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[blazing glory]

"Mengalir was a more or less peaceful world,of course there was wars or banditry or such here or there but it was stable,dragon's territory was charted and respected,making sure that dragon attack were at a minimum,monster territory was walled off keeping wandering monsters away,the big 3 civilized races,Humans,Elves,and Dwarfs,had managed to create a permanent peace treaty between each other."

"This lasted for more than 1000 years,then a particularly large cult,calling themselves The Followers of Orivowas,had summoned a god and tried to bind him to their will,he had sent a wave of destruction throughout the land in outrage,killing all it touched and converting the land into volcanic wasteland with no breathable atmosphere."

"The mages had held back the wave for half a month,giving the Dwarfs,who are the most tech-savvy of the 3 races,the time to research and develop technology that would propel cities upwards and keep them there,though they only had time to equip the capitals and a few cities before the mages couldn't hold the wave back anymore."

"The god who did this,according to the cultist texts,was not Orivowas,but one of his enemies instead,they had believed that Orivowas would protect them and give them the power to defeat the god,this was obviously not the case,the god's name had been lost to the destruction,so he is simply referred to as The Unknown God."

"There's much debate as to why the sky wasn't poisoned as well or why Mengalir wasn't destroyed outright,some say that he was weakened by the cultists,others think that he judged rendering the land uninhabitable as enough punishment,and some others think he was just a weak god in general,there's plenty other theories as well."

"The destruction had other effects besides destroying the land as well,only a very very gifted few can use magic,though a slightly larger amount can enchant equipment,there's a lot of debate as to the cause of this as well,people think that The Unknown God cursed the Mengalir's magic,or that in the desperate efforts of the mages to slow down the destruction they dealt a serious wound to the flow of magic."

"Another effect is that clerics,paladins,and other people of faith could no longer call upon their gods,there's less debate on the cause of this,most people think that the gods just left to start over somewhere else."

"That was 400 years ago,not much has changed."

"Now that I've refreshed your memory,will you kindly tell me who on earth you lot are?"

What is this?

This is a fantasy-ish Steampunk game that I'm starting up

Orivowas? "The Unknown God"? The names are a bit goofy aren't they?

Pretty much.

Little magic? No gods?

I don't really like everyone being mages and blasting other mages with water and fire and lightning.

Can I be a mage?

Yes but you will have suffer a penalty that I will cover in the character sheet format below and some of the more dubious individuals want to use mages to further their own agenda,capturing them to "Convince" them to see their way and such.

Anything else?

I'm gonna use a D20

How many players?

8.

Spoiler: Character sheet format (click to show/hide)

Name:
Gender:
Race:Chose one of the big 3,
Dwarf: get a 2+ to intelligence and 1+ to endurance but 1- to Dex.
Elf: get a 2+ to their magic stat and a +1 to their Dex and charisma but suffer a 1- to endurance.
Human: get a 1+ to Charisma and strength and Dex.
Backstory:
Physical description:
Mage:Y/N?

Stats: You have 15 points to spend,stats need 3 points for a 1+,if your a mage than all you get is 8 points,stats can be increased by using them a lot during game play,also intelligence does not help your magic rolls,you'll have to upgrade your magic stat during gameplay,as there aren't many mages around,there isn't really anyone to teach you.

Anything under 1 is a 1-,if it's in the negative then it's a 2-,you can't withdraw stats points into the negative and put them somewhere else,negative stat value can only come from race.

Strength:
Intelligence:
Dexterity:
Endurance:
Charisma:

Skills: skills on the other hand,only require 1 point for a 1+ roll modifier,but the off side is that they are very specific to what they boost,maximum point limit for skills is 4,you can also learn new skills in gameplay.

[blazing glory]

Reserved.
Players

Spoiler: Sinvara (click to show/hide)

Name: Ashala Valessa.
Gender: Female.
Race: Elf.
Backstory: Bored of killing city residents, Ashala figured that there were more entertaining things to fight in the outside world, so she picked up her long sword and started her search for adventure.
Physical description: Standing at 5'8" is a woman with hazel coloured eyes and short brown hair, she has a sharp chin and a smile that conveys her thoughts of random murder, her thinness easily shows where her bones and veins are.
Mage: N.

Stats:

Strength: 3 (3)
Intelligence: 3 (3)
Dexterity:1+1 (2)
Endurance: 4-1 (3)
Charisma: 3+1 (4)

Skills: Fast 1: Gains a bonus to speed in the heat of battle.

Inventory:Damaged long sword.

Spoiler: EagleV (click to show/hide)

Name: Thorgrim
Gender: Male
Race: Dwarf
Backstory: Thorgrim worked as an engineer in the air docks for the past twenty years, as did his father and grandfather before him. He fitted right in with the rest of the workers, being naturally talented in both mechanics and bar brawls. Recently, however, an accident with one of the larger boilers forced him to rethink his life. He gave up his job, and is now on the lookout for something else.
Physical description: Thorgrim is slightly smaller, though no less bulky than your average dwarf. He's never seen without a leather apron, or his trusty hammer and wrench hanging from his belt. His dark brown hair already shows a few white streaks.
Mage: N

Stats: 1 in str, 3 in dex, total 12 points

Strength: 1 (1)
Intelligence: 0+2 (2)
Dexterity: 3-1 (2)
Endurance: 0+1 (1)
Charisma: 0 (0)

Skills:
Engineering 2
Weapon (Hammer) 1

Inventory:Mechanic's hammer, 1- AIM 1+ DAMAGE.

Spoiler: Patrick Hunt (click to show/hide)

Name: Harvey Khai
Gender: Male.
Race:Human
Backstory: Harvey is a young man who believes that an order should be established to hunt down and destroy the cult's who worship the darker gods and bring ruin to the people. He grew up with the stories of what had happened and what was done to the world through magic and decided that if it was not stopped then one day a god would come again and finish what was began 400 years ago and so the child of a wealthy family he spent his childhood being trained to wield blades and guns and studying how his family dealt with other's learning the skills he would one day need to gather to him those who shared his purpose.

Recently his family was destroyed by a mage, one Harvey belies to be a cultist come to kill him for his plans but fortune favored him as when the mage struck he was not in his families home, several days after his family died a mage was found eviscerated in an alley but no witnesses to the crime could be found and Harvey had vanished after his families funeral to begin his work.

Physical description: Tall and slim with well defined muscles and cropped brown hair.
Mage: N

Stats:
Strength: 2+1 (3)
Intelligence:0 (0)
Dexterity: 5+1 (6)
Endurance: 3 (3)
Charisma: 5+1 (6)
Inventory:Brace of revolvers.

Spoiler: Cptn Kaladin Anrizlokum (click to show/hide)

Name: Melek Annaputone
Gender: Do dwarves have gender here? Female then.
Race: Dwarf: get a 2+ to intelligence and 1+ to endurance but 1- to Dex.
Backstory: She has always lived here in the hunter's guild, but doesn't like how little they know about what they are hunting. If she could find the dragon's island then she could capture one alive! Who knows, they might be able to domesticate them given enough time!
Physical description: She has long brown hair and stone grey eyes, a rarity here. She is rather thin for a dwarf, which would be about average on a human.
Mage: N

Strength: 3 (3)
Intelligence: 4+2 (6)
Dexterity: 4-1 (3)
Endurance: 2+1 (3)
Charisma: 1 (1)

Skills: Hunting 1

Inventory:Nothing notable.

Spoiler: UltraValican (click to show/hide)

Name:Dchar Guodon(Born Richard Gordain)
Gender: Male
Race: Human (1+ to Charisma and strength and Dex)
Backstory: Was the son of a pair gunsmiths, who taught him his trade. Richard was a prodigy when it came to gunsmithing and relished working with his parents. He also had some proclivity at marksmanship. His town was destroyed by marauders when he was around 15, Richard managed to survive the massacre. Despite his skills, Richard was a very shy and introverted young man. He had no family outside of town or friends. Survivors left the smouldering town, with Richard still in it. In that town and the surrounding area, Richard managed to survive for 10 years. He hunted with his own firearms and weapons and lived in the decaying inns and homes as he saw fit. As food became scarce he began to drift away from the ruins of his old home, never encountering civilization. When Richard finally met another human soul, he learned that his ability to speak the common tongue had degenerated. Unable to pronounce his own name correctly, he now answers to his crude vocalization of it: Dchar Guodon.
Physical description:His skin is tanned and scarred. His finger nails and hair are absolutely filthy and unkempt. His yellow,toothy grin is unerving. Many assume him to be an idiot until they look into his eyes, which seem to gleam with some sort of strange intelligence.
Mage:N
Strength:(1+2) 3
Intelligence:(0+3) 3
Dexterity:(1+5) 6
Endurance:(0+1) 1
Charisma:(1+0) 1
Skills
Gunsmithing(2)
Weapon(Guns)(2)

Inventory:Legendary smith's rifle AIM 1+ DAMAGE 4+.

Sleeping off a massive hangover.

Spoiler: Wwolin (click to show/hide)

Name: Liliana Pedenza
Gender: Female
Race: Human
Backstory: Liliana is an ameteur scientist with a slightly unhealthy obsession with the world on the ground and all of the magically-altered things that can be found there. Upon hearing rumors about a strange group meeting at the docks for some sort of  adventure, she headed into town to investigate, hoping that they might be headed to the ground, or at least somewhere more interesting than this godforsaken dwarf town.
Physical description: A young woman standing roughly 5'5", with long and curly brown hair and big brown eyes. Coming to the docks right from her lab (which is little more than a souped up basement), she's still wearing a white labcoat, along with a pair of safety goggles resting on her forehead.
Mage:N

Stats:
Strength: 0+1 (1)
Intelligence: 6 (6)
Dexterity: 3+1 (4)
Endurance: 3 (3)
Charisma: 0+1 (1)

Skills:
Combat Dissection I
Alchemy II

Inventory:Omaric's dictionary to creatures of flight:3+ to fighting or talking about creatures of flight.

Rules

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Combat will be done on a small battle map, with various terrain objects and statuses depending on situation.

Example.

This is hypothetical battle in tundra while in a blizzard.

#######
#D #####
#####T #
#######
#T #####
####d ##
#######
D:Example dummy 1:Blizzard:3- to ranged attacks, Snow:2- to DEX.
d:Example dummy 2:Blizzard:3- to ranged attacks, Snow:2- to DEX, wounded leg:2- to DEX.
#:Tile.
T:Tree.

Players are to use this when declaring movement.

NW  N   NE

W    @    E

SW  S   SE

Attack will require both a STR roll and a DEX roll.

Stats and skill increases.

Rolling to use a skill will take whatever number you roll, and uses it to increase your skill, aka (4) (navigating 4%), rolling 10 or higher get's a stat increase chance, if you roll another 10 or higher then the stat will increase, unlike skills, stat's will always increase by 5%.

[EagleV]

Are the skills okay, or too broad?

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Name: Thorgrim
Gender: Male
Race: Dwarf
Backstory: Thorgrim worked as an engineer in the air docks for the past twenty years, as did his father and grandfather before him. He fitted right in with the rest of the workers, being naturally talented in both mechanics and bar brawls. Recently, however, an accident with one of the larger boilers forced him to rethink his life. He gave up his job, and is now on the lookout for something else.
Physical description: Thorgrim is slightly smaller, though no less bulky than your average dwarf. He's never seen without a leather apron, or his trusty hammer and wrench hanging from his belt. His dark brown hair already shows a few white streaks.
Mage: N

Stats: 1 in str, 3 in dex, total 12 points

Strength: 1 = 1
Intelligence: 0 + 2 = 2
Dexterity: 3 - 1 = 2
Endurance: 0 + 1 = 1
Charisma: 0 + 0 = 0

Skills:
Engineering 2
Weapon (Hammer) 1

[Orange Wizard]

Do stats start at 1?

Spoiler: If not, I'll re-do this (click to show/hide)

Name: Owen Scott
Gender: M
Race: Dwarf
Backstory: While growing up, Owen was bullied mercilessly. But now he plans to learn arcane secrets and blast everyone from his home into little bits!
Physical description: Short, stout, bearded... a dwarf.
Mage: Y

Stats:
Strength: 1
Intelligence: 1
Dexterity: 2
Endurance: 3
Charisma: 1

Skills: Blast Ye: Owen gains a +2 bonus to magically blast someone he knows personally.

[BlitzDungeoneer]

Spoiler: WIP (click to show/hide)

Name: Louis Belizaire
Gender: male
Race: Human
Backstory: Louis was a fairly ordinary, if magical, teenager. There really isn't anything particularly interesting about his past, save one event; the Great Conflagration of Arvon, a fire resulting from a Mage attempting to create everlasting fire, and succeeding. He didn't't account for actually having a way to put it out, or restraining himself in making it. This fire killed over 5,000 people of the original population of 5,700, destroyed the town, and the fire still burns to this day.
Description: Louis has fairly odd green hair, as well as blue eyes. He has a rather nasty burn on the right side of his face. He is rather lanky. He prefers to wear trenchcoats for whatever reason.
Mage: Y

Stats
STR 1
INT 3
DEX 3
END 1
CHA 1

Skills
Water Magic 1
Earth Magic 1

[blazing glory]

Do stats start at 1?

Spoiler: If not, I'll re-do this (click to show/hide)

Name: Owen Scott
Gender: M
Race: Dwarf
Backstory: While growing up, Owen was bullied mercilessly. But now he plans to learn arcane secrets and blast everyone from his home into little bits!
Physical description: Short, stout, bearded... a dwarf.
Mage: Y

Stats:
Strength: 1
Intelligence: 1
Dexterity: 2
Endurance: 3
Charisma: 1

Skills: Blast Ye: Owen gains a +2 bonus to magically blast someone he knows personally.

They start at 0.

Also one doesn't learn magic,you either have it or not.

[blazing glory]

Are the skills okay, or too broad?

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Name: Thorgrim
Gender: Male
Race: Dwarf
Backstory:
Physical description:
Mage: N

Stats: 1 in str, 3 in dex, total 12 points

Strength: 1 = 1
Intelligence: 0 + 2 = 2
Dexterity: 3 - 1 = 2
Endurance: 0 + 1 = 1
Charisma: 0 + 0 = 0

Skills:
Engineering 2
Weapon (Hammer) 1

It's fine.

How's this?

Spoiler: Character (click to show/hide)

Name: Ashala Valessa.
Gender: Female.
Race: Elf.
Backstory: Bored of killing city residents, Ashala figured that there were more entertaining things to fight in the outside world, so she picked up her long sword and started her search for adventure.
Physical description: Standing at 5'8" is a woman with hazel coloured eyes and short brown hair, she has a sharp chin and a smile that conveys her thoughts of random murder, her thinness easily shows where her bones and veins are.
Mage: N.

Stats:

Strength: 3.
Intelligence: 3.
Dexterity: 1.
Endurance: 1.
Charisma: 3.

Skills: Fast: Gains a bonus to speed in the heat of battle.

It's alright.

[BlitzDungeoneer]

Do I have to use points for the branches of magic I will use?
Edit: Nevermind, re-read OP.
What are the limits of magic in this? What can it do, what can it not?

[blazing glory]

Do I have to use points for the branches of magic I will use?

No.

[blazing glory]

Do I have to use points for the branches of magic I will use?
Edit: Nevermind, re-read OP.
What are the limits of magic in this? What can it do, what can it not?

There isn't much limits,but I might decide to put in some penalties if it's particularly powerful,making it nigh impossible to pull off without a trained magic stat and even then being somewhat tricky to pull off.

[blazing glory]

Do stats start at 1?

Spoiler: If not, I'll re-do this (click to show/hide)

Name: Owen Scott
Gender: M
Race: Dwarf
Backstory: While growing up, Owen was bullied mercilessly. But now he plans to learn arcane secrets and blast everyone from his home into little bits!
Physical description: Short, stout, bearded... a dwarf.
Mage: Y

Stats:
Strength: 1
Intelligence: 1
Dexterity: 2
Endurance: 3
Charisma: 1

Skills: Blast Ye: Owen gains a +2 bonus to magically blast someone he knows personally.

I'd appreciate it if you put a little bit more color/history and appearance into your character,not too much more,just something a little bit more interesting than "Was bullied and now he wants to kill them." and "Is a Dwarf."

[BlitzDungeoneer]

Finished sheet.

[Orange Wizard]

Actually, never mind. My imagination died, so any chances of a less boring and stereotypical character are slim to nil. Someone else can take my spot, if you're using spots.

[blazing glory]

Spoiler: WIP (click to show/hide)

Name: Louis Belizaire
Gender: male
Race: Human
Backstory: Louis was a fairly ordinary, if magical, teenager. There really isn't anything particularly interesting about his past, save one event; the Great Conflagration of Arvon, a fire resulting from a Mage attempting to create everlasting fire, and succeeding. He didn't't account for actually having a way to put it out, or restraining himself in making it. This fire killed over 5,000 people of the original population of 5,700, destroyed the town, and the fire still burns to this day.
Description: Louis has fairly odd green hair, as well as blue eyes. He has a rather nasty burn on the right side of his face. He is rather lanky. He prefers to wear trenchcoats for whatever reason.
Mage: Y

Stats
STR 1
INT 3
DEX 3
END 1
CHA 1

Skills
Water Magic 1
Earth Magic 1

Your one point over the limit.

3 if you count the 2 skills.

EDIT sorry,forgot about racial bonuses.

[Patrick Hunt]

Sheet coming within the hour.

Name: Harvey Khai
Gender: Male.
Race:Human
Backstory: Harvey is a young man who believes that an order should be established to hunt down and destroy the cult's who worship the darker gods and bring ruin to the people. He grew up with the stories of what had happened and what was done to the world through magic and decided that if it was not stopped then one day a god would come again and finish what was began 400 years ago and so the child of a wealthy family he spent his childhood being trained to wield blades and guns and studying how his family dealt with other's learning the skills he would one day need to gather to him those who shared his purpose.

Recently his family was destroyed by a mage, one Harvey belies to be a cultist come to kill him for his plans but fortune favored him as when the mage struck he was not in his families home, several days after his family died a mage was found eviscerated in an alley but no witnesses to the crime could be found and Harvey had vanished after his families funeral to begin his work.

Physical description: Tall and slim with well defined muscles and cropped brown hair.
Mage: N

Stats:
Strength: 3
Intelligence:
Dexterity: 6
Endurance: 3
Charisma: 6