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[Elephant Parade]

This is a fantasy RTD inspired primarily by The Wind Beneath Your Feet, an RTD I recently read. It also uses the Skills/Traits system I've been using for a derail game. It also has a bit of inspiration from various other things.

Most actions will be decided on the roll of a d6, with a 1 being an utter failure, a 2 being a failure, a 3 or 4 being a partial success, a 5 being a success, and a 6 being a strong success. Your three stats (Muscle, Agility, and Intellect) will grant bonuses to certain actions, such as combat. Difficult actions will impose penalties, while easy ones will grant bonuses. If you score a hit in combat, another roll will be made for damage.

Spoiler: Signup Sheet (click to show/hide)

Name: Your name.
Class: Your class. You can pick one of the ones I made, or you can name your own and I'll make stats for it.
Race: Your race. You can pick one of the ones I made, or you can name your own and I'll make stats for it. If you are using one of the ones I made, pick one Skill and one Trait. If you picked Human, note if you are changing your stats.

Spoiler: Classes (click to show/hide)

Sorceror
Health: 7/7
Mana: 12/12

Muscle: 3
Agility: 3
Intellect: 4

Skills:
  Heal: Restores 2 HP. Costs 2 mana.
  Fire: Inflicts 4 fire damage. Costs 3 mana.

Traits:
  Adaptable: You gain an additional skill every third level.

Defender
Health: 13/13
Mana: 6/6

Muscle: 6
Agility: 1
Intellect: 3

Skills:
  Defend: You block attacks with your shield. Gives attackers a -2 attack penalty and reduces damage taken by 1 until your next turn.
  Taunt: Insults foes, drawing their attention.
Traits:
  Tough: When taking lethal damage, you may survive.

Ranger
Health: 6/6
Mana: 8/8

Muscle: 2
Agility: 6
Intellect: 4

Skills:
  Calm Animal: Causes certain foes to become peaceful.
  Runed Arrow: Fires an arrow enchanted to strike true. Inflicts an extra 1 damage and has a +1 attack roll bonus. Cost: 4 mana.

Traits:
  Forest Strider: Grants various bonuses in wooded terrain.

Spoiler: Races (click to show/hide)

Dwarf
Health: +2
Mana: -1

Muscle: +2
Agility: -1
Intellect: +0

Skills (Pick One):
  Strike of the Forge: You can unleash a melee attack infused with the power of the dwarven forge. Inflicts melee damage plus 2 fire damage.
  Strike of the Mountain: You can unleash a melee attack infused with the power of the Mountainhomes. Inflicts melee damage and stuns on a high roll.

Traits (Pick One):
  Dwarven Resilience: Slightly reduces damage taken by melee attacks.
  Iron Stomach: Grants resistance to poison.
  Dwarven Weapon Training: Increases damage inflicted with Dwarven weapons by 2.

Elf
Health: -2
Mana: +5

Muscle: -3
Agility: +1
Intellect: +1

Skills (Pick One):
  Green Arrow: Once per three turns, you can fire a Green Arrow. The arrow has special effects in addition to inflicting damage.
  Elven Meditation: You can regain lost power through tranquility. Restores 3 mana.

Traits (Pick One):
  Luck of the Fair Folk: When in dire straits, you may obtain a boon.
  Nature Affinity: You are even closer to nature than most elves. You are Nature-element, and natural things will be more friendly towards you.
  Bow Expert: You gain a bonus to attack rolls with bows.

Human
You may gain a +1 to either Health or Mana, at the cost of -1 to the other stat.

You may gain a +1 in Muscle, Agility, or Intellect, at the cost of -1 to one of the others.

Skills (Pick One):
  Martial Training: You gain a +1 to melee attack rolls.
  Acrobatic Training: You gain a +1 to move and dodge rolls.
  Arcane Training: You gain a +1 to casting rolls.

Traits (Pick One):
  Diplomatic: Certain creatures will be more friendly towards you.
  Fortunate: You gain a +1 to certain rolls.

I'll be starting once three players post character sheets. Waitlisters will be added upon death or when I feel like throwing in more people.

I plan to keep this going indefinitely, and update reasonably frequently.

[Elephant Parade]

Spoiler: Waitlist (click to show/hide)

DarkArtemisFowl
GreatWyrmGold

[freeformschooler]

Name: Davis Merwood, Mage for Hire
Class: Sorceror
Race: Changeling (you know, cliche fantasy shapeshifters)

[GiglameshDespair]

Name: Z'thyal
Class: Soldier-caste (high attack and speed, buffing attack of themselves and others, low durability)
Race: C'thyar: a humanoid race of insects, they have smooth chitin and four arms. Two of these are slender and end in grasping hands, the other strong and end in large mantis blades as hard and sharp as steel. To avoid other races shunning them for their unpleasant looks, they wear full-face helms and large tabards that cover most of their body, leaving the arms free to slash or rend, otherwise tucked into the tabard to conceal them.

[Elephant Parade]

Name: Z'thyal
Class: Soldier-caste (high attack and speed, buffing attack of themselves and others, low durability)
Race: C'thyar: a humanoid race of insects, they have smooth chitin and four arms. Two of these are slender and end in grasping hands, the other strong and end in large mantis blades as hard and sharp as steel. To avoid other races shunning them for their unpleasant looks, they wear full-face helms and large tabards that cover most of their body, leaving the arms free to slash or rend, otherwise tucked into the tabard to conceal them.

The class will be renamed to Soldier, and may be tweaked slightly.

[GiglameshDespair]

Name: Z'thyal
Class: Soldier-caste (high attack and speed, buffing attack of themselves and others, low durability)
Race: C'thyar: a humanoid race of insects, they have smooth chitin and four arms. Two of these are slender and end in grasping hands, the other strong and end in large mantis blades as hard and sharp as steel. To avoid other races shunning them for their unpleasant looks, they wear full-face helms and large tabards that cover most of their body, leaving the arms free to slash or rend, otherwise tucked into the tabard to conceal them.

The class will be renamed to Soldier, and may be tweaked slightly.

Sure, that's fine. Interested to see what you change.

[USEC_OFFICER]

Name: Delia Kamala
Class: Dancer (Less buffer and more glass cannon, please)
Race: Human, Acrobatic Training and Diplomatic. Stat changing may take place once I see the class stats/abilities.

EDIT: Eh... Let's go with Diplomatic instead. Sounds a tad more useful to me, and I suppose that it fits better for a dancer.

[Elephant Parade]

Name: Davis Merwood, Mage for Hire
Class: Sorceror
Race: Changeling (you know, cliche fantasy shapeshifters)

Name: Z'thyal
Class: Soldier-caste (high attack and speed, buffing attack of themselves and others, low durability)
Race: C'thyar: a humanoid race of insects, they have smooth chitin and four arms. Two of these are slender and end in grasping hands, the other strong and end in large mantis blades as hard and sharp as steel. To avoid other races shunning them for their unpleasant looks, they wear full-face helms and large tabards that cover most of their body, leaving the arms free to slash or rend, otherwise tucked into the tabard to conceal them.

Name: Delia Kamala
Class: Dancer (Less buffer and more glass cannon, please)
Race: Human, Acrobatic Training and Fortune. Stat changing may take place once I see the class stats/abilities.

Creating stats.

[freeformschooler]

Oh, bioless FCFS game... this'll be good.

[USEC_OFFICER]

Oh, bioless FCFS game... this'll be good.

FCFS game...?

[DarkArtemisFowl]

Spoiler: Rion Hiso (click to show/hide)

Name: Rion Hiso
Class: Ranger
Race: Elf

Biography coming soon.

[Elephant Parade]

Remember, pick one Trait and one Skill from your race. Also, humans have Traits I and Traits II instead of Skills and Traits. USEC_OFFICER, your character is still fine since the skills were actually traits.

Name: Davis Merwood, Mage for Hire
Class: Sorceror
Race: Changeling (you know, cliche fantasy shapeshifters)

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Changeling
Health: -1
Mana: +2

Muscle: -1
Dexterity: +1
Intellect: 0

Skills:
   Cloak of Illusions: You drape yourself in colors and magic, imposing a -1 penalty to enemy attack rolls for 3 turns. Costs 2 mana.
   Fade: You vanish from sight to all nearby. Lasts 2 turns, or until your next attack.

Traits:
  Thief of Essence: Attacks steal health or mana on good rolls.
  Indistinct: You fade into the background, and are less likely to be targeted.
  True Sight: You are good at seeing things for what they really are.

Name: Z'thyal
Class: Soldier-caste (high attack and speed, buffing attack of themselves and others, low durability)
Race: C'thyar: a humanoid race of insects, they have smooth chitin and four arms. Two of these are slender and end in grasping hands, the other strong and end in large mantis blades as hard and sharp as steel. To avoid other races shunning them for their unpleasant looks, they wear full-face helms and large tabards that cover most of their body, leaving the arms free to slash or rend, otherwise tucked into the tabard to conceal them.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Soldier
Health: 8/8
Mana: 10/10

Muscle: 4
Agility: 3
Intellect: 3

Skills:
  War Cry: Boosts damage of all allies by 2 for 3 turns. Costs 3 mana.
  Rage: Increases your attack damage by 4 for 3 turns, but grants attacks against you a +1 bonus.

Traits:
  Determined: Increases attack damage as health is depleted.

C’thar
Health: +3
Mana: -1

Muscle: +2
Dexterity: -1
Intellect: -1

Skills:
  Furious Slashes: You unleash a barrage of strikes with both your weapon and your blades. However, this leaves you defenceless until the next round.
  Venomous Bite: You use your poisonous teeth to bite one foe, inflicting light damage and poison.

Traits:
  Tough Chitin: Your chitin is especially sturdy. +3 HP.
  Ambidextrous: You can use both hands with equal effectiveness.
  Sharp Blades: Your blades are sharper than normal and inflict 1 more damage.

Name: Delia Kamala
Class: Dancer (Less buffer and more glass cannon, please)
Race: Human, Acrobatic Training and Diplomatic. Stat changing may take place once I see the class stats/abilities.

EDIT: Eh... Let's go with Diplomatic instead. Sounds a tad more useful to me, and I suppose that it fits better for a dancer.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Dancer
Health: 6/6
Mana: 9/9

Muscle: 1
Agility: 6
Intellect: 3

Skills:
  Blade Dance: You lash out with both weapons, performing two attacks with each but leaving you vulnerable.
  Wind Dance: You send foes flying with a dance that summons wind. Costs 3 mana.

Traits:
  Dextrous: Dexterity is always used instead of strength for bonus attack damage.

[GiglameshDespair]

The skills for the soldier are messed up.

[Elephant Parade]

The skills for the soldier are messed up.

Fixed.

[freeformschooler]

Skill: Fade and Trait: True Sight, please!