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The Island of Ascension

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The Island of Ascension

Yeah, instant killing punches are restricted by the point and dice system. Also, I'm hoping the players won't be the type to want that anyway.

Magic school and homebrew dice system (Open)

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The Island of Ascension

Name: Evan Stanley
Age: 18


Background: He grew up with an abusive alcoholic father, a mother with a compromised immune system, and three siblings who easily fell into alcohol and drugs. Evan was the only child of the family who aspired to have a professional career and escape poverty. He always wanted to work with animals. One day his father disappeared and he had to work to take care of his mother. Despite his high grades and dedication to schooling, his poor background and responsibility to his mother prevented him from being able to attend University. One day a businessman approached him with a proposal to help him and his mother...

HP: 40

Combat
Karate (Kickboxing): 4
Throwing: 4
Knives (Bladed): 2

Support
First Aid: 5
Animals: 3
Stealth: 2

Items:
Black Hoodie
Stealth +2 in dark areas

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Let me make lists for each skill tree. I'm open to suggestions for more.

Combat Skills

Whatever skill you use to fight or injured/kill someone or something

Unarmed

I have split unarmed/martial arts into two categories, kickboxing and grappling. Ground fighting is mainly influenced by grappling. Feel free to also mention specific martial arts just to flavor the character and keep things interesting. For instance if your character knows a little Muay Thai, do Muay Thai (boxing) 3.

Melee Weapons

There are blunt weapons, bladed weapons, and stabbing weapons. Each are separate skills.

Ranged Weapons

Ranged weapons can be anything from throwing rocks to firing a laser rifle. Some require strength or dexterity, but either way they require skill. There's throwing, slings, bows, handguns, rifles, machine guns, and energy weapons.

Support Skills

Skills generally used outside of combat, though you could improve in combat. Not to harm.

Social

Skills that give an edge when dealing with people. Charisma for convincing people amicably, Intimidation to scare people into doing what you want, and Deception for tricking people into doing what you want.

Wilderness

Anything dealing with nature or surviving in it. Animal skills are knowledge of how to deal with animals, Survival includes building fires and shelters, Herbalism includes knowing which plants do what and what to avoid, and Hunting involves not only hunting animals but also cutting them up and harvesting what you need from their carcass.

Athleticism

These are more like attributes, which I was avoiding, but without any of these I will assume your character is average in one of these. Strength to lift heavy objects, Endurance to deal with pain, discomfort, and fatigue, Agility to dodge or move quickly, and Dexterity to help land a shot.

Stealth

There are three skills here. The first is, of course, Stealth which means sneaking or hiding to avoid being spotted, and Lockpicking which works for traditional locks, and Pickpocketing to steal right from someone's pocket without being caught.

Technical

Computers, for hacking and possibly creating programs, Repair, for fixing things, First Aid, for patching people up.

Magic is currently a mystery to your characters that will be revealed over time, so I will keep it a mystery to the players as well.

Magic school and homebrew dice system (Open)

I've started. I'm working on a skill list

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The Island of Ascension

Character sheets are a lot like those in other RPs

Name:
Age:
Appearance:
Background: Please at least say why you signed on
HP: Starting out its 20 then + whatever physical skills x2.

Then there are skills. There will be three categories.

Combat: Nothing magic, but anything you would fight with. Could be
Boxing: 5
Knives: 5

Support: Nothing magic here either. Could be anything from culinary skills to engineering. Could be
First Aid: 5
Repair: 5

Magic: This is what you will get later. At the start you are a muggle. Magic could reinforce your other skills.

Equipment: Weapons and armor or clothing that might have some kind of stat buff.

Items: Notable items.
Money: Self explanatory.

The Island of Ascension

Next I want to talk about a dice system I made for this game. It's not any traditional system like D&D, but it does involve dice.

The system is based on d20 rolls and skill points. Your HP is 20 plus 2x any athletic skills (martial arts, parkour, weight lifting, etc). If HP falls to zero, you don't die, but you suffer consequences such as an injury or losing items. If the whole party loses all HP, the game doesn't end, but the plot takes a bad turn and everyone suffers greater consequences.

MP instead of spell slots, since this is a magic heavy game. You start with no magic or MP, but learn and increase MP as you study, practice, and use magic.

You play as a normal human, at least at first, so things that cause a lot of damage in real life will hurt you bad in the game, like getting stabbed, shot, or beaten unconscious. You're in the right place if you want to fix this, however, as harnessing magical energy can strengthen your flesh, making you stronger, faster, and more resilient. There is a trade off, however, as the more you use magic for this, the less you can use it for other things.

I will post a list of skills and magic you can choose from, and I will be open to other ideas. You get 10 skill points for Combat Skills and 10 skill points for Support Skills. You can pick whatever skills and distribute the points among them. You won't be a total expert at the beginning, and will have to choose your battles wisely.

No traditional attribute system. Instead of you must roll for something, the result is d20 result + related skill. For example if you need to do a strength check to break down a door, and one of your skills is 3 in weight lifting, then it's whatever you roll on d20 plus 3. Weight lifting also helps with endurance rolls and possibly intimidation.

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A little update. I will go over the dice system and the character sheets next

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I'm sure you had your reasons for blindly trusting and signing on with Maniacles Corporation. They only approach the unwanted and desperate, after all. Whatever they promised you, you agreed to play along in one of their "experiments." This one in particular mainly employed young people (18-25) though Maniacles may make exceptions just to make it interesting. And how exciting, after all. You're around college aged and you're about to get a similar experience with no cost to you. No monetary cost, anyway.

But what exactly do they have you in school for? The company isn't really offering to...pay off your debt, clear your record, or get you out of prison just to turn you into a lawyer or businessman. They're not sending you to Hogwarts, magic isn't real, right? But the things they keep mentioning are just odd to you. Manipulating energies? Psionics? And why must this happen on some secluded, frozen island near Alaska?

Palmer Island

Near the coast of Alaska is an island with a population of about 4,000. Every person of that 4,000 is capable of magic to some extent. Most live in the fishing town by the coast. The island has had people since ancient times, whether they were travelers from some place, or descendents of those travelers. The buildings are mostly constructed of stone and wood, with modern buildings being rare. The roads are dirt, save for the stone path leading to academy, and the lone concrete paved road leading to and around the Maniacles base. At first glance, the island looks like an underdeveloped country, but they have all the amenities of modern world. The citizens of the town use USD for their economy. The town has its own small government, but has agreed to allow Maniacles an amount of control in exchange for helping to keep their island a secret.

Maniacles Corporation

Maniacles Corporation is a research organization with unimaginable wealth and resources. They have studied, and continue to study, technology nobody has even dreamt of yet. Thanks to their research in weapons technology, they can outfit their mercenaries in power armor and put high tech weapons in their hands. It is partially due to this that they are not only able to study the creatures that stalk the darkness outside of the average man's awareness, but also make deals with these creatures. Some employees of Maniacles, be they a mercenary or an executive, were once in experiments similar to the one on Palmer Island.

The Academy

An ancient building looms over the village, though it has been updated many times throughout history. It stood abandoned for over a century, after new people stopped arriving and the island mages started mentoring children at home. Before that, countless people tread these now decrepit halls to empower themselves with magical energies. Some say a magic school existed in this location for as long as men had the ships to sail here.

Rules

These rules are important to ensure a fun RP experience.

1. No auto hitting or automatic success. You roll for (almost) everything.

2. After some thinking, I realized there will almost never be a time when everyone is on, so you can roll d20 on your own. I ask that you go by the die result. Generally you need 10 to succeed, and after that is how successful you are. Don't be afraid to fail, it makes for an interesting game.

3. No time skipping without permission.

4. This RP involves progression so please keep track of and update your character's skills, items, and money.

5. Let's avoid arguments. We can resolve issues without hostility.

6. Please post at least once a week.