job. gaining all its class features and half any MP from that sub job. (But no BAB HP Saves etc.) However their sub job is always half they main jobs levels. So a 1st level nin would have a 1st lvl sub job black mage. 2nd level/1st level. 4thlevel/2nd level. (you get it)
3: Ive had an idea along the lines of FF13-3 (Here comes the hate.) Give them three jobs they start with however they can only be in one of them at a time and even change them on the fly as a full round action that provokes, changing gear in the process.
These allow for everyone to have the same XP and no worries about level difference. Just mitigation on what they can do. For you for staying close to FFV id choose option number 1. its simple and its probably the most balanced you might get without going really deep. Maybe even allow them, to retain 1 class ability from each job crystal if they bond with that crystal for so long or just for free. Your always gonna have someone that wants to break the game too. They just like to see a game burn. Hope i helped
I don't want to suggest into any of those because complications. If it was me id do something along these lines:
1: Grant a Job Crystal every so often as such but they can change to that job and retain all XP gained. SO a Ninja gets a Black Mage crystal. At the start of the day he can spend and hour with the crystal to switch to that job and lose his Ninja Job. becoming a straight black mage. Only allow it once a day and takes an hour to cast or so yadayada.
2: Do a semi gestalt or (subjob) ive done this before as a player long back. This works more like FF11. They have a main job and choose a second job as a sub job. gaining all its class features and half any MP from that sub job. (But no BAB HP Saves etc.) However their sub job is always half they main jobs levels. So a 1st level nin would have a 1st lvl sub job black mage. 2nd level/1st level. 4thlevel/2nd level. (you get it)
3: Ive had an idea along the lines of FF13-3 (Here comes the hate.) Give them three jobs they start with however they can only be in one of them at a time and even change them on the fly as a full round action that provokes, changing gear in the process.
These allow for everyone to have the same XP and no worries about level difference. Just mitigation on what they can do. For you for staying close to FFV id choose option number 1. its simple and its probably the most balanced you might get without going really deep. Maybe even allow them, to retain 1 class ability from each job crystal if they bond with that crystal for so long or just for free. Your always gonna have someone that wants to break the game too. They just like to see a game burn. Hope i helped