Savo

World Warriors: The Nomadic Fist [A Quirky Fighting Game Inspired Roleplay Reboot]

@Savo so If I wanted to make a character who say... is an insane man with a cesspool of diseases and poisons, and has fused himself with various insectoid mutations with the goal of corrupting and destroying every last “perfect hero”, could I “hypothetically” do that?

@Rebirth

You could, you could. Just play him well and try give him a good reason as to why he would want to destroy every last perfect hero in the world. Trust me, anything goes for the most part, like, almost anything ridiculous you can think of. Get your creative juices flowing, but try not to go overboard for the most part :P

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@Savo
This may be a dumb question, but is being a bad guy an option?

@Darkmoon Angel

Aye, making villains is an option for your charys if you wanted to go that route.

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@Dead Cruiser looking at a couple of things though, it doesn't add up that she has never fought a nomad before. Here's a brief excerpt from the Nomads and Ki section.

"The nomad has become a staple of global pop culture in the last century or so. he name 'nomad' refers to a wandering warrior with fantastical powers, a vagabond who, for one reason or another, travels the world seeking new fights and new challenges. They have epic showdowns, they participate in international martial arts tournaments, and they are features in movies, TV shows, and airport paperbacks. On Earth, there are superheroes, and supersoldiers, and ki-wielding doctors, but none of them have quite captured the public eye (or been as heavily commercialized) as the nomad."

And a part of your backstory.

"As a result, Makoto was a somewhat rebellious youth. She enjoyed gambling and other mild delinquent behavior, often skipped classes, and spent her weekends in nearby cities trying to pick fights with tough-looking passerby."

If she went to nearby cities, wouldn't she have known about these martial arts tournaments and all these amazing and wacky fighters? Wouldn't she try to search for a nomad to fight? Regardless, until I see a revision on her fighting style, moveset, and weaknesses, I'm going to have to reject Makoto for now.

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@Lmpkio no problem, but to correct something small... you mentioned if there was a fire type nomad by him he could switch elements. I would say it's more like he tricks them into lighting up the environment with their fire in any way possible, through leading their attacks to certain items (i.e. something like a large puddle of oil) and so on. Also, I will say the reason I said Earth was default is because he could pretty easily access it in most environments.

Regardless, that's all I wanted to say, but glad I could help out.

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Will get to the rest later, midst of class.

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Well, I've narrowed my character down to three choices. A good, homegrown Christian guy gets possessed by a demon and gets slightly corrupted by it... while slightly corrupting the demon in turn and leaving the both of them in a cesspool of conflicting emotions. Then we have the Steam Punk, a hero in a miraculous suit of armor who became fairly well known during the Victorian Era before disappearing for over a century in a half and making a comeback within the last couple of years. Finally, we have the last guy, who is armed with an alien battle suit and no idea how to use it properly a la "The Greatest American Hero".

I'm having some trouble deciding on which to settle on.

@Pathfinder

You can always make all three of them if you can handle them all as they all sound like interesting ideas at the moment. If you do have some difficulty, go with the one you like the most or the one you think you can get the most interesting concepts out of. Either that or plus em into a random number generator and decide who to choose that way :P

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I don't believe you've told us the exact date on when the RP is taking place. Give me a solid year and I'll edit that portion quickly. I can otherwise make it vague if you so want.

@Lmpkio

It's around 20XX, probably leaning more towards 201X. All I can say is it's better to leave it vague imo. This one is an easy fix.

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What might you suggest here? Should I get rid of the ranged attacks and make them more melee based? I want him to have such powers of elemental manipulation and even then I could've added more in (like ice, lightning, etc), but of course that would've been overkill.

@Lmpkio

I was thinking that you don't have to change it all since you're going for versatility, heck the character makes me think of the shotoclone archetype in fighting games to a certain degree. And I'm going to run with what you have with a few mild tweaks.

E.g. your character can have access to all your elemental abilities listed now, but not at the same time.

Your character could be focused on the environment at hand, using that to temper what element he imbues his attacks with from the start, maybe having him in a default state of Earth? He keeps the element until he changes it, i.e. through some sort of special move that has him focus on the environment around him to "understand" it or something. This allows him to change elements. For example, on a rainy day or by a body of water, he could focus and change it to the water element. On a sunny day or in the midst of a fire or place that is pretty dang hot, he could focus and blam, fire element.

You catch my drift, right? While this is situational, it would be up to your character to manipulate the environment and possibly other nomads to his advantage to set up a way so that he can switch elements. Moreover, instead of giving him slashes with different elements, he can have one slash with multiple elements attached on to it.

And he can keep the ranged attacks if he goes the shotoclone route as well. Another thing to make it unique is that certain aspects of him are bolstered and weakened. Fire would boost his attack but lower his defense, water would boost his defense but lower his speed, and air would boost his speed but lower his attack. Since earth is his default, he would be a jack of the all trades but master of none.

I feel this would improve your character, and not only that, it addresses the final issue I have below of involving weaknesses.

There's not much else for me to say there. I mean, at least I don't think there is. I could add in the whole reptilian cold-blooded physic, in which he produces more sloppily in colder environments, or is weaker in cold environments, but even then that would be considered as situational.

@Lmpkio

I mean, it's ok to point out things like that (i.e. bad at fighting in the cold), but don't point out the obvious if it isn't necessary. Involve things with your fighting and psychological. You got it down to a certain extent, but I feel it could be improved through the methods explained above. If your want an example of a shotoclone sort of dude and their weaknesses, I recommend you check out this link and look at the character named Justin Haggar.

roleplayerguild.com/posts/4141151

That's all hope this helps and I hope I did not drastically deviate from what you wanted with your lizard wizard.

"All of you guys"

*Cries*
Forgot about me xD

@Bartimaeus

You aren't apart of the collective confirmed, gtfo now or assimilate :^)

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So, will our characters be on their own separate journeys, or will we have the chance to travel with others?

@Darkmoon Angel

We will have the chance to travel with others, so your character won't get lonely very fast... heck, maybe she might make a few friends, god knows she could need a few in this strange world.

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Sorry for taking way too friggin' long to get a response to all of you guys; was between working on some portions of the ooc and some of my thoughts on your characters, as well as my third new character... and college work... yeeeeeaaaah... Regardless, let me put up what I currently have for a few of you people! And by few, I mean like, just two.

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@Lmpkio, so far the appearance and personality seem par for the course when looking at him. A minor thing to note comes over when he was born. Could you possibly change it to be vague in that retrospect so we don't have the set date be like 2008 or something? Like say he was born around the time in the Qing Dynasty's decline? I do want to give more leeway to when this whole story kicks off as well, so that's me. Other than that, your story checks out... but moving on to your characters moves.

You might of gone overboard with him. He has average elemental attacks here and there that can cover for a variety of different situations while still being pretty strong. For the most part, he doesn't seem to have much flow with his kit. He can effectively rush anyone down just as easily as harassing them at range with a couple of his attacks. Along with that he has a couple of moves that either buff his speed or defense with the main downside of this is when he uses his abilities in extreme environments which comes off as super situational. Along with that, it doesn't even matter if he loses access as other attacks will become empowered in the process. He sacrifices a little bit of versatility for a much stronger attack.

Or maybe two attacks become stronger with the same cost as the one stated above. Currently don't see anything wrong with his supers right now.

Also, the final portion of weakness is a bit... meh. Powerful magic wielders can also defeat other peoples characters and heavy gun weaponry can cause harm to characters as well. Also, most of our cast is mortal too, so yeah, the final portion of his weaknesses basically can apply to almost everyone else.

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@Dead Cruiser, parodic and over the top is fine, I could handle that.

The problem is she's too op. Like ridiculously op to the point where dramatic stakes become dramatic steaks with a side of ham... let me do my best to break down the OPG and why I cannot accept her in this state.

Unskilled but strong. I feel that's what comes up with this character, but there is literally no point to it at all. I'm pretty sure that none of the characters, let alone some of the bosses could match her strength, defense, or speed in battle. She seems to probably come off as a god in some of these cases with the only way to match her is to have her strength, speed, and defense.

You pointed out some of her weaknesses. Here's why they don't matter at all. You said she's inexperienced and just prefers to brute force her way through it all. You've even gone as far as to proclaim she is a superb martial artists as well which I feel undercuts what you're trying to describe. Defense being a concern doesn't matter since you already described her to have an impossible defense, with retreating being a legitimately silly notion since she can just blitz a person down and instantly punch them since her speed and strength are cranked up to the max.

Moving on to her endurance, you say she has a good amount of it by human standards and that using her strength is extremely taxing. Your character can nuke or one-shot someone before tiring out, so this downside is meaningless in the spectrum of things. Even you also shoot this weakness yourself.

Given that she has only rarely had a battle that lasts longer than a single strike, Makoto is completely oblivious to this weakness.

@Dead Cruiser

And more over, you said an experienced fighter can dodge, deflect, or endure her attacks. Problem. She has been described as having god-like speed and ends battles in a single strike. How can an experienced fighter dodge her if she's the fastest, deflect her if she is the strongest, or endure her strike if she ends things in one blow?

Moreover, back to the dramatic stakes. Everything would be downplayed with this chick and everything to a certain degree would be solved with her completely obliterating other opponents. Everyone fighting against a difficult enemy? Step on in and downplay everything they're doing by punching it once. Do what they couldn't do in one strike. Along with that, the tone of the rp would very quickly shift as well, probably the genre of it all, possibly making the wacky fighters more than just an afterthought at this point.

In a nutshell, she needs to be completely redone.

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And that's all I got for now. Gonna go grab a bite or something before I get back to this all.

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This is going to get a bit busy with the four newest characters on the block; give me a bit, I'll try to get to them all @Lmpkio@Dead Cruiser@Valor@Bartimaeus, just let me get my utensils and put them all on the chopping block!

In other news, @Megsychan is the chick who did make Yeong-suk, a character mentioned in the op, along with wxp for Ivory and lavul for Rosie! Time to see how the new clashes with the old, aye?

@DracoLunaris well, take your time for now; we have another person who is working on their three charys in the shadows for now. I will state we are getting the ooc up tomorrow or on Wednesday, so if you feel comfortable then with all the info down, then we're cool with that.

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@Savo@KaiserElectric@redbaron1234
Sweet, so she's in?

@Darkmoon Angel

Aye, you've got the stamp of approval from each of us. Unless you feel like changing anything, she's good to go for now.

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Swearing? In MY good christian RP?

@wxps350

Shush you. Don't make me have the big bad One come back and abuse Calvin in a not so nice area with his walking stick :^)