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Welcome to my first School of Dedcated Roleplayers RP Thread!
Now then, I would like to start off with a little backstory for this rp. This rp takes place in the Limestone Kingdom, which is a vast empire under the rule of an unknown royal court. I say it is unknown because this rp is not about them and it doesn't really matter because we most likely will never meet them. However, if I will include it I will be sure to adjust this post. Anyway, I would like to keep this story as free as possible. I want it centered around creativity instead of structure but I do want to remind you all that this is not based on futuristic or present time and thus focuses on ancient time. This will be a fantasy story so include your nekos, kitsune, other demons and other mythical creatures. However, there are limits which I will discuss in the rules section of this rp. For now, stick to normal forest and tavern wanderings and our merry band of travellers will be formed eventually.

Fighting and leveling in this rp

Everything is determined by dice rolls. Stats are started with rolls of a four-sided die.

The stats are:
HP:
MP:
Strength:
Speed:
Regeneration:

As level ones, a one-sided die will determine your amount of these stats. Then certain levels are needed to advance your character. To use certain weapons you will need a certain strength score. To use magic you will need a score of twenty. Your speed determines how well you can dodge attacks when not in a prone position and the faster you move the better chance of dodging you have. Regeneration determines the amount of time it takes you to recover from battles.

You need an MP score of twenty to use any magic and each character gets one magic. Magic is of the elements Fire, Water (liquid and ice), Wind, and Earth (including plants and rock).

Magic hits automatically when the enemy is seen and cannot be used otherwise.

Fire is offensive: 2 ten-sided dice are its attack power.

Water in a liquid form is a crushing offensive move: 1 ten-sided and 1 six-sided.

Water as ice is defensive: Worth two ten-sided dice off of an attack on your character. Shield lasts only one round then shatters.

Wind is a strategic attack that both holds the enemy in a prone position for one round and hurts the enemy as well: Worth 2 six-sided die.

Earth as plants keeps enemy prone for a round without damaging.

Rock is a defensive barrier: 2 ten-sided die of damage from the character's attack. Lasts one round only.

Your character's weapons are determined by their strength score.
To have a large specialty weapon you need a strength of twenty-five.
To have a longsword and use it you need a score of twenty.
To dual wield short swords you need a score of twenty.
To wield a short sword you need a score of fifteen.
To dual wield specialty small weapons you need a score of fifteen.
To dual wield non-specialty small weapons you need a score of ten.
To wield a specialty small weapon you need a score of five.
To wield a small weapon you need a score of three.
To use natural claws (upon my permission) or any body part you need no strength score.

Specialty large weapons inflict one twenty-sided die plus 1/2 of your strength rounded up.
Longswords inflict one twenty-sided die plus 1/4 of your strength score rounded up.
Dual weilding short swords is the sum of two ten-sided die.
A short sword is one ten-sided die.
Dual wielding specialty small weapons is the sum of two six-sided die.
Dual wielding non-specialty small weapons is the sum of two four-sided die.
A specialty small weapon attacks for 1 six-sided die.
A non-specialty small weapon attacks for 1 four-sided die. (Body parts are included here.)

Dodging is added in to the character's attack roll. Your speed score is halved and rounded up if in a one-on-one fight and subtracted from the attacker's score. But if a group of attackers attacks your speed is divided by the number of attackers in the group. If more than one then the score is 1/3, if another 1/4, and so on.

Poisonous weapons must be forged by in-game blacksmiths and that takes one real time week. All poisonous weapons are of the small non-specialty type and each character can have one. The attack value of a poisonous weapon is still 1 four-sided die but poison adds an additional three points of damage for three rounds, then it wears off. Poison takes effect the round after it was inflicted. Natural claws that have poison (again, by my permission only) inflict 1 four-sided die for two rounds.

You also cannot kill a character without the permission of that character's owner. The only exception is if that character has failed to appear in over a month in which I will decide how that character was killed.

Money will be allocated at the beginning of the game via dice rolls as well. All monetary amounts will be in gold pieces. Characters are given gold based on the sum of three ten-sided dice rolls. To earn more gold to buy weapons characters must sell items that they pick up in the forest. Any foraged items are determined by the admin. Also, food is a necessity but also is considered a foraged item that does ot need to be determined by the admin. But, to order food and drinks in say, a tavern setting or an inn, it does cost gold. To rent a room for a night also costs gold.

Gaia Name: Kenji Kento
Character Name: Kenji Light
Character Age: 18
Character Appearance (Pic or description.): Kenji is a fox demon with pale human skin and auburn hair, ears, and tail. He has bright emerld green eyes and wears a blue jacket with a white undershirt. He has matching blue pants and heavy black boots. He carries a leather satchel over one shoulder with a hand-held harp in it.
Character Weapon(s) (Does not start with a weapon unless it is approved first. Also, you may not use it until the correct strength value has been reached.): A harp.
Character Magic Alignment: Earth.
Character's Gold (Determined by the admin.): 30.
Character Stats- To be filled in upon acceptance.
Hp: 4
MP: 3
Strength: 3
Speed: 4
Regeneration: 2

Character story: Kenji was orphaned at a young age when a group of mercenaries laid waste to his small village. He escaped with his favorite possession, his harp, and lived in the wilderness. He traveled on his own since then and continues to do so 'til this day. He wears human clothes, unlike the vestments of his Kitsune ancesters because there were no other tribes of fox demons near him. He has been forced to live alone ever since he was ten and has relied on the kindness of strangers and his musical ability to make money as he wandered.