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Author Topic: Tainted Power RTD (Turn 9: Not Much Gets Done)  (Read 18118 times)

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Re: Tainted Power RTD (Under Construction, In Signups Anyway!)
« Reply #15 on: May 10, 2011, 09:52:06 pm »

Fine, I'll have +1 to cutting off any limbs, if that's fine.
Any limbs would be even weaker. I'm not sure if you'd still get the +1 to the roll or not, but it'd have an extremely weak effect; lopping off the limbs of people you should have outright killed but rolled abysmally, for instance.
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You're not giving me much options are you?

Meh. I don't have many ideas.

...how about +1 to stabbing demons in the eyes?
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Tarran has the "Tarran Bug", a bug which causes the affected character to repeatedly hit teammates while dual-wielding instead of whatever the hell he is shooting at.

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Re: Tainted Power RTD (Under Construction, In Signups Anyway!)
« Reply #16 on: May 10, 2011, 09:52:24 pm »

Is this what you were looking for skillwise, Ironyowl?

(1) Slip Strike-Ignore armor effects on a 5 or 6 when using short blades
(1) Inventive Mind-noncombat, Double the number, or quality of results of an engineering attempt of 5 or 6
(1) Stolen Dreams-Noncombat, Double the number, or quality of results of an alchemy attempt of 5 or 6

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Re: Tainted Power RTD (Under Construction, In Signups Anyway!)
« Reply #17 on: May 10, 2011, 09:59:09 pm »

I'm still thinking of what the spell would be... Maybe thunder? Music, so the thunder, but energy, so the lightning, and maybe there'd be a delay between lightning and thunder, so time? But a burst of noise doesn't really fit the whole "classical music" thing. Or a song that energized my allies and made them quicker? But I'm not really sure how useful that would be. Maybe I could just play a ridiculously fast electric lute solo. That would be cool. But pointless.
« Last Edit: May 10, 2011, 10:02:04 pm by choobakka »
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« Reply #18 on: May 10, 2011, 10:07:03 pm »

Name: Taric
Race/Gender/Breed: Demi-dragon/Male/Blue
Appearance: Blue scales and yellow eyes
Skills:
(1) Bladesman
(1) Charmer
(1) Unconventional thinker
Inventory: Quality steel longsword
Backstory: Taric is currently a wanderer, recently ejected from a town via catapult after they strung him up and fired him into some gong with said catapult (Bonus points if you know what I'm talking about) Taric is fairly young for a dragon, not long has his scales been hard.
« Last Edit: May 11, 2011, 05:40:15 am by Taricus »
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Re: Tainted Power RTD (Under Construction, In Signups Anyway!)
« Reply #19 on: May 10, 2011, 10:07:53 pm »

Oh snap, it's Taricus.

Run for your lives everyone! Run for your lives!
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Unknown to most but the insane and the mystics, Tarran is actually Earth itself, as Earth is sentient like that planet in Avatar. Originally Earth used names such as Terra on the internet, but to protect it's identity it changed letters, now becoming the Tarran you know today.
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Tarran has the "Tarran Bug", a bug which causes the affected character to repeatedly hit teammates while dual-wielding instead of whatever the hell he is shooting at.

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Re: Tainted Power RTD (Under Construction, In Signups Anyway!)
« Reply #20 on: May 10, 2011, 10:08:50 pm »

Oh god oh god oh GOD NO NO NOOOOOOOOOOOOO! Thankfully there are no porn mags in medieval tech... I hope.
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« Reply #21 on: May 10, 2011, 10:12:25 pm »

Wait, Taricus, you don't even need to write a character!

Name: Taric
R/G/B: Human male
Appearance: Average
Background: none
 Just add in the inventory and you're done!
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« Reply #22 on: May 10, 2011, 10:14:19 pm »

Chewie: Don't worry, I'm onto that.
PM: Scream and run for cover, I'm doing the medieval version of it >:D
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« Reply #23 on: May 10, 2011, 10:23:36 pm »

SCCCCCREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEAM! *runs for cover*
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Re: Tainted Power RTD (Under Construction, In Signups Anyway!)
« Reply #24 on: May 10, 2011, 10:28:26 pm »

Good thing I'm half demon, half of myself won't give a crap.

...I hope.
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Unknown to most but the insane and the mystics, Tarran is actually Earth itself, as Earth is sentient like that planet in Avatar. Originally Earth used names such as Terra on the internet, but to protect it's identity it changed letters, now becoming the Tarran you know today.
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Tarran has the "Tarran Bug", a bug which causes the affected character to repeatedly hit teammates while dual-wielding instead of whatever the hell he is shooting at.

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Re: Tainted Power RTD (Under Construction, In Signups Anyway!)
« Reply #25 on: May 10, 2011, 11:11:03 pm »

You're not giving me much options are you?

Meh. I don't have many ideas.

...how about +1 to stabbing demons in the eyes?
Is this what you were looking for skillwise, Ironyowl?

(1) Slip Strike-Ignore armor effects on a 5 or 6 when using short blades
(1) Inventive Mind-noncombat, Double the number, or quality of results of an engineering attempt of 5 or 6
(1) Stolen Dreams-Noncombat, Double the number, or quality of results of an alchemy attempt of 5 or 6
I think I worded this poorly. I mean, I already knew I did, but I still thought it was legible. Oops.

By default, an ability is a normal attack (or dodge/crafting/seduction) roll with a +1 bonus, that has some added effect. What exactly the effect is depends on a bunch of things, including how tough your opponent is. A decapitation attack, for instance, might just deal extra damage if it'd be enough to finish something off; a stunning blow might stun enemies, but it'd stun mooks a lot longer than dragons; a bleeding attack might cause struck foes to lose HP every round. In most cases, they'd also deal normal damage but only work under a specific set of circumstances, like how heavily armored or large your foe is. To some extent you can weaken the whole thing to make it just "I chop it's head off, it works as long as they've got a head" or lower the damage for more stunning or somesuch, but in general that's how it goes.

Also, you combine three skill points into an ability, so you only get one. You could just keep the skill points around if you wanted, but they wouldn't yet do anything.


I'm still thinking of what the spell would be... Maybe thunder? Music, so the thunder, but energy, so the lightning, and maybe there'd be a delay between lightning and thunder, so time? But a burst of noise doesn't really fit the whole "classical music" thing. Or a song that energized my allies and made them quicker? But I'm not really sure how useful that would be. Maybe I could just play a ridiculously fast electric lute solo. That would be cool. But pointless.
First thing that came to my mind was Lightning Metronome- scour the battlefield with repeated, well-timed lightning. Of course, I was imagining it quite a bit more epic than you could pull off at character creation, but still.
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Re: Tainted Power RTD (Under Construction, In Signups Anyway!)
« Reply #26 on: May 10, 2011, 11:19:27 pm »

Blarg, I don't know anymore. I guess I'll just keep the points and save them for later instead of starting with an ability.
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Unknown to most but the insane and the mystics, Tarran is actually Earth itself, as Earth is sentient like that planet in Avatar. Originally Earth used names such as Terra on the internet, but to protect it's identity it changed letters, now becoming the Tarran you know today.
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Tarran has the "Tarran Bug", a bug which causes the affected character to repeatedly hit teammates while dual-wielding instead of whatever the hell he is shooting at.

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Re: Tainted Power RTD (Under Construction, In Signups Anyway!)
« Reply #27 on: May 10, 2011, 11:45:46 pm »

Alright, I've added a demented example to the OP. Hopefully that will help clear things up.

I'll also get around to organizing and explaining things better at some point, but that's not going to be for a bit.
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Re: Tainted Power RTD (Under Construction, In Signups Anyway!)
« Reply #28 on: May 11, 2011, 01:34:49 am »

Gah! Can't believe I missed this. Reserving now while I read over everything and start work on a character.
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« Reply #29 on: May 11, 2011, 01:53:35 am »

Gah! Can't believe I missed this.
I don't believe you did: I think there's one more slot.

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Unknown to most but the insane and the mystics, Tarran is actually Earth itself, as Earth is sentient like that planet in Avatar. Originally Earth used names such as Terra on the internet, but to protect it's identity it changed letters, now becoming the Tarran you know today.
Quote from: Ze Spy
Tarran has the "Tarran Bug", a bug which causes the affected character to repeatedly hit teammates while dual-wielding instead of whatever the hell he is shooting at.
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