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AAAAND I AM OPENING THIS UP READY FOR THE RP TO BEGIN SOON!

YAAAAAY IS EVERYBODY EXCITED I KNOW I AM WOOOOOO

WOO-HOO~~~~~~~~~~~~~!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I CAN'T WAIT~~~~!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

OH HELLO BAPP! =D AND WELCOME INU



Powers is just the term I used in my character thread to describe in detail what my charas were good at and everybody copied me, that's all!

Your skills are things like Swordfighting, Combat, Aeromancy, First Aid, anything like that, and your Tier is what level of ability your character has in each of them. You might remember it was originally going to be just one overall "character tier," but it was changed because it wouldve given people who excelled in non-combat disciplines an advantage, and vice-versa, so now you have individual skills with individual tiers. The tiers are Beginner, Adept, Advanced and Expert (and Master). Beginner & Adept both take 6-sided dice with different success rates, Advanced & Expert take 8-sided with different success rates and Master takes a 12-sided dice. See the battle post for more detail.

Finally, your Talents are personalised abilities that your character can perform, like the old skills from the first version of the system. You were very good at it back then so it shouldnt be a problem for you now, I hope =] Like Bapp might have Einzelkampf for one, idk. Try to keep them balanced is the only rule. Mab can help you if you need it. Also originally I'd planned that you could only have a certain number of Talents depending on how advanced your character is, but it was confusing when the Character Tier system changed into individual skill tiers, so now everybody is just doing their own thing. I'd say the upper limit on talents, though, is four per character.

Does that help at all? If anybody needs more help, just ask.

EDIT: So a completed character integrated to the battle system might look something like this -

Combat: Adept
Hand-to-hand Combat: Advanced

Viva Las Vegas - The character gains a perpetual +2 bonus to attack.... but only when in Las Vegas. Wow, what an awful Talent.

Yes, that's exactly right. Skill tiers are a general rating of how good you are at something, and talents give you bonuses and such.

I dont think a limit on skills is strictly necessary, because it would make it difficult for people who have quite a few highly specialised skills. All I'll say is think pretty pragmatically and use your common sense, I suppose. You know your character better than anyone. Try to keep it under 4 or 5 I suppose.

It's all starting tomorrow, ugaiz!~ We'll be starting with a party, but hopefully we wont be dwelling there too long, because it's really just an opportunity for everybody to catch up and interact a little before we move into the main random. I say "random" because there's no plot this time round. OH I WONDER WHAT IMPROMPTU ADVENTURES WE SHALL HAVE ;w;

and I say "hopefully" because the best laid plans of mice and men go oft awry

Might I request a critique of the new and not-so-improved Xei before I go wild and start posting?

Also: Julian and Nestor. Yes

Oh, and I'm keeping the Light spell

THERE SHALL BE PHOTOTECHNICS UP IN THIS PARTY

(because last time I tried pyrotechnics.....bad things happened)

TO THE POSTING!