Generic Fantasy Roleplay Knowledge Thread

[Tsubasa & Wen Tien]

FINISHED V1.0

Class: Shinigami
Shinigami are the souls of the deceased with a high aptitude for spiritual powers and are given the opportunity of training to aid other souls that may be targeted by evil souls. Shinigami travel around for the sake of fulfilling their quota of souls sent to the afterlife.
Skills:
1. Reaper Scythe: Weapon
2. Shinigami Abilities: A Shinigami develops passive powers every other level related to their class. Ex: Spirit Sight, Sense Deathe, Speaking with Spirits, etc.
3. Hayai: The Shinigami can increase their speed two-fold for 5 seconds twice per day. Increases one-fold every 3 levels, uses increase by once/day every 4 levels.
4. Levitation: The Shinigami can leveitate when sitting on their Reaper Scythe.
    Scythe Recall: The Shinigami can call their Reaper Scythe to their hand when needed.
5. Resistance to Possession: The Shinigami can resist being possessed by spirits. Increases in power with each level until it is immunity at level 12.
6. Spirit Armor: The Shinigami can create a barrier around themself that prevents spirits from directly harming the Shinigami.
7. Drain Attack: The Reaper Scythe can drain energy from those it cuts to repair itself or heal its wielder
8. Spirit Ward: The Shinigami can create a circle that no other spirit can enter/exit
9. Spirit Slash: Allows Reaper Scythe attacks to fire an arc of energy towards enemy. Increases in power with each level.
10. Exorcist Slash: The Shinigami can force a soul out of the body it is possessing with a slash from the Reaper Scythe
       Reaper Scythe 2nd Form: The Reaper Scythe gains another blade on the opposite end of its haft
11. Reiki: The Shinigami can channel their own spiritual energy into others to heal them a number of times equal to the Shinigami's level each day. Increases in healing power with each level.
12. Spirit Beam: The Shinigami can fire a blast of energy that can pierce through weaker defenses from their fingertip
13. Elemental Scythe: The Reaper Scythe can surround itself with an element for increased attack power for 10 seconds. Can be used only five times per battle. Increases in power with each level, until at level 18 it can fire off a wave of the given element at enemies.
14. Familiar: The Shinigami recieves a familiar that aids them in combat. The familiar can be any yokai. Ex: Kitsune, Tanuki, Raiju, Nekomata, Tengu, etc. The Shinigami will recieve a second familiar of the same kind of the first familiar at level 18.
15. Neveraging Body: The Shinigami's body stops aging, naturally and magically, but they will die of old age eventually
16. Invisibility Field:  The Reaper Scythe can put out a field that makes both it and the Shinigami invisible for 5 seconds at a time. Can only be used twice/day.
17. Shadow Armor: The Shinigami can create an armor around themselves from shadows that weakens any blow directed at them. Increases in defensive power with each level.
18. Spirit Fire: The Shinigami can create blue flames that can incinerate anything on the spiritual level. Used only as a last resort.
19. Reaper Scythe Final Form: The Reaper Scythe turns into a long chain with a blade attached on both ends
     Spinning Death: The Shinigami can spin the Reaper Scythe to give off a constant stream of Spirit Slashes
20. Death Apotheosis: The Shinigami gains increased attack power, defense, and magic resistance for 30 seconds. Usable only once per battle.

[Celadon's Penultimate]

Looking good...

[Tsubasa & Wen Tien]

Thank you♪ I just need at least 5 more skills and I'll be finished with the class skills. After that I'll think of a class description to explain the reason for a Shinigami going adventuring though it will probably be Zale's idea of a quota needing to be filled.

Got any ideas for skills for those 5 empty levels?

[Celadon's Penultimate]

 Not currently...

[Tsubasa & Wen Tien]

Ok, let me know of any skills you think of.

@Everyone: Just a note that 'Reiki' or 'Soul Feeling/Healing' is an actual thing that you can learn from masters in the modern world. It's not made up, though I'm not sure I remembered the name correctly. Just realize that whether it works or not is well... not confirmed by science.

[Celadon's Penultimate]

 You're not the only one here that knows about Reiki, Dryad-chan... ^_^

[Tsubasa & Wen Tien]

I figured that you'd have some knowledge on Reiki, but as for everyone else... I'm not too sure on that. Plus, as I said, I wasn't sure I got the spelling correct for Reiki since it's been almost a year-to-date since I saw the exhibit they had on Reiki at Obon-no-Matsuri at the local temple.

[Tsubasa & Wen Tien]

FINALLY!!! Finished the Shinigami class ! What do you all think of it?

Should I try making another class?

[Tsubasa & Wen Tien]

Class: Beast King
Skills (second-half):
11. Silent Walk: The Beast King can walk without making a sound for 30 seconds. Usable thrice per day.
12. Berserker: The Beast King can ignore all pain for 30 seconds 2 times per battle but will randomly attack anyone nearby.
13. Poison Claws: Can add a nonlethal poison to weapon that saps dexterity.
14. Flurry: The Beast King can make 5 attacks in the time it normally takes to do one. Usable twice per battle.
15. Chimaera Form: The Beast King can take on an anthropomorphic form composed of two animals in addition to the human base for 5 minutes up to twice per day. At level 20, the Beast King can stay in this form indefinitely.
16. Electrical Hair: The Beast King can charge their hair with a large amount of biolectricity to harm those who would grab/touch their hair.
17. Amplified Attack: Any attack the Beast King makes will feel as if it was done with two-fold the force the Beast King initially used.
18. Fire-Rat Fur: The Beast King can become immune to harm from fire for 1 minute. Usable twice per day.
19. Sense Life: The Beast King can sense any source of life in a 10 kilometre radius.
20. King of the Beasts: The Beast King can call all beasts in a 10 kilometre radius to aid them. Usable once per battle.

[Mik_Hael]

Huh, gonna have to pay attention to that then...

[Mik_Hael]

You can use my Wild Man one for ideas, they look similar.

[Celadon's Penultimate]

 Oh, what do you mean? Phasma's harmless...

[Mik_Hael]

I know, and so far we've got, a character who controls spirits, a character who eats spirits, and a character who carries them to the afterlife. Team Gothic.

[Gentleman Vaultboy]

I Figured I should come up with backup character, in case Gretchen bites it. How is this? I'm trying to do this concept without it being Mary Sue.

Name: Scarlet Smith (AKA Anathema the Scarlet)
Race: Dragon, cursed into human form.
Class: Cursed Dragon

Dragons! Pretty much the be all, end all apex predator. Greedy, cutthroat, diabolical, and arrogant in the extrema. Anathema was all of these things and more. For 123 years she terrified the kingdoms of the mountains and amassed quite a horde. She was so big, and so brutally strong that she didn't think she needed to become a skilled manipulator and rely on deception to get what she wanted. Besides, she was almost as bad at it as she was at magic.

Her brother wasn't very big, but made up for it being excellent at magic. Very excellent. So, when he came like a snake in the night into her hideout and rewrote reality so that "Anathema was a human being," it was almost a trivial thing for him. He then proceeded to get back at her for all those years of being bullied in the nest by sitting on her and teleporting her hoard away while she watched. He then had the discourtesy to die when those adventurers had charged into the room looking for her. She managed to convince them that she was a captured princess, and slipped away before they started asking inconvenient questions.

Now she has a few problems. First; she has made her share of enemies over the last 123 years, and them learning exactly what has become of her would just make their day. Second; she has no clue where her brother lived, and so no idea where her hoard is now. And she needs her hoard, because third; if she want to have a wizard undo this, she has to make it worth more than just slicing her up for spell components.

All this would require a subtle hand. Unfortunately, she's not used to subtle.

[Tsubasa & Wen Tien]

Oooooh, cool. What would the class skills be for this one?

[Mik_Hael]

hmmm, I think there are about three people on the team who could help her with that problem if they wanted to.

[Gentleman Vaultboy]

No, not really.

I think you're underestimating just how good her brother Alendorf was at magic. He was the runt of the litter, and made it through adolescence alive on by being good at magic. The spell he cast didn't effect her directly; it convinced reality that she was human and it corrected what it saw as a mistake. Took a lot out of him, though. Probably why those adventures were able to kill his so easily.

As for class skills, I was thinking of her slowly forcing the spell off, regaining more dragon powers as she get higher in level. Not going back to her original form, it never goes that far.

[Mik_Hael]

 We've got the grim reaper, and a spirit medium.

[Mik_Hael]

I might be able to overwrite that for about thirty seconds with Curse of the Chimera, but I'm not sure. It would be a useful Coup de grace if our two characters teamed up in a fight at higher levels.


But seriously, it's a great idea.

[Marvelous Miscreant]

Neither of which has any effect on that.