Print

Please login or register.
1 Hour 1 Day 1 Week 1 Month Forever
Login with username, password and session length

[chaotic skies]

The Tower. Home (and grave) of countless adventurers, monsters, and villains alike. How and why you - or anyone, for that matter - end up here is unknown to all but the bravest and most foolhardy. Explore its floors and see what you can find, but beware - you're never quite alone. Even the safest parts of the Tower are more dangerous than most would be comfortable with. Reach the highest floor - if there is one - and you may find your freedom. Good luck.


Welcome to my newest probably doomed game. Make character sheet, explore, kill things, etc. You're not exactly limited to fantasy stuff, though this is a fantasy-based world - so if you've got a gun, you'd better find a way to get more bullets. Really what happens is almost entirely up to you guys - if you all want to decide you're one person with a lot of voices in their head - then I guess that's what we're doing

Spoiler: Rules (click to show/hide)

1. Include your character sheet when you post. This is as much to keep me from losing my mind keeping track of things as it is to make sure people remember what skills they have.

2. PvP is fine, but don't go out of your way to ruin each other's fun.

3. Have !!FUN!! Things are pretty lose and up to you, so do whatever, but be ready to accept the consequences.

Spoiler: Mechanics (click to show/hide)

Most things will be done off of a d10 plus or minus any modifiers. Not everything will, nor will I always tell you if you rolled or not - trying to open a door that isn't going to open no matter how hard you push will look the same as trying to open a door you can't tell you're close to forcing open, for example.

Combat is going to be the attacker's roll to hit +Agi or Str, vs the other guy's roll to survive +Agi or Str.

If it's an attack guaranteed to hit, it's probably going to be +Str to see if you actually do a significant amount of damage/survive the hit well. If it's got a decent potential to miss, it's probably +Agi to hit/dodge the attack.

We don't have hitpoints, but if you get shot in the eye, you don't have an eye until you get it healed.

You can target something in particular (with a minor modifier if your target is particularly small), or I'll just roll randomly if you hit but don't specify.

Spoiler: Char Sheet (click to show/hide)

Name: What do you go by? Doesn't have to be your real name, but it does have to be a reasonable length.
Race: What are you? Preferably keep it humanoid for simplicity, but as long as you can move and have a brain, I won't stop you from playing as a slime or something.
Description: What do you look like? Where are you from? What's your backstory? That kind of thing. Optional but appreciated.
Personality: Who are you? How do you act? Etc. Optional but appreciated.

Stats: Everyone starts at 0. You are capped at +/- 4, excluding very specific circumstances. Costs/refunds go as such: +/- 1 costs/refunds 1, +/- 2 costs/refunds 3, +/- 3 costs/refunds 6, +/- 4 costs/refunds 10. You start with 6 points to distribute as you please.
Agility: The overall speed at which you move. Helps dodge attacks, chase people down, etc.
Str: How strong your body is, both literally and in terms of taking damage. Used for picking stuff up, surviving hard attacks, etc.
Int: How fast your mind works. Helps in solving things like puzzles, reading quickly, etc.
Wis: How well your mind works. Helps in spotting small details, noticing lies, etc.

Skills: Skills are more specific than stats, but more powerful. The more specific a skill, the stronger the modifier - a skill in swinging a scimitar is going to give a bigger bonus than a skill in using swords in general, for example. You get three skills of your choosing, or alternatively one unique but powerful skill. DM me for unique skills, just so we don't clutter up the thread too much. Skills in general can increase in power, and you may gain more after your character is created.
Some examples:
Magically Gifted: +1 to learning magic.
Sword Dancer: +2 to dodging while holding two swords.
(Unique) Touched by Divinity: +3 to healing and any check relating to religion, deities, or religious figures.

Equipment: What you're starting with. This is up to you, but nothing too powerful. Again, you're not limited to fantasy gear, but I can't promise you'll have an easy time finding things like bullets or non-magical electricity. I reserve the right to ask you to remove things - so no 'destroy the universe' wands or nuclear bombs

Skills Registry

The skills registry exists as a master reference list of all the skills held between all characters, as well as a reference for other skill-related mechanics. Unique skills exist here purely for reference while creating new ones.

Mastery of a skill comes from a concerted effort to improve, as well as the continued use of a skill. Mastering a skill increases your bonus, the amount depends on how specific your skill is. Unique skills cannot be mastered.

Spoiler: Normal Skills (click to show/hide)

Magically Gifted: +1 to learning magic.
(Master) Magically Gifted: +3 to learning magic.
Sword Dancer: +2 to dodging while holding two swords.
(Master) Sword Dancer: +5 to dodging while holding two swords.
Scavenger: Capable of finding things where there appears to be nothing, doesn't mean the thing will be valuable or even that useful.
Marksmen: Is a good shot with almost all kinds of firearms.
Tinkerer: Able to take things apart and put them back together, also able to build things from random scraps.

Spoiler: Unique Skills (click to show/hide)

(Unique) Devil's Own Fire: +3 to fire and fire resistance. Bonuses to interacting with demons and demonic energy. Gains Firebolt as a basic attack. Incapable of Holy and Water magic, or using anything of that type.
(Unique) Heroic Ego: The difference between a warrior who's merely phenomenally skilled and a true Hero is a matter of ego. No matter how high a regular person's attribute numbers may be, he recognizes that some rules can't be broken, and that one day he'll eventually die. In contrast, a Hero recognizes no such things. Heroes are above the concerns of lesser men. Mortality, logic, and the laws of physics are beneath them, especially when performing a Heroic Feat, a once-per-turn ability that allows bending the laws of physics, logic, and other unneeded stuff in favor of performing a truly epic action straight out of a cheesy action movie, logic be damned. Heroic feats will have two D6s rolled - one for the hero, and one for whoever's going to have the worst time if the feat succeeds. If the hero's roll is equal to or higher than the opponent's roll, the feat succeeds, and fails if it's lower with predictable results, and if both roll a 1, nothing happens.
(Unique) Anima Ex Metallum: +3 to working with metal. Grants the Metal Manipulation spell, allowing the user to control metal. Cannot learn healing or life-stealing magic.
(Unique) Quality: Attacks add both Agi and Str, provided that the weapon used could plausibly use either attribute.

Spoiler: Character List (click to show/hide)

The character list is  a list of names, connected forum members, and links to their original character sheet.

Tim - Played by TricMagic

Beethro Budkin - Played by Devastator

Blod - Played by Supernerd

Cut - Played by Egan_BW

Tramyrk - Played by Glass

Manly Santa - Played by 0cra_tr0per

Debby - Played by King Zultan

Spoiler: Graveyard (click to show/hide)

A list of the dead and their last words/actions.

[TricMagic]

Spoiler: Tim (click to show/hide)

Name: Tim
Race: Human/Demon
Description: A plain looking girl with brown hair and smoldering brown eyes. Displaced from something, and touched by demonic energy. Has the devil's own luck from one foolish adventure or another.
Personality: The fool who likes fire. She burns things, things catch on fire, she's happy.

Stats: Everyone starts at 0. You are capped at +/- 4, excluding very specific circumstances. Costs/refunds go as such: +/- 1 costs/refunds 1, +/- 2 costs/refunds 3, +/- 3 costs/refunds 6, +/- 4 costs/refunds 10. You start with 6 points to distribute as you please.
Agility: 0
Str: +2
Int: +3
Wis: -2

Skills: Skills are more specific than stats, but more powerful. The more specific a skill, the stronger the modifier - a skill in swinging a scimitar is going to give a bigger bonus than a skill in using swords in general, for example. You get three skills of your choosing, or alternatively one unique but powerful skill. DM me for unique skills, just so we don't clutter up the thread. Skills in general can increase in power, and you may gain more after your character is created.
(Unique) Devil's Own Fire: +3 to fire and fire resistance. Bonuses to interacting with demons and demonic energy. Gains Firebolt as a basic attack. Incapable of Holy and Water magic, or using anything of that type.

Equipment: Traveler's Backpack- Full of stuff for the long journey. Includes pockets for preserved food, flint and steel, water bottles, cooking pot and dishes, plus an attached bedroll. Strangely fireproof.

[Devastator]

Spoiler: Beethro Budkin (click to show/hide)

Race: Abovegrounder Human
Description: A purple-tinged ugly human wearing a somewhat dirty yellow tunic and brown pants.  Wearing a baldrick with a really big sword in it.

Stats:

Agility 0
Str 3
Int 0
Wis 0

Skills:
True Smitemaster: Beethro has been exploring dungeons for longer than many people have been alive, and is very effective at reading a room and discovering the path to victory.  Bonus to identifying monsters, traps, and other dungeon-related dangers.

Really big sword: Beethro has been with his famous weapon for many years, and although it isn't unique, has come to know it like few others.  Bonus to fighting with a Really Big Sword.

Long Hauler: Expeditions normally last weeks, if not months.  Beethro knows how to convert dungeon monsters into tasty food, and knows how to scrounge up other mundane requirements, such as bedding, water, etcetera.  Can cook up dungeon monsters into edibility.  Bonus to safe resting and hiding.

Equipment: Really big sword.  Cooking gear.

[Supernerd]

Spoiler: Blod (click to show/hide)

Name: Blod
Race: Ogre
Description: A big ugly guy, standing about 9 feet tall. Smells bad even when clean.
Personality: Quick to anger, but otherwise fairly average.

Stats:
Agility: +2
Str: +4
Int: +2
Wis: -4

Skills:
Giant: This character is very big. They are tougher and hit harder, but are easier to hit and may not be able to fit through some of the dungeon's tighter spaces.
Rage: When this character is wounded, it gets a temporary bonus to combat actions. Can stack with itself if the wounds are significant.
Intimidation: Certain people and creatures will think twice about fighting this character head on.

Equipment: Crude Ogre-sized Leather Armor Set, Rusty Iron Helmet, Stone Greatmaul, x2 wooden clubs

[Egan_BW]

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Name: Cut
Race: Generic Human
Description: A guy with a sword. Spiky black hair.
Personality: Doesn't talk.

Stats:
Agi: +2
Str: +3
Int: -2
Wis: +0

Skills:
(Unique) Quality: Attacks add both Agi and Str, provided that the weapon used could plausibly use either attribute.

Equipment:
Bandanna of Badassery (Red cloth worn around the forehead. Enchanted. Always grants Cut maximum initiative vs weaker enemies.)
Muracumo (Very large curved sword. Requires great strength, dexterity, and endurance to wield effectively.)
Karate Gi (Clothing which offers minimal protection.)

[Glass]

Spoiler: Iron Man! (click to show/hide)

Name: Tramyrk
Race: Metal Elemental
Description: Tramyrk is, essentially, a 6 foot tall humanoid form of twisting and shifting steel, with their joints glowing a dim red with their heat, and eyes glowing blue with the same. They were artificially created by an industrially-inclined arcanist, who wanted something more intelligent than a golem to assist in their works, and they had no reason to rebel.
Personality: Tramyrk comes off as relatively passive, allowing others to make decisions. They don't look much like the kind to be insightful; a giant metal man with glowing eyes and no mouth looks more like a monster or mindless construct than anything else. These impressions are inaccurate. Tramyrk is actually quite intelligent; it is simply that they put their intellect to use more in figuring out how to accomplish things and construct items than more typically academic subjects, and they see no need to explain how smart they are.

Stats:
-Agility: 1
-Str: 1
-Int: 1
-Wis: 2

Skills:
(Unique) Anima Ex Metallum: +3 to working with metal. Grants the Metal Manipulation spell, allowing the user to control metal. Cannot learn healing or life-stealing magic.

Equipment: About 1000 pounds of steel, entirely contained within Tramyrk's form. (I looked up the volume of a human body and figured out the weight of that volume of steel. That's what came out. It's about .062 cubic meters, by the way, or 62,000 cubic centimeters.)

We desperately needed someone with good Wis, apparently. Thankfully, I was already planning to go the well-rounded route.

Waiting on a response for how to go about making a good unique skill for metal magic. Skill is in

[Screech9791]

Spoiler: Manly Santa (click to show/hide)

Name: Manly Santa
Race: Manly Human (like a normal human, but manlier)
Description: Ripped with a santa hat and a long white beard. Unmistakably manly.
Personality: Take a guess.

Stats:
Agility I
Strength I
Intelligence I
Wisdom I

Skills:
Intimidation: Certain people and creatures will think twice about fighting this character head on.
(Unique) Heroic Ego: The difference between a warrior who's merely phenomenally skilled and a true Hero is a matter of ego. No matter how high a regular person's attribute numbers may be, he recognizes that some rules can't be broken, and that one day he'll eventually die. In contrast, a Hero recognizes no such things. Heroes are above the concerns of lesser men. Mortality, logic, and the laws of physics are beneath them, especially when performing a Heroic Feat, a once-per-turn ability that allows bending the laws of physics, logic, and other unneeded stuff in favor of performing a truly epic action straight out of a cheesy action movie, logic be damned. Heroic feats will have two D6s rolled - one for the hero, and one for whoever's going to have the worst time if the feat succeeds. If the hero's roll is equal to or higher than the opponent's roll, the feat succeeds, and fails if it's lower with predictable results, and if both roll a 1, nothing happens.

Equipment:
Santa hat
'Occult' Uzi 9mm (Special: Can fire most ammo types that could be put into a pistol/SMG magazine within reason. How does it even do that? I don't know, it's probably a magic enchantment that changes the magazine well and internal parts to work with assorted ammo types. Fast firing.)
 -Loaded: 9mm SMG magazine (32/32)
7x 9mm SMG magazines (32 shots each)
Sack of Coal (contains 40 chunks of coal for throwing at naughty people (read: most enemies we'll encoutner) and fueling fires)
Candy cane knife (A normal yet large knife from the crossguard up, the handle has been replaced with a red and white striped handle in the shape of a candy cane.)

[King Zultan]

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Name: Debby
Race: Deer woman
Description: She looks like a human with the head of a deer, and also a crazy hobo with that pot on her head and cloak made from potato sacks.
Personality: Curious about everything.

Stats:
Agility: 1
Str: 1
Int: 2
Wis: 1

Skills:
Scavenger: Capable of finding things where there appears to be nothing, doesn't mean the thing will be valuable or even that useful.
Marksmen: Is a good shot with almost all kinds of firearms.
Tinkerer: Able to take things apart and put them back together, also able to build things from random scraps.

Equipment: Copper pot, necklace of spoons, cloak made from potato sacks, dirty old clothing, flintlock pistol, small bag filled with wad and bullets, powder horn, small knife

[chaotic skies]

I'm gonna say 7 is a good number of people, so let's get this started, and anyone else who decides to join may do so whenever


The world seems to stutter. You feel a great twist in your soul and a tug, and suddenly your surroundings change.

Wherever you may have been, you are now in a great hall of stone. Light shines through massive stained glass windows, each one depicting a different story - some of great victories, others of heart wrenching defeats. At one end, there is a massive door, carved with a depiction of a great tower, a light shining out from the very top. In the floor is a large, slightly raised, circular dais. Depicted on top of it is what seems to be some sort of astrological cycle.

Whether sitting or standing, you all appear on or in front of a heavy wooden bench, clearly weathered with age. The rest of the hall is empty, save the door, dais, and the bench you've all appeared upon.

What shall you do?

[TricMagic]

Wood!

Firebolt the wooden door to set it on fire. Then watch it burn some.

Spoiler: Tim the Pyromaniac (click to show/hide)

Name: Tim
Race: Human/Demon
Description: A plain looking girl with brown hair and smoldering brown eyes. Displaced from something, and touched by demonic energy. Has the devil's own luck from one foolish adventure or another.
Personality: The fool who likes fire. She burns things, things catch on fire, she's happy.

Stats: Everyone starts at 0. You are capped at +/- 4, excluding very specific circumstances. Costs/refunds go as such: +/- 1 costs/refunds 1, +/- 2 costs/refunds 3, +/- 3 costs/refunds 6, +/- 4 costs/refunds 10. You start with 6 points to distribute as you please.
Agility: 0
Str: +2
Int: +3
Wis: -2

Skills: Skills are more specific than stats, but more powerful. The more specific a skill, the stronger the modifier - a skill in swinging a scimitar is going to give a bigger bonus than a skill in using swords in general, for example. You get three skills of your choosing, or alternatively one unique but powerful skill. DM me for unique skills, just so we don't clutter up the thread. Skills in general can increase in power, and you may gain more after your character is created.
(Unique) Devil's Own Fire: +3 to fire and fire resistance. Bonuses to interacting with demons and demonic energy. Gains Firebolt as a basic attack. Incapable of Holy and Water magic, or using anything of that type.

Equipment: Traveler's Backpack- Full of stuff for the long journey. Includes pockets for preserved food, flint and steel, water bottles, cooking pot and dishes, plus an attached bedroll. Strangely fireproof.

[Egan_BW]

Cut looks around silently for a few moments before concluding that this is not a cutscene.
Swing my sword at the windows, the dias, the bench, and finally the door, resting if these objects are destructable. If any of them break, look through the wreckage for anything useful to loot.

"Hiah!"

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Name: Cut
Race: Generic Human
Description: A guy with a sword. Spiky black hair.
Personality: Doesn't talk.

Stats:
Agi: +2
Str: +3
Int: -2
Wis: +0

Skills:
(Unique) Quality: Attacks add both Agi and Str, provided that the weapon used could plausibly use either attribute.

Equipment:
Bandanna of Badassery (Red cloth worn around the forehead. Enchanted. Always grants Cut maximum initiative vs weaker enemies.)
Muracumo (Very large curved sword. Requires great strength, dexterity, and endurance to wield effectively.)
Karate Gi (Clothing which offers minimal protection.)

[Supernerd]

Blod sits down at the bench and attempts to understand what just happened.

(I will point out that my skills were not yet added to the Skills Registry. And at least one other player's application appears to have been done incorrectly, I recommend that you review them.)

Spoiler: Blod (click to show/hide)

Name: Blod
Race: Ogre
Description: A big ugly guy, standing about 9 feet tall. Smells bad even when clean.
Personality: Quick to anger, but otherwise fairly average.

Stats:
Agility: +2
Str: +4
Int: +2
Wis: -4

Skills:
Giant: This character is very big. They are tougher and hit harder, but are easier to hit and may not be able to fit through some of the dungeon's tighter spaces.
Rage: When this character is wounded, it gets a temporary bonus to combat actions. Can stack with itself if the wounds are significant.
Intimidation: Certain people and creatures will think twice about fighting this character head on.

Equipment: Crude Ogre-sized Leather Armor Set, Rusty Iron Helmet, Stone Greatmaul, x2 wooden clubs

[Devastator]

Beethro mutters to himself a moment.  "First level, The Entrance."

"And I see someone's already looking for crumbly walls.  That's good."

Wait a bit to let the fires burn down before proceeding.

Spoiler: Beethro Budkin (click to show/hide)

Race: Abovegrounder Human
Description: A purple-tinged ugly human wearing a somewhat dirty yellow tunic and brown pants.  Wearing a baldrick with a really big sword in it.

Stats:

Agility 0
Str 3
Int 0
Wis 0

Skills:
True Smitemaster: Beethro has been exploring dungeons for longer than many people have been alive, and is very effective at reading a room and discovering the path to victory.  Bonus to identifying monsters, traps, and other dungeon-related dangers.

Really big sword: Beethro has been with his famous weapon for many years, and although it isn't unique, has come to know it like few others.  Bonus to fighting with a Really Big Sword.

Long Hauler: Expeditions normally last weeks, if not months.  Beethro knows how to convert dungeon monsters into tasty food, and knows how to scrounge up other mundane requirements, such as bedding, water, etcetera.  Can cook up dungeon monsters into edibility.  Bonus to safe resting and hiding.

Equipment: Really big sword.  Cooking gear.

[Glass]

Tramyrk just stood in place, observing all of the people who had been teleported with them.

"...what are you all doing?"

Spoiler: Tramyrk the Metal Elemental (click to show/hide)

Name: Tramyrk
Race: Metal Elemental
Description: Tramyrk is, essentially, a 6 foot tall humanoid form of twisting and shifting steel, with their joints glowing a dim red with their heat, and eyes glowing blue with the same. They were artificially created by an industrially-inclined arcanist, who wanted something more intelligent than a golem to assist in their works, and they had no reason to rebel.
Personality: Tramyrk comes off as relatively passive, allowing others to make decisions. They don't look much like the kind to be insightful; a giant metal man with glowing eyes and no mouth looks more like a monster or mindless construct than anything else. These impressions are inaccurate. Tramyrk is actually quite intelligent; it is simply that they put their intellect to use more in figuring out how to accomplish things and construct items than more typically academic subjects, and they see no need to explain how smart they are.

Stats:
-Agility: 1
-Str: 1
-Int: 1
-Wis: 2

Skills:
(Unique) Anima Ex Metallum: +3 to working with metal. Grants the Metal Manipulation spell, allowing the user to control metal. Cannot learn healing or life-stealing magic.

Equipment: About 1000 pounds of steel, entirely contained within Tramyrk's form. (I looked up the volume of a human body and figured out the weight of that volume of steel. That's what came out. It's about .062 cubic meters, by the way, or 62,000 cubic centimeters.)

[Screech9791]

>Use my knife to carve a rude drawing into the walls.

Spoiler: Manly Santa (click to show/hide)

Name: Manly Santa
Race: Manly Human (like a normal human, but manlier)
Description: Ripped with a santa hat and a long white beard. Unmistakably manly.
Personality: Take a guess.

Stats:
Agility I
Strength I
Intelligence I
Wisdom I

Skills:
Intimidation: Certain people and creatures will think twice about fighting this character head on.
(Unique) Heroic Ego: The difference between a warrior who's merely phenomenally skilled and a true Hero is a matter of ego. No matter how high a regular person's attribute numbers may be, he recognizes that some rules can't be broken, and that one day he'll eventually die. In contrast, a Hero recognizes no such things. Heroes are above the concerns of lesser men. Mortality, logic, and the laws of physics are beneath them, especially when performing a Heroic Feat, a once-per-turn ability that allows bending the laws of physics, logic, and other unneeded stuff in favor of performing a truly epic action straight out of a cheesy action movie, logic be damned. Heroic feats will have two D6s rolled - one for the hero, and one for whoever's going to have the worst time if the feat succeeds. If the hero's roll is equal to or higher than the opponent's roll, the feat succeeds, and fails if it's lower with predictable results, and if both roll a 1, nothing happens.

Equipment:
Santa hat
'Occult' Uzi 9mm (Special: Can fire most ammo types that could be put into a pistol/SMG magazine within reason. How does it even do that? I don't know, it's probably a magic enchantment that changes the magazine well and internal parts to work with assorted ammo types. Fast firing.)
 -Loaded: 9mm SMG magazine (32/32)
7x 9mm SMG magazines (32 shots each)
Sack of Coal (contains 40 chunks of coal for throwing at naughty people (read: most enemies we'll encoutner) and fueling fires)
Candy cane knife (A normal yet large knife from the crossguard up, the handle has been replaced with a red and white striped handle in the shape of a candy cane.)