[OOC] Digimon: Digital Monsters- Pillars of Blood (Digimon d6; Hard Drive Catacomb v1.0)

[tobiax]

Hard Drive Catacomb Core Rulebook v1.0 View Link

I would like to inform everyone that the corebook is functional, but not complete. Certain indexes are left empty because I have a table to handle it, or because I'm simply not done yet. Feel free to ask questions.

This is a die based, play-by-post Tabletop-Style RPG of my own creation based on Digimon.
Roll20 Virtual Tabletop Link For Players Rolling Die Officially.

Story-
---Through an accident of human meddling, four great evils were released into the Digital World, and thus came the four Vampire Digimon, who quickly took power. This great evil threatens both the Digital World and the Real World with their conflict for complete domination of the entire Digital World. Now only the Chosen Children can stop the Four Vampire Lords from causing irreparable chaos and destruction.

Appendix-
New Notes will be added as information is discovered in the story.

Characters-
-Remus Archibald, the Dapper Highwayman, and Yost the Delusional Zurumon
-Nadica Blutkros, the Risk Taking Wild Child, and the (as of yet undefined) Pabumon
-Alan Smithee, the self-contained student, and "Jason" the amnestic Jyarimon

Character Sheet Blank-

Digimon CS

Name: (Given, Nickname, or what they call themselves)
Species: (Currently what the Digimon is)
Gender:
Level: (Name and Number for ease, so like "Champion- 4" or "In-Training: 2")
Appearance: (Variations from standard)
Height: (Size and numerical height of the Digimon)
Personality: (Include all Narative elements like Back-story and behavior here.)
Family: (List all Families the Digimon has earned)
Attribute: (Data, Virus, or Vaccine)
EXP: (Used/Total)
Techniques:
-Name: Type: (Such as Common Physical or Simple Ranged. Roll and Bonus can be put here if you need them.) Element: Effect:
Features:
-(List all this Digimon's active features and any choices that can be made, as well as flourishes the Digimon Provides)
Stats:
---Hit-Points: (Current/Max)
---Energy: (Current/Max)
----------Power:
----------Endurance:
----------Force:
----------Fortitude:
----------Dexterity:
----------Agility:
----------Vitality:
----------Wisdom:
----------Cunning:
----------Generation: (Used/Total)
----Weight:
Equipment:
(List the name of the piece, it's effects/bonus, a short description of it, and where it's equipped)

Human CS

Name: (Full name. Given first, then Family)
Age:
Gender:
Height:
Appearance:
Bio: (A bit of Back-story and the personality)
-Stats: (List in *(Stars))
Morale:
Athleticism:
Spirit:
Knowledge:
Psychology:
(I'll keep track of the Morality points)
Inventory:

BITS: (Currency)

(List all items and a short blurb about their effects here. Regular clothes don't need to be listed.)

[Lugia]

Just letting you know, I am not ignoring this RP. I will either wait for others to make a character here, or I'll go see the previous RP and make one based off of that (as well as reading the rulebook to see if maybe you edited their stats as they went along)

[tobiax]

Okay. Didn't expect a character right away. Okay, shouldn't be too hard to find... but wait, the characters weren't posted there, so there's that. Edited what stats when? Rule book's still in one piece.

[Lugia]

I was referring to any character sheets you might have had. You know, editing the stats as said character levels up. Anyways, I looked through the RP, and yes, there aren't any CS's in there. Oh well. I'll have to take a look at that rulebook, see what to do, and how to do it.

[tobiax]

Yes. I had personal backups on a private document, and the players sent them to me in PM's. They weren't in the rulebook, and we never actually got to any combat stage, so there was no leveling. It was in introduction phase. We might as well use the same Roll 20 Table, so if you want to set up your characters in that or whatever, go right ahead. It's only for rolls though.

[Lugia]

I have a place for rolls, er, unless that allows you to see my rolls, and THAT's why you're using it, in which case, I'll do that eventually. Right now, I'm reading through the book, and I'm going to go with a dragon-based thing, so... there's that part planned out. At least, I think the digimon I have in mind IS one... anyways, still reading through, got to the feats page. I reread, never mind.

[tobiax]

Yes, seeing your rolls is what I mean. I don't want to seem like I think people would cheat, but also, I'd like to know myself, ya know?
Alright, what do you have in mind? I'm going to ask what you would enjoy playing and what you would not like, just so I don't think I'm giving you a "good" form and it's something you despise.
Oh, yes. That. Well, you can consciously invest stats, and it's smarter to do that first as opposed to leveling often, as far as I can tell. I didn't notice that when I was writing it.
Well, it's just Exhaust Burn. More Features can be added.
And it's more to do with when they also have another Family to have compound Features.

[Lugia]

Right, as I've said, I reread the thing, and I THOUGHT more were force-based the first time through, lol.
Anyways, as far as what to give me as far as forms go, I generally just like dragons. Yes, I know practically all baby~in training digimon are blob-shaped, and if I have to start as/with one, I'll live with it. I recall one game which my little brother got me, and one of the digimon there was, and sorry if I misspell it, Guilomon, obviously got the name from the lizard of a similar name. I kinda liked that one for whatever reason, and haven't seen too much of anything involving digivolving, save for that brief period of time when I was into the show during its first season.

So, yeah, that info. I'll try to get together what I can, and have read most of the rulebook so far. We get 45 points at the start, though, I'm still not sure which rank the digimon start out at.

[tobiax]

Ah, true. It's more of a cross-training thing.
Yes. I see. I believe you are referring to Guilmon, whose name is derived from Guile, moreso than a Guiro lizard or a Gila Monster. Red dinosaur with black stripes, yes? There is a yellow Vaccine variant which looks more like a Gilamonster. It's fine. I'm intending to help as much as I can.

Alright then. Cool. Yes. That would be Level 1, Baby. The "blob-shaped" ones you were talking about. Note that in Japanese, the first two stages are called Baby 1 and Baby 2, whereas in America, it was localized as Baby/Fresh and In-Training. I'd like to point out as well, that Japanese Ultimate is English Mega, and English Ultimate is Japanese Perfect. If you want variety in possible forms, and more of the attack Techniques, I recommend Wikimon.net, whereas wikia.digimon.com is more watered down. Also, I'd say any Digimon released before like... 2004, use its English name and I'll know it better, afterwards the Japanese name, unless it's sorta jumbly and obviously supposed to be something else. Best example- Valdurmon, but was listed by Bandai of America as Varodurumon, when it's based on Baldur, and should thus be Baldurmon/Baldrmon. Also "Volkdoramon" is Volcdramon/Volcanodramon.

[Lugia]

Yeah, that's the one I was talking about. Anyways, thanks for the recommendation, I'll check that out when I get the chance tomorrow. I'll learn all I can about the moveset so I don't step on any toes, or have to spend a bunch of generation points on something dumb.

[tobiax]

Ah. Not sure how you would step on anyone's toes with Techniques, and who's to say what's "dumb" to spend Generation points on?
(Well, some things are ill advised, but that's situational.)

[Lugia]

Right. Well, it's still better to be better educated on the subject matter, right? :P
Anyways, from what I've found, I think I'll follow this path...
Jyraimon -> Gigimon -> Guilmon -> Coredramon (Blue) -> Wingdramon -> Examon

That is, assuming a digimon won't blow up from constantly changing between virus, vaccine, and data, lol.

[tobiax]

True true true.
Ah, I see. I like a line like that too.
But I'd have to point out that the projected Minimum Weight of Examon is utterly enormous, and he would thus suffer large size related drawbacks to the greatest degree.

Haha, no. Although I've never thought about what that would mean mechanically, one could suppose it would be like a natural "alignment shift" even though there are no alignments really. But no, it's fine. Might want to list various other Rookies, Champions, Ultimates, and Megas, because there's no way of knowing exactly how your character will raise the Digimon, and what exactly the results will be.

[Lugia]

Hrm. Well, you've seen a generality of what I like. Mind helping me with this one? (of course, I can try to do this myself, I'm just wondering if you'd like to help.) Maybe that vaccine version of Guilmon could be another rookie, though, for whatever reason, I can't seem to find where he is in the wiki. Also, would you mind if I just submitted a digimon app? I mean, I can submit both if it would cause problems with you, but I kinda am... not that great RPing as human characters, lol. Dunno why.

Also, true on that last one, but there probably aren't too many ultimate dragons that aren't frickin' illogically heavy and giant.

[tobiax]

Okay. Don't mind at all. Well, it's just a technicality. Might have been Data... actually, yeah, it's Data, and there's a Data Growlmon and a Data War Growlmon, so one could deduce what a Data Guilmon would look like. That being said- basically the same Digimon, just with a different physical signature/data makeup/behavior. Well, the human characters are sorta important, as they temper the Digimon's behaviors and help make a good lense for reaction. Like, to a Digimon, everything they'd run into is basically normal, but to a human, monster dinosaurs and like... a waterfall going up would be super crazy.

[Lugia]

Anyways, I'm trying to build my trees here. The vaccine choice is kinda funny/weird, and leads to some, er, interesting evolutions. One thing, though, some of these don't have a recorded weight for whatever reason.

[tobiax]

Ah, it's fine. Yeah, some are weird. Well, only ones that have been in virtual pets, or games with min-weight, will have it. Just have it similar to existing ones depending on size differences I'd say.

[Lugia]

Alright. By the way, funniest thing about that. Should some circumstances come up that my digimon character ends up as vaccine in their rookie stage, the whole thing changes from dragon-based (for the most part) to bird-based (again, for the most part).

by the by, I'm still having trouble finding that data variant for some reason.

[tobiax]

In order for that to happen, either it has to be a very flamey bird, or you'd have to add Wind Guardian. Maybe. I can work things. Just because it never happened in the cards, anime, or virtual pets, doesn't mean it can't, or doesn't make sense.

[Lugia]

Ah, well, this is what I meant by 'stepping on someone's toes'... so, I guess I'll redo that part of the tree. Maybe that oh-so-popular yellow dinosaur can provide the vaccine portion of this.

Just looked it up, NOPE. Apparently he doesn't count as a dragon. Nature spirit (for some reason), Machine Empire (again, I dunno), and Virus Busters (meh, makes more sense than the other two)