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Author Topic: Taking Chances: A Discworld RTD. Now over due to lack of GM foresight.  (Read 8948 times)

choobakka

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(The name is what the book would be called if Moist Von Lipwig ran a casino)

So. The setting is Discworld, which is a flat world held up by four elephants on the back of a turtle, the Great A'Tuin. The world is powered by Narrativium, which makes things go because that's how they're supposed to go. The Brave Woodsman always arrives in time to save the Little Girl and the Old Woman from the Big Bad Wolf. The Brave Children always push the Wicked Witch into her own oven. Things run in stories.

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Magic works with Narrativium: If it should work then it does. Post your characters; I have a few reservations already. Only people who explicitly called a spot.
« Last Edit: May 29, 2011, 10:46:14 am by choobakka »
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Re: Taking Chances: A Discworld RTD.
« Reply #1 on: May 15, 2011, 09:34:16 am »

In.

Name: Darvi
Race: Dwarf
Gender: Male?
Description: ... he's a dwarf. They all look the same anyway.
Occupation: Sockmaker. You can never have enough socks.
Skillpoints:
-Clothworking: Can weave, sew, or stitch any kind of cloth. Preferably into foot-shaped containers.
-Brawling: fluent in the international language of violence, and can use underhanded tactics that might come in handy in a bar fight
-Darvinism: Survival of the fittest, man! And by "fit" I mean "drunk". Does anything better when inebriated.
Background: By day, he is a humble sockmaker, but at night, he is... The sockpuncher! In the Ankh-Morporkian sport of bar brawling he is known for either wearing socks as gloves, or clocking people with said article of clothing.
« Last Edit: May 15, 2011, 06:38:58 pm by Darvi »
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Re: Taking Chances: A Discworld RTD.
« Reply #2 on: May 15, 2011, 09:43:22 am »

Name: Derm
Species: Human
Gender: Male
Description: A medium height man with brown hair and green eyes. Likes to wear a cross between a labcoat and a robe. His hat is high and yea, it is mighty. Tarnish not his majestic TOWERING PILLAR OF HATTES.
Occupation: SCIENTIST WIZZARD
Skill Points:
Spell making -  Is able to create spells.
Spell casting - Is able to cast spells expertly
Parkour - Is able to move quickly and dodge around objects as if weren't there.
Background: Growing up, this man always felt the need to learn more about how the universe worked, through magic or science. This of course was completely impossible and backfired after a few disasters at the prestigious UU, but he did learn that there are some things that can be manipulated to receive a desired outcome. And thus the Scientific Method of Magic was born.
« Last Edit: May 15, 2011, 08:26:48 pm by dermonster »
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Re: Taking Chances: A Discworld RTD.
« Reply #3 on: May 15, 2011, 09:51:09 am »

Name: Faelan
Species: Werewolf
Gender: Male
Description: A little Short for a werewolf, faelan wears long pants, but goes barefoot and barechested, not wanting to rely on clothing that he could loose
Occupation: Assasin
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Background: Faelan cannot remember a time where he was not a werewolf, he uses that in his job as an assasin, it is hard to disarm someone of claws
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Re: Taking Chances: A Discworld RTD.
« Reply #4 on: May 15, 2011, 09:59:57 am »

Name: Fiorelli Gucci

Species: Minor Anthropomorphic Personification

Gender: Female

Description: Overly thin girl who looks barely 18.  Black hair and thick black rimmed glasses.  Wears a red cocktail robe with a semi-translucent cape/hood a la red riding hood.  Her accessories change pretty much every time someone sees her.  She is currently carrying a ruby red purse, a red broach in her hair, "wizard of Oz" red slippers and white gold bracers.

Occupation: Goddess of Fashion

Skill Points: (or an ability):
1. Can morph any footwear, accessories, or clothing styles within visual range into totally different styles and materials. 
2. Can influence/charm/etc people by judging the right look she needs to have to make what she wants someone to do to do.   
3. Can camouflage expertly to hide/dodge by looking at her surroundings and accessorizing accordingly to blend in.

Background: She uses her powers to update their style selections of the vain who worship her sometimes.  She perfers doing the fairy godmother thing and doing style favours for the poor and fashionably needy.  She is known to curse those who displease her by changing their footwear into lead cloggs, dresses into burlap sacks, and purses into rancid skunk-skin.
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Re: Taking Chances: A Discworld RTD.
« Reply #5 on: May 15, 2011, 10:23:00 am »

Yay I got reserved!

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Re: Taking Chances: A Discworld RTD.
« Reply #6 on: May 15, 2011, 10:32:39 am »

He's not dead! He's just differently alive! Or something.
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Re: Taking Chances: A Discworld RTD.
« Reply #7 on: May 15, 2011, 10:52:06 am »

Name: Igor
Species: Igor ( :P )
Gender: Male
Description: A short  sinister looking man with a rather big hump. Always angry and carrying a heavy oak walking cane. (The cane is his   weapon, count it as a mace :D)
Occupation: "Medic"
Skill Points:
-(2) "Medicine" Can "heal" people. Or not. Usually not, but it doesnt matter.
-(1) Mad science: he has quite a lot of knowledge about !!SCIENCE!! because of his works with Dr. Frank (Not THAT Frank)
Background: Working as a "medic" in his hometown (Igortown?) at first, he started working with a "scientist" in his lab as an assistant. When Dr. Frank died, he left to find a good work to try his chance on !!Mad "Medicine"!!. Also, he has a pet meat golem (basketball-sized, a meat ball with arms. It smells. Im not going to say HOW, but it smells. A lot.)
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Re: Taking Chances: A Discworld RTD.
« Reply #8 on: May 15, 2011, 11:27:02 am »

I will just watch  ;D
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Re: Taking Chances: A Discworld RTD.
« Reply #9 on: May 15, 2011, 11:42:28 am »

Interesting.

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Re: Taking Chances: A Discworld RTD.
« Reply #10 on: May 15, 2011, 05:42:18 pm »

In!

Name: Dr. Puttinski

Species: Troll

Gender: Male

Description: A fairly large creature (although small for  a troll). About a head taller than a normal man. Wears the standard troll garb (as little as possible). There is a large contraption strapped to his back which keeps him cooled. Enjoys ice cream.

Occupation: Inventor.

Skill Points:
1) Invent - Under the right conditions, Puttinski is a skilled inventor.
2) Improvise - Puttinski is able to use his inventions in unorthodox ways. For now, he can use his cooling machine, Freezo, to do ice damage.
3) Brain Freeze - Puttinski can boost his intelligence temporarily by supercooling his brain with Freezo.

Background: A troll scientist/inventor. After inventing an ice generator, he thought he had invented the solution to the heat-induced stupidity suffered by all trolls. On an expedition to the hottest parts of the world, his equipment broke down. The entire crew succumbed to stupidity-related deaths. Puttinski managed to survive by salvaging a miniaturized version of his ice generator for himself.
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Re: Taking Chances: A Discworld RTD.
« Reply #11 on: May 15, 2011, 06:15:34 pm »

I'm sorry if the "skill points" thing wasn't clear. You get three skill pints, which are then combined into an ability. The three skill points can be anything you've done well at some point in the past, for example, you could take the skills "Blocking punches", which means you've blocked a punch well before, "K.O.", which means you've knocked someone out cold, and "Kicking", which means you've kicked someone hard, and combine them to make an ability, "Foot Counter", blocking a punch and then kicking someone in the face to knock them out. Or you could take Pie Throwing, Poisoning food, and Sneakiness to assassinate someone with a poisoned pie. See the Tainted Power RtD for better examples.

This means that EVERYONE needs to update their characters.
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Re: Taking Chances: A Discworld RTD.
« Reply #12 on: May 15, 2011, 06:20:13 pm »

hmm..  ok Editing for 2 more skills.
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Re: Taking Chances: A Discworld RTD.
« Reply #13 on: May 15, 2011, 06:23:21 pm »

hmm..  ok Editing for 2 more skills.
Actually, the morphing clothes thing is a great example of a skill. A.P.s get one of their skills as their power/thingy.
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Re: Taking Chances: A Discworld RTD.
« Reply #14 on: May 15, 2011, 06:26:32 pm »

Sweet.

Ok I modded my character, all the skills are related to fashion so I think it works now yes?
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