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Alright, I'm no master here, but a little while back I created a system. I called it the Trifecta Balance System. I found it worked well in explaining alot of characters stats. It could transversely be used to balance out characters that were n00bish, or god modding, or just generally unbalanced. Its been used by a couple of the stadium folk, and so I was asked to make this thread and post it here, and so here it is. As requested by (Wise Man 3). I know I use (Wise Man 1) alot as an example, but thats not because he's perfect, hes just the thing I identify best with in RP examples.

The system is very simple, it takes all the basic stats of a character and limits it to 3 basic categories. For a balanced character your character should have TWO of these stats raised and ONE lowered. Now when I say raised I mean just above normal, and in extreme circumstances, extremely above normal. Now what is normal? Normal is what an average human has. Normality is what the average joe pulled in off the street would do. How would he take this hit? How much damage would his punch do, how fast is he?

Attack - The power and damage of his attacks when used against an ordinary human. Be it smashing a huge rock on their head, or buring a whole through their body. One is physical, one is magical, they’re two different types of attack, but both is rated under attack.

A person with high attack can usually, like (Wise Man 1) remove your average limb if he gets a good clean shot with his blade at the right area.

Defense - Of course this is more than just blocking. This is how much damage your character can take before being killed or knocked unconcious, in Final Fantasy or DnD this might be HP, and Def. Can he take a sword slash and will it either slice his arm off, or leave a cut.

Speed - This again is more than it seems. This is more than just how fast he attacks, or how fast he moves. This is your ability to have last minute defenses. It also includes your agility and flexibility. Can you bend your legs over your head? Its all in this stat.

Now you take two of these stats and you raise them. CAREFUL, when I say raise, you base how much you've raised them on a human scale. How would a normal human take this attack? What would happen if a normal human ran this fast. Be careful, you dont want to see waaaaaayy above humanity and launch attacks that tear the dimensional fabric. Or move so fast you can dodge bullets, or worse take a bullet or a grenade and be unscratched.

When you've got that look over your attack stat, pick attacks, rate the attacks on what they would do to a human. If this one attack would slaughter a human entirely, then thats a high power attack, you would want to have one or two turns to "charge" it. Or one or two turns in which your character sits and prepares that attack. Like the solid ball (Wise Man 1) has been know to throw at peoples heads, if he throws it full force, the force and its solidity would have allowed it to crack your skull. Thats high powered, thusly why he took one turn to take the shadow and form it, and another to have to use it. Rate your attacks that way.

If you have high defense, be sure that you dont go too high and end up being stronger than no one can hurt. Defense counts how much the damage effects you. For example (Wise Man 1) can take a sword slash through the head and smile, because, his head is just a shell, he has no physical brain. Hes the equivalent of a ghost wearing tight shadow armor. BUT while he has enough defense to keep attacking after taking the sword slash he DID take the slash, he took the damage. Just because you dont feel you arm getting cut off, doesnt mean that its still there. Just be careful not to go too high and you'll be fine.

And lastly if you have high speed, you want to be sure your not "teleporting". Vanishing from one place and just "appearing" in another. Its bad. Dont do that. You also want to make sure that even if your fast you dont dodge everything. That becomes god modding. If if you can dodge it, its good to take a hit here or there to help you seem more realistic, and less Goku. Stay away from measurements like "nanoseconds" or "above the speed of sound", the type of speeds that liquify you.

Transformations - Some people have presented transformations as the breach in the the stats. It really isnt. A transformation is an excellent opportunity to switch stats, for example to take a character that has high attack and high speed, and switch it to one with high defense and high attack. Or high speed and high defense. Even in an ultimate form, balance is necessary, just because you've taken 4 turns to become several feet large and more showy doesnt give you permission to mod all over your opponent.

And always remember to avoid those notorious 3 powers. The powers that usually make or break a character as n00b.

1.Teleportation - Vanishing from one place and just "appearing" in another. Its bad. Dont do that. You also want to make sure that even if your fast you dont dodge everything. That becomes god modding. If if you can dodge it, its good to take a hit here or there to help you seem more realistic, and less Goku. Stay away from measurements like "nanoseconds" or "above the speed of sound", the type of speeds that liquify you. And it really doesn't matter the name its called by, Teleportation, instant transmission, rifting, wind walking, shadow porting, shadow walking, shadow dancing, puddle hopping, sifting, zipping, displacing, portal hopping, dimension dispositioning. Its ALL the same exact thing. Its crossing a distance in the blink of an eye when that distance is far above what a step or a jump could take you.

2.Regeneration - The ability to simply recover from an attack the moment you take it, and be completely fine. No matter what the reason or name for it is, if you take a hit, and just heal immediately, your regenerating.

The only safe form of "regenerating" isn't truly regenerating at all, its what we like to call, a healing factor. Its advanced or quicker than normal healing. OUTSIDE OF BATTLE ONLY. If its done in battle it IS REGENERATION.

3. Unbreakable Shields/Invincibility - This counts shields or force fields, barriers, magic ANYTHING that can take any attack and just ignore it. An "invincible shield" is an excuse to negate an attack you cant think of a defense for, when by all rights if you cant think of a defense, you should take the hit. Of course this also counts having an invincible character, but, you should already know that. Any magical shield that can only be negated by some extremely powerful attack, or by some extremely rare weapon like say the "Romulus Spear" is an example this type of shielding.

Just try to remember, this RP world is not anime, its not any anime, and any examples simply dont fit. We are not outside we reality we are something closer to reality +. We bend certain rules of reality, but we break none.

• Basic Overview of the Person
  Give a general overview on the person on top. When you look at this overview you should see at once
  
  - who this person is/was (name)
  - age/birthdate
  - race and gender
  
  
• Appearance
  Please give a description of the person. The more accurate the better, as this may also help artists to draw a good pic from this information later on. Include a physical description, as well as things like armor, weapons and equipment.
  
  
• Abilities
  What can your character do? Are they as strong as an ox, faster than a cheetah, or can they shoot laserbeams with the white hot intensity of a thousand suns out of their eyes? Whatever traits make your character unique, include here. Try to be as detailed as possible, since this is where most roleplay disputes arise.
  
  
• Personality
  Add all personality traits of a person here, which you deem important to be included in the entry. Mention whether this person has a humorous character, is stern, determined or hot-tempered - or everything at the same time. What does he/she do, like? - Whatever helps to define the individuality of the person should be put in here.
  
  
• History
  Write in detail where the person grew up, which education he/she got etc. Just mention all important incidents in the persons life, and as often as possible: Try to add dates which make the entry more accurate from the historical point of view. You don't really need to go into all the exact details - at least the entry should also be an interesting read, eh?
  
  
• Importance (optional)
  At the final section of the entry you can/should try to talk a bit about the general importance of the person, e.g. if you describe a king you can describe how his people liked him, which impact all the things he did were for later generations he did, if there exist some kind of lore or anecdotes etc.
  
  
• Picture (optional)
  Also try to find a pic perhaps for the person you describe. You can also look around first of course, decide that a certain pic would make a good character and start your bio according to the pic (but you should check first in this thread if the pic isn't already in use for someone else).
  
  If you follow these guidelines I'm sure developing a character is much easier and will produce better results. - Happy developing!

((Though I noted that like a dozen times you mentioned me not being online, and I was online the entire friggin' night... if you need me, hit me with AIM, cuz that's always on, YIM is on sometimes, and MSN seems to glitch like all hell, so don't even TRY that...

If all else fails, send a PM... if it's before dawn on the western hemisphere then I'm probably here...))

(( Simply put... claiming experience gets you jack s**t here. You get your base amount of 'given a chance' respect, though you can lose that pretty fast... Don't say how experienced you are, prove how mature you are. That's all I can say.

Joining is moot, just enter like you would in a bar. icon_3nodding.gif ))

((Okay, first off, lets start with OOC and IC.

IC, of course, would be roleplaying, when a character does something to interact with his environment or other characters.

OOC is just the opposite, kinda like a teamchat feature when playing an online game. It doesn't affect the game itself, but the people playing can communicate nonetheless.

Everyone here who is using: (( )) around their text is speaking OOC, and is therefore immune to any sort of violence you wish to inflict upon them, since they're not technically HERE as far as the game is concerned.))

(( Okay, the next part comes in detailing:

Obviously, there is a difference between:

[ *Walks in.* ]

and:

[ *Sion walks into the arena and quickly looks around in hopes of seeing someone.* ]

It's simply more pleasing to the eye, and it gives you a bit more credibility, which is a hard thing to come by on this site. Then, of course there are the more important details to add, rather than the ones to jus tmake it look pretty:

[ Shut up! ]

Compared to:

[ *Sion looks at Alexander and shouts at him.* Shut up! ]

It lets us know who you're directing your comments towards.

So, for an example post, there is a big difference between something like this:

[ *Walks in.* Hiyo. ]

And this:

[ *Sion walks into the stadium and looks around quickly. He spots Alexander standing down the hallway talking to Reiko and walks over to him.* Hiyo. ]

Following me? xd ))

((I suppose I should move to this whole 'random violence' thing...

As we both remember, you seemed to be going on a bit of a 'neck snapping' spree there... In all honesty, unless you're dealing with a bunch of chatroom RPers who just started RPing 2 hours ago, that won't get you very far.

It's what's known around here as a 'munch', otherwise known as 'cheating'. Simply put, when you want something done, you have to make a good argument for it, and it doesn't really happen simply because you say it does.

Example:

[ *Sion, deciding that he really doesn't like Unsane, rushes forwards down the hallway and tries to stab him in the stomach with a knife.* ]

and then Unsane would get to say one of these two (or a variation on it, of course, these are just examples):

[ *Not seeing him coming, Unsane was taken by surprise as Sion's knife plunched into him, causing the front of his shirt to soak with blood.* ...holy ******** you b*****d! You ******** STABBED ME!!! scream gonk crying ]

[ *Unane heard Sion coming down the hallway, and turned to see Sion rushing towards him with a knife in hand. Not knowing what else to do, Unsane raised his hands and a wall of packed snow formed between himself and Sion.* ]

...like I said, examples, but you get the picture... A fight is more than one person saying "I stab you!" and the other person saying "I stab you TOO!!!"))

(( So, you don't really know anything specific about how you want the character, you just know that you want a multi-elemental? Or at last a multi-elemental user?

I think the important things to start with are this:

Who is the character? (Meaning, of course, what is the charater like? What makes him who he is? What drives him and makes him do what he does all the time? These are some things that you can only really develop through playing the character, but it's good to start with a general idea of what their personality should be, and work form that.)

What is the character? (Meaning what IS he? Is he a human, an elemental, an elf, a demon, a vampire, a werewolf, a robot? What!? From that you can work on how the powers you want him to have would fit in...)

What can he do? (Here's your powers... now, the important part is, you want the powers to somehow balance... Meaning that for every good, you have to have a bad, and for things like multiple elements, you have to accept the fact that because you're not using a single element, anyone who uses one of those elements as their only one will simply be BETTER than you at it by the rules of 'fair play and balanced characters'.)

And beyond that, it's all really aesthetics. :shrug: ))

((Which kinda brings me to my final point:

NEVER BE AFRAID TO ASK QUESTIONS.

If you don't ask, they don't tell. Learning is a process of filling in the gaps. Ask about what you don't know, ask for advice, ask for anything... the more you ask the more you'll learn, and the more you learn the better you'll get.

It's like math... they give you the easy stuff when you're little, then the build upon that later. Start with addition, then do multiplication, then move on to things like calculus.

Start with a bit of description, then move up from there at a pace you feel comfortable with. 3nodding ))

(( *Disects.*

1. A sword cannot be swung with enough force to cut down a sufficiently thick tree in one hit. Or at least a sane sword... I'm sure something like a buster sword could, but anything that actually EXISTS would snap the blade if it hit that hard.

2. You'd better have kicked that tree about 30 feet up the trunk, where the center of gravity is, or you'd have just kicked the bottom out from under it, and it would then spin around the other end upon an axis relatively centered to the center of gravity and smack you with the far side. icon_xd.gif

3. Again the above comment about chopping through the tree... but also, you'd never be able to reach very far on the tree at all, at most you'd get an eight foot section chopped up, because you can't really reach further than that, and it's not like you'd be moving along the tree while in the air to reach those other parts, even if you did have that much time to just kind of float there while it all happens.

4. Firewood? You mean sections roughly the size of firewood, right? I mean, unless you're intending to use it for a fire, it's not technically firewood... rolleyes ))

(( Basicly, it all comes down to the basics...

You've got your:

Clouds: Huge sword, tragic past, hero complex...

Sephrioths: Huge sword, no past, constantly claiming to be the ultimate warrior...

Kenshins: Regular sword, irregular everything they do with it...

Godlings: Every type of spell imaginable, no casting time, and fight like the Sephiroths... ))

And as I part for the night, I leave you with the top three countdown of reasons as to why n00bs suck:

Number Three: By continuing to exist, they continue to prove Charles Darwin wrong.

Number Two: Every new 'sentence' that comes out of them replaces the last one at the top of the charts for stupid things people have said.

And the number one reason why n00bs suck:

Because Jesus doesn't love you.

Remember that one lil' thing.

Roleplaying, be it in a fight or not, isn't about winning. It isn't about having the strongest character of all. It isn't about destroying the world nor is it about becoming some kinda freakin' death machine.

Roleplaying, all in all, is about fun. It is a game, a form of amusement. If you are not having fun or hindering the fun of others, you might want to reconsider why the hell you're here. At the same time, it would be nice of you to ask yourself "That guy I roleplayed with, did he have fun?" because chances are you won't be roleplaying alone in here.

Cheers. <3

Name:Hurrai Kenpachi

Race: (if it's a factor. But not that it matters anyways) Mebu (werewolf)

Weapon item: one handed katana

defense item: enchanted bracer on the left arm. (This item is able to take up to ten average hits from a sword until it shatters and has to be retempered. Strong hit count double what an average hit would damage it. I.e. if my opponent started the strike from stance. It be an average hit. Or if he reached back and swung with all his might. strong hit.) This is not to say if the person is using their hands. Then of course my item won't be unbreakable but if they are just swinging punchs with no magic behind it. It should be quite obvious metal will not break. ^_^

My skills.
Fire technique.
By causing friction with my blade on the ground. It will cause a a vertically moving slash of fire. easily dodgable saying I can only do this attack from afar all one
needs is to sidestep. Takes one turn to perform.

Shadow ball
On my left arm because my bracer I can channel energy to my hand. When I do that a shadow ball forms in my hand to where it can be thrown. Slightly harder to dodge than the spark slash saying after I release the shadow ball I have no more control of it and it tends to waver. 2 turns to perform 1st to charge the ball 2nd to release the ball


Tranformation: At this point I have no other way out of this battle. I only use werewolf form when there is nothing else I can do to win. My attack goes down one point but in this tranformation that point will be transferred to 3 allowing me to move a bit faster and execute my defenses and attack faster than normal. In this form nothing changes besides my appreance and weapon. I use claws instead of a katana. takes 3 turns to perform so long for the transformation to finish

Attack points:2

speed points:2

defense points:1

Basic Knowledge
Name: Zy Jerasca
Alias: "Z"
Age: