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[USEC_OFFICER]

Occult club is awesome.

I'm not in Occult Club so... I guess I'll take your word for it.

I am however, open to suggestions

Roll a number of d10s and tally up the successes (ie the number of rolls underneath or equal to your stat). You always roll at least one d10, but you can gain more by planning out actions ahead of time. Maybe get some bonus dice from equipment and buffs too. No successes means that you completely failed. One success means that you succeeded at your action but complications happened. Two successes means that you succeeded. Three or more means that you succeeded and something extra good happened. The GM influence is still very strong, since they decide when and how to distribute extra dice and decide how the outcomes play out, but there's some structure to the game to how it plays out. Additionally it explicitly rewards people for planning and cooperating, since you'll get extra dice from doing so, which is always a good thing in a game like this. Hopefully it'll result in a lot less people running off trying to do their own thing or not really communicating with each other. _{We'll see.}

[Akroma]

that's FATE, if I am not mistaken.

And that too is a sort of coinflip system.

[USEC_OFFICER]

I wouldn't really call it a coinflip system. If you stat is at 5 (which is average) and you plan things out ahead of time instead of charging in like an idiot, you have at least a 75% chance to not fail. 87.5% or more if you can gain more dice somehow. If your stat is at 7 then you have only a 9 chance to fail, if you plan ahead of time. Unless you do something stupid or have bad stats, generally you're going to succeed. The question is just by how much which is obviously handled by the GM.

[Twinwolf]

So, on the stat system: Is there a limited amount of points to spend, or is there nothing stopping anyone from having perfect scores in all stats if they can justify it?

As for backstory: I'm flexible, once actually given an explanation of what the start is I'll be able to modify a character for that or just make a new one for it.

Question: Player limit?

[Akroma]

sigh, I hate this mouse. I had written out the whole charsheet, and my own character and a small move of the thumb and the damn button on the side just goes back a page and all is gone. AUGH.




Instead I will just quickly post a few things regarding character creation and their backgrounds you might wanna know ahead of time. I have a certain start in mind, and I would welcome it if players were a bit flexible with their backstories to make plot entry sensible and at least leave a reason to join that is *somewhat* believable.


because come on, can you *really* blame Sanure that nobody found a reason why an ancient half demon/angel, a ww2 veteran half dragon, an orc-warlord, an undead, teenage female magneto and some actually normal teenagers would stay together in a bunker in texas to fight crime?




so what I require:
character is less than 20 years old, or at least it has been less than 20 years since the last significant memory loss that disconnected them from whatever milennia long history they may have ()
character is currently an orphan or has a very good reason of not wanting, or being unable to return home.
If above is not true, character currently only has a very small number of living relatives to turn to.
character is not part of a large organisation
character if not human has spend most of their childhood among humans


I know people in rotmg really like their....pretty outlandish characters, but man that kinda stuff is hard to bring together to a coherent plot. I guess the real oddballs can always join way later, but for now, magical girl game requires some magical girls. Or boys, or whatever third option. Just young and relatively humanoid, pretty please.

edit: no player limit, that has never been a rotmg thing

[USEC_OFFICER]

Ancient half demon/angel? Which character was that in Alterverse?

I can get behind all of those character ideas at least. It seems like a pretty coherent way to set up the start of the game before all of the weirdos get in.

[TCM]

Are the characters allowed to be conscious of their powers prior to the start of the game?

And does orphan just mean no parents or no stable home with a guardian figure(s)?

[Twinwolf]

And that is why I use my laptop's touchpad when typing something important  Take your time remaking it.

Also, ninja TCM asking the same question as I was going to ask.

[Chevaleresse]

I am unabashedly in love with magical girls, so can I get a quick rundown of what, exactly, is going on here? Reading through the thread once has left me a bit confused. (Also, damn, you guys cranked out 4+ pages in less than a day.)

[Twinwolf]

Rise of the Magical Girls was, for a long time, the primary roleplay on the Forum Games and Roleplaying section of the forums. This is the fourth iteration.

Contrary to the name, being a magical girl is not actually required. There is however nothing stopping you from making one. Not only that, but the setup means that you don't need to know the story of the prior games, because your character wouldn't either.

[IamanElfCollaborator]

hey
hey guys
fresh blood

drag them into the herd

On a serious note, we're discussing how to make a reboot of a game which has been a mainstay of the forum for a long time.

[USEC_OFFICER]

>Complaining about 4 pages in one day.

Yeah, you obviously have never been in a RotMG game before. Basically RotMG is a series of forum games based vaguely on magic girls that has been running for a long, long time. Hence why this is the fourth version of the game. I wouldn't call it a primary or mainstay forum game but... It's been a lot of fun being a part of it, even if quantity is generally more common than quality in RotMG. :v

[Twi]

I am unabashedly in love with magical girls, so can I get a quick rundown of what, exactly, is going on here? Reading through the thread once has left me a bit confused. (Also, damn, you guys cranked out 4+ pages in less than a day.)

You have not even begun to see the ridiculous amount of posts. Trust me.
As USEC so helpfully pointed out, they're not always good posts, but... So many posts. ;~;

[Chevaleresse]

I might just import one of my Magical Burst characters to this tbh. Several of which may or may not be Touhou characters adjusted to fit that system.

[USEC_OFFICER]

There's been at least one honoury touhou in RotMG before. They'll be fine.