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In the founding of Hyrule, the Valorbrands were the first Knights, the basis for the Hylian Knights today, many generations later. After some time the group was disbanded when the Hylian Knights were properly established, and since then they have become history. Today in the wake of horrific and grotesque killings and massacres in fringe villages, the "Valorbrands" have been formed once again to investigate these mysterious and violent events.

The group would be formed and led by the knight Afira, a pious lady of noble birth who seeks atonement, and had been allowed to do so by leading the Valorbrands, and she would be given the authority to recruit anyone she required. A recruitment push for it has been put around the Holy See of Hyrule, and the lands beyond, seeking any who wished to join their number, with the only requirement being that they wish to protect Hyrule.



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This looks pretty neat, hopefully you got some space left for more characters. Even if you don't, I'd still like to provide feedback to your system and watch how this plays.
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There's space right now yeah. No one's completed a character yet, so pretty much open season for now.
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Cool. I got two character concepts in mind. One being a Hylian spear-user of either vanilla or hylander heritage. The other I want to run by you first to see if it jives with like your system and like tone. He's a bird of prey Rito martial artist whose style involves extensive use of his legs to make use his talons.

Video related is basically the inspiration of what I was thinking. Note the guy whose fingers are curled into claws and is tearing up the scenery.
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Rito have been known to also use their talons to fight, so it's plausible, just rare because they normally use spears and bows. Considering it is talons it would be a kicking style. Eastern Pugilist actually got you covered haha. Also yes, that style is usually referred to as tiger claw or tiger style.

If you wanna match the tone he'd have to be a wanderer of some sort.

The spear user of course naturally fits right in.
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How you feel about the concept of a Gerudo boy that isn’t an analogue of Ganon OR the King of the Gerudo?
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I may need to make some stipulations in the sheet such as you'll be joining the Valorbrands as someone with little to their name or fame.

@Jerkchicken I'd like you to refer to Combat Styles. Your backstory may need a little more, but it's premise works just fine. You'll want to pick up a combat style.

Way this RP works is you automatically know every technique in a combat style you've learned, however if you list them in your Techniques section, you can use them regardless of the fighting style you're currently using.

I may open up a discord soon to help people with their sheets more easily.

@DClassified As cool as that could be, unfortunately there's no room for that. There's currently a living Gerudo King NPC in the RP, though very old. And this RP still follows the one Gerudo male thing.
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My apologies, I didn't mean to imply he had some fame for his skill with the weapon. Rather that he acquired enough skill gain some begrudging respect as he continued his training.

Regarding combat styles I skipped over it for like the following reasons: My own experience with tabletop rpgs has me wanting to have a slightly more balanced spread, over committing into a single stat for qualifying for a style. Because of that I felt that Hylian knight style wasn't worth it as a dedicated spear user as there's really one strider stance move, I'd use. Now sure there's Zoran Fencing, but I got the impression it would be an exotic style for a non-zora character and honestly, I had no idea how to justify the character learning it. I figured grabbing those loose techs would serve me well until there's a situation to learn something better.
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I'll have to mention that the combat styles is still getting entries, there's a lot of possible styles out there.

I do recommend you pick up one at least, you gain everything in the style as long as you're using the stances, plus the stances give you benefits. Learning new styles isn't difficult, the opportunities are just at set points. Any technique you list in your sheet is also able to be used regardless of stance.

Oh yes, the Zora Fencing style is also used by Hylians. It's actually just the realm's preferred spear style.

By the by, down the line and decently deep in the RP people may start creating their own unique style or magic school, so for now take what you can.
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Well good to know the style isn't exclusive to them.

Anyway, while I'm aware that learning new styles is just meet the stat requirements, I also figured you want some explanation within the fiction as how it was acquired. So, I figured the best way would be to wait for like more suitable styles to pop along with an opportunity to go, "Hey, my character is seeking instruction in it."

I'm also rather curious about the math works with these stats. One thing that would be nice is having an explanation for each level on a stat. I can infer some ideas of competency per level a bit. But it would be better for it to be explicitly explained. Like saying 1 means average or unskilled and like 4 being skilled or something like that.

Going back to styles, I'm actually kind of curious to just how impaired a character would be without a style. Although for the sake of testing your material, I'll pick something. Still, I want to see how a character fares with only rolls and the free techs.

Also, I wonder what everyone else is planning on making. Would it be alright if characters might know each other beforehand?
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Admittedly I may have to nerf the requirements for a lot of the Unorthodox haha. I'll go do that soon-ish. I actually want people to get the fighting styles they want sooner than I planned at the beginning, since I want to implement a custom style system for people to make their own unique magic and fighting style late in the RP.

If you want to encounter a specific style later though, we discuss that. Usually to setup an encounter, regardless of whether or not we've naturally encountered the opportunity to learn it. Also at set points, teachers for styles and opportunities do just become automatically available, such as when we go to Zora's Domain, the opportunities for the region's various styles and magic open up.

If you fought without a style, you wouldn't be super fucked, but you would be losing out on priority or just general free buffs. These stances are basically what makes melee fighters so dangerous, because not having a stance or style available automatically puts you at a disadvantage. For instance in the Hylian Knight Style, they have the Knight Strider stance, which gives priority to attacking. That means your attack will land first in any given interaction unless your Agility is actually shockingly low compared to the other guy.

It's really little things like that, plus you can change your stance once per post, so if you have access to multiple styles, you can change up your game plan depending on the situation.
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Cool let me know when the prices have been reduced along with the discord server for this.

Also, is there anything else you'd want from my guy's backstory or just more detail in general? I found the highlanders to be somewhat vaguely defined, but not in a way that inviting to like to fill all the details. And I was hesitant about making up too much stuff in case it deviates from what you're thinking of.
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Well, if you wanna know more about the Hylanders, they're a predominantly warrior society with hunter gatherers. They have a culture wielding large weapons due to the size of wildlife in the region they call home. They did not always use such large weapons, before, they used spears too being a hunter society, but a madman at the time began using large blades and hammers, and with how quickly they took down prey, they caught on. Though the advent of this was well before Hyrule's time.

Today, they accept Hylians who wish to learn their ways, and out of respect, Hyrule does not interfere in the area, with there being an ambassador from the region to represent them. Their traditions that might be of interest to you is their hunting festivals, feats of strength, and a warrior's pilgrimage to Snowcap Peaks, where they must bring back a yeti's pelt. The pilgrimage though is so dangerous it's not actively practiced anymore, but anyone who feels they are strong enough may attempt it. I will go on to say that's a pretty difficult feat, but as a Hylander, it may be of interest to you when the RP goes to Snowcap.

I'll probably have a discord up in the weekend, my free time had been preoccupied with FF16.
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Been staring at the page doing everything but writing. *sigh*
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That's quite alright, I'm kinda waiting on to see if other people join. Sadly it seems most from interest did not end up coming over, so now I'm at an impasse.
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Bummer, I was looking forward to seeing how this would play out as well as playtesting your rules.
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Is it possible to cross post this into Advanced, with the specification that it's not about novel-length posts? I think we need more eyes on it.
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Well, at the very least I will probably do that right now. I didn't think it necessary before but yeah at this rate this won't have enough players, which is anywhere between 3-6.

I'll drop this OOC into the interest and see how it goes.
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Oh, I was lookin to put sumn else together, I just was working in silence.
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