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Re: Ye Be An OOC Thread - Adventures in Recruiting New Players
« Reply #4155 on: September 01, 2014, 12:30:28 am »

This is a very cool-looking roleplay. I'm thinking of joining.
However, this'd be my first forum game, and it looks complicated. Oh, and it looks like some people have gone a bit crazy. As in, amnesiac dwarf-from-DF-crazy. With a side of sociopathic behavior.
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Re: Ye Be An OOC Thread - Adventures in Recruiting New Players
« Reply #4156 on: September 01, 2014, 12:33:09 am »

This is a very cool-looking roleplay. I'm thinking of joining.
However, this'd be my first forum game, and it looks complicated. Oh, and it looks like some people have gone a bit crazy. As in, amnesiac dwarf-from-DF-crazy. With a side of sociopathic behavior.
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No, that's me, unless Morgroed went amnesiac too.
Morgred is still more crazy though.

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Re: Ye Be An OOC Thread - Adventures in Recruiting New Players
« Reply #4157 on: September 01, 2014, 12:58:56 am »

Meh, I'm not crazy at all, I'm just seeing things that aren't there.
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Re: Ye Be An OOC Thread - Adventures in Recruiting New Players
« Reply #4158 on: September 01, 2014, 01:01:19 am »

The important bit is ya know they aren't there.

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Re: Ye Be An OOC Thread - Adventures in Recruiting New Players
« Reply #4159 on: September 01, 2014, 04:25:56 am »

Here's a fairly decent - I think - NPC.
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Re: Ye Be An OOC Thread - Adventures in Recruiting New Players
« Reply #4160 on: September 01, 2014, 04:34:14 am »

How does she stand up? If she sheathed it across her back it'd either be sticking up so high it'd overbalance her and put her flat on her back or stick in the ground and root her in place.
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Re: Ye Be An OOC Thread - Adventures in Recruiting New Players
« Reply #4161 on: September 01, 2014, 04:37:45 am »

Best add a Hammerspace Virtue.

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« Reply #4162 on: September 01, 2014, 09:10:34 am »

I just read that armor section of the OP, and I'm thinking one thing-why is lamellar where it is??? That stuff is ancient Kevlar, capable of taking a spear thrust better than bronze plate-it won't punch through, like you see with plate-type rigid armors, and it'll stop arrows like nothing, especially at range. Personally, I'd wear lamellar over any other type, simply because it is insanely good. Oh, and because it'd make me feel like a Spartan, who were sent through the most brutal training system from age 7.

By the way, can someone help me with all the character creation points? I don't get the attribute point system-I haven't seen any post that says exactly how many points you should have, specifically how many a new character would have.
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Re: Ye Be An OOC Thread - Adventures in Recruiting New Players
« Reply #4163 on: September 01, 2014, 09:12:02 am »

I've been going by the rule of 'don't go overboard' with the attribute points. At most only one at 18 and then only if you dump a stat to balance, etc.

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Re: Ye Be An OOC Thread - Adventures in Recruiting New Players
« Reply #4164 on: September 01, 2014, 09:26:13 am »

Thanks-I'll get to work on a character sheet, possibly today, maybe tomorrow. Depends on my schedule.
Not going overboard sounds fine....
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OK, thanks. This is, I guess, what I get for deciding not to read much more than the original post.
By the way, I like the LoTR references. Although Gandalf is VERY helpful-in a cryptic, magic-y, and completely incomprehensible way.
I must ask, however...is this leaving open the possibility of becoming a wizard, much, much later, level-wise? I still want to be a wizard, even though it's pretty much far more likely that I'll end up losing something I'll miss later immediately.
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« Reply #4165 on: September 01, 2014, 09:29:09 am »

First off, wizards are not just arcane spellcasters who rely upon rituals to exert control over reality. That discipline is known as Ritual Magic, and is only one way of using magic.

In this universe, everything has a spirit - the rocks under your feet, the hairs on your head, the bacteria in your stomach, creatures without a soul, etc, etc. Everything. The spirits radiate "mana", or "mystical internal life-force" (MILF for short. Yes, I know what MILF means. :P) The amount of MILF a spirit releases is based on the life, motion, age, and various other factors of the object/person in question - a thundering waterfall is a source of these energies.  These metaphysical energies are used to affect reality in either of three different ways (plus God Power, which is exactly what it sounds like and totally irrelevant to this discussion.) There's magic, which is a combination of willpower and belief. There's mental abilities, which come from the mind. And then there's auric powers, which come from the body. It is commonly accepted that the subdivisions within each of these powers can be combined.

However, actually directly mixing these together into a single multidisciplinary reality alteration (such as Pyrokinesis + Elemental Fire Magic) is believed to be impossible, pushes your minds to the brink of insanity, and can strain your body to death. If this weren't enough, there is a thing known as a "Soulbreak", which essentially is a combination of "dangerous forbidden technique", "explosive overclocking", and "limit break" that tends to occur in awe-inspiring ways whenever people try to pull it off (and promptly die for their efforts).  So basically, it's impossible and suicidal to do it.

Wizards are folk who specialize in combining disciplines. This option is (generally) only taken by people who have mastered an aspect of a certain discipline, possess abilities of a related nature in all of the disciplines used, and have a thorough understanding of the principles behind each. There are very few Wizards, since most of them tend to die horrifically from their own bungling (read: the people who did not bother to study the rules of the universe), and the rest... well, you don't meddle in their affairs, because they are subtle and quick to anger (read: if you piss them off you are usually subject to being deader than disco if you are lucky or forced into a fate worse than death if you are not.)

Obviously, this power level is so hilariously beyond a Level 3 character that there's no way I'd allow it. It would be an entirely different game called "You Are A Wizard: Reality Is Your Bitch" and you would be a wizard-lord who went around doing wizard-lord things like having apprentices, waging wars, being a cryptically unhelpful dickhole who turns out to be right and helpful in the end, and other such activities. (Which I will totally run if people want that instead, by the way.)

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I'm just trying to not drown y'all in details. Some elements can be introduced slowly. :)
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Re: Ye Be An OOC Thread - Adventures in Recruiting New Players
« Reply #4166 on: September 01, 2014, 09:36:27 am »

I just read that armor section of the OP, and I'm thinking one thing-why is lamellar where it is??? That stuff is ancient Kevlar, capable of taking a spear thrust better than bronze plate-it won't punch through, like you see with plate-type rigid armors, and it'll stop arrows like nothing, especially at range. Personally, I'd wear lamellar over any other type, simply because it is insanely good. Oh, and because it'd make me feel like a Spartan, who were sent through the most brutal training system from age 7.

By the way, can someone help me with all the character creation points? I don't get the attribute point system-I haven't seen any post that says exactly how many points you should have, specifically how many a new character would have.

Yeah, that's out of ignorance. I've paid more attention to weapons and less to armor. Feel free tosu ggest better numbers.  :)

Points is a "as you wish" thing. I only say that good stats means tough enemies.

Here's something:

NAMESTRSTAAGISPDENDWILINTPERAVG
Jewel Thornton18171082213101013.5
Nathan Cadfael14128121614161813.75
Rurail Schythold20141518161015814.5
Castle132118141458712.5
Thales Aranis201722182018151418
Daethwin Riesston111419171013161514.375
Sylvari Augeleneth2020772010161113.875
Total Team Average15.571~16.429~14.143~13.429~16.857~11.857~13.714~11.857~14.357~

Enjoy. The averages would probably be a bit higher if I snubbed the people who aren't playing anymore, which I think would just be Castle now. Unless Nathan is out too.
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Re: Ye Be An OOC Thread - Adventures in Recruiting New Players
« Reply #4167 on: September 01, 2014, 09:51:47 am »

Ah- so I'm being threatened with "Feel free to be overpowered, but you don't get to cry when I blast you with something even MORE powerful"?
Anyway, yeah. If you want, I can help with the armor system. Your rankings are pretty good, but I'm sure I can improve them. For example, scale armor is actually just bad. It MIGHT deflect a long-range arrow shot, depending on thickness, but Persian scale armor, for example, couldn't stop a spear thrust, especially not from a decent spear. Or blunt spear...
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Wait, bonus XP? Sounds like a plan!!! However, I am going to give you reasons why you should all never again trust armor. Especially not what you might start with.
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« Reply #4168 on: September 01, 2014, 10:00:53 am »

Exactly that! You can substitute "sufficiently prepared"  or "dramatically outnumbered", too. Think  "Tucker's Kobolds."

There's bonus XP in it, as a way of saying thank you. The main reason why this roleplay lasts and is so detailed is because of player input. :) 
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« Reply #4169 on: September 01, 2014, 10:30:36 am »

Thank you!

I would like to point out that I was thinking "properly layered armor"  for chain. I shudder to think of chainmail nipple rash.

Same for splint. I was assuming "armor underneath" not "strips of metal on leather are going to save you from everything."

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Splint_armour
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