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[DreamerGhost]

Roll to magic

You are one of the mages, capable of influencing reality around you by will alone. But such power is not always enough, sometimes, you need more, sometimes you need a catlyst. And that is why you are here, and why they are here. Dying breath of a mage can be crystalized, their power and skill traped in a physical container. Many will die today, so that you would be able to shape the universe as you desire.

Spoiler: Basic RTD rules (click to show/hide)

For every action, a d6 will be roled. The number will determine your success.
Action: Take a walk.
1=Critical fail. You slip on dog poo and fall head first on concrete.
2=Fail. You slip on a banana peel and fall on the floor.
3=No fail/no success. You would go for a walk, but lying here is just too comfortable/ You trip on a root and fall into thick meadow grass.
4=Partial success. You have a nice walk, but you feel exausted at the end.
5=Success. You have a nice stroll around the area.
6=Overshot. You walk. And then you walk some more. And then just a bit further. You now have no idea where you are.

Spoiler: Stats (click to show/hide)

You start with 8 points. 0 points gives you a -1 to respective rolls, 1 point gives you unmodified roll,3/6/9/12/15 give you + 1/2/3/4/5 respectively. Max base stat can be 16.
Strength: Your physical power, used in lifting, tearing apart, maiming, and so on.
Dexterity: Your ability to aim, dodge, and do acrobatics.
Speed: Your ability to run fast, and initiative.
Endurance: Your physical durability, pain tolerance and such.
Potency: Strength of your spells.

Warning, Potency does not increase your chance of success.
Four points of strength give you additional point of endurance, and vice versa.
Same goes for speed and dexterity.


All the bonus is aplied to result of the roll, not to the roll itself.

Example:

Mook A punches Mook B in the face.
a)STR roll = 5 + 3=8
  Mook A crushes Mooks B head with the punch.
b)STR roll = 6 + 3=9
  Mook A crushes Mooks B head with the punch. Three of Mooks A fingers were broken by the froce of the punch.

Note:There would be other rolls involved in actual combat, but this is simply an example.

Spoiler: Magic afinities (click to show/hide)

You can choose anything that exists, and most things that don’t. You get a base +1 on all your spell success rolls.

You will be able to manipulate things that are directly your element for no malus on success rolls, but everything that is not your element will involve a penalty.

Say you chose weapons as a whole, and you want a steel zweihander, for legendary purposes. You would get -1 for specifying weapon, and -1 for specifying material, for a total of -2 to your roll. Choosing to summon a zweihander of unspecified material, or an unspecified steel weapon would only give you a -1.

Say you chose Ice, and want to control water, because water is just liquid ice. You get a -1 for specifying temperature of your ice. Or, if you want to control blood, which is currently not frozen, you get a -1 for temperature and another -1 for controlling the impurities of your liquid ice.

You get to phrase your actions, so be clever about it. Controlling a plant with water affinity could be:
a)Because plants come from water(-1) that is mixed with other materials(-1) which is then processed by other plants(-1) whom are powered by sunlight(-1).
b)By moving water that plants contain (-1) alongside all the impurities (-1).

Now anyone can create affinity specific essences. Creating an essence counts as a spell, what bonuses it will give to spellcast when used varies depending on rolls, though most will be +1/+1. You will have base +1 to CMP when creating this (no maluses for creating). You can use multiple essences for a cast, but only if the affinity for which the essence was created is used in the spell. You can only create essences for affinities that you have.

Spoiler: Soul shards (click to show/hide)

You start with five shards. Every kill gives you another five, plus extra five for each extra affinity and one for each extra stat point they purchased with shards, plus whatever amount was carried by your victim. Killing a shard summoned minion gives you shards depending on how powerful the minion was. You win by gathering 100 shards.

The shards can be spent on:

+1 to spell potency roll (1 shard)
+1 to curent CMP roll (2 shards)
+1 to POT stat (4 shards)
+1 to a random stat (5 shards)
+1 to a stat of your choice (6 shards)
Summoning of a non-magical minion (7 shards)
Gain another magical affinity (10 shards)
Double up on an afinity you already have, gaining +1/+1 to all spells of that afinity. (10 shards)
Gain +1 to all CMP rolls (12 shards)
Summoning of a magical minion (15 shards)
Improving a minnion (X shards, where X is the LUCK roll you rolled when summoning)
Shattering - you can shatter any number of shards for random results. You may get an artifact, blessing, curse, familiar, attacked by somthing, or you may triger some dormant power, say, a dormant god.

Spoiler: Gods (click to show/hide)

Every time you pray a LUCK roll is done to determine existence of god. If the reoll passes, another is done to check if the god cares abau your prayer. You can pray any ammount of times to an existing god and get a new roll for each prayer. If god does not exist, praying does not reroll for existing. You will not be told what was rolled. There are gods in the game, on the map, hidden. Calling to them will require shards.

Magic Modifiers
While you can chose what to controll or summon, should you want to do something more intricate, you will need to use the spell modifiers. Each modifier  incurs a penalty to your cast success roll. Basic mod is -1, Advanced is -2 and Master gives you -3.

For Special modifiers you can chose the level (Basic/Advanced/Master) to chose both the power of their effect and their penalty.

Spoiler: Basic (click to show/hide)

Solid:Summoned or affected matter or force will take up a solid form.
Ethereal Summoned or affected matter will be phased out of reality.
Ranged: Allows you to control or summon objects outside of touch range. The place still needs to be within your field of vision.
Light: Your summoned or spell affected material will weight half as much.
Large: Your spell will summon or affect twice the amount it would usually do.
Summon: Your spell will create something out of thin air.
Following: Your aimed spell will try to catch target if it stays within your field of vision.
Concealed: Summoned or affected material will change color according to the background to remain unnoticeable over the course of ten seconds.

Spoiler: Advanced (click to show/hide)

Weightless: Your summoned or spell affected material will weight nothing.
Huge: Your spell will summon or affect four times the amount it would usually do.
Mobile: Your summoned or spell affected material will move to your will. (Pot roll, small objects also become flying)
Hidden: Summoned or affected matter would be invisible until it hits/is hit by something solid, or hits/is hit by liquid at high speed.
Tracking: Your aimed spells will chase after targets, but this will not change spells movement or turning speeds.

Spoiler: Master (click to show/hide)

Massive: Your spell will summon or affect tenfold the amount it would usually do.
Animate: Same as mobile, but will be able to do some minor shape changing. (Weapons would be able to change to other weapons, golems would be able to reattach limbs, armor would become tougher when attacked and so on.
Invisible: Your summoned or spell affected material is invisible at all times.
Homing: Your targeted spell is guaranteed to hit.

Spoiler: Special modifiers (click to show/hide)

Quick Modifier: Can only work in projectiles. Damage is increased by 50% per level, rounded down.
Cluster Modifier: Allows summoning of multiple objects at the same time, but individually smaller.
Trigger Modifier: Triggers an Modifier when certain condition is achieved(eg. Ethereal when touched something 5 times).
Sense-Extension Modifier: Allows you to sense from an object. (Basic - touch. Advanced - hearing. Expert - sight)

Spoiler: Essences (click to show/hide)

You can create an essence of an afinity you have. This counts as a spell, and creates a patern of magic in your thoughts that can be used to boost your spell of that afinity. Essences can give your spell a boost up to +5/+5, but each essence decreases your SPD roll by 1 and DEX roll by 0.5.
Essence of +2/+1 means +2CMP and +1POT.
Essence bonuses
1/0* - 2=0
3 - 6     =+1
7 - 9     =+2
10 - 13 =+3
*If you get a total of 0 or lower on your CMP roll the essence collapses and a random effect related to the affinity based on a LUCK roll happens. On a total of -3 and below, the LUCK roll is skipped and result is as if the roll was poor.
If you get a total of -1 or lower on your POT roll, the result is an essence that grants CMP but takes POT. The same table of essence bonuses applies, but with all respective numbers being negative.

Spoiler: Rituals (click to show/hide)

How they work:
1)Wizard begins casting a ritual, specifying the intended effect and ritual sacrifices(items).
2)CMP and POT are rolled, essence boosting is allowed. On CMP 1 the ritual fails. On CMP 6 the ritual fires off early. Either effect can be avoided by burning one of the ritual sacrifices. POT is pooled.
3)Repeat 2 until wizard decides the ritual is powered enough.
4)Ritual fires off, remaining sacrifices are destroyed adding 2 POT per sacrifice.

Limits: 3 sacrifices per wizard, sacrifices have to be related to the effect of the ritual, all sacrifices have to be diferent.

Spoiler: Blood Power (click to show/hide)

Bood power: Lesser and Greater.
Lesser, adds +1/+1 to a spell, can exceed +5/+5 max essence limit, doesn't give DEX/SPD malus, but inflicts a wound.
Greater, adds +3/+3 to a spell, can exceed +5/+5 max essence limit, doesn't give DEX/SPD malus, inflicts a magical wound related to afinity used, more lethality potential than lesser version.
Both can be used once per spell. END roll can resist up to entirety of dammage, but don't count on it.
Dammage is inflicted after the spell is cast.

Spoiler: Example character sheet (click to show/hide)

Name:
Affinity:
Description(optional):
STR=
DEX=
SPD=
END=
POT=

Now with a charsheet

Spoiler: Table of Contents (click to show/hide)

Turn   0 
Turn   1
Turn   2 
Turn   3 
Turn   4 
Turn   5
Turn   6 
Turn   7
Turn   8 - We have first death
Turn   9
Turn  10
Turn  11
Turn  12
Turn  13
Turn  14
Turn  15
Turn  16
Turn  17
Turn  18
Turn  19
Turn  20 
Turn  21 - Gone camping
Turn  22 - Think before unthinking
Turn  23 - New poll
Turn  24 - New rules
Turn  25 - Now with safer cutting edge
Turn  26 - Ninja Magic
Turn  27 - Unstealable
Turn  28 - Exploration for Exploitation
Turn  29 - Mech bar
Turn  30 - Ultimate evil sword of Uncomparable corrupting power
Turn  31 - Dealing with daemons
Turn  32 - Mage of indestructium
Turn  33 - Adeptus Recoverus
Turn  34 - Basilisk effect
Turn  35 - Echo of explosion
Turn  36 - Murder in wholesale quantities
Turn  37 - To mark the land
Turn  38 - Don't feed the bears
Turn  39 - You are property of Omnissiach
Turn  40 - Tourists everywhere
Turn  41 - Spartacus mechanicus
Turn  42 - The meaning of life (It's battle)
Turn  43 - New mechanics
Turn  44 - Mercy Killing
Turn  45 - Natural diplomat
Turn  46 - Tzeentch is a dick
Turn  47 - Searching for secrets
Turn  48 - New poll
Turn  49 - Upcoming Storm
Turn  50 - Regrets
Turn  51 - This turn does not exist
Turn  52 - Back with schedule
Turn  53 - Eating a hedgehog
Turn  54 - Staff of Bait
Turn  55 - Tactical retreat is not cowardly
Turn  56 - Discretion is the better part of valor
Turn  57 - Winter is coming
Turn  58 - Terminators and explosions
Turn  59 - Blood diamonds
Turn  60 - Butcher’s reward
Turn  61 - Critical showers
Turn  62 - Back to your regular everyday murders
Turn  63 - No good deed goes unpunished
Turn  64 - Mind over matter
Turn  65 - How to know if universe hates you
Turn  66 - Reverse fishing
Turn  67 - Innovations in suicide bombing
Turn  68 - Drinking secrets past
Turn  69 - The magical number
Turn  70 - Hand cannon
Turn  71 - Mocking the (half)dead
Turn  72 - Artistic suicide contest
Turn  73 - Equal divine hate
Turn  74 - Crystal Dragon Jesus?
Turn  75 - Brawls and shootouts
Turn  76 - Cold war
Turn  77 - Fails parade
Turn  78 - Theft of the century
Turn  79 - Confusius maximus
Turn  80 - Darwin awards
Turn  81 - Greed and fall
Turn  82 - Secrets and delicacies
Turn  83 - Chase and memories
Turn  84 - Hunters and traps
Turn  85 - Arcane antiterrorist squad
Turn  86 - My spell is the one that will pierce the heavens
Turn  87 - Impact punch and desperate restoration
Turn  88 - Crushing defeats
Turn  89 - Influx of new blood
Turn  90 - Meanwhile, at 4 in the morning
Turn  91 - Of traps and summons
Turn  92 - Of shattered space and birds of steel
Turn  93 - Of thunder and fortune
Turn  94 - The bigger they are...
Turn  95 - ...the harder they fall
Turn  96 - Suspicious and illegal terraforming
Turn  97 - Exploring castles and volcanoes
Turn  98 - Poking the magmahill
Turn  99 - The most hated mage
Turn 100 - Reunion of the centturn
Turn 101 - Web of plots
Turn 102 - Tarzan, yer' a wizard.
Turn 103 - And life goes to the highest bidder
Turn 104 - Luck rolls revealed
Turn 105 - Resisting the swarm is useless, bow to new overlords
Turn 106 - Most harmless combat
Turn 107 - Blademasters and Bladedancers
Turn 108 - Wheel of samsara
Turn 109 - Bloody demons
Turn 110 - SCP-890 
Turn 111 - Trading blows and souls
Turn 112 - Luck for almost everyone
Turn 113 - Clear way, the king moves
Turn 114 - Calm before the storm
Turn 115 - The plot thickens
Turn 116 - Essence wizardly Russian roulette
Turn 117 - Council of killers
Turn 118 - “Construct additional votes”
Turn 119 - Deals with divinity
Turn 120 - Trollnapping and real estate
Turn 121 - Gathering and explorations
Turn 122 - Strange tomes and old enemies
Turn 123 - The council begins!
Turn 124 - The first exile
Turn 125 - I have waited so long for this to happen.
Turn 126 - And the winner of “Most doomed” award is…
Turn 127 - Beat that, Vader.
Turn 128 - Who you’re gonna call?
Turn 129 - The last trick
Turn 130 - Happenings all around
Turn 131 - Anticlimatic impacts
Turn 132 - Devilbait curse and secret assassins
Turn 133 - Unluckiest mage and celestial loot
Turn 134 - Plots and Conflicts
Turn 135 - Happy Christmas
Turn 136 - Midnight coffee edition
Turn 137 - Teamwork and Teamslacking
Turn 138 - Falcon hunting and flight
Turn 139 - Cagefighting and Extreme Gardening
Turn 140 - The rain of fails and din of battle
Turn 141 - The time to panic is now
Turn 142 - There is always a bigger fish
Turn 142.1 - Down to two
Turn 143 - Back on track
Turn 144 - Fun and !!FUN!! for all
Turn 145 - Unpacking
Turn 146 - Crits all around
Turn 147 - Possibly good edition
Turn 148 - Fortune hates the cheaters
Turn 149 - Motherload has landed
Turn 150 - Duels abound
Turn 151 - Flying threats
Turn 152 - The day of rest
Turn 153 - Flesh-eating beasts for all
Turn 154 - Magical styleoff/snoboff
Turn 155 - Totally on time
Turn 156 - Invisible Angel of Death
Turn 157 - Bombastic Boss Battle Begins
Turn 158 - Returning fire and teamwork
Turn 159 - One down, five to go
Turn 160 - New players and Successful rituals
Turn 161 - Time to get out of here…oh wait
Turn 162 - Annihilator array in action
Turn 163 - Injuries Traded
Turn 164 - New Trouble and New Allies
Turn 165 - Nat 10
Turn 166 - Return of explorers and New Tactics
Turn 167 - Critical hit
Turn 168 - Misguided efforts
Turn 169 - Turn for worse
Turn 170 - Morality roulette
Turn 171 - Explosive Finale
Turn 172 - Loot and Exploration
Turn 173 - To be changed
Turn 174 - Halberd of Neutrality
Turn 175 - Mythical restoration
Turn 176 - Ilium Returns
Turn 177 - Merchants of Miracles
Turn 178 - Misscasts and Plots
Turn 179 - Anime battles and Time shifts
Turn 180 - Friendship and Pondering
Turn 181 - Fighting Ghosts and Conjuring Relicts
Turn 182 - Ghostbusters and Kiting
Turn 183 - Cultists and Saviors
Turn 184 - Musical Growth and Combat
Turn 185 - Magepiles all around
Turn 186 - Planar travel and Space exploration
Turn 187 - Conflicted destinations
Turn 188 - Greatest of mistakes
Turn 189 - Fresh meat and Fresh mist
Turn 190 - Struggles and Bloody assassins
Turn 191 - Crispy good and Unexpected complications
Turn 192 - To burn or not to burn?
Turn 193 - The great escapes
Turn 194 - Revolving door of life
Turn 195 - The dead return
Turn 196 - The luckiest of rolls
Turn 197 - Fresh spring air
Turn 198 - Fun for all involved
Turn 199 - Not as planned
Turn 200 - Dicentury
Turn 201 - Combat for all
Turn 202 - Half the combat's missing
Turn 203 - The wolf comes
Turn 204 - Traps and Treasures
Turn 205 - Congregation begins
Turn 206 - TBF
Turn 207 - The second council
Turn 208 - Battle of words
Turn 209 - Cocroaches
Turn 210 - And we're back
Turn 211 - Happy new year!
Turn 212 - The first explosion
Turn 213 - What is a sword?
Turn 214 - Plagiarism is flattery
Turn 215 - New mage with new magery
Turn 216 - Porridge of doom
Turn 217 - The most delicate ax

anonymous suggestions/opinions.
http://www.quicktopic.com/52/H/SKx6RqwLhPHh

You can cast a spell in combination with another mage. This will allow usage of both afinities, possibly reducing complexity penalty, and the total power will be combined power of all mages involved (power is roled sepperately for each one). But the success will also be roled for all mages involved seperately, so wach out for spectacular failures.

Your movement alowance is calculated as follows: (SPD roll+your bonus)/2+1

This is my first time being GM to a RTD, so if you have any sugestions, questions or balance issues, post them, and I'll answer.

[BlitzDungeoneer]

Name: Kirby, Devourer of Worlds
Affinity: Transformation.
Description: A round pink ball with a face, and arms and feet, wearing a green santa hat.
STR:1
DEX:0
SPD:3
END:1
POT:3

[NAV]

Name: James
Affinity: Healing
Description: A short man wearing a canadian ww1 medic uniform and round glasses.
Str: 1
Dex: 1
Spd: 1
End: 2
Pot: 3

Shards: 5

[4maskwolf]

Name: Ryan Feng
Affinity: Fire
Description: (will do later)
Attributes:
STR:1
DEX: 1
SPD:1
END:1
POT: 4

[Crimson]

Name: Crimson
Affinity: Force
Description(optional): A man of average height with a rather long brown messy hair wearing a cloak with the hood up, obscuring most of his face.
STR=0
DEX=3
SPD=1
END=1
POT=3

[BlitzDungeoneer]

Name: Crimson
Affinity: Force
Description(optional): A man of average height with a rather long brown messy hair wearing a cloak with the hood up, obscuring most of his face.
STR=0
DEX=3
SPD=1
END=1
POT=3

The Force is strong in this one.

[Crimson]

The Force is strong in this one.

Hahaha. It truly is. Though in truth, I wasn't even thinking about that when trying to come up with my affinity.

[BlitzDungeoneer]

I'm aware. Otherwise you would have had to state 'The Force', not just Force. Imma copy yo abilities with mine, bro.

[DreamerGhost]

Name: Kirby, Devourer of Worlds
Affinity: Copying abilities of other beings.
Description: A round pink ball with a face, and arms and feet, wearing a green santa hat.
STR:1
DEX:0
SPD:3
END:1
POT:3

See, now, "The abbility to copy abilities of other beings" is what I would call overpowered in its raw form. So I'll have to either limit you to Stealing seperate spells that were cast (Say, "summon mobile halberd", for example) or incur heavy penalties for copying.

[BlitzDungeoneer]

Aww... But I'm Kirby! That's what I do! Maybe make it so I have to eat them to do so or something...

[darkpaladin109]

Name: Wizard Wizardton the Wizard
Affinity: Magic
Description(optional): A old, bearded man in a wizard robe and hat, wearing pink bunny slippers.
STR= 0
DEX= 0
SPD= 0
END= 0
POT= 8

[DreamerGhost]

Name: Wizard Wizardton the Wizard
Affinity: Magic
Description(optional): A old, bearded man in a wizard robe and hat, wearing pink bunny slippers.
STR= 0
DEX= 0
SPD= 0
END= 0
POT= 8

Magic, as in Arcane?

Aww... But I'm Kirby! That's what I do! Maybe make it so I have to eat them to do so or something...

If we were to get technical, you were suposted to pick a thing or a force which would act as the keystone of all your spells, not an ability. If you want to roleplay kirby, whenever you kill somone, you could buy whatever afinity they had (10 shards).

[BlitzDungeoneer]

Ooooooh. That's what you meant. Gonna change my affinity, but totally doing what you suggested.

[darkpaladin109]

Name: Wizard Wizardton the Wizard
Affinity: Magic
Description(optional): A old, bearded man in a wizard robe and hat, wearing pink bunny slippers.
STR= 0
DEX= 0
SPD= 0
END= 0
POT= 8

Magic, as in Arcane?

Sure.

[DreamerGhost]

This is mostly for Darkpaladin, but worth remembering for evryone.

Whenever you cast a spell, you will need to specify how your chosen afinity fits into the spell. Look at the examples in Magic afinities if the procedure is unclear for you.