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[hachnslay]

This is a Suggestion game, as i have been annoyed one too many times by people that claim characters and then NEVER POST AGAIN.

This post and the next will be reserved for things you have learned about the game world.

Even though I originally intended to draw fancy maps, ... i am either not good at that or Dungeon Designer 3 is not the program for me to use.

Everybody is welcome to throw suggestions at our character.

To encourage munchkinning all numbers will be disclosed.

This glossary and your backstory.

Take everything with a grain of salt. You have lived a sheltered life inside the guild academy. Information here might be incomplete and will likely update as you learn more. No metagaming please.

The World

From afar it would look like a huge triangle that has it's sides bent towards the sun. Three stilts come from it's edges, pointing towards the sun. on top of these three pillars hangs a halfcircle shape. The plane "wobbles" therefore there is a time of day and night, when the sun disappears behind this very disc, except for 2 specific months. When the angle to the sun becomes too steep for it to ever appear behind the disc or when the sun is on the sky permanently, taunting the disc by getting nearer to it, then going further away again.

Magic (types)

There are 5 types of magic, White, Blue, Green, Red and Black. Each type of magic is divided into 3 schools.

White Magic (W)

White Magic deals primarily with Virtue, Purity and Light. It is the chosen magic type of Priests and Knights.

Virtue: Offensive and Defensive enhancements.
Purity: Destruction of unnatural Enchantments and artifice. Banishing of Evil.
Light: Especially potent against Black magic creatures. Mostly offensive

Green Magic: (G)

Green Magic is used to strengthen the body, summon creatures and commanding nature. Elves are natural users of green magic.

Nature: From growing Brambles to stop your enemies to animating a whole forest.
Summoning: simple squirrels to mighty Elementals. Not just limited to creatures.
Body: Healing and Toughening of your own body.

Blue Magic: (U)

Blue magic is of the Mind, Artifice and Water. People living near the sea and merfolk practice blue magic.

Mind: from simple manipulations of minds to putting it over matter.
Artifice: creating items of use and mechanical constructs
Water: Ice to steam – you can control it – you can create it.

Red Magic: (R)

Red magic is the magic of Heat, Destruction and Battle. Mountaindwellers and especially Dwarves use this magic.

Heat: Inner heat outer frost. Deals with Temperature.
Destruction: most offensive magic. Think Demolitionist.
Battle: Offensive enhancements of combat proficiency often at the cost of defense.

Black magic: (B)

Black Magic is divided into the schools of Curse, Shadow and Sacrifice. Swampdwellers and Ratfolk practice it.

Curse: Mostly deals with weakening enemies or enchanting items to get stuck on people that touch them.
Shadow: Manipulation and utilization of the ever present darkness.
Sacrifice: Power comes at a price. Sacrifice your health, mana or items for enhanced effects.


The Months

The months depend on the position of the sun, as viewed from the central city.

Sylv   Green magic   Growth    Charming   Alchemy   35 days long
Ydri   White magic   Light   Happy   Tailoring   25 days long
Raka   Red Magic   Fire   Lazy   Smithing   15 days long
Ino   All Magic   Balance   Plain   Lore   5 days long
Lyra   Blue Magic   Ice   Calm   Enchanting   15 days long
Tyrin   Black magic   Darkness   Timid   Medicine   25 days long

((on a sidenote: I'd love to turn this into a table, but sometime last year the buttons in the post window stopped working. While everyday posting does not require them they would be nice to have for a forum game.))

[hachnslay]

Known spells:

Spoiler: Mind: (click to show/hide)

Name	Level	Cost	Description	Duration	Overcast
Disrupt	1	UU	Sends an overpowering thought directly into your target's Mind dealing 1d6 Mental damage and having a 50% chance to confuse your target. 90% chance to confuse if overcast.	Instant	RR
Push	6	U	Pushed the target back, preventing it from reaching you and giving a 1/3 chance to stun for one turn	instant, 1 turn	-
Mercantile Influence	14	UU	Influences an unprepared Merchant to give you information or a better deal.	1 hour	UUUUUUUU
Beginners Telekinesis	17	U	Moves one light object in Line of sight into your inventory	1 minute	-
Levitation	21	UU	You start to float just above ground.	3 Minutes (18 turns)	WWWWW
Read Thought	26	UUU	Gain Information about your target. Know what it is currently thinking about.	instant	-

Spoiler: Artifice: (click to show/hide)

Name	Level	Cost	Description	Duration	Overcast
Metal Spike	1	U	Conjures a Metal spike that deals 2d4+1 piercing damage, then sends it into your target. Violently. Takes a full turn	fast	?BBB
Explosive	19	UUUU	Conjures an explosive at your target location, once it explodes it deals 3d4+4 Blast damage to all enemies in the area	end of Turn	?RRRR
Basic animate healable GOLEM	5	UUU	Animates your Construct and grants it 2d4+30 Hitpoints for one day. Allows it to be affected by healing magic.	1 day	?GGG
Lesser Unlock	17	U	Attempts to unlock a simple, mechanical, non magic lock	Instant	?RR
Heal Construct	22	UU	Restores a Construct's health by 6d2+6 hitpoints	instant	-
Polymorph item	26	UUU	Changes one item to another at random. Rarely improves the item	instant	?Ux12
Negative magnetic Vortex	33	UU	Projectiles Used against you have an additional 66% chance to miss	6 hours	-

Spoiler: Water (click to show/hide)

Name	Level	Cost	Description	Duration	Overcast
Waterbolt	1	U	Creates a sphere of water in your hand and sends it to your target, dealing 1d6+1 blunt damage and an additional 1d6+1 cold damage if overcast	Instant	U
Freeze Ground	7	UU	Freezes the ground, letting anybody slip that tries to run over it and dealing 1d8 cold damage to anybody that falls.	3 turns	-
Frozen burst	18	UUUUU	Stuns and deals 3d3+2 cold damage to all enemies in front of you.	Duration	Overcast
Supercooled Frost spike	29	UUUUUU	Sends a very cold spike of ice towards your target dealing 4d4+5 cold damage,2d4 piercing damage and freezing it in place for one turn	1 turn	-
Frost	11	U	Cools a body of liquid until it solidifies	instant	-
Flask of water	21	UU	Conjures a flask of fresh, clean water.	instant	-

Spoiler: Battle (click to show/hide)

Name	Level	Cost	Description	Duration	Overcast
Taunt	1	R	Tries to Provoke the target	2 turns	-
Tactical jump	10	RR	You improve your position in battle preventing any ranged attacks against you for one turn and increasing the damage against one target by 50% until the end of the turn. You do this by enhancing your leg muscles and jumping direct behind the target.	instant	-
Battle Ready	12	RRRR	You are ready for battle. When entering combat your chances to attack first are drastically increased and you have a 10% additional chance to dodge attacks.	1 day	-

Keywords:
 Mental Damage: this does not stack with normal damage, but unless the target is highly intelligent the mental health is generally less than physical health.
 Confusion: Mental condition. Prevents telling friends from foes.
 Stun: no action can be taken for 1 turn. movement is reduced.
 Provoked: Mental condition. the target deals 1d2 additional physical damage in melee and can't attack at range. Intelligent creatures resist this.
 Hitpoints: how much physical abuse a creature can withstand before dieing. Your average human has 40, your average rat has 4 and your average goblin has 20.

[hachnslay]

Day ?? of ?? - Character Generation.

"Congratulations!" - The last few days of your training went by fast. Here you are now standing in front of the
twilight branch headmaster, holding your certificate of heroism.

"with this you are now formally heroes of Loth. I await great deeds of you. You are to travel
to the borders of the realm, the lands newly liberated from goblins and aid your assigned towns as they grow."

You look at your certificate.

Name:

you remember. Your name was given to you by the previous headmaster himself. He named you after the
month you were found in, on the steps of the guild headquarters, as it was the tradition for orphans.
 Not only that, but the months are closely related to magic, so you were trained in the corresponding schools as well as the mundane arts.

In which month were you found?
(not Ino)

[The Froggy Ninja]

Lyra

[mastahcheese]

((This sounds somewhat like a mix of Discworld and Magic: The Gathering. That said, this looks promising.))

Lyra

+1

[escaped lurker]

((This sounds somewhat like a mix of Discworld and Magic: The Gathering. That said, this looks promising.))

Lyra

+1

Games of Mind and Artifice? So "In" on that decision. The "basic" element isn't all that important with these two side-attributes, but these promise fun, mayhem and shenanigans if used right.

Also, agreed on the MTG part. Promising indeed.

[hachnslay]

Day 2 of Ino

Name: Lyra Fifthfound

The Headmaster told you. You were found in the month of Lyra, therefore named after the month.
Your talent for Blue magic was confirmed by one of the sages.
The fifth child found that month. Not uncommon, as many families struggle to sustain themselves after the
harvest time. As the days grow shorter and the temperatures drop so does the mood of the people.
Yet, unlike the majority of the people born in Lyra you are not too calm.

"Remember that the heroes of the world embody hope as much as..."
The same speech as last month -  every month really. After all new Heroes are sent to the border all the time.
It has been 39 very short years for you. At least you weren't born two months earlier. Being sent out during
Perpetual day and heat is not fun. And what kind of name is Raka anyway?
The sages estimated your birthday to be the 6th of Lyra. Finally you will come of age. And celebrate it with
your first real adventure.

The next line of your Certificate reads:

Assigned town: Rath

Hm. An old town recently retaken in the perpetual war with the goblins. Furthest from the twilight branch,
so the other 2 guild members will surely arive before you.

Of course you are sent there. The terrain around it is your specialty after all. The sages were surprised when
you took up a second school of magic when you were 34. To further your talent you trained in

a bog – Slowly learning to absorb the Black magic around you and channel it more effectively.
a grassy plains – Slowly learning to absorb the White magic around you and channel it more effectively.
Dense forest – Slowly learning to absorb the Green magic around you and channel it more effectively.
Stoney – Slowly learning to absorb the Red magic around you and channel it more effectively.

While you didn't learn the magic as deeply as your first you concentrated on one school ...

Spoiler: certificate (click to show/hide)

Name: Lyra Fifthfound
Assigned town: Rath
Magic: Blue and

((Writing at 1AM is not too easy. More tomorrow. One additional school of magic - this will affect all spells you can learn and have learned. This game will be quite technical in it's own Mechanics. You will remember the "Basics of Magic" class tomorrow ))

[The Froggy Ninja]

Green

[Detoxicated]

Id go for red

[The Froggy Ninja]

Id go for red

But why fight when we can have an armada of squirrels.

[mastahcheese]

Guys, we have artifice already, we could construct ourselves a mini-gun if we need to destroy things. We can make a sentinel army if we need an army.
Honestly, we can fake almost an magic we could need.
I say go for White. After all, the Purity school of White magic focuses on the destruction of artifice, so if we wield that, we can solidify our hold on our most powerful magics.

[escaped lurker]

I say go for White. After all, the Purity school of White magic focuses on the destruction of artifice, so if we wield that, we can solidify our hold on our most powerful magics.

If that train of thought is true (hachnslay's call) then +1

Else I would vote for Black Magic and the Curse School

Able to weaken our enemies into mind-games that they are bound to loose, or plainly sap their strength so that our artifices suffice. But yeah, the same train of thought. Strengthening what we already know to be good at.

[hachnslay]

I see this as one Vote for

Bog and Curse magic

and

Grassy Plains and Purity

since Froggy and Detoxicate both failed to name a >school<.

I am now tempted to give you example spells for each of the schools, but that clashes with your knowledge of magic and would invite metagaming once you start meeting hostile spellcasters...


But here is an exempt of Turnbased Combat.

basically it is based on behavior rules, so i don't go and post a single sentence and wait for you to respond to the new Situation.

Overcast is another mechanic that lets you increase a spells potency by investing more mana.

Given character:

Spoiler: example Character (click to show/hide)

Name: MinMax Muster
Health:82/82
Magic: Red + Body
Mana:
R:20
G:12
Spells known:

Name	School	Cost	Description	Targeting	Duration	Overcast
Healing Balm	Body	GGG	Creates a Healing Balm directly on any wounds you have and heals you for 3d6 damage at the beginning of the next 3 rounds	self	3 Turns	-
Fire Arrow II	Heat	RR	A physical projectile of fire is sent towards the Target dealing 2d4+2 heat and 1d6 physical damage	target	instant	R:1d6 heat
Heat of Battle	Battle	RRRRR	A Fiery Aura surrounds your target increasing it's physical attacks by 1d5+2 physical and 1d2 fire damage	target	one day	-
Disintegrate	Destruction	RR	An uncontrolled blast of destructive energy washes over the target dealing 1d10+2 damage to living creatures and 1d100+20 damage to constructs and obstacles	target	instant	-
Lightningbolt	Destruction	RRR	A Bolt of Lightning slams into your target, dealing 3d8 Electric damage and stunning him for one turn unless resisted	target	instant	-
Shockwave	Destruction	RRRR	Physical force pushes everything around you away, dealing 4d4 physical damage and sending enemies flying.	Point Blank	instant	-

The rules could be:
If any mana reserve falls below 3 drink from the corresponding flask. if you can't return to town.
If your health falls below 20 cast Healing Balm on yourself.
If your enemies are hiding behind obstacles cast Disintegrate on the obstacles.
Should you reach the entrance to the next floor return to town.
If there are ranged fighters cast Lightningbolt on them.
If there are 3 or more enemies around you cast Shockwave.
Cast Fire Arrow II on the nearest enemy or enemy last attacked.

You will have access to more spells than him, though. also: the damage will change as you become better at the magic you chose.

((I really need a better way to make tables than write them by hand ...))

[a1s]

((I really need a better way to make tables than write them by hand ...))

not sure if that helps, but you can put a special symbol (";" is my go to choice) between entries and then just [find and]replace them all with , and fix the border ones. If you think it could help, you could make the table in Calc (99% sure you can use Excel insetad) and save a .csv- that will give you the symbol ("," is default) separated list where you can replace stuff.

Spoiler: workflow example (click to show/hide)

here's your table in calc:

here it is as a csv:

"Name: MinMax Muster";;;;;;
"Health:82/82";;;;;;
"Magic: Red + Body";;;;;;
"Mana:";;;;;;
"R:20";;;;;;
"G:12";;;;;;
"Spells known: ";;;;;;
"Name";"School";"Cost";"Description";"Targeting";"Duration";"Overcast"
"Healing Balm";"Body";"GGG";"Creates a Healing Balm directly on any wounds you have and heals you for 3d6 damage at the beginning of the next 3 rounds ";"self";"3 Turns";"-"
"Fire Arrow II";"Heat";"RR";"A physical projectile of fire is sent towards the Target dealing 2d4+2 heat and 1d6 physical damage";"target";"instant";"R:1d6 heat"
"Heat of Battle";"Battle";"RRRRR";"A Fiery Aura surrounds your target increasing it's physical attacks by 1d5+2 physical and 1d2 fire damage";"target";"one day";"-"
"Disintegrate";"Destruction";"RR";"An uncontrolled blast of destructive energy washes over the target dealing 1d10+2 damage to living creatures and 1d100+20 damage to constructs and obstacles";"target";"instant";"-"
"Lightningbolt";"Destruction";"RRR";"A Bolt of Lightning slams into your target, dealing 3d8 Electric damage and stunning him for one turn unless resisted";"target";"instant";"-"
"Shockwave";"Destruction";"RRRR";"Physical force pushes everything around you away, dealing 4d4 physical damage and sending enemies flying.";"Point Blank";"instant";"-"

Code: [Select]

and here it is reformatted as a table (";" turned into [/td][td], then [tr][td] and [/td][/tr] added around the lines. You might also want to remove the quotation marks):

"Name: MinMax Muster"
"Health:82/82"
"Magic: Red + Body"
"Mana:"
"R:20"
"G:12"
"Spells known: "
"Name"	"School"	"Cost"	"Description"	"Targeting"	"Duration"	"Overcast"
"Healing Balm"	"Body"	"GGG"	"Creates a Healing Balm directly on any wounds you have and heals you for 3d6 damage at the beginning of the next 3 rounds "	"self"	"3 Turns"	"-"
"Fire Arrow II"	"Heat"	"RR"	"A physical projectile of fire is sent towards the Target dealing 2d4+2 heat and 1d6 physical damage"	"target"	"instant"	"R:1d6 heat"
"Heat of Battle"	"Battle"	"RRRRR"	"A Fiery Aura surrounds your target increasing it's physical attacks by 1d5+2 physical and 1d2 fire damage"	"target"	"one day"	"-"
"Disintegrate"	"Destruction"	"RR"	"An uncontrolled blast of destructive energy washes over the target dealing 1d10+2 damage to living creatures and 1d100+20 damage to constructs and obstacles"	"target"	"instant"	"-"
"Lightningbolt"	"Destruction"	"RRR"	"A Bolt of Lightning slams into your target, dealing 3d8 Electric damage and stunning him for one turn unless resisted"	"target"	"instant"	"-"
"Shockwave"	"Destruction"	"RRRR"	"Physical force pushes everything around you away, dealing 4d4 physical damage and sending enemies flying."	"Point Blank"	"instant"	"-"

[The Froggy Ninja]

I misunderstood but by Green I meant Summoning.