Thinslayer

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@Dark Cloud
Ooh, that's an interesting-looking dude! Got a new bio for him?

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@Dark Cloud The link doesn't work

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@Dark Cloud's character sheet for approval.

Newt Candlewick

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|| Race: Salamander || Gender: Male ||
|| Personality: Naive, gentle, inquisitive, adventurous and blindly optimistic. ||
|| Goals: Learn everything about magic ||

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Skills/Abilities

Basic Abilities:

• [Active] Prestidigitation [F-Rank]
• [Passive] Bipedal [F-Rank]
• [Passive] Increased Mana [F-Rank]
• [Passive] Magical Aptitude [F-Rank]
• [Passive] Oblivious [F-Rank]

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Past Life

Newt only vaguely recalls something about being very into reading and learning cool magic tricks to show off to people.

@Dark Cloud

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@Enkryption Your character need not be a "villain," just an "antagonist." The antagonist should always be the hero of their own story. My character, the Witch, is actually trying to do the world a favor, but everyone opposes her because they don't understand what she's trying to accomplish and aren't on board with her methods. I'm perfectly happy to play such a character because I feel like she's "heroic" in her own way.

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@Dark Cloud
That's fair. As a co-GM, I'm expecting to have to create the world around the characters, and I endeavor to create a world that's ripe for whatever story the players want to tell. That's more what I mean by "tailoring." But as you pointed out, I may be overthinking it.

What do you think, @Conejitoooo? Since you're the top GM, I'll leave the decision to you.

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@Dark Cloud
I'm gonna be honest, I'm not sure I'm capable of tailoring a story for that kind of character. You'd have to take all the initiative there.

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@Enkryption
I find the antagonistic role appealing because it aligns me against the majority of the cast. I get to have epic PvP fights whenever they try to challenge me. >:)

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@TheFox
Ooh, I just had another plot idea for him, if that's okay?

Considering his character sheet, he may actually have the opposite problem: he may be capable of more heroic things than he thinks he is. As a reincarnation, he possesses more power and potential than just about anybody else in the world, but his timid personality is holding him back. When people are counting on him to do something important, he fails them at a crucial moment because he doesn't think he can do it. So his character arc would involve him learning to find the confidence to accomplish things he is absolutely capable of.

Just some ideas. :3

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Yeah, I change my mind on the whole "grinding for xp" idea

@Conejitoooo

Same. While we probably could create a leveling system that doesn't involve tabletop mechanics, I'm not ready to put in the level of effort that would require. So we'll shelve it for the time being.

Good question. To me he has still much to learn, even though he has the skills to defend himself, there are still things from his past life that hold him back. He realizes he is not the hero of the story like the one he created and perhaps the fear that he might die for real this time. He is still unexperienced.

@TheFox

What if he doesn't realize he's not the hero of the story? At least not immediately, because he may not be aware that there are other reincarnations like him. And that could be an amazing story arc, where he learns that he won't be automatically handed everything on a silver platter just because he reincarnated; he'll have to work to become somebody, just like in the old world, and he'll have to confront the personality flaws he thought he'd left behind in the Old World.

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@TheFox
I like it so far as well. What sort of character arc should we work toward for him? Is he overconfident now and must learn how to temper himself, or is he still the timid boy he once was and needs to learn true confidence? Or did you have something else in mind entirely?