Schradinger

Arena Rp Dojo

I'd be willing to be a mentor. I've tried it in the past and would like to think I managed it decently enough.

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I reduced his toughness and strength, and clarified/reduced the magical resistance of the chains (since I realized the original wording conveyed an entirely different meaning to what I actually meant). Regarding the magical counters provided by his weapons, all of them are conditional upon him actually holding the weapon, and he only has so many hands. He also has no hard defense against area of effect or unfocused magic, though if you have ideas about how to alter the enchantments to make them more acceptable I'm all ears. Or eyes, as the case may be. Mostly I just want him to have weapons worthy of the champion of a forge god, and just being unbreakable and always sharp doesn't seem to cut it, you know? (it's pretty standard fare throughout fantasy, after all)

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Added a hammer because he's a smith and it seemed wrong that he didn't have one.

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CS posted.

Though I'm not sure about what to put in the history section, since Hephaestus already has a "canon" history in greek mythology. A lot of that would probably be used here, and the stuff that isn't could easily be brushed off as rumor, but I don't think it would be kosher to just copy and paste, and I'm not particularly keen on the idea of writing out a several thousand year history just so I can get in a scrap or three.

Thoughts? Should I just put in Krix's history?

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Champion

Name: Krix Mardus

Age: Mid-thirties

Sex: Male

Appearance: 2 meters tall with the build of a blacksmith, and weighing in at over 100kg. Thick slabs of muscle coat his entire frame and are accented by a myriad showing of scars, giving ample evidence of the labors he has completed in his long life thus far. He keeps his dark hair shaved and more often than not his torso bare, save for the chains encircling it. Overall, he has the appearance of a brute and a bully, though he is generally anything but.

Powers:
As the champion of the god of sculptors, metals, and volcanoes, Krix possesses an inherent ability to generate and manipulate the primal elements of earth and fire. This affinity grants him a high resistance to damage from flames or heat, and aids him in the practice of his chosen profession as a craftsman and warrior. He has also been gifted with potent physical boons thanks to his many centuries of service, rendering his skin as tough as hardened leather, his muscles strong enough to lift one tonne, and his bones hard enough to withstand the high speed impact of a "car". He can move with sufficient speed to outpace even the fastest horses by double, and react in sufficient time to avoid even the projectiles known to modern man as "bullets", given sufficient space (10 meters or more). He can heal from even severe wounds in hours or days, rather than weeks or months, and even the power of his senses is not to be underestimated. He can see minute details in near total darkness with perfect clarity, determine the properties of a material by their sound alone, smell the composition of an alloy from a dozen meters, and count the threads in fabric by touch. His endurance is likewise phenomenal, and he has been known to remain at the forge for weeks at a time without sleep, food, or rest.

Skills:
Krix is a master craftsman, able to forge any mundane weapon or armor with ten times the speed and skill of any mortal, rendering his creations far superior to even those of man's machines and technology. While his skill is still inferior to that of his patron in the making of weapons and armor of a more divine and magical nature, there are few even among the immortals who can match him in this regard. In addition to his skill as a smith and craftsman, he has often been called upon to fight his patron's battles on the mortal plane, serving as his proxy in the great tournaments the gods use to decide the fate of their schemes. In the course of his centuries of service, he has become a highly skilled and exceptionally potent warrior, in addition to his skill at the forge.

Weaponry:
Hammer - With a half meter handle and a ten pound head, this hammer was forged by Hephaestus himself and given to Krix as a reward for his dedicated service. While its primary purpose is to be used in the forge, it also possesses several properties that make it ideal for use in combat. Foremost among those properties is the ability to dispel and reinforce enchantments and magical energies, as well as redouble the efforts of its wielder tenfold. When used to create, it will fortify any enchantment put on the item and cause every strike to land true, and when used to destroy, it will cause ten times the normal damage of such a strike to magical barriers and crafted items, though living flesh will suffer only the force of the blow itself. No one save those chosen by Hephaestus can wield this hammer.

Chains - When he is called away from the forge and summoned to do battle, Krix will often wrap his torso and arms in chains forged from the ore of a meteorite and blessed by his god. These chains are resistant to magical tampering, and several orders of magnitude more durable than even the strongest of steel. They also seem to be able to grow longer and shorter at will, though whether this last capability is due to Krix's powers with earth or inherent in the chains themselves is unknown.

Greatsword - A sword sized for Krix, the blade alone is just over a meter long, and the handle just shy of a third of that length. This blade is carried on his back when going to battle, and is forged after the fashion of a leaf (similar to glamdring). It has been blessed by Hephaestus to remain always sharp and unbroken, and has the uncanny ability to disperse focused magical assaults, as well as protect the hand and arm of them that wield it.

Shortsword - Short in name only, the leaf-blade of this weapon is two-thirds of a meter in length, and it is worn over the same shoulder as the greatsword. In addition to the blessings of resilience and toughness, this blade also possesses the ability to harm those beings that would normally be immune to physical damage, such as ghosts, wraiths, and various other forms of spirits and undead, as well as defend against their attacks.

Deity

Name: Hephaestus

Sex: Male

Appearance:


Domains: Blacksmiths, Craftsmen, Artisans, Sculptors, Metals, Metallurgy, Fire and Volcanoes.

Combined

Alignment: Neutral

History:
Krix was born in a small village in greece, less than a week's journey from the city of Athens, and even from a young age he displayed an innate talent for the crafting arts, so much so that this talent caught the eye of one of the gods. As the god of crafting, smithing, and metals, Hephaestus took a special interest in those mortals who showed particular promise in those fields, and even among the gifted Krix stood out as special. Slowly but surely, his favor with the smithing god grew as he continued to pursue his chosen occupation, growing so great even that he was gifted with immortality, so that his talent might not be snuffed out of the world. Even then, he rose to greater heights in skill and power as he quickly became one of Hephaestus' favored sons, those both mortal and immortal who had shown particularly great skill to their patron and been rewarded for it.

For Krix, this favor meant an innate ability to shape and alter the materials with which he worked, as well as a resistance to and control over the heat and flames required for the process. Additionally, his strength was enhanced to allow greater blows and stronger creations, his speed to better utilize the long hours at the forge, and his senses to more correctly discern the properties of the materials he used and how to treat them. It was not until several centuries after the forge god first took notice of him that Krix was called to serve outside his workshop, in order to defend his patron's position in the heavens against those champions who would dare to oppose it. Despite his meager amount of traditional combat training, his brute strength, durability, and powers with earth and fire made him well-suited to the new environment, and he soundly defeated the first dozen challengers.

It was not long though before he came to realize how greatly their skill outmatched his own, and so he took it upon himself to seek more formal training in the ways of combat and learn what he could before next he was called. While his skill in combat would never reach the level of his skill at the forge, he nevertheless became an even more formidable combatant as his training progressed alongside his work. When next it became time to defend the position of his god, the opponents he faced were far superior to those he had defeated the first time, yet his training paid off. He won the battles against all but three of his opponents, and those defeats only spurred him on to train harder.

So he did, until the next time he was summoned to battle, then again until the next, and again until the next, all the while adapting and training to become the best among those favored by Hephaestus. He may not have understood the reasons for the contests, but he had been given great gifts by his god and he would do his utmost to repay that dept.

Other:
To be determined.

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You'll have to wait and see. ;)

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Light said
Yeah a Blessing section would be pretty good. I'll work it into the CS template tomorrow. Other than that, Schradinger, please feel free to make a CS if you want.

I'm actually working on one now.

Arthur would pretty much clean house with any of the fighters here. He's just as fast as Mifune, likely stronger and tougher than even Herriman, and can kill just about anyone with a single touch. All that in mind, I'm thinking up a new character who'll probably be the champion of Hephaestus.

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Light said
Every player's Champion is the servant of a powerful being, one who could easily grant such a boon. Instead of banning such a thing in the future, I would like to state that it should be an option available to all players. However I would ask that such a blessing be used tastefully, and not abused.

My proposal for such a thing would be to add a Blessings section to each CS, and have several pre-accepted blessings that a character can have bequeathed upon them once per "day" (the days would likely be each series of matches). That way you allow room for the blessings without flying in the face of common dueling courtesy. I would also recommend that the blessings have time limits relative to their overall power.

Without an allowance in the rules for such a thing, calling it a blessing doesn't change the fact that it's still PGing and really poor sportsmanship.

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Light said Yes I do think that randomly gaining new powers such as mid-battle is something that shouldn't be. Technically, the things Herriman has shown to be able to do are not in conflict with his CS, but if other players feel like he's a bit to powerful, I would ask that you tone it down Daglobster.

I reiterate again (three cheers for redundancy!), I have no issue with how Herriman has used the powers in his CS. It's the massive speed boost Dag gave him (which ISN'T allowed for in the CS or the RP's pre-stated mechanics, only inferred from the setting), that concerns me. You pretty well just said that doing that is not going to be allowed, so that should take care of that concern.

Thank you. :)

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I guess I wasn't clear enough in the first two posts.

The issue I raised was never about the stuff in Herriman's CS. That stuff was approved and since I'm not a GM I don't have any ground to criticize that decision.

The only reason I specifically brought up the abilities listed in the CS was because you first brought up the use of divine blessings to "better match" your opponent. The only purpose I had in bringing up the abilities in the CS was to demonstrate that Herriman already vastly outmatched Mifune, whether he was slow or not (even if we take Herriman's demonstrations of power thus far to be his absolute limits, which I'm sure they aren't). Arguing that blessings should be allowed in order to better match an opponent would only work against you.

All that said, I don't give a rat's ass how you use the abilities in your CS. For all I care, you COULD grow to 200 feet tall and wipe out a planet. That's something for the participants and the GM's to hash out. What I DO care about is whether or not writers in this RP are allowed to make up new abilities on the spot with apparently no limits or guidelines in order to gain an even greater upper hand than they already have. I care about this because it will have a fairly strong effect on my desire to join this RP. For some people, fighting an opponent who can randomly receive new and powerful abilities that effectively cancel out their only disadvantage might be their cup of tea, but I prefer combat RP in which both combatants have pre-specified abilities that they can use, and they stick to those abilities (with room for creative license. Such as a fire and earth manipulator making lava, but not someone with super-strength suddenly breathing fire, as mentioned previously).

Statless can be great fun, but it's not the same thing as lawless. It's not an even playing field that concerns me (just ask Drall, I've fought him while at a physical disadvantage before and it was great fun), but the apparent lack of any sort of binding structure regarding character abilities.