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[Zanzetkuken The Great]

Would anyone be interested in playing an RPG based on the Dragon Ball franchise?  If there's interest, I'll create a system for it.  I have some rough ideas right now, but I'd like to see if there is any interest before refining them to full playability.

Document for Character Sheet and Gameplay


Weirdsound
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1mgO9TehyGqIXh4JW6G2_N8yg2T6nGhcsExTKYzL4n4I

Rolepgeek
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1F347KP7j30TenwOzRkBYZZmOa2_VNA3E7raF7Lt00xw

BlitzDungeoneer:

Spoiler: Character (click to show/hide)

Name:        Mr Sincillion Nene     Gender: Male      Age: 395
Race:        Djinn


Statistics:                             Morality Alignment
Health:                 50/50                Whole vs Self:        50% vs 50%
Power Level:        150                Structure vs Anarchy        50% vs 50%
Mystic Affinity:        600
Inner Focus:        80                Racial Abilities
Has Access to ‘Super’ State? No          1) Soulless
Number of times killed:  0               2) Dispersion


Appearance: Typical djinn with dark blue skin, wears a black fedora, a black tailcoat from which a pocket watch is hanging out. Wears a white shirt underneath the coat, and wears black trousers. Has white pointy boots with curled tips on his feet. Also has a monocle hidden in his trouser pocket.


Biography: Nene, for most of his life, traveled the world, expanding his skills, training
magic and generally doing whatever caught his fancy. He acquired the pocket watch during
a war, from a friend who was on his deathbed. He was, at some point, a famous writer, as
well as a musician. There are many secrets to his past aka if you want to know more you'll
have to ask in-game.



Skills/Techniques/Learned Abilities:
Plasma Stream
Charge: 5 seconds
Inventor: A rather common technique among djinns who do combat at all, nobody knows.
Effect:Increases energy output in an area near user's hands, before 'pushing' it
towards target. The stream burns through almsot anything it touches. Deals 3 base damage.
Exertion: 30

True Flight
Charge: 1 second.
Inventor: A variation of the flight technique used by most djinns, this was created by Nene.
Effect: Decreases user's weight to 0.1g, before 'pushing' themselves in the direction they want to go.
creates an aura of energy around the user which is kept tight around them, as it is the mass converted
to allow flight.
Exertion: 1 per second.

Strength of a Hundred
Charge Time: 2 seconds
Inventor: Mr Nene
Effect: At the point of impact of the fist, user increases it's weight temporarily by a
multiplier of 100. Therefore, a fist that normally weighs 10kg would weigh 1000kg upon impact.
Exertion: 10

Push
Charge Time: 10 seconds
Inventor: Some combat genie thousands of years ago. He's still alive.
Effect: Pushes a 'wall' of air towards the target at high speeds, pushing them along with anything
in the way at high speeds.
Exertion: 20

Hidden Universe
Charge Time: 1 minute
Inventor: Mr Nene
Effect: Warps space in an area into a bublle with a pinprick-sized hole. The bubble is much, much
larger on the inside, and nigh-unescapable. It can also be used as a safe place to hide.
Exertion: 30.

Shadestyle:

Spoiler: Character sheet (click to show/hide)

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Character Sheet
General:
Name:        Dr. Axal      Gender: Male      Age: 31
Race:        Human


Statistics:                                                Morality Alignment
Health:             100/100                              Whole vs Self:                50% vs 50%
Power Level:        300                                    Structure vs Anarchy        50% vs 50%
Mystic Affinity:    300
Inner Focus:        40                                   Racial Abilities
Has Access to ‘Super’ State?        no                1) Inventive
Number of times killed:   0                           2) Limiter Removal


Appearance:         A Slightly overweight heavily tanned Hawaiian male, with a clean shaven face,
a graying ponytail, and a white Doctor's coat, he wears light Kevlar body armor underneath his
coat and puffed up shorts, he wears no shoes. He also has a large battery with two slots on his back and a bionic left hand with a black lens in the palm.


Biography:          Dr. James Axal worked alongside Dr. Giro in the red ribbon army, but was "Removed"
before it's destruction, through his connections, however, he survived and found Dr Giro's
notes, which prompted him to seek out a means of augmenting himself with these additions in the hopes of becoming
immortal. He has since then realized the futility in his actions after a stern (Read; hilarious)
talking to from his wife and lives a peaceful life in West City, until people (read; other players)
came to his door seeking assistance in saving the world, for the sake of his wife and three children
he breaks out his High capacity Ki battery-Pack and bionic left hand and suits up.


Skills/Techniques/Learned Abilities:
Ki Charge LV1                    ____________________               ____________________
Ki Drain                         ____________________               ____________________
Ki Release                       ____________________               ____________________
Focused Beam                     ____________________               ____________________
Really Focused Beam              ____________________               ____________________
____________________             ____________________               ____________________
____________________             ____________________               ____________________
____________________             ____________________               ____________________


Spoiler: Techniques (click to show/hide)

Name:Ki Charging Level 1
Charge time: 1 minute Default
Inventor: Dr. Axal
Effect: Stores a Portion of current Ki to fill one slot of Dr. Axal's Ki battery
Exertion: (0.2 X Current power level) + 1

Name: Ki drain
Charge time: None
Inventor: Dr. Giro created this theoretical move in his notes to drain the life force out of living things, it has not yet been tested, But was prototyped By Dr. Axal
Effect: Drains Ki from the target at a loss of 50%, Only applicable to targets that can be physically held onto for a period of at least 30 seconds. Drains 2% of their current Ki per turn for every turn they remain in the grapple
Exertion: None

Name: Ki Release Level 1
Charge time: 5 seconds
Inventor: Dr. Axal
Effects: Depletes one Ki battery charge to temporarily raise power level with energy lost in transfer at 80%, removes (0.04 X current power level) exertion from all techniques for 5 minutes.
Exertion: None

Name: Focused Beam
Charge time: 15 seconds
Inventor: Dr. Axal
Effects: Reverse input on bionic hand to fire a beam of charged Ki, but with a very low efficiency, due to low quality hand. Deals 1 base damage
Exertion: 5

Name: Really Focused Beam
Charge time: 1 minute
Inventor: Dr. Axal
Effects: Overclock bionic hand to fire a massive energy beam, uses at least one Ki battery charge, Deals 2 base damage times the current level of Ki Charging
Exertion: 30

[Weirdsound]

We talking PbP or live here? Also, what era are we talking about? Are we gonna be a bunch of zanny warriors in the style of the World Tournament Arcs in Dragon Ball, or a bunch of roided up SSJ3s ready to take on the likes of Buu?

It could make a big difference.

[Zanzetkuken The Great]

We talking PbP or live here? Also, what era are we talking about? Are we gonna be a bunch of zanny warriors in the style of the World Tournament Arcs in Dragon Ball, or a bunch of roided up SSJ3s ready to take on the likes of Buu?

It could make a big difference.

An introductory arc where stuff is ironed out, followed by a Dragon Ball Z-expy, where the stories will follow a similar path, and the villains will be similar in strength.  The history of the original Dragon Ball would be tweaked towards the PC's replacing the main characters.

It being play-by-post or live will depend on when people are online.  If there is a decent (2-3 hour) overlay of time between all the active time of the players and me, then it will be live, with logs posted in google docs.  If there isn't too much of an overlap or no overlap, it will be play by post, so everyone is able to participate.

[Shadestyle]

You have my interest, Hell, you might even have my attention, I would jump on this bandwagon regardless, but I am not sure about my feelings on tweaking the original story for the purposes of the Rp.

Hope you start it up, Dragon Ball Z is one of my childhood thangs'.

[Zanzetkuken The Great]

You have my interest, Hell, you might even have my attention, I would jump on this bandwagon regardless, but I am not sure about my feelings on tweaking the original story for the purposes of the Rp.

Really, it's going to be basically a whole new story, but each section would be based around one sentence descriptions of each saga of the main anime/manga.  Example, the description for Namek saga, that would be adapted into this adventure's counterpart, would be "Heroes go to an alien planet and wind up fighting a powerful intergalactic overlord."

I'm not wanting to have everything the same, so the story is the character's own _{and I'm thinking about having a tournament at the end where you can fight against the Z-fighters, and if you do the exact same stuff, they wouldn't fit within the universe...}

[Sirus]

One of the biggest problems with DBZ is that after a certain point, Goku and Vegeta were pretty much the only ones capable of going toe-to-toe with the current villains while everyone else was relegated to either support duties or simply standing around on the sidelines. Of course, in an RPG no one wants to be useless or incapable of providing meaningful assistance. So how would you prevent that from happening?

[Zanzetkuken The Great]

One of the biggest problems with DBZ is that after a certain point, Goku and Vegeta were pretty much the only ones capable of going toe-to-toe with the current villains while everyone else was relegated to either support duties or simply standing around on the sidelines. Of course, in an RPG no one wants to be useless or incapable of providing meaningful assistance. So how would you prevent that from happening?

That's where things get a little...blurry.  Magic is present within the Dragon Ball universe, as both the Power Pole and the Nimbus were stated to be magical and the power of the dragons is magical.  While this may be dubious in canon, it is necessary in order to balance the Saiyans, by making them the Best at Ki use, but the Worst at Magic Affinity.  Since the way damage is dealt is by having your Ki Power Level or Magic Affinity divided by the target's Ki Power Level or Magic Affinity, then multiplied by the base damage the attack would do.  So with these two things combined, if the Saiyan players were taking up the equivalent of all the spotlight, I could cripple them by introducing a Magic-based enemy.

Also, the Super Saiyan state being a multiplier exclusive to the Saiyans made them able to skyrocket their powers higher than anyone else could hope to match.  In order to allow others to manage to compete, I am going to be creating similar condensed power states for other races in order for their abilities to be on par.

Finally, the Zenkai ability of Saiyans making them stronger each time they approach death/die.  In order to prevent that from being overpowered, rather than having it be a hard multiplier, the boost would be based on how long it had been since the player was last at that point.  If it has been a month, it maxes out at times 2, but if it has only been a few minutes to an hour, it will only be a nominal boost of times 1.01.

[Shadestyle]

Welp you have officially Cleared up all of my worries, so basically, the Z fighters are on vacation or something and a lot of very suspiciously similar villains have to be taken down by the B-team, I.E. us? I'm loving it.

[Zanzetkuken The Great]

Welp you have officially Cleared up all of my worries, so basically, the Z fighters are on vacation or something and a lot of very suspiciously similar villains have to be taken down by the B-team, I.E. us? I'm loving it.

More like the Z-fighters are dealing with their own stuff, and you are on another part of earth dealing with your own stuff, with the reason you aren't helping with their stuff is because you have stuff happening at the same time, and they don't help with yours since they have their own.  There will probably be an overlap at the Cell Games, with you having defeated your  version of the androids, then learning about the games and compete yourselves.

[Weirdsound]

One of the biggest problems with DBZ is that after a certain point, Goku and Vegeta were pretty much the only ones capable of going toe-to-toe with the current villains while everyone else was relegated to either support duties or simply standing around on the sidelines. Of course, in an RPG no one wants to be useless or incapable of providing meaningful assistance. So how would you prevent that from happening?

That's where things get a little...blurry.  Magic is present within the Dragon Ball universe, as both the Power Pole and the Nimbus were stated to be magical and the power of the dragons is magical.  While this may be dubious in canon, it is necessary in order to balance the Saiyans, by making them the Best at Ki use, but the Worst at Magic Affinity.  Since the way damage is dealt is by having your Ki Power Level or Magic Affinity divided by the target's Ki Power Level or Magic Affinity, then multiplied by the base damage the attack would do.  So with these two things combined, if the Saiyan players were taking up the equivalent of all the spotlight, I could cripple them by introducing a Magic-based enemy.

Also, the Super Saiyan state being a multiplier exclusive to the Saiyans made them able to skyrocket their powers higher than anyone else could hope to match.  In order to allow others to manage to compete, I am going to be creating similar condensed power states for other races in order for their abilities to be on par.

Finally, the Zenkai ability of Saiyans making them stronger each time they approach death/die.  In order to prevent that from being overpowered, rather than having it be a hard multiplier, the boost would be based on how long it had been since the player was last at that point.  If it has been a month, it maxes out at times 2, but if it has only been a few minutes to an hour, it will only be a nominal boost of times 1.01.

Sounds good. You have my interest.

[Shadestyle]

All checksums complete, I can't wait for it.

[BlitzDungeoneer]

You have my almost undivided attention. If this goes ahead, totally joining.

[Zanzetkuken The Great]

Going to type up the manual in a google doc.  I'll post a link in the thread after I finish typing what I have.

[Zanzetkuken The Great]

Okay, here's what I got right now.  Please tell me if I need to clarify some things, and I will edit the document.

[Shadestyle]

Spoiler: Character sheet (click to show/hide)

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Character Sheet
General:
Name:        Dr. Axal      Gender: Male      Age: 31
Race:        Human


Statistics:                                                Morality Alignment
Health:             100/100                              Whole vs Self:                50% vs 50%
Power Level:        300                                    Structure vs Anarchy        50% vs 50%
Mystic Affinity:    300
Inner Focus:        40                                   Racial Abilities
Has Access to ‘Super’ State?        no                1) Inventive
Number of times killed:   0                           2) Limiter Removal


Appearance:         A Slightly overweight heavily tanned Hawaiian male, with a clean shaven face,
a graying ponytail, and a white Doctor's coat, he wears light Kevlar body armor underneath his
coat and puffed up shorts, he wears no shoes. He also has a large battery with two slots on his back and a bionic left hand with a black lens in the palm.


Biography:          Dr. James Axal worked alongside Dr. Giro in the red ribbon army, but was "Removed"
before it's destruction, through his connections, however, he survived and found Dr Giro's
notes, which prompted him to seek out a means of augmenting himself with these additions in the hopes of becoming
immortal. He has since then realized the futility in his actions after a stern (Read; hilarious)
talking to from his wife and lives a peaceful life in West City, until people (read; other players)
came to his door seeking assistance in saving the world, for the sake of his wife and three children
he breaks out his High capacity Ki battery-Pack and bionic left hand and suits up.


Skills/Techniques/Learned Abilities:
Ki Charge LV1                    ____________________               ____________________
Ki Drain                         ____________________               ____________________
Ki Release                       ____________________               ____________________
Focused Beam                     ____________________               ____________________
Really Focused Beam              ____________________               ____________________
____________________             ____________________               ____________________
____________________             ____________________               ____________________
____________________             ____________________               ____________________


Spoiler: Techniques (click to show/hide)

Name:Ki Charging Level 1
Charge time: 1 minute Default
Inventor: Dr. Axal
Effect: Stores a Portion of current Ki to fill one slot of Dr. Axal's Ki battery
Exertion: (0.2 X Current power level) + 1

Name: Ki drain
Charge time: None
Inventor: Dr. Giro created this theoretical move in his notes to drain the life force out of living things, it has not yet been tested, But was prototyped By Dr. Axal
Effect: Drains Ki from the target at a loss of 50%, Only applicable to targets that can be physically held onto for a period of at least 30 seconds. Drains 2% of their current Ki per turn for every turn they remain in the grapple
Exertion: None

Name: Ki Release Level 1
Charge time: 5 seconds
Inventor: Dr. Axal
Effects: Depletes one Ki battery charge to temporarily raise power level with energy lost in transfer at 80%, removes (0.04 X current power level) exertion from all techniques for 5 minutes.
Exertion: None

Name: Focused Beam
Charge time: 15 seconds
Inventor: Dr. Axal
Effects: Reverse input on bionic hand to fire a beam of charged Ki, but with a very low efficiency, due to low quality hand. Deals 1 base damage
Exertion: 5

Name: Really Focused Beam
Charge time: 1 minute
Inventor: Dr. Axal
Effects: Overclock bionic hand to fire a massive energy beam, uses at least one Ki battery charge, Deals 2 base damage times the current level of Ki Charging
Exertion: 30

Tell me if i need to make any tweaks