Komamisa

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I had a runaway (incomplete) character sheet

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Jedly said
can only utilize insorcery

Insorcery actually utilizes Sakra in addition to a bit of Karma, as far as I know. Sykers can only utilize Sakra. It's a bit more complicated than Monks who can only utilize Xi since Sakra's a more abstract thing, but yeah.

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^ That's a bit annoying... You can't have multi-tiered lists unless one of them is a numbered list and the other is a normal list.

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Imperfectionist said
(There are also a fewer Sepcarim than Magestravi.)

Right. It's not directly stated, but like Ouramancers, Sepcarim make up a very small proportion of Magestravi. Magestravi themselves make up a small proportion of the human race. It's something like 5% of 10%, though don't quote me on those numbers, haha.

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To give some clarification about the difference between Magestravi and Sepcarim:

A Magestravi is someone capable of manipulating energies around or within them to produce "miracles". With training, they are capable of utilizing all forms of energy, in this RP known as Maians.

A Sepcarim is someone born with the innate talent to manipulate a singular Maian. They are entirely incapable of casting magic that utilizes more than the Maian they were born with the ability to control. However, a Sepcarim is capable of manipulating their gifted Maian with far greater efficacy than a Magestravi can even dream of.

For example: A Syker can manipulate the Maian of Sakra. Sakra is defined as "Energy for the mind that is needed for things like clairvoyance, mindreading and telepathy. It's source is from the brain, and overuse of this Maian can cause insanity or blindness." — Sykers are natural adepts at utilizing Sakra. To them, controlling Sakra to read minds or lift objects by looking at them is as easy as moving their fingers. But they're also very physically frail. In conjunction with their complete inability to manipulate anything like Xi, they wouldn't do too well in direct combat.

This is different from an Insorceror who can use Xi and isn't naturally and automatically frail. The trade off is that even the absolute best Insorceror can only scratch at the control over Sakra that a Syker is capable of.

It's a bit of a cruel comparison, but think of it as a regular human with an IQ of 140 versus a high functioning Autistic Savant who is an absolute master at mathematical formulas. The regular human can solve mathematical formulas better than many other humans if he's trained in it, but the Autist does it so naturally and quickly that he might as well be a calculator.

In short, it's a matter of versatility with even performance across the board versus a possibly crippling over-specialization.

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Imperfectionist said Has anyone here played a lot of Pathfinder?

Sorry, no Pathfinder, but...

Tabletop Wargaming: Warhammer 40k, a little bit of Warhammer Fantasy Battle, even less Warmachine

Tabletop Roleplay: DnD 3.5, Mostly DnD 4e (used to play every Friday!), a silly thing called Maid RPG, Dark Heresy, Blam! (homebrew homage to the manga Blame!), and a bit of Adeptus Evangelion.

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TheHangedMan said
Misa, when do you think you'll have your CS sheet up?

Should be tonight. Sorry for the delay, as usual. One thing or another always seems to get in the way.

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I did edit the background creation steps thing a while back so that it could be shared. So, here you go. In this case, it isn't so much of a checklist as it is some food for thought and a sort of template for the general flow of a background section.

Everything else is a jumbled and frankly embarrassing mess, so maybe I'll edit those whenever I finish Aoife's sheet.

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Excidius said
HOLY CRAP! I used to be a drug counselor for federal convicts and we had less written about their personality traits in their files than you have in your CS HAHAHAH

I will occasionally use my free time to edit wikis, so my character sheets have started to sway in the direction of a wiki's style, lol. That and I have this silly set of checklists for individual sections found in character sheets, like that "Background Creation steps" tab off to the right.

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Not that I'm even in this yet, but I'm totally fine if you guys proceed on. I can adapt.

Who needs intros anyway?

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Ah, I've seen that kind of collab style before. Never really participated in something like that, myself, though I do consider it to be rather interesting.

However, as I tend to join/look for RP's that lean toward the "High Casual"end of the spectrum, it isn't entirely needed.

Speaking of being left behind, though... I really need to streamline my character creation process; it's gotten to the point that it's metaphorically comparable to the tendency of the US Army's rules and doctrines to get in the way of absolutely everything in WWII. Still, I'm a silly person... I hate writing character sheets, yet I feel absolutely terrible if I don't write one to what I percieve to be sufficient detail, even if it'd ultimately have little bearing on the RP itself.