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[Draignean]

So, here's the thing, I've got this system I'm tumbling around and I think it's working alright. However, that could be because I'm not breaking it hard enough. I need people who are walking disasters, people without a semblance of sanity, people who break everything they touch.

Which brings me to you.

You are going to help me pull together three characters (in order to test how well this works and to gauge player satisfaction) and then you're going to fight things until I'm done with you. There may be maps. There may not. There may be interest. There may not.

The system is designed make combat a bit more than I MOVE TO ATTACK X WITH MY THING, played on a loop. Of course this change might be confusing, or it might just add a layer of unnecessarily unfun to a perfectly viable hitting things loop.

So, without further ado, here's the character sheets. I need three of them. Don't really care from who, so feel free to fight over which ones you want to see battle to the death.

Spoiler: Character Sheet (click to show/hide)

Name: //A Name
HP: //Base 20, see stats.
Hope: 0/10
Desperation: 0/1
Essence: 0
Archetype: //A general archetype. Dread Berserker, Cathedral Night, Eldritch Mechanist, etc. 3 Words max, though I might let you get in an extra 'of' or similar word if you really need it.
Assets:  //You don't get to pick these, will be decided by your soul and archetype.
Agonies: //You don't get to pick these, will be decided by your soul and archetype.
Inventory:
//Fill in four items that you want to start with. You may get them, variations on them, or something completely different. The more generic (i.e, Sword) you start off with, the more likely I am to detail it.  Including the attributes an item is governed by is strongly recommended in order to avoid a generic sword becoming a rapier (Precision+Agility) when you wanted a jagged machete (Potency).


Attributes //You have 8 points to distribute.
Potency: //Governs Abilities that let you attack more often and hit harder
Precision: //Governs abilities that increase your chance of hitting and critical hits.
Vigor: //Governs abilities that protect you from debuffs/extend buffs and make it easier to use other abilities.
Will: //Governs abilities that directly protect you from damage.
Agility: //Governs abilities that let you move and act more quickly.

Soul:
//Leave this block empty
//Once in, I'm going to consult the I-Ching and fill the rest of this stuff in.

Modifiers 
//Leave this block empty, will be generated for you after everything else is considered. Basically this is a summary block that includes features from your soul, your weapons, your stats, your assets, and your agonies.

Abilities
//Leave blank, this will be generated last.

Spoiler: Combat Rules (click to show/hide)

So, combat is designed to move quickly* and potentially end brutally. There are always more people willing to die, and you can always remake a character from the Assembly if you become too damaged to continue.

Combat Basics

Damage is based on the chunky salsa system with an HP mask over the top. Essentially, you'll get hurt and take injuries. You don't heal over time. There are no healing items. There is exactly one way to heal, and that's essence (see the spoiler below), so you've got to try and minimize the wounds you take so as to stay functional on your way to usurp the Throne of Almighty God.

At the heart of the combat are frames. In a round of combat, each unit gets five frames. Frames can be used to attack, defend, dodge, and activate abilities. Some characters might get an additional action, and most NPCs will be forced to leave frames blank.  Each action within a frame is evaluated simultaneously before moving on to the next frame.

The typical actions that one can use frames for are as follows:

Light Attack
Heavy Attack
Block
Block (Active)
Defensive Roll
Use Ability
Move

Light Attack: Makes a single light attack. Light attacks don't do a lot of damage, but you can make a lot more of them.   The frame cost for a light attack is described on the weapon by 'L:X' where X is the cost of the Light attack in frames. If a light attack causes you to move, the movement is completed at the end of the frame.

Heavy Attack: Makes a single heavy attack. Does great damage, but leaves the user open during wind-up and cooldown. Heavy attacks can stagger non-active defenders and deal additional damage to missed active blocks. The frame cost for a heavy attack is described on the weapon by 'H:X' where X is the cost of the heavy attack in frames. If a heavy attack causes you to move, the movement is completed at the end of the frame.

Block: Block actions attempt to negate incoming damage by buffing the resistance stat. Using a frame to block will apply the DR value of a shield or weapon to the next attack that hits on the same round. However, if a block action is made on the same frame that an attack hits, then the max DR of the shield is doubled, and the min value is set to 0. Heavy attacks, however, have a 50% chance to stagger a timed block even if the block is successful, and will always stagger if it breaks the block. A block can also be made to protect another, adjacent unit. Doing so requires a timed block, otherwise the interception fails. If the interception succeeds, the attack is treated as though the positions of the attacked unit and the defender were swapped. Block actions have a one frame cooldown, so you cannot block on consecutive rounds.

Active Block: An active block action functions like a standard block, except the user also specifies light or heavy. If the Active Block intercepts the right kind of attack on the same frame, then the attack deals no damage to the defender and the defender gets a free light attack against the attacker with their highest damage weapon. This light attack can be upgraded to a heavy attack by paying frames equal to the difference between the used weapon's light and heavy attack at the time the active block is declared. In addition, if the attack blocked was a light attack, the defender is staggered. However, if the active block does not meet the correct attack on the same frame, it's DR max is only half as effective as a regular block (rounded up). Worse, a heavy attack directly striking a light active block gets a free light attack in addition to their normal damage.

Defensive Roll: The user picks two adjacent combat frames (1-2, 3-4, etc). During their first frame, they cannot be hit. During the second frame, they can ignore attacks that only threaten them with a graze (see movesets), and degrade hits in the sweetspot to grazes. At the end of the first frame, they may choose to move one tile in any direction. A Defensive roll can only be used once per combat round.

Use Ability: Abilities represent the set of special powers, magical spells, divine blessings, and martial feats the character possesses. These abilities can be granted through equipment, special encounters and objects, or are simply intrinsic to the character. Abilities have their cooldown rates, fame costs, and attribute requirements. Abilities, and the critical roles they play, are described in the spoiler 'Attributes and Abilities'. 

Move: The move action lets the user move a single tile quickly. Move actions are the only type of movement that is evaluated at the start of a frame, before all other actions, rather than at the end.

Attacks

All attacks, light and heavy, have different attack types according to the class of weapons used. This is referred to as the weapon's move set. Move sets vary dramatically between weapon types -a spear attacks nothing like a dagger, and neither work anything like an axe- and determine what tiles can be struck from the character's current position. There is an entire section below cataloging the move sets for various weapons, and it's an excellent idea to be familiar with the moveset of your chosen weapon.

In addition to assigning warm-up and cooldown frames (see below entry, timing), a character making an attack must choose the direction and type of attack when submitting their action. A north lunge is very different from a south-east left slash, and one must choose ahead of time which one is better suited to the task.

A special point is in the case of ranged attacks. Ranged attacks do not have a specific moveset. Rather they all share the same kind of light attack, and each ranged weapon can only use one of three (with a few exceptions) heavy attacks. A light attack with a ranged weapon can target any specific tile within its range. However, the attack must be aimed at the tile, not an individual. You cannot assign a ranged attack to 'nearest enemy' or 'Giant Lizard 3', it must be aimed at a coordinate. Depending on the weapon, one of three heavy ranged attacks may be available. Type one is a sniper shot. It aims the same as a light attack, but does heavy attack damage. Type two is a burst. It aims the same as a light attack, but does light attack damage not only to the targeted tile, but to all adjacent tiles. Type three is a line. It can be aimed from any of the six directions and extends one tile past the weapon's maximum range, dealing light damage to every target on the line.

If you get a target (Enemy or friendly) within the tiles your attack threatens, you can start dealing damage.*

Assuming the target isn't in a dodge roll or using any number of abilities that let them evade attacks.

Dealing Damage

Each weapon has a damage value associated with it along with its other properties. The damage given is for the light attack of the weapon in the absence of other modifying conditions. Damage is rolled once a hit is confirmed. After the base damage is roll, there are a number of other modifiers to consider,

 1. If the blow was a heavy attack the total damage is doubled.
 2. If the blow was a graze (a yellow tile in the moveset) the damage is halved.
 3. If it hits an opponent who is currently attacking (not warming up or cooling down, but actively attacking) the damage is increased by 50%.
 4. If the attack has an elemental type it's checked against the defender's elements for damage modification (-40% to +40%)

This number is the raw damage of the attack. The raw damage is then subject to any damage reduction the defender might have from armor or abilities. Whatever damage is left over after reduction is then applied to the character as actual damage.
Staggering


A properly timed attack (see light and heavy attacks above) will stagger the target, reducing the number of usable frames they have by 1d4 on the next round.

Timing

Abilities that take multiple frames can execute the attack on any frame, and the frames expended for the attack do not have to be continuous. Consider the Halberd given in the example character. Its heavy attack takes four frames, but doesn't mean that there's three framed of wind-up and then 1 frame of attack, or that there is one frame of attack and then 3 frames of cooldown.

Valid
F1: Heavy Attack (Attack Type)
F2:-
F3:-
F4:-
F5: [Free Frame]

Valid
F1: [Free Frame]
F2:-
F3:-
F4:-
F5: Heavy Attack (Attack Type)

Still Valid
F1: -
F2: Heavy Attack (Attack Type)
F3:  [Free Frame]
F4: -
F5: -

Essentially, as long as you sacrifice three frames and use one to attack, it's valid. This means that you can launch a heavy attack and then immediately launch a light attack, if you've got the frames for it and don't mind the massive cooldown period afterward.

Patterns

Now, at this point you might be thinking that this would all be completely random in practice, or reduce down to a couple of ideal patterns depending on weapon. Which, for PvP is probably correct. However, most all NPCs will have access to a limited set of patterns.

A pattern is a sequence of five moves whose position and order do not change. Learning the patterns of your targets enables you to develop strategies for how to kill them quickly, how to kill them safely, and, with a bit of skill, how to kill them and something else simultaneously without dying.

It is worth noting that while a pattern does not change, some replacement and chaos is allowed. For instance, any NPC can sacrifice any action in their pattern to make a move action instead. If the move sacrificed is an attack, all the other frames of the attack are either repurposed for movement or left blank- they cannot be used to make unexpected attacks/rolls/blocks. In addition the actual moves used for the attacks in an NPC's pattern (i.e., which light attack they choose from their moveset) is determined from the set of all moves they have, and thus makes them slightly unpredictable.

Taking Damage

You don't die when you HP reaches 0. Rather, your current wounds are aggregated into a single new agony and your HP resets.  You may be briefly knocked out of the fight when this occurs, but it's unlikely you'll be knocked out for good.

There are two ways to die for good: actually giving up, or getting five more agonies than you have assets. Either one causes you to madden, losing your mind to the pain that consumes you.

Spoiler: Items (click to show/hide)

Items fall into three major categories: Weapons, Armors, and Accessories.

Almost all items have one tag in common, the requirements tag. The requirements tag looks like

Req: XYZ

where XYZ is filled in with the relevant stats. For example, Req: 3 Pot, 2 Pre means that the item requires 3 potency and 2 precision to use. If you do not meet the minimum stat requirements for a weapon, you will be unable to use it effectively, if at all.

Armor

Armor has a damage reduction value indicated by

DR:X/Y

X is the amount of damage an incoming attack has to deal, and functions as the minimum amount of damage that an incoming attack can be reduced to. Y is the die size that the reduction dice uses.  So, for example, a set of armor with DR:5/10 would reduce the damage of any incoming attack by 1d10, down to a minimum value of 5. A set of Armor with DR:2/5 has less damage absorption per attack, but triggers more often. DR:2/5 and DR:10/20 are both useful, but for very different types of engagement.

Like all items, armors grant abilities depending on their attribute focus and requirement. Armors that require agility boast evasive abilities to simply dodge high power attacks, armors that need Will offer new methods to tank damage and and benefit from taking hits, armors that require vigor protect the user from various status effects or can be used to buff themselves.

Weapons
Weapons all deal damage. Grenades, swords, steam powered crossbows, pyromancer staves, they're all weapons for our purposes.  A weapon can have the following tags,

L:X | H:X | DR:X/Y | Dam:X-Y | P:X | U:X/Y | Ra:X

L:X and H:X, as discussed above, are the frame cost of the light and heavy attacks.

DR:X/Y is the defense value of the weapon, same as with armor above, but ONLY comes into play when blocking with the weapon. Shields, very technically still weapons, may only have a DR value.

Dam:X-Y is the damage of the weapon's light attack. 

P:X is the number of frames it takes to prime the weapon. Priming doesn't count as wind-up or cooldown, but priming frames must be contiguous. Being hit during priming frames will cancel the action, essentially staggering the target for the duration of the priming. Once primed, a weapon will stay primed until used.

U:X/Y is the number of uses an object has, and how many are available per encounter. U:3/3 means a weapon has three uses available and can be used three times per encounter. U:3/- Means that a weapon has three uses available and breaks when the last use is expended.

Ra:X is the range of the weapon in tiles.

The absence of a tag means that the weapon simply lacks this ability completely. The only real requirements for a weapon is that it must have a damage and at least one attack mode.

Accessories

Accessories are charms, bangles, potions, and scrolls that aid the character. They can be powerful or weak, single-use or constant, simple stat bonuses or advanced situational effects. Essentially, accessory covers literally everything that isn't a Weapon or a piece of Armor.

The bonuses from an accessory are typically given as a text based description, and have no constant tags.

Hands and Accessory Slots

In general, you can only have 5 Items Actively equipped.

2 Weapons
1 Armor
2 Accessories

For weapons, you can have one weapon in each hand. A shield counts as a weapon. Twin weapons require both hands to use, as do the aptly named two-handed weapons. Swapping between one of the two weapons you have and an inventory weapon costs frames equal to the highest frame cost of either of the two weapons, down to a minimum of 3 frames.

Swapping armor can't be done during an encounter.

Swapping Accessories out costs 3 frames.

Spoiler: Statistics, Attributes, and Abilities (click to show/hide)

(For our purposes HP, Hope, Desperation, and Essence are all statistics. Potency, Precision, Vigor, Will, and Agility are Attributes)

Health

Health is basically what it says on the tin. HP represents how close you are to getting a major wound. Each major wound drains your sanity, and once you get 5 you go utterly mad with pain. HP can be restored with essence (see below) but ONLY with essence. There are no healers capable of mending you, no potions that can restore your broken flesh.

You gain 1 hit point every level.

Hope

Hope is the statistic that will fluctuate the most as you play. Most abilities run off charges from your five attributes, and hope is what allows you to recharge those attributes via the three resurgence abilities. You can never have more than 10 charges of Hope stored at once. You can never use resurgence to gain more charges in an attribute than your score in that attribute. (If you have a Precision of 5, and roll a 7 on a major resurgence, you can still only have a max of 5 charges in precision)

Resurgence (Minor): Spend 3 hope to gain 1d3 charges in any one attribute. Swift Action.
Resurgence (Major): Spend 6 hope to gain 1d6+2 charges in any one attribute. Costs 1 frame
Resurgence (Grand): Spend 10 hope to gain 1d10+4 charges in any one attribute. Costs 3 Frames.

Gaining Hope

There are multiple methods of gaining hope, and most all involve endangering yourself in some way.

• Hitting an enemy generates 1 Hope
• Killing an enemy generates an additional 1-5 Hope.
• An Ally killing an enemy generates 1 Hope
• Intercepting a blow meant for an ally generates 1 Hope
• Uniquely Buffing an Ally generates 1 Hope
• Uniquely Debuffing an Enemy generates 1 Hope
• Sufficiently deserving/suicidal actions in combat can generate Hope
• Any Deserving Actions/ tasty RP outside combat can generate Hope

Losing Hope

Losing hope is a little harder than gaining hope, but is still something to keep a wary eye on.

• Being struck destroys 1 Hope
• Gaining an Agony destroys all Hope
• An Ally gaining an Agony causes all party members to lose 3 Hope
• Striking an Ally by accident destroys 2 hope

Desperation

The pair to Hope, Desperation is a powerful tool, but you only gain desperation charges in the most dire of situations. You can carry as many desperation charges as you have agonies, and the only surefire way of recharging Desperation is to gain an agony- an action which completely fills your desperation charges.

Desperation charge gain is situational, and can happen for a variety of reasons out of combat, but will only happen in combat in truly dire situations. It can get you out of a jam, providing a bit of cushion for suicidal tactics, but you can't rely on it.

Desperation charges can be spent on the following abilities,

Desperate Attack: Spend 1 charge to make an attack that has swift strike and maximized damage.

Desperate Roll: Spend 1 charge to make a quick movement and make a standard roll with two frames of full invincibility. Does not count as your dodge roll for the round.

Desperate Resurgence: Spend 1 charge to gain 1d4+1 charges in all attributes. Swift.

Essence

Essence is the raw material of the soul, gained from defeated foes, and is both the material used to level up and the only thing that can heal damage.

Essence can ONLY be spent between combat encounters, not during.

Leveling Up

Using essence to level up is simple. You just need essence equal to the current sum of all of your attribute points. Spend that much essence, and you can add one more attribute point anywhere you'd like. This action also increases your max and current health by 1.

Healing

Healing is a more expensive and tricky proposition.  Restoring health via essence has a price dependent on your current health,

Current HP =< 25% : 1 Point per HP
25% < Current HP =< 50% : 3 points per 2 HP
50% < Current HP =< 75% : 2 Points per HP
75% < Current HP =< 100% : 5 points per 2 HP

Agonies can also be removed with sufficient essence. This requires that the character already be at max health, and then pays as much as a 25% heal + (20-3*#CurAgonies). It then removes the agony and sets the character back at 25% health.

Attributes and Attribute Charges
Attributes run off a charge system, and the points you invest in each attribute now represent the maximum number of charges you can have in that attribute. These attributes start filled at the beginning of the game, but at every point thereafter must be recharged through the use of the resurgence abilities.

The below are the special abilities that you can spend your points on:

Potency
Accelerated Strike: Removes 1 frame from the heavy or light frame cost of a weapon.  Costs 1 potency charge. Cannot reduce costs to 0.
Staggering Blow: Gives light attack s this round a +25% chance to stagger and heavy attacks a +75% chance to stagger. Costs 2 potency charges.

Precision
Critical Strikes: All yellow spaces of a single attack are treated as red.  Costs 1 Precision Charge.
Twisting Blow: Simultaneously make an attack from any adjacent tile. This attack does not have to have the same name or the same direction. Whichever attack threatens more enemy targets is used. Costs 2 precision charges.

Will
Poise: Remove 1 frame of stagger. Costs 1 will charge.
Reinforce: Gain 5-10 damage resistance this round. Timed Blocks gain an additional 5-10 damage resistance. Costs 2 will charges.

Vigor
Second Wind: Use to spend vigor charges to replace up 50% of the charges required for any other ability.
Endure: Spend 2 vigor charges to ignore any debuff (including an agony) extend any Buff duration by 1 round.


Agility
Swift Strike: Spend 1 agility charge to make an attack that is evaluated before all movement except swift movement.
Swift Move: Spend 2 agility charges to move once as a swift action.

Defiance

Defiance is a special ability in common with all player characters, and reflects a heroic ability to withstand damage that would destroy lesser individuals. Defiance does not have charges, but is instead either 'active' or 'inactive'. Characters always start encounters with Defiance active. When defiance is active, a character can choose to negate the damage they received from any single attack on the most recent combat round. This causes Defiance to become inactive and can ONLY be done immediately after one round ends but before the next begins.

In addition, if a character's HP is reduced to 0 or below while Defiance is active, they will automatically expend it in order to reverse the most damaging attack received up to and including the blow that reduced them to 0 HP or below.

When Defiance is inactive, it can be reactivated in one of two ways: waiting, or a Defiant Resurgence. Defiance will reactivated naturally after 5 rounds have passed since it was used, functionally a 25 frame cooldown. However, it can also be restored through the use of the Resurgence ability described below. No other abilities that modify cooldowns can alter the cooldown of Defiance unless explicitly stated.

Defiant Resurgence: Spend 5+X charges from any combination of attributes to reactivate Defiance early. X is the number of times the ability has been used in the current chapter (one overmap). Swift Action.

Movesets

Spoiler: Axe (click to show/hide)

Light

Rush Left


Rush Right


Front Chop


Heavy

Heavy Rush Left


Heavy Rush Right


Heavy Rend

Spoiler:  Heavy Claws, Twin (click to show/hide)

Light

Fade Right


Fade Left


Vicious Rush


Heavy

Claw Rend


Sweeping Rush


Withdraw

Spoiler: Dagger, Double (click to show/hide)

Light

Withdraw


Rush Cut


Dash Slash


Heavy

Strafe Left


Strafe Right


Spin Slash

Spoiler: Dagger, Thrusting (click to show/hide)

Light

Stab


Lunge


Fierce Lunge


Heavy

Assassinate


Rapid Withdraw


Spin Slash

Spoiler: Fist, Untrained (click to show/hide)

Light/Heavy

Spoiler: Halberd (click to show/hide)

Light

Sweep Right


Sweep Left


Pierce


Heavy

Strong Left Sweep


Strong Right Sweep


Heavy Lunge

Spoiler: Spear (click to show/hide)

Light

Spear Whirl


Light Lunge


Impale


Heavy

Left Sweep


Right Sweep


Heavy Lunge

Spoiler: Staff (click to show/hide)

Light

Left Strike


Right Strike


Staff Spin


Heavy

Advance Left


Advance Right


Heavy Lunge

Spoiler: Sword, Straight (click to show/hide)

Light

Left Slash


Right Slash


Lunge


Heavy

Heavy Slash


Sweep


Heavy Lunge

[OceanSoul]

Name: Hau Enduum
HP: 20
Archetype: Beasthearted Fighter
Assets:
Agonies:
Inventory:Metal Claws (x2, if only having 1 means it's for a single hand)
Fur Armor
Butchery Dagger
(If I don't need to have x2 claws to dual wield) Power Armlet

Statistics:
Potency-2
Precision-1
Vigor-0
Will-1
Agility- 1

Soul:

Modifiers

Abilities

Edit: If anyone can't come up with ideas, I might be willing to help you out.

[Draignean]

Name:
HP: 20
Archetype:
Assets:
Agonies:
Inventory:Metal Claws (x2, if only having 1 means it's for a single hand)
Fur Armor
Butchery Dagger
(If I don't need to have x2 claws to dual wield) Power Armlet

Statistics:
Potency-2
Precision-1
Vigor-0
Will-1
Agility- 1

Soul:


Modifiers

Abilities

Name: Hau Enduum
HP: 20
Archetype: Beasthearted Fighter
Assets:
Overwhelming Power: Every point of damage Hau deals has a 1% chance to stagger the target. This stagger is calculated at the end of the round.
Agonies:
Ancient Wounds: Light attacks received have a 10% chance to be upgraded to heavy attacks.

Statistics:
Potency-2 (3)
Precision-1
Vigor-0
Will-1
Agility- 1

Inventory:
Metal Claws  [L:2 H:3 D:2  Dam:3-7]
Fur Armor [E:3 R:1]
Butchery Dagger [L:1 H:3 Dam: 1-5]
Power Armlet [+1 Potency]

Soul:
Hexagram 34: Awesome Power
Upper Trigram: Thunder (Wood)
Lower Trigram: Heaven (Metal)

Modifiers 
+3 Damage
+1 To hit
+2 Resistance
+4 EVA

Abilities
Savage Flurry (From Claws): Cooldown 15, Frames 5. Make 5 consecutive light attacks.
Wrath of Heaven: Cooldown 3, Frames as Light attack. Make two light attacks, use the better of the two. Attack is typed as Metal.


Look good, Ocean Soul?

[IronyOwl]

Name: Shorn
HP: 20
Archetype: Writhing Wall
Assets: -
Agonies: -
Inventory:
Writhing Gothic Plate
Tower Shield of Eyes
Starmetal Sword
Amulet of Unspeakable Whispers

Statistics
Potency: 0
Precision: 0
Vigor: 0
Will: 5
Agility: 0

Soul:
-

Modifiers
-

Abilities
-

[OceanSoul]

Looks good, Draginean. Also, I was considering a potential new action you might want to add to the list; Intercept. Essentially, it's blocking an attack that would be aimed at another, probably an ally. Perhaps intercepting could take an ally's hit from that frame in the attack on for the turn.

[Draignean]

...

Name: Shorn
HP: 20
Archetype: Writhing Wall
Assets:
Union of the Old Flesh: Every 3 points of damage gains a charged that can be applied to increase a stat by 1 for a round.
Agonies:
Unstable Form: Abilities have a 25% chance to fizzle and go on cooldown when used.

Inventory:
Writhing Gothic Plate [R:5 -Acc:2 -E:2]
Tower Shield of Eyes [D:4 H:1 Dam: 0-2]
Starmetal Sword [L:2 H:4 Dam: 5-12]
Amulet of Unspeakable Whispers [Grants ability: Insidious Doubt]

Statistics
Potency: 0
Precision: 0
Vigor: 0
Will: 5
Agility: 0

Soul:
Hexagram 8: Bonding
Upper Trigram: Water
Lower Trigram: Earth

Modifiers
Resistance: 10
1d2 Evasion
-2 to Hit

Abilities
Unspeakable Revelation: Cooldown 10, Frames 5. Swap resistance and Potency and make a single heavy attack.
Death Stare: Cooldown 3, Frames 1. Block action. Throw an attack roll on a successful block with the shield of eyes, if the target is struck their Will is reduced by the damage dealt. Reducing a target below 0 Will with this ability deals 1 point of damage.
Insidious Doubt Once per Encounter, Frames -. Curse a single target. That target gains a cumulative 5% chance to be staggered whenever they fail to hit you. Staggering an opponent in this manner resets the counter, as does a successful strike on their part. After three staggers, or if you stagger, the effect breaks.

Looks good, Draginean. Also, I was considering a potential new action you might want to add to the list; Intercept. Essentially, it's blocking an attack that would be aimed at another, probably an ally. Perhaps intercepting could take an ally's hit from that frame in the attack on for the turn.

Fair point, would certainly be nice for people who would be covering heavy weapon wielders in wind-up/cooldown frames. We might try that out.

[OceanSoul]

Just curious, why do I have two things for each of my trigrams (though the latter ones are in parenthesis), while Irony only has one each?

[Criptfeind]

Name: Miles Twice Dead
HP:  20
Archetype: Pistol Wraith
Assets:
Agonies:
Inventory:
St. Elmo's Pistols
Hangmans Noose
Charons bribe
Train robbers dynamite

Potency: 0
Precision: 2
Vigor: 0
Will: 0
Agility: 3

Soul:

Modifiers:

Abilities:

[Draignean]

Just curious, why do I have two things for each of my trigrams (though the latter ones are in parenthesis), while Irony only has one each?

Chinese Five Element Theory uses Fire, Earth, Water, Metal, and Wood. The I-Ching utilizes different names, but they still map back down to basic elements. In this case, yours weren't particularly clear which of the five elements they represent, so I clarified. IO's are pretty self explanatory, so no mapping.

Name: Miles Twice Dead
HP:  20
Archetype: Pistol Wraith
Assets:
Agonies:
Inventory:
St. Elmo's Pistols
Hangmans Noose
Charons bribe
Train robbers dynamite

Potency: 0
Precision: 2
Vigor: 0
Will: 0
Agility: 3

Soul:

Modifiers:

Abilities:

Huh. Guns. Well, it's a test, so that really doesn't matter. I'll put it up later and then start the ball rolling on a basic combat test.

[Tiruin]

Name: Old London's Highwayman
HP: 20
Archetype: Agile Marksman
Assets:  //You don't get to pick these, will be decided by your soul.
Agonies: //You don't get to pick these, will be decided by your soul.
Inventory:
Repeater Crossbow
White-Feathered Wide Hat
Specialized Ammunition
Hobnail Boots

Statistics 0
Potency: 2
Precision: 1
Vigor: 0
Will: 0
Agility: 2

Soul:
//Leave this block empty
//Once in, I'm going to consult the I-Ching and fill the rest of this stuff in.

Modifiers 
//Leave this block empty, will be generated for you after everything else is considered. Basically this is a summary block that includes features from your soul, your weapons, your stats, your assets, and your agonies.

Abilities
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Wait wow Cript I just pressed post and you got it in. Well cheers though! I'll leave this unedited. xD
PPEx2. Heya Draig Gonna PTW this then.

[Criptfeind]

Heh heh, I figured since there wasn't any lore about the setting and you're doing everything custom anyway I'd see if such a thing was alright.

Also hi Tiruin, I see great minds think alike.

[OceanSoul]

He put the lore in his pitch in the Gamer's Block thread. I'll put up a link.
Edit: Here.

[Criptfeind]

Ah, I see. Interesting idea for the setting. I could change my character if you don't want guns. Although I suppose the whole idea of an undead gunslinger is a bit redundant in a world where everyone is undead, hah.

Edit: Or maybe it'd super appropriate.

[Draignean]

Heh heh, I figured since there wasn't any lore about the setting and you're doing everything custom anyway I'd see if such a thing was alright.

Also hi Tiruin, I see great minds think alike.

'Tis absolutely fine. The name of a thing doesn't particularly matter, I was just surprised to see them. This is only a test, so lore and flavor can bung it for a bit.

[Draignean]

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Name: Miles Twice Dead
HP:  20
Archetype: Pistol Wraith
Assets:
Dead Again: If you take more than 25% of your remaining life in a single blow, re-roll the damage and take the lower value.
Agonies:
Death Echo: If you take more than 25% of your remaining life in a single blow, you become staggered.
Inventory:
St. Elmo's Pistols  [L:2 Ra:4 Dam: 8-10]
Hangmans Noose [EVA +4 -Pot: 2]
Charons bribe [Grants Ability: Early Reaping]
Train robbers dynamite [P:5 H:1 Ra:3 U:3/- Dam:15-30]

Potency: 0 (-2)
Precision: 2
Vigor: 0
Will: 0
Agility: 3

Soul:
Hexagram 63: Aftermath
Upper Trigram: Water
Lower Trigram: Fire

Modifiers:
-2 to Dealt Damage
+7 Evasion
+2 to hit

Abilities:
Dead Shot:  Cooldown 10, Frame cost 4. If the attacker is at least 2, and at most 6 tiles away, make single light attack. Attack gains +1 bonus damage per point the attack roll exceeds the defense roll. This can double the dealt damage, but no more. If this ability doubles the damage of the light attack, it is counted as a heavy attack for the purposes of inflicting stagger.
Blazing Doubleshot: Cooldown -, Framecost 5. Aligns weapon with fire and and makes two heavy attacks. This attack staggers you.
Early Reaping: Cooldown 2, Framecost 2. Select a single damaged target. That target has a %chance to die instantly equal to its current health fraction divided by two. (A unit at half health has a 25% chance to be killed instantly). If it fails, you take 1-6 damage.


If you've got objections, raise them now. At the moment, just from looking at the builds, I think I'm going to have to nerf resistance by a bit. We'll see.