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[kj1225]

I approve.

[Shoruke]

H'okay, so. Been working on the Unique Jobs' skill lists. Listed here are 3 skills for each of you, based on your history and/or personality. You will each pick 2 of them to add to your Unique Job list. Note that you'll still need to purchase the abilities with JP to actually use them, and that you also each have one ability granted by your birthsign (those abilities are summed up in the OP).

Spoiler: Mist Berserker Heath (click to show/hide)

-Heavy Strike: weapon attack with increased damage and knockback chance.
-Mist Absorbtion: Recover some MP.
-Autofrenzy: Lose control of character, recover speed points, increased strength and speed. Duration lasts until out of MP. (70% chance to attack enemies, 30% to attack whoever's closest)

Spoiler: Blood Siren Alexia (click to show/hide)

-Bleeding strike: weapon attack causes enemy to bleed (DoT like poison, but bleeding is negated upon receiving healing)
-Bloodlust: Gain +4 Strength and a +4 to-hit bonus for 3 turns. Only usable when adjacent to an enemy with 1/2 or less health.
-Red Euphoria: Recover some HP/MP. Only usable when adjacent to or standing on an enemy corpse.

Spoiler: Grace Grizzly, Shaman (click to show/hide)

For a while there I was drawing a blank about what kind of shamanic powers to give you, and then I was like "oh right, durr, I have a place to look for inspiration". 

-Nurture: Target recovers HP, gains 1 Spd next turn. Only usable when on natural terrain (grass, water, loose rocks etc.)
-Entangle: Target requires 1 extra Spd per tile to move for 2 rounds.
-Fog: Blinds target.

Spoiler: Kyle Johnson, Brawler (click to show/hide)

Your description is a lot shorter than the others', but I think I made it reasonably personalized.

-Momentum (support ability): Add number of tiles moved this turn damage and to-hit of your first attack. (or tiles moved last turn if your first action this turn is an attack, and ended last turn moving)
-Feint: Spend extra Spd on weapon attack for bonus to-hit.
-Confounding Strike: weapon attack takes damage penalty, target suffers to-hit penalty for 2 turns.

Spoiler: Elizalotte Carnan, Buccaneer (click to show/hide)

Note that in Ivalice, the Judges' Laws prevent you from stripping the dead of their possessions; the Loot skill won't allow you to take anything the enemy had equipped.

-Mark: Gain small to-hit bonus against target, target takes small to-hit penalty against you for the duration of combat.
-Ocean Wave Stance: For 3 turns, weapon attacks gain to-hit bonus.
-Looting: Take some gil or items from the dead (1/enemy).

Spoiler: Gregory Mason, Mechanic (click to show/hide)

I had to change the Mechanics in my existing Job Tree into Engineers, you jerk. 
Some of your abilities will be somewhat similar to the Engineers'; i.e. the ones about modifying terrain and placing constructs, but while yours will be sturdier, the Engineers' will be higher-tech and have more diverse uses.

-Throw Boulder: Like Squire's Throw Stone, but more power, more knockback chance, and less range.
-Table Construct: Summon a small pedastal-like critter with cog-feet. Moves 1 space in the stated direction per turn. Can be picked up and moved around/rotated by allied Mechanic or Engineers, or ridden by allies. Has 10 hp.
-Stoneborn (support): when standing on stony terrain (natural or manufactured), bonus to evasion and strength.

Oh, and any abilities you don't pick now, you will be able to pick later if you like them better than abilities you get access to at that time. However, they'll have power associated with the level you got access to them at; while almost all abilities will scale up with your power at least a little bit, later abilities will (usually) be stronger regardless. I hope. If I'm doing it right.

[kj1225]

Momentum and confounding strike.

[scapheap]

Nurture and Fog.

[Alexandria]

Bleeding strike.
Bloodlust.

[The Fool]

Mist Absorption and Autofrenzy.

[Tsuchigumo550]

Ocean Wave Stance
Looting.

[Shoruke]

Oh, I should probably put he campaign file download link in this thread at some point, eh?

linky

I'll edit it into the OP as well. I still need to finish the world map, or at least the region-colouring for it (since the actual locations will be filled in as the game progresses, aside from major cities), and I haven't included the battle maps because reasons.

For those of you who aren't familiar with MapTools (I'm using version 1.3.b89), here's the basics that you will need to know to browse the campaign file. There is a button at the top-right of the screen labelled Select Map (it has a small picture of a globe). The maps I have so far are:
-Characters: Tidbits and trivia about people you know. I'll update peoples' descriptions for you as the campaign goes along, similar to the Brave Story from the original game.
-Job Tree: The visual representation of the job tree. You start at the middle (unique, squire, alchemist, archer), and branch out from there as you gain Job Levels.
-Lore: It contains information about the battle system, some commonly-known history about Ivalice and the world you'll be playing in, and descriptions for the various jobs, plus their ability lists. There's a really big book at the top of the map, clicking it will tell you how to ask Alazlam (the narrator and tutorial-guy from FFT) about the ability lists.
-Overworld: Did I mention it's not done yet? Because it's not. When it is, it should serve as a visual representation of Ivalice, as well as the knowledge compendium of the locations you've visited or know about. At least we know my freehand outline of Ivalice is accurate, since I drew it on top of an overlay from the game 
As I've mentioned ranted about previously, I'll be messing with the overworld map a bit, to make it seem like Ivalice is a place where more than 200 people live. You know, a country with, like... roads... and stuff.

EDIT: It tickles my funny bone just a little bit that people are using real-world names for their characters. Ramza, Balbanes, Orlandu, and (gods help the free) Balmafula alongside Grace, Kyle, and Gregory.

[Tsuchigumo550]

For some reason, the newest download can't find it's own jar when I try and run it from Downloads. Trying it, due to the fact I had a problem like this once, so...

[Xanmyral]

Very neat, first time opening maptools for myself. Took a bit of tinkering, but I managed to look at the stuff, interesting. I've not played FFT, so if I ever get in the game bear with me a bit.

@Tsu: I had the same problem, you actually have to use the jar file itself.

[Tsuchigumo550]

Oooh, NOW I remember.

I've had some straaaange errors before, so I'm used to this madness.

EDIT
Apparently it can't connect to the maptools server or something. The HashMap can't be cast to some stuff.

[Alexandria]

What kind of program do I need to open that campaign file?

I can't use maptools, every time I try to start it up it says Error: Unable to access jarfile maptool-*.jar

[Xanmyral]

@Alexandria: Reason why is because, if I were to guess, its trying to call a jar file to run but its either improperly named or they futzed up in formatting said jar file because they're trying to call an already executable program. I don't know if that's a problem or not honestly, but I'm giving a guess with my admittedly low java programming knowledge.

Just look for the file that says 'maptool-1.3.b89' that is an Executable Jar File, and use that. Works just fine then.

[Alexandria]

Nice thats working fine, now do learn how to use this.

I'm guessing I begin as unique and then I choose where to begin my expansion from that?

[Xanmyral]

You gotta hit the 'file' option at the toolbar, select 'open campaign' and manually find the campaign file.

EDIT: NINJA BERSERKER, EVERYONE FLEE FOR YOUR LIVES!