[OOC] Overlord: How Like A God

[Lugubrious]

hmm seeming to hit a brick wall with abilities personally. Almost done with my sheet if not for it.

@Lunarlord34

Want a hand? We could toss some ideas around with you.

[Lunarlord34]

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Want a hand? We could toss some ideas around with you.

@Lugubrious

Yeah that sounds good, better than me bashing my skull in for no results lol
I'll throw the current stuff I have up atm, though I've probably changed these things around a thousand times already (I did originally start as being a demon, dabbled as an Angel, even looked at werewolf stuff XD). Trying to go for a anti-demon kind of sthick.

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The Crimson Demon Hunter Akai Mazoku

"I'll continue to fight just to survive...Fighting is all I've ever known."

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Username: xX_edgelord4life_Xx

Player Profession: College Student

Character Role: Solo Melee/DPS

Alignment: +300

Race/Racial Levels: Human

Job Classes:
Basic:
-Cleric (15)
-Demon Hunter (15)
-Craftsman (10)

High:
-Demon Slayer (10)
-Avenger (10)
-Paladin (10)
-Exorcist (10)
-Cursed One (10)

Rare
-Monsterous Being (5) Only available to the Demon Hunters that max out base job and their Cursed One job trees. They must also kill 1 of every demon race to gather their blood and make the Monstrous Shift Potion item. Once drunk, they can finally put levels into this class.
-Demon Bane (5) Only available to Demon Hunters that have slain over 100,000 Demonic beings and maxed out the entire skill and job tree.

Abilities:
-Demon Hunter: Access to abilities used against Demons, devils, fiends, and other such demonic beings. This is including but not limited to: wards to repel demonic creatures from entering certain areas, wards to weaken or even seal portions of demonic creatures powers that enter their area of effect, talismans to seal, banish or weaken when placed upon their target and various rituals for similar effects. Also, gain access to the ability to craft their own cursed gear/weapons/armour.
-Cleric: Access to faith-based magic and abilities, increasing healing capacities as well as divine infused strikes.
-Craftsman: An added bonus to crafting various items and the ability to craft higher level gear, as well as lessened maintenance costs

-Avenger: A darker path of the Paladin that revolves around punishing wrongdoers by any means necessary. Sacrificing her health and wellbeing for more damage allows Akai to deliver faster, more decisive combos against her foes, the combos becoming more brutal the longer she is allowed to chain them together. It also gives access to fear-based spells and abilities and extra damage against one pre-designated evil being(s). In Akai's case, the Demon race.
-Paladin: Holy warriors that fight for justice, Akai gains the ability to convert MP into powerful divine based strikes into her blows to deal serious damage against those of the more evil-aligned nature, some faith-based magic and other such abilities.
-Demon Slayer: An upgrade from the Demon Hunter class, it gives upgrades onto the pre-existing skills as well as the ability to craft/enchant weapons specifically designed to overpower and slay/banish/seal away demons.
-Exorcist: Branching off from the cleric, the exorcist branches into the Demon Hunters territory, however, more centers on evil-aligned creatures. They also specialize in the removal of demons and other such entities from their hosts, removal/addition of curses and other more advanced faith-based abilities.
-Cursed One: A branch off of demon hunter in which the hunter becomes which they wish to destroy most, giving Akai the ability to enter a demonic state. Once activated, Akai becomes frenzied and confused by hatred, simply wishing the destruction of her designated targets in the most brutal of fashions. She becomes more demonic and her attacks are more devastating, resulting in more damage dealt and also heightens her martial abilities, though she loses access to the majority of her divine/faith-based magic and skills in this state.

-Demon Bane: The pinnacle of the Demon Hunter Class, this allows one access to the most advanced and powerful forms of all the Demon Hunters skills and abilities, as well as a massive boon to damage against Demons. It also gives access to the exclusive skills Cripping Strike (which targets a weak point on a demon to deal max damage and cripple them for 10 seconds) and Demonic Life Steal (wherein upon slaying a demon, the user regains health equal to 30% of the slain demon's health)
-Monstrous Being: When a Demon Hunter has finally given into temptation and truly embraced that which they wish to destroy, giving them the ability to enter a True Demonic State (which temporarily gives them maxed out Basic demon race levels and skills accordingly) for five minutes a day. They can also feast on the remains of demons to increase their damage, regain health or even decrease the cool-down on their True Demonic State ability if the slain demon was a boss.

Equipment:
-Twin Demonic Blades (Divine Class)-A pair of modified longswords that are not only Akai's signature weapon that she always carries, but also one of her most treasured possessions having received it as a gift from her former teammates. She can wield this in her frenzied state as well as it having the ability to drain her life force (HP/MP) for bigger more grand attacks as well as carrying a bonus damage to Angelic and demonic creatures alike. She also claims that she constantly fights against the swords dark urges to destroy everything, though this is more for flavour than anything else.

-Various Magic Rings that increase her damage output, HP regen and defense against attacks common to demons (i.e. darkness and fire based attacks)

-Various little trinkets, including but limited to holy water grenades, vials of holy water, lots of unmarked and marked paper talismans that either contain her abilities or the potential to and smoke bombs.

-Holy Literature (Relic): A rare item from an event. It increases the power of Holy based attacks, and raises resistance against Holy or demonic based skills depending on the user preferences (can only be changed once a day)

-Cloak of Magical Shielding (Relic): It increases the user's resistance to all types of magic which target the wearer as well as the overall defensive abilities

-Demon Slayers Attire (Legendary): A set of gear that makes up her attire. While each set increases her Demon hunter, and branched off classes, abilities as well as raise her resistance to demons attacks, owning the entire set also gives access to an additional minute of Akai's frenzied demonic state.

-Holy Charms (Relic): She has a total of 3, each one boosting her damage and abilities. Each one can also nullify one debuff or effect aimed at Akai a day and can help to avoid scrying based abilities. Said to help ward evil spirits.

-Various cursed gear crafted by Akai (i.e. a cursed sword that greatly increases attack but at the cost of greatly decreasing their def)

In-game Backstory:
Akai started out as a simple wish-fulfillment for the stressed-out high school student, a stoic fantasy bad-ass trope to vent some stress with little thought given as to exact details of how Akai came to be. It wasn't until the mid-game funk that would inevitably hit that Akai truly became what she is today. Deciding to join a guild for the first time, edgelord would soon befriend a number of hardcore roleplayers who roped her into allowing Akai to fulfill the missing puzzle piece of their story; the lone survivor of a clan designed to kill demons wiped out by demons. Akai herself was 'part' demon despite all this, her mother had fallen for an unnamed demons charms and fallen pregnant with the girl before being killed during the massacre. Akai would be saved by one of her friend's characters' father and taken in as his surrogate daughter, as well as his disciple. For years Akai and Aoi, her friend's character, would train under the tutelage of Aoi's father before his sudden passing, which would be the catalyst of them going out into the world and eventually joining an adventurers guild and forming their team. There were seven members of their team, Akai Mazoku, Aoi Tenshi, Midori Andeddo, Shiro Murasaki, Kiiro Kuro, Misaki Orenji, Aizome Fubuki.

Though the group's storyline would go on to become unfulfilled as slowly and surely members dropped out due to various IRL reasons, till eventually, it was only Akai left. How had she become the last woman standing? Well, for some simple reasons. She needn't have concerns with work or adult life, for she was still in high school. But also because Akai was just too much fun for her to give up and return to being a stressful honor student. She would continue Akai's storyline without the others, becoming the lone wolf archetype that had lost her friends to another demon attack to further fuel Akai's desire to kill all demons. She soon began to hunt down any demons she could find, whether they are spawned in NPC enemies or other players, slaughtering any and all of them, even taking an interest to take her time and toying with some if they were too weak to entertain her otherwise.

Eventually, she became something of an infamous rumor amongst the players; of a player purely focused on killing demon characters, some stories even warping it to be viewed as if she took statistical pleasure from slowly killing her foes and other such slanderous half-truths. She would go on to leave her guild and form her own 'guild', which consisted solely of herself and a few NPC's. The guild-hall just being a glorified storage space for her various rewards and the such.

Cohorts:
M3GUMIW11 aka Megumin: A automation girl (lvl59) that looks to be in her late teens, early twenties. She specializes in absorbing and reducing damage, playing the role of a tank. She like all automation are incapable of emotional output, though she is shown to have some rather eccentric habits which amuse and endears her to her creator, edgelord. Giving the typical kuudere personality.

Crimson Wolf: A 21-year-old werewolf girl (lvl 60) that Akai picked up during her travels, Crimson is another NPC designed by edgelord. Fiercely loyal to Akai for not only saving her but also taking her in, Crimson's main function is as a scout/assassin type. Crimson is similar in persona to her master Akai, though a lot colder and doesn't hesitate in killing those she deems a threat to her master, though once she warms up a person she becomes almost like a puppy. A combination of the dandere/yandere archetypes.

Dawn Ketsueki: A NPC originally designed by Aoi, who later transferred ownership over to Akai. Dawn is a 1000-year-old vampire girl (lvl 65) who is the no-nonsense healer type, not afraid to scold even her master Akai for disobeying orders of rest or not taking proper medical aid seriously. She serves as Akai's main source of healing, specializing in such magic as well as the brewing of various potions. She's rather sociable, unlike her current master, and seems to be fascinated by humans, especially that of the romance of the more homoerotic kind. (Aka a BL fangirl) A combination of sadodere and tsundere archetypes.

Final Notes:
edgelord spent her final moments in the game simply brooding in her base of operations, pondering over various items and the such that her teammates and she had gathered over the years, as well as reminiscing the time spent together. She had also arranged a bit of a party for her and the NPCs, she had invited her friends but unfortunately, they were busy...so she had left the NPCs to their own devices for the most part while she simply brooded away by herself, waiting for the game to finally come to an end. Ah, what a waste....

[ShwiggityShwah]

GiveITaSQUEEZE, The Primordial Essence WIP

Username: GiveITaSQUEEZE

Player Profession: QC Investigator for Big Pharma

Character Role: Versatile (Role dependent on form)

Appearance:

Alignment: +400

Racial Levels: Trillip 15 > Treant 10 > Treelord 5

Job Classes:

• Farmer 15
• Druid 15
• High Druid 10
• High Tamer 10
• Shifter 10
• Guardian of the Grove 5 - Acquire Max Level Arch Druid, have +250 Alignment, Complete the Emerald Grove Quest Line, get Exalted Reputation with the Emerald Grove Conclaive.
• Wyld Wood 5 - Be a Treant/Treelord, Acquire the Legendary Item: Primordial Essence, Complete The Blight Quest Chain.

Abilities:

• Racial - Bark skin - Defense and resistance to poisons and disease increase.
• Racial - Symbiotic Communion - While in Natural Environment, mana and health regeneration increase.
• Racial - Branching Limbs - Size, Strength, and Reach increases. This applies to all forms.
• Racial - Natural Connection - Potency of Spells with the 'Nature' Element Increase.
• Racial - King of the Wood - Summon Wood Golems to fight for a while, their potency is tied to the player's level.
• Class Farmer - Farming - Can grow food and herbs. High levels can grow magical ingredients and use them in some recipes.
• Class Druid/High Druid - Druidic Magic - A list of spells that follow the theme of nature. Ensnaring Roots, Storms of Thorns, Weather Control, Celestial Fire, Earth Sense, Camoflauge, Channeling Animal Abilities, Animating Plants, Walls of Roots, Plant Growth, Regeneration, Clouds of Poisonous Spores, Summoning Venomous Swarms of Vermin, just to name a few.
  Some Higher Powered Spells from The Guardian of the Glade
  The Gladewyrm – a summoned titanic beast that crushes your foes and heals allies as an aura effect.
  The Spiteswarm Hive – a colony of magical insects which makes nearby allies more durable, resisting magic.
  The Vengeful Skullroot – a sinister, sentient, floating tree that can slay foes by seizing bodies in its crushing roots and sapping the life out of them. Seeing the bodies in the bark and skulls in the roots causes terror.
  Reclamation - A semi divine spell that causes the sun and stars to shine through the druid. Where the light touches, life flourishes. This is especially deadly to undead type enemies.
  Genesis - Causes vast swathes of land to come to full fecund beauty, Great for Farmers. Also can resurrect a dead character.
• Class Shifter - Wild Shape - Transform into Beasts, Elementals, and other forms, to include other humanoids. At this point, nearly all animals regardless of size are fair game.
  Note: The Wyld Wood Class allows some unique Shape options.
  The Form of the Plagues The Player doesn't become one creature, but many. A cloud, an army. The game defaulted to a single kind of attack, an aoe of stinging biting insects causing physical, poison, and acidic damage but since its real, the possibilities are quite vast.
  The Form of the Behemoth Titanic Creatures become targets of Transformation, and all of their abilities.
  The Form of the God Monster Divine Creatures become targets of Transformation, and all of their abilities.
• Class High Tamer - Control Plants and Beasts - The Tamer class allows for summon and control over animals to the point that they become companions. The ability overlaps with druid abilities so that sentient plants also count. He has multiple companions he can call temporarily or swap them out.
  Whiskers is his favored 'combat mount', a Dragonoid type enemy called a Forest Phoenix. His high defense and large target range makes him a great tank while Squeeze can focus on DPS and the Phoenix types have a myriad of magical resistances and aura effects with combat spells.
• Class Druid/High Druid - Healing magic and buffs - The Nature Spells revolve around regeneration and life magic, so there are a lot of spells that allow for Squeeze to act as a healer. The buffs can purify disease, poison, some curses and offer nature, elemental, and animal based buffs to imbue invisibility, mobility, strength, perception, etc.
• Class Druid/High Druid- Poison and disease based debuffs - Fungi, Poison, Venom as well as disease can be utilized via magic or other means to debuff enemies. Mushroom bombs that make choking, blinding spore clouds. Curse of the Sloth. The Prey's Fear, can give Squeeze the edge.

Equipment:

• Primordial Essence: Trinket - The very essence of what is versus what isn't. The essence has unlimited potential of what could be. It's user is able to transform from one form into the next without needing to transform back first. Additionally, the user can develop their own 'custom' forms. Taking attributes from other creatures to combine them.
• Heart of the Nidhoggen: Trinket - The Heart still beats, and its blood races through those that hold it close. Using the heart channels the behemoth's power for a time. Caster's become fighter types of equal value, and their magical power translates into physical power on top of their own stats.
• Branch of the World Tree: Staff Weapon - A twig of Yggdrasil, the world tree. Its power to create and destroy channeled into every act. Greatly enhances magical power. Capable of casting the spells The Ravenous Thicket Wall of IronWood or Spirit of the First Tree while on cooldown without spending mana.
• Regalia of the Ancients: Chest
• Wreathed in Life: Legs
• That Which Strides At the Edge of Everything: Shoes
• Unbowed Unbroken: Wrists
• Touch of Life: Glove
• Touch of Death: Glove
  -- Set Bonus Touch of Rebirth - Grants an life explosion effect. An enemy killed by the player causes the body to burst in an explosion of thorns and living essence. Nearby allies get health while other nearby enemies suffer damage. If they also die, the life explosion triggers in a chain reaction. The resulting corpses become flowers, making them impossible targets for necromantic effects.
• The Wyld Veil: Cloak
• Ring of the Promised: Ring
• Oroborus: Ring
• The Emerald in the Grove: Pendant
• The Everbloom: Reusable Item
• The Snapmire Vine: Reusable Item

Alt Gear:

• The Tooth of the World Serpent[/*] Spear Weapon
• Hunger of Yanagu[/*] Chest Armor
• Primal Claws[/*] Wrists

In Game Backstory:
The Player didn't think about the character he made at first. The idea became ridiculous at first. "Im going to be a farming tree. His name will be Siraki...Taken. Carmine. Taken... okay How about ShwiggityShwah... WHAT COME ON! Okay GiveITaSQUEEZE! Yeah that worked. Great. Oh well, time to have fun." He wanted to be a literal tree hugger... as in he was a tree that hugged.

And so, the adventure of GiveITaSQUEEZE began. A little cute Mandrogora type character running around as a farmer with a hoe for a weapon and throwing turnips to heal other low level newbies. He eventually needed to get something a little more martial, so figured the Druid matched the tree theme well. Plus the 'Treant' race had a bonus with them. He usually went for a path less traveled but Treants were rare and druid had alot of versatility. Nature magic for support, healing, and ranged dps. Wild Shape for tank and melee dps. He started the druid route. It took him to the beautiful world of Yggdrasil, epic sprawling landscapes. He showed his fiance the pictures, tried to make her play.

She showed interest, she especially loved how this was how nature was supposed to look. Green and good. It led to alot of conversation. Alot of dreams. Unfortunately she was volunteering, doing her part to make the real world match the game world. Sadly, he had his own responsibilities, and so he left it to her to save the world, he'd bring the money. Teamwork. He wanted to find more nature. Do more things that followed the natural world. He started to develop his character as a role player, and wanted him as a guardian of nature. Protect the wild and encourage a proper order of things.

This led him to only do quests on the side of good, helping people, and avoiding those quests that would lead to exploitation and destruction. He engaged in pvp with 'evil' players and joined guilds that were associated with the ideals of heroism. For a long while, he was a supportive team player to them, capable of fitting any role required for any quest or raid they engaged him.

Then a rare item description gave him a clue to look in a certain area of the world. This was odd as there was nothing about the item in the wiki's about Yggdrasil. On occasion, someone would find something completely new to the game as the devs continued to keep adding to the game world. This led him to an unknown faction, the Emerald Grove Conclaive. It was a kind of secret society of druids that would commune with nature and protect the world from calamity. For finding them, he was given access to their shops, resources, and high level quest line with a whole bunch of new lore to the world. The Grove told him that treants only awaken when Yggdrasil the first tree was in danger and that treants, the wooden ones were ancient guardians of the land, one of its first inhabitants that tamed the primordial chaos that the tree spawned from. The time has come again and this time, all of Yggdrasils children would need to fight.

He was so excited with the discovery, he created the wiki articles, shared the information on forums, and actually attracted others, some former friends but a bunch of new ones. All of them were nature lovers, conservationists, biologist, botonists, gardeners, and virtual outdoorsmen. He became an impromptu founder of a Guild and the leader of a small chat group which became friends in and out of the game. They even became friends with his busy fiance.

Together they made the small conclaive into a pretty sizable faction, complete with treasuries, crafted assets, NPCs, all the while exploring the new quests and dungeons the Grove offered. The quests took them inside the world tree, fighting against the world serpent among its roots. They discovered an apocalypse cult in its trunk. There was even a raid where the players had to go through a temporal portal to defend the seed of the world tree from an aberrant force called 'The Blight'. During the final battle with a monster simply called 'The Scarlet King', its possible that the seedling is taken, leaving only a hole with a glowing blue green light. A small island in a sea of chaos that Yggdrasil would bloom upon. Squeeze looked to his team mates, at a loss for what to do, before he received a prompt. [Become] is all it said. Hitting it with the mouse, Squeeze cast himself into the light, his tree body disappearing and a single sproutling beginning to grow.

The player was kicked out of the game but relogging in, found himself spawning inside of a unknown chamber near the Emerald Grove conclaive, the 'Primordial Essence' trinket on his person, and a new elite job title awarded to him. His friends raved about it for weeks. They theorized that Squeeze had gone back in time and was the first sprout of the World Tree. In a sense, GiveITaSQUEEZE was the World Tree, grown from chaos, now re sprouting thousands of years later cause he was inside of it all this time helping it grow, protecting it. The interpretation was just a theory, but the trinket, the job was a unique game condition, and Squeeze found it. It was one of the best times of his life.

He was hooked on the game ever since, and he and his Guild flourished. The legend and the instance raids giving them a whole number of unique items that other players eventually found and joined to get. It all came to an end when the announcement that the server's would be put down.

It was fun while it lasted, defending such a vibrant, wonderous, and beautiful land. Time to face ugly reality, but atleast there was a ray of beauty and hope waiting for him. He had a wedding to plan anyway...

Cohorts:
Squeeze's cohorts are a combination of NPCs that are part of the Emerald Grove Conclaive faction and the created NPCs of a bunch of players that also discovered the Conclaive which ended up becoming a kind of secret fan club the player was a part of, kind of making a guild in and out of the game. Its debatable whether the Guild still exists, but feel free to use the Faction for stories as they are meant to be a secret society of natural protectors, keeping the forces of nature in balance, fighting off the forces of death and plague etc.

• Carmine Lily A Dryad with a Beastmen skin that Squeeze personally created. His fiance did not play Yggdrasil but their relationship had alot of influence on how Squeeze roleplayed the character. Carmine Lily is supposed to be a kind of stand in for his fiance so he could play with her in spirit. His fiance loved animals as she worked at an animal shelter in her spare time and volunteered for conservation groups. Carmine Lily has that same kind of theme. Her abilities follow the Forest Wizard and Summoner paths as she can conjure nature spirits, beasts, or golems, and then buff them for better abilities, healing them, all the while sending down spells that make things unfavorable for her enemies wearing down opponents through attrition and savagery. She's designed to be more focused on DPS through use of summons as she was apparently a very blunt, stubborn, and passionate individual. Carmine Lily is the same. She has a heart overwhelming with care for those weaker then her and a burning passion to protect them. It's almost unnerving how she can swap from care free and motherly to sadistic and predatory. She doesn't know what restraint is.
• Merryweather An NPC of the Grove. Nothing particularly special about this Centaur as she is essentially a druid in training, a gardener, herbalist with hopes of becoming an alchemist or pharmacist. The only reason she is mentioned is that her jubilation and over bounding enthusiasm to help out makes her a rather common sight around the grove and Squeeze uses her for various tasks and eventually hopes to have a top notch potion maker among his retinue.
  Note this is a work in progress and I will elaborate on specifics

Last Actions Before the World Ended:
Frantically putting the finishing touches on Carmine Lily so he coule take some screenshots as a present. He didnt think it would take that long.

I just wanted to get started since there is alot to go over. Hopefully its okay so far.

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Added abilities and some of the history

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Finished history.

[Disciple Cain]

@Lunarlord34 I'd still suggest only having up to 2 rare classes. Also, are you sure Paladin is a basic class? I'm not and I'll have to check. I remember someone in Nazarick having paladin levels but they were novel only I think. I'll get back to you on that.
I'm getting a feeling for this character. Though, you might want to level down your NPCs. You might not have been able to get them up that high after going lone wolf, or you'll at least have to explain why one of Edgelord's NPCs is with her after she left.
I'll help you with abilities best I can at my next break. Unfortunately, my phone service shit the bed at work and I was unable to reply earlier.

@ShwiggityShwah Sounds a lot like your backstory is going to be describing a roleplayer. Don't forget to tell something in the context of him playing the game with friends or guild mates! Your character can definitely tell that story to the new world, though. The right people will eat up that creation myth like it's a bountiful feast.
I can think of an antagonist for this character already. I think you'll like it.
Also, I think you might need to rebalance some racial and class levels. Most facials max at 10 or 15, and it's assumed you need to max one to advance to the next stage. You might go 15, 10, 5 for your racial levels, so you'll have to prune (haha) some job classes. I'd suggest pruning one of the rare classes to drop your rare class number to 2.
Squeeze is... a fantastic name.

[Bright_Ops]

Is it too late to join this RP or have you reached the numbers yours comfortable with @Disciple Cain?

[Disciple Cain]

I have not been keeping track. I also haven't decided yet so go for it. Until I close applications, I'll accept more.

[Dead Cruiser]

See no reason not to bring back my old Overlord OC, my vampire loremaster/treasure hunter.

[Disciple Cain]

@Lunarlord34 Oh, my mistake. Edgelord is your character. Alright. All is mostly in order then.

I will say to boost the age of Edgelord's NPCs. Conflict of interest to feature minors here.

[Disciple Cain]

So!

@Lunarlord34 The Sword Saint title is associated (usually) with iaijutsu, which in mythical lore allows them to draw, dash, and swing all in one motion. It's the stereotypical samurai face-off move where one guy gets a cut on his cheek while the other falls in half and sprays blood like he's in a Kurosawa film. Their gimmick may be very strong opening moves, specializing in sword category, not a ton of follow up routine.

Templar is a high class that probably branches from the Cleric class, considering Roberdyck has levels in that class as well as Cleric and High Cleric. It may or may not have more to do with either dealing with undead, or a martial-focused branch for the cleric. Suffice to say, it's probably got divine casting power, and it can just as easily branch from Paladin I bet.

Avenger definitely sounds like a martial-focused paladin branch. They probably come with a specific and gimmicky kit but... I don't want to get carried away and make the whole class right here.

That's about what I've got for now.

[Lugubrious]

@Lunarlord34 Here are some ideas if you're going for a demon hunter or other anti-demon fighter. There's always the holy angle, which includes things like banish, repel (force out or away), repudiate (attack with a divine voice, perhaps conducting rituals) seal (blocking foes' abilities or trapping them, potentially inside stuff), ward (protective barriers or marks that can defend against wounds or statuses), boundary (creating holy lines that cannot be crossed, and can be used to cut unholy things), and so forth. Controlling the battlefield and keeping dark forces at bay with defensive miracles. There's also blessed weaponry. This can all fulfill the stereotypical paladin aesthetic or go for a more renegade priest style. Someone also doesn't need to be of a divine bent to use divine weapons. Why not buy a vial of holy water off some monk and coat your sword with it like poison when going to fight demons?

Alternatively, there's the idea of a monster that turned against its kind, or of someone who become monstrous to fight the monsters. In that case, empowering curses, berserker abilities (growing stronger from wounds and such), or skills that lend themselves toward subterfuge (disguise, magic bombs, et cetera) could fit the bill.

You could also create classes stemming from in-game lore that you make up. Maybe there's an extreme sect in the setting that arms its church hunters with brutal weapons or trains merciless inquisitors to seek out and slaughter evil wherever it may lurk with ruthlessly weaponized versions of more benign monastic tools and iconography. In the game Dante's Inferno, the main character (a sort of paladin) literally blasted out radiant crosses three at a time as projectiles. There's another game called Blasphemous with some imagery that might interest you.

Anyway, that's all just spitballing. Maybe it was helpful though?

[Disciple Cain]

Now, note that the actual amount of passive and active abilities supposedly in this game, combined with extra 'content' from the new world, is ridiculous. There are some things that aren't worth listing because it would just be a mess of text. I'll fill in those blanks.

@ShwiggityShwah Also, could you xategorize where some of your abilities come from? Which classes provide them, etc.?

[Bright_Ops]

Bright_Ops (Work in Progress)

Username:
Bright_Ops

Player Profession:
Unemployed on a disability pension. Actively looking for employment but unlucky.

Character Role:
Base Builder and DPS/Tank hybrid.

Alignment:
+200

Appearance: Please provide a picture and/or written description of your character's appearance.

- Race/Racial Levels:
Automaton (5)

-Job Classes:
[Common]
Fighter (15)
Miner (5)
Blacksmith (15)

[High]
Gunner (10)
Spellbreaker (10)
Guardian (10)
Researcher (10)
Engineer (10)

[Rare]
Enginseer (5)
Null Pariah (5)

Abilities:
Poison Immunity (racial)
Mechanical Being (racial)
Can develop and use firearms (Gunner)
Is trained to disrupt and shut down magic, alongside being a hard counter to spell casters (Spellbreaker)
Gains bonuses to defending a chosen area (Guardian)
Talented at uncovering pieces of lore and information (Researcher)
Can develop and maintain machinery (Engineer)

The Enginseer class was a rare class open to those who had mastered engineering, reached at least level 60 and had traveled deep into the abandoned depths of Vilisyrteria (making the level cap redundant because to survive down there required at least level 80). The major draw of the class was the ability to produce and maintain 'ancient, mythical and forgotten' technology, allowing the Enginseer to develop technologies both modern (in relation to the real world) and beyond (via possible future tech or technology that was so advanced as to appear magical). While the class was never popular because its perks required a lot of resources and time to prepare in advance and the war machines were never quiet as powerful as a dedicated spellcaster of the same level, the promise of being able to produce your own Automaton factory and arm your creations with guns and tanks always drew some in.

The Null Pariah class actually had its start as a glitch in that it was never intended for players to have it. Originally, the only being in YGGDRASIL to have the class of Null was a raid boss; An ogre who was simply known by the title of Breaker of Magic. The lore was that the BoM had survived contact with an unknown, hidden world item that had cursed him with an aura that negated all magic and its effects, effectively creating an area around the boss where magic couldn't exist. The boss was effectively immune to spell casters, with passive magical effects like enchantments and potions fading and creatures that relied on magic to exist (such as standard undead) simply had the magic torn out of them, effectively banishing/destroying them the moment they entered the aura.

The plan was that the developers were planning to add something in the next patch to weaken the aura/boss fight after all the backlash of how broken the boss was, but the BoM was downed by a randomly recruited raid party of players who were recruited solely because their skills and abilities weren't magic dependent before then. The raid group of players should have all parted ways and that would have been the end of things... but Bright_Ops was apart of the raid and he had grown curious.

While others looted treasure or sort out different areas of the raid for more bosses, Bright_Ops looked into the BoM's records and maps... and actually managed to figure out where the world item that had cursed the BoM was located. Informing the rest of the raid (or at least those who were still around), they went to the location and found it, allowing themselves to be 'cursed' by it and gaining the Null class.

The Developers had taken a shortcut when making the BoM in that in order to get his ability to function, they had needed to actually make a World Item that actually gave whoever interacted with it but they had intended to put it somewhere that players couldn't access by phasing it out of the game servers... but someone messed up and it was actually in the world. They hadn't even given it a name. When the next patch came around, they phased the item out as intended but the Null class had already gotten to the players. Instead of stripping them of the class, the developers granted those who had managed to locate the world item and get the class the 'Null Pariah' class on the characters who found it.

The class effectively did what the BoM did; A character with Null Pariah had an aura that canceled out magic in both active and passive forms. While having it was seen as a prestigious thing, most players 'blessed' with it developed other characters due to the fact that since the aura couldn't be turned off they couldn't be buffed, healed or teleported via magic and while highly useful under certain circumstances they were generally not welcome in every day parties and raids where they would interfere with friendly spell casters and enchantments as readily as they messed with enemies.

Equipment: Please describe some of your favorite equipment in your kit. Armor, weapons, magic items, consumables-- whatever you'd like to declare to give us an idea of what you use.

In-Game Backstory: Please regale us with a brief recollection of your times playing Yggdrasil. What kind of player you were, how you spent your days logged in, maybe how you spent your days logged out-- anything you'd like to declare to give us an idea of who you were.

Cohorts
Players may have a retinue of NPCs leftover from their guildhalls, traveling days, or towns where they stayed. If you would like, please list the names of your most notable NPCs and give a few sentences about how they were designed, and who they are now. You may choose to play them, or you may opt for the GM to play them.

Final Note
What were you doing before the time ran out for Yggdrasil?

@Disciple Cain before I develop my character further, I just want your ruling on my classes. Namely the pair of Rare Classes. Just want to make sure they're okay.

[Lunarlord34]

@Disciple Cain
Yeah, I went through a lot of different levels for NPCs as I wasn't sure where to put them so I can easily downgrade them. And I'm pretty sure someone, can't remember who now, had 10 levels of Paladin so that's what lead me to believe it was a High class. And other sheets had more than two (I don't think anyone had more than 3 though) in total racial/job class so seeing as I went human I thought 3 rares would be fine for jobs but I can just scrap one and pump a few more levels into one of the basic ones.

And yeah the npcs, in general, was interesting as I couldn't really find much on how to make them etc. So Idk if say like a year of being in that guild would've been enough to have decent levelled NPCs, because edgelord is like 17/18, last year of highschool kinda thing and I thought has probably been playing for 2-3 years. Though the age on Syleste is a little hard to change as she just looks that young, but then again anime logic probably means she's 3000 XD

And is that what Sword Saint does? Interesting, explains why it's on Brain then. He does use those kinds of skills I've noticed. And Templar was just for a bit more divine magic stuffs, same with Paladin really. Trying to work that anti-demon route and all, idk if exorcist would've been more fitting or not. Whereas Avenger, I wasn't sure what it would branch off of so I put some levels into everything I thought it might branch off of lol

@Lugubrious
hmm yes that certainly does, a few of the things I was certainly going to use but your suggestions also include a few angles/abilities I hadn't thought of. Funny you mention the monster killing monsters, at one point she was a demon race though with the same backstory and she would still claim to be 'human' despite obviously being a demon, it was more for her story/flavor text that she was part human part demon, seeing as I couldn't find something suiting for it race wise. Was thinking an item or ability would give her some demonic like powers or appearance in this case, though she could easily change back to Demon and thus all her levels would be changed as well lol

Another main reason I picked human though was because everyone in Overlord rps pick the demihumans and monsters lol almost no one ever represents the human/humanoid gang so I took it upon myself to do so XD Even if it kinda just leaves me stuck with just job classes, provides a point of difference if you would I guess from the rest of the cast.

[Disciple Cain]

I'm actually currently more interested in what disability he has in 2138 that keeps him from working, and now suddenly curious about how Japan deals with disability.

For the Enginseer, I'm not really fond of the idea of putting in future tech or mostly modern tech to the new world because it doesn't really fit for me. I can see its appeal, but it isn't something I want to feature much of.

The Null Pariah I would rather not have featured here. A constant anti-magic field isn't 'too powerful', but it is incredibly uninteractive.

[Bright_Ops]

@Disciple Cain

Fair enough. I shall make alterations in the future!

[Disciple Cain]

@Lunarlord34 The whole 'Actually 3000 when she looks 12'... I'm giving that a wide berth. I'm going to put my foot down now about a "No Minors, No Loli, No Shota" rule. I've had and seen too many RPs on this site get really weird after a teenager was put in with a bunch of twenty and thirty-somethings.

On another note, Exorcist could work against Undead (Ghosts) and Demons. If you're looking for more magical means of locking down a fight against a Ghost or Demon, that would be the way to do it. Might also help dealing with demonic and ghostly domination effects and other related things.

[Disciple Cain]

@Bright_Ops Note about the Engineering thing-- there's a lot you definitely still can construct, I'm just eschewing some of the more ridiculous things that came from Yggdrasil like... Power Suits (literally Wanzer's/Mobile Suits). Golems and other such constructs are definitely in scope, and I suspect one of your cohorts is also an automaton that you might've designed. I can see that there's a lot to work with here in Bright Ops building their MACHINE DOMAIN or something like that with their engineering, blacksmithing, mining, and researching skills. Because of the amount of crafting levels you have, there may actually be things that you can't go toe-to-toe with so easily, or maybe not at all since those crafting levels don't translate to combat power. Then again, you don't have to. Your metal minions can do the work for you.

[VarockSvent]

@Disciple Cain

Have you had a chance to look at mine? Seems I've missed a few sections but I think everything should be in order now.

[Crusader Lord]

Struggling to think of a good race...would prefer demihuman or heteromorph for the sake of some fun racial levels, but for some reason I have been rather indecisive. Angel, Demon, Snakeman, etc. Almost considered if part-human demi races would be even a thing to choose from. XD

Anyone got some suggestions?

[ShwiggityShwah]

@Disciple Cain

Fixed it and finished history.

Still have cohorts and items to describe.

Oh and I would be very much open to abilities that can be alot of fun for others. I don't intend to fight other god players, believing its more fun to have intrigues then apocalyptic battles.

Squeeze being ridden as a mount would be a fun and funny scene. Helping design their farmland, gardens and animals would be another.