I am also cool with either option.

Icy a quick mission as a cool way to get warmed up. But that's just my hot take

I'm so sorry

Alright, I think I want to get into the plot right away at this point, actually. As punishment for those forgotten tv-dinner cold puns i am taking away your vote for warm up mission @Crowvette. JK, it'll actually just be a lot easier for me to do the plot mission first, and I think I can sort of commandeer a character which I really like to fill in the 4th slot. I'll just ask the person first, but it should be good after that. Well, I'd have to write the post though, and short as that may be, I've got some things I need to take care of this week.

I'll try to get it done by the weekend or over the weekend if possible though.

Ok I'm back in it. Gonna be doing more stuff this week but I can focus my attention to here again. I'll be starting on that post soon, I think. I got asked by someone potentially joining in so I may hang it back a bit for that to pan out, sorry for being like completely gone for a bit, lads.

No big deal. You do you, and all that. You did say somewhere that the pace could be relatively slow, so it's not like this is completely unexpected.

Oops I messed up the mention @Vega7285, but posted everybody! I might change Aki's text color later on but this'll do for now. I'll post the sheet for her once I find a way to hide the details you shouldn't know about her yet.

Oops I messed up the mention @Vega7285, but posted everybody! I might change Aki's text color later on but this'll do for now. I'll post the sheet for her once I find a way to hide the details you shouldn't know about her yet.

Hmmm i think ill be joining after all.

Ok, soo, guys, which do you prefer?

This serow obake character:



Or this dragon character:

I'd say just play what you want/what you think is more interesting.

Hey, i made a dragon character and came up with a bunch of abilities. how much do you think i need to cut inorder to make it ballanced and get accepted


Yea i havent applied the right format to the abilities yet.

@mito there's a framework listed under each class for how skills are supposed to go as well as depending on your character's rank as well. All characters are new-ish to the Agency so they're starting relatively small. Although you can be a more senior agent if you want to, and I'd certainly say you'll only have the 65 foot dragon form completely at will if you're a really senior agent. It's just a sort of rank=competency type of thing with your powers. I think in this case it's possible to keep all of this if she can't really control it that well.

I'd advise picking a Rank for your character and we can go from there. Starting Ranks are 1 to about 4 for all classes for a 'newbie' agent.

As far as how to format the listed powers, go with the general rule of listing only combat relevant abilities as abilities. Stuff like aging slower or the dragon form weaknesses can go in somewhere else (you can just put it on yhe bottom as misc stuff or something along those lines.) I'd even say the power bestowal may as well be in there really.

Weaknesses are combat relevant, but the powers section should only really be for like... powers and stuff that you're using to fight. Just try to keep it clear and focused as a section as what your character would commonly do that affects other people.

You've specified that she's human in default so that means she needs to transform into dragon form before she can actually do anything right? I'll need to know the details of the transformation as well. I need to know stuff like is there a time limit in dragon form? Is there a condition? It's also probably a good idea to make that a separate ability.

And then a couple other things

Draconic Element Manipulation is never gonna come up. There's not going to be any other dragons unless something funky is happening or you want them to and I approve so probably don't bother with that one.

A bunch of things could be lumped together as one 'ability', like all the resistances could realistically be grouped together in something like Dragon Resistances. I think power bestowal and then the blood version should really be in the same description. One's just a minor version of the other, as you've said. Also it's sort of redundant to list all the abilities the dragon has again in power bestowal.

The part in power bestowal where it says 'self sustenance linked to the dragon', I don't know what that means. Firstly are self sustenance and perpetual nourishment supposed to be different? I'm assuming the Linked to the Dragon part applies to all of the abilities and not just the self sustenance part.

All the stuff (like the fire breathing and stuff I mean)under where you put down the dragon form's physical appearance should really be included up top with the rest of the abilities, above weaknesses. They're all stuff which she only can do in dragon form at this point right?

Also what do you mean she grows when she eats in dragon form in the Consistent growth and Adaptive development section? Is it if she eats anything? Does she have to eat something specific?

i already had a look at the framework you had in mind, but its really in an early phase and i first wanted to check if the overall specifications of the character were acceptable. ill make it look nice and tidy later. And ill keep this feedback in mind.

i guess I'm going with rank 3 because of the brute natural power and no skill.

I'm not quite sure how i can include having no control of the dragon form because its her true form and she should be having more control than while in human form.
i can take away the fighting instinct, and have her need to adjust to moving in dragon form.
as well as add a penalty because her dragon form was always dormant. making it so, that it became stiff, weak, malnourished and still small, having to build up strength.

maybe having an initial growth spurt of about 9 months. where she will change from: 33 percent in size and 20 percent in abilities and parameters, into the described size and power of the character sheet. with fire breathing and resistances starting from zero.

You've specified that she's human in default so that means she needs to transform into dragon form before she can actually do anything right? I'll need to know the details of the transformation as well. I need to know stuff like is there a time limit in dragon form? Is there a condition? It's also probably a good idea to make that a separate ability.

she starts out having no dragon benefits while in human form but later develop them as she gets stronger in dragon form.
i would like to go with: because her true form is a dragon, there's no time limit for dragon form, if anything, being human should take more effort and should cost more energy.(i guess explaining why her dragon form is malnourished) i can make her a bunch weaker in human form as well i guess.
maybe a 4 second transformation delay to turn dragon, and taking 20 seconds to turn human.

Draconic Element Manipulation is never gonna come up. There's not going to be any other dragons unless something funky is happening or you want them to and I approve so probably don't bother with that one.

a way to increase power beyond the natural specifications, and a way to still unlock the use of arts and other abilities, allowing for character development. and yea, its just adding some options for the future, if there's ever a need to get stronger.

The part in power bestowal where it says 'self sustenance linked to the dragon', I don't know what that means. Firstly are self sustenance and perpetual nourishment supposed to be different? I'm assuming the Linked to the Dragon part applies to all of the abilities and not just the self sustenance part.

yes all the abilities gifted by bestowal are linked in aptitude with the dragon.
and ill just go with the two nourishment abilities being the same thing.

Also what do you mean she grows when she eats in dragon form in the Consistent growth and Adaptive development section? Is it if she eats anything? Does she have to eat something specific?

inherently she never completely stops growing if she keeps eating, and all that is required to get stronger is eating a proportionate amount of sheep cattle or other types of meat sources. shell gain power just because of growing in size and cant obtain new abilities.

ill just remove the adaptive development thing aswell.

@mito Hmm I think the weakened/malnourished dragon form sounds like a great idea to start weaker like that. I do definitely like that.

a way to increase power beyond the natural specifications, and a way to still unlock the use of arts and other abilities, allowing for character development. and yea, its just adding some options for the future, if there's ever a need to get stronger.

You can just have her learn Arts if you really want to. If she has a human form she can learn Arts. I wouldn't be surprised if an Eastern Dragon could learn arts either tbh, or even western ones. Arts is just a catch all for any system of magic in this setting more or less. Plenty of other ways to go about gaining new abilities depending on how mystical the dragon is.

I suppose it depends on what kind of a main 'theme' you'd want your dragon form to have. Like if it is just being a generic dragon then yeah their abilities might be limited, but if your dragon form is the form of, say, a Storm Dragon you could open yourself up to the possibility of lightning abilities in future.

Lots of possibilities there if we're taking future future. I doubt it'd come up too much since it'd realistically take a while to have to get to that point. I'm pretty alright wity the abilties, otherwise.

Nice to hear, yea i was planning on it to be a very generic type of dragon with only fire and with alot of strength and vitality that normaly isnt able to use magic as a penalty for balancing, but true, other ways can also be thought up to still allow arts.
Ill remove the droconic element thing then.

Super sorry lads, been super super busy for the last two weeks. I'm really gonna try to post tomorrow or over the weekend

@TheMushroomLord oop messed up a mention again

Is this still going on?

Pretty sure it's quite dead, sorry to say.

damn