What's the interest in RPing like nowadays? It doesn't look like the board's been very active as of late, but I'm more than willing to write something up if other people want to take part.
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That's like my standard MO when it comes to RPs so it's fine with me.
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Good, okay. The initial setting is pretty simple. It's set on multiple continents controlled by a number of nations at war. Each nation has its own system of government, religion, culture, etcetera. For this reason, different weapons, magic, armour, and items exist in different places. There will be proper classes, but only after the introduction, and an emphasis will be put on individuality. Nobody, for example, will just be a lancer or a mage. Traditional classes will become archetypes and a character's "class" will be unique to them, fitting under a traditional archetype. In addition, some weapons will be unique and others won't be. Unique items aren't easy to come by, but a unique item will be given to each character early on.
Since war and politics play an important role in the setting, characters may choose an allegiance, but don't have to. Each nation has their own motives and desires, but there will be two sides to the conflict: the parties to have broken the peace and the parties to have retaliated.
In truth, the whole idea is inspired by multiple JRPGs, but battle is played out in regular RP format. To begin with, there will likely only be one group of characters moving together, but this will change as events play out and more characters are introduced. Characters can be self-inserts or OCs from thin air, it doesn't really matter. I also don't want to give players a set objective, because I find that doing so makes the destination seem a lot more important than the journey. I'm happy to keep world-building in more detail as new territory is explored. Lastly, the exact rules aren't set in stone but I have a good idea of what they'll be.
To put it simply, stats will be given to each character beforehand and players should use those as reference. For example, if your character's speed is high, your dodging will usually be successful against the average enemy. If it's low, you can expect to get hit a fair bit more. Since most battles will be against mooks and bosses, I'll be able to say whether or not an attack misses or hits and how much damage it does to the enemy, etcetera. And I'd rather present that kind of thing descriptively, as opposed to using raw numbers which might not mean a lot to players and aren't always easy to keep track of.
I'll be keeping a close eye out for actions that contradict one's stats, but my expectation is that I should only have to say something about it during the introduction, which will serve as a kind of tutorial so that players can have a practice against weaker mobs and I can advise anyone who isn't sure about battling or is godmodding without realising. It won't be complicated, mind you. Players will get a feel for their characters strengths and weaknesses, which will be assigned according to their preferences and style of play anyway.
I made that sound a lot more complicated than it is, but my point is that it won't be difficult to manage.
How active is this forum with roleplays? How many posts are usually in a roleplay per day? I would be interested in joining if I knew there would be other at-least-somewhat-committed people.
I'm not sure what that tells me... about a post a day, then no post until mine some months later... Pretty sorry place to look for roleplay then, if I go off that alone, then...
I like a good roleplay but a lot of your questions are really specific and hard to answer. "Posts per day" ain't something I imagine many people seriously measure.
As for activity its definitely dropped but that might be due to a lack of RPs. Some have started up before but have struggled to last.
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I like a good roleplay but a lot of your questions are really specific and hard to answer. "Posts per day" ain't something I imagine many people seriously measure. .
asking someone roughly how many times they can post each day is very commonplace in setting up roleplays
Yeah like, I love roleplays where you can just sit at a computer for hours with a couple characters having a nice discussion, or fight scene, or some very good comedy (I was in a hilarious Black Butler roleplay as both Ciel Phantomhive and Arthur Wordsmith). But then come across other roleplays where you post in a thread once, maybe twice, a day... maybe wait longer for someone else to respond... that's a very much dying rp.
I used to be big on roleplaying around here, though I'd always use the same one or two OCs based on myself. I'd love to return to RPing as soon as one starts up. As one can expect, because of the scarcity of RPs at this time, I wouldn't even be picky. Would give me a great chance to dust off the ol' writing skills. I'd assume it's pretty clear from this post that I have no problem writing a lot.
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I used to be big on roleplaying around here, though I'd always use the same one or two OCs based on myself. I'd love to return to RPing as soon as one starts up. As one can expect, because of the scarcity of RPs at this time, I wouldn't even be picky. Would give me a great chance to dust off the ol' writing skills. I'd assume it's pretty clear from this post that I have no problem writing a lot.
Maybe we could start one then? I mean, some of my best roleplays had only two or three people, so long as they posted often. I'd be willing to think something up if I knew another person was on board. Make a goal of at least three people maybe? AA canon characters or OCs? Or a fandom mash-up, those are pretty fun. (Like having characters from different games, anime, TV series, etc. meet in one roleplay. At one point I was Beyond Birthday from the Death Note prequel novel and Grell Sutcliff from Black Butler.) I'm up for something different.
Yeah, we need a new RP, my RPing skills are rusty an been quite bored recently with no RPing in my life.
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I got real into creepy pasta a while back. Not sure how you'd roleplay that though.
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At long last, Version 2.0 of my Fire Emblem RP is ready to be unveiled. I am open to suggested changes to some of the rules, provided I can trust the person suggesting the change to actually be interested in participating in the RP. Regrettably, I need to be up early for jury duty tomorrow, so unless some of you are really quick readers, I probably won't see any responses until a little over nine hours from now at the earliest (and that's assuming I have time to look over responses before I have to leave).
Spoiler: tl;dr version
The players will serve one of two countries. Said countries are at war with each other. Mechanics are mostly taken from Radiant Dawn, though some things from Awakening have also been included. There’s also some homebrew stuff I’d like to test out. These tests will also give me time to gauge how tough I should make the battles and will give the players many opportunities to test out the various classes if they can't choose one. Class promotion is a mix between Radiant Dawn’s three-tier system and Awakening’s branching system. Players are allowed a maximum of two characters.
Fire Emblem: Ruler of the East
Testing Phase
At this point, the only things I don’t have ready are some maps of Duat, some Lore entries, and other things that, while helpful, are not necessary. I don’t want to keep everyone waiting any longer than I’ve already made them wait, though, so I figured I’d kill two Wyvern Riders with one arrow here by carrying out test battles while finishing up the extra stuff. This will also allow everyone to get used to the way the RP’s combat system works and also allow me to catch any problems with the RP’s mechanics that I failed to notice beforehand (or noticed, but didn’t expect to be a problem). There are some homebrewed mechanics I’m considering, so testing them out is crucial lest they turn out to be more trouble than they’re worth. Worst-case scenario, any ideas that don’t work out will just be flat-out nixed. Considering how many test battles I plan on running, I don’t plan on having experience carry over from them into the RP. These test battles also provide players with a convenient excuse to test out various classes and items without having to keep them. One final benefit of test battles is that they allow me to gauge how tough I should make the enemies, how good I should make the enemy’s tactics, and so on. To that end, I ask that you all perform to the best of your abilities. If you intentionally make really bad decisions in the hope that I’ll make the RP easier to compensate, you may find yourselves bored in later missions due to the relative lack of any real challenge.
Spoiler: Things to test
Night battles. Same deal. “Fog of war” has been in every game I’ve played except Awakening and Fates (and possibly Shadow Dragon, though I don’t remember that one too well), so it’s almost certainly staying, although it will just be night battles here rather than any plot-convenient fog.
Battles with NPC allies. Considering that the RP will involve a war between countries, I don’t think it’s a stretch to sometimes have the party be part of a much larger battle. I need to figure out what kind of NPC complement is suitable for such a battle. Don’t worry; unless you guys screw up so badly that the country you sided with is on the verge of defeat, there will be no “protect this NPC or it’s game over” missions—and even then, I have plans for continuing the RP even in the unlikely event your employer loses everything. Strictly speaking, it’s only truly “game over” if everyone chooses to kill off their characters after a TPK.
Proper enemy stat scaling. Enemy units (excluding bosses) will probably start out with a penalty to stats, but I also need to gauge how significant the penalty needs to be at higher levels. This means you’ll all be temporarily given higher levels in a few test battles.
Siege weapons. Awakening is the only Fire Emblem game I’ve played in which there were no siege weapons. There are almost certainly going to be siege weapons in this RP, which means I want everyone to get used to how they work, not to mention I might want to make some changes if my current designs prove to be a problem.
Indoor battles. I am considering introducing some terrain types exclusive to indoor battles. For example, some doorways might be so narrow that they provide a penalty to Avo.
Battles against Laguz. I need to be sure Laguz classes are not overpowered or underpowered, so there will be at least two test battles in which the majority of the enemy forces are Laguz.
Sea battles. I don’t know how common sea battles will be. Off the top of my head, I can only think of one scenario in which such a battle is likely, but I want to err on the side of caution here and figure out how I should run sea battles just in case the situation calls for one.
Bosses. If a boss has an important role to play in the story, I’ll probably make him/her more powerful than a PC of the same level should be. I need to make sure he/she is still beatable, though. Thankfully, this also gives me an opportunity to recycle some of the planned bosses from the old RP.
There are also some other ideas I have that I want player input from. Whether or not I go ahead with the ideas in the spoiler box below depends on what the players think.
Spoiler: Ideas
Weapon subtypes. The whole “Japanese weapons vs. European weapons” system in Fates has made me consider introducing additional types of swords, lances, and axes. Swords would be split into straight swords and curved swords, lances would be split into spears and glaives, and axes would be split into axes and bludgeons. There would be some mechanical differences between the subtypes, but each subtype occupies the same spot in the weapon triangle as the type it broke off from. The main downside of this idea is that it leaves players with less room for customization. Under a simpler system, for example, a sword your character picks up can be whatever type of sword you want it to be as long as I’ve approved the design and haven’t explicitly described the sword in question. By contrast, under this new system I’m considering, a straight sword your character picks up can’t be a katana, a shamshir, or any other type of sword with a curved blade.
Capturing defeated enemies. I’m considering introducing a mechanic that allows for all sides to capture defeated enemies, meaning it is possible for you to capture defeated enemies—though the enemy would also be able to capture your character if he/she is defeated. There would be ways to rescue defeated characters and get them to safety, though.
Weather mechanics. Some effects will just be present in the form of terrain alteration (rain turning dirt roads into mud, for example) and are not up for discussion. However, I’m considering additional mechanics depending on the weather, such as hot weather sapping HP if your character is too active, cold weather sapping HP if your character isn’t active enough, rain reducing visibility and disabling torches, and so on.
A more realistic storage system. Items can’t just “teleport” into storage anymore. In addition, items can only be retrieved from storage if the wagon is on the battlefield, and even then, only if your character is right next to the wagon.
Story
The prospect of a united Anatolia has often permeated conversation in the Beorc courts of the east. Rarely has more than a few years passed without at least one of the kingdoms in the region finding itself at war with a neighboring Bear Laguz kingdom. If Anatolia were to unite into a single state, only a fool would dare attack. No one has denied this. The main reason it hasn’t happened is disagreement over the answer to a predictable question: Who would rule a united Anatolia? This disagreement has ensured that a united Anatolia would be little more than a dream for a long time. After the Bear King’s Wars ended almost three hundred years ago, Anatolia consisted of twenty-seven kingdoms. Over the centuries, that number dwindled to six; some kingdoms were subjugated by Hellas or Calis to the west while others were conquered by their brethren.
Of the six remaining kingdoms, only two are powerful enough to have any chance of uniting Anatolia through force of arms: Paphlagonia and Chaldia. War between the two was almost inevitable. All it took was one sufficiently ambitious ruler, and King Damian of Paphlagonia was long thought to be that ruler. However, in 1079, the situation was turned on its head: Paphlagonia suddenly and unexpectedly found itself at war with the neighboring Bear Laguz kingdoms of Arka and Zemar. With the majority of the Paphlagonian army occupied fighting the Bear Laguz invaders, King Emmanuel II of Chaldia (nicknamed “Emmanuel the Golden”) seized the opportunity, gathering a large force of mercenaries to bolster his own forces and declaring war on Paphlagonia the following year. This, in turn, led Jaffa and Seleucia, Paphlagonia’s allies, to get involved. It is likely that whoever wins this war will ultimately rule over a united Anatolia, dramatically shifting the balance of power in Duat.
Spoiler: Political Map of Duat (screen-stretch warning)
Starting Out
This section is currently only relevant to people who join before the RP formally begins, so it will be changed once the RP begins. You and the other players need to decide on a few things. The big one is how you all got involved in the war between Chaldia and Paphlagonia. I’d prefer if your first character and the other initial players’ first characters were all part of a small mercenary company that signed a contract with either King Emmanuel of Chaldia or King Damian of Paphlagonia. I favor this because it allows for much more freedom of movement with regards to where your characters are from without making it seem odd that, say, several Western Beorc and Crocodile Laguz are in a region inhabited mostly by Eastern Beorc, Bear Laguz, and Eagle Laguz. If you can all agree on an alternative, I’m open to it if it works. Naturally, you also need to agree on which ruler you’re fighting for, as I am currently not willing to manage two campaigns simultaneously. In the worst-case scenario, if part of the party wants to switch sides, the two sides will fight and I’ll manage the campaign of the winning side (the losing side would be at the winning side’s mercy, though, up to and including being killed by them).
Also, to help reduce the likelihood of early-game TPKs, I am going to allow for the presence of a single crutch character. Whoever offers to control the crutch character first will get to design and play as the crutch character unless they were only making an “if no one else wants to, I’ll do it” offer. This character may be a Laguz class, a second-tier Beorc class, or a third-tier Beorc class. Regardless of their choice, their true level will be 21, they will have more weapon experience, and they will be able to start out with more expensive weapons and items that are currently off-limits to other characters. Because of their true level, I advise having them be either a second-tier Beorc class with twenty bottom-tier levels or a Laguz class. A crutch character who starts out as a third-tier Beorc class will almost inevitably be a Jagen (and not of the Oifey variety, either). In the beginning, the crutch character’s true level will not affect what level new characters start out as. Once the starting true level is close enough to the crutch character’s true level, I’ll start taking the crutch character’s level into account. Being the crutch character is an important responsibility; you need to observe restraint so everyone else can gain experience and catch up, yet you also need to be in a position to save the day if the party gets in over their heads. If I plan out the battles properly, a crutch character won’t even be necessary. This is just a precaution in case something goes wrong in the earlier chapters, such as me making the enemies too strong, the RNG being in a bad mood, or the party making a really bad tactical decision.
Posting Policy and Schedule
This RP will cycle between two separate posting systems. The first system, Story Posting, is observed whenever the party is not participating in a battle. Players are free to post in the narrative thread at any time under this system. The second system, Battle Posting, is observed whenever the party is participating in a battle. Under this system, players are to cooperate in the OOC thread and plan out posts beforehand; posting in the narrative thread without my permission is forbidden. I will announce changes between Story Posting and Battle Posting in the OOC thread.
Battles are carried out “behind the scenes” in the OOC thread. During battles, players take turns choosing what their characters do in each phase of a battle. We all work together on planning out the posts that will be made in the narrative thread. This is purely so there isn’t an excess of extremely short posts that only mention someone’s character taking out a generic enemy. In addition, I will be employing a session system. All participants must specify the times they are available and what time zone they are in. We might be unable to schedule sessions unless at least one of us is able and willing to adjust their schedule. I ask that all participants be prepared to adjust their personal schedules to accommodate the RP if necessary, but only within reason. When stating the times you are available, please only mention your general sleep schedule and any times you flat-out cannot attend under any circumstances. You might be asked to stay up a bit later or wake up a bit earlier than usual, but only within reason and only if we can’t schedule a session without you making that kind of sacrifice. We’ll try to arrange for sessions that are most accommodating to the people who can least afford to make sacrifices. For example, if we have to choose between a session that requires five people to wake up an hour earlier than usual and a session that requires one person to stay up four hours later than usual, we’ll go with the first option unless the one person in the latter option personally volunteers to stay up late and they can afford to do so.
Currently, I plan on carrying out battles over Skype, as it allows us to communicate more efficiently and also has a screen-sharing function, so I can provide all players with a view of the map and their possible actions during battles (though I’ll need to do something a little different for battles in which visibility is limited). If Skype is not an option, I will look into CyTube and the possibility of streaming my screen. In the worst-case scenario, I’ll set up a CyTube channel with no connection to CR and use that for our sessions. Sessions will definitely be carried out during Battle Posting, but they will also be used during Story Posting to prevent people from getting lazy about moving the story along between battles.
Absences and Late Arrivals
If you expect to be unable to attend a scheduled session or believe there is a risk of you being late, you must say so before the session is scheduled to begin. Unannounced absences and late arrivals will be punished with penalties to the rate at which your characters gain experience. I’ll give some leeway with late arrivals as long as you’re no more than ten minutes late and your frequent tardiness doesn’t become a habit. The penalty will increase for each session you miss or arrive late to unless you told us beforehand of your expected absence or tardiness. The penalty will decrease each time you attend a session on time or announce your expected absence/tardiness beforehand. Three unannounced absences in a row or six unannounced late arrivals in a row will be punished by permanent stat decreases at a rate of one point in a random stat (two points if it’s HP) for every one unannounced absence or every two unannounced late arrivals. This is in addition to the aforementioned penalties to experience gain. Should you choose to relinquish control of your penalized character(s) and make someone new, the penalties will be moved over to your new character(s).
Character Creation
You may have a maximum of two characters in this RP. The policy may change to one character (albeit not retroactively) if enough people join the RP. I’m allowing a maximum of two characters to join each chapter save for in the first chapter. I’m allowing every player to bring one character into the party for the first chapter. Your character must be approved by me before he/she is allowed to be in the RP. Please refer to the “Format for submitting a character” spoiler tab for the standard character submission form. If your character has a mount, I consider the mount to be an NPC under your control rather than one of your two characters.
Spoiler: Format for submitting a character
Name: Pretty self-explanatory. If your character’s a noble, make sure to give him/her a family name, too. If your character’s a commoner, he/she can also have a family name, though it’s not mandatory. As a side-note, I suspect most of the players would appreciate it if you refrained from putting non-English letters in your character’s name. Not all of us are willing to type “Alt + 0201” just to properly spell “Éponine” every time we have to mention that name in our posts. I won’t stop you from naming your character “Þorgerðr” or something similar if you really, really want a name like that, but I’m not going to punish other players for cutting corners and spelling it as “Dorgerdr” or something similar. Please stick to the Latin alphabet, though. If you submit a character named “Татьяна” or “ዮሐንስ,” I will not accept him/her until you transliterate his/her name.
Race: Again, pretty self-explanatory. If your character’s mixed-race, I’ll probably ask for more details, though you won’t be obligated to share those details with anyone other than me. Please refer to the Lore entries on the various races for more information on each race. If your character is a depowered Laguz, please make sure to mention that he/she is depowered and please make sure you have read the Lore entry on Marked, as it is relevant to the way a Laguz loses his/her ability to transform.
Sex: Your character’s name will probably clear that matter up, but it still can’t hurt to clearly state your character’s sex just in case their name is one most English-speakers would have trouble identifying as masculine or feminine—to say nothing of the occasional androgynous name.
Class: If your character is a Beorc, a Marked, or a depowered Laguz, you need to choose one of the available Beorc classes for him/her. Please see the section on classes and starting level for more details on your options and how they’ll affect your character. A Laguz only has access to the class that shares its name with his/her species. I’ve included notes on what the standard NPC of a given class will look like, but you’re not obligated to have your character look like that.
Bottom-Tier Level: If your character is a mid-tier or top-tier class, this is how many levels in his/her bottom-tier class he/she had before promoting.
Mid-Tier Level: If your character is a top-tier class, this is how many levels in his/her mid-tier class he/she had before promoting. If your character’s class is one that could have promoted from one of two mid-tier classes, please also specify which mid-tier class he/she promoted from.
Weapon Experience: If your character is a Beorc, a Marked, or a depowered Laguz, you need to choose how to distribute weapon experience among the weapons your character has access to. If your character previously had access to a particular weapon and now doesn’t (for example, a Wyvern Mage had access to axes as a Wyvern Rider, but lost access to them upon promoting), please make sure to include any latent experience with that weapon, too.
Growth Type: You have to choose either Fixed or Random growth. This determines how your character’s stats change as they level up. For example, suppose your character’s growth rate for HP is 50. Random growth means that every time he/she levels up, HP will have a 50% chance of increasing. Fixed growth means that HP will increase once every two levels.
Asset: If you chose to give your character an Asset (please see the section on Assets and Flaws), please name it here.
Flaw: If you chose to give your character a Flaw (please see the section on Assets and Flaws), please name it here.
Equipment: Every character starts out with 2000G to spend on the items available in the “Starter Shop.” The amount of starting money will increase as the party grows stronger. The same will hold true for the variety of items available. Please list the equipment your character starts out with here. The items must be fresh. No getting a Vulnerary with one use left just because you have 100G left over. Any money you have left over goes into the party’s funds, so don’t feel pressured to spend all 2000G right away. There is also a special “Crutch Shop” available for the crutch character, who starts with 5000G.
Appearance: Facial features, body structure, height, attire, and the like all go here. Even if I end up not making it a mechanic that actually affects battles, weather is not going to be consistent throughout the RP, so I recommend being prepared to change your character’s clothes to suit the weather (I won’t force you to do it, though). I’ll only step in and reject your character’s appearance if I feel it doesn’t suit their class or is just flat-out inappropriate for this RP.
Personality: Pretty self-explanatory. Should character development lead to changes in your character’s personality during the RP, please let me know if you want to change what your character’s profile says. If your character’s personality is a façade and you want to keep his/her true nature hidden from the other players, please tell me as much in a PM.
Background: This is where you tell us everything you believe the other players should know about your character’s past, such as where your character is from, who his/her relatives are, and so on. As with personality, anything you want kept secret from the other players should be mentioned to me in a PM.
Additional Information: This is pretty much anything you want the other players to know about your character that you didn’t bring up in the other parts of his/her profile.
Spoiler: Starting Level
Your character’s starting level is determined based on a special formula I’ve devised. It uses something I call a “true level.” If your character is a Beorc, a Marked, or a depowered Laguz, his/her true level is his/her bottom-tier level plus his/her mid-tier level plus his/her top-tier level. For example, if your character started out as a Guard, promoted to Knight at Level 13, then promoted to Champion at Level 17, and is now a Level 5 Champion, his/her true level is 13 + 17 + 5, which is 35. For Laguz, it’s much simpler; a Laguz’s true level is his/her level plus twenty. So, for example, a Level 13 Eagle has a true level of 33.
Your character’s starting level is the average true level of everyone in the party who is within a certain range. What I do is this: I take the true levels of everyone in the party and find the median level. I then average out the true levels of everyone whose true level is the median level ± 2. For example, suppose the party has eleven people and their true levels are as follows: 1.03, 1.72, 2.93, 3.18, 4.19, 5.44, 5.81, 7.17, 8.23, 9.71, 22.02. The median is 5.44, so the crutch character, so the four lowest-leveled characters and the three highest-leveled characters are not counted. Thus, I average out the four who are within range and get 5.6525, which I round down to 5.65. In this scenario, a new character would start out at Level 5 and have 65 experience points toward Level 6. If the starting true level is greater than or equal to 21, you need to choose how to distribute your character’s levels between the three tiers (unless your character is a Laguz). You will also start out with a minimum of 31 weapon experience points to distribute, though this will only matter in the case of classes that can use more than one type of weapon or promoted from a class that used a different weapon than they use now. As with your character’s starting level, this will change as the party grows stronger. The amount of weapon experience your character starts out with is determined by the same formula as the party’s starting true level, but with a range of median ± 10. The crutch character starts out with 181 instead.
As the current starting level is 1, only these classes are available to player characters at the moment. The only exception is the crutch character. The “Typical NPC Appearance” blurb is primarily to serve as a guide for how NPCs with that class are likely to be equipped for combat. You’re not required to adhere to it, though; it’s just there to give you a sense of how the class looks in general.
These classes will become available once the starting level is 11. There are two ways for a bottom-tier class to promote. The first is by gaining 100 EXP after reaching Level 20—in other words, reaching the hypothetical “Level 21.” The second way is by using a Master Seal after reaching Level 10 or higher. The second method is not advised unless your character is at Level 20, as promoting before that point means depriving your character of opportunities to level up. The “Typical NPC Appearance” blurb is primarily to serve as a guide for how NPCs with that class are likely to be equipped for combat. You’re not required to adhere to it, though; it’s just there to give you a sense of how the class looks in general.
These classes will become available once the starting level is 21. A mid-tier class promotes to the top tier by reaching “Level 21” or by using a Master Crown after reaching level 10 or higher. Again, the second method is not advised unless your character is at Level 20. Top-tier classes stop gaining experience after reaching Level 20, so any bottom-tier and mid-tier levels you skipped by promoting early will not be made up for in the top tier. The “Typical NPC Appearance” blurb is primarily to serve as a guide for how NPCs with that class are likely to be equipped for combat. You’re not required to adhere to it, though; it’s just there to give you a sense of how the class looks in general.
Spoiler: Laguz Classes (screen-stretch warning)
These classes will become available once the starting level is 21. Laguz classes do not promote, but have superior starting stats and a maximum level of 40 instead of 20. Upon reaching Level 21, a Laguz class gains access to its Occult skill. Laguz classes are kind of a crapshoot when it comes to how NPCs usually look, as it depends on whether or not they choose to dress like locals or stick with the clothes typical of their homeland.
Spoiler: Laguz Mechanics and Comparison to Beorc
If you have not played Path of Radiance or Radiant Dawn, Laguz mechanics will be unfamiliar to you, though you may have seen some transforming classes in other games. Laguz have two forms: a “beast” form and a “human” form. Rather than use weapons or tomes, Laguz use their “beast” forms to fight. Transformation is based on a gauge that fills up or goes down depending on the circumstances. When a Laguz is in “human” form, the Transform Gauge increases at the beginning of each turn and is farther increased by combat. When he/she is in “beast” form, the Transform Gauge decreases at the beginning of each turn and is farther decreased by combat. The rate at which the Transform Gauge fills up and empties varies from race to race. A Laguz may only change from “human” to “beast” when the Transform Gauge is at 30, the maximum unless the Laguz in question is recovering from an injury. The transformation is done manually. A Laguz may take another action after transforming, though they must end their turn on the tile they transformed on. A Laguz in “beast” form may return to “human” form manually in the same way as they can change from “human” to “beast,” though they will also be forced out of their “beast” form if the Transform Gauge hits 0. Where a Laguz’s Transform Gauge starts out in each battle depends on what form they were in before the battle started and how long it has been in-game since they were in the other form.
Laguz in “beast” form typically have better stats than Beorc of the same level. I may subject them to some nerfs if they prove overpowered in test battles, though. In addition, their “weapon” is completely free, improves in power automatically as their Weapon Level increases, will never break, and cannot be unequipped. Because of the nature of their “weapon,” Laguz are unlikely to be as much of a drain on resources as Beorc—not to mention the Disarm skill won’t work on them. The downside to having only one weapon available is that Laguz aren’t as versatile as far as attacks are concerned; even a Beorc class that uses only one weapon has a variety of different weapons to choose from. The more serious downside of being a Laguz, though, is that Laguz in “human” form typically have much worse stats than Beorc of the same level, making them easy targets. In addition, when in “human” form, they can only counterattack with an unarmed strike, which is a physical attack that has a Mt of 0. There are items that can boost or maximize the Transform Gauge, though relying on them too heavily can get expensive in the long run and could counteract the financial advantage Laguz classes have over Beorc classes. There is also an equippable item that can enable Laguz to remain transformed indefinitely, but it also reduces the stat bonuses to their “beast” form, effectively turning them into slightly less versatile Beorc. Eventually, I will introduce a rare single-use item that enables the Laguz who uses it to remain transformed—without any penalties—for the duration of a single battle. Said item will only be available late in the RP, though, and will not be available in stores (i. e. it can only be received from an NPC, taken from an enemy, or taken from a chest).
Spoiler: Assets and Flaws
To emulate the tendency of playable characters in the games to deviate slightly from their respective classes’ standard growth rates, base stats, and stat caps, all players have the option to assign an Asset and a Flaw to each of their characters. You may not give your character an Asset without also giving them a Flaw. The Asset will provide a major boost to one stat and a minor boost to at least two other stats. The Flaw is the opposite, providing a major penalty to one stat and a minor penalty to at least two other stats. The tables below detail the effects of whatever Asset and Flaw you choose. If you want your character to just have the standard base stats, growth rates, and stat caps of their class, just leave the “Asset” and “Flaw” entries on your character form blank. If your character’s Flaw will result in one or more of his/her starting stats being negative, then it/they will be negative, as none of the mechanics can be broken by negative stats. If your character’s Flaw will result in one or more of his/her growth rates being negative, then it/they will instead be reduced to zero and you will have to choose a different growth rate to suffer the leftover penalty.
Spoiler: What I won’t accept
Mary Sues. At their core, Mary Sues exist to be the center of attention. Most often, this is through an excess of positive traits, but negative traits and a tragic past can also be a means of calling attention to a character. Your characters are not the only important characters in this RP, so don’t design them in a way that treats them as though they are. There’s more specific advice on avoiding making your character a Mary Sue in the “Advice” section.
Excessive Fanservice. This isn’t to say you can’t make your character attractive. I’m not going to reject your character for having Ike’s muscles or Camilla’s curves unless I feel too many PCs already have that kind of body. I'll also allow your character to show some skin. I’m not going to insist on everyone being completely covered up at all times. That said, please observe restraint; I’m not going to allow your character to dress like, say, Nowi or Hawkeye. Marisa here is showing about as much skin as I’ll allow anyone, male or female, to show in battle, and even then, only if your class typically wears little to no armor and the right areas are covered. If your male Knight is wearing nothing but a pair of pants in battle, I’m going to intervene.
Canon characters. While this setting incorporates elements from the games (especially the Tellius games), none of the canon characters are going to make an appearance in this RP. Soren and Ike both have descendants living in Duat, so if you want to create a character descended from one (or both) of them, I’ll allow it, but please discuss it with me first, as their descendants are subject to some minor (but largely trivial) restrictions that don’t apply to other characters.
Custom classes. I apologize if there is a specific type of class you want to play as that isn’t available (for example, this setting doesn’t have anything like a Berserker or a Warrior). I’ve put a lot of work into tweaking every class’s stats, caps, and growth rates to make sure no one class is likely to significantly outperform the rest. I’m not going to go through that kind of trouble again just because you want Awakening’s Dread Fighter class to be available. There are some unique classes reserved for major NPCs, but they’re a special case due to their role in the story (and potential role as important bosses).
Characters with an unauthorized connection to an existing character. You may not give your character a connection to a character already in the RP unless the player controlling that character has given their consent and the two of you have agreed on the nature of the connection. Needless to say, if both of the characters in question are controlled by you, you don’t have to worry about this rule.
Secrets that I am unaware of. If you keep a secret from me about your character, you risk me vetoing it the instant you decide to reveal it. If you want your character to have a secret that the other players don’t know about, I need to know what the secret is. Just PM the information to me. I promise to not reveal the secret to the other players. I’ll let you know beforehand if your character’s secret has any risk of being forced out by the story I already have planned. Otherwise, unless you pretty much charge headlong into a scenario in which the secret needs to come out (I’ll alert you to the risk beforehand), you can be confident that the secret will only come out if you want it to come out.
Characters who defy the setting. Pretty simple, right? Stay true to the setting I’ve designed. Instant mastery of something does not happen, for example. If you have a character who plans on promoting to a class that uses bows, make sure he/she already has some experience with bows and just needs more practice before he/she is ready to use a bow in combat. If you have a character who knows dark magic, make sure he/she had already studied it for several years beforehand. Similarly, Marked and Laguz operate under very specific rules that are not to be defied. If your character is a Marked, he/she may not transform like a Laguz—not even if out of thirty-two third great-grandparents, only one of them is a Beorc. Likewise, if your character is a depowered Laguz, he/she must be the parent of at least one Marked child.
Spoiler: Advice
I’m willing to help you make a character who fits the setting. I’ve posted a lot of extra information on the setting, and I don’t consider you obligated to read all of it. If you’re worried about creating a character who seems out-of-place, feel free to ask for my help. Maybe you want your character to come from a country with a particular political situation and/or a particular culture. I can point you in the right direction. I’ve tried to avoid creating any sort of total rip-off of a real-world country, but considering my interest in history and the sheer diversity of cultures in the real world, it’s pretty much inevitable that some countries will bear at least some similarity to real-world countries, to say nothing of the fact that I have still drawn some inspiration from the real world to help create a believable setting.
Avoid giving your character an excess of positive traits. Having too many positive traits is a common sign of a Mary Sue. It can be pulled off without making your character a Mary Sue, but it’s very difficult. I’m probably not going to risk a Mary Sue among the PCs by betting on you being good enough at RPing to handle your character’s awesomeness in a way that doesn’t annoy the other players. Your character should be “incomplete” in the beginning; he/she should become a better (or worse, if that’s the character you’re going for) person over the course of the story rather than start out as the person you want him/her to be by the end. To that end, it’s best that you give your character weaknesses to overcome or a goal to strive toward that he/she initially lacks the means to achieve. A character who starts out perfect is unfit to be the protagonist of any story, as there is nothing to present a legitimate challenge to him/her.
A flaw that doesn’t cause problems for anyone shouldn’t be thought of as a flaw. If you say your character is absent-minded, for example, make sure you have him/her occasionally demonstrate that absent-mindedness in a way that causes problems. For example, maybe he/she gets distracted at some point while the party’s traveling through the forest, resulting in him/her getting lost, which in turn means the rest of the party will probably have to stop and try to find your character. That said, I recommend avoiding any flaws that are likely to hinder the party in combat (as opposed to flaws that just cause problems in the narrative). For example, if your character is a coward, the most in-character thing for him/her to do when the party’s getting swarmed is to flee—an act that could indirectly lead to someone else’s character being wounded, captured, and/or killed. I’m always willing to help you come up with flaws that can inconvenience people in the narrative without causing problems in battle. If you want your character to have some sort of quirk that could cause problems for other players in battle, please talk it over with the other players first.
Look for ways to use game mechanics to help portray your character. For example, if you want your character to be clumsy, giving him/her Skill as a Flaw and choosing a class with a naturally low Skill growth rate would help demonstrate that. You could also add to that in the narrative by doing such things as occasionally portraying a missed attack as your character tripping or losing his/her grip on his/her weapon rather than the attack simply missing.
Avoid giving your character an excess of negative traits. Just as a character can be so amazing as to annoy everyone else, a character can also be so pathetic as to make everyone else want to vomit. As with having a lot of positive traits, it is possible to portray such a character properly, but I don’t want to bet on you pulling it off; I feel the risks outweigh the potential benefits.
Keep it relevant. Suppose your character is physically attractive. We don’t need to be reminded of it every time you post something pertaining to him/her. Chances are other characters will bring it up themselves when they feel it’s relevant (such as if someone else’s character is flirting with your character). The same holds true for negative traits and/or a tragic past. Characters who constantly angst about how pathetic they are or constantly brood about their past tend to come off as annoying whiners rather than someone to sympathize with. Again, constantly being the center of attention is why Mary Sues are often so hated.
The Factions
Currently, there are only two factions. Neither Chaldia nor Paphlagonia is inherently good or bad; both have problems that they need to address, but they both also have advantages that make them attractive to certain people. I will admit to having a preference, but I don’t want to force the party to side with a country they might rather oppose (unless you think both countries are horrible, in which case you’re out of luck). I will provide opportunities to switch sides under certain circumstances, but please keep in mind that treason will not go over well with your former allies in such a scenario (i. e. getting captured by your former allies will almost certainly mean being executed). Also, as I mentioned before, you and the other players need to agree on which side to fight for.
Spoiler: Chaldia
What kind of country Chaldia is depends on whom you ask. To most Beorc merchants and nobles, especially Eastern Beorc, Chaldia is a wonderful place to live. For most of its history, the rulers of Chaldia have chosen to intervene as little as is reasonable in the affairs of their vassals. Taxes are low, provincial nobles are largely free to pursue their own goals without fear of being stopped by the crown, and trade has flourished, leading to a larger-than average burgher class. Those who wander north of the Vila River and east of Trebizond, however, will find a different story told by the Eagle Laguz who inhabit those lands. The Chaldian Pegasus Hunters’ Guild has established many settlements on lands that belong to Eagle Laguz nobles. The Guild has repeatedly shown no regard for the Eagles already living in the region, paying no taxes and complicating the Eagles’ way of life. Many Eagles, both noble and lowborn alike, feel King Emmanuel has no interest in their well-being, some even going so far as to suggest that King Emmanuel would prefer if they weren’t there to begin with. The Eagle nobles are willing to put aside their grievances against the Guild for the duration of the war, but there is an unspoken understanding among the Chaldian nobility that the Eagles will rebel after the war if nothing is done to improve their situation once peace has returned.
The capital, Trebizond, is one of the two main trade ports in the east, a trait reflected in its sprawling market district. Merchants and craftspeople have flocked to the city from all over the continent, hoping to make it big as members of Trebizond’s powerful guilds. Outside of the capital, however, Chaldia is much more sparsely populated. Provincial villages are rarely any more impressive than villages anywhere else, but the towns that spring up around castles and cathedrals are generally wealthier than their counterparts in other countries. Most landowners attribute this wealth to the low taxes and their investments in trade in Trebizond. The near-inexhaustible wealth of King Emmanuel has helped compensate for Chaldia’s population; if necessary, King Emmanuel can hire large numbers of mercenaries to bolster his forces, helped by the fact that many mercenary companies are based in Trebizond, greatly reducing the amount of time it takes for them to get organized. Because of this, despite many of Chaldia’s neighbors being more populous, war is rare.
Chaldia is a relatively flat and low-lying country, thickly forested in most places and covered in swamps and wetlands near the Rusalka Delta. Due to how far north Chaldia is, a day’s length will vary immensely across the seasons. During the winter solstice, the north coast gets only around six hours of sunlight. Winters are long and harsh, with snow being common for almost half of the year, especially in the north. It’s common for most of the rivers to freeze over during the winter, though the Rusalka and Vila rarely freeze over completely, remaining navigable year round save for on very rare occasions when winter is much colder than usual. Because of this, trade with the rest of Anatolia is still viable even in the winter. A wet spring eventually gives way to a humid summer. Despite the winters, summer, while short, is often uncomfortably hot except on the coast.
At the moment, Chaldia is fighting this war alone, but King Emmanuel has made efforts to convince the rulers of Istria and Travunia that they have a vested interest in Chaldia winning the war. Travunia is more centralized than Chaldia, but is also much more homogeneous, being populated almost exclusively by Eastern Beorc. Paphlagonia’s alliance with Seleucia has left King Julius worried that Paphlagonia may invade. An alliance with Chaldia would be helpful in ensuring Travunia’s independence. Istria is in a similar situation, worried about not only possible Paphlagonian aggression, but also Ugarit, a Bear Laguz kingdom to the south. King Justin will likely be very easy to convince that an alliance with Chaldia is the best guarantee of Istrian independence.
Spoiler: Paphlagonia
As with Chaldia, what kind of country Paphlagonia is depends on whom you ask. Unlike Chaldia, where there is a much clearer difference between “Laguz territory” and “Beorc territory” in most areas, Paphlagonian lands have a much greater mix between Anatolian and Mainland Bear culture. This has contributed to tensions between the Beorc and Laguz populations in the past, each feeling the other is trying to “take over.” King Damian has done much to try to ease tensions between the Beorc and Laguz populations and has seen some success in his efforts, but there is still room for improvement, especially in some of his vassals’ lands; not all landowners share the King’s interest in Beorc and Laguz sharing Paphlagonia. Furthermore, many of the nobles’ privileges have been revoked, allegedly to make it harder for them to contribute to interracial tensions, though most of them understandably don’t buy that explanation. As a whole, King Damian is slightly more popular among his Laguz vassals than among his Beorc vassals, but overall, he is an unpopular ruler in the eyes of the nobility. There are even rumors that some of his vassals are planning to rebel should the current war go poorly, though no one dares name names.
Paphlagonia’s capital is Smyrna, a large city situated in the north at the junction of the Jinn and Rusalka rivers. The Patriarchate of Smyrna is centered there, making the city one of Eastern Duat’s foremost centers of learning, both religious and secular. With the recent completion of the Academy of the Mystic Arts (albeit over the vehement objections of Matriarch Uren), Smyrna has also become an attractive destination for practitioners of Dark Magic. In the north, Paphlagonia is largely indistinguishable from Chaldia, consisting of forested wilderness occasionally interrupted by a small village or town. In the south, however, landowners have much more productive land, which in turn increases the need for serfs to work the land. Castle towns in the south are quite populous compared to their counterparts in the north and are usually surrounded by fields and pastures, occasionally interrupted by a peasant village.
Paphlagonia, like Chaldia, is mostly flat, though higher than Chaldia and slightly hillier. As was mentioned earlier, the northern regions of Paphlagonia are mostly forest. Eventually, though, as one travels farther south, the forests give way to grassland. The soil in the south is some of the most fertile in all of Duat, allowing for incredibly productive farms. Despite being farther south than Chaldia, Paphlagonia’s winter is only slightly shorter and milder. Summer, however, is noticeably hotter, especially on the steppes in the south.
Paphlagonia has two allies in this war: Seleucia and Jaffa. Seleucia is populated mostly by Eastern Beorc, but has a noticeable Bear population in the east. Queen Katherine is married to Prince Alexander of Paphlagonia, the son of King Damian and heir apparent to the Paphlagonian throne. Their daughter, Dorothy, may one day inherit both kingdoms. Jaffa is inhabited mainly by Bears, but has a large Eastern Beorc population, too. King Koyash’s son and heir apparent, Prince Ulgan, is married to Princess Anastasia of Paphlagonia, King Damian’s daughter.
Items
Each character has eight item slots: four for weapons and four for other items. Your character may have one weapon equipped at any given time. The equipped weapon is always at the “front” of the list of weapons your character has on him/her. Should your character’s equipped weapon break, he/she will automatically equip the next weapon on that list. Most items (i. e. not weapons) are things to be used manually, not equipped. There are some items which can be equipped, but they provide a passive effect and do not break, meaning that they will be equipped until you unequip them. As with weapons, only one equippable item may be equipped at any given time.
Spoiler: Dropped Items
I’m planning on including a mechanic that accounts for dropped items lingering on the battlefield. If you come across a new item, but don’t have room for it, you can either leave it where you found it or leave another item there in its place. Unless the battle ends in your side retreating, the item will be automatically added to the party’s supplies. An item left lying around can be picked up by the enemy, too, though the enemy in question will drop the item if defeated. Any item that an enemy will drop when defeated is indicated by red text in the enemy’s infobox (there are some exceptions that are explained under “Enchantment”). Finally, if an enemy with a droppable item is defeated from two or more spaces away, he/she will drop the item where he/she fell, meaning you will need to get within one space of the fallen enemy and retrieve the item manually.
Spoiler: Storage and Supply Wagons
I don’t expect everyone to have all their possessions on their person at all times. Extra items will be stored in the supply wagon. Under the system I currently have planned (which might be replaced with a simpler and less realistic system), whether or not you can put items in or take items from the wagon during a battle depends on whether the party chose to deploy the wagon on the battlefield. If the wagon is deployed on the battlefield, it will be driven by a noncombatant NPC. You have to be next to the wagon to put its services to use. Enemy units will not attack the wagon unless it is the only target within range. However, the wagon does have a limited (though large) amount of HP, and if it runs out of HP, all the items stored therein will be dropped there, enabling enemies to steal items. Stolen items are droppable and the wagon will be replaced during the downtime between battles. Normally, I will control the wagon, but if everyone wants it moved somewhere, I will move it there. I will have the wagon avoid danger whenever possible.
Spoiler: Customization
For the most part, I’m okay with you customizing the appearance of your character’s weapons and other equipment. As long as the individual item in question has not been explicitly described in the RP, you may choose its appearance. For example, if I say a certain boss is carrying an arming sword and your character loots it off his/her corpse, it’s going to stay an arming sword, though you’re free to expand on any details I didn’t cover beforehand. If I didn’t say anything about the crossguard’s design, for example, you’re free to choose how the crossguard looks. That said, if you want your character’s equipment to have a particular appearance, please share the design with me first. I’m only insisting that you do this as a precaution just in case the weapon design you have in mind strikes me as too outlandish or unconventional for this setting. I’ll allow your Cavalier’s sword to be a dao if you want, but an urumi is out of the question.
Spoiler: Enchantment
Weapons, tomes, and staves can receive enchantments to boost their stats, although the Church discourages doing this. Every now and then, you may come across a special item called a Fortune Card. These items are not sold in stores. The picture on the card will determine what kind of enchantment it provides. To get an enchantment, you need to give the Fortune Card to a mystic (I will let the party know when there is a mystic available) and choose which item you want enchanted. The Fortune Card will be consumed in the process. An enchanted item will gain an aura related to what enchantment it got. The chart below details the chances of a Fortune Card yielding a particular enchantment, as well as what kind of aura it bestows upon an enchanted item. An item may only have one enchantment, so you cannot add a new enchantment to an item without removing its current enchantment. The color shown in the chart below also indicates how an item will appear on your character sheet. Droppable enchanted items with red, pale red, or magenta auras will be indicated with underlined text rather than red text.
Spoiler: Repairs and Broken Items
Items have limited uses in this RP. Once an item runs out of uses, it “breaks.” As far as the RP’s mechanics are concerned, an item ceases to exist once it has broken. How an item “breaks” depends on what kind of item it is. A tome or staff that “broke” didn’t really break, but rather no longer has any magic power left in it. Herbs and other recovery items that “broke” are simply depleted. A conventional weapon that “broke” really did break, though. Items can be repaired at any shop that carries the item in question. These repairs can be carried out even if the item hasn’t broken yet. Enchanted items lose their enchantment upon breaking, so if you’ve got an enchanted item, you would be wise to have the item repaired before it’s in danger of breaking. Please keep in mind that the shop has to actually carry the item, though; a shop that only carries tomes will not be able to repair a sword, for example. How much the repairs cost depends on how many uses the item has left and how much a fresh item of that type would cost. For example, an Iron Sword has a maximum of fifty uses and costs 500G. Thus, repairs for an Iron Sword carry a price of 10G/use. Enchantments do not affect the price of repairs.
Spoiler: Starter Shop
Spoiler: Crutch Starter Shop
Combat
Combat in this RP is handled the same way as in the Fire Emblem games, with most of the mechanics being from Radiant Dawn. The maps will require a little imagination on your part, but I’m confident they’ll be understandable. When your character engages the enemy, I run a series of calculations to determine what happens as far as the mechanics are concerned. You are, of course, free to describe combat as more than what the calculations say happened. For example, if I say your Swordfighter attacks an enemy Swordfighter and scores a hit while the enemy’s counterattack misses, feel free to portray the fight as more than that. That said, portraying every fight as an epic multi-paragraph struggle will likely bog down the narrative very quickly, which is why the current plan is for all of us to work together on making the combat posts. Generally speaking, anything goes when it comes to how you portray a fight; I’ll only intervene if I feel your character does something especially outlandish, such as using a Bronze Sword to bisect a Champion in full plate armor. Speaking of bisection, please avoid overly graphic descriptions of blood and gore. We don’t need to read about how your Swordfighter’s finishing blow caused the enemy’s blood and intestines to spill out of a gash in his abdomen.
Spoiler: Status Conditions
Poisoned: Caused by being hit by poisoned Beorc weapons or the fangs of transformed Snake Laguz. At the beginning of each turn for five turns, your character will randomly suffer one to five points of damage. After the fifth turn, the poison wears off.
Severely Poisoned: Caused by being hit by a transformed Snake Laguz when their Overkill skill activates. Same as being poisoned, but the damage range starts out wide and decreases each turn (5-25 on the first turn, 4-20 on the second, 3-15 on the third, 2-10 on the fourth, 1-5 on the fifth).
Asleep: Caused by the Sleep staff’s spell hitting your character. Your character cannot do anything and Speed is reduced to 0. Your character will wake up after taking damage from an enemy’s attack or after three turns have passed. Being shoved, rescued, or dropped counts as one turn passing with regards to the status condition.
Silent: Caused by the Silence staff’s spell hitting your character. Magic and staves cannot be used by your character for three turns. Your character is also mute for those three turns.
Blind: Caused by being hit by a Ranger’s attack when their Blind skill activates. Your character’s Skill and Vision are reduced to 0 for one turn, preventing him/her from attacking (though counterattacking is still an option).
Stunned: Caused by triggering a trap, getting hit by Flaming Pitch, being attacked by bees, or being hit by a Zephyr Knight’s attack when their Stun skill activates. Your character cannot do anything and Speed is reduced to 0 for one turn.
Gored: Caused by being hit by a transformed Elephant Laguz when their Gore skill activates. Your character’s Defense and Movement are halved for one turn.
Berserk: Caused by the Berserk staff’s spell hitting your character. I control your character for three turns. I promise he/she will attack the nearest character, be they ally or enemy, with priority going to the most vulnerable in the event of equidistant targets. If your character is attacked by a berserk ally, it will be up to you to decide whether or not to fight back.
Spoiler: Battlefield Conditions
Clear: Vision stat is irrelevant.
Dark: Standard sight range.
Cold: The “Cold Counter” for your character starts at -10. When the counter is positive, your character will take damage at the end of each turn equal to the counter’s level. Each turn that passes increases the counter by 1. Fighting an enemy, using a staff, or moving half your character’s movement range or farther decreases the counter by 1. Using an item, picking up or dropping someone, moving less than half your character’s movement range, and transforming will not affect the counter. This mechanic is awaiting input from the players.
Heat: The “Heat Counter” for your character starts at -10. When the counter is positive, your character will take damage at the end of each turn equal to the counter’s level. The counter decreases by 2 at the end of each turn (after your character has taken heat damage, if applicable). Fighting an enemy, healing an ally, or moving more than half your character’s movement range increases the counter by 1. Using an item, picking up or dropping someone, moving half your character’s movement range, and transforming will not affect the counter. This mechanic is awaiting input from the players.
Rain: Movement range for units on foot is reduced by 1. Movement range for mounted and airborne units is reduced by 2. Sight range for all units is doubled unless it is also dark. Torches do not work, though Torch staves do. This mechanic is awaiting input from the players.
Snow: Only occurs in cold weather. Movement range for units on foot is reduced by 1. Movement range for mounted and airborne units is reduced by 2. Sight range for all units is doubled unless it is also dark. The bonus to vision range provided by torches is reduced by 2, though Torch staves function normally. This mechanic is awaiting input from the players.
Spoiler: Stealing
Stealing is an action available to classes with the Pick skill. If your character has this skill, he/she may steal an item from an adjacent enemy. There are three conditions that need to be fulfilled for your character to steal an item. First, your character’s attack speed needs to exceed that of the enemy. Ideally, attack speed is just your character’s Speed stat, but if the weight of your character’s equipped weapon is greater than your character’s Strength stat, the difference is subtracted from your character’s Speed stat to get his/her attack speed. Second, the target item’s weight must be less than your character’s Strength stat. Third, the target item must not currently be equipped by the enemy. If all three of these conditions are fulfilled, your character will steal the target item. If even one of them is not met, it will not be possible to steal the item (don’t worry; I’ll prevent you from wasting the action on an item that can’t be stolen).
Spoiler: Rescuing
Your character can “rescue” an adjacent character if your character’s Weight stat exceeds the target character’s Weight stat by two points or more and the target character is not a mounted class. The rescued character will occupy the same space as your character until you have your character “drop” him/her on an adjacent space or “pass” him/her to another character who is capable of “rescuing” him/her. Unless your character has the Savior skill, the rescued character will not be able to take any actions until the turn after he/she is “dropped.” In addition, your character’s Skill and Speed stats will be halved (again, unless he/she has the Savior skill). If your character has the Savior skill, the rescued character can act, but with all combat stats except HP halved (not to mention it makes him/her vulnerable to a counterattack if he/she chooses to attack while rescued).
Spoiler: Shoving
If your character has the “Shove” skill, he/she can push an adjacent unit, moving them one tile in that direction unless there’s something blocking them (such as a tree, a wall, or another unit). However, shoving depends on your character’s Constitution and the target’s Weight. As long as the target’s Weight is not more than two points higher than your character’s Constitution, shoving is possible. It’s also possible to hurt an enemy by shoving him/her. If the target is standing next to, say, a cliff, he/she will suffer fall damage if successfully shoved off. The amount of fall damage suffered is a function of the target’s Weight and the distance fallen (I’ll have an altitude map ready for such an occasion). In addition, if the target ends up in deep water and lacks the Swim skill, it’s an instant kill. However, shoving an enemy off a cliff (or a bridge with no guardrails) carries with it certain risks. The target, if shoved off, will attempt to grab your character, treated as a single attack that does no damage. The “attack’s” accuracy is affected by the difference in Weight between your character and the target—the heavier your character is compared to the target, the less accurate the “attack” will be. That said, being especially heavy also increases the fall damage suffered if the target does manage to grab your character, so there are risks no matter what.
Other Features
Spoiler: Weapon Level
What weapons your character can use depends on two factors. The first is what weapons your character’s class has access to. For example, a Swordmaster can use swords, but not axes. The second is what Weapon Level your character has for each weapon type. If the aforementioned Swordmaster has Weapon Level B for swords, he/she can use any sword with level B, C, D, or E, but not A, S, or SS. Using a weapon will increase experience for that type of weapon. After gaining enough weapon experience, your character’s Weapon Level for that weapon will increase. Upon gaining access to a new type of weapon, your character will automatically gain one weapon experience point in that type of weapon, giving him/her Weapon Level E.
If your character promotes to a class that can’t use the same weapon type as before, any weapon experience for the now-inaccessible weapon type becomes latent. For example, a Wyvern Rider’s Axe experience will become latent if he/she becomes a Wyvern Mage. Suppose for the sake of this example that he/she has 110 experience points with the axe. Since the Dark Raider class has access to axes, the latent experience becomes useful again if the Wyvern Mage in question promotes to a Dark Raider. If he/she promotes to a Dark Flier, though, there’s no point in keeping that experience. As such, you have the option of transferring that experience to another weapon type. This transfer happens gradually, though, and cannot more than double the amount of weapon experience gained in the new weapon type. For example, if the aforementioned Dark Flier wants that experience transferred to Anima Magic, he/she will still start off only able to use E-level tomes, but will gain weapon experience at a rate of 2/use instead of one. A D-level tome would yield four points per use, a C-level tome would yield six, and so on until all that latent experience is depleted.
The Weapon Levels and the weapon experience necessary to reach each level are detailed in the chart below.
Spoiler: Skills
Your character has four basic skill slots, although at least one of them is already filled by an innate skill. Any skill classified as innate cannot be removed, as it is something everyone with your character’s class has. The only exception is if your character promotes to a class with different innate skills. A Guard loses the Shove skill if he/she promotes to a Horseman/Horsewoman, a Knight loses the Shove skill if he/she promotes to a Paladin, and a Swordsman/Swordswoman loses the Shove skill if he/she promotes to a Cavalier. There is also an Occult Skill, which occupies a special fifth skill slot and is automatically acquired at a certain point. For Beorc classes, an Occult skill is acquired upon promoting to a top-tier class. For Laguz classes, an Occult Skill is acquired upon reaching Level 21. Occult Skills, like innate skills, cannot be removed.
From time to time, a defeated enemy may drop a Skill Manual, a single-use item that bestows a skill upon whoever uses it. In addition, some shops carry certain Skill Manuals (including the Starter Shop eventually). If your character has a skill you want to get rid of, just say so and I’ll remove the skill as long as it’s not an innate or Occult skill. The skill in question will be transferred to a Skill Manual which you can then sell at the next shop or give to someone else who wants it. Please keep in mind that some skills take up two slots instead of one, so if your character has only one open skill slot, he/she can’t learn any skills that take up two slots.
Below is a list of every skill in the RP (though I might throw in a unique Occult skill for the final boss and other important NPCs). A skill listed as Passive will activate under the specific conditions mentioned in the description. Manual skills will only be triggered when you specifically say you want to trigger them. Skills with a formula shown as their trigger have a quasi-random chance of activating; the higher the relevant stat, the greater the chance of the skill activating. For example, if your character has the Adept skill and a Speed stat of 13, then the skill has a 13% chance of activating each time your character carries out a regular attack.
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Spoiler: Death, Wounds, and Capture
In most of the games, a character would die upon running out of HP—though some exceptions existed. In the RP, running out of HP means your character is wounded and unable to fight for the rest of that battle. What happens from there can vary. Normally, your character will remain in the place where he/she was defeated for the remainder of the battle unless an enemy or ally picks him/her up (wounded mounted units have their Wt stat reduced accordingly), just as they would Rescue an ally. When your character is picked up, I will mark a drop-off tile for him/her to be taken to and safely taken off the battlefield. Alternatively, you can have your character die when he/she runs out of HP. You’ll get to decide whether he/she dies or lives when and if your character runs out of HP except under very specific circumstances.
After the battle in which your character was wounded, his/her ability to fight will be dramatically hindered. The penalty depends on whether your character is a Beorc class or a Laguz class. Beorc classes have their combat stats (Max HP, Str, Mag, Skl, Spd, Lck, Def, Res) reduced by 75%. With the passage of each in-game day, those stats will recover by 5%, though participating in battle will stop the recovery process for that day. Laguz classes have their combat stats reduced by 60%, but also have their Transform Gauge expanded to 75 instead of 30 and will drain at 2.5 times the normal rate (though it will fill up at the normal rate). With the passage of each in-game day, stats will recover by 4%, the Transform Gauge will shrink by 3, and the rate at which it drains will decrease by the corresponding amount. Assuming your character doesn’t do anything to hinder his/her recovery (such as fight, let alone get wounded again), your character’s stats (and transformation abilities in the case of Laguz) will fully recover after fifteen in-game days. Getting wounded again during recovery will force your character to start the recovery process over again.
I’ve also proposed making it possible for your character to be captured if an enemy picks him/her up and takes him/her off the battlefield (the destination will be indicated on the map if that happens, not to mention your character can only be picked up by an enemy when wounded). If the battle ends with the party retreating, your character will be automatically captured if he/she has not been taken to safety by an ally. Likewise, if the battle ends with the enemy retreating, your character will not be captured unless an enemy captured him/her and got him/her off the battlefield. Your character will still recover normally if captured, but will be a prisoner of the enemy. I will discuss your character’s fate with you through PMs. The most likely scenario is that your character’s captor will request ransom from the rest of the party and release him/her once the ransom is paid. Depending on how long your character is held, though, there may also be opportunities to escape. Defection is also an option, though this means your character may one day meet the rest of the party as an enemy. If your character defects and is defeated as an enemy rather than convinced to return to the party’s side, he/she will be entirely at the mercy of the party, meaning whoever defeats your character will have the option of killing your character without your consent. Of course, you’re also free to relinquish control of your character if he/she is captured.
Spoiler: Religion
This is almost exclusively a plot point, not a mechanic. The main reason I’m bringing it up here is so everyone’s on the same page regarding the religious landscape of this setting. The last time I failed to cover this, someone’s character exclaimed “Gods!” despite the setting’s dominant religion being monotheistic.
The Church of Ashunera is the by far dominant religious entity in Duat, exerting its influence over every country. The religion is called Ashuneranism, its followers are called Ashunerans, and they worship Ashunera (and only Ashunera). If you’ve played Radiant Dawn, you might remember that name. In the interest of avoiding spoilers for those who have not played that game, I will not explain her relevance. All you need to know is that she is a goddess, similar to the Abrahamic God as far as her role in everything is concerned. If you do not specify your characters’ religious beliefs when submitting them, I will assume they are Ashunerans. The Church takes the whole “one Goddess” thing very seriously. To the clergy, only Ashunera deserves to be worshipped; it is blasphemy to worship anyone else.
The other major “religion” in this setting is animism, although “animism” is just an umbrella term for a wide variety of belief systems that are completely independent of one another. The only thing all animist sects have in common is their worship of spirits (see the Lore entry on spirits for more information). Some sects only worship specific spirits, some sects worship all spirits, some worship spirits in addition to the Goddess, and some worship spirits instead of the Goddess. There are a few sects that I’ve designed, but you are free to design one of your own if you so desire—though I’ll probably ask you for detailed information on the sect’s beliefs and traditions and hold you to what you say. If you say your character’s sect believes X, I’m going to intervene if you later have your character reveal that his/her sect believes Y and not X. For additional information on animism, I advise reading the Lore entry on it.
There is also metatheism, which is pretty much the closest thing this setting has to atheism. The bottom line is that metatheists are people who, while accepting that Ashunera exists, choose not to worship her and choose not to adhere to all of the Church’s rules. People’s reasons for being metatheists vary. Some feel Ashunera is fallible and thus shouldn’t be considered a person’s sole source on what is right and what is wrong (though the extent to which such people are willing to ignore Ashunera’s alleged teachings varies between individuals). Others believe Ashunera (or at least the Church of Ashunera) is actually evil and should be opposed rather than obeyed. If you’re planning on making your character a metatheist, I recommend reading the lore entry on metatheism.
As Ashuneranism is the state religion of every country in the RP, non-Ashunerans are, on average, worse off than Ashunerans, though the extent to which they are worse off varies. For the most part, non-Ashunerans are tolerated, but not necessarily welcomed. There have been plenty of incidents of people inciting violence against non-Ashunerans, but there have also been cases of non-Ashunerans being treated quite well. It depends on a lot of factors, such as the individual and what society they live in. Someone who is outspoken about their hatred of the Church of Ashunera is unlikely to be treated well anywhere unless they live in some remote village where everyone holds the same religious views as they do. By contrast, someone who has a “live and let live” attitude when it comes to religion is usually going to have an easier time living among Ashunerans.
Spoiler: Support
I imagine most, if not all, of the players already know what a Support is, but just in case you don’t know, a Support is a bond between two characters. Think of it as anything from a budding friendship to love. Being next to an ally on the battlefield will provide a small boost to both you and the ally. Increasing your Support level with said ally will increase the bonus you get. The chart at the bottom of this spoiler box shows you the bonuses. Each Support level counts for one point, an ally you have no Support with providing one point. Since you can at most be adjacent to four allies, the maximum number of Support Points you can normally have at any given time is 17, 12 for each A-Level Support and five for your S-Level Support. The Solar Knight class’s Occult Skill, Camaraderie, raises that limit to 21 and provides four free Support Points.
I think of the first support level, C, as being the equivalent of two acquaintances who are on good terms. The second level, B, is what I think of as being friends. After that is A, which I think of as being very close friends. The highest level, S, is reserved for lovers. Your character may only have one S-level Support, but there is no limit to how many lower-level Supports your character may have.
A Support level will be increased if enough in-game time has passed since the previous increase in Support level for that particular pair of characters and I am convinced that the characters have grown close enough to warrant an upgrade. I will, however, downgrade Support levels if I feel the characters are growing sufficiently distant from each other. An especially nasty falling out could lead to me getting rid of the Support altogether (though I will revive it if the characters make up). If you feel your character’s Support level with another character should be increased or decreased, please make your case to me in a PM and I will make the appropriate changes if convinced. If you do not control both characters, I will also ask for the other player’s opinion.
In the event of Supports between two characters controlled by the same player, I will only allow upgrades if both characters have an equal number of total Support levels with other characters. So, for example, suppose you want your two characters, Lucina and Laurent, to become a couple. That means both of them need four Support levels with other characters before I’ll allow them to have an S-level Support. For example, Lucina could get an A-level Support with Chrom and a C-level Support with Cynthia. Likewise, Laurent could get something along the lines of a B-level Support with Miriel and a B-level Support with Gerome. This policy is purely to prevent players from gaming the Support system.
Spoiler: Romance
When two characters have an S-level Support, that means they are lovers. The only restriction on romance is that a character may only have one S-level Support. I know open relationships and polyamorous relationships are things in real life, but I don’t want to incentivize something that would probably be out-of-character for the majority of PCs. You are free to have your character break up with his/her lover if you’d rather he/she be with someone else (or if your character and his/her lover just aren’t getting along the way they used to), but that means that their S-level Support is downgraded to A-level (or a lower level if the breakup is on really bad terms). Same-sex romances are allowed, as are consanguineous romances (i. e. romances between people who are related by blood). Because of how marriage works in this RP, your character does not need to have an S-level support with his/her spouse and does not need to be married to his/her lover in order to have an S-Level support with him/her. Marriage is covered in the next section, so if you plan on having your character be in a romantic relationship, I strongly advise reading the section on marriage.
Just so we’re clear, any children born to your character will be NPCs unless they are already adults (i. e. they were born well before when the RP’s story begins), in which case you may have the child in question be one of your characters unless you already have two characters under your control. I will not allow for any sort of time travel or alternate dimension excuse; if your character was twenty when his/her first child was born, the child will always be twenty years younger than your character. In short, romance ≠ playable child character.
Spoiler: Marriage
As the section on romance pointed out, marriage is completely optional. I only included a section on it to explain the way marriage works in Duat. Truth be told, this section might be better off under “Lore,” but then I would risk players never bothering to read it.
Most marriages are officiated by the Church of Ashunera. As all of the existing countries are ruled by Ashunerans, only Ashuneran marriages are officially recognized—though most rulers don’t bother to confirm with the Church the marital status of every couple they come across who claim to be married. Most priests are willing to marry interfaith couples as long as one of the two people seeking to get married is an Ashuneran, although priests are technically within their rights to refuse to marry non-Ashunerans. Under normal circumstances, priests may only marry opposite-sex couples who are more distant in blood relation than first cousins. A “forbidden couple” that wishes to marry may ask the bishop of the diocese they live in for a dispensation allowing the marriage, though it is extremely rare for a dispensation to be granted for anything other than an opposite-sex marriage between first cousins—to say nothing of the fact that dispensations in general are rarely granted. If your character enters a forbidden marriage without a dispensation (such as by not telling the priest that he/she and his/her would-be spouse are closely related by blood), the marriage will be annulled if its forbidden nature is discovered. Interclass marriages are just flat-out not allowed; slaves may not marry non-slaves and serfs may not marry non-serfs. For a slave to marry a non-slave, the slave must be freed first, effectively making the marriage between two non-slaves. Likewise, for a serf to marry a non-serf, the serf must be released from the landowner’s service, effectively making the marriage between two non-serfs. The Church’s reasoning behind this is that a slave or serf is already bound in service to his/her master; marrying someone not similarly bound in service to the same person could lead to a person’s duty to his/her master conflicting with his/her duty to his/her family.
In the Ashuneran tradition, divorces are only granted under very specific circumstances and only bishops have the authority to grant divorces. The most common reason for divorce is adultery. Your character will be allowed a divorce if he/she can convince the bishop of the diocese he/she lives in that his/her spouse has been unfaithful. Unless the bishop personally witnessed the act of adultery, the accused is considered innocent unless he/she personally confesses to the act or four witnesses testify to witnessing it. Even then, the bishop may reject the testimony if he/she believes it is false—such as if he/she believes the accused has been coerced into falsely confessing. A less common justification for divorce is if one party is anathema. Someone is anathema if they are a non-Ashuneran or the Church has anathematized them. Your character may divorce his/her spouse if either the former or the latter is anathema. That said, if the bishop granting the divorce suspects your character married an anathema person just so he/she could avoid having to commit to the marriage, he/she may call for your character’s excommunication after granting the divorce. Finally, if your character or his/her spouse swears a monastic oath, their marriage is officially annulled the instant the oath has been sworn.
The Church of Ashunera also requires a recently-divorced or -widowed woman to wait three months before remarrying. This is purely to ensure that if she is pregnant with her previous husband’s child, the pregnancy can be discovered before she is remarried, thus ensuring that the child would not be mistaken for her new husband’s child. Some elements within the church argue that this is pointless in the event of adultery, as the woman may be pregnant with the lover’s child in such a situation. Others argue that the policy should stand, but men should also be obligated to wait three months in the interest of equality.
Most animist sects have their own traditions with regards to marriage and divorce. Most only allow monogamous opposite-sex marriages and forbid first cousins and anyone more closely related to marry, though there are exceptions to all of these. Some sects allow same-sex marriages, some sects allow plural marriages (i. e. marrying multiple people), some sects allow consanguineous marriages (though most who do still stop short of allowing people to marry siblings and/or direct descendants), and some allow some combination of the three. Some sects even reject the idea of marriage altogether. If you feel like making your character an animist, the marriage customs (or lack thereof) of their sect will be up to you unless you choose a sect that I or another player created rather than a sect of your own design. I will enforce consistency, though, so if you say your custom sect forbids something or allows something, I won’t allow you to change it later.
I'm working now and so don't have a chance to read but you can basically consider me interested for now
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You thought you could be safe in your courts, with your laws and attorneys to protect you. In this world only I am law, my word is fact, my power is absolute.
Mostly read it now, I'll submit a character but it seems like this RP would benefit from.a good number of people. A dedicated Fire Emblem Fansite might appreciate it more but we'll see.
Made by Chesu+Zombee
You thought you could be safe in your courts, with your laws and attorneys to protect you. In this world only I am law, my word is fact, my power is absolute.
A dedicated Fire Emblem Fansite might appreciate it more but we'll see.
I'd probably get a lot more takers on Serenes Forest, yes, but starting a new account on a new forum just to run an RP strikes me as rather silly--not to mention a Fire Emblem fansite would probably already have plenty of Fire Emblem RPs. There's also the matter of there already being users here whom I could reasonably expect to be interested in my idea.
The Dragovian King and Captain Of The Ragnarok Ship and Owner of The Ragnarok Ranch. I'm a ♌ since 1990 of August 10th. Better Recognize. 3DS FC:2535-5065-3560
Ah. Two things I thought one was it was just on Hiatus. The other would include new classes.
The Dragovian King and Captain Of The Ragnarok Ship and Owner of The Ragnarok Ranch. I'm a ♌ since 1990 of August 10th. Better Recognize. 3DS FC:2535-5065-3560
New weapons have been introduced, some of the classes have been renamed, most of the classes have been tweaked for what is hopefully better balance, new skills have been introduced, some old skills have been removed or changed, new mechanics have been introduced, the RP takes place in a different location and time, the story is different... and those are just the changes that occur to me off the top of my head.
Back on AAO, we ran a couple Fire Emblem RPs and they were pretty cool. Our user Kwando came up with some handy generators that calculated leveling and battles, which I think I could get if you wanted.
In the interim, holy jeez is that a lot of text. That is gonna be hugely intimidating to anyone looking to join, regardless of if they're a fan or not. I haven't gone through it all despite the fact that I am interested, but if you can find any way to make that thing easier to read, that would really help.
For example, the story section makes it difficult to tell what's going on beyond "countries fighting". I know the plot doesn't really matter in Fire Emblem, but you should consider simplifying the presentation there too. Generally (pun intended) speaking, there's too many proper nouns that make a reader stop and think "wait, what's that" before continuing.
You thought you could be safe in your courts, with your laws and attorneys to protect you. In this world only I am law, my word is fact, my power is absolute.
The players will serve one of two countries. Said countries are at war with each other. Mechanics are mostly taken from Radiant Dawn, though some things from Awakening have also been included. There’s also some homebrew stuff I’d like to test out. These tests will also give me time to gauge how tough I should make the battles and will give the players many opportunities to test out the various classes if they can't choose one. Class promotion is a mix between Radiant Dawn’s three-tier system and Awakening’s branching system (unless you choose a Laguz class). Players are allowed a maximum of two characters.
If you want any additional information, please let me know.
I really wish I looked here sooner... when few people responded to me about even the possibility of a rp here, I didn't bother looking here for about a week I think. Regrets...
Anyways, I would look into playing the Fire Emblem rp, but, as I just mentioned in the Fire Emblem thread, I'm looking to just get into the series now, meaning I'd be missing out on a lot of story elements. I'm also used to more casual rpgs. I mean, with dedicated people yeah, but not with a lot of mechanics thrown in. The most complicated I've done was a Pokémon rpg.
Also, to address something that came up earlier in this thread, yes, it is possible to roleplay Creepypasta. It just had a bad reputation because of fangirls. I think it's very possible to have a game set up with canon or original monster characters that don't detract from the source material or the purpose of them being scary. It's just done really badly a lot of the time.
I've been in an RP mood lately and I've yet to get this one off the ground. So hey, figured I'd give it a shot here. I've basically already written up the OP, so this is just that with all the extras taken out.
Spoiler: "The Mercurial Peace"
The Mercurial Peace is a JoJo's Bizarre Adventure-inspired roleplay featuring light Mafia elements, though it will not require knowledge of the source material to join/play. The story revolves around a group of people with bizarre powers living in the bustling city of Brightside; but in secret, one of them is a serial killer terrorizing the city. When the game begins, one player will be selected at random to play the killer, along with at least 1 accomplice to assist them. They will attempt to accomplish their goals in secret while the rest of the group attempts to hunt them down and stop them. It's a game of deception, revelations, trust, betrayal, adventure, and, of course, bizarreness.
[font size="150"]Story:[/font]
The city of Brightside, 20XX. A vast, bustling city filled with people from all walks of life. By day, skyscrapers blot out the sun and the streets are packed with crowds, like schools of anchovies weaving past shops, restaurants, libraries and pubs. By night, the sky is aflame with streetlights and neon signs as swarms of salary workers crawl back home. In spite of the hustle and bustle of hundreds of lives, the sprawling urban jungle maintains a tentative, mercurial peace.
But the peace has begun to crumble. Three days ago, a group of bodies were discovered near the Eastwood Theater, with no trace of the culprit to be found. As the police search to no avail for the so-called "Eastwood Killer", more and more bodies begin to appear under exceedingly strange circumstances; mysterious holes cut into the road, victims found suspended in midair, and some found perfectly intact yet clearly no longer living.
As these mysterious murders continue with no apparent reason, you and several others suddenly gain a mysterious power known as a "Stand", granting you a bizarre and unique ability. With your fellow Stand users, it seems that you are the only ones capable of stopping the terrors lurking in the shadows of Brightside.
[font size="150"]Gameplay:[/font]
Mercurial Peace revolves around a group of characters with unique and bizarre superpowers as they try to find which among them is the "Eastwood Killer". The Eastwood Killer and at least one accomplice will be selected by random out of the cast once the game begins and will be notified via PM. If you wish to be a killer/accomplice or would rather not be, PM me and I will attempt to take your request into consideration, but please be prepared to play any role. The game will start with 6 characters minimum.
This RP will utilize "Closed Areas" whenever characters enter buildings, rooms, or any other private space. Actions that take place in these rooms will be hidden via spoiler tag and be visible only to those who are in the room. Players will signify their entering or leaving a room by putting "X enters/exits [the area]" in bold. If the Closed Area is broken (i.e. breaking down a wall) the tags will no longer be in use. Likewise, if an open space is made closed, the tags will be utilized. GMs are able to read all tags at any time if needed and will notify players if the tags are incorrectly utilized.
For example:
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Character A enters the Library.
The Library (Spoiler)Character A picks up a book, sits down at a table, and begins reading it. He realizes that he cannot read, and thus leaves the library crying. Luckily, nobody could see him cry, unless they were also currently in the Library, and were thus allowed to open the spoiler tag.(Spoiler) Character A exits the Library.
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The Library (Spoiler) Character A smirked. "Heh, you think I'm trapped in here? Not for long! STAR PLATINUM, COME FORTH!"
Character A's Stand, Star Platinum, suddenly burst into the air, raised its fist, and smashed it into the nearest wall, blowing it apart. Now, any further happenings in the Library would no longer be spoilered!(Spoiler
The Library's Wall was suddenly blown apart.
Combat rules are simple: this RP is a story first and foremost, so basic RP etiquette applies and writers will decide whether their character will live or die. There are few set rules beyond the standard "no godmodding" and the like. Simply make sure your moves are all readable and clear, and if clarification is needed, simply ask in OOC. I trust that most of you are good enough writers to handle yourselves.
Lastly, if you have any questions or if I forgot to clarify something, please do ask!
[font size="150"]Lore:[/font]
Players in this game all have a power known as a "Stand", taken from JoJo. In essence, a Stand is a supernatural power that protects and empowers its user in many ways, usually appearing as a powerful figure "stand"ing next to you. Their appearance and powers are connected to the user's personality and skills. Stands are the primary power in JoJo; for reference, here are the following pages to give an idea of what they are like. - About Stands - Examples of Stands
Players create their own Stand along with their character. We won't be playing super strict to the source material, but the following rules will be in place: - Players can only have 1 Stand. - Stand effects will wear off should the user be knocked out or killed. - Only other Stand users can see Stands. The general public has no knowledge of their existence. - Stands from the source are not allowed.
Touchstones for the RP Include: JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, Part 4 Persona 4 Devil Survivor The World Ends With You Durarara
You thought you could be safe in your courts, with your laws and attorneys to protect you. In this world only I am law, my word is fact, my power is absolute.
Yeah, again I'm not familiar with the content. I know the World Ends with You, though I wasn't that impressed by it. I've only seen the first episode of Durararara and only seen about a few gameplay episodes of Persona 4 and kinda dropped it. Not my kind of thing...
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