Dark Gate OOC Thread

[thetwo]

Re: PbP Interest Check

Sheet:

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Name: Jennifer
Class: Sorceress
Race: High Elf

Body: 12 = 12
Mind: 26 + 4 + 8 = 38
Sprt: 12 + 4 = 16

HP: 39
PP: 52
EP: 41 + 15 = 56

Speed: 6
Dodge: 33
Armor: 1
Resistance: 19

EXP: 0
Corrpution: 0

Talents (5+3)
Greater Energy Pool - +15 MP
Lucky - +3 to all rolls
Strong of Mind - +8 Mind
Evoker - +1 to spell level for damage purposes
Focus in {Force} - Cast {Force} spells up to fifth level, auto-succeed on first/second level {Force} spells, +12 to casting with {Force} spells
Experienced Caster - Use up to 3rd level spells of all elements
Concentration - +8 to base casting
Natural Warrior: Grapple Expert - +12 to actions while in a grapple

Flaws:
Open Soul (racial) - +4 to energy damage
Fey Lover - +8 to pleasure from fey
Beast Lover - +8 to pleasure from beasts
Fertile - always gets pregnant

Base Casting: 27
Favored Elements: Force

Inventory:
Clothes: AV = 1, EV = 0, TP = 25, DU = 2.
Light Crossbow: (+12) [3d6+20] {70ft; 3 shot clip; 1 round reload}
Unarmed: (+12) [d4 + 3] {}

Bio/Description:
A classically trained mage, sent to hunt down a dangerous criminal who stole important property from the High Elf government.

Note *quite* min-max, but I expect to be able to do a great deal of damage.

 

[TentanariX]

Re: PbP Interest Check

Aschen is finally finished and if all meets Tass's approval ready to start 2.0's test run and hopefully for real some time.

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Character Sheet:

Name: Aschen Bestechung
Class: Succubus/ Spirit Warrior
Race: Full Demon

Body: 4+16=20
Mind: 8+ 14=22
Spirit: 4+20=24

Hit Points: 20+11+12=43
Pleasure to Orgasm: 10+22+12=44
Spirit Energy: 10+11+24=45
Speed: 10
Dodge: 33
Armor: AV = 12, EV = 5, TP = 40, DU = 5. Weak against Piercing. Strong against Slashing.
Resistance: (Soul) 12

Experience: 0
Corruption: X

Talents: *Succubus
* Natural Warrior{ Two Weapon Fighting }
* Natural Spirit [ Shadowmancer ]
* Superior Spirit [ Demonologist ]
* Suck You Dry
* Fuck Me
* Greater Draining
Just a Little Longer
Lucky


Flaws:*Mutated x2
*Horny Slut
Evil
Honorable
Blood Thirsty


[WARRIORS ONLY]
Skills:
[SPIRIT USERS ONLY]
Powers:
Tentacle
Deathwhip
Gorgon's Gaze
Summon Demon

Inventory:
Melee weapon 2x Katana (+23) [4+2d6+6, piercing and slashing]
Ranged weapon
Armor Chainmail
Shield
Minor item


Bio/Description: Aschen is clearly evil and serves the dark forces, enjoys rape, is bloodthirsty, and enjoys tormenting the forces of light ; but dislikes fighting those she considers to be inferior foes and unworthy of her time, she will always honor her word when she gives it, and will not turn on her compatriots. She chooses to hold back killing blows after winning honorable duels unless they are to the death. Does not kill defenseless targets, but she is always looking for ways to get herself ahead.

Aschen started out as an assassin halfbreed succubus who eventually through fate and chance happened to run into a servant of Natalie's before her fall, and was ingratiated into the demon culture and made on of their number; being converted into a full demon. She used her skills in seduction, combat and spirit power to climb her to near the top as one of Natalie's elite few. After her fall and the descent of the Devourer she fled the demon realm to use her abilities to enjoy herself and to try to convert mortals in the human to her side and hope to once again rise in power in the demon realm.

Aschen is a tall voluptuous woman who stands about 5'10-5'11, with medium length smooth flowing blond hair and red eyes. Due to her mutated nature her breasts have increased from decent C-cup to a well endowed DD-cup. She has a slim waist and round shapely backside. She normally dresses in a revealing chain mail bikini and carries twin katanas. She is exceptionally skilled in Shadowmancy and Demonology. And is proficient with using two weapons at once.

Mutations: *Massive Breasts
*Whip Tongue
*Soft Skin
*Tail
Fertile Mouth
Connection
Multiorgasmic
Pheromones
Sadist
Fetish: Bondage

Experience Log:

 

[Tassadar]

Re: PbP Interest Check

Notice: I added a Talent at the bottom of General that lets someone pick a Skill without using their only Natural Warrior Talent. You only get 1 though, so it's really only for characters that mix two classes.

So far the playtest slots stand at:
1) thetwo
2) TentariX
3) Empty
4) Empty

Keylo is a possible candidate, and a spot will be reserved for him for 2 days. If he hasn't made a sheet by then, it will become open. I've got a succubus and a mage, still looking for a spirit user and a warrior.

 

[GargantuaBlarg]

Re: PbP Interest Check

Observation:

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Looking at shield fighter and dueling, it seems duelists are more defensive than shield fighters, whereas shield fighters are more dps than duelists.

Ds get the flat +10 to dodge. That's the equivalent of the SF taking a Heavy Round Shield, - a higher end shield - which'd equate to a slower fighter, but an extra attack worth I guess more damage (3d6 is average 9, right? Haven't accounted for vs. Armor or Body/4 vs. Body/3 on weapons, though)

Their skills differentiate them, though. Shields get a stun move and a sorta-invincible thing, duelists get disarms and more offensive stuff. Ehh...

Are you allowing the combination of skills? Like, if I used Defenseless and Lightning Jabs, to guarantee I get all three stabs in/cut a Zorro symbol on a disarmed guy? Or - a bit more cheesy - using Lightning Jab with Slay, to pretend I'm Kenshiro?


I'd volunteer for testing, but I'm sure you've got enough interested people.

 

[maikochan]

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I'm in as well. Simply converted Akatsuki over, then decided to make her evil.

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Name: Kurotsuki
Class: Mirror Demon (Combat)
Race: Part Demon

Body: 34
Mind: 8
Spirit: 24

Hit Points: 50
Pleasure to Orgasm: 37
Spirit Energy: 75
Speed: 11 (17-6)
Dodge: 33
Armor: 14
Resistance: 17

Experience:
Corruption:

Talents:
Natural Spirit: Spirit Warrior(Battle Aura, Power Surge)
Two Weapon Fighter
Skill With Weapon (Two-handed Weapons)
Skilled
Greater Engery Pool x2
Strong of Body
Heavy Weapons Specialist

Flaws:
Obvious Spirit (Spirit powers are accompanied by spectacular visual and auditory displays that say "Look at me!")
Evil
Bloodthirsty
Mutated

Skills:
Supreme Might
Scissor Defense
Rend

Powers:
Battle Aura
Power Surge

Mutations:
Futanari
Pheromones
Sadist

Weapons:
"Berserker" Two-handed Sword (+46) [26+2d8] {Slashing}
"Howl" Bastard Sword (+34) [15+2d6] {Piercing or Slashing}
"Void" Bastard Sword (+34) [15+2d6] {Soul Striking}

Inventory: 50 Denarii
"Berserker"
"Howl"
"Void"
Black Moon Armor (As Scale Mail, AV = 14, EV = 6, TP = 50, DU = 5, Weak against Lightning, Strong against Piercing)

History:

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Shikoware Akatsuki, one of Amazonia's most well known swordswomen as well as poets, left her homeland on a journey of self-discovery. Before she left, a powerful sorcerer attacked her. Known only as The Scorpian, the sorcerer's plans had been thwarted by Akatsuki numerous times in the past and he was putting in place a plan to remove her once and for all. Although Akatsuki was able to defeat The Scorpian before she left Amazonia, he had acheeved his goal, obtaining a lock of her hair in the battle.
Back in his lair, the wizard used the hair to summon up a doppleganger of Akatsuki, a Mirror Demon created by fusing a demon soul to an artificial copy of a person's body. Pleased with his success, The Scorpian outfitted his copy with weapons copied from Akatsuki's ancestral weapons, a huge nodachi he named "Berserker" and a wickedly serated katana named "Howl". He also fashioned a suit of armor after her Beast of Red Shadow armor, but strengthened it with his magic.
Just as he was about to release his demonic assassin, the creature spoke. Informing The Scorpian that her name was Kurotsuki ("Black Moon"), she refused to take orders from him. Materializing a blade of pure black energy, she struck him down. Left to her own devices, Kurotsuki decided to head out following her original, her motives for doing so unscrutable.

Personality:

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Kurotsuki has a cool personality, rarely showing emotion. She does, however, have emotions. A demon inside, she enjoys hurting others in any way she can, even going so far at times to gain someone's trust only to betray them at the worst possible time. During the joining process, the demon converted Kurotsuki's body to that of a futanari and enjoys raping just as much as killing.

Void: (Feel free to veto this and turn "Void" into a regular bastard sword if you want)

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"Void", Kurotsuki's blade she formed herself, strikes at the soul of a creature instead of the body. It deals normal hit point damage, but has different effects on creatures with resistance or immunity to energy loss. Creatures resistant to energy draining attacks (Such as those with the Soul Drain Resistant Talent) reduce damage by the level of their resistance. Likewise, creatures vulnerable to energy drain (Such as those with the Open Soul flaw) take additional damage equal to their vulnerability. Creatures with no energy pool and soul-less creatures are immune to damage from "Void".

Appearance:

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This won't be my DG2.0 character, as I've already got a nice one approved by Tass. But if she's good enough, she might stick around as an NPC... That's just wishful thinking on my part though.

 

[Mirchie]

Re: PbP Interest Check

*noms on fingers* Backstory, I curse thee! >.> Character sheet anyway. One question Tass, will I still be allowed to use Mîrchell in v2? I do so enjoy writing for her. I'mma just trying to whip up a warrior for your test version who's a bit simpler than her. :3

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Name: Zeraveth Aldamiel
Class: Warrior
Race: Half Breed (High Elf & Amazonian) +2 Mind, +2 Spirit, gain Flaw: Open Soul.

Body: 24
Mind: 10
Spirit: 20

Hit Points: 54
Pleasure to Orgasm: 32
Spirit Energy: 37
Speed: 24
Dodge: 37
Armor: 10
Resistance: 12

Experience: Starts at 0
Corruption: Also starts at 0

Talents:
Natural Spirit User (Spirit Warrior)
- Battle Aura
- Energy Blade
Grapple Expert
Heavy Weapons Specialist
Quick
Hard to Hit
Skill with Warmace
Healthy

Flaws:
Fertile
Plant Lover
Open Soul (racial)

Inventory:
Two-handed warmace (Derp, couldn't find where the 'to hit rules' were) [1 + 3d2 + 12 + 12] {None}
Elven Warplate [AV = 10, EV = 3, TP = 30, DU = 4. Weak against Heat. Strong against Piercing.]
50 Denarii

Bio/Description:

(But darker/dirtier hair)
A half breed that grew up among her mother (High Elven) society, Zeraveth looks more like a human. As pale skinned as the high elves, she is a little more heavily built, more akin to humans, and shorter. Her ears are also smaller, more or less human sized, but tapered to an upwards-facing point. Her hair is moderately long, reaching the base of her shoulder blades, and is a dirty blonde colour, and does not appear to have much care taken regarding its appearance, as it is all over the place, handing limply, though held out of her face with a small band.

Zeraveth came about as the result of the rape of a High Elf woman by an Amazonian man, though said woman fled back to the halls of her people, meaning that the half-elf has never seen or even heard of her father. After all, who would want to talk about such... Unpleasantness. Unlike the rest of the Elves she grew up with, Zeraveth showed far less skill with magical or spiritual powers than pure-breeds, instead taking up styles more usual to her unknown father-half, melee. Here, it proved she was at least fairly competent, wielding a mace with skill, but still looked down upon by her haughty peers because of her unfortunate heritage.

As such, when of appropriate age, Zeraveth bid farewells to her mother, and few friends, striking out to find a more... Welcoming society. She knew about the demons causing all the trouble, but gave them little thought, having so far been in seclusion for the most of her life.

Bleh, hope that's good enough. Just needed to get it up.

EDIT: Beaten to the punch by Maikochan >.>

 

[maikochan]

Re: PbP Interest Check

Mwahaha! Mine is an evil laugh. Good to see another warrior making use of the Battle Aura. That power is perfect for them.

 

[Mirchie]

Re: PbP Interest Check

Perhaps it is, indeed. I'll leave the character sheet up in case Tass either decides to accept an extra test character, or he decides he'd rather Mîrchell wasn't included next time.

 

[TentanariX]

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Mine is also evil but is honorable as well.

 

[Tassadar]

Re: PbP Interest Check

Observation:

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Looking at shield fighter and dueling, it seems duelists are more defensive than shield fighters, whereas shield fighters are more dps than duelists.

Ds get the flat +10 to dodge. That's the equivalent of the SF taking a Heavy Round Shield, - a higher end shield - which'd equate to a slower fighter, but an extra attack worth I guess more damage (3d6 is average 9, right? Haven't accounted for vs. Armor or Body/4 vs. Body/3 on weapons, though)

Their skills differentiate them, though. Shields get a stun move and a sorta-invincible thing, duelists get disarms and more offensive stuff. Ehh...

Are you allowing the combination of skills? Like, if I used Defenseless and Lightning Jabs, to guarantee I get all three stabs in/cut a Zorro symbol on a disarmed guy? Or - a bit more cheesy - using Lightning Jab with Slay, to pretend I'm Kenshiro?


I'd volunteer for testing, but I'm sure you've got enough interested people.

Yes. Skills can be used in combination, and your example of Defenseless and Lightning Jabs would work. The problem with Lightning Jabs and Slay is this: Lightning Jabs requires that you be using a single one handed weapon. Slay requires that you be using a two handed weapon. I should have probably noted that skills from Dueling/Shield Fighter/Heavy Weapons/ect require that you actually be using said weapon(s) at the time.

And any character can be ported over from the first game to the second game, so yes, you can use Mirchell.

 

[Keylo]

Re: PbP Interest Check

Ahem...a bit late but...

DG 2.0 Spirit "Test" character

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Name: "Alice"
Class: Spirit User/Shadowmancer
Race: Crolian/Living Doll

Body: 30
Mind: 6
Spirit: 38

Hit Points: 30 + 6/2 + 38/2 = 52
Pleasure to Orgasm: 30/2 + 6 + 38/2 = 40
Spirit Energy: 30/2 + 6/2 + 38 = 52 + 20 = 80
Speed: 30/2 = 15
Dodge: 37
Armor: 1
Resistance: 19

Experience: Starts at 0
Corruption: Also starts at 0

Talents:
Strong of Spirit
Massive Energy Pool
Shadowmancer
Additional Power (Shadowmancer)
Additional Power (Shadowmancer)
Strong of Body
Strong of Body
Natural Warrior [Skill with Scythe]

Flaws:
Demon Lover
Sensitive
Open Soul

Powers

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Dark Armor: Costs 3 + X to activate and X to maintain, summons shadowy armor to protect the user. Increases melee damage, grapple rolls, and Armor by 3X.

Shadowstalker: Walk from shadow to shadow silently and invisibly. Costs X energy, and allows you to teleport 5X feet so long as you begin and end your journey in a dark area, allowing you to bypass any obstacles (including Holy or Force Walls.)

Piercer: Sends a shard of shadow at a single target within 50 feet, costing X energy and dealing 2Xd10 damage. Can also be used against multiple targets, but each additional target after the first decreases 1 by 2 for the purposes of damage and requires an additional to-hit roll.

Tentacle: Summons a tentacle made of living shadow attached to the caster, which can be used as the caster sees fit. It has a Body of 30 + 5X, and you can maintain up to 5 at a time. Can deal damage like any weapon of the users choice, but defaults to a club. Costs 3 + X energy to activate and 1 upkeep.

Patch of Shadow: Costs X to activate. Blots out all light in an area equal to 10X square feet that only the user and specified creatures can see in. Allows the wielder to make attacks against any creature within it as though they were sneak attacks, even if they don't have the Stealthy Talent. also, creatures inside are treated as blind, and Light spells cannot be used.

Death-Whip: Creates a whip of pure living darkness attached to the users wrist. Costs 3 + X to activate and 2 upkeep. Allows the user to attack any 3 creatures within 10 feet of her with an attack that deals Xd4 + Spirit/10 damage. This damage ignores all armor and pain resistances. The user can summon and attack with it in the same turn.

Inventory:
Scythe (+42) [4+1d4+10] {none}
Blackened Robe [AV = 1; EV = 0; TP = 25; DU = 2]
50 Denarii

Backstory:
Once a normal girl, now nothing more than a living puppet (affectionately dubbed "Alice) after being seduced by a certain shadow demon. She serves as the proxy by which the shadow demon interacts with the world, the whitened hair and red eyes serving as her master's mark of ownership. A strengthened physique and mastery over shadow has been granted as a result of such a "possession", in exchange for her very mind. None know if even a trace of the girl is still left within her, or if she's nothing more than a hollow shell...

Older members may or may not get the reference in the backstory.

 

[Tassadar]

Re: PbP Interest Check

Playtesters now stand at:

1) thetwo
2) Keylo
3) TentariX
4) maikochan
5) hero

I'm closing it off at that. Hopefully the testing will let me notice any flaws, though the range of characters possible means there are still quite a few things that could be broken that I won't notice.

Things to know about the playtest: The story will be very limited and very unimaginative. The point of this is to see if anything in the rules is broken (or missing,) so that I can fix it before the full game starts. I'm still going to be running DG itself, which will go until it concludes, or people call a vote for wrapping it up and moving on. Therefore, expect my posts in the playtest threads to be relatively short. You can still roleplay to your hearts content, I'm just going to be fairly lazy about it myself.

The game will take place in a 10 level dungeon with a few encounters per level, which each test character will enter somehow. As per usual, the opening post will be based on your backstory. It ends when you either beat the final challenge, or get three knock outs. I'll keep track of the number of times you've been knocked out.

Also @ Felkiss: Lol.

 

[Tassadar]

Re: PbP Interest Check

Notice: I added more ranged weapons in the form of thrown weapons. If people in the playtesting want to add those, feel free.

Edit: also, I just dicked around with the damage for the melee weapons. I changed almost all of them so playtesters should check their sheets.

 

[GargantuaBlarg]

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D:

So I can't use lightning jabs if I'm unarmed?

 

[Unknown Squid]

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Ah hell, I've really fallen behind here. I disapear for a while and suddenly DG:2 is all over the place. Besides getting back to my own thread, I'm wondering which threads I should be reading if I want to know what's actually going/gone on with the central story. From what I can gather, serious business has happened, and I'm unfortunately rather clueless overall.

Kinda makes me wonder what time frame my own character is currently in relative to the larger events elsewhere.

 

[thetwo]

Re: PbP Interest Check

I've been falling a bit behind in reading other peoples' threads myself, but the approximate times each character is at are listed in the "backstory/log" sticky.

And if you haven't read all the discussion about DG2, we've just started playtesting it. And even after that, we're free to continue our DG1 stories just about as long as we want before switching to DG2, I gather.

 

[Keylo]

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Speaking of timeframes and consistency, I'm somewhat amazed that some of the more "dramatic" scenes and such haven't had effects on other characters. You'd think people would notice more grandiose spells or the like, even from another part of the city.

 

[Kathy]

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Unfortunately lots of people weren't always playing at the same timeframe IRL as In-Game, so a lot of the "grand effects" weren't known to be happening.

It can easily just be assumed that due to the strange disturbances of the portal, anything unusual going on in one area is either deemed to be isolated by the effects, or easily overlooked as a side-effect of the portal. Instant world-fix.

 

[Guyver2216]

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i kinda havnt read the other threads so what ever happened there is pretty unknown to me.

 

[maikochan]

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I joined pretty late myself and found it just overwhelming to think about going through all of the threads and seeing what's happened where and when. Maybe, if it's not too much trouble, a seperate thread could be put up that keeps track of when things happen. As DG1 is coming to a close, it might not be as important to do so now, but it might be something to do for DG2. That is, of course, if Tassadar wants to put the extra time into it.