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Bullworth Academy. A prestigious school in North Carolina, boasting traditional values and a long history of raising promising students that have become successful individuals. With various facilities such as a furnished dormitory for boys and girls, an engineering and science building, multiple sports facilities, and even it's own shopping outlet, Bullworth provides all the amenities a student needs to grow into a fine, community minded citizen. At least, that's what it claims on paper. But in practice?

Bullworth is a school stuck in the past, forgotten by the outside world, and even those within it can't seem to see problems right in front of their faces. This is probably why this school, for all of it's prestige and glamor, is a school for troubled kids just one step away from juvenile detention. Rich spoiled kids who have overstepped their bounds, violent children who have parents trying to cover their crimes, strung out failures put here more for pity than for anything they're capable of, all sorts of delinquents and degenerates.

And you're one of them.

Maybe you were set up, maybe you were unlucky. Maybe you deserve to be here. But Bullworth is your last chance to shape up and become a good citizen... But things are never so simple, is it? Barely a month into your first semester and disaster strikes your school. Many ran, many cowered. You were one of the few who took action. Today, we will see how you roll the dice.


Hello, this is a Persona-themed D&D 5e game. While we will have concepts such as Shadows, Personas, various junganian philosophical themes, it will also have a D&D fantasy twist. A lot of your enemy shadows will be more based around traditional D&D enemies, though I'll also likely homebrew quite a few opponents who aren't original to either Persona or D&D. Indeed, many of your opponents you'll face will be different from either series, so don't get too cocky about your opponents!

As for your characters, you play as a student of Bullworth Academy in North Carolina, USA. This of course doesn't mean you can't play a traditional Japanese character since there's plenty of people of all races at Bullworth, for better or for worse. That being said there are some thing expected of your character as it will be detailed in the character sheet below.

Rules:
1. I am god. I may not be omniscient, but I'll do my best to be. I'm willing to discuss issues and discrepancies and I'll be as transparent as possible, but ultimately what I say is the final decision.

2. Play nice with your fellow players. Your characters may have beef, but that doesn't mean that you should antagonize one another out-of-character. But in addition to this, I will not tolerate disruptive play either. You should create a character who is willing, able, and wanting to cooperate with a team, not someone who will do whatever they want regardless of what everyone else says or does. If you're going to make a character who doesn't care what everyone else does, don't play them. "It's what my character would do" just tells me that you wanted to play a disruptive dickbag and expect me to cater to you. I will do no such thing.

3. I will be checking your rolls and I will only give you one warning if I catch you cheating. Do not automatically assume you have advantage or disadvantage, do not reuse old rolls, and label your rolls when you do them. It doesn't have to be anything lengthy, anything as simple as "Attack", "Perception" "Con Save" will suffice to me. If I catch you cheating a second time I will be rolling for you henceforth until you earn your rolling privileges back.

4. There will be some dark and serious themes. Racism, suicide, homophobia, violence, corruption of all types, and of course bullying. I won't lie: things will be bleak and I can't guarantee that you doing a good thing will result in good things happening back. If you do feel uncomfortable with something let me know so I can address it more appropriately, but this is a warning that it will likely happen and hit you when you least expect it.

5. For character creation we will be starting at level 3 and you will have a free feat. Stats will be 27 point buy, with 7 being the lowest and 15 the highest you can go. For starting equipment you have 200 GP to worth with, including anything you get from your background. I also allow for Origins customization. I will allow pretty much any official materials, however not the backgrounds from the Guildmaster's Guide to Ravnica, Strixhaven: A Curriculum of Chaos, Astral's Adventure Guide, and Dragonlance: Shadow of the Dragon Queen. This is because the background features provided from these books grant feats or additional class spells, which makes them much more useful than standard backgrounds. I will try to incorporate your backgrounds into the story as best as I can, including your given features. If you don't feel any official backgrounds don't really suit your character, you may use this custom Background below.



6. I won't be too strict about post schedules, ideally we post at least once a week. But even I might not be able to keep up with that between life, work, and my DM duties, so at least keep me informed if you have difficulties making a post or may be gone for a certain amount of time.

7. When speaking in-character, please mark your dialog with some sort of bright color so it's easier to spot when something is being said. If you're saying something mentally, italicize it. All neutral NPC's I use will speak using Bold font, friendly NPC's such as your summons and helpful cohorts will speak in Bold Goldenrod while enemies will speak in Bold Firebrick.

8. And of course, have fun. More rules to be made as needed.



Optional Rules:

These are rules that aren't always going to be in play, but you may choose to engage with them if you so wish.

1. Alternative Weapons. My personal take on the 5e weapons that reduces the amount of redundancy while also changing how previous weapons function to make them stand out from their close equivalent. Example: changed the Glaive to be a 1d8 two-handed reach simple weapon so it's not another halberd, changed the Battleaxe to do 2d4 to make it stand out from the longsword 1d8/1d10, created the Longhammer to have a bludgeoning version of the halberd, etc. Most enemies will default to using the original weapon lists, but players are free to use the alternative version if/when they obtain a weapon from the list. Magic weapons may also use the alternative variant instead, and should be labeled as such when obtained.
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@Guardian Angel Haruki@Dark Cloud@Vertigo

Sorry for the double ping, in hindsight I probably should've just done this instead of in the interest check. Either way, feel free to start making your characters! Let me know if you need my assistance in any way.

We are also looking for one more player! I may be willing to accept 2, but I won't go further than a team of 5.
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Huzzah! I'll get a post up! XD
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I Am Thou, Thou Art I


Name: Rosalie Gretchen Bradford
Age: 14
Ethnicity: Caucasian, German/French
Favorite Color: Blue like the Sky...
Appearance:

Background: Strange Student
There isn't much to say about her background. She has parents who cared about her, even when her peers saw something wrong about her. She loved reading stories, and some of the fantasy books she read inspired her to become a writer herself one day. She is a dedicated and hard working young lady. She is also always willing to cooperate with others. However...she has noticed that her peers don't seem to want to be anywhere near her, or if they do, it's to make fun of her.

She really couldn't help but wonder what was wrong with her. Why did her peers call her stupid?

At some point, her parents decided to move the three of them from California to North Carolina to get Rosalie to a new school and away from the bullies.

Background Feature: Mysterious Rumors
Considered one of the school's more notable students, even if not particularly popular or well-liked, your quirks and personality is already known to most at the academy. Most students and teachers will ignore some of your stranger behaviors as long as they aren't dangerous or threatening, to an extent. Some might even respect you more if your reputation resonates with their personal beliefs. Things that student and staff might overlook is asking strange questions, being in unexpected locations that isn't off-limits, drinking or smoking outside of class, and looking weird in general.

Reason for being at Bullworth: ....The reason why she is here is not something likes to talk about. If she were to give a reason, it would indeed be because of the fact that she was bullied relentlessly. Thankfully, it turns out a her uncle is part of the staff of Bullworth and was able to put in a good word for Rosalie and her parents to get her into the school. So she was able to transfer to get away from the bullying before it could escalate.



Belongings: Books, Pencils and pens, wallet, cell phone, cash. Blue bicycle for transportation, with a bike lock.
She also carries a journal where she pens out story ideas and character ideas should they come to mind.

Persona!


Persona: Reminiscence

Race: Marionette Doll (Reflavored Warforged)

Tarot: Hanged Man

Appearance:

Level: 3

Class: Bard, College of Creation

Equipment: Rapier, Dagger, Studded Leather Armor, Flute, Violin, School Uniform, Entertainer's Pack, Disguise Kit, Light Crossbow & 20 bolts. Leaving me with 5 GP.

Stats:
    Strength - 8 (-1)
    Dexterity- 14 (+2)
    Constitution- 15 (+2)
    Intelligence - 10 (+0)
    Wisdom - 12 (+1)
    Charisma - 17 (+3)


Skill Proficiency: *Acrobatics
*Insight
*Perception
*Deception
*Persuasion
*Performance

Equipment Proficiency: *Light Armor
*Simple Weapons
*Hand Crossbows
*Longswords
*Rapiers
*Shortswords
*Land Vehicles
*Disguise Kit
*Flute
*Violin
*Lute
*Vocals

Languages: *Common/English
*Sylvan/Japanese

Racial Abilities:






Free Feat: Fey Touched
Your exposure to the Feywild's magic has changed you, granting you the following benefits:
*Increase your Intelligence, Wisdom, or Charisma by 1, to a maximum of 20. (CHA)
*You learn the misty step spell and one 1st-level spell of your choice. The 1st-level spell must be from the divination or enchantment school of magic. (Silvery Barbs) You can cast each of these spells without expending a spell slot. Once you cast either of these spells in this way, you can't cast that spell in this way again until you finish a long rest. You can also cast these spells using spell slots you have of the appropriate level. The spells' spellcasting ability is the ability increased by this feat.

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You reminded me that I forgot to include a section for feats. I added one right above Class Abilities on the character sheet, if you'd be so willing to adjust as accordingly.
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You reminded me that I forgot to include a section for feats. I added one right above Class Abilities on the character sheet, if you'd be so willing to adjust as accordingly.


Done!
Other than any other equipment I’d like to buy with GP, I believe my character is ready for your review. ^^”
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Thinking of doing a Paladin or a Fighter - a frontliner in heavy armour in any case!
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Done!
Other than any other equipment I’d like to buy with GP, I believe my character is ready for your review. ^^”


Formatting is a bit messy, but that's more my fault. For starting equipment, you don't get the default starting gear based off your class, everything that you need for your class you have to buy from the 200 GP at the start. It's only your background items that you get to keep, and that's mostly to prevent strangeness like your character not having clothes.
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Formatting is a bit messy, but that's more my fault. For starting equipment, you don't get the default starting gear based off your class, everything that you need for your class you have to buy from the 200 GP at the start. It's only your background items that you get to keep, and that's mostly to prevent strangeness like your character not having clothes.


Ahh I see!
Sorry, my mistake. I’ll fix the equipment and CS ASAP. ^^”
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No problem. Your total comes up to 144 GP, so you got 56 GP to work with to buy whatever else. Also don't forget your land vehicle prof and associated vehicle. You don't have to take it if you don't want to, but you won't get anything else if you opt out of having one.
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No problem. Your total comes up to 144 GP, so you got 56 GP to work with to buy whatever else. Also don't forget your land vehicle prof and associated vehicle. You don't have to take it if you don't want to, but you won't get anything else if you opt out of having one.


Thank you very much! I decided to use the remaining funds to buy a Disguise Kit and a Light Crossbow with 20 bolts.

Also, just to double check with you: I know you mentioned Backgrounds from Strixhaven weren't allowed, but could we use spells from Strixhaven? I was thinking of having Fey-Touched grant Reminiscence the spell Silvery Barbs. ^^"

If that's not okay, I'll switch that spell choice back to Command.
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Spells from Strixhaven are fine. I'm aware of the power of Silvery Barbs and slightly surprised you didn't take it. I just don't allow the background since they grant the Strixhaven Initiate feat, as well as an expanded spell list.
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Goodness it's up. I didn't see the ping I guess.
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Placed Elsewhere
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It's still a work in progress, just as well I'm swamped for rps rn so I'll post the full sheet when I can.
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Hm what would be a good background for someone whose a nerdy or techy gamer.
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Ah maybe hermit
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@Lucius Cypher also this is actually something you might find pretty neat.

Persona User (Background)

At least for the features, or the personality stuff. Anyways I'm thinking of making a sort of mix off Strange Student. It fits but maybe a bit of relavoring could go a bit far in something for my character. Actually wait that fits more or less never mind.
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No wait I've figured out the perfect reflavor and a feature that fits, sortcof like an amalgamation between Outlander with Strange Student vibes.
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I'm having a lot of trouble choosing a Tarot.
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