[OOC] Overlord: How Like A God

[Golden Spiral]

I'll be making a good religious girl in a bit.

[ShwiggityShwah]

Might do something kind of druidy.

[Crusader Lord]

@Disciple Cain Will see about some kind of character, get some ideas up in an app and see where my interest leads me. Was initially tempted to make a "Songstress" type who just bend people with her voice and buffs/debuffs. Anywho, noted! :P

[ShwiggityShwah]

This character is going to be tough to make and will take a bit since the requirements are not what I'm used to.

I will probably ask a bunch of questions. I have made many entire sheets before only to miss something and then be completely shut down after taking the time.

All races are available correct? I have a complete nature theme so I was going with the versatility of a druid, capable of harnessing nature, elemental power, beasts, and shapeshifting. My race would be a Treant, capable of interacting with other characters because of his shapeshifting. So probably a fairy>dryad>Treant if that makes any sense racially wise. I'd prefer some kind of elemental in there but Im not seeing that option.

My character was very cooperative, so he'd peg himself as more or less a positive force, maybe perhaps attempting to establish a nice naturey refuge for other races.

The class progression would be levels in druid, shaman, summoner, beast master, elementalist, high druid, Nature's Herald, probably come up with something called 'The Ancient' or whatever. Mare apparently fits the bill as a caster of these kinds of spells.

Cohorts would be beastmen and other forest spirits.

If Im on the right track in term of concept just let me know.

[Disciple Cain]

All races are fine, but Dryads and Treants are their own thing. While a Treant is an animated tree, a Dryad is a Tree Faerie. Though they are related, and they hang around each other, they definitely don't branch (haha) into each other racially. If you're looking to be a big damn tree, you might try a sort of progression with the race name.

Treant should probably be your starting racial levels, and my best suggestion is to come up with a progression for a more prestigious sounding tree creature if that's what your desired final result is.

You could make it on the nose and obvious like... Treant -> Elder Treant. I don't know if you could call a Treant an elemental, though. Jury's out on that one.

You could also make it more abstract like... Triffid -> Thornfiend -> Jilted Lover. Not actually that, of course. That's not the creature you're making, but it's an example of the formula.

Even Momonga uses a more abstract progression for his racial levels, as his first are Skeleton Mage (which is probably based off a basic creature to fight), and then advances into Elder Lich and then Overlord.

Your cohorts should definitely include at least one faerie of some type, especially if whoever designed the NPC got strangely and hugely into European folklore.

Anyway, other than the mentioned oddity with your racial progression, this idea sounds solid to me! Was he a roleplayer or just a normal player?

[ShwiggityShwah]

@Disciple Cain

Thank you so much for this ^^
I'll go with some 'wood elemental' types from other games. Stick man > Wood walker > Treant > Revenants > Treelords or something like that.

He was a normal player, but I have an idea where he started following a druid progression line and just kind of got sucked into the story and where it was going. Maybe there was a secret conclave of druids that worked to keep things in balance and he played the game in pursuit of their storyline and faction achievements since he got roped into the story of Yggdrasil and liked the kind of guardian of nature character he was making. It didn't hurt that he himself was an avid outdoors man, scientist, lover of science with an animal lover girl friend.

Think World of Warcraft's Cenarian Circle, a kind of faction that was only available to the Druid Class to join and take their quests.

The original concept of him is that he likes to help people so intentionally chose a class that can essentially fit roles for the parties when they need it, kind of favoring versatility over specialization with the balance of the game making it a viable option that would allow him welcomed to pick up groups often. There's other factors that he likes to stand out and picks unusual and generally odd ball things to get unique experiences. He loved the idea of being a kobold > lizardman > Naga > Dragonoid but being a walking tree was just too weird to pass up. (He also considered a slime too)

[Disciple Cain]

Revenant might be more appropriate for someone who wants to be undead without being a zombie, skeleton, or other well-known undead. Revenant is typically just 'Returned from the dead'.

There probably definitely was a fun druid circle or five, and at least a handful of witch covens, too. Yggdrasil did not skimp on the lore. Makes it easier to get sucked into it since the game is all about exploring it.

Also, oof. Girl friend. Probably not seeing her again.

[ShwiggityShwah]

Ehh, I probably need more points into classes anyway since there's alot.

As much of a power fantasy this would be, I still want to have the human element. The regret. The grief. The moments of a former life that ground and humble the forest god. A little development and strife is character building.

[Disciple Cain]

You can embrace or eschew the human element at your leisure, especially considering most of you aren't humans anymore.

[Lugubrious]

Any thoughts on my sheet, DC? I did my best to carry it over into the new format, but without an example I couldn't be sure

[Disciple Cain]

Your sheet looks fine as is. Know that if you made all your NPCs, their power is going to be split a little more than if you were able to invest the time into a single NPC like some of the players of Ainz Oal Gown did.

There are a good amount of lvl 100 NPCs in the Tomb of Nazarick, and some of them are OUTRAGEOUSLY gimmicky, but they were also developed and invested in by usually only one player.

Still, even somewhat lower level NPCs (40s-60s) are incredibly powerful compared to most creatures in the New World. Entoma is level 51 and is practically unbreakable against the Blue Rose, and they're adamantine class-- the biggest and baddest adventurers the guild in Re-Estize has to offer. It takes a 300 hundred year-old vampire spamming insecticide to be a threat.

I like the class fantasy you present with the Erudite Mage class. It has good design to its power and counterplay. I'm seeing the way your classes interact, the class fantasy apart of it, and I'm seeing someone who's going to start a cult and spread forbidden knowledge to the adherents. Getting Nyarlathotep vibe here, which is obviously what you were after or you wouldn't have chosen the class name "Crawling Chaos".

It's good.

Also your cohorts are ugly as sin. Fitting of an Old One.

[Lugubrious]

Yep, Nyarlathotep's the name of the game. In a modern sense, such an entity that spreads chaos and discord is a consummate troll, do I ran with that. The cohorts definitely weren't planned to be in the stronger side, since he doesn't care about them much. I'm super hyped to see what everything he else has in store.

[VarockSvent]

It didn't hurt that he himself was an avid outdoors man, scientist, lover of science with an animal lover girl friend.

@ShwiggityShwah

Isn't IRL super industrialized to the point that the air is no longer breathable and you can't see the sky? Assuming we come from the same original world. But that was part of what Ainz marveled about seeing nature again, and that some of the guild floors were meant to emulate nature scenes that had been lost to the world?

[Disciple Cain]

Yeah, the future of 2138 is very unfortunately a polluted crapsack, but Oni (by Bungie West) shows us it isn't impossible to appreciate nature in such awful times.

Even if there's things the megacorporations really don't want you to see.

And getting a mere paper cut in a "nature preserve" could kill you.

World's a big place. Awful lot could happen.

If anything, his science might not be legal. Or official. Or approved in any way by Japan's version of Big Brother. Either way we can make it work with some tweaking so I wouldn't worry about it.

[Golden Spiral]

'Outdoorsman' in this context could also just be someone who goes into VR simulations of forested areas and hikes around, too. Simulated trees and animals are real if you want to believe. Totally doable with standard augmentations by this point, MMOs arent the only thing people use that stuff for.

[Disciple Cain]

Yeah there's a lot in the realm of possibility here. I'll discuss it if it really matters with the player, but I won't trip if they'd rather not put effort into something that may just fall by the narrative wayside anyway.

[Golden Spiral]

Yea it's not a huge deal since cyberpunk land isn't anywhere in our future. Home is very much out of reach for all of us. I guess those without family or personal connections will take it better, but that's something to watch in the IC.

[ShwiggityShwah]

@VarockSvent@Disciple Cain

See, an example of something I didnt know.

I dont read the manga and only watched the show a year back. Marveling at nature is something anyone could do at anytime so I had no clue things were like that.

As boss said, it shouldnt really have too much impact. But it does now give me an idea. Maybe the girlfriend was trying to preserve what she could. I would imagine super polluted but people still tried to fix somethings. MC could attempt the same as a way to honor her memory. Something to that nature.

[Disciple Cain]

Oooo, now I'm getting ideas about it. I've got a good start for this character, I think.

[Lunarlord34]

hmm seeming to hit a brick wall with abilities personally. Almost done with my sheet if not for it.