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[Xantalos]

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.

Hello~

No, that's me, unless Morgroed went amnesiac too.

[Gamerlord]

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.

Hello~

No, that's me, unless Morgroed went amnesiac too.

Morgred is still more crazy though.

[Lenglon]

Meh, I'm not crazy at all, I'm just seeing things that aren't there.

[GrizzlyAdamz]

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

Meanwhile,
'I'm crazy!'
'No I'M crazy!'
'I'm more crazy.'

Added another NPC, updated feats.

[Gamerlord]

Here's a fairly decent - I think - NPC.

Spoiler: Violette, The Tiny BFS Specialist (click to show/hide)

Name: Violette
Race: Humankind - Luteola
Height: 3" 8'
Weight: 20kg
Appearance: Slender girl 18 yr old, short cropped blonde hair, cheerful demeanor, hates being treated like a child.
Strength 4, Stamina 14, Agility 10, Speed 10, Endurance 10, Willpower 16, Intelligence 16, Perception 8
HP: 13
MP: 29
Level: Adept 4 (magic channeled to boost physical abilities)
Virtues: At least 3, no more than 5.
(Critical - 3pts)
Magical Muscles - Can boost speed, strength and agility by spending MP.
(Major- 2 pt)
(Minor - 1 pt)
Hammerspace - Keeps her weapons... somewhere. We aren't asking and she isn't telling.
BFS Training - Specifically trained to wield weapons that would be impractical for anyone but a freaking giant.
Flaws: At least 3, no more than 5.
(Critical - 3pts)
Frail - When not pumping magic into her body she is incredibly weak and finds it hard to move with her favourite gear.
(Major- 2 pt)
(Minor - 1 pt)
I'm Not A Kid - Easily taunted with her short height and childish looks.
Hobbies: No more than 3 points.
Candy - For someone who takes offense at being treated like a kid she sure does love her candy.
Feats: 1 per every 2 levels. You start with 2 as a Level 3 character.
Buster Blade - Can crush armour/smash through defences when using her weapon of choice - a greatsword that's more than twice as big as her.
Hurricane - Experienced at fighting large groups of people at once and being in the middle of the melee. Still doesn't understand the concept of 'friendly fire' though. (in melee attacks hit everyone around her - even allies)

[Xantalos]

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.

[Gamerlord]

Best add a Hammerspace Virtue.

[Madman198237]

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.

[Gamerlord]

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.

[Madman198237]

Thanks-I'll get to work on a character sheet, possibly today, maybe tomorrow. Depends on my schedule.
Not going overboard sounds fine....
EDIT:
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.

[Ross Vernal]

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. ) 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.)

Spoiler: When I said I actually have a giant list of every single race and its details I secretly meant I invented a detailed post-apocalyptic semi-dungeonpunk black fantasy universe (click to show/hide)

 I have a giant list of gods, their family tree, their drama, their aspects, their sins, their virtues, their worship rituals, and who worships them. I can explain the difference between angels and demons and explain why a Good deity can have a Demon of Healing while an Evil deity can have an Angel of Pain. I have a giant list of  ALL the countries, how they are ran, who their patron deity is, their demographics, internal factions, size of their armies and navies, names of their cities, SIZE of their cities, factions within the cities, square mileage, languages spoken, major exports and imports, history, diplomatic relations, etc etc. I have a list of every single known power variant and what it does in general. I have a list of languages and their RL analogues (nope, didn't invent 20+ languages). I have a list of notable historical figures from the Universe Creation and the "present day", including a special subsection on how the Second War of the Gods killed billions of people in a massive global apocalypse, etc, etc.

.

I'm just trying to not drown y'all in details. Some elements can be introduced slowly.

[Ross Vernal]

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:

NAME	STR	STA	AGI	SPD	END	WIL	INT	PER	AVG
Jewel Thornton	18	17	10	8	22	13	10	10	13.5
Nathan Cadfael	14	12	8	12	16	14	16	18	13.75
Rurail Schythold	20	14	15	18	16	10	15	8	14.5
Castle	13	21	18	14	14	5	8	7	12.5
Thales Aranis	20	17	22	18	20	18	15	14	18
Daethwin Riesston	11	14	19	17	10	13	16	15	14.375
Sylvari Augeleneth	20	20	7	7	20	10	16	11	13.875
Total Team Average	15.571~	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.

[Madman198237]

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...
EDIT:
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.
List:

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

I'll start with your lists, and modify it, giving reasons as I go.
Clothes - Nothing---Fine with that, clothes won't STOP anything that'd hit you.
Cloth Armor - 0 slash / 0 pierce---Cloth won't stop a thrust, but I will elaborate later. I'm assuming, for this, that you're thinking of tough cloth, rather than layered.
Leather Clothing - 1 slash / 0 pierce---Piercing attacks are MEANT to punch through armor, and clothing is NOT hardened leather, and certainly not studded.
Leather Armor- 2 slash / 1  pierce / 1 bludgeon---Now this is getting into true armors. The hardness factor may shield from some blunt damage, can catch a moderate slash, and may take an ill-aimed or weak thrust.
Chain - 3 slash / 1 pierce / -1, or 0 bludgeon / 1 ballistic---No. Just no. Chain is meant to stop slashes, and broadhead arrow strikes. It COMPOUNDS BLUNT DAMAGE!!!! Unless you're wearing leather under it, then a blunt strike will drive chainmail rings INTO YOUR SKIN. Piercing shots of sufficient force (Force= force/area) can get through chain, by bursting the rings.
Splint - 3 slash / 2 pierce / 1 bludgeon / 1 ballistic---Gives base-armor equivalent protection for ballistic, piercing, and bludgeon, but gains points for slash and a bit for bludgeon from the metal strips.
Breastplate - 4 slash / 3 pierce / 2 bludgeon / 2 ballistic---You mean rigid plate armor. Serious armor, usually backed up with other types. Gives good protection, but a massively powerful thrust can punch through, same with a slashing strike from a higher "tier" of weapon material.
Minor Ring of Protection / Minor Invulnerable Potion / Painkillers - +1 to all--- I agree. People on super painkillers keep fighting until they are unable to move. (*Ahem* brainshot, muscle loss)
Lesser Ring of Protection / Lesser Invulnerable Potion - +2 to all--- Magic is a bit harder, I'll leave it up to you...but "Invulnerable" potions need a rename, because invulnerable is not ambiguous like protection.
Ring of Protection - +3 to all---Getting into higher tiers, sounds good.
Invulnerability Potion - +5 to all---Again, rename. Other than that, fine.
Greater Ring of Protection - +4 to all---OK with all protection rings and potions, although I'd say that it doesn't count towards magical damage.
Bracelet of the Elements - 4 to all elemental damage---Just in case there's more than 3 elements
Greater Invulnerability Potion - +10 to all---Yeah, okay. Crazy much?

[Ross Vernal]

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.  

[Ross Vernal]

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