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[Greatness942]

@Greatness: Regarding "Vampiric Defense", do stakes not result in fatal damage? Historically they've been the go-to tool to kill vampires. And does sunlight in general damage him? For his inventory I would go with a Boombox, as an Ipod would be anachronistic. You can bump "The Radio Host" advantage to a +2 because of its specificity.

Hmm, yeah. I may have been thinking of something where stakes only stunned them. I'll change that, for sure. Sunlight does damage him, but perhaps as an over time thing. Like, spending "X" number of turns in direct sunlight will kill him. Gonna alter that. Gonna change the Boombox and Radio Host, too.

[ATHATH]

@ATHATH: I'm interpreting the last part of summon to mean that the power/number of summons you conjure up has an inverse relationship with how likely you are to control them?

Yeah. It generally shouldn't start kicking in until I start summoning stuff that you think might be too powerful.

[TCM]

@ATHATH: I'm interpreting the last part of summon to mean that the power/number of summons you conjure up has an inverse relationship with how likely you are to control them?

Yeah. It generally shouldn't start kicking in until I start summoning stuff that you think might be too powerful.

Alright, you are accept.

[Greatness942]

Edited my stuff, now. Any other additions and changes needed, or am I good?

[TCM]

I'm still considering Vampiric Defense. Because it ensures he survives when combat ends by essentially becoming a non target, in some cases it would be advantageous for him to get killed, which is obviously counter productive to the game. Say for example, if he is in a really tough battle, it would actually increase his odds of surviving if he were  convetnionally killed, giving him 5-6 turns of invincibility. Ex., "Oh shit, the boss is good with fire magic. I'm going to run at the enemy with the machine gun and get killed so that my teammates can handle the fight for me while I chill."

[Greatness942]

Hmm, would it better, then, if he could be finished off while stunned? Because, yeah, that's what I meant. He would pass out, and then, if his teammates didn't pull him away, he could get staked or decapped. I get what you mean, though, and I do want to see what your final decision on it is.

[TCM]

Yeah, that clarification that he is stunned rather than invincible means you've been accepted.

[ironsnake345]

Here goes nothing.

Spoiler: Fireworks man (click to show/hide)

Name: Terrence Warren.
Gender: Male.
Age: 16
Clique: Nerd, chemist.
Appearance: A teenager whose appearance could only be described as stocky. Tall, broad, and somewhere between muscular and fat, his hair is an absolute mess. It clearly hasn't been cut in ages, and is little more than a mass of tangled knots which could vaguely be described as curly. His glasses are held together with duct tape.
Description: A rather eccentric guy from the outskirts of the city who used chemistry as a chance to practice pyrotechnics. He has always had a certain fascination to fireworks. He doesn't seem to care at all about his appearance, and is quite social despite this. Insult his intelligence and he will swing. Hobbies include: blowing things up, launching fireworks at targets, performing experiments.

Status: Normal
Inventory: empty.

Spoiler: Dark souls expy? Two can play at that game! (click to show/hide)

Name: Dunkelsteinn
Gender: Literally everything.
Age: Dunno; they lost track whilst awaiting the apocalypse. Probably at least a few centuries, but you never know.
Class: Sword-wizard.

Appearance: A mysterious... person... who has the appearance of a freak of nature, if they can be considered to come from nature! With shining, dark-green skin and bulging eyes, they are truly a sight to behold... They decorate their body with a rather large cloth robe with a fancy embroidered design, an enormous wide-brimmed hat (the right half of which has been sliced off inadvertently), a pair of hideously yellow and flamboyant gloves, and for some reason, an extra skirt beneath the robes.
Description: A highly intelligent sword-wielder from parts unknown, their unusual condition (which may or may not be undeath) landed them a one-way ticket to basically purgatory. After a jailbreak, they encountered a famous wizard who was eccentric as is, and quickly grew to become batshit insane. One murder later, they went on to slay a dragon and become a really cool wizard. Also notable is that they never talk. Like, ever.
Abilities: (4)
Quick dodging bastard (passive, tier 1) - Light armor has its advantages. Grants a +1 bonus to all defensive rolls.[/pun]
Moonlight beam (active, tier 1) - You didn't think that sword was just for show, did you? Fires a crescent-shaped beam of magical energy which attacks at range and has a +2 attack roll. 2 turn cooldown.
Homing crystal soulmass (active, tier 1) - Summons five floating wads of deadly crystal shards that streak towards any enemy that gets close. Next incoming melee attack (even if it hits) gets a guaranteed bonus counterattack, which is at 50% power. Only one casting can be active at a time, and when the counter is triggered it goes away regardless of whether or not it hit. It's possible for a standard counter to trigger in addition to this bonus counter.
Int scaling (passive, tier 1) - The fact that all of Dunk's attacks have fantastic scaling means they have a tendency to just hurt everything that little bit more than you'd think they should. Each outgoing attack that hits is treated as if it had a bonus of +2 for damage only.


Status: Normal
Inventory:
Moonlight Greatsword (required for moonlight beam, basic attack loses bonus from int scaling without this item)
Logan's Catalyst (Required for Homing crystal soulmass)
Grass crest shield
Big hat (The right side of the brim has been sliced off)
Sage's robe
Xanthous gloves
Gold hemmed black skirt
Havel's ring (required for all light builds. Also for the quick dodging ability.)
Ring of steel protection

Any issues?

[Sl4cker]

reserv'd

[TCM]

@Ironsnake: Nerd muscles? Anyways, I'm assuming that "Homing Crystal Soulmass" grants you only 1 guaranteed counter-attack a turn, (so that if an attacker rolls badly you don't get two counter-attacks), and that you can only have one Soulmass going at a time. Does "Int Scaling's" bonus of 25% apply to the rolls or just the raw abstract damage, i.e., a normal slash turns into a moderately-more-powerful-than-normal slash? The Cooldown for "Moonlight Beam" can be bumped down to 2 Turns.

[ironsnake345]

@Ironsnake: Nerd muscles? Anyways, I'm assuming that "Homing Crystal Soulmass" grants you only 1 guaranteed counter-attack a turn, (so that if an attacker rolls badly you don't get two counter-attacks), and that you can only have one Soulmass going at a time. Does "Int Scaling's" bonus of 25% apply to the rolls or just the raw abstract damage, i.e., a normal slash turns into a moderately-more-powerful-than-normal slash? The Cooldown for "Moonlight Beam" can be bumped down to 2 Turns.

Oh, right, we're going by chunky salsa rule. For some reason that example with damage numbers threw me off. I'll try to clarify the effects, but your suggested changes are all fine.
Also, to be honest, it's not Nerd muscles so much as it is "my everything scales with int." It's sort of like a muscle wizard, except that the muscles are also magic.

Edit: actually, would it be overpowered if HCS had a guaranteed bonus counter, as opposed to it guaranteeing exactly one counter? Because the former is actually kind of how it works in game.

[TCM]

I was referring to your teenage character with Nerd Muscles, since you describe him as somewhere between muscular and fat. Your Avatar's can be entirely different entities than your teenagers, it's not like wimpy nerds role-playing as super buff warriors is anything new even in the 80's.

I could give some leeway to HCS in getting an additional counter attack, as long as it starts out at say, 50% as powerful as a normal attack. That way it starts out as a relatively simple Ability and you can decide to develop it with Points later if you want.

[ironsnake345]

I was referring to your teenage character with Nerd Muscles, since you describe him as somewhere between muscular and fat. Your Avatar's can be entirely different entities than your teenagers, it's not like wimpy nerds role-playing as super buff warriors is anything new even in the 80's.

Oh. Heh, yeah, he's got some amount of nerd muscles. Even with rather focused cliques, some people just end up coincidentally building muscle despite not being known for physical activity.

Alright, I'll update my sheet with the last bit of HCS now.

[Failbird105]

Hmmm, possibilities possibilities... Hey, are we allowed to have our teenagers be an expy of another character so long as they don't have any special powers of their own?

[TCM]

@Ironsake: U've been aceptped

@MidnightJaguar: It was just pointed out to me that you've actually distributed 5 Ability Points instead of 4. 1 Level 2 Ability takes a total of 3 points, add that to both of your Level 1 Abilities and that's five.

Hmmm, possibilities possibilities... Hey, are we allowed to have our teenagers be an expy of another character so long as they don't have any special powers of their own?

Definitely, they can retain all of their personality and physical traits as long as they remain a normal teenager.