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[Akroma]

Spoiler: I left my other ride at home (click to show/hide)

Name Ludmilla Yeningoroth
Age: 25
Gender: Female
Appearance:

Personality: Authorative, sadistic, focused, cold.
Background: When the kings forces rode their armies to conquer and unify Valkain, many factors played into the intricacies of war, and in the end, not a single one of them can be alone be held responsible for victory. But if you ask anyone, 9 out of 10 people will give the same answer. The iconic force was the dire-bear cavalry of Privol’nyy. Putting regular cavalry to shame in every aspect but sheer speed, their ability to crush an enemies frontline was only matched by their ridiculous effect on an enemies morale. It is a time-consuming, difficult task to train a dire-bear to accept a rider and go to war, as the balance between ferocity and obedience often meant the rider needed just as much training as the actual bear. As over the course of war their numbers dwindled, the king focused more on using them to crush enemy morale, giving birth to the cruel tradition that lasts to this very day, of publicaly executing people by feeding them alive to a bear of war.
Ludmilla is one of the few remaining artifacts of that age-old tradition, and acts as a herold to royal needs, representative functions, and as a military beacon of strength. Now put on the task to lead a large-scaled hunt on monsters, she will use years of tactical prowess and her sheer intimidating appearance to lead it to victory.

Class: Herold (char-based like Cleric, but no pseudo-magic)
Job: Royal retainer and executioner
Level: 1 (caps at 30)
EXP: 0/1000

HP: 45
SP: 17    (Stamina, for non-lethal fighting)
Init: 1+1d20 at the start of each combat.
DR: 5+

Stats: (8 to spend. Stat cap of 5+Level. +4 Points per level up)
Strength: 2
Dexterity: 1
Intelligence: 4
Charisma: 5
Agility: 1
Constitution: 5


Perks:
Mikhail, royal executioner: Ludmilla has been granted the authority over Mikhail, a dire-polarbear trained by one of the few remaining masters. This bears strength is worth 3 perks, and as such it comes with 2 downsides. For one, her life is tied to the bear, as it is royal property. Should it die, or through injury be rendered forever useless, her status, and soon after her life, shall be stripped of Ludmilla. Secondly, the bear is proud and so much more experienced than Ludmilla, it will not accept her commands at all times, especialy when it has tasted blood. It won't kill her, however options like retreating, or going after someone specific though the bear wants a different target require char-rolls to be forced, and will occasionaly waste a turn or so.




More coming soon, now sleep

[Twinwolf]

As far as I'm aware, classes aren't "Examples" like so many others. They just outright are the classes you can choose. Unless Sanure changed their mind about that between writing the OP and now.

[Akroma]

steam confirmed it, so yeah, just like, ask

[TheBiggerFish]

Then what's the bloody point?

I mean, defining an archetype for your character, yes, but why bother having a list of them?

[Shadestyle]

To prevent any and everyone from picking something like "Wizard" Or "Sci-fy space pirate" or "Master of creation"

[Sanure]

Then what's the bloody point?

I mean, defining an archetype for your character, yes, but why bother having a list of them?

For the intent and purpose of Gming, I'll allow it. Mechanically, Akroma is playing a Cleric that doesn't use Prayers or Blessings. She uses tactics. Either way, Charisma is what matters, and she even said it was like a Cleric.

[BlitzDungeoneer]

To prevent any and everyone from picking something like "Wizard" Or "Sci-fy space pirate" or "Master of creation"

then perhaps consider including an important part of the rules like that into the OP? where the rules are meant to, y'know, be?

[Shadestyle]

You mean like the list of allowed classes in the OP? I mean, I might not be too good at reading, but I could read that bit fine.

[SOLDIER First]

The part about mechanically changing classes like Akroma did, he means. That's not stated.

[Twinwolf]

I asked Sanure over Steam, and mechanically, Akroma's character is still basically a Cleric. Fluff wise, they just use tactics instead of pseudo-magic.

[kj1225]

Akroma is literally just playing a reskinned cleric. It's not even a new concept, it's been around as long as there has been RPGs.

Only problem would be the fact that at least two characters would probably hate Akroma's character.

[IamanElfCollaborator]

Eh, I've decided. I'm staying out of this one for the following reasons:

-High fatality. I really don't feel like filling out a long sheet if my character's going to die, even if they might (emphasis on might- as the OP says, my character's soul MAY just get taken by something else or we just don't have enough money) get resurrected. No point putting that much effort in at all. This is a pretty personal point of mine, since the rest of you clearly are okay with it.

-Lore's a mess. Seriously, we should have a basic lore dump in the OP just so we don't have to keep asking the GM questions. It just makes their lives easier. And, as we saw with Sanure earlier, the GM has their own life and thus things to do that basically make it impractical to keep to this model.

-Mechanics are poorly detailed, or at least the ones that aren't from Trespassers. Anything harder than a normal opposed roll (which is to say, including exponentials) really shouldn't be used, even if the person running it is okay with it, because it overcomplicates things.  The class system is unexplained: what does the preferred stat even do? And if, say, Akroma could just use a reskinned Cleric using Charisma, is there really any point to a class list at all? I mean, if it's to stop people from being Wizards, then just put THAT in the OP instead of expecting to be able to catch every single exception. If nothing else, make your lives easier for it. More or less, the additions and revisions from Trespassers are pretty weak AND need to be more detailed in the OP.

Keep in mind, I'm not really mad at San, Shade, Projeck or anyone who worked or is going to play in this. I'm just explaining my reasons for not wanting to join while simultaneously criticising the fact that there's quite a whole lot of this that really needs to be ironed out before the game starts.

I'll be watching still, in case I change my mind, but I'm staying out for now.

[TheBiggerFish]

I must ditto Elf here.

[Chevaleresse]

I admit to a certain amount of reservations about the mechanics as well (they seem both needlessly complicated and vague) but I will make a sheet for this.

[Shadestyle]

That is your personal opinion, no more need be said.

Meh.

Crafting in trespassers is a mess, and a lack of archetypes leaves people in an empty void when it comes to character creation.  Archetypes help list out what roles are we are supposed to fill considering the nature of the party.  I don't know what you mean by the revisions, but that is all I have to counter-argue.

Honestly, Just because you can't do whatever you want, and have to interact with the GM does not really mean anything bad about the system.  This is some oddly aimed nitpicking.