It's good to see someone play Devil's Advocate. The system certainly has a few problems.
1. I wrote the system for myself, and I kinda like the idea of playing a female character, so I started from that point. I am going to introduce a non-strippable option though, for those who want to play male characters (or for when the PCs want to defeat someone without stripping them, whyever you would want that) - which would be impossible to Attack to Strip, but work under a very similar mechanic allowing you to Attack to Knock Out.
As I said though, personally I would find it more fun to play a woman stripping other women, but that's just me. The cognitive dissonance between "my character wants to avoid being stripped" but "I want her to" is something I personally would have no problem with.
2. So far, the system is a bit too blunt for min-maxing. I'm going to introduce two new mechanics though - a bonus for fun or clever descriptions (at the GM's discretion) to encourage fun stripping attacks and not just hundreds of "I slash her bra strap". I'm also planning on writing some special attacks to make the three stats more different - as it stands, they just differ in terms of how attacks are described. Such special attacks could allow for a bit more number-crunching, even if that's not the object of the game.
3. I wrote the system with the intent of minimizing die rolls. On your turn, you do a single roll for a single attack, and if that's successful, whatever you described comes to pass. The die is also the smallest, simplest type I could think of, so that even in a forum environment with no die roller, the GM can just grab a die out of any old set and roll them himself. The players will in that case have to trust the GM to be fair!
BigMara:
A level-up system is coming. It would allow you to raise Stats, and thereby unlock more Energy - potentially allowing characters to wear more clothes, but only if they don't want to use the Energy in combat. So far, the system is only balanced for starting characters though - I'd have to run some tests and maybe tweak the system for stronger characters. We don't want to make our heroines too well-dressed, do we?
Freedom with magic and such: Thus far, there are no limits to how you're allowed to describe your attacks.
I would appreciate if you tried to make a character under the current rules - doing so might expose flaws I haven't thought of in the system myself. I'd love to see people type up some characters and see what might be done!
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