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[Stas]

IC GAME THREAD : http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=147387.0

Welcome to The Adventures of the 9th Royal Legion! (Interest check edition)
In this game, you will assume the roles of simple rank and file soldiers of the 9th Royal Legion.
The idea is, instead of being special snowflake brooding anti-heroes, the players are faceless/nameless canonfo-... soldiers with a slim chance of rising above that through sheer luck. While you will probably die a horrible death at the hands of the many enemies of the Kingdom, you may yet rise to lead the Legion and, eventually, retire as a wealthy general.
This RP plays similar to a boardgame, most of the playing revolves around combat, with periods of travel and decision making at different levels of the Legion.
While your input in the actual combat will be minimal, I encourage you to keep a diary/log for your character and fluff them up with interactions between different characters.
As members of the Legion you will encounter many scenarios, they will range from besieging cities, to open field combat, to smaller-scale operations.
Do your duty by the Kingdom and the Queen!

RULES

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ADDENDUM!
Please include what sort of weapon you would prefer.
As of right now, you will all have standard issue Legion armour, but, depending on the decisions a commander makes, this may change.

EXAMPLE

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We will first create a couple of characters.
Char 1:
His name is Jimbo, he is a simple farmer's son who joined the Legion to make some money that he could send home to his family.
His stats have been distributed as such 1/1/2/3
His traits are Tough and Weak Will
His final stats, after taking into account the traits are 1/1/2/4
He is the given a character sheet like this one.

The stats are colour-coded.
Blue = ATK (to hit bonus)
Green = DMG (damage bonus)
Gray = ARM (armour, extra HP to be bypassed by attacks)
Red = HP (lose it all and you die)

Scenario:
The Legion is defending a small fortified village from Beastmen raiders which came from the West.
The commander has decided to put most of his forces (including Jimbo) at the gates which have just been breached.
The Legionnaires are outnumbered two to one, meaning that the players must face two enemies in this turn of combat.
The GM (me) makes the rolls and sees that Jimbo has survived their first enemy.

 While Jimbo is wounded, and has 3 HP left, the GM then rolls and Jimbo notices that there is a Troll making his way through and adjacent street. Jimbo decides to opt out of trying to intercept him and remains with the other soldiers, bringing him to the next enemy.
A combat round is rolled and Jimbo barely pulls through with 1 HP left. 

The turn is now up, the commander has new strategical decisions to make, the gate is barely holding, and there is a troll rampaging behind his lines. He redirects his troops and calls out new objectives for the coming turn. Rinse/repeat until defeat or Victory.
For the first scenario I will be acting as commander, but after that, it will all be players.

Let me know if you would be interested in this sort of game.

WAITING LIST
LuckyKobold

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Name: Gorlack The Unbroken
1/3/1/1
Traits
Strong(Gorlack Break You!)
Strong-Willed(Gorlack Have No Fear!)
Leader(Gorlack Lead Mighty Sword Brothers Against Weaklings!)
Troll Bane(Troll Kill Gorlack Family Troll Die!)

Inattentive(No Weakling Smart Enough To Sneak Up On Gorlack!)
Drag(Gorlack Dead! Run Away!)
Unarmored(Gorlack Need No Armor!)
Slow(Gorlack Muscle Slow Gorlack)

Back Story: Gorlack was an Ignorant Savage living on the borders of the Empire when Trolls Slaughtered His Mother,Father,and 27 Brothers driving him Mad with Rage So He Joined The Military,So He Get Shiny Stabby Pole To Kill Trolls And Anything Else!

Gorlack Want Battle Axe!

Kj1225

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Biggus Dickus
2/1/2/2
Sneaky
Weakwilled
Actually a mercenary that accidentally got confused for a soldier. Biggus decided it would be better to just shut up and pretend that these crazy foreigners are correct. After all, they're paying him and feeding him. And the women are a plus as well.
Biggus Dickus.

Dwarmin
Hicratas

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3/1/1/1
Quick, Vigilant
Unarmored, Weak Will
Hicratas was caught poaching in the Queen's Forest. Unfortunately, his rougeish charm didn't lead him to woo her and become her Prince as he had always secretly hoped-they arrested him, and impressed him into the Legion. He's still a hopeless romantic.
Longbow (and hatchet)

Zomara0292

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Towa
2/1/1/3
Quick, tough
Unarmored, Inattentive
Blowgun and blow darts
A bit esoteric when it comes to his skills, he has a habit of using his blow gun as a blunt weapon, than as a ranged weapon. But, when he does, he mostly misses what he aims for.

Hawk132

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Name: Verin Wolfrock
Base stats: 2/1/2/2
Traits:
Armored Weak Will
Vigilant Inattentive
Net Stats: 2/1/3/2
Background: Former mercenary that joined the 9th Legion for the glory. And money.
Weapon: Two-handed sword

Instant Hax

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Name: Sariel
1/0/3/3
History:
Sariel was born into a trading family. At the early age of 5, Sariel has already been working alongside his father. As Sariel grew up into a young lad, he began to learn more and more about what to look for and how to communicate with people. When Sariel's father was murdered by a group of bandits due to debts, Sariel decided that he didn't want to end up like his father and instead joined the army in hopes of a new life.
Traits:
Observant(Years of trading have trained Sariel's eyes to be very keen).
Armored(Sariel used the last of his money to purchase a reinforced set of armor).
Weak(Sariel was born a trader, not a warrior).
Drag(Tbh I'm not even sure what this does lol)
Weapon: Scimitar
What a scimitar looks like:http://vignette2.wikia.nocookie.net/mountandblade/images/5/52/Elite_Scimitar_%28Warband%29.png/revision/latest?cb=20120311145914

High Tyrol

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name:Jack Jeremy
3 att
3 dmg
1 arm
2 hp

Strong
Sneaky
Quick
Martyr
Hemophiliac
Unarmored
Distracted
Weak will

[Cptn Kaladin Anrizlokum]

I would be interested.
Leader and Drag, what do those do exactly?

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Kaladin
2/1/2/2
Leader and Medic
Drag and Distracted
Just another soldier who joined the army to protect the Kingdom.
Spear (and shortsword)

[Haspen]

This is confusing to my simple mind, therefore PTW.

[Stas]

Hey, thanks for showing interest in this.
During combat, the players have personal battles in which only they take part, but there is also a bigger fight going on all around them.
Depending on how the players do in their own encounters, it will affect the overall battle happening around them.
So leader and drag both affect that.
By simply being in a battle you automatically affect it positively, if you survive, on top of the bonus from wining your fight, you will add another bonus point to that roll.
With drag, if you die, 2 points are deducted from the over all battle roll.
I hope you understand what I mean.

Also, I forgot to write it and have added it now, what weapon would you like on your soldier?
This is purely fluff-related.

This is confusing to my simple mind, therefore PTW.

I am not good at explaining things.

[GiglameshDespair]

Why would someone choose x-bane skill (e.g., specific damage) or just the strong skill (universal damage increase)?

[TopHat]

Sounds good.

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Name: Rufus Meyer
Base stats: 1/2/2/2
Traits:
Noble, Observant
Weak, Hemophiliac
Net Stats: 1/1/2/2
Background: well, his father was an officer in the Royal Legion, and so was his grandfather, and so was his great-grandfather and so on, probably all the way back to the first legion's founding. So it was only natural that Rufus follow in their footsteps.
Weapon: longsword

[scapheap]

Ox
2/0/3/3
Strong, Armoured, Strong-willed
Inattentive, Distracted, Slow
A large slow-spoken man. His odd jawline shows that one of his great-grandfather got fresh with a troll.
A hammer.

[LuckyKobold]

Character Sheet
Name: Gorlack The Unbroken
ATK:1
DMG:3
ARM:2
HP:1
Traits

Strong(Gorlack Break You!)
Strong-Willed(Gorlack Have No Fear!)
Leader(Gorlack Lead Mighty Sword Brothers Against Weaklings!)
Troll Bane(Troll Kill Gorlack Family Troll Die!)

Inattentive(No Weakling Smart Enough To Sneak Up On Gorlack!)
Drag(Gorlack Dead! Run Away!)
Unarmored(Gorlack Need No Armor!)
Slow(Gorlack Muscle Slow Gorlack)

Back Story: Gorlack was an Ignorant Savage living on the borders of the Empire when Trolls Slaughtered His Mother,Father,and 27 Brothers driving him Mad with Rage So He Joined The Military,So He Get Shiny Stabby Pole To Kill Trolls And Anything Else!

Gorlack Want Battle Axe!

This Okay?

[Aseaheru]

Everett Owen

2/1/1/2
Observant
Vigilant
Drag
Unarmored

Ranged weapon

A short, hair covered man who probally should not be here.

Have the squishyman, who should probally be at the back...

[LuckyKobold]

Gorlack grinds his tusks teeth in anticipation.

[NAV]

Gregory Balder
2/3/1/0

Strong
Quick
Martyr
Sickly
Hemophiliac
Unarmoured

Flail

A tall muscular man who occasionally coughs up blood.
He doesn't have long anyway, might as well kill before dying.

[bahihs]

Othil of Cabnul Fothorr:

2/1/3/1

Traits:
Observant
Sneak

Weak
Weak-Willed

A coward, recruited from a peasant village by lottery; he is quick in eye and foot, weak in arm, weaker in will and leads a life of lost luck (as the lottery can attest). His philosophy is crude and selfish, but he is not unkind. War will make a man of him...probably, a dead man.

[Stas]

Why would someone choose x-bane skill (e.g., specific damage) or just the strong skill (universal damage increase)?

You would take them together, so let's say you have strong and trollbane, you normally smash skulls and on top of that smash even more troll skulls.

You guys are all good. I'll begin working on your sheets.

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I love the characters, but you need to change some stats, in the rules it says that you can only put your 5 stat points into ATK/DMG/HP.
Base armour remains 2 unless Armour or Unarmoured traits have been selected.
Change that and you are good to go.

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Please, don't submit any more new applications. I want to run a test scenario to see what a good number of people would be.
Don't worry, places will open up.

[scapheap]

And corrected stats.

[Stas]

Here are the sheet so far.
Like others that adjusted their characters, just edit your original post.

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