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[Tack]

Not sure what you mean.

[GiglameshDespair]

Out of "melee weapons", "swords" and "longswords", which would be the most suitable to be a skill?

[Tack]

Right.
"Fight"

So to answer your question: Very nonspecific.

Spoiler: The skill table (click to show/hide)

Actually a table

Skill	Overcome	Advantage	Attack	Defend
Athletics	X	X		X
Burglary	X	X
Contacts	X	X		X
Crafts	X	X
Deceive	X	X		X
Ride	X	X		X
Empathy	X	X		X
Fight	X	X	X	X
Investigate	X	X
Lore	X	X
Notice	X	X		X
Physique	X	X		X
Provoke	X	X	X
Rapport	X	X		X
Shoot	X	X	X
Stealth	X	X		X
Will	X	X		X

Overcome: Can I use it to pass a skill check?
Create an Advantage: Can I use it to put aspects on people or scenes?
(Note: Try not to use it for 'Can I see something of use', and more for 'Can I roll to see a convenient X'. Fate is player-driven. If you can sell it, you can do it.)
Fight: Can I use it to put stress and consequences on someone?
Defend: Can I use it to stop someone putting stress and consequences on me?

Basically all melee combat is melee combat. If you've exclusively trained as a spearman, then that'd go in an aspect, to give you a bonus with spears (and a chance to mess up with other things), or a stunt (I'll get to that later)

If you're currently Using a sword, it'd be an equipment aspect. Those are used to determine reach, effectiveness against infantry and cavalry, etc.

Spoiler: Equipment (click to show/hide)

FATE doesn't actually have a system in place for how heavily armed and armored your character/henchmen are.
Therefore, I've decided to include a pair of equipment aspects into your character design.
These will essentially function as normal aspects, except they'll be simple, and devoted to only two concepts- your favored weapon and your level of armor. See:
Favored Weapons: Hunting Knife and Throwing Knives.
Armor: Muffled leather.
If you get into a situation where these types of weapons and armor would make your situation better or worse, then they can be triggered like aspects would as per normal.

Most banal things won't require a check. Mounting and riding a horse doesn't require a "Ride" check, as everyone is automatically 'Mediocre' at riding.
Charging a horse into a formation may require a ride check, if the horse fails its Will check.
Knowing whether or not the horse is strong willed when you purchase it, would require an empathy check.
However, stunts can be used to offset that (although usually I would bring stunts in MUCH later)
So...

Spoiler: stunts (click to show/hide)

Stunts are little quirks which give a boost to a certain skill, allow you to use one skill instead of another, or spend FATE to use a skill in an unusual way. There's stunts on the site, but given the setting, people are fine to make their own.
Stunts are different to aspects.
Examples:
Phalanx Fighter: +2 to Fight rolls when allies are on either side
Experienced Horseman: Can use Ride instead of Empathy to gather information about horses' traits, but only when riding them.
Called shot: By spending fate, can put a free advantage on a target you hit with a "shoot" attack, relating to a particular body part. Eg: "Pinned foot", "Bruised Throat".

See OP for more stuff.

[Tack]

Gah. FGRP cycles so quickly.
I might just boot this thing as soon as I get three players, and shove in new entrants after that.

[TheBiggerFish]

Hoo boy.  I'll be back.

[Caellath]

I hadn't seen this. Since I've been looking for something light due to being fairly out of it these days, this seems up my alley. A bit familiar with FATE (mostly Accel.), so I'll work on a sheet in a bit. Probably.

Spoiler: Character Sheet for Al-Safi Nabih Shahin (click to show/hide)

Name: Al-Safi Nabih Shahin
Race: Human
Gender: Male
Bio: Born in a trading clan, Nabih was one of Sahid's and Naleiya's few children. Given a good education thanks to his parents' stable financial conditions and the advantages of their profession, Nabih turned out to be a bright kid with a good measure of curiosity and creativity. Saleiya was responsible for most of the couple's accounting and also a rather spiritual woman moderately versed in the arts of magic, which she taught Nabih and a few of his siblings. Meanwhile, Sahid was the face of the operation and a man with a dream; while mankind was more numerous than most races and a formidable force due to it, the man was an admirer of dwarven engineering and was consequently sore about human inability to craft so much of what the xenophobic, stout race was able to create. He wanted human technology to stop complacently feeding off trading and antiquated notions and move forward, without any assistance if necessary.

His parents' teachings and interests rubbed off on Nabih as he grew into a capable, intelligent man with a dream. Too many dreams, actually; whether it was due to his passion for crafting, knowledge or magic, he began to piece together mechanisms even during his sleeping hours, turning him into a lucid dreamer with an objective. Learned and feeling comfortable about his own intellectual baggage, he managed to loan the necessary sum of money to start a mercenary organization, benefiting from the clan's nature to not be drowned in interest and/or threats. Why a mercenary organization? To be safe you need to know how to wage war and he's realized technology like firearms are a game-changer in the field of battle. In Nabih's opinion, having a body of warriors to field-test any improvements on military tech is less risky than giving them out to strangers.

Nabih is a young-faced inventor and magic practitioner as well as an accomplished trader, partially due to the right connections in his clan and out of it. He's bronze-skinned and black-haired, with a slightly wide, straight-cut nose between emerald eyes. He prefers to wear the traveling clothes of his people, pants and shirts complimented by robes and headscarves to protect against the sun and elements of the desert. The trading clan he's part of is one of the few that established themselves in a section of the Surrounds generations ago to create an outpost for the wandering caravans of his people.

High Concept: Steel Wizard of the Forge
Trouble: No Knowledge By Man Untouched
-True Traders Haggle
-Formal Bearing and Education
-Clan and Connections: Assets & Debts

Equipment Aspects:
Weapons: Used scimitar and crossbow
Armor: Reinforced cloth

Skills:
Great(4+)
-Crafts
Good (3+)
-Contacts
-Lore
Fair (2+)
-Athletics
-Rapport
-Will
Average (1+)
-Empathy
-Investigate
-Notice
-Physique

Stunts
-Bloodline of Bargain: +2 bonus to Rapport when used to haggle.
-Extensive Network: Gain a +3 bonus to Contacts when using it to Create an Advantage to know the perfect person for a specific purpose.
-Inventor's Insight: Inventions created by succeeding with style gain an (extra) useful Aspect or Stunt.

[GiglameshDespair]

Indeed.
Expect my sheet also relatively soon.

Spoiler: Sheet (click to show/hide)

Name: Ghaminia Al-Haral
Race: Human
Gender: F
Bio: When Nabih turned fourteen, his parents got him a bodyguard and servant - one to be dedicated to him rather than a general house servant. It was fashion at that time for them to be female - less obtrusive, more likely to be underestimated... and often nicer on the eyes, too.

So it was that Ghaminia entered Nabih's life - she was a few years older, and while it was never explained where she had come from, she was a quiet and omnipresent figure in his background. She tended to his hurts when his experiments went amok, and assisted when needed - mainly with her prodigious physical strength.

A quiet, tall woman, she has a tendency to blend in to surroundings. Her skin is dusky, her features plain - aside from the claw-marks that trace down the right side of her face. She's trained in grapples, and a brutal, close range fighting style with a pair of karembit knives. A tiger skin is draped over her shoulders, with the head forming a hood she can pull up over her own. Besides the knives at her waist, she has another woven into her hair, and two small straight blades concealed at her calves. Her flowing silks do a good job of hiding the thin-yet-sturdy armour beneath.

She also knows how to move silently and pick locks... her past was not a gentle one, nor on the right side of the law. By becoming a servant, her old life was abandoned. Her old name was abandoned when she went into servanthood, but in some drinking dens the name "The Silent Tiger" is still whispered...

High Concept: loyal strongwoman bodyguard with a bloody past.
Trouble: Ghosts of the past
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Skills:
Great (3+)
- Physique
Fair (2+)
- Stealth
- Fight
Average (1+)
- Notice
- Provoke
- Burgalry

Stunts
-
-
-

Equipment
Knives - so many knives. Concealed and non
Armour: Lamellar, concealed beneath flowing silks.

[Tack]

So yeah, fair warning for those familiar with fate: I've basically cut and glue bunches of stuff together. It's basically frankenfate. ...'s... monster.


Edit: Caellath, going trade prince? That's pretty awesome.
Is a section of the Surrounds controlled by trade clans, or is Shahin from a different land?

[Caellath]

It's a bit more than a trade prince. And I'll decide on that later; decided to first write down what I had in mind then try to work out where exactly the clans should be.

[Kashyyk]

Spoiler: WIP (click to show/hide)

Name: Gérard Javier
Race: Human
Gender: Male
Bio: I'll write one when I'm more awake
Embittered Career Soldier
Technically a Deserter
- Moonlight Romantic
- Drill Sergeant
- Can't Resist the Cute Things

[TheBiggerFish]

Is there magic?  I think I heard magic...

Spoiler: Here we gooooooo.... (click to show/hide)

Name:Leeeeeeeeeroy Jenkins!!!!!! Darius "Darry" Patrick
Race:Human
Gender:Male
Bio:--WIP--
Smooth-talking crazy-prepared totally a magical trinket vendor.
Sets fire to the box you other people do your thinking in.
- Tinkerer Supreme, May contain nuts.
- I'm not the muscle, these fine folk I hired are.
- Everything is going according to plan 37-b!

[Insanegame27]

Spoiler: Lü Bu (click to show/hide)

Name: Lü Bu
Race: Human
Gender: Male
Bio: Lü Bu, court name Fengxian, was a military general and warlord. Originally a subordinate of a minor warlord Ding Yuan, he betrayed and murdered Ding and defected to Dong Zhuo, the warlord. He turned against and killed Dong Zhuo after being instigated by Wang Yun and Shisun Rui, but was later defeated and driven away by Dong Zhuo's followers. Lü Bu wandered around consecutively seeking shelter under warlords such as Yuan Shu, Yuan Shao and Zhang Yang. He managed to take control of Yan Province from the warlord Cao Cao with help from defectors from Cao's side, ((That's the RL history of him, I'll type up a different bio if you really don't want actual history.))

High Concept: Eastern Lord of Halberd and Bow
Trouble: Notorious Womaniser
- Loyal... When convenient.
- Merciless butcher
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Equipment Aspects:
Favored weapon: Halberds
Weapons: Sky Piercer - A Halberd
Armor: Far eastern steel scale mail
(Starting gear is usually rough or shoddy)

Skills (Free to leave blank during the start of the game)
Great (3+)
-
Fair (2+)
-
-
Average (1+)
-
-
-

Stunts
- Skilled multiduelist: +3 to fight rolls when fighting against 3 or more opponents simultaneously ((+8 if their names are Liu Bei, Guan Yu and Zhang Fei))
- Talented rider: +2 to actions in which a Horse is used, only when mounted
- Battle-stopping accuracy: Twice times per scene an arrow fired from your bow will find its mark exactly where you fired it, only when dismounted.


Possibly more to come

[GiglameshDespair]

Sheet posted, linked with Caellaths'.

[Tack]

So yeah, to once again re-iterate, magic is kinda shitty. It's essentially the equivalent of writing "good luck" on a piece of card and hanging it outside your doorway.

That being said, I'm lumping surgical skills under Lore, so learned mages are now also physicians, 'cos.


Insanegame, your aspects will need to be hacked down a bunch. It should be a short phrase- the rest is up to interpretation.
Also, try not to mention China. I don't really want historical inserts in this game if I can help it.
Also, I'll be nerfing your stunts a bit.

In other news, I've decided to boot this puppy and help flesh out characters whilst the game warms up.

We currently have 5 humans and an ogre- no goblins which is a bit disappointing.

[TheBiggerFish]

How ineffective are we talking?  Like, is there something that's weaponizable?