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Background: Confident Witch

Origin: Academy Student

Skills: Dark Magic, Potion Mixing, Occult History, Ancient Languages, Self-Promotion, Magic Academy (Connections), Grimoires, Ghost Stories
_{Italics: Sorcerous Skills}

Resources: Poor (1)

Tricks:
Hex Girl: Can always identify when a hex is being used.
History Buff: Can always have read a book relating to historical events of Terasdo.

Complications: Big Witchy Mouth, Terrible Sleep Schedule

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Class: Magician (Chaos Adept)
Role: Blaster
Kit: Sorcerer

Forcea (At Will)
Effect: The target and each creature adjacent to you are pushed 3 squares.

Toxis (At Will)
Effect: Target takes 1 Ongoing Damage and loses one point of Resistance if it has any. (save ends).
(At level 5, on a failed save, the target is Vulnerable 1 until the end of the encounter.)

Infernfield (Encounter)
Create a 7x7 zone centered within 10 squares. Each creature in the zone takes 3 damage.

Radiance (Encounter)
Effect: Target is Blinded until the end of its next turn.

Parrias (Encounter)
Use this power when a creature hits with an attack against you. The creature instead misses.

Reserve Spell: Charmus (Encounter)
Effect: Pick one creature. The target cannot attack you or the designated creature on its next turn.

Multitarget Boost: If you attack with a power with range X, you may instead make it a Burst 1 centered within X targeting all creatures in the zone. This still grants Opportunities as though it was range X. If it is a melee attack, you may make it a Burst 1 targeting all creatures in the zone. You may move the center of the zone one square for each square of reach you have.

Terrus (At Will)
Pick one of the following three options, centered within range 5:
• Choose a 3x3 area (5x5 at level 4). The affected zone becomes Difficult Terrain until the end of the encounter. You may optionally remove any Low Cover in the area. (At level 8, your allies ignore this Difficult Terrain.)
• Choose a 3x3 area (5x5 at level 4). It becomes obscured (see page 94) until the end of your next turn. (At level 8, your allies ignore this obscuring.)
• Choose one square. It becomes Low Cover (Full Cover at level 4). (At level 8, pick two squares within range.)

The Sorceror posted:

Pick three of your trained Skills that represent using magic (or divinity, the internet, or some other esoteric force) to some specific end, such as attack, travel, or information gathering. These are your Sorcerous Skills, and can be enhanced by Power Tokens. Spend one Power Token to give yourself Advantage on a Sorcerous Skill Check, or to fuel an appropriate Trick. If you choose, the results can’t be undone by mundane means. When you replenish or prepare your sorcery by whatever means you establish when you take the Kit, reset your Power Tokens to 2. If you draw on an appropriate place of power to do so, reset your Power Tokens to 3.

Advances

Surge: When you roll a 6 on a Sorcerous Skill Check, gain a Power Token.

Davin Valkri posted:

I have half a mind to take Alaster's character sheet from ZeeToo's game wholesale (at least the combat portion) and refluff him as "Croulee", sort of an Owain/Odin deal. Is that acceptable?

Maleketh posted:

Any objection to posting over the character I made for ZeeToo's game? I still wanna play him.

Captain Walker posted:

Working on a Jagen type veteran knight

Unknown Quantity posted:

Is it possible to make up a Kit? I'm working on a kind of Spellthief sorta thing.

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Name: Professor Lenard Zue
Class: Archer
Role: Controller (Possibly Blaster)
Background: Military Engineer (AKA Gunner)
Origin: Plimtown, born and raised (Resources 1, Apprasial, Easy Mark, Rivals with Lindenberg)
Kit: The Tinker
Resources: Poor [1]
Fallback: Not until level 2.

Skills:
Siege Engineering: If it's big enough to level a wall, Lenard has designed, built, and fired it.
Forced March: Officers don't much care if you haven't gotten your eight hours of shuteye, and like any good soldier, Lenard's gotten used to having a lot less sleep than he should rightly need. He's also quite happy that he hasn't had to use that skill since he was a student.
Chemistry: After spending four years as a student and another eight years as an professor, it's fair to say that Lenard knows just a bit about alchemy.
Tactics: While he was never commissioned, anyone who spent years in the army and had half a brain would pick up the basics of military planning.
Explosives: After losing one of his pinky fingers to a poorly packed charge while he was working as a sapper, Lenard's much more careful with explosives now.
Helpful Diagrams: When it comes to teaching, sometimes there's just no replacement for a good illustration.
Appraisal: Despite their reputation as gullible saps, Plimstowners have an eye for quality. The fact that they are still considered easy marks should tell you just how trusting they are.
Paperwork: Between years of dealing with stingy army quartermasters and weaselly answers on his students' tests, Lenard can navigate bureaucracy with the best of them.

Complications
Easy Mark: As most people in Plimtown don't have to really worry about making ends meet, Lenard is probably too trusting for his own good.
Rivals with Linednburg: No one really knows why Lindenburg and Plimtown are such scholastic rivals, but at this point, it doesn't really matter. Both of the towns despise the other. A good Lindenburgian will cut off their nose to spite a Plimtowner, and vice versa.

Tricks:
Dead Reckoning: A Military Engineer can always tell how far away something is with a high degree of accuracy
The "Teacher" Look: When dealing with people he has authority or status over, Lenard can always get them to comply with his requests.

Kit Advances
Tinker:
When you break down an item for scrap, talk shop with another expert, spend time preparing supplies, or gather a new tool or ingredient, gain a Supply Token.
When you succeed at creating an item, you can spend three Supply Tokens to pick from the following list of special properties.
• It is superior quality and using it gives Advantage.
• It has protection. The first time the GM tries to take it away or break it on a Twist, you negate that Twist and tell them what modifications you made to prevent such an occurrence.
(e.g. “Actually, it is biometrically locked, so it electrocutes that girl when she tries to pick it up.”)
• It is idiot-proof. It counts as a Trick for whoever is using it.
(This means that anyone using it can roll on the Skilled chart without needing any other Skill, or can spend an Action Point to automatically succeed.)
• Add some cool detail or effect to it like you would with a Bonus.

Mr. Fix-it
When you need to repair an item you made or a mundane item, simply spend two Supply Tokens and an appropriate amount of time and it’ll be good as new.
If you don’t want to spend from your supply, you are naturally free to roll your Skills as usual.
This can’t be used to eliminate Flaws in construction, but can eliminate Flaws the item picked up after being produced.

Triggers:

Control Boost
When you roll a 3 to 6 on an attack, you may choose to either Slow the target until the end of its next turn, or to slide the target 3 squares.

Stuff
Tricked out bow with weird scopes and other technological junk hanging off it
Rucksack filled with tools and half finished tinkering projects
Paper, ink, and an assortment of measuring equipment

Powers
Aim
At-Will
Effect: Instead of attacking, you pick any target you can see and aim at it.
Aiming grants adjacent enemies an Opportunity as though you were making a ranged attack.
If your next ranged attack targets the same creature you aimed at, any range restriction is removed and you have Advantage for the attack.

Flare
At-Will, 10 range, 2 damage
Effect: The projectile attaches to the target and illuminates the area like a torch. The target can’t hide.
The projectile can be removed by the target as an Attack Action but otherwise lasts until the end of the encounter.

Pin Down
At-Will, 10 range, 2 damage
Effect: If the target moves more than 2 squares on its next turn (if it moves at all at level 5), it takes 3 damage (5 damage at level 9).
If the target had a prepared action, it loses it. If anyone was Marked by the target, the Mark ends.

Area Denial
At-Will, 10 range, 2 damage
Effect: Create a 3x3 (5x5 at level 5) zone centered on the target.
Until the end of your next turn, any enemy that takes any action in the zone that doesn’t result in them leaving it, or that ends their turn in the zone, takes 3 damage (5 damage at level 9).

Sap Strength
At-Will, 5 range
Target is Weakened until the end of its next turn.
(At level 4, save ends. At level 8, Weaken two targets in range.)

Trick Arrow
Encounter, 10 range, 3 damage
Effect: Choose one effect from the following list:
Explosive Arrow: An explosive attaches itself to the target. At the start of the target’s next turn, it explodes, dealing 2 damage to the target and all adjacent creatures.
Alchemist’s Fire: Ongoing 2 Damage and any creature that starts its turn adjacent or moves adjacent gains this same Status (save ends).
Smokescreen: Create a 3x3 zone centered on the target—the zone is totally obscured: creatures in the zone can’t see out, creatures outside can’t see in.
Entangling Bolt: Target is Immobilized until it spends an Attack Action to end this Status.
Tether Shot: Target is Immobilized, escape ends. While it is Immobilized, you can spend a Move Action to pull the target up to 5 squares.
Special: When you roll a 2 on your Trick Arrow power, you must treat it as though you rolled a 5, but you have run out of that kind of ammo.
Cross the effect off the list. (If you are making this attack in an area, you do not run out of this ammunition until all targets are resolved.)
Finding the materials and crafting these Trick Arrows is difficult, time-consuming and expensive.
You’ll have to find the downtime to make the Skill Rolls required if you want that particular ability back.
Use all the usual rules in the Non-Combat section. This is a powerful ability, so the GM should not let you off easy.

Freeze!
Encounter, Reaction
Trigger: An enemy moves.
Spend an Action Point. Replace the enemy where it started its movement.
Its Move Action is still expended.

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Origin: Degenerate Ex-Noble
Background: Dark Mage from a Different Dimension

Trick: Death-touched (B)
Having nearly died one before, Kraulee knows how to control his vitals to fake being actually dead

Trick: Necro Dancer (O)
Kraulee can call a spirit into his body and let them speak with his mouth, with a bit of ritual

Skills
(B) Connections: Gossipy Retainers
(B) Dark Magic
(B) Mana Lines*
(B) Buttling
(B) Alchemy
(O) Seance
(O) Medicine (Anatomy)
(P) Personal Vices
Wealth: Poor (1)

Kit: Seer
Once per session, you may foresee the results of an action before you or another player rolls. Announce that you are using this ability, make the roll in question and let the GM describe the results, including any resulting Twist. Then you may decide whether to go through with the roll and the outcome you foresaw, or to try something different.

Advance: Find the Pivot
You can see where the winds of change are blowing and find the weakest point in the house of cards that is the status quo. Perhaps you wish to buttress it, or perhaps to hasten its fall. Once per session, you may ask the GM where that weak point is and they must answer honestly. (E.g. “Hey, tensions have been running pretty high. What would need to happen to turn these protests into a full-on riot?”)

Complication
(B) REALLY Not From Around Here
(O) Chuuni Goth

Gear
Tome of Dark Magic
Locket with Torn Photo from home

Relationships:
None yet

Motivations
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Class: The Necromancer
Mark of Death: The first time you hit each non-Stooge enemy with an attack and deal damage, reduce the damage you deal by one and give it the Mark of Death. When a creature with your Mark of Death is Taken Out, you gain the benefit of your Gift.
Lesser Gift of Undeath: When a creature with your Mark of Death is Taken Out, it stands up on its next Initiative count under your control as a Specter (see the statistics below). The Specter has 1 Hit Point and is Taken Out at the end of its first turn.

Ill Winds (Phantasms): At-Will Range 5 Damage 2, Roll required
Effect: The next ally to attack the target has Advantage.

Bloody Eitr (Deadly Poison): At-Will Melee or Range 5 Damage 2, Roll required
Effect: 1 Ongoing Damage and the target cannot regain Hit Points (save ends).

Command Undead: Encounter, Range 10
Special: May only target undead creatures. The target makes a Saving Throw. If it fails, it is Dominated until the end of the encounter.

Moon Festal (Raise Ally): Encounter Free Action
Targets one ally within 5 squares that has been Taken Out or is at or below 0 HP. The ally may re-enter the fight with 1 HP.

Role: The Leader

Tactics Encounter (refresh 5 or 6)
One ally of your choice may spend a Move Action immediately. (At level 8, two allies.)

Heal Encounter (range 5)
Target may regain Hit Points equal to half its maximum (round down). The target may pick one of the following options (at level 8, pick two options):
If the target is Prone, they may stand up.
If this brings the target to full health, they may have Advantage on their next attack.
Enemies have Disadvantage to attack the target until the end of the target’s next turn.
The target may make a Saving Throw against one Status that allows one or attempt to escape a Grab.

Action Trigger:
Try again! Encounter (Reaction)
Trigger: An ally makes an attack and dislikes the result.
Spend an Action Point. The ally may reroll the attack.

Feat: Superhuman
Wizard Sight (see in the dark)
Soul Walk (You can spend a Move Action to teleport up to your speed to swap places with a willing creature you can see, or an Attack Action if they are unwilling.)

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Background: Governing Princess
Origin: Warrior Priestess

Skills:
Commanding Presence (B)
Clergy contacts (connections) (B)
Terasdo Law (B)
Etiquette (B)
Ruler's Hexwork (B)
Axe Warrior (O)
Religious dogma (O)
Wealth (Rich) [2]

Tricks:
Aura of Rightness: Victoria can always seem like it's reasonable for her to be where she is, at least until someone stops and really thinks about it.
Rainmaker: Victoria's specialty with dark magic is actually the agricultural uses. She can always flawlessly execute such spells.

Complications:
Sees the world through religious lens (O)
"Of course I know what I'm doing" (P)

Kit: (Gunslinger + Face minikit)
Gunslinger (base): When someone challenges you to a duel, you gain an Action Point if you accept. When you challenge someone else to a duel, announcing their crimes to all, they must accept or else suffer Disadvantage on all social interactions until you pardon them or they defeat you in some way.
Smooth Patter: When you talk someone into something despite having Disadvantage for their poor disposition toward you, gain two Action Points.

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Class/Role: Necromancer (Lesser Gift of Terror)/Defender
Feat: Minor Blaster

Mark of Death/Lesser Gift of Terror: The first time you hit each non-Stooge enemy with an attack and deal damage, reduce the damage you deal by one and give it the Mark of Death. When a creature with your Mark of Death is Taken Out, each enemy within 3 squares of it and each other creature with your Mark of Death takes 1 damage and must make a Saving Throw. If they fail, they are Distracted until the end of their next turn.

Deadly Poison Grievous Wounds (at-will, melee or ranged 5, 2 damage)
Effect: 1 Ongoing Damage and the target cannot regain hit points (save ends).

Terrifying Visage Advancing Blow (at-will, melee, 2 damage)
Effect: Target must use its Move Action on its turn to move its speed away from you or take 3 damage.

Command Undead The Meek (encounter, ranged 10)
The target makes a Saving Throw. If it fails, it is Dominated until the end of the encounter.
"Meek" here would be those willing to fall in line to a clearly dominating royal figure. Very willing to have that be only as common undead would be.

Life Drain Untiring Power (encounter, melee, 2 damage)
Effect: 2 damage and regain 3 Hit Points.

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.

Mark (role, at-will, ranged 5)
Target is Marked by you until the end of its next turn.

You call that a punch? (encounter, interrupt)
Trigger: An enemy hits you with an attack.
Spend an Action Point. The attack misses instead.

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Name: Clare "The Plowshare"
Verudagh
Class: Martial Artist
Role: Striker
Background: Guerrilla Fighter
Origin: Uprooted Farmer
Kit: Protagonist + Who? (mini-kit)
Resources: Penniless (+0)

Skills:
B: Scavenging, Friendly Bandit (Connection), Axes and Poleaxes, Tactics, Intimidation, Pathfinding
O: Gardening, Weather Prediction
P: Medan Survivor (Connection)

Tricks
Friends with Bandits: I always know where to find a "friendly" bandit encampment, or one we could overtake with little effort.
Survival Instinct: I can find an escape route if the situation arises. I always know my nearest exit.

Complications
Uncouth: I'm not one to talk proper or behave in the company of nobles.
Rage Quit: I won't stand around if I feel that something is wasting my time.

Advances
Bumbling
Underestimated

Class Abilities
Basic Stances
- Weeping Willow
- Tempest
- Scorpion
Focused Attack

Gear
Bronze Axe
Leather Satchel, Writing Chalk, Compass

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Name: Charlton Ravencroft
Class: Warlord
Role: Leader
Background: Plague Doctor
Origin: Necromancy Test Subject
Kit: The Scholar
Resources: Wealth [1]
Fallback: Not until level 2

Skills
The Order of Saint Derzelas [connection]
Healing Magic
Diagnosis
Good Bedside Manner
Medicinal Healing
Necromancy
Lying
Surgery

Tricks
Materia Medica: Charlton‘s encyclopedic knowledge of magic-related illnesses allows him to identify any known magic disease from examining the symptoms.
Habeas Corpus: Because of his own undead nature and necromantic knowledge, Charlton can tell when someone is undead.

Complications
Dissociative Disorder: Charlton has an intense curiosity about who he was when he was alive. If he thinks there is a clue to his former identity, he will chase it
Physician, Heal Thyself: Charlton needs to take constant care of his body to prevent it from decaying.

Possessions
Medicine Kit
Surgery Kit
Rowan Staff
Serrated Knife
Notebook (appointments, prescriptions, bills, etc.)
Ink
Quill Pen

Advances
The Scholar: When you discover something strange or inexplicable, gain an Insight Token and write down the strangeness. You may spend three Insight Tokens to have a eureka moment about one of the things on your list. This is a sudden stroke of insight, equivalent to rolling a 6 on a knowledge roll.
Specialist: Eureka moments about [magical maladies] only cost 2 Insight Tokens.

Class/Role Abilities
Pure Support Powers: When you hit with a power that deals support effects, you take a Support Token but deal no damage. When you roll a 6 on such a power, take an additional Support Token. When you miss with any power, take a Support Token. At the end of each combat, extra Support Tokens may be spent to reduce Strikes. You may spend up to one Support Token per ally to reduce their personal Strikes by one.

Rousing: Spend a Support Token when an ally starts their turn to give them 2 Buffer Points. You may not spend more than one in this way on the same turn. Gain a Support Token
whenever a teammate within 5 squares of you takes a Strike or fails a Saving Throw.

Teamwork Boost: Gain the Tactics Encounter Power. When you roll a 5 or 6 on an attack, you gain an additional use of Action Potential

Healing Boost: Gain the Heal Encounter Power

Powers
Cut the Tendons (Knock Him Off Balance) (At-Will, 2 damage, Melee or Ranged 5)
The next ally to attack the target has Advantage. (At level 9, they deal 1 extra damage if they hit.)

Anatomy Lesson (Enumerate its Weaknesses) (At-Will, 2 damage, Melee or Ranged 5)
The next ally to attack the target with Advantage rolls 3 dice and takes the best. (At level 9, until the start of your next turn, any ally that attacks the target with Advantage rolls 3 dice.)

Emergency Resuscitation (Don’t Give Up) (Encounter, Interrupt)
Trigger: One ally within 5 squares drops to 0 HP or below.
The ally instead stays standing with 1 Hit Point.

Action Potential (Tactics) (Encounter)
One ally of your choice may spend a Move Action immediately.
(At level 8, two allies.)

Full Recovery (Heal) (Encounter, Ranged 5)
Target may regain Hit Points equal to half its maximum (round down). The target may pick one of the following options (at level 8, pick two options):
If the target is Prone, they may stand up.
If this brings the target to full health, they may have Advantage on their next attack.
Enemies have Disadvantage to attack the target until the end of the target’s next turn.
The target may make a Saving Throw against one Status that allows one or attempt to escape a Grab.
(At level 8, add to the list this option: the target may remove one Strike against them.)

Action Trigger: Bounceback (Try Again!) (Encounter, Reaction)
Trigger: An ally makes an attack and dislikes the result.
Spend an Action Point. The ally may reroll the attack.

Feats
Routine Procedure (Bread and Butter)
Pick one At-Will attack power [Cut the Tendons]. Once per turn, when any power or ability allows you to make a Basic Attack, you may use this attack instead.

Countblanc posted:

brennon posted:

grassy gnoll posted:

So, a word on muteness. I've been kicking around this idea for a while, and PbP means having the time to draw little responses, think about how to describe miming things, etc. If that's going to be too gimmickey or disruptive, let me know and I'll come up with something different.

Jade Mage posted:

Also, how comfortable is everyone with editing their characters? I notice in particular a lot of controllers, and want to make the team based on primarily the characters I think would be fun to play with, without getting dragged down by the mechanics of tactical combat.

Jade Mage posted:

Also, how comfortable is everyone with editing their characters? I notice in particular a lot of controllers, and want to make the team based on primarily the characters I think would be fun to play with, without getting dragged down by the mechanics of tactical combat.