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[Shoruke]

The kingdom of Ivalice faces a time of hardship. After two gruelling wars, the people are strained near to their limits; entire villages abandoned for greener pastures, farmers taxed to bankruptcy or starvation, and legions of soldiers, abruptly discharged from the army, with no pay and no way to earn it. Honest work is hard to find.

But you heard from a bartender, of a certain man willing to pay well for a sellsword, a scholar, or an adventurer. For someone more concerned with the truth than the effort to unearth it.

After a somewhat lengthy interview with none other than Olan Durai, son of the late Thunder God Cid, you find yourself on an open-faced carriage with a few other adventurers, heading south. For the first time since leaving Dorter, you can taste salt on the air; emerging from the trees, you can see your destination in the distance, a small monastery near a cliff, framed by a sky tinted orange and red.




Yes, we're playing Final Fantasy Tactics. You might have heard that I've been messing with the system a little bit. I'm storing the game in a Maptools campaign file (Maptools version 89), and I'll be periodically uploading the campaign file so the players, waitlisters, lurkers, stalkers, and other forumgoers can download it and take a detailed look at the battle maps, the lore, the world map, etc. etc. Or, you could stick to the forums; the fights will still have pictures and stuff, but things like the enemies' equipment is going to be lost on you.

Spoiler: Character creation (click to show/hide)

The template for a character application is as follows.

-Name: self-explanatory
-Birthday: This will determine your Zodiac Sign, which is important.
-Stat allocations: You have 3 stat points to assign.
**Each point in HP increases your max HP by 6, and HP growth by 1.3.
**Each point in MP increases your max MP by 4, and MP growth by 1.
**Each point in Strength or Wisdom increases that stat by 1.5, and growth for it by 0.4.
**Each point in Speed increases your Speed by 1, and your Speed growth by 0.1.
(growth rates only apply to your Unique class)

You will also need a physical description of your character (include clothing!), and a brief summary of your character's personality (which will determine one of the starting skills for your unique class). You SHOULD provide a short backstory, but it's optional.

For reference, an unaltered new character has 30 HP, 20 MP, 8 Strength, 6 Wisdom, and 4 Speed.
Unique classes' base growths are: HP4.5, MP 4, Str & Wis .8, Spd 0.2.
All charcters start with 150 JP each in Squire, Alchemist, Archer, and their unique class.

Spoiler: Birthsigns (click to show/hide)

The specialty for each birthsign will be loosely based on the boss fight for the associated Esper from Final Fantasy XII. Very loosely.
Note that, with the exception of the first granted skill, even Player Characters with the same birthsign may be given different abilities; after all, not even friends bound by fate share it exactly.

Aries & Belias (March 21 - April 20)
Fire element, melee damage.
lvl1: Burning Strike. Action, 4MP. As caster's basic attack, with +2 strength, fire elemental.

Taurus & Chaos ( April 21 to May 20 )
Wind element, disrupting melee attackers.
lvl 1: Hampering Wind. Action, 8MP. Range 4, cross-shape AoE. BHC 70%. Target must spend 2 Spd to begin moving, for 2 turns.

Gemini & Zalera ( May 21 to June 20 )
Debilitation and factor-dependant spells.
lvl 1: Overwhelm. Action, 6MP. If Target has less HP than caster after normal attack, 60% chance to poison.

Cancer & Zeromus ( June 21 to July 21 )
Gravity-type attacks; more useful against stronger or bigger foes.
lvl 1: Uppercut. Action, 4MP. Basic attack; If target is higher level than caster, add 3x difference to to-hit and damage.

Leo & Hashmal ( July 22 to August 22 )
Earth element, buff then assault.
lvl 1: War Cry. Action, 8 MP. Self and Allies within 2 tiles heal 4 HP, and get +2 Str and +2 Wis for 3 turns.

Virgo & Ultima ( August 23 to September 22 )
Holy element, renewal and revenge.
lvl 1: Spiteful Strike. Action, 8MP. Against enemy that damaged/debuffed an ally last turn, basic attack gets +5 to-hit, +5 damage.

Libra & Exodus ( September 23 to October 22 )
Magic attacks.
lvl 1: Gather Mist. Action, 6MP. Self and allies within 1 tile requires 1 less Spd to cast spells for 3 rounds.

Scorpio & Cuchulainn ( October 23 to November 21 )
Debilitation and debuffing.
lvl 1: Poison. Action, 8 MP. Range 4, cross shape AoE. 60% BHC, targets hit are poisoned.

Sagittarius & Shemhazai ( November 22 to December 21 )
Quick, unrelenting damaging attacks.
lvl 1: Quick Jab. Action, 8 MP. Normal attack with -2 Str, does not contribute to Spd cost increase.

Capricorn & Adrammelech ( December 22 to January 20 )
Lightning element, poison-and-tank combat.
lvl 1: Deflector. Action, 8 MP. Range 4, cross AoE. Targets get +10 Job Evasion for 3 turns.

Aquarius & Famfrit ( January 21 to February 19 )
Water element, team attacks.
lvl 1: Gang Up. Action, 6 MP. Basic attack; every ally adjacent to self or target grants +2 to-hit and damage.

Pisces & Mateus ( February 20 to March 20 )
Ice element, confounds magic users.
lvl 1: Mote. Action, 6 MP. Range 4. Target must spend 1 more Spd to use spells for 3 turns.

Spoiler: Unique Classes (click to show/hide)

Each player will be given a Unique Job (separate from Squire!), which represents their individual personality. At the start of the game, it will have a measly two three abilities available; one based on your birthsign, and two based on your personality.

At the end of each chapter, two more skills will be added to your Unique Job's ability list, based on your birthsign and your recent roleplaying. So roleplay a lot, it makes you stronger. Or, well, more like yourself at least. Go figure.

Spoiler: The Job System (click to show/hide)

To begin with, you have access to four jobs: Squire, Alchemist, Archer, and your Unique Job.

In addition to earning Exp at the end of each fight, you also earn JP (Job Points). Job Points are tallied separately for each job, and each character; you will only earn Job Points for your active Job at the end of each battle. Job Points are used to purchase Abilities within that Job. No abilities are usable in combat until you have purchased them with Job Points, with exception of those labelled (innate). Innate abilities are always active when you are in the Job whose ability list they appear on; you can buy them with JP to use when you have a different job active.

At the end of each fight, each character receives 100 JP in their current Job, and 10 JP in the current Job of each of their friends.
(so if everyone is a Squire for a given fight, all six of you will receive 150 JP in Squire. If one of the six of you were an alchemist, they would gain 50 JP in Squire and 100 in Alchemist, and the five squires would each gain 10 JP in Chemist and 140 in Squire)

Spoiler: Preparing for Battle (click to show/hide)

Each character has five equipment slots: right and left hands, head, torso, and "accessory" (which could be a cape, a pair of boots, or a hairclip, but even if they don't overlap, you can only wear one accessory). Which items you can have equipped in each slot is determined by your active job. Anyone can equip Clothes (i.e. "light armors"), Hats (distinct from helmets), daggers, rods, and staves, regardless of their current job. The exception are Monks, who cannot wear headgear without a support ability, and Mimes, who cannot equip weapons or headgear under any circumstance. Most jobs allow you to equip other things as well.

Each character also has five "ability slots". You are forced to equip the Active ability set of your current job; you may also equip the Active ability set of one other job you have access to. You may also equip one reaction ability, one support ability, and one movement ability. (of course, you must purchase those abilities with JP before you can equip them; see above)

You will be given a chance to change your Job, equipment, and ability setup after you can see the map for a given battle, but only before the battle actually starts; once you have taken your first turn, you may not switch your loadout until the battle has ended (unless you have the Equip Change support ability, in which case you can change only your equipment, but not your Job or Ability setup).

Note that consumable items like potions are stored in Group inventory, and are accessible at all times by anyone with Abilities that allow it; they do not need to be distributed to individual characters before a fight.

Spoiler: Combat Basics (click to show/hide)

In short: everything except talking requires Speed points. Talking is a free action, so monologue as you see fit.

At the start of each turn, you get Speed points equal to your Speed stat (rounded down). At the end of your turn, if you have Speed points remaining, one quarter of them (rounded down) are carried over to your next turn, up to a maximum of 3.

Movement, unless stated otherwise, costs 1 Speed point per tile of movement.
Actions such as attacks and spells get costlier the more actions you perform in a single turn. Your second action costs one Speed more more than listed, your Third action requires two points extra, and so on. (So a basic attack with a sword costs 1 Speed point, your second basic attack in a given turn costs 2 points, and a third basic attack in that same turn costs 3 points. So to make three basic attacks in one turn requires a total of 6 Speed points)
For speed-costly actions (such as high-powered magics), you may start the action on the current turn and finish it on the next one (spending your remaining speed points now and, assuming you don't change your mind, the rest of the speed point cost at the start of the next turn). This is called "charging" an action; when doing so, your Speed Score and C-EVA (Class Evasion, or Job Evasion) do not count against an incoming attack's to-hit chance.

The "basic" to-hit chance is 85%, but is modified by the enemy's Speed stat, their Job, any shield they have equipped, elemental affinities, and which direction you're attacking them from (relative to which way they're facing). If your chance to hit is less than 100%, I roll a d100, and if the result is lower than your to-hit chance, the hit connects. So by default, your chance to hit a squire in the face with a sword is not 85%, but 76%, or 61% if he's got an Escutcheon (the basic shield) equipped. Note that C-EVA (Class Evasion) and S-EVA (Shield Evasion) are halved when attacking from behind in addition to the flanking bonus, so your chance to hit this same Squire in the back of the head is 86%.
Note that magic the to-hit chance of magic is affected by facing just like other abilities.

Your basic damage is simply your Strength stat plus the damage rating of your weapon (there is no "defense" stat, but there are abilities that reduce incoming damage). Your "basic magic damage" is your Wisdom stat plus any bonus granted by your equipment. Abilities that deal damage will have their own damage calculation, and may have a Base Hit Chance of something other than 85%.

Spoiler: Players (click to show/hide)

Heath (The Fool)
Grace Grizzly (scapheap)
Kyle Johnson (kj1225)
Elizalotte Carnan (tsuchigumo550)
Gregory Mason (GreatWyrmGold)
Geoffrey Myers (Xanmyral)

Spoiler: waitlisters (click to show/hide)

(GuninAnRunin hasn't made a character) (page... um.)
Jixiu (Fr0stByt3) (page 8 )
Rolep? (Rolepgeek didn't actually specify a name...) (page 11)

The campaign file, as of July 31, after the end of the tutorial fight: linky
In-character thread is here.

[Haspen]

Oooh, my second fave game series get a forum game?

Watching, and good luck with GMing c:

[GreatWyrmGold]

Could you lock whichever thread is the wrong one, please?

[The Fool]

EDIT: Here it is.

Name: Heath
Birthdate: April 18th (Aries)
Stat Allocation: +2 Speed, +1 Strength
Unique Class: Mist Berserker
Personality: He is usually calm and composed when discussing the matters at hand, often coming across as a little cold, but when faced with an opponent he becomes a bit of a hothead. He's perfectly willing to lay down his life to take down an enemy threatening either himself or an ally, and lately that seems to be more and more common. He isn't above a tactical retreat, but it isn't exactly his first option.
Physical Description: Working on a picture actually.

Background: He can't say he doesn't miss the Wood from which he was born, but he also can't say that he remembers it to its full entirety. His memories are blurred like the dense Mist that shrouded the dense woodland of his home, but the memory of his shame haunts him. Looking back he regrets saving that outsider that was stupid enough to wander into their Wood and guiding them out. He occasionally asks himself if it could have been different had he turned a blind eye to the man's cries, shuttering at the very fact that he could consider something so cold. It wasn't saving his life that he regretted, but his exile that swiftly followed it. Lost, and not wishing to be driven mad like exiles before him he left the heavy mists of Jagd Ilbroth to the far north of Archades. He hoped that he could retain his mind and still make it to the city, but it was a long walk and it would take days. It was a day into his walk that he came across a group of people digging wide, deep pits. Upon seeing people moving baskets from a pit he rushed them blindly, already lost. Had they not been mining nethicite he might have killed a few of them. It didn't take long before they simply knocked him out and dragged him away before he did some actual damage to them. After a day or two of being held in a cage with materials he was conscripted to work for them as a smuggler to avoid being left behind and hungry.

Fifty years later he is now, at the age of eighty he makes the best of his life. He knows he can never return to the heart of the Jagd he called home to renew his connection with the Wood, and they may hunt him like a common criminal. He knows the church doesn't like his presence, but he keeps his eyes open, looking for a chance to sell himself as a sellsword for the desperate. It doesn't pay well, but he enjoys it.


I'll be working on the art by the way. I'll leave links to character portraits and sprites as they're completed.

Spoiler: Art to be done (click to show/hide)

All character portraits
All character sprites

[Shoruke]

Could you lock whichever thread is the wrong one, please?

That's what I get for using wireless internet, when I'm on the opposite side of a different floor from my router. 
Guess I'll just be putting the game mechanics in the OP later then

[Alexandria]

I'll reserve a spot.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Name : Alexia Jade
Birthday : August 27th.
Unique class : Blood Siren.
Stat allocation.
HP : 0
MP : 0
Strength : 2
Speed : 1
Description.

Physical : 5 ft 7 with shoulder length straight red hair and bright blue eyes. A slim but full figure with long legs and delicate features.
Is almost always seen wearing a low cut sleeveless shirt a series of small throwing blades strapped to her body beneath it and a crimson collar around her neck with a sharpened pagan cross hanging from it.
She wears a variety of colorful plaited skirts with a bright pink belt hanging diagonally across her waist to conceal a pair of swords as well as knee high white sock and just below knee high red boots concealing 2 serrated blades.
The sword have pink handles to match the belt and a series of runes etched into the jet black blades that nobody else can read.

Mental : Alexia is a young and very happy girl if a little strange. She laughs and smiles frequently and warmly quite often causing those around her to do the same, the reverse is also true and when she is seen to be sad or hurt those around her responded in kind.
She takes great pleasuring in flaunting her figure to draw attention to herself, this is in part due to her friendly personality and general desire to have people close to her to tease or just flirt with.
It is also partly because doing so often allows her to draw targets within range of the wicked serated blades that are strapped to her lower legs within the boots and convince them to lower their guard.
She is a very happy person but she knows the world is a darker place and has long since discovered that her physical strength and agility has uses beyond simply drawing attention and so has spent an extended period of time training with knives and takes great pleasure in seeing the blood of evil people on the large variety of knives hidden across her body and takes a strange pleasure in tasting the blood of those she has killed though she hides this dark and perverse side of her personality from all but her closest companions and hides the pain of her past from everybody, even herself.

Background : Alexia had a normal happy childhood until she turned 13, she teased boys and spent hours talking to friends every day and spend nights dreaming about being a princess, she was always a happy child and those around her could not help but feel happier when they saw her.
But alas it was not to last and returning home late one evening shortly before her 14th birthday she couldn't find her parents, after calling for them and hearing no answer she decided they must have gone to bed and so went to check, then she walked into a nightmare.
Checking first on her sisters she found them stripped and tied to their beds covered in bruies, blood and blinded they had clearly been tortured before death took them.
Silenced by the pure horror of what she'd seen she went to the room of her parents and found her mothers body pinned beneath a man while the 2 more were hacking her fathers limbs off, his tongue removed and gagged he was still alive when she found them and lost her mind.
It took her several years to recover the memory of what had happened next but in time she remembered finding a pair of swords amongst her mothers torn clothing and hamstringing all 3 men before they'd realized what was going on, without even considering it she'd slit her fathers throat and then spent hourly slowly cutting the 3 crippled men to pieces before finally killing them.

It was several hours later she was found soaked in blood curled up on the bed next to her mothers remains by an old friend and carried away from it with a small bag of belongings and books found hidden beneath her parents bed, the books explained that her mother had been a blood siren but had buried that side of her to have a family and explained what a blood siren was. A normal human being who had an almost insatiable hunger for the blood of evil beings.

Several years have since passed and she has learned to accept and control the dark side of her personality and found some contentment in the knowledge that her families killers suffered at her hands before they died.
She has buried her pain so deeply that even she rarely notices it anymore.

(( The blades can have gone missing if you don't want me to begin so well armed but I would prefer to keep the swords if possible.

I'm not sure if this character makes any sense or not but it sounds good to me. ))

[scapheap]

character done.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

-Name: Grace Grizzly(was Grace Darkwaters)
-Birthday: 5th of October(Exodus)
-Stat allocations: +1 MP, +1 Wisdom, +1 Speed
-Unique class: Shaman
-Looks: A white haired and green eyes wild woman. Her hair is a wild mess with the odd twig sticking out of it. She has red tattoo fangs starting under her eyes and end in a point, level with her mouth. She stand at a towering 6'4". She wears brown bear furs and their skulls are acting as shoulder pads, hold a staff with another bear skull as the head. She stands regally, despite her wild looks.
-Mind: A overpowering woman, a odd combination of a royal lady and a barbarian warrior. She comes off as a noble who the only reason she not tearing out your guts is the fact she not hungry right now.
-History: Was a lady of the house of Darkwaters and was being trained to be married off, but after one lesson too many of how to be a 'baby factory'(her words), Grace ran in to the wilds aged 15. As a girl who never left the house without a band of severts, it wasn't long till she nearly dead, miles from any help.
However the human mind does strange things near death and for Grace, one was tapping into the naturally magic around her, becoming one with it. She lived in the wilds for 7 years until she decided to return to the human world.

[IronyOwl]

!

Reserve.

[kj1225]

Spoiler: I may be a bit late. (click to show/hide)

-Name: Kyle Johnson
-Birthday: september 13
-Stat allocations: 1 in strength, MP, and speed.
Physical description: A tall brown haired man. He has a tattoo of a flower on his arm. He wears leather gloves and loose pants held up with rope. His upper body is covered by a black cloak. He cavers his face with a white mask that looks like the face of a wolf. His eyes are brown. He wears boots that are polished.
Personality:  Kyle is a free spirited guy. He also makes snarky comments when possible and avoids looking people in the eye. He likes to flirt when the person he's flirting with has an interesting reaction to it. (I.e. they panic a little, or they flirt back.)
Back ground: Will be filled in when I get in the game and start saying what it is in RP bits or to explain skills or what not if needed.

((And did not notice the bit asking for a description because it looked like something I did not need to read so expect the description soon.))

[Alexandria]

(( And a lot short on details... ))

[Tsuchigumo550]

Hopefully I can get in on this?

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

The template for a character application is as follows.

-Name: Elizalotte Carnan
-Birthday: May 8
-Stat allocations:
Two points to HP.
One point to Speed.
-Unique Class: Buccaneer (I imagine this as a thief-like job, where most skills are based on thief tools as well as some sword techniques with a water-element bend. More details in desc.)

-Description (Phys)
   Elizalotte is 6'1, very tall and lithe. She seems slim, but she's built well and despite not having the curviest appearance she's still very feminine. Her facial features are soft but thin, giving her a bright yet reserved smile. She's got long, unkempt, slightly curly brown hair, which hides her ears and frames her bright silvery eyes well. She wears a single silver earring, it's small, plain appearance distinct against her clothes.
   Elizalotte dresses comfortably, wearing almost oversized clothing that collects around her in such a way to almost pool around her feet. Wearing a simple white shirt with a v-neck that's a little too loose under a massive black leather jacket with sleeves that reach slightly past her wrists and a tail reaching the backs of her knees, she looks very distinct compared to most other people around her. She also wears baggy pants with a great number of pockets and a belt strung through two of the loops of her pants, holding a long, thin sword that comes nearly to her feet. It's sheath has long since gone missing, but Elizalotte still keeps it at her side. She also has a large black hat that matches with the coat, however, it's often left hanging by a string around her neck.

    Elizalotte is a cheerful girl who pays no attention to what others think of her, living a simple enough life taking odd jobs for people. She's always smiling, and tries to cheer everyone else around her up. She's not talkative, however, and is secretive about her past and how she keeps herself in a house, as odd jobs aren't frequent enough to pay for her rent, let alone her entire life. Elizalotte is actually descended from a line of thieves, and as it's last surviving member, she's using generations of skills to avoid capture and continue making a living. Her coat, sword, and hat all come from her father, who disappeared after a particularly large heist and hadn't made contact since.

     Elizalotte is friendly, but she's also wary of getting too close to people. She also has a tendency to over-prepare, her pockets filled with all sorts of tools and snacks. She's very resourceful, her sword kept reasonably sharp and her knowledge of medicines more than basic, as well as a meager ability with magick. She's fleet of foot and able to survive a battering, skills picked up from stealing to keep herself fed and clothed.

-Background:
Elizalotte comes from a line of thieves on her fathers side. Her mother was a powerful mage specializing in healing and water magics, whom she never got to meet. Elizalotte was raised solely by her dad, her mother dying in childbirth. She's adept with a sword, learning it early, and she knows how to make and use many tools of the thief trade.

Her dad disappeared when he attempted a bank robbery, assumedly never caught however very deep in hiding, when Elizalotte was 16. Her skills as a thief and her strong will, as well as her happy demeanor, carried her through for years. She's well known, but few people really know her beyond a helpful member of their society. Elizalotte dreams of saving up enough money to go out adventuring for her father. She's dealt with both sides of society, both good and evil, and knows black market shipping routes well. She sometimes runs courier for people with questionable intent, though dislikes the idea and demands knowledge of what she's delivering, which has almost gotten her killed before. Still, her willful personality and devil-may-care attitude of what people think of her has kept her alive as well as given her a sharp wit. She may have never been to a fancy school, but she has more knowledge on how to read people and watch for the slightest change in their actions than anyone else in her city.

[Alexandria]

(( In any case, what do people think about my character? It's a mix of my 2 normal character styles put together but I'm curious what people think of the background for it and her mental description. ))

[Tsuchigumo550]

(( In any case, what do people think about my character? It's a mix of my 2 normal character styles put together but I'm curious what people think of the background for it and her mental description. ))

((I seem to have done a very similar character without even reading your entry. There are a couple differences, as Eliza is more distant and fearful of letting people close, and she's only brushed with death rather than seen it firsthand, but otherwise, very close.))

[Alexandria]

(( I don't see how they are similar besides both being girls and being friendly sometimes. ))

[scapheap]

((3 female and 2 males so far.))