First of all, I'm thinking of doing turns at least daily, or every two days, depending on activity and peoples time zones. FYI, I'm in Pacific time zone, US. It is also possible for turns to happen twice a day
Background:
2050, the singularity arrived, but it wasn’t the singularity everybody thought it would be. Instead, a great number of portals opened all over the planet, out of which tens of thousands of deities, spirits, demons, and monsters manifested themselves, representing numerous religions and cultures, some long dead. Destruction from the chaos that followed (including some nukes that went off before the gods realized what was happening) sent the world into a preindustrial state.
A few centuries later, some places have recovered to an industrial state, what electronic devices remain are those that have been retooled, the age of sail has returned, flying machines exist where the gods allow them. As is expected, the many deities, demons, and monsters have mingled with mortals, but instead of just a few demigods around, they are very common, making up more than half of a cities population in places.
In this RTD, you can play as a demigod, or a hybrid of god and demon/monster, or even a hybrid of demon and monster.
Remember, there are gods, demons, and monsters from the pantheons of every culture that existed (and recorded, for the extinct ones). Besides the classical Greek/Roman (I'm treating the Greek and Roman ones as the same people), Egyptain, and Norse pantheons, theres the Far Eastern pantheons, Hindu, Polynesian, African, Mesopotamian, Celtic, various Native American groups, Mesoamerican, and many others. Even the collective Christan, Muslim, and Jewish God is around.
The fun part here is that you can choose what god/goddess you want to be the descendant of, or even a demon or monster, choose what powers you want, and choose what your appearance is. For example, if the god or monster/demon has multiple arms, your character can have multiple arms.
A few rules:
1. I don't want people to pick creator type gods (including the christian/muslim/jewish God) simply because it would be too ambiguous and the potential to be overpowered. However, some like the Norse Ymr, sacrificed themselves, so they would be unavailable, and others aren't real powerful. So if you want to choose a creator type god, I'll have to OK the choice.
2. Please don't pick a power that would be instakill or otherwise overpowered, like say, Medusas stone gaze.
3. It will have to be a god, goddess, demon, whatever from a real mythological pantheon, not a fantasy one (like say, out of a game).
4. Not so much a rule than a guideline, I would like this to at least be somewhat serious, or rather not turn into a pile of sillyness.
Thats about it.
Whenever a player or npc is attacked, they get a roll to dodge.
1-You move into the attack (+1 to damage)
2-You fail to dodge the attack
3-You get your vitals out of the way, but you're still grazed (11 to damage)
4-You dodge the attack
5-You dodge and find yourself in a good position (+1 to next dodge roll this turn)
6-You dodge and find yourself in a poor position (-1 to all future dodge rolls this turn)
If the target gets hit, they get a body part target roll:
1-Head
2-Torso
3-Right Arm
4-Left Leg
5-Left Arm
6-Right Leg
Then they roll to dodge damage
6-Critical damage (gain "near death" effect)
5-Bad hit
4-Standard damage
3-Slightly hurt
2-A scratch
1-No effect
Multiple bad hits or critical damage hits in one turn can result in death.
If you have the "near death" status effect at the end of a turn, you get a roll to dodge death
<=1-You die
2-You've but a moment left to live(-2 to dodge death rolls)
3-You've taken a turn for the worst(-1 to dodge death rolls)
4-You're hanging on, barely
5-You're not doing great, but things are a little bit better(+1 to dodge death rolls)
6-You're starting to go into a stable condition(+2 to dodge death rolls)
7-You're still not up to par, but death is receding quickly(+3 to dodge death rolls)
>=8-You've stabilized (lose "near death" status)
Regarding powers, you will have three, maximum, to start out with, you have the capability to unlock powers/abilities, but you'll have to figure that out.
Name:
Gender:
What diety you are a descendant of, or your 'race' if you are a demon or monster hybrid:
Powers/abilities (3 maximum to start with):
Appearance:
Other relevant details you want to add:
Alchemy Diagram for general reference:
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