Due to the fact that I had forgotten this earlier, I needed to add this in: Currently, due to everyone hanging around gods and otherworldly things, seeing the various mythical wonders of Nippon are available to the entire party. However, the party's actual Goddess, Mitsurugi, has gained notable red tattoos that cover her body, several going up to her face and around her eyes. 

 

So yeah.

 

Lost Footage is being rebooted as a sort of ship/travel focused game where you play as a band of mercenaries taking jobs from around the multiverse.

Name: (Should be self-evident.)

Age: (Should also be self-evident.)

Gender: (What do you consider yourself? Not the same as your biological sex.)

Sex: (What are you biologically? Not the same as your gender.)

Race: (No, not skin colour. Are you human? Vulcan? Generic Mary Sue half-breed hybrid?)

Appearance: (What do you look like? If you have alternate forms, their appearance should go here. Weapons and stuff are optional.)

Personality: (What are you like?)

 

Merit: A measure of a character’s experience and effort, this value starts at 0, and raises when encounters, worlds, and certain actions are accomplished.

HP: Equal to (Con*2)+20, Plus any additional health from other sources.  This stat represents both Combat Damage, and Exhaustion

Moves: Equal to your Dex, divided by the average dex of this encounter, calculated at the beginning of combat. Minimum 1.

 

Stats: You get (21) stat points to spend. A Stat cannot exceed 8 during Chargen. 2 Points of Merit may be spent to gain 1 additional stat point.

 

Essence: Determines a character’s Willpower, Determination, and Metaphorical Weight in the course of events.  This stat helps determine the results of dramatic situations, and may influence the actions of others.

 

Constitution: Represents overall physical health and vitality. This stat helps determine Health and Physical Endurance.

 

Dexterity: A measure of a character's overall speed, agility, and coordination. This stat helps determine Moves per turn in encounters, and certain forms of damage.

 

Intelligence: Represents how well-educated and generally knowledgeable a character is, as well as mental strength. Governs some forms of magic, and can enable access to special item effects.  The user gains an extra Action Slot every 6 Points of Int.

 

Strength: Raw physical power. High Strength allows the user to subvert some encounters, and utilize special equipment and abilities.

 

Synergy: Raw magical power. Governs many forms of magic (including things not specifically magical, such as ki, aura, etc.) This stat helps determine the strength of Metaphysical abilities at the character’s disposal, and may allow them to subvert some encounters, or activate special equipment and abilities.

 

Perks: Perks are powerful bonuses unique or mostly unique to a character, differentiating them from the rest and often defining part of their nature. They can take many forms, from growing stat boosts to minions which can be summoned at little to no cost to bonus actions and more. Use your imagination; if you can put it into numbers, it can probably be a perk.

 

Each character starts with two perks. One more perk can be 'bought' with a Flaw; essentially a negative Perk. A flaw represents an innate weakness or failing, such as a vulnerability to certain effects and conditions, or a natural weakness in a certain area of expertise.

 

A perk may be purchased or enhanced for 30 points of Merit, or for 20 if the user also takes an additional flaw, or enhances an existing one.  Flaws may be removed for 50 Merit.

 

Example Perks:

 

Swift: The character is naturally much faster than most. +1 DEX per World completed.

 

Hidden Potential: This character has access to their innermost well of strength, When the user would gain strength outside of spending Merit, they gain 1/3 more.

 

Stand Proud: This character can summon a strong spectral entity with unique powers to assist them in combat.

 

Regeneration: This character heals very quickly, regaining 10% HP at the end of each of their turns during an encounter.

 

Evasion: This character dodges incoming attacks from slower or less skilled opponents.  The user may choose to reserve one of their moves to counteract one instance of incoming damage.  Does not apply to Trump Effects.

 

Goals:

 

Something new between this version and DC.  They act sort of like voluntary flaws or challenge limiters that grant special loot or additional Merit when completed, you cannot have more than one at any given time.

You invest Merit into a Goal during a Travel-phase and then attempt to complete a full plot without violating the conditions or limits imposed by it.  If you succeed you get the Merit or loot reward based on the difficulty of the Goal and how much Merit was invested, if you fail the Goal resolves and you get nothing.

Goal difficulty is determined on a character-by-character basis as "No healing" is much more difficult for the main support character than it is for the fighter with no healing abilities.

 

Example Goals:

 

Unstoppable: Fail no Str, Con, or Dex saves/checks during the plot.

 

Fly My Pretties: Get X minion kills.

 

Without a Trace: Complete the plot/Contract goal without it being able to be traced back to the party.

 

Good End: No Civilians were harmed in the completion of the plot.

 

 

Actions: You will take one (possibly more, with buffs) action per Move in combat. Actions can be active, passive, or trumping, and are your primary means of resolving mechanical encounters.

 

An active  is typically an attack, usable skill or a buff/debuff of some variety, with some kind of special quality attached, these can be used on one of the player’s Moves.

 

A passive is most often a conditional or permanent effect which is automatically active, and does not require that a Move be taken.  A Trump ability is, as the name implies, an action which trumps both Passives and Actives.  

 

Trump abilities have some combination of highly specific conditions for activation, cooldowns which are measured in Encounters or Worlds, require multiple moves to initiate, and/or have limited uses per World.  The result is a powerful Action which will supersede most ordinary effects.

 

You get 5 Action Slots and 5 Actions or Action Enhancements to start, which may be divided among Passives, Actives, and Trumping abilities. An additional Action Slot may be purchased for 4 Merit Points, An Action itself may be bought with 2 Merit Points, or an Action may be enhanced with 1 Merit Point.

 

Actions may also be obtained through other methods, such as training, study, or learning it from a teacher, Actions gained in this manner are less effective, and may have a quality, but do not require spending Merit Points to obtain, these actions are marked as (Trick).

 

Example Actives

 

Swipe of Sword: The user attacks, dealing 1d6+Str Damage.

 

Magic Napalm Rainbow: The user sprays a target with glittering crude oil, before igniting them.  Make a contested Syn v Res check, if the target fails, they take (Syn/4)d6 fire damage for 3 turns.

 

Charge Up!!!: The user focuses their energy, gaining +50% Str for 3 turns.

 

Example Passives

 

Deadlift Champ 2016: The user has 50% extra Strength when lifting an object outright, with no overtly extenuating circumstances.

 

Princess of Water: The user has +10% to all stats when underwater.

 

Roiling Hatred Barrier: The user deals 1d4+Syn Damage to things that touch them physically, this can only activate once per Move.

 

Example Trumps

 

Kamehameha: The user charges up a massive energy beam, and then fires it, they must specify an amount of Moves greater than 2, at which point they will fire the attack.  Deal 3Syn damage per each turn this is charged. Once per Encounter cooldown.

 

No… No!: When something deals more than half a character’s health in a single turn, roll Essence verses their Primary Stat, if the User wins, restore all health. Once per World Cooldown

 

(Perk Backed) My Final Hamon!: When the user dies, a chosen ally assimilates their current Syn Stat, and 3 of their Actions permanently.

 

Equipment: Equipment is any item which grants a mechanical effect during an encounter, Objects which do this may take up Action Slots while equipped.  This includes Consumable items, such as Sensu Beans or Healing Pots.

 

Both Equipment and Actions may be swapped around, equipped, or unequipped between Encounters, in addition, it requires one Move to swap One Equipment or Action during an encounter.

 

Reserve: Items or Abilities not equipped or used in encounters that the character possesses, such as currency.

 

Players may start with 3 items of their choosing.

 

Resistance/Damage Reduction: There are two categories of damage types "Parent" and "Child". Damage reduction in one category grants 50% effectiveness in its Parent/Child category(s), Sibling categories do not benefit from this effect. This effect does not stack with itself or any other effects. (For example Slashing has the Child categories of Cutting and Tearing, if you have armor that grants 10 DR vs Slashing/Cutting it will grant 5 DR vs Tearing as an extension of Slashing but it won't boost Cutting to 15 DR.) Any damage dealt must now specify what damage type(s) it carries, this is mandatory.

 

List of damage types:

 

Stats:
 

Mass: Mass is how heavy and sturdy a ship is, all but the smallest or lightest of modules add to this stat and having too much slows down the ship.

 

Power: Power represents the energy keeping your ship moving, be it a combustion engine, a magical reactor, or a glowing crystal.  Anyone that has a high energy draw reduces Power, but adding more engines can increase it.

 

Drive: Drive is the ship’s ability to maneuver and travel with higher values representing faster and more precise movement.  Add jet engines, sails, or other propulsion devices to increase Drive.

 

Firepower:  Firepower represents a ship’s ability to blow the competition out of the proverbial water.  Cannons, lasers, machine guns, and any other weapon increases Firepower and some may interact differently with the enemy’s Armor.

 

Armor: Armor is all about how good your ship is at taking a hit and not giving a shit.  Some types of weapons may be completely stopped by certain armor types, while some may not be affected by them at all.  Add tough materials, energy shields, or other devices to improve Armor.
 

Stock:  Stock represents various infinite or near infinite resources that modules in the ship produce and consume, while it can be almost anything some modules require specific types of stock(A chaingun can’t exactly shoot live rabbits).  Add resource collection to increase Stock.

 

Space: Space is well...space.  It represents how big the ship is and how many modules you can shove into it.  Improve hull size or add space warping to increase Space.

 

 

Movement:

A ship’s Drive-to-Mass ratio determines its movement speed and abilities.

A ship with more(or equal) Drive to Mass has standard speed a maneuverability.  

A ship with twice or more Drive to Mass is exceptionally fast and maneuverable, gaining some benefit to their armor or being flat out impossible to hit.

A ship with negative Drive to Mass can be sluggish or difficult to maneuver and likely isn’t going to be dodging or outpacing another ship any time soon.

A ship with less than half Drive to Mass moves at a snail’s pace with little to no maneuverability to speak of, but it still stands.

A ship with no Drive cannot stay aloft in the presence of gravity and is at the whims of celestial winds, void powers, or anything else that acts upon it.

 

Combat:

When a ship decides to attack another ship it(usually) brings down the full force of all available Firepower(weapons that are supplied, crewed, and can be aimed at the target) on the defending ship with the intent of inflicting Wreckages.

Wreckages reduce the defending ship’s stats in some way, usually by damaging or destroying modules.

A ship can only inflict as many Wreckages as they have weapons(unless specified otherwise) and if the Firepower of the attacking ship is less than the Armor of the defending ship the attacking ship can only inflict Wreckages to Armor modules.

 

 

Other effects:

Some effects commonly increase or reduce a ship’s Armor or Firepower.  Some Armor modules may be more effective against some damage types or completely ineffective against others.(Weapons only ever have Parent damage types.)

 

Some weapons may inflict more than one Wreckage, while other may not inflict any at all.

 

Crew members often have abilities which weight certain Wreckages over others or allow functions such as targeted attacks.

 

Making a targeted attack against specific modules of an enemy ship reduces the attacking ship’s effective Firepower, but also ignores Armor modules that wouldn’t protect the targeted modules(for example the sails on the deck of a ship wouldn’t benefit from the hull Armor bonus during a targeted attack.).

Name:

Age:

Gender:

Sex:

Race:

Appearance:

Personality:

 

Merit: 0

HP:

Moves:

 

Stats:

 

Essence:

 

Constitution:

 

Dexterity:

 

Intelligence:

 

Strength:

 

Synergy:

 

 

Perks:

 

 

Goal:

 

 

Actions:

-Actives

 

 

-Passives

 

 

-Trumps

 

 

Equipment:

 

 

 

Reserve:

Basic System Rundown: Every round, every character in the fight posts one Action per Move they have, and who they're using it on, if applicable. (E.g. Haruka uses Shield Bash on Familiar #3.) Characters can talk, you can describe their actions in detail, etc. Damage is reduced by RES if applicable, and then subtracted from the victim's health. Once every action is submitted, the GM will process them all in the order of initiative, and then the process begins again next round.

 

Initiative: Characters' first Moves will be ordered by their base Dexterity, Plus or Minus any bonuses or Maluses, the remainder of their Moves will be scattered equally in the initiative order below them.  Players may choose to lower the initiative of their Moves, but cannot raise them without special effects.

 

Characters with equal Dexterity will enter a contested roll to see who is the faster.

Summons: There are two types of summon; companions, and minions. Companions don't take an action to summon, and draw all of their stats from their owner, costing a perk to have in the first place. A PC with a companion and one without will have the same overall stat total; the former splits their stats among two entities. Minions will be handled case-by-case.

Standard Statuses:

-Burn: Deals high damage over time, but is reduced by DR.

-Poison: Deals damage over time, ignoring DR.

 

Dropping to Zero Health: This game uses a Wounds system.  By default each character can have up to three Wounds before they die.  Dropping to zero health or otherwise being incapacitated with usually(though not always) result in the character receiving a Wound.  Mechanically a Wound functions as a half-magnitude Flaw chosen by me or the GM of the current plot.  Wounds may be healed with sufficient time investment, fifteen Merit expenditure, or a combination of both.

 

Errata: This kind of system requires a lot of little (and sometimes not-so-little) specifications and adjustments. I'll record them here as they're made.

Nerfs, Buffs: A lot of the time, a character will turn out under- or overpowered. That's okay! We can adjust it on the fly. Be willing to accept that the GM makes mistakes and might have to reduce your character's power to fall in line with others of the same level.

Sheet Maintenance: Players are expected to maintain their own sheets and make changes as the GM recommends. Failure to do so will invite GM action if it becomes an issue.

Bound: Items can be purchased with Merit from time to time, or the player may start with an additional item instead of one of their Starting Abilities.  Items obtained in this manner must have an explanation as to how they came into being, and have the Bound Quality, which prevents them being sold, traded, or destroyed, unless the AP is somehow refunded, or additional Merit is spent to remove this quality.

 

Perk-backed Actions: They have a baseline power level higher than that of normal ones (since Perks are much more limited) and don't cost AP to get, though they do cost AP to level further.

 

Critical Hit Systems: The game has no innate critical hit system. Critical strike abilities are limited to scaling off of DEX or INT, outside of Extenuating circumstances.

 

Over-encumbrance: Players are Encouraged not to overburden their characters with unnecessary resources Items, or Tricks, and, upon request, encounters may be made to help rid them of unwanted items or tricks in return for boons or benefits of some kind.  This only applies to Characters who have an egregious amount of wealth at their disposal, locked up in errata and small highly detailed entities.

-No canon characters. If you -really- want to play a specific character, make an expy; a very similar character from another setting.
-Characters can be drawn from any setting, original or otherwise.
-Don't make Mary Sues; leave room for growth and development besides their numbers.
-If you think a character might be controversial or divisive, talk them over with the GM.

Basically, the premise of the game is this: A bunch of people from a bunch of different universes are pulled together by a cosmic force to kill big nasty monsters. It'll be a mixture of freeform RP and mechanically-based combat. There will be a number of chapters; some primary ones run by myself to advance a greater story arc, and smaller, player-made ones that can be virtually whatever you imagine, with breaks in between for the characters to rest and prepare for the coming battles - as well as getting to know each other. Maybe the heroes heard that a powerful artifact for fighting Trespassers is on a world, and they've got to prove they're worthy of it; maybe one of the PC's homeworlds is at risk of being devoured. It's entirely up to you guys (though I'll still be overseeing them, of course.) 

Name: (Should be self-evident.)

Age: (Should also be self-evident.)

Gender/Sex: (Male? Female? Something in between?)

Race: (No, not skin colour. Are you human? Vulcan? Generic Mary Sue half-breed hybrid?)

Appearance: (What do you look like? If you have alternate forms, their appearance should go here. Weapons and stuff are optional.)

Personality: (What are you like? No need for an essay here, leave room for some character exploration.)

Perks: Powerful, semi-unique bonuses that a character gets, that either give sweeping boosts to overall power or significantly change the way a character operates, among other things such as strong signature attacks. These are very flexible, and allowed to bend the rules more than other things. It is recommended to read through the entire system before picking one. 

Each character starts with two perks, and gains an additional perk every 5 levels. One more perk can be 'bought' with a Flaw; essentially a negative Perk. A flaw represents an innate weakness, such as a vulnerability to a certain kind of damage.

Example Perks:

Swift: Character gains +1 DEX per level.

Power Overwhelming: Character's level is 1.3x higher for all calculations. Does not grant bonus AP or stat points.

Stand Proud: Character has a strong entity that they can summon to aid them in battle.

 

Level: Increased whenever the GM deems it appropriate, generally when reaching plot milestones. New characters start at level 5.

HP: Equal to 30+(Level*CON)

Initiative: Your bonus to initiative, generally DEX minus any penalties you may have.

 

Base Stats: 14 points at base+4 per level. (Formula being [10+Lv*4].) Stat caps are 5+Level*1.5, rounded down. (At level 6, you have 34 stat points and your stats are capped at 12.)

 

Strength: How physically powerful a character is. Some equipment might be heavy, reducing initiative unless the user meets a certain strength score.

 

Dexterity: A general measure of coordination and speed. One of two stats permissible for critical hit chances, and increases character initiative.

 

Intelligence: A general idea of how well-educated and knowledgeable a character is, as well as their ability to manipulate data. The only stat that can be used for both critical hit chances and support abilities.

 

Constitution: How resilient a character is to incoming damage. Determines character health, and is frequently targeted by debuffs.

 

Synergy: Measures power not covered by other stats, such as magical energy or the strength of one's onboard nuclear reactor. Can do anything, but has no particular effects.

 

Actions: Generally speaking, "things characters do." They can be active, passive, or take the form of equipment - more on that later. You get 10 AP to start, and 2 for every level. (Formula is 8+2*Level.) Actions cost 1 AP to create and level. You also start with 5 action slots, and gain one every even level. Additionally, every character can take the "Defend" action unless prevented from acting somehow, reducing incoming damage by 50% after all other calculations. (Does not have initiative, or reduce pure damage.) Action level is capped at two above character level.

 

Examples:

 

Magic Bolt: Deals 2d6+SYN+DEX/2 damage to a single target.

-Level 1: Deal 1d6+SYN damage.

-Level 2: Adds a d6 of damage.

-Level 3: Adds half of the character's Dexterity to the damage.

 

Soothe: Restore 1d4+INT health to a single target and remove two negative statuses from it.

-Level 1: Heal for 1d4 health.

-Level 2: Additionally removes one negative status effect.

-Level 3: Removes an additional status.

 

Rend: Inflicts a bleed that deals DEX/2+3 damage for 2+1d4 turns to a single target.

-Level 1: Inflicts DEX/2 bleeding damage on each of the target's turns, lasting 3 turns.

-Level 2: Increase duration to 2+1d4.

-Level 3: Increases damage by 3.

 

A note on complexity: You can make your effects as convoluted as you want. However, consider this an official establishment of the "tl;dr clause": the GM is not liable for things he forgets to roll on your sheet. Therefore, you are best served by keeping your effects simple and distinct - it's good for my sanity and yours.

 

Equipment and Crafting: Equipment in this game is handled in terms of the action system; a piece of gear goes into your sheet where any other action might, with comparable effects. The main difference is that equipment can be traded between characters, and can only be leveled by crafting and training with it. You can also "craft" actions by training, if your character's not the type to load up on fancy bits of metal and magical trinkets; you can't give these away, obviously, but these "tricks" otherwise function like equipment.

 

Crafting will generally be an opposed check, with your relevant stat(s) being added to your roll and the difficulty being added to the opposing. Degree of success is taken into account as well. When the GM deems it appropriate - generally after reaching critical points in a plot or completing one - everyone in the party will recieve three crafting tokens, which can be used to level up equipment. If the player in question is wholly uninterested in crafting, they may trade all three tokens in for one AP. In the case of cooperative crafting, the token is used up by the recieving character. Tokens will roll over between sessions, but a character cannot exceed 5 available tokens (if they would, they automatically trade three tokens in for AP.) Equipment level is capped in the same way action level is.

 

Each character begins the game with effective craft tokens equal to their level+2, which are to be spent during character generation on creating and leveling equipment.

 

Examples:

 

Iron Plate: A sturdy suit of plate that reduces incoming slashing and piercing damage by 2 points, but reduces the wearer's initiative by 4-STR.

-Base: 1 damage reduction, 5 weight.

-Craft Level: Improved fittings reduce effective weight by 1.

-Craft Level: Better tempering increases damage reduction by 1.

 

Grounding Amulet: A carefully crafted and enchanted pendant that safeguards against electricity.

-Base: 20% reduced damage from electrical attacks only.

 

Claymore: A rather large sword, good for muscling through armor. It deals 3d4+STR damage and ignores three points of damage reduction.

-Base: Deals 1d4+STR damage.

-Craft Level: A sharpened blade improves damage by 1d4.

-Craft Level: An enchantment for increased power improves damage by 1d4.

-Craft Level: Careful weighting allows this weapon to ignore 3 points of damage reduction.

 

Name:
Age:
Gender/Sex:
Race:
Appearance:
Personality:

Level:

HP:
Init:

Stats:
Constitution:
Dexterity:
Intelligence:
Strength:
Synergy:

Perks:

Actions:

Equipment:

Basic System Rundown: Every round, every character in the fight posts one Action and who they're using it on, if applicable. (E.g. Haruka uses Shield Bash on Familiar #3.) Characters can talk, you can describe their actions in detail, etc. Once every action is submitted, the GM will process them all in the order of initiative, and then the process begins again next round.

Summons: Will be handled case-by-case. However, all summons must be perk-backed in some way.
 

Dropping to Zero Health: This game will use an injury system. You can take up to three injuries before you die. Injuries are inflicted only when a character drops to zero (or lower) health. Mechanically, an injury functions as a half-magnitude Flaw that is chosen by me (or the GM of the current plot, which I will then vet.) Healing these injuries may be offered as an alternate reward after completing a plotline, or repaired via sufficient usage of craft tokens.

Errata: This kind of system requires a lot of little (and sometimes not-so-little) specifications and adjustments. I'll record them here as they're made.

Nerfs, Buffs: A lot of the time, a character will turn out under- or overpowered. That's okay! We can adjust it on the fly. Be willing to accept that the GM makes mistakes and might have to reduce your character's power to fall in line with others of the same level.

Sheet Maintenance: Players are expected to maintain their own sheets and make changes as the GM recommends. Failure to do so will invite GM action if it becomes an issue.

 

Perk-backed Actions: They have a baseline power level higher than that of normal ones (since Perks are much more limited) and don't cost AP to get, though they do cost AP to level further. They also come with their own slot.

 

Critical Hit Systems: The game has no innate critical hit system. Critical strike abilities are limited to scaling off of DEX or INT.

 

Over-encumbrance: A character cannot exceed a total INIT penalty of -10; if they would do so, they must unequip gear until they are no longer suffering such a penalty.

 

Buffs and AoE: Damage buffs have halved effects on actions that target more than one enemy.

 

Stuns: Any effect that prevents an enemy from taking its turn entirely (typically referred to as a stun or similar) automatically grants a turn of immunity to other effects of that kind upon ending.

 

Dice Boosts: Effects that boost die size will not raise this size past d12. Effects that increase the number of dice used will not take effect on actions that use dice of greater size than d12s.

-No canon characters. If you -really- want to play a specific character, make an expy; a very similar character from another setting.
-Characters can be drawn from any setting, original or otherwise.
-Don't make Mary Sues; leave room for growth and development besides their numbers.
-If you think a character might be controversial or divisive, talk them over with the GM.

Is this game accepting signups?/Can I add another character?

Signups will never close. As long as you don't do something blatantly stupid/douchey, you'll never be barred from the game. However, secondaries and tertiaries will only be allowed for people who have at least some history of regular activity consisting of good posts. Simply put, if you're not putting in effort on one character, I have no reason to give you another.

I have no idea what's happening and I don't understand the rules.

Join the Discord. I can break it down into a more digestible format, if this doesn't work for you. If you have any questions (that aren't answered here), ask me or one of the other players. Looking at other character sheets, especially the GM ones, is also an excellent way to begin parsing the system (and is highly recommended even if you do, given that this game is balanced strongly on precedent.)

Why are there so many threads?

Individual chapters of main story plots are broken up into multiple threads, for the sake of organization. Most rest/interaction phases are also broken into multiple threads, to make things easier to follow; this game has a lot of characters, 46 at the time of writing this, so spreading them out over four or so threads keeps threads more coherent. If you're confused as to which threads are active at a given moment, ask. 

This character is overpowered.

If you think a part of another character's kit, or a combination of elements in their kit, is overpowered (or underpowered), bring it up in PM or the salt channel. I prefer the latter, but understand some may be uncomfortable with discussing things in public.

My character is too weak and I want to change them.

There is a rule that allows you to move around one AP per level after character creation. However, I generally do not allow total character reworks; there are a lot of resources for you to use during character generation, including outright having someone build the mechanical parts of your character for you. Exceptions will be made to characters that suffer from systemic changes, if and when they are made. 

 

What is Director's Cut? 

 

A side game run by Shadestyle, focusing less on combat and more on exploration and crafting. I recommend checking it out.

 

What about Lost Footage? 

 

A side game run by Stormlord, with less benign protagonists.

A whole bunch of people from different settings are thrown into a zany group of adventurers, with the goal of fixing problems, beating up bad guys, and helping out good guys.

You do this through Roleplay, Mechanical Encounters, Fluffy Encounters, Combat of various types, and both Teaching and Training others and one another, learning new techniques and tactics from the other worlds you visit.  I myself will run Primary Plotlines, while Players have the option of running plots of their own between mine, which can be anything you imagine, and in any setting of your choosing, within reason, with the goal of growing stronger, saving lives, or preparing defenses for the incoming Trespasser invasions, or even, on rare occasion, fighting one wholesale.

 

Combat will happen, but will be supplemented with Exploration, Puzzle Solving, and various other encounters.

 

Name: (Should be self-evident.)

Age: (Should also be self-evident.)

Gender: (What do you consider yourself? Not the same as your biological sex.)

Sex: (What are you biologically? Not the same as your gender.)

Race: (No, not skin colour. Are you human? Vulcan? Generic Mary Sue half-breed hybrid?)

Appearance: (What do you look like? If you have alternate forms, their appearance should go here. Weapons and stuff are optional.)

Personality: (What are you like?)

 

Merit: A measure of a character’s experience and effort, this value starts at 0, and raises when encounters, worlds, and certain actions are accomplished.

HP: Equal to (Con*2)+20, Plus any additional health from other sources.  This stat represents both Combat Damage, and Exhaustion

Moves: Equal to your Dex, divided by the average dex of this encounter, calculated at the beginning of combat. Minimum 1.

 

Stats: You get (21) stat points to spend. A Stat cannot exceed 8 during Chargen. 2 Points of Merit may be spent to gain 1 additional stat point.

 

Essence: Determines a character’s Willpower, Determination, and Metaphorical Weight in the course of events.  This stat helps determine the results of dramatic situations, and may influence the actions of others.

           

Constitution: Represents overall physical health and vitality. This stat helps determine Health and Physical Endurance.

           

Dexterity: A measure of a character's overall speed, agility, and coordination. This stat helps determine Moves per turn in encounters, and certain forms of damage.

           

Intelligence: Represents how well-educated and generally knowledgeable a character is, as well as mental strength. Governs some forms of magic, and can enable access to special item effects.  The user gains an extra Action Slot every 6 Points of Int.

           

Resistance: Measures how resistant a character is to harm. This stat helps determine what forms of damage can affect a character, and how much it affects them.  This is not explicit Numerical Damage Reduction, but certain perks or abilities may use it to generate a form of damage reduction.

           

Strength: Raw physical power. High Strength allows the user to subvert some encounters, and utilize special equipment and abilities.

           

Synergy: Raw magical power. Governs many forms of magic (including things not specifically magical, such as ki, aura, etc.) This stat helps determine the strength of Metaphysical abilities at the character’s disposal, and may allow them to subvert some encounters, or activate special equipment and abilities.

 

Perks: Perks are powerful bonuses unique or mostly unique to a character, differentiating them from the rest and often defining part of their nature. They can take many forms, from growing stat boosts to minions which can be summoned at little to no cost to bonus actions and more. Use your imagination; if you can put it into numbers, it can probably be a perk.

 

Each character starts with two perks. One more perk can be 'bought' with a Flaw; essentially a negative Perk. A flaw represents an innate weakness or failing, such as a vulnerability to certain effects and conditions, or a natural weakness in a certain area of expertise.

 

A perk may be purchased or enhanced for 30 points of Merit, or for 20 if the user also takes an additional flaw, or enhances an existing one.  Flaws may be removed for 50 Merit.

 

Example Perks:

 

Swift: The character is naturally much faster than most. +1 DEX per World completed.

 

Hidden Potential: This character has access to their innermost well of strength, When the user would gain strength outside of spending Merit, they gain 1/3 more.

 

Stand Proud: This character can summon a strong spectral entity with unique powers to assist them in combat.

 

Regeneration: This character heals very quickly, regaining 10% HP at the end of each of their turns during an encounter.

 

Evasion: This character dodges incoming attacks from slower or less skilled opponents.  The user may choose to reserve one of their moves to counteract one instance of incoming damage.  Does not apply to Trump Effects.

 

Actions: You will take one (possibly more, with buffs) action per Move in combat. Actions can be active, passive, or trumping, and are your primary means of resolving mechanical encounters.

 

An active  is typically an attack, usable skill or a buff/debuff of some variety, with some kind of special quality attached, these can be used on one of the player’s Moves.

 

A passive is most often a conditional or permanent effect which is automatically active, and does not require that a Move be taken.  A Trump ability is, as the name implies, an action which trumps both Passives and Actives.  

 

Trump abilities have some combination of highly specific conditions for activation, cooldowns which are measured in Encounters or Worlds, require multiple moves to initiate, and/or have limited uses per World.  The result is a powerful Action which will supersede most ordinary effects.

 

You get 5 Action Slots and 5 Actions or Action Enhancements to start, which may be divided among Passives, Actives, and Trumping abilities. An additional Action Slot may be purchased for 4 Merit Points, An Action itself may be bought with 2 Merit Points, or an Action may be enhanced with 1 Merit Point.

 

Actions may also be obtained through other methods, such as training, study, or learning it from a teacher, Actions gained in this manner are less effective, and may have a quality, but do not require spending Merit Points to obtain, these actions are marked as (Trick).

 

Example Actives

 

Swipe of Sword: The user attacks, dealing 1d6+Str Damage.

 

Magic Napalm Rainbow: The user sprays a target with glittering crude oil, before igniting them.  Make a contested Syn v Res check, if the target fails, they take (Syn/4)d6 fire damage for 3 turns.

 

Charge Up!!!: The user focuses their energy, gaining +50% Str for 3 turns.

 

Example Passives

 

Deadlift Champ 2016: The user has 50% extra Strength when lifting an object outright, with no overtly extenuating circumstances.

 

Princess of Water: The user has +10% to all stats when underwater.

 

Roiling Hatred Barrier: The user deals 1d4+Syn Damage to things that touch them physically, this can only activate once per Move.

 

Example Trumps

 

Kamehameha: The user charges up a massive energy beam, and then fires it, they must specify an amount of Moves greater than 2, at which point they will fire the attack.  Deal 3Syn damage per each turn this is charged. Once per Encounter cooldown.

 

No… No!: When something deals more than half a character’s health in a single turn, roll Essence verses their Primary Stat, if the User wins, restore all health. Once per World Cooldown

 

(Perk Backed) My Final Hamon!: When the user dies, a chosen ally assimilates their current Syn Stat, and 3 of their Actions permanently.

 

Equipment: Equipment is any item which grants a mechanical effect during an encounter, Objects which do this may take up Action Slots while equipped.  This includes Consumable items, such as Sensu Beans or Healing Pots.

 

Both Equipment and Actions may be swapped around, equipped, or unequipped between Encounters, in addition, it requires one Move to swap One Equipment or Action during an encounter.

 

Reserve: Items or Abilities not equipped or used in encounters that the character possesses, such as currency.

 

Players may start with 3 items of their choosing.

Name:

Age:

Gender:

Sex:

Race:

Appearance:

Personality:

 

Merit: 0

HP:

Moves:

 

Stats:

 

Essence:

 

Constitution:

 

Dexterity:

 

Intelligence:

 

Resistance:

 

Strength:

 

Synergy:

 

Perks:

 

 

 

Actions:

-Actives

 

 

-Passives

 

 

-Trumps

 

 

Equipment:

 

 

 

Reserve:

Basic System Rundown: Every round, every character in the fight posts one Action per Move they have, and who they're using it on, if applicable. (E.g. Haruka uses Shield Bash on Familiar #3.) Characters can talk, you can describe their actions in detail, etc. Damage is reduced by RES if applicable, and then subtracted from the victim's health. Once every action is submitted, the GM will process them all in the order of initiative, and then the process begins again next round.

 

Initiative: Characters' first Moves will be ordered by their base Dexterity, Plus or Minus any bonuses or Maluses, the remainder of their Moves will be scattered equally in the initiative order below them.  Players may choose to lower the initiative of their Moves, but cannot raise them without special effects.

 

Characters with equal Dexterity will enter a contested roll to see who is the faster.

Summons: There are two types of summon; companions, and minions. Companions don't take an action to summon, and draw all of their stats from their owner, costing a perk to have in the first place. A PC with a companion and one without will have the same overall stat total; the former splits their stats among two entities. Minions will be handled case-by-case.

Standard Statuses:

-Burn: Deals high damage over time, but is reduced by RES.

-Poison: Deals damage over time, ignoring RES.

 

Dropping to Zero Health: This game will use an injury system. You can take up to three injuries before you die. Injuries are inflicted only when a character drops to zero (or lower) health. Mechanically, an injury functions as a Flaw that is chosen by me (or the GM of the current plot, which I will then vet.) Healing these injuries may be offered as an alternate reward after completing a plotline.

Errata: This kind of system requires a lot of little (and sometimes not-so-little) specifications and adjustments. I'll record them here as they're made.

Nerfs, Buffs: A lot of the time, a character will turn out under- or overpowered. That's okay! We can adjust it on the fly. Be willing to accept that the GM makes mistakes and might have to reduce your character's power to fall in line with others of the same level.

Sheet Maintenance: Players are expected to maintain their own sheets and make changes as the GM recommends. Failure to do so will invite GM action if it becomes an issue.

Bound: Items can be purchased with Merit from time to time, or the player may start with an additional item instead of one of their Starting Abilities.  Items obtained in this manner must have an explanation as to how they came into being, and have the Bound Quality, which prevents them being sold, traded, or destroyed, unless the AP is somehow refunded, or additional Merit is spent to remove this quality.

 

Perk-backed Actions: They have a baseline power level higher than that of normal ones (since Perks are much more limited) and don't cost AP to get, though they do cost AP to level further.

 

Critical Hit Systems: The game has no innate critical hit system. Critical strike abilities are limited to scaling off of DEX or INT, outside of Extenuating circumstances.

 

Over-encumbrance: Players are Encouraged not to overburden their characters with unnecessary resources Items, or Tricks, and, upon request, encounters may be made to help rid them of unwanted items or tricks in return for boons or benefits of some kind.  This only applies to Characters who have an egregious amount of wealth at their disposal, locked up in errata and small highly detailed entities.

-No canon characters. If you -really- want to play a specific character, make an expy; a very similar character from another setting.
-Characters can be drawn from any setting, original or otherwise.
-Don't make Mary Sues; leave room for growth and development besides their numbers.
-If you think a character might be controversial or divisive, talk them over with the GM.

Earlier...

 

"Kar, are you sure that this information can be trusted? Every second we spend following this clue is one that could be used to keep looking for Dove."

 

"Not completely. But, it's extremely detailed, is it not? More so than any of the tips we've gathered. And besides, it's been four months since the operation began. We've chased this foolish bird all across Serbia, and a lot of things have happened to Grifon while we were away. The least we could do is bring back more good news to cheer everyone else up as soon as possible."

 

"Understood."

 

"Then... Girls, let's get to work."

Name: What’s your name in full, as well as what you’d prefer to be called during your contracting period.

 

Gender: We are an equal opportunity employer, but certain jobs may require this information.

 

Age: We require your age and birth date to better understand what procedures you can undergo.

Appearance: Tell us what you look like, any distinguishing marks you may like to keep, stuff like that. 

 

Are you missing any parts: I.E. arms, legs, organs, stuff like that. We’ll cover this during the examination of course but this allows us to better prepare.

 

Any other Medical History we should know about?: Again, this will be covered in your examination but filling this out as completely as possible allows us to better prepare for your procedure.

 

Why have you come in for the procedure?: What lead you to choosing a contract with us? This will be used by the marketing team to find more volunteers.

 

Anything else in your history we should know about?: Home situation that may set you apart, criminal record, military service, ect.

 

How would you describe your personality?: Please don’t use star signs, MBTI results ect.

 

Where do you see yourself in Five years.: Please only give serious answers, this will help us get an idea about your goals.

 

 

 

Hit Points: Equal to your total stat points.

 

Stats: You have 4 points to spend between the stats. These points are spent to use Keywords in encounters.

 

Power: Your more mystical abilities, from generic mage craft to chakra for Jutsus.

 

Tricks: Intelligence based abilities, whether you already prepared an antidote to the poison, know how to make one off the top of your head, or replaced the poison with an IOU

 

Strength: Your Physical abilities, how strong you are, how good your constitution is, and how fast you are.

 

Heart: Your willpower, How well you can do the impossible, beat the invincible and such.