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I'll just use Roll20 to keep track of tactical combat, since it works asynchronously. As in, you post what you're doing in-thread and then move your dude on Roll20 (or be lazy and make me do it).
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Oh, hell yes. Definitely going to submit a character here. One question though: are you open to the classes from the playtest document now going around in the Strike! thread? Because I feel that an Ogre representing a two-headed giant who fights as a single-body two-person tag-team would definitely be in line with the tone of X-Crawl (although it would hinge on getting another player to work with me during character creation). Of course, if you'd rather just have the base classes plus the Rogue and not bother with the playtest classes I'd be absolutely fine with that as well.
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They're mostly fine; I'd say if you want to use one of the playtest ones, just talk to me about it first. The Ogre in particular seems okay if you can find somebody to work with. e: Incidentally, there's a sweet character generator for Strike, built by kind goon hyphz.  e2: Also, here's a quick guide to character creation: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1b8Fz39Infns0EVB6-4-Fm-o49UvdAz7NVIWslFvlm6A/edit megane fucked around with this message at 18:00 on Oct 13, 2016 |
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Great-grandchild of a nazi WWII magigenics experiment, Photine is one of the rare part-human part-elemental hybrids that live in the United States and parts of Europe. Young enough to have grown up watching reality TV like American Idol and Who Has Magical Talent, the young woman has grown up obsessed with her own image and dreams of fame. Combining her naturally strong voice, unusually striking appearance and a natural ability to project various forms of light from her body, Photine has consistently done just well enough in talent shows to pick up a manager, but not well enough for the various recording labels to offer her a contract that she thinks is worth her time. Her attitude doesn't help her, with everyone around her recognising her narcissistic tendencies and desire to always be the center of attention. That, combined with a desire to spring onto the music scene with instant fame rather than a slow buildup of popularity, has resulted in her turning down potential singing gigs in favor of trying to wrangle more time on the television screen, finally landing herself a slot in the Dell 2016 NXCA Austin Open. The talent scouts would be watching, and a good showing could lead to the kind of gigs she was really interested in! Themesong: Applause by Lady Gaga quote:Name: Photine, the Lady of Light Do you have an on-stage identity? I use my own name, although the Lady of Light is catchy as hell and makes for good marketing. What town are you from? The City of Lost Angels, home of bright lights, movie stars, and more famous people than I can name! Why are you getting into this racket? Market exposure, really. I need to get some media attention before I can get a decent record label to give me a contract, and singing in bars and stuff just isn't my style. Did you have experience fighting monsters, or is this your first time out? Ugh, if you have ever seen what it's like backstage at a singing contest, or in the waiting room at a recording studio... you wouldn't have to ask. If you want to make it big, you can't be afraid to draw blood. What's your color scheme? Anything bright! Usually I stick with white, because a little light manipulation lets me change color on the fly. Which pro X-CRAWLer is your favorite? Bone Ken, the skeleton showman! Most showpeople stop when they get old and can't perform anymore. Ken just tossed off his flesh and kept his attitude! I just hope I can keep my enthusiasm after two centuries of doing what I love, like Bone Ken has! Granted, the guy is a total misogynistic dick that screws over his teammates far too often, but thats just good drama for the viewers.  Who's got your back, and who might be looking to see you get eaten? Well, my manager Eisen Starhound has my back. He's been mentoring me for years, trying to get me to go big. As for who wants me to get eaten... probably all those jealous bitches who wish they had my talent, like the Siren Sisters. That's a band with three sirens, Jolie, Ida and Vern. They aren't actually sisters, but nobody can tell sirens apart... Vern isn't even actually a girl, he just dresses like one! Anyways, I beat them every time we join a talent competition, and Eisen turned them down to focus on me. chin up everything sucks fucked around with this message at 00:47 on Oct 19, 2016 |
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This is a great idea and I want in, but first I need to check if my character concept works. Are people from other planes/dimensions acceptable? I'm thinking of a noblewoman from there, possibly fae, visibly alien, with the attitude of a courtier from Versailles joining in a somewhat scandalous game, of the sort that gets the court gossiping about you and what a rebellious young lady you are, joining mortals in their quaint little games. Is it too different from the tone you are going for? If that's the case I'll pick another concept. e: also, will the game focus mostly on the dungeoneering itself? Would a social powerhouse of a character be of use in there? paradoxGentleman fucked around with this message at 12:42 on Oct 13, 2016 |
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The young woman was getting uncomfortably close, an ingratiating sort of too-wide smile adorning her features. "Ah, hmm, do I sense a hint of flatulence in the air?" She begun, "A poultice to help the young gentleman with indigestion perhaps?" The youngish man, for his part, was eyeing his surroundings nervously. This oddly anachronistic little boutique with strange bottles with stranger substances inside of them, yellowed scraps of paper with faded scribblings all over , or the giant jar helpfully labeled 'eye of newt' probably wasn't the new kebab joint that supposedly started business recently. "Um", he said, trying to get the attention of the woman, who was apparently busy digging through a drawer of some sort. As she turned back towards him however, any and all objections he might have had were immediately drowned by yet another pitch from the woman. "You seem a bit ill at ease? No luck with the ladies eh? Ooh, or perhaps you've been spurned by an ex-lover? Hoho, you rascal! But as it happens, I have just the thing for you to get back at 'er." She winks conspiratorially and waves some sort of straw doll in front of his face, apparently oblivious to the fact that the man was backing towards the door. "Or him", she continued with a shrug. "Hey I don't judge!" "Um", the man said again, his hand now resting firmly on the doorknob. "Ah, this is not Johnny's Killer Kebab? Hailstreet 23?" The woman's smile, for its part, merely wavered the tiniest bit. "Hah, nope. This is Hallstreet 23. But if it's kebab you want, I think I have a psychedelic charm somewhere in here that makes you think whatever you're eating is kebab!" She turns around to rummage through her ill-organized belongings once again. "Well, probably not but I can always make-" the sound of a door slamming shut causes her to whirl around "-one..." She stared on for a moment as bright pink fumes from a bottle felled by the shock of the door closing gradually filled the little room. "Bah." She kicked the air in front of her, her smile replaced by a sour pouting expression. "Nobody respects an artisan these days." She stomped to her register in a huff, making little twirls in the slowly expanding pink cloud, and started flipping through channels on her TV (disguised as a crystal ball, naturally), until a particular advertisement struck her eye. Her expression brightened. Yes. Perhaps what she needed was just brand recognition. And what better way to get that than to showcase her goods in front of the whole nation?  Betty Kirlington, Alchemist and Charm Peddler quote:Name: Betty Kirlington Do you have an on-stage identity? On stage I call myself Hex. It's short and catchy and easy to remember! Of course, my real name won't be secret since how else would the people know who's stuff to buy haha! What town are you from? I'm from Denver! My mam was in the magic business and her mam before her, and our shop has always been there. Why are you getting into this racket? Sales haven't been so great lately. It's all industrially enchanted biomantic creams and artificially flavored fireballs these days you know? An artisanal craftslady like myself can find herself in some pickle with such an unappreciative customer base. So, I thought, if everybody has heard about me and seen me demonstrate the superiority of my handmade, free-range magic items to that mass produced slop, well then I figure sales should shoot up in a jiffy! Did you have experience fighting monsters, or is this your first time out? Some reagents are kinda hard to come by unless you go out and rip them frm the bodies of critters by yourself. So you could say I have some experience. Nothing too big and dangerous though. Not that I couldn't handle them, mind! What's your color scheme? Red and blue, as you can see from this outfit I made just for the competition. Pretty nifty don't you think? Which pro X-CRAWLer is your favorite? Ooh, that's got to be Lady Fireball  Honestly? I kinda got this whole idea from her. Nobody had ever even heard of her before she started competing, but now her face is a valued commodity and Fireball brand potions sell like hotcakes! My hope is that my name will carry that sort of worth of value someday too. Who's got your back, My aunt is still in the business. She taught me a lot, even if I got most of my stuff from mom. Anyway, I think she does like magic aromatherapy or something these days? She's still a really good alchemist though so anybody who tries to besmirch the Kirlington name better watch out!  Lola Kirlington and who might be looking to see you get eaten? You know, sort of like this guy?  This here is a no-talent hack by the name of Andrew Smith, and he claims to be in the same trade as me! Though I know better, he's nothing but a slimy little hexweaver and untrustworthy weasel. I tell you, if you ever come to Denver I advice you to give his place of business a wide berth. 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 Russel Nold, "Cleric" of Dominus, God of Entrance theme:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5wuA9V_sqRA Character theme:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qEGbjR1Y9Qo Russel is a local who is fresh out of wizarding college and eager to throw his lot in with XCrawlers to pay off his student loans. The problem with that idea is that everyone else had it too. There's so many wizards that most teams aren't even paying them. They're just competing with the hope of succeeding and moving up into the higher leagues. So... he came up with an even better idea. He'll just pretend to be a cleric! Too many churches have rules against using divine miracles to get rich, so there's a much smaller stable for them. Thus, teams actually have to pay their cleric, and with enough credits in blow off classes like history of religion, Russel is convinced he can fake it. Granted, he hasn't actually fought monsters before, but he's practiced enough against dummies that he's pretty sure he can pass off his wizard magic as miracles. And, as they say, everyone needs a healer, right? quote:Background: Arcanist
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What level of lethality are you going for here? Do all combatants normally walk/get carried away after a fight with some level of medical attention/magic? Or is it more Smash TV high body count?
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ElegantFugue posted:What level of lethality are you going for here? Do all combatants normally walk/get carried away after a fight with some level of medical attention/magic? Or is it more Smash TV high body count? Dungeon Masters create thematic dungeons that adventurers fight through on TV. It's less American Gladiator and more Legend of the Hidden Temple. Solve puzzles and riddles, defeat or avoid the guardians (who may be paid employees acting out a script) in order to get to the treasure at the end. According to the setting, one famous dungeon master is a balrog who used to act as a dungeon boss.
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I'll make an interest post and then forget to post something!
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paradoxGentleman posted:e: also, will the game focus mostly on the dungeoneering itself? Would a social powerhouse of a character be of use in there? A social maven is fine; you'll be dealing with cameras and fans and angry managers. ElegantFugue posted:What level of lethality are you going for here? Do all combatants normally walk/get carried away after a fight with some level of medical attention/magic? Or is it more Smash TV high body count? chin up is pretty much right. People die occasionally, but it's pretty rare; there are healers on staff to fix you up after you get turned to stone or whatever. Just try to avoid swallowing a sphere of annihilation or something. Apps look good!
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 The Phoenix Queen (Cheng Kaili)  Theme: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x0eA77tzj1Q The Phoenix Queen (you have to say the "the," she insists,) is a former opera star, now sadly disgraced by unspecified scandal, seeking a new career incognito in the depths of the dungeon! Or perhaps she is a former pro wrestler, also sadly disgraced, etc etc. Or maybe she's both. Honestly? She's so good a liar it hardly matters. That's why she calls herself the Phoenix Queen- always reborn from the ashes of whatever ruined her latest endeavor, under a new face, a new name, a new conceit. Malleable, morphing to the flow. Beneath the mask is a girl named Cheng Kaili. Probably. A girl by that name vanished from a small town in central China some 20 years back, so that much checks out. Fleeing a life of catering to American tourists for pocket change and marrying the lunkhead from down the street. But that's the past, darling. Now, the fabulous Phoenix Queen is taking the stage in Austin. The crowd will go wild. Background: Opera Star By Day Skills: Memorization, Disguise, Temptation, Stealing the Limelight, Rich [2] Complications: Scandal The Phoenix Queen does not say why, but their original identity had to leave the opera world. In a hurry. Tricks: The Crowd Adores A Star: The Phoenix Queen always knows the best way to exploit an emotional moment for the fans Origin: Wrestler by Night Skills: Grappling, Taking a Hit Personalize Skill: Deception Complication: Pursuing A True Self: What's actually under the mask? Even the Phoenix Queen isn't certain. Too many false identities and lies have piled on. Tricks: Method Acting: The Phoenix Queen can always act the part- whether she can look the part, that's more up to the judges. Class: Martial Artist Stances: Shoot Style While you are in this stance, add the following effect to all your melee attacks: Grab the target. While you are in this stance, if an attack misses you while you have an enemy Grabbed, the Grabbed enemy takes 2 damage. Limelight Style While you are in this stance, add the following effect to all your melee attacks: Target is Distracted (save ends). While you are in this stance, enemies adjacent to you cannot take advantage of Opportunities granted by your allies. Showboat Style While you are in this stance, add the following effect to all your melee attacks: Shift 2 squares. While you are in this stance, you may Shift 2 squares as a Move Action. Focused Attack Encounter Free Action On your next attack, treat your stances as though they were one tier higher for the effect and add one to the damage line of the attack. Until the start of your next turn, treat all your stances as though they were one tier higher for the passive effect. (e.g. treat Python Style as Greater Python Style) Commentary: If you have multiple uses of Focused Attack, you may use two of them simultaneously in order to further increase your damage and to treat X Style as Supreme X Style. Role: Defender Defense Boost: When you take 3 or more damage, Resist 1. When you roll a 3 to 6 on an attack, regain 1 Hit Point. Stickiness Boost: When an enemy grants you an Opportunity, it takes 1 additional damage. You gain the Mark power: Mark At-Will RNG 5 Target is Marked by you until the end of its next turn. (At level 4, Mark two targets in range. At level 8, three targets.) No Sell Encounter Interrupt Trigger: An enemy hits you with an attack. Spend an Action Point. The attack misses instead. Feat: Wrestler – You have Advantage on escape rolls. Enemies have Disadvantage on rolls to escape your Grabs. When granted an Opportunity by an adjacent enemy, you may forgo dealing damage and it is Grabbed instead. Do you have an on-stage identity? More accurately, the Phoenix Queen lacks an off-stage one What town are you from? That's classified. Why are you getting into this racket? For the money, darling. I have exquisite tastes and without some sort of income, well... And I can't exactly go back. Did you have experience fighting monsters, or is this your first time out? The Phoenix Queen may have some experience. I did many things in my misspent youth. It has been a long time. What's your color scheme? Red, for luck, and gold, for power. Which pro X-CRAWLer is your favorite?  David Umehara, the Conquering Flame - Leader Singer, Konvection  The Phoenix Queen admits a fondness for the flashy sorts, and nothing is flashier than someone who can do his own stage show. Including the pyrotechnics. Who's got your back, and who might be looking to see you get eaten? Who has my back? Nobody, alas. The Phoenix Queen stands alone. I am not, after all, known to be terribly trustworthy. I could probably use someone to watch my back. Someone here is... well, I left my last career under bad circumstances. Someone here is looking to recover some debts I left behind from my hide. I just don't know who. K Prime fucked around with this message at 16:47 on Oct 16, 2016 |
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Gotta think of something but definitely going to app.
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Ratpick posted:Oh, hell yes. Definitely going to submit a character here. Hey Ratpick, are you still open to playing as an Ogre? The idea I had earlier proved a bit too out there. I can play Magic without a problem if you'd like to be Might! We should just decide how to fluff it first: literal two-headed giant? The classical "little guy on the shoulders of big guy"? Two combining robots? I'd be in favor of the last one, because magitech bots are cool.
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I'm callin' myself interested. Let's see what I can cook up.
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Janine Joplin Theme! "I AM! JANINE JOPLIN! AND I AM A BIG! drat! DEAL!" The crowd whoops, call and response. The image pauses, Youtube buffering. "Terrible match. Just garbage. Left at the right time, definitely the right time." Janine attempts to convince herself she has absolutely not made a terrible mistake flying several thousand miles to change careers midstream. At least here you hit the minotaur with a sword instead of a kendo stick. And Texas is south enough from home to avoid the guilt. And the curses. Some drat fool back home would have done something by now to bring magical wrath on the family entire. It was an ancient and honored tradition. Janine Joplin, former professional wrestler with stints in four continents. She had been taught to work the mat in the Manticore Den, backdropped dragon men in Mexico, spent five years running up and down Japan punching anything too stupid to move out of the way. Poor family, poor education, little opportunity. Witch's curses. Taking to the ring was a way not to think on any of it, make purses out of sow's ears. Her family was Ozark Mountain folk, with a bad tendency to anger people with more magic than mercy. Janine woke up dead one morning, on account of some tree feathered years ago with a silver bullet (Not the only way to kill a witch, according to the lore, but quick. Never permanent but close to.) was chopped down and the associated witch getting mighty testy about being temporarily inconvenienced by dying themselves. That was the last straw. Now she was mildly famous, but not satisfied in the slightest. Going into a dungeon wasn't really more dangerous than a ring, but you can sell drat near anything while doing it. No more selling t-shirts at a table outside the VFW, no. Janine Joplin is here to sell out and buy in. quote:Name: Janine Joplin Do you have an on-stage identity? This IS my on-stage identity, idiot. You think I would use my real name in the ring? Of course not. It got sold to a demon before I was born to pay back the family debt. I use this one, otherwise 32 percent of all earnings are liable for seizure by infernal revenue. What town are you from? Oh my I wonder where I could possibly be from considering my name which was carefully crafted to give a sense of character and location? Webb City, actually. But no one's heard of Webb City so we'll all say Joplin and move on to the next question. Why are you getting into this racket? Because I'm going to be selling more than Tapout gear and shirts I made with my own face on them. I'm not going to end up retired with bad knees, a lingering concussion, and an empty bank account. I'm going to be retired with bad knees and a McMansion in Tampa. I'm going to be on cereal boxes, page one of sport sections, the red carpet for that ESPN award show they do. I'm going to grab that brass ring and yank until it taps. And then I'll never have to go back home. Did you have experience fighting monsters, or is this your first time out? You better believe it. Steve Auroch, Dungeon Zone Wrestling back in 2012. Tornado Tag against the Bullitt Club with Don Slime and Diana Gorgona. El Hijo Del Liche Jr in Brawloween XVII. All shoot, all real. I did hit a skeleton with a railroad spike and he did try to cry. Skeletons can't cry, but they can tap. What's your color scheme? I go for blues, purples, the sort of thing that matches my complexion. My grey, dead complexion. Yellow, too. It pops against the whole. Dead grey thing. Which pro X-CRAWLer is your favorite?  Lily Thorne used to train people at The Manticore's Den. Not wrestling, even the strong style catch stuff. She was MMA all the way, and weapons training. Jousting, that sort of thing. Knock 'em off the horse then choke them out, you know. And now she holds records for amount of damage inflicted in a dungeon. To enemies, to dungeons, to other teams, to staff. Completely unhinged, completely clinical. Just watch her face in the Tokyo Crawl Classic last year. She's completely calm, even when she cleaves that chimera in half on the backswing. Effortless. I don't think she knows how to sweat. I don't either but she is also alive so that's way more impressive. You think she'd remember me? Who's got your back  Well, Skelly Bonnegan is a cool guy. He's a lawyer, does a lot of work with undead rights cases. Skelly was a big fan of mine when I was working down in Mexico and the southwest, and since I was in Austin I thought I'd meet with him. Apparently he's a bit of a big deal? I don't really know. who might be looking to see you get eaten?  I ain't got nothing to say to that. The Pomme De Terre Lake Hag is none my business, kin be damned. Mr. Maltose fucked around with this message at 22:02 on Oct 14, 2016 |
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  Jen Hensan - The Wizzard Entrance theme! Everyone knows illusions, man. Back in the dirt ages we used them to hide treasures and fool barbarians into thinking a pit of acid was a hot spring. Nowadays we use these light shows for all kinds of things - news, business, advertising... Games. I grew up on three things - the X-CRAWL live specials, the illusiogames I got with my hard-earned pocket money, and McDragos. Can't say I attribute anything to the fast food, but the first two are why I'm here. I've always wanted to crawl. It's in my soul, dude. But I loved the games even more. So I figured I'd stick them together. Make the ultimate combo. Better than peanut butter and jelly. Sure, it's illegal to take the safeties off the consoles, make them give up control of the simulation to the user. That can get people hurt, or killed. And, yeah, people don't like that technically I'm not doing the running. My boys are. Some people are even mad that they're not real summons. But hell with them. I make the Minor League crowds go wild. They love the retro stuff. They've never seen anything like it, and they want me to go all the way. They wanna see my name in lights! The Wizzard! And I'm gonna take them there. quote:Jen Hensan quote:Summons Do you have an on-stage identity? You kidding me? Everyone's heard of the Wizzard! The up and coming kid from the boonies who figured out how to summon despite not having a drop of magic in his blood. I'm the real underdog story, man. You better believe it. What town are you from? Sunnyspace, middle of nowhere. Born to human dad and elf mom. Got my good looks from her and my inability to cast even a simple cantrip from my dad. Most interesting thing was when the Rovers came into town every month looking to hawk stuff. They might drive vans and wear shirts now, but the traders still keep lovely towns like Sunnyspace alive. That's where I got the consoles from to start with, and the old X-Crawl tapes. They made my start possible, man. Why are you getting into this racket? What else am I gonna do? I breathe this poo poo man. I eat X-Crawl and poo poo X-Crawl. This is my life now. Even if it is gonna be short. I'm gonna see my name in loving lights and hear the roar of the stadium and I will loving burn like a neutron star. You watch me. Did you have experience fighting monsters, or is this your first time out? I've done some minor league runs before with monsters in. That's how I got my name noticed by the big players. Every one's been a new challenge, you know? Some curveball thrown, some malfunction, some twist or turn. it's the wild west down in the minor leagues, man. Hope I can step it up for the big time. This ain't gonna be a bunch of chain-link fences in an abandoned quarry, that's for sure. What's your color scheme? Green and pink, baby. That''s how I roll. Makes me pop against these grey and brown scrublords. Which pro X-CRAWLer is your favorite?  The Broken Lady owns! She's a badass undead lady who doesn't, like, ever speak, but she's super pro! Nobody knows where she's come from - maybe the circut's put her in as a plant, like someone they wanna test future champs against. But man, you should see her bladework! It's as clean as anything! She was always on the tapes I watched as a kid. That was before that... thing happened, and she left. Wonder what happened to her? Who's got your back and who might be looking to see you get eaten? I'm always in touch with the Retrollusion Modding Community. They love taking apart all the old consoles and seeing what makes them tick. They helped me figure out how to get my summoning generators running in the first place. I've got a few close buddies in there who can help me out if I'm in a jam. Not dropping their names, though - console modding is technically illegal, and I don't wanna get anyone into trouble. As for assholes?  Wilbur the Wonderful is an old-school summoner. And he motherfucking hates my guts. He keeps calling me out. Says that I'm gauche, unstylish, crude, and that he's gonna run a train on me when we meet up. I get it, dude, you're a sore loser. You hosed up that one time in Maine when you hosed up a summon and nearly got eaten. But don't take that out on me. It's not like I made you lose. I didn't touch you. Well, okay, I may have pushed past you. A bit. But you ought to have that down by now! Anyway I'm gonna kick his rear end. The Deleter fucked around with this message at 16:04 on Oct 16, 2016 |
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EXO Theme Background coming soon. I took the bard class from the playtest document, I hope that's okay. pre:BACKGROUND: Pop Culture Icon - Skills: A-list Celebs (connections), Arcane Music Theory, Social Media, Work the Crowd, Electronics, Rich [2] - Trick: I'm On The List - Exo can get into any party. ORIGIN: Faceless - Skills: Bluffing, Voice Mimicry - Complication: Exposed! - Exo feels uncomfortable when unmasked, especially in the public eye. PERSONALIZE: - Skill: Fashion Design - Complication: Former Addict - Life of the Party: Exo can always put on a performance worth watching and use it to get attention. GEAR: - "Gigatron", Custom-made analog modeling keytar synthesizer and personal sound system - Stage outfit, including voice modulating helmet - Latest smartphone - Flashy car pre:CLASS: Bard ROLE: none FEATURES Group Mascot (Agression) When you are first Bloodied, one ally may make an attack. When you Rally, one ally recharges an Encounter Power from their Class (for classes like the Magician or Shapechanger who don’t simply recover an Encounter Power when they Rally, they may benefit as though they had Rallied but without regaining HP). ACTION TRIGGER: Turning the Tide Interrupt Trigger: One of your allies is Taken Out, or all of your allies are bloodied. Spend an Action Point. One ally (even one that was Taken Out) may Rally without spending an Action Point and without it counting against their use of Rally for the encounter. CHORDS: Chord of Freedom At-Will Ends a Status on target ally Chord of Woe At-Will Target is Harried until the end of their next turn. MELODIES: Melody of Movement At-Will Each ally may take a Move Action. Riff: Nearest ally may teleport their speed as their Move Action. Melody of Pain At-Will While you play this, each non-Stooge enemy takes Ongoing 1 damage. Riff: The nearest enemy takes Ongoing 2 damage (save ends). Melody of Endurance Encounter While you play this, each ally has Regeneration 2. Riff: Nearest ally additionally regains 2 HP. FEATS: Minor Leader: Once per encounter, you may slide an ally 3 squares as a Free Action. Additionally, once per encounter you may spend your Role Action to allow you or an ally to regain 2 HP (increase this to 3 HP at level 4 and 4 HP at level 8). Hardcordion fucked around with this message at 03:14 on Oct 16, 2016 |
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Right, time for some feedback and questions! Photine: Looks done! So... how do a human and an elemental end up together? What happened that time you let your temper get the better of you, and why wasn't as big a disaster as it might have been? Do you write your own songs? Betty Kirlington: I'm fine with the Illusionist, but Contagious Illusions seems to me like it could be a bookkeeping nightmare. I won't say "no" to it outright, but I might ask you to change it if it turns out . Otherwise, looks done! Which potion have you sworn you'll never brew, and why does your aunt think you should? What's the most precious ingredient there is? What rumor did you hear about the dungeon you're going to be facing? Russel Nold: You get to pick a Feat, and don't forget to answer the questions up top. What's the weirdest god you've heard of? Which class did you blow off the hardest, and why are you wishing you'd paid more attention? Who's got your little scheme figured out, and what are you gonna do about it? The Phoenix Queen: Looks done! What do you miss most about the lives you've left behind you? Which enemy do you most yearn to face, and which are you most terrified of? Who has been haunting your steps since you arrived, and what do they want? Janine Joplin: Looks done! What's it like, being dead? Which other newbie contestant has already gotten all up in your face, and are you gonna just take that from them? How have your wrestling fans reacted to your sudden change of heart? Jen Hensan: I think you're missing a Feat and a second At-Will. Which X-Crawl event did you stay up way too late to watch when you were a kid? When that one kiddie crawl went south in a hurry, who was there to save your rear end? Which game are you pretty much world-class at? EXO: Gonna let you finish before I do feedback.
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Oct 16, 2016 07:53
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 megane posted:Betty Kirlington: I'm fine with the Illusionist, but Contagious Illusions seems to me like it could be a bookkeeping nightmare. I won't say "no" to it outright, but I might ask you to change it if it turns out . Sure, that works for me. Was undecided between that and Impenetrable Illusions anyway. We'll see how it works out if I get picked. Also, edited my class power names to fit the reskin. megane posted:Which potion have you sworn you'll never brew, and why does your aunt think you should? Ooh, so, aunty is great and all and I love 'er to bits, but she does have some weird fixations if you know what I'm saying. Like, she's pretty ruthless when it comes to competition. Says that if I can brew something that can give me an edge I should. But still, my mam always was against transformation brews, and she taught me to be wary of them too. And you can bet your butt you won't find any in Betty's Brew and Charm Boutique! Sure, it could be useful to just turn giant and squash some meanie on occasion, but when those potions go wrong they go really wrong. And I can't have that kind of thing on my shoulders you know? Betty Kirlington has standards! But if you have some sort of odd, overpowering need to transform yourself into a rat, you should probably turn to this one scum sucking bottom feeder I happen to know. He'll do anything for a buck! Just don't be surprised if you'll be stuck with a tail for the rest of your life. megane posted:What's the most precious ingredient there is? Hah! Now that's elementary! Even the lil' alchemist apprentice still trying to get a feel for the mortar and pestle knows that the most universally valuable ingredient is the black lotus flower!  I say 'universally', because it's not strictly needed for any particular potion, like, say, you might need dragon's blood for a fire-breath potion worth a drat (don't be fooled by those that claim that chilipeppers work just as well, they're charlatans the lot of 'em). But, anything, and I mean anything can be supercharged with some lotus. Want your metamorphosis brew to have permanent effects? Add some lotus. Want your thunderstone to be loud enough to level a building? Add some lotus. You catch my drift I hope, hah. Too bad it's really rare. My aunt has one petal in this fancy showcase, and I'm pretty sure it's her most valuable belonging. Doubt she'll ever use it for anything though, she just likes to keep it on display to convince customers that she's the real deal. megane posted:What rumor did you hear about the dungeon you're going to be facing? Funny thing. I was in the Witch's Market the other day, trying to buy me some scales of the Texas Widebrim Wywern to fill up my stock, but the merchant was totally trying to rip me off! Now of course, Betty Kirlington is not the kind of gal to take that sort of thing lying down, so I gave 'im what for! I was just about to let 'im hear it when he got all defensive, said that the supply's gotten low since there's a temporary hunting ban near the Rio Grande leyline crossing where they and a bunch of other magical desert critters like to dwell. Apparently there's something going on there and they don't want third parties around messing it up. Word in the street is, X-CRAWL hunters have been sighted near the place, and everybody's thinking that some sort of desert themed dungeon must be in the works. Why would they else be so interested in that place? Theantero fucked around with this message at 16:27 on Oct 16, 2016 |
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Oct 16, 2016 16:25
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megane posted:Jen Hensan: I think you're missing a Feat and a second At-Will. Fixed! quote:Which X-Crawl event did you stay up way too late to watch when you were a kid? Oh, man, it was the winner. The big event. X-Crawl: Beatdown! vs. RUN. That one was special - they never did anything like it again because of how much money they lost from it, but that's because they went balls out for it. They put the Broken Lady against Mr Macho - he was the top guy of the RUN brand at the time - up on the Pyramid of Tzun. The biggest death gauntlet of the day, man! The Broken Lady just beat Mr Macho to the top, 'cause he spent too long trying to suplex a stone golem and that cost him a few seconds. Then there was the Kobold Karnage event, where they just let loose a bunch of Kobolds in a dungeon and let the dungeoneers try and deal with it. That's how Ranger McCaffery's career ended, you know. Up and coming woman, good gimmick, had potential. Kobold severed her achilles, she was done. Never ran again. Tragic poo poo. quote:When that one kiddie crawl went south in a hurry, who was there to save your rear end? Okay, the one crawl? Man, okay, so, in the boonies you set up what you got. Walls made outta chainlink fences, jury-rigged fire traps, that kind of poo poo. Most of the time it doesn't work right and the most dangerous thing you get is the possibility of tetanus from a rusty nail. But sometimes they put a bit of money in. And so imagine you're going through the dungeon, you can hear the crowd above you, and then people start screaming. Because some motherfucker thought that a roaming boss monster would be a good idea, and so he bought a cockatrice and stuck it in there.  Okay, so these things are hosed up. Some mad alchemy in them. They can breathe poison gas or shoot lightning out of their eyes or sweat all kinds of toxin. They always look like they wanna die, too. Anyway, I go around the corner and this thing is screaming and kicking and barfing acid all around the place, and then it sees me. And I am probably gonna die. No construct in the world is gonna stop this. All I had back then was some thing wispy version that looked like what HeatDude does on a good day. So I'm dead, right?  Junk comes out of nowhere and saves my life. She'd been around for a while - people still hadn't got used to Warforged out in the sticks, but she made friends and people liked her. We were friends before this. She beat me a bunch at games. She came up behind it and decapitated the thing like it weren't no sweat. Run got called off - bunch of people got hit with acid and half the dungeon was melted to sludge. Didn't stop future runs, though! Oh, and we dated for a bit, but didn't last. I hope she's doing alright. quote:Which game are you pretty much world-class at?[ Single or multiplayer? I'm multidiscplinary. Single player, it's Super Jumpman. I speedrun that poo poo every day. It keeps me focused. Multiplayer, I'm a mean Urban Fighter 2 player. Vanilla, none of these re-release gimmicks. And of course, I'm always on the X-Crawl official games. Not much in the way of training, but they're a nice break. Done some funny glitches with those - the sim doesn't dump out memory locations co-ordinates often enough, so the longer you play the weirder things get. You end up watching the characters try and open chests from fifty feet away or run through walls. Not a bad way to kill an hour.
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Oct 16, 2016 17:11
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megane posted:The Phoenix Queen: Looks done! What do I miss? Well, having someone else to do all the costuming and makeup and oh god, the hair. Doing it all myself takes hours, and then it all gets ruined anyway. What? Not do it? Are you mad? Now, as for enemies.... I've always wanted to suplex an ettin. The contrast would great- beauty and elegance just dumping a big two-headed brute on both his heads. Real crowd pleaser. On the other hand, I really, really don't want to deal with any beholders. Too many eyes. Incredibly creepy, and I'd look like a right fool throwing one around. It'd look like a damned volleyball match! Oh, so you've spotted her too?  I don't even know her name, but she's somehow managed to follow me no matter what I go. Maybe she's the only person who's figured me out, or maybe she's just lucky, or maybe she's just some sort of obsessive media consumer. But she keeps finding me. She always tries to get me alone sometime. I always say no, but she never gives up. Last job, I had people to herd her away... might be harder now.
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Oct 16, 2016 17:20
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How do a human and an elemental end up together? So, if you bothered to pay any attention to history class in school (and I'll admit, I didn't, so don't feel bad), you might remember World War Two. Nazi's trying to figure out how to turn humans into the legendary Super Aryans so they could win the war. Well, towards the end of the war, they were getting desperate and started using magic to literally infuse captured Allied elementals into volunteers to try and make Super-soldiers. It kind of worked, but the volunteers at that point were largely kids who surrendered when they were hurt, instead of fighting to the death. So after the war, you had a bunch of part elemental teenagers in the American PoW program... which put the kids on American farms to serve as labor. Most of them stayed in the US, and ended up marrying and having kids... and it turns out that the elemental part of them breeds true. There has been some discussion in the UN and Congress about having us labeled as a new species, but it hasn't gone anywhere yet, so I still have to mark Human (Mixed - Other) on the census. What happened that time you let your temper get the better of you, and why wasn't as big a disaster as it might have been? Oh, are you talking about that talent contest, where one of the judges insulted me on camera? Ugh, that's going to haunt me for forever. Anyways, so when I get incoherently angry, I start leaking light everywhere with no control. Lucky for me, it's not blinding bright, that takes more focus than I have at that point... but I can't pick what spectrum is emitted, and, well... like you saw on the video, I start to strobe random light colors like I'm at a rave. I didn't make it to the next round, but the audience loved it, so... Do you write your own songs? Of course I do! Well, some of them.
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Oct 16, 2016 17:24
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Does X-Crawl have any place for a curmudgeon who hates the games and everything they stand for? Someone who enlists because they think the games make a mockery of proper, meaningful violence and the show-runners need to be taken down a peg. I'm not sure how the face/heel dynamic would work in a quasi-cooperative environment, but definitely someone the audience would love to hate.
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Oct 16, 2016 23:06
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A heel is fine, sure. If you really hate it though, why are you participating? Is it just a show for the cameras?
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Oct 17, 2016 03:34
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It's all a bunch of dolled-up bullshit, it's fake! Only an outsider can bring honesty back into the 'crawl. Someone who's been in the trenches and knows a thing or two about REAL dungeons. It'll be a piece of cake, these kids'll be shown their place, and dungeoneering will finally be treated with the respect it deserves. Not like some kind of game. (Naturally he's gonna be in for some nasty surprises.)
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Oct 17, 2016 03:45
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Abyssal Squid posted:It's all a bunch of dolled-up bullshit, it's fake! Only an outsider can bring honesty back into the 'crawl. Someone who's been in the trenches and knows a thing or two about REAL dungeons. It'll be a piece of cake, these kids'll be shown their place, and dungeoneering will finally be treated with the respect it deserves. Not like some kind of game. (Naturally he's gonna be in for some nasty surprises.) Most monster volunteers and NPCs (lackeys who carry your weapons and poo poo) are protected by enchantments that will teleport them out if they are in danger of death. You should do your best to kill creatures before the enchantment can trigger the teleport, just to make poo poo more real.
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Oct 17, 2016 05:05
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Working on a Duelist/Striker, though I'm more than comfortable flexing to Blaster, Defender, or Leader with it if it helps party comp.
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Oct 17, 2016 06:28
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paradoxGentleman posted:Hey Ratpick, are you still open to playing as an Ogre? The idea I had earlier proved a bit too out there. I can play Magic without a problem if you'd like to be Might! We should just decide how to fluff it first: literal two-headed giant? The classical "little guy on the shoulders of big guy"? Two combining robots? I'd be in favor of the last one, because magitech bots are cool. I'm down. Sorry about the late reply, I had one hell of a weekend, but I should be able to cook up something this week. I'll see about getting PMs today so we can coordinate better on how to make our character. I had sort of thought about a literal two-headed giant at first, but since you brought it up the idea of two magitech robots that combine into one to be better at punching sounds amazing as well and something I could see myself as playing, although I could sort of also see a combination of punchy robot/magical pilot as an option. Either way, we'll probably be going for the option of sharing a body and a token? I'll get PMs once I finish work today so we can coordinate on our character/characters. Meanwhile, I'll try to look for a good reference image of two combining robots to get those creative juices flowing.
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Thomas "Hi Hat" Harris I can't believe the poo poo they show on TV these days. Dungeon diving used to be real, ya feel me? You'd go out with your buddies and look for a dungeon, and nobody had a fuckin' clue what was in there. Then you'd go down anyway and wade through all the traps and monsters, real traps, deadly traps, you know? And the monsters, they're always famished to hell and back, they didn't have handlers training 'em to jump on your lap and lick your face. What I'm saying is this X-Crawl is the fakest poo poo and it pisses me right off. It's a slap to the face of every honest dungeoneer to see kids running around these manicured dugeons like it's a fashion runway. The coddled kids face fake-rear end dangers and get fake-rear end treasure just for showing up, and I'm sick of it. I'm going to take these brats down a peg and show them how a real dungeoneer does it. quote:Do you have an on-stage identity? What town are you from? Why are you getting into this racket? Did you have experience fighting monsters, or is this your first time out? What's your color scheme? Which pro X-CRAWLer is your favorite? Who's got your back, and who might be looking to see you get eaten? Stage identity? Hell no, this is the real deal! I'm here to peel back all the bullshit and bring some honesty back to dungeon crawling. I wear camo and denim because they're practical, not just because I like the look. I'm from Williamstown, we don't make ourselves up like those Nashville dandies. Those city boys, think they've got the sack to call themselves "country..." My old dungeon crawling buds, they're of two minds about the X-Crawl. Block and Skins are behind me one hundred percent, they want dungeon crawlin' to be a thing people DO, not some poo poo you just watch while sitting on yer rear end. That a team of NPCs ain't no substitute for real teamwork, for friendship forged in the heat of battle. Rimshot agrees in principle, but she thinks I'm sellin' out and won't take truck with it. Yeah, gently caress you too, sister. Now the Goblin Guild, they're just fuckin' sad. "Wah wah we're gonna get revenge on you for slaughtering our clan, because goblins are people too." They're sore that we were better'n them, and now they're living on handouts from X-Crawl, always trying to beat up adventurers. Man, they're gonna be PISSED when they see me, hahaha! Background: Grognard Origin: Redneck Wealth [1] Skills: Dungeon Architecture Ransacking Monster Manual, 1e [knowledge] Grumbling Polearm Proficiency Redneck Repair (item: several rolls of duct tape) Field Dressing Magic Resistance Tricks: I've Seen This One Before - You are always able to sidestep, disable, or disarm a trap. Sour Grapes - You are always able to prove that actually, the thing you can't have sucks anyway so why would anyone have wanted it in the first place. Complications: Hold My Beer - Watch this. Heel - The audience is gonna hate this. Well, gently caress 'em! Martial Artist (Stone Wall, Weeping Willow, Scorpion)/Defender Feat: Long Reach
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megane posted:Janine Joplin: What's it like, being dead? Now, there's something you wouldn't know about. People never think about how loud they are inside. Blood pumping, lungs inflating, all sorts of muscles stretching out. The sound of the ocean you hear in shells is the ocean of your own self. And you'd know immediately if it all stopped. When they talk about the quiet of the grave they got something right for sure. It's oppressive, how quiet it is being alone. That's why I'm so loud. Compensating. But no matter how loud you yell or how much hell you raise it's still there. Too drat quiet. quote:Which other newbie contestant has already gotten all up in your face, and are you gonna just take that from them?  loving Gary. Excuse me. He's SIR GALLIVANT in public, because of course he is. Look at him, he couldn't be more babyfaced if he wrote I LOVE LOCAL TOWN SPORTS TEAM on his rear end. Apparently he's been doing the nitty and gritty on the minor circuits for a while, which I respect totally. I did the same thing, longer than he ever did. But then he's started talking about how 'some people' haven't 'paid their dues' or 'know how a real fight works'. Then he came at me specifically, about how I expect to waltz in and take all the work from real professionals who took real risks in real dungeons and I'm sure he would have kept talking except it's hard to talk with another person's elbow in your mouth. You can tell Gary was actually a professional because I didn't actually hit him. You can tell he's also a cowardly rear end because he ran. Threatened this, that and the other about it. Whatever. quote:How have your wrestling fans reacted to your sudden change of heart?
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Oct 17, 2016 19:32
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Oct 17, 2016 23:51
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damnit people how am i supposed to make picks like this make your characters worse immediately 
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Oct 18, 2016 00:24
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Run multiple games, obviously.
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Oct 18, 2016 00:25
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Oct 18, 2016 00:46
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megane posted:They're mostly fine; I'd say if you want to use one of the playtest ones, just talk to me about it first. 2-part check: First, is the playtest Evoker alright? Second and more importantly, is the concept of a former X-Crawl dungeon boss/monster playable? My idea was basically a dragon who was forced to retire ("Dragons are old news; Eldritch horrors are what the kids are into these days!") and is now exploiting a loophole in his contract that lets him get back in the spotlight as a contestant instead of an employee.
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I think I'd say no to the Evoker, sorry. It's so much more complex than other classes and has so much fiddly stuff going on. Maybe a Magician, Bombardier, or Channeler? The concept is perfectly fine, though.
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