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[Supernerd]

Dryad Rage 2: Another game about growing a Tree.

In this game, you will play as a magical creature called a Dryad; a magical creature whose life is tied to that of a tree. The greater the tree becomes, the more powerful you will get. If the tree dies, so too shall you. In order to survive, you will need to nurture your magical tree and protect it against wave after wave of hostile enemies. If you want to succeed you'll not only need power, but also cunning and the ability to think outside the box!

Each turn a certain amount of Mana will be created by your tree. Expending mana will allow you to do a number of essential things such as improving your characters abilities, improving your tree, healing and reviving players and possibly for casting certain powerful spells. Mana will be shared among all players and its up to you to decide how it should best be used.

To play, fill out the form over here. When you are done, Do not include information about the Locked Skilled in a post in the thread. This should instead be sent as a PM to me. As some of you may already know, I like to keep some secrets from my players. Questions about the game in general may be asked in thread.

Fair warning: The start of this game will feel very slow even if it is updating daily.

Spoiler: Signup Sheet Info (click to show/hide)

Name: What your character will be referred to.
Appearance: What your character will look like. Has little effect on the actual game. If you specify a size keep in mind that your character will likely start out smaller and will gradually grow until it reaches this size. Appearance may change over the course of the game.

Skillsets: A skillset is a broad description of abilities that you may obtain. For example, if you have the skillset "Fire" then you may develop abilities such as "Fireball" "Fire breath" "Fire Shield" etc. Fire is only an example. You should not pick fire as a skillset because trees tend to be FLAMMABLE.

As your abilities are powered by the tree, they cannot be used to directly affect the tree in a beneficial way.

You will designate four different skillsets in your application.
The first one is for your combat style. It must relate to combat, though there may be some degree of non-combat application.
The second one is for non-combat, but it might be theoritically possible to use offensively.
The third one must be related to nature in some way. This one is not restricted for combat or non combat purposes.
The fourth one has no restrictions, but you do not get to actually start the game with it. This is the first "secret" I will keep from the players.

Abilities:
You start with one "Ability" for your Combat, Non-Combat and Nature skillsets. You get to decide what the first one will be. Give the ability a name and a short description of what it does.

Spoiler: Blank Signup Sheet (click to show/hide)

Name:
Appearance:
Skillset (Combat):
Skillset (Non Combat):
Skillset (Nature):
Skillset (Locked):
Abilities:

Spoiler: Important Notes (click to show/hide)

New rules and information will occur as the game progresses. I'll keep a list of the new changes here for your convenience.
- Multiple abilities may be used in one turn. If you choose to use more than one, then each one must be assigned a percentage of your Power Multiplier. For example, ability 1 uses 0.7 multiplier and ability 2 uses 0.3 multiplier.
- Please put your action in the game thread in bold. Your action should also include your Dryad Name so that I do not need to look up who is who. (Its fine to just have a summary in bold)
- When an animal is discovered, its health will be displayed in the thread. It may or may not be hostile. Some especially strong enemies with have an unknown amount of health.
- Without special abilities, you can only move one tile per turn. You will also be unable to stray very far from your tree. As the tree grows bigger its influence will spread; permitting you to safely explore further away. Your map will physically expand when this happens
- Through the use of abilities, or random chance you may gain noteworthy allies or constructions that will help you in various ways. The ones that are meaningful enough for the GM to bother keeping track of will go into the Asset spoiler. If your actions do not yield an asset then you may need to invest more effort into it. Things can exist even without being added to the Asset list.
- Each turn the tree will generate some mana unless something is going horribly wrong. The larger the tree is, the more mana you can expect. Mana is shared among all players currently in the game.
- For best results it would be ideal if you would always include the name of any ability that you want to use. The GM may not always assume you want to use an ability even if it should seem obvious.
- Tree spells can only be cast within the tree's "Spell range". A range of one means up to one tile away.

[TricMagic]

Anything I need to know that's wrong?

Spoiler: Dryad (click to show/hide)

Name: Doraiado
Appearance: Small petite brown haired brown skinned brown eyed child.
Skillset (Combat): Absorption Line
Skillset (Non Combat): Life
Skillset (Nature): Light
Skillset (Locked): [Hidden]

Abilities:
[Absorption Line]Absorb Flesh- Absorbs the flesh by extending the branches to skewer a target. The collected materials are converted to useful minerals, and the waste turned to fertilizer.
[Life]Heal: Send a spherical mass of curative mana at a target, restoring their health. Can be cast on self.
[Light]Light Bind: Bands of light are cast at a target, before locking into place as solid constructs, restricting movements. Can be targeted to specific parts, but last only as long as the mana within does.

Spoiler: cut stuff (click to show/hide)

Skillset (Combat): Absorption Line- The absorption of energy and materials. Performed through roots and branches which extend to pierce the target. Doesn't work well against things that damage and destroy these or trees, such as acid, fire, rot, disease, rock, and so on. For non-combat improves the ability to draw minerals and water from the ground, as well as absorb light, boosting growth overall.
Skillset (Non Combat): Life- That which pertains to growth and health. Primary a healing ability cast through mediums. Currently only Light is available to cast through a distance, though physical touch can also be used and can be used on the self.
Skillset (Nature): Light- Damaging Lasers and exploding balls of light, blinding light, focusing light into an area and drawing it away to cast shadows, illusions and mirages. Plenty of uses outside the box, and plenty in it too, so long as you have the mana. Can also be used to give trees more light to photosynthesize, which combined with Life leads to a good growth spell in times of darkness and rain.

[Supernerd]

The skillsets section does not need to be more than one or two words. A skillset is the broad category.

The specifics for what starting abilities should do should go under the Abilities section. I also noticed that you only listed two abilities when there should be three - one for each skillset.

I also didn't get a PM about hidden abilities.

[Glass]

Hmmmmmnnnn.

Spoiler: Behold, a dryad artificer (click to show/hide)

Name: Petra
Appearance: A "man" bearing great resemblance to a petrified tree, with yellow and red leaf hair that slowly drips with oil. Wears a triceratops skull mask (not full size).
Skillset (Combat): Defense
Skillset (Non Combat): Equipment
Skillset (Nature): Fossils
Skillset (Locked):
Abilities:
Defense - Vinewall: Create a wall of densely-packed vines nearby, blocking movement through it. Can choose whether units on top of it end up standing on top harmlessly, or are flung away (but only one per wall).
Equipment - Fabricate: Create a piece of equipment in hand.
Fossils - Petrify: Turn something previously alive into immobile stone.

[TricMagic]

The skillsets section does not need to be more than one or two words. A skillset is the broad category.

The specifics for what starting abilities should do should go under the Abilities section. I also noticed that you only listed two abilities when there should be three - one for each skillset.

I also didn't get a PM about hidden abilities.

Haven't sent it yet since I wrote my sheet as I went to bed.
Reason I only have two is because of Life being cast through Light to heal, which should mean it's more effective for it's cost? At the least it serves as a medium for the AoE healing spell. If I can have another as well that would be good, or if I can't mix the two at the start, tell me so.

[Supernerd]

While it might change at some point, abilities cannot be a part of multiple skillsets at game start.

[Screech9791]

Spoiler: Gimmick Sheet - Cannon Fodder Edition (click to show/hide)

Name: Red
Appearance: A spirit that controls respawning and expendable cannon fodder; seeing through a flying red orb-like appariton (which can be anywhere on the battlefield that's more relevant than his cannon fodder)
Skillset (Combat): Mook Spamming
Skillset (Non Combat): Flying Observation
Skillset (Nature): Spawner Deployment
Skillset (Locked): secret gm only stuff
Abilities:
Claw Redshirt (Mook Spamming) - A tiny (think ~8-10 inches tall) red humanoid with claws sharp enough to slightly harm enemies. 1 power multiplier is typically enough to spawn 5 claw redshirts per turn.

Mark (Flying Observation) - Creates a red outline-like marking around a single target that somewhat improves the ability for teammates to hit the marked target until the start of the next player turn.

Deploy Spawner (Spawner Deployment) - Creates an object at a desired area that causes newly spawned mooks to spawn at the object, instead of at the tree. Spawning one costs an entire turn's worth of power at gamestart. Mouse over for note

Note: Red has no direct offensive or defensive abilities; or a physical body for that matter; instead controlling a swarm of weak entities that serve little purpose besides distracting hostiles so real units with real attacks can do the heavy lifting.

[Failbird105]

Well, mark me down as interested. I'll see about making a sheet tomorrow.

[Failbird105]

Spoiler: Love and War (click to show/hide)

Name: Inanna
Appearance: Humanoid in broad shape, but with many body parts consisting of singular large plants. A pitcher plant for a body, cobra lily limbs, and, most notably, a massive maw larger in length and width than the rest of her body coming off of the back of her feminine-faced head in lieu of a ponytail. At full size, any of these parts are capable of consuming a human being, but her maw is easily the most well equipped.
Skillset (Combat): Man Eater
Skillset (Non Combat): Spores
Skillset (Nature): Carnivorous Plants
Skillset (Locked): Spoilers
Abilities:
Slavering Maw(Man Eater)- Takes a crunch out of the target with Inannas acid drooling maw. Not only is the bite likely to remove chunks out of less sturdy creatures, but the acid will rapidly wear away at the rest.

Lovely Mist(Spores)- A cloud of spores that induce delusions and feelings of love in beings that inhale them.

Giant Sundew(Carnivorous Plants)- Grows a massive Sundew, large enough to ensnare animals in its grasp. The adhesive it uses to hold its prey is moderatly acidic, but not enough to kill a man in any appreciable time period.

[Glass]

Appearance: Humanoid in broad shape, but with many body parts consisting of singular large plants. A pitcher plant for a body, cobra lily limbs, and, most notably, a massive maw larger in length and width than the rest of her body coming off of the back of her feminine-facec head in lieu of a ponytail. At full size, any of these parts(excepting the fingers) are capable of consuming a human being, but her maw is easily the most well equipped.

You're a tall mawile.

[Failbird105]

You're a tall mawile.

I mean, the more direct inspiration is a bit less... forum friendly, but Mawile definitely had an involvement.

I imagine the maw being sorta like Audrey II, but like, stretched.

[Supernerd]

Winter 1, Year 0



Winter has arrived... Which is a rather odd time for a seed to germinate. Perhaps there was something funny in the soil, or some kind of detrimental mutation. Whatever the reason, there is a tree that has sprouted in the Winter!

Winter is a harsh time of year, but the tree grew from a large nut that supplied enough nutrients for it to start generating mana! The tree also has a special ability...

Spellcasting Tutorial
Take note of the "Spells" spoiler below. Any player is able to cast these spells; as these spells belong to the Tree and not to any specific Dryad. The players are currently in "Spirit" form. A Spirit form Dryad is not able to take any action aside from casting tree spells and do not have physical form.

Dryads (spirit or otherwise), can "Downvote" tree spells. This will stop the spell from being cast unless multiple other dryads want the spell cast.

Try using the Dryad Manifestation spell now!

Spoiler: Dryads (click to show/hide)

Name: Doraido
Tier: Spirit
Health: N/A
Status: N/A
Power Multiplier: N/A
Skillset: Absorption Line/Life/Light/???
Abilities:
[Absorption Line] Absorb Flesh: Absorbs the flesh by extending the branches to skewer a target. The collected materials are converted to useful minerals, and the waste turned to fertilizer.
[Life] Heal: Send a spherical mass of curative mana at a target, restoring their health. Can be cast on self.
[Light] Light Bind: Bands of light are cast at a target, before locking into place as solid constructs, restricting movements. Can be targeted to specific parts.

Name: Petra
Tier: Spirit
Health: N/A
Status: N/A
Power Multiplier: N/A
Skillset: Defense/Equipment/Fossils/???
Abilities:
[Defense] Vinewall: Create a wall of densely-packed vines nearby, blocking movement through it. Can alter the speed at which it rises.
[Equipment] Fabricate: Create a piece of equipment in hand. Requires material
[Fossils] Petrify: Turn something previously alive into immobile stone.

Name: Inanna
Tier: Spirit
Health: N/A
Status: N/A
Power Multiplier: N/A
Skillset: Man Eater/Spores/Carnivorous Plants/???
Abilities:
[Man Eater] Slavering Maw: Takes a crunch out of the target with Inannas acid drooling maw. Not only is the bite likely to remove chunks out of less sturdy creatures, but the acid will rapidly wear away at the rest.
[Spores] Lovely Mist: A cloud of spores that induce delusions and feelings of love in beings that inhale them.
[Carnivorous Plants] Giant Sundew: Grows a massive Sundew, large enough to ensnare animals in its grasp. The adhesive it uses to hold its prey is moderatly acidic, but not enough to kill a man in any appreciable time period.

Spoiler: Tree (click to show/hide)

Health: 10/10
Height: 10cm
Mana: 1

Temperature: Cold

Spoiler: Spells (click to show/hide)

Other
Empower Spell: (1 Mana) - For this turn only, a selected Dryad ability is cast with double its effective power multiplier with a reduced failure rate.
Heal: (1 Mana) - Heals 5 health for one Dryad, or 2 health for one Non-Dryad.
Dryad Manifestation: (1 Mana) - Converts a "Spirit" dryad into a "Newborn" dryad. Cost increases with each use.

[TricMagic]

"Dryad Manifestation: Petra."

Other spirits have a sense of Doraido curling in on itself to sleep.

"It's too cold, and I'm not someone who fights directly. Let the one able to create a defense be the first."

[Glass]

"My thanks." Dryad Manifestation: Petra

Petra will spend 80% of his power to raise a Vinewall around the tree, and put the remaining 20% to slightly Petrifying the wall to strengthen it.

Additionally, see if there's any stone around for later use for fabrication.

[Failbird105]

"Mmh, yes, I suppose that a wall must come before we can begin making a perimeter defense.

Petra, Manifest

(So, can anyone tell the inspirations and references behind my Dryads name?)