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Niagra Falls

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A normal college

2 (9.5%)

New York

2 (9.5%)

Tokyo

7 (33.3%)

Hell

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Other? Post in thread

1 (4.8%)

I'm GM and want to see the results.

4 (19%)

Total Members Voted: 21

[Adragis]

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Name: Larissa Heller
Sex: Female
Gender: Female
Age: 15
Supernatural Type: Shares a body with another spirit, although it may simply be another side of her own. The two switch in response to intense positive or negative emotion.
Description: Larissa stands about average height for someone of her age. Her eyes are sea-green, and her hair is a sandy blonde. She's usually cheerful, and kind to almost everyone.
However, when her other side (who prefers to be referred to as Rosa) is dominant, her hair darkens to a dark brown, and her eyes become maroon. Her personality at this point is practically the opposite: snappish, harsh, and often cruel. She is capable of warmth and kindness, but it's rare most people will ever see it. What people will see, however, is her inexplicable acquired ability to punch through brick walls and pull bladed weaponry seemingly out of thin air. That last one is just good old fashioned trickery, though.
Larissa's Stats:
1 Strength
1 Agility
5 Intelligence
6 Charisma
-3 Powers
Rosa's Stats (assuming no bonuses due to transformation):
10 Strength
5 Agility
3 Intelligence
-5 Charisma
-3 Powers

[Happy Demon]

I'm more a fan of the unlimited points principle. Where you can make your character as strong or weak as you want.
You made the character with pretty much no limits, yet here you have concrete limits.

[Bluexdog]

Combat class!

[ragnarok97071]

... Should we... start a poll?

Also, if it's well moderated that's not a problem, Vacio.

The mod just says "no, that's dumb, back off."

[Adragis]

Yeah. A poll'd be good. I think they make it more of an RPG than an RP.

[Twinwolf]

I'm open to suggestions, as I said in the original post about the systems.

Then how about this: it's mostly a freeform system, but there are rolls where appropriate (It's no guaranteed that you can convince someone to do something, a monster won't necessarily die in a single hit, etc.), and if you logically can not do something, no roll will make it possible (you can not win against the principal. You just can't.).

If there are any other suggestions, share them please. I'm just trying to allow for the most enjoyment for the most players.

I'm putting up a poll.

[IamanElfCollaborator]

Well, our options are:

-Unlimited points: We put as many points as we like and you look it over and call bullshit depending on whatever they look like.
-Freeform: Entirely decided by RP
-Freeform with Rolls: Mostly decided by RP, some rolls.
-Limited Stats: Limited stat distribution.

[BFEL]

Ugh, am I the only one who thinks the stats are a terrible idea? I mean if I AM then I guess I'll do it, but I'm not really feeling it. They just bring the characters down from "can do this this this and this" to "has a -1 in x, so despite their shtick they can't do that thing they were all but conceived to do"

Well its probably for at least some restrictions so we're not all powerful...

I'm playing a basically normal guy with a limp. His powers entirely revolve around things he has literally prepared from the outset of the game and if he is surprised he is probably dead.
I've tried my level best to outline exactly what he can and cannot do, and if the game actually had a map I would be tracing the locations he has been in and actually adding rune locations and effects where applicable to make it less of an asspull.

Since this game is in the FG&RP section and not the RTD section I figured everyone else was also trying their best to not be "UltraDUED The DUED of ALWAYS WINNING"

I'm open to suggestions, as I said in the original post about the systems.

Then how about this: it's mostly a freeform system, but there are rolls where appropriate (It's no guaranteed that you can convince someone to do something, a monster won't necessarily die in a single hit, etc.), and if you logically can not do something, no roll will make it possible (you can not win against the principal. You just can't.).

If there are any other suggestions, share them please. I'm just trying to allow for the most enjoyment for the most players.

I'm putting up a poll.

This is much better in my eyes, and pretty much what I was hoping the game would be from the outset. Voting now.

[ragnarok97071]

Well, you control the NPCs. If our arguments don't convince them, they don't convince them. If they dodge, they dodge.

This also allows you more control over the narrative, too, since it can't be hijacked by someone getting some bullshit lucky rolls.

Semi-dice kinda works, as long as dice only apply when luck would actually be involved.

[Happy Demon]

Then again, what is the power of the points?
I guess 0 is Human power, but what's the double of that? 10 or 5 (double strength =/= double success)?
Actually, I'd say 5 is double human strength, it makes sense from a d20 standpoint.

Also, I support the unlimited points option. Since we are responsible players, and the GM can make sure we place the points we should.

[Twinwolf]

Maybe I should reset the poll with the options that Elf mentioned...

EDIT: Yeah, I did that, since he seemed to have better options.

[BlitzDungeoneer]

Maybe I should reset the poll with the options that Elf mentioned...

Sounds good.

[BFEL]

That's fine, I'll just pick moderated freeform again.

[Happy Demon]

Oh... f***, I just realized I should've picked the other option. Now I hope the others pick the roll and freeform one.

[BlitzDungeoneer]

Hmm...
Maybe allowing people to revote would've been a good idea.
That's a thing, right?