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So we have 3 mech characters, but only 2 mages. We only need one more mage to start, right?

[Dustan Hache]

Updated my reserved post with sheet.

[IcyTea31]

Spoiler: A vermilion bird, you say? (click to show/hide)

Name: Wildfire Watson

Appearance and personality: Wildfire Watson does not look like a mage. He looks like a crazy hobo laying in the gutter with a bottle of booze to his side. None of those things are true, however. He's not crazy. Well, except for the delusions. He's not a hobo. Well, except he burned his house down last week. Again. It's not a gutter. It's the front step of an orphanage. It's not a bottle of booze. It's lighter fluid. Either way, Watson is one wild-eyed, wild-haired (a gradient of red and orange), wild-mouthed son of a bitch who hardly takes care of himself. He tends to wear a ragged old blaze-orange robe to look wizardly, though it really only serves to enhance the hobo look. Watson's spirit animal is the peacock, with all its flashy feathers and fire-red feathers. Some might argue that peacocks aren't red, but said someones tend to be burnt shortly afterwards.

Backstory: Wildfire Watson wasn't always a pyromaniac murderhobo. He is the last survivor of the doomed planet Kry- wait, no, that's someone else. He was bitten by a radioact- no. His childhood was quite boring, actually. In his teenage years, he showed great promise for writing, and ended up authoring the bestseller romance novel Fiery Flames of Passion. Soon after, however, the publishing company ripped him off and left him in the streets, his mind broken by the stresses of the lawsuit. Watching fires burn, lighting them, controlling them, being them became his only escape from the banality and cruelty of the world. And now all he wants is to build bigger and bigger fires, safety be damned. When all is said and done, safety most likely won't be the only thing damned...

Health: Lots and lots of old burn scars. Watson doesn't have eyebrows at the moment, either.

Traits:
From being burnt one too many times, Watson is deadened to pain.
The spark of hope burns forever in the human heart. Or maybe that's just acid reflux. Either way, Watson is the kind of person who simply refuses to give up, ever.
I don't think it needs to be said after you've read all this, but Watson is a pyromaniac, plain and simple.

Inventory:
Fireproofed "wizardly" robes
Lighter fluid
Sandwich
Halligan bar

Mana: 4/4
Push: 0/0
Mana Tether: Symbol: numerous fire, bird, and firebird-themed tattoos all over the body, including the face.
Powers: Soar, Elebolt (fire), Selfshift, Regeneration

[Egan_BW]

Wildfire Watson does not look like a mage. He looks like a crazy hobo laying in the gutter with a bottle of booze to his side.

I would contend that this is exactly what mages tend to look like in this game so far.

[IcyTea31]

Touché.

[Dustan Hache]

Wildfire Watson does not look like a mage. He looks like a crazy hobo laying in the gutter with a bottle of booze to his side.

I would contend that this is exactly what mages tend to look like in this game so far.

Except donnel. He looks like either a farmer or a traveling Doctor, depending on your technology level and disposition to people who are normally on the move with white cloth bags.

[Egan_BW]

The sheet simply says he's a man with brown hair and green eyes. So I'm perfectly within my rights to think of him as a hobo until you change that. ;p

("In what ways does your character not look like a hobo" might be a good character sheet prompt. Hmm.)

[Dustan Hache]

The sheet simply says he's a man with brown hair and green eyes. So I'm perfectly within my rights to think of him as a hobo until you change that. ;p

("In what ways does your character not look like a hobo" might be a good character sheet prompt. Hmm.)

Or you could add an optional backstory line so we can go more in-depth?

[Egan_BW]

Okay. Backstory line: include backstory on the sheet if you like.

[IcyTea31]

I've added the bare minimum of a backstory, though it's pretty cliché and not my best work.

[Lenglon]

Missed this! Interested:

Spoiler: Mage Character (click to show/hide)

Name: Tanya Xelcarostia
Class: Shifter (Selfshifter / Lightshifter)
Appearance: Brown eyes, tan skin, brown hair bound in a ponytail,  with moderately angular facial features. Short and thinly built, with splotchy brown leather clothing. Spirit animal - swift fox.
Mana: 3/3
Push: 0/0
Attributes: Aware, Spiritual, Frail
Inventory: Suppressed Marksman's rifle (a long-barreled variant of an assault rifle, resulting in a multipurpose hybrid sniper/assault weapon. doesn't handle as well up close as a true assault rifle, and isn't as precise as a true sniper rifle), first aid kit, travel pack with food/water/survival gear, 3 harmless smoke grenades, 1white phosphorus incindiary smoke grenade.

Yes, the same character as from the previous game. No reason not to go ahead and keep her in play. That and I think it's easier to show the character's personality through their actions than through a wall of text, and she took action back then.
The below mentioned error is i just realized that although it's the same setting, the mage-specific rules have changed significantly. I think I'll keep the above quote untouched, because what I'm going to be attempting to do is to model her new sheet off of her old one, maintaining as much overlap as I can.
So. problem solving. old system mages had the blink powerset as a global innate for all Shifter-type mages. Weaponmaster types were the ones that got physical boost abilities and a weapon focus primarilly, and Tanya is a shifter-type. Tanya used her specialties quite a lot, selfshifting for physical boosts, though they were far less than those granted to weaponmasters, and lightshifting to make herself invisible a large portion of the time. She also actually felt more comfortable while she was selfshifted with a swift-fox theme. also, all old system mages had a spirit animal - in Tanya's case a swift fox, that was associated with the theme of how their powers tended to manifest.

now how to make this translate to the new system...
Name: Tanya Xelcarostia
Appearance: Brown eyes, tan skin, brown hair bound in a ponytail,  with moderately angular facial features. Short and thinly built, with splotchy brown leather clothing.
Personality: Quiet, shy, cautious, sneaky, alert, cunning. She doesn't talk a whole lot to people she doesn't know, but will open up after she's had a chance to get to know you.
Health: Good.
Traits: Aware - she is very alert to her surroundings, good eyesight, good hearing, tends to pay attention to what is going on around her a whole lot while not really looking like she is.
Spiritual - Tanya has a strong connection with her spirit animal, the swift fox, and (especially while selfshifting) often embodies those traits.
Frail - Tanya is not very strong or tough, and can't take a hit very well.

Mana: 3/3
Push: 0/0
Tether: Familiar - Swift Fox
Powers:
Selfshifting +1
Lightshifting
Blink

Inventory: Suppressed Marksman's rifle (a long-barreled variant of an assault rifle, resulting in a multipurpose hybrid sniper/assault weapon. doesn't handle as well up close as a true assault rifle, and isn't as precise as a true sniper rifle), first aid kit, travel pack with food/water/survival gear, 3 harmless smoke grenades, 1white phosphorus incindiary smoke grenade.
Is +1ing a power a thing? If it isn't then elebolt (light), if light isn't a valid element either, then mobility or regeneration, don't care which.

Edit: Just realized that the character creation system isn't quite what I thought it was, making corrections to sheet.
Edit2: adjustments made, though I'm not sure the character sheet is done yet.

[Egan_BW]

It should be pretty possible to make the same character. I rethought the way both factions work; classes didn't really appeal to me. Hopefully this system allows for some more varied and strange builds.

[Lenglon]

Hey, um, Egan, is it just me, or is there pretty much no reason for a mage to pick a familiar as their tether except for roleplaying reasons? it seems like it is the most vulnerable of tethers to enemy attack, has the harshest penalty for if it is lost, and gives the least useful benefits for having it. making it outclassed in every single catagory by every single other tether.

I ask because I wish it were a viable choice for roleplaying reasons, but if I pick it I'm just going to be handicapping myself.

[Egan_BW]

Sorry, balancing such things isn't really my strong suit. I agree that it looks good for roleplaying but might just make you too vulnerable. So I'll take the easy option and just steal these rules that syv just sent me.

Familiar: A living creature (or plant or fungus if you want) of your choice, no larger than a moose. It looks just like a normal creature and can be injured or killed. __If the familiar is killed you go down to 0 mana and don't recover mana until it's resummoned.
Magical simple: Directly control the familiar.
Magical simple: Share magical effects with the familiar while in contact with it.
Magical complex: Share magical effects and cast magic through the familiar even while it's separated from you.
Push: Resummon the familiar

Okay those are the rules now thanks rules monkey!

[Lenglon]

Oh my thats a harsh penalty for its death... which is perfectly in keeping with the normal perception of familiars, and remote caster is very strong, making it a tradeoff choice instead of a handicap. Thank you!