Generic Fantasy Roleplay Knowledge Thread

[Gentleman Vaultboy]

How are you measuring time? Considering that combat rounds are 6 seconds...

[Tsubasa & Wen Tien]

Class: Blade Dancer
Resource: Chi
1. Dual-Wielding: Can fight with two weapons at once, upgrades to Triple at Lv 6, Quadruple at Lv 10, Quintuple at Lv 15, and Hextuple at Lv 20. All blades beyond the first 3 hover telekinetically around the Blade Dancer
2. Shimmering Blades: The Blade Dancer's blades seem to shimmer and vibrate from place to place, allows Blade Dancer to strike twice for each normal attack
3. Blade Appraisal: Can determine the durability, sharpness, and make of a blade. At Level 10, can determine any supernatural abilities a blade has
4. Chi Blade: Can create a blade from chi for fighting, disappears if it leaves Blade Dancer's hand
5. Chi Amplification: Channels chi into blade to increase damage and cutting power, Results in normal blades being damaged beyond repair
6. Dancer's Grace: Raises speed and dexterity for a few minutes
7.  Dance of Death: Temporary speed boost for 1 minute after defeating a foe
8. Wall of Blades: Removes offensive ability to create a barrier of blades around Blade Dancer
9. Dance of Winter: Can fight without being affected by the cold
    Dance of Spring: Can put a layer of chi onto the Blade Dancer's skin to increase defensive power
    Dance of Summer: Can walk through fire unharmed
    Dance of Autumn: Dexterity goes up, can swing blades fast enough to create a shock wave
10. Dance of Blades: Skill with blades goes up, speed and reflexes increase for duration of 2 minutes
11. Hypnotic Dance: Chance of putting to sleep those who watch the dance
12. Ribbon Dance: The Blade Dancer's blades all become conected to her by ribbons of chi. The blades become intangible to each other for use of several blades at once without getting in the way of each other
13. Dance of the Spectre: Blade Dancer slightly hovers over the terrain increasing movement, allows walking on water andhovering in midair
14.Daner's Finesse: Blade Dancer can reposition a foe upon landing a major hit on them due to skill at movement
15. Tiring Dance: Blade Dancer's physical limitations not taken into account when dancing, May result in damage to own body or fatigue
16. Unending Dance: Can use the effects of two dances simultaneously
17. World of Blades: Blade Dancer's blades multiply and hover around her in a ring for 2 min, allows attacking and parrying in multiple directions
18. Legendary Blade: The Blade Dancer can pull a single blade out of the earth to use for a short period
19. Avatar of Blades and Dancing: Cost to use skills is halved for 5 minutes, but goes up to 150% for 1 day
20. Dance of Infinite Blades: All boosts from Dance of Blades, can also generate an infinite number of blades of chi for 2 minutes

[Tsubasa & Wen Tien]

I have absolutely no idea.

[Gentleman Vaultboy]

Maybe just limit the number of times you can use it per battle.

[Tsubasa & Wen Tien]

Do you have suggestions for that then? I would love to hear them.

[Gentleman Vaultboy]

Well, the weaker abilities in general would have more uses, while the higher level ones would have less. I can't think of any number specifically, especially for combat abilities.

[Tsubasa & Wen Tien]

Ok, I'll have to work on that then.

[Celadon's Penultimate]

Sounds good to me.

[Celadon's Penultimate]

As in... "And our merry band of travelers would live to have very many more amazing and breathtaking adventures. The End."

[Celadon's Penultimate]

Um, well, technically, it's more like a voluntary Precognition/Postcognition. And since the ability would come later along, she'd already have the ability to maintain consciousness while she astral-projects, and so, she'd really just need to take cover as her visions come.

However, I can be convinced to get rid of the ability.

[Gentleman Vaultboy]

I say keep it. It would be a useful ability to have and Zale would be the one describing everything that you see.

Though, can I convince you to keep your visions confined to a singe post? a quick "There and back" trip.

[Celadon's Penultimate]

Gladly.

I know I have a habit of belting out humongo-posts when I get around to writing, but I think that should be a fairly quick and simple post to make.

Especially since it's actually a vision-based ability, rather than true Time Travel.

[Philote]

Alright, but another thing to consider, is that what you really want for your highest tier ability?

[Celadon's Penultimate]

I couldn't think of anything better at the time, but I think that I have a fairly useful repertoire of powers befitting a spirit medium...

[Tsubasa & Wen Tien]

Yes, that you do.

@Everyone: I just realized that I can have Matsuri in NB utilize any of the classes in this thread with her RPG Class power. I can playtest any of the classes and utilize them to their full potential.

[Celadon's Penultimate]

How you use them is up to you.

[Zaleramancer]

By level twenty, you guys would be world-renowned heroes. People will whisper as you walk past, asking each other if you were the people who vanquished X or saved the town of X from rampaging Xes.

The fights would escalate with the level, you guys get more powerful and go on more difficult quests with more threatening monsters.

I'd probably cap this off at the end a bit after level twenty. Ideally, you'd level up just before some big, final villain appeared. A Sorcerer who wants to summon a demon horde to take over the world, or a King poised on causing several kingdoms to collapse... something that could change the very face of the campaign world.

And guess who would go fix it?

After that, you guys could detail your characters doing whatever you like. By the time you hit 16-17~ you'll probably be able to have enough fans to establish your own keep, or tower, or gourmet cooking school or whatever.

Then, we can wrap things up, and decide what to do next. I expect that if you guys really, really want to go to twenty (Which would take awhile) then we would probably just be happily finished with it.

Of course, if we ever wanted to try it again, we could skip a few decades or so forward and start with new characters.. in a world where your old ones are part of the myth and folklore. Wouldn't that be neat?

[Celadon's Penultimate]

Yes, yes it would.

Mmkay, gotcha, I was just wondering. Thanks.

[Tsubasa & Wen Tien]

Tank you!
I'm just glad that none of these RPs are RTS combat sims or driving games. I'm abysmal at both.

[Celadon's Penultimate]

We don't need those kind right now, anyway. I doubt any of us are such driving aficionados that we could do them adequately.