Board Thread:Off Topic/@comment-25353464-20141223015814

I realize that many people have looked at ways to make a tabletop RPG for RWBY. But I think that the problem is that most of these are less then stand alones, and more as extentions to games that already exist, like Pathfinder or Dungeons and Dragons. And although these are alright, RWBY's fights are way to immersive for you to just say, 'my character is a fighter!'

Rather, I found four distinct areas that RWBY characters use in combat: Speed, Aura Mastery, Power, and Dust usage. Normally, in most tabletop games you'd only chose one, but in RWBY, you chose one Primary and a Secondary. A good example of how this works is Team RWBY.

All teams we have come across so far have one thing similar. In team RWBY, this is that all members are fast, their Primary class being Speed. Their fearless leader, Ruby, is a Speed/Speed fighter, she is always quick on her feet and uses her weapon in swift attacks. Weiss is Speed/Dust, where she uses a correlation of dexterity and Dust power to overcome her foes when her speed will not be possible. Blake is Speed/Aura. A brief explenation of Aura Mastery is basically you are able to use your Semblence without tiring or any negative repercusions. As we see her in combat, Blake is constantly using her power over and over again. Yang is Speed/Power. Like that wasn't obvious.

It is also important to note that you ARE able to use Dust or Semblence without having to be a Dust or Aura user. It just means that you obtain bonuses (such as Multiple Glyphs, or enhanced Semblence abilities) with Dust/Aura. 