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STATUS: @Ampersand: The Shin Megami Tensei series is a darker Pokemon in many ways, though they tell very different stories. And there's probably lots of monster gacha-games with darker settings. 2 days ago
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2 days ago
Current @Ampersand: The Shin Megami Tensei series is a darker Pokemon in many ways, though they tell very different stories. And there's probably lots of monster gacha-games with darker settings.
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10 days ago
@Elite Minor: If you want other people to see it/give feedback/etc, you could try The Gallery forum in the Off Topic section. If it's just storage then I'd second PMs to your own profile.
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18 days ago
@Krasnaya: Try journaling in private, or saying your thoughts out loud under a hot shower. It's the expression of our feelings in more tangible form, not necessarily having an audience, that helps.
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25 days ago
Phew, novel outline done. Now to tally how many characters I'll need, based on outline roles. Protag, Antag, yep, lackeys, support cast...Okay so in total I need to fill out--EIGHTY CHARACTER SHEETS?!
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1 mo ago
@Kuro: Congrats, you've received the "Fully Developed Frontal Lobe" DLC!
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On CST time, United States. Typically busy most of the week and do most posting/replying on weekends.

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In The Little Hamlet → 1 yr ago Forum: Casual Roleplay
@MaeGoh's CS, info about the added skills, and his musings about other characters have been added to the appropriate tab! Let me know if any revisions to format, etc need to be made.

Are the small icons behind his house meant to be his animal snares? Wouldn't those go in the forests?
In The Little Hamlet → 1 yr ago Forum: Casual Roleplay



In The Little Hamlet → 1 yr ago Forum: Casual Roleplay
@Theyra@Dark Cloud The entire town is just empty, flat ground save for like, the well and the inn, and all the other houses are spread out like a mushroom fairy ring cause no one wants to live away from the "outskirts" XD
In Why Were We Reincarnated as Orcs?! → 1 yr ago Forum: Casual Roleplay
I have most of a post written up, but if anyone else would like to shoot a reply in there, go ahead! I'll give it a little more time before the update.

Also, I have some time off from work this week, so I may be able to get a midweek update in as well. But I want to be sure others aren't left behind and we don't end up with a timeline discrepancy between groups.
In The Little Hamlet → 1 yr ago Forum: Casual Roleplay
Speaking of connections, how bout we forge dem connections while we all wait in the meantime?


This is what I've got so far. I took some liberties with worldbuilding here and there, so everyone--especially @Mae--feel free to veto or correct anything I've written out.



In The Little Hamlet → 1 yr ago Forum: Casual Roleplay
@Zeroth I'm imagining Old Man Goh's house might be close to the Smithy so he gets some residual heat in the part of the house closest.. but maybe not. purely curious, does he like to grab his meals at the inn or cook for himself at home? I can imagine him enjoying the slow life and he might know Ingrid as well.

Accepted! Happy to have some kids running around town too. Skill lists we can develop together, I'm trying to keep the syntax consistent for referencing during the RP more then anything. Feel free to add anything you think is missing. 'Dangersense - Protect Ward' is ward as in student. If the kids were in trouble nearby, he'd know.

Slash Resistance II
Blunt Resistance I
Cold Resistance I
Passive: Dangersense - Killing Intent
Passive: Dangersense - Protect Ward
Inert Magic - Killer Glare
Swordsmanship (Precise)
Wayfaring - Plains
Fishing
Swimming
Crafting - Trapmaking
Trapping
Jack of Trades: Odd Jobs
Training: Swordsmanship
Leadership
Detect Deception
Detect Intent
Sneak


Being close to the smithy would be fine--he'd probably enjoy wandering over there to admire the craftsmanship from time to time. He would cook for himself, though it would be very basic: Rabbit caught fresh from a snare trap, some wild onions and herbs plucked on a walk, and some dry rice from a big sack he keeps in storage all thrown into a boiling pot, that kind of thing. Self-sufficient stuff you'd expect someone used to roughing it to eat.

I think he'd know Ingrid, and given that the idea was that he'd been in the village for perhaps 5-7 years, I was going to do a little write up to add to his character sheet that was basically his "first impressions" of most other characters and NPCs.

Would the following proposal be suitable for Skills? Feel free to change any names:

First Aid: Self (He knows how to stitch and bandage himself up, disinfect his own wounds, reset his own bones, etc, but he's not a trained doctor or experienced in treating other people like Nibby)

Passive: Identify - Technique (The ability to understand--not copy--someone else's combat skills, for instance if he saw Rallis at target practice he'd deduce something like "Hm. He crouches low and aims through the target, instead of launching the arrow up and over. He's a game archer, then, not a soldier." Or he might recognize that someone's a student of a prominent sword style just by the stance they take up.)

Inert Skill: Instant Movement (High speed, no telegraph, multiple directions, greater distance)

  • Inert Skill: Blink Step (High speed, no telegraph, one direction, medium distance)

    • Active: Quick Step (High Speed, telegraphed, one direction, short distance)


Essentially, the above would be your generic "move real fast" technique any good swordsman should have. Quick Step just covers about 2 meters, but if one knows what to look for they could predict it and it basically moves in a straight line. Blink Step is where it gets to "flicker out of sight" levels because it uses the enemy's blindspot, and Instant Movement just improves on the whole package while being usable from any bodily position, such as standing still, without giving the movement away.
In Home is where the Hearth is [Closed] → 1 yr ago Forum: Casual Interest Checks
@Zeroth I think story beat wise that'd fit in really well. Would you be willing to fit in having some sort of curse or wound from his last battle that butchered some of his high tier skills? A seasoned veteran should definitely start with some upgraded skills if his specialty. But I don't want a vastly different power level if it might tilt the balance too much. I think it'd be fun for his resistances to stay intact so we could do the tropes of the old man thing out to be a bit of a beast when he does need to be. And also his key weapon skill. But there would be a reason why he doesn't have access to some abilities he might of picked up...although if you prefer, we could instead say it's his ages that's made him rusty. Of course he can develop as oyu like through the roleplay either way.

Also yeah - the warzone is far to the south and won't affect the story, but it gives an opportunity for people to want to travel here and join the village. Any dangerous dungeons would have reasons to be sealed and people would have to go out of their way to find them.


My thoughts on progression were definitely along the lines of: For everyone else, they're growing and getting stronger. For him, it's more like "shaking the rust off." Rather than a curse or wound, though, a big limiter on his abilities aside from his actual age getting in the way would be his own sheer stubbornness--he really never wants to take another life again if he can at all help it, and he wouldn't even be willing to fight in self-defense or for his own honor in a large number of cases. Something like stopping an angry boar or cutting off fish heads wouldn't bother him, but he'd go pretty far out of his way to avoid violence as long as there wasn't someone else who needed his help--and in that case, it's easier to grab the dumb kid or whoever got themselves into trouble and drag them away than it is for him to actually inflict harm on someone again. If it were just him, and somebody wanted to kill him...he might just stand there, honestly.

Also, if it helps at all, I hadn't envisioned him having many magic-oriented skills aside from, maybe, some representation of "Murderous Intent that inflicts Fear status". If something like "Dynamic Vision: Able to see and track fast moving objects" counts as magic rather than something that could be trained, maybe some of those would be there, but no like "Enchant weapon with an element/Shoot a sword beam while screaming the move's name/Create shadow clone" type abilities. His whole deal is cutting--to the point that he could probably actually serve a secondary purpose to the village as a surgeon, if the need required it, because he's mastered not "swordsmanship" on its own, but the concept of "dividing substance using a sharp edge."

Maybe you could represent the degeneration of age by having "higher level" versions of skills with a strikethrough, and the lower level versions of them that are still usable until he "gets back into shape?" Some of them might have "degraded" multiple times, even, or it might not be a question of physical ability, but mental state--like maybe that "Murderous Intent" move from before isn't usable to the same extent anymore cause he doesn't have enough hatred in his heart anymore.
In The Little Hamlet → 1 yr ago Forum: Casual Roleplay
Hello all! Since the GM like'd my question regarding my character in the interest check, I assumed that was go-ahead to post the CS draft? Let me know if there are any issues that need to be fixed!



In Home is where the Hearth is [Closed] → 1 yr ago Forum: Casual Interest Checks
@Timemaster Hm, not so much the flavor of a former commander retiring from the armies. More of an individual who once sought mastery of the blade, and did a lot of things he's no longer proud of in the name of perfecting his craft...only to eventually question whether everything he'd devoted his entire life to, and everything it cost, ever had any real meaning in the first place. And after retiring to the hamlet he struggles to decide if he's doing the right thing by taking on students, hoping that none of them will take the same path he did.
In Home is where the Hearth is [Closed] → 1 yr ago Forum: Casual Interest Checks
@Mae Tentatively interested, depending on some questions.

It definitely seems like this RP is meant to be a "starter" tale, where the mostly innocent and inexperienced PCs will slowly build up their skills and their quaint village into something more fantastic. It also doesn't strike me as something where war, dungeons, vicious orc hordes, etc might be around every corner, but maybe that's just me getting the SoL vibe. So with that said, would you be opposed to having a character who's at the "end" of their story rather than the "start?" Someone who's already had a lot of experiences, even if he's unwilling to share them most of the time?

Specifically, an old (and I mean actually old, not an elf who's been around 200 years or anything to justify them still being youthful and spry) swordsman who, after spending most of his life fighting for one reason or another, retired to the hamlet? Becoming something of a simple self defense teacher who will half-heartedly entertain any child who dreams of becoming the "chosen hero," yet he prefers to simply sit under his favorite shade tree and sip tea?
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