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Cinder Sickness - A DnD style classic RP

Tobias, 'He who runs and hides'

Name: Tobias
Age: 22
Alignment: Chaotic Good-ish
Race: Human
Class: Thief
Appearance/Clothing:

Minus the sword and the scar

Skills: Bluff, Acrobatics, Charm, Athletics, Sneak, Theft, Streetwise, Knife-Wielding, Knife-Throwing.
Natural Abilities: The power of average-ness.
Magic/Spells: Not a scrap of it.
Additional Information: Tobias isn't the strongest fighter, being far more suited to running, hiding, or bluffing his way out of situations (he's capable by normal person standards, of course - just not really what you'd expect from an adventurer). He's also a massive pathological liar with trust issues a mile wide.
Weapons: He has three knives - one on his belt, one on his back, and one in his boot.
Possessions: Leather armor, basic adventuring supplies (rope, flint and steel, etc.). His hood is enchanted to make it very hard for someone who sees him with it up to remember his face. He also has a magic grappling hook enchanted to not make a sound.
Personality: Tobias is glib, smart-alecky, cowardly, and tries his absolute best to be self-centered. Though he'd feverishly deny it, he's a fundamentally good person underneath the assumed selfish. He tries not to let anyone get close to him, and often uses snark and flat out lies as armor in social interaction.
History: Getting the truth out of him about his personal history is extraordinarily difficult, but it's possible to determine that he's an orphan who grew up on the streets and has spent his life so far living in cities and alternating between pickpocket, con-man and cat burglar in order to survive.

Also, hai Kronshi. Funny meeting you again. :p

Cinder Sickness - A DnD style classic RP

Hmmm, I'm definitely going to play a human male, I think, due to my fondness for 'Mundane' type races. Probably going to roll up my 'pathological liar loveable coward' Thief from a previous game, but I'm flexible.

DnD Style Campaign - Classic Style - Accepting Again Updated 9/6

Before I begin concepting my character, anyone else have any ideas what sort of character they're gonna play? I usually like to fill thematic/personality/mechanical holes in the lineup.

DnD Style Campaign - Classic Style - Accepting Again Updated 9/6

Interested.

An Expedition Beyond the World: A Low Fantasy Exploration Game

There still room in this business? I'd like to get in on this, and I can help worldbuild if you'd like.

The Multiverse (Flashy title to come later.)

W00t. Let the adventure begin!

Suppose we should maybe notify the peeps who showed interest, make sure they know the thread's up?

The Multiverse (Flashy title to come later.)

The Character

Appearance: Summer's slightly below average height, on the paler side, with brown eyes and shoulder-length dark hair. Hard living has made her slim and muscular, though in her usual garb it's hard to tell, given how she's just about always wearing some mix-up of coats, jackets, scarves, and all varieties of winter clothing (in addition to the broad-brimmed cowboy hat that she's very proud of). Her face is smooth, rounded, and mostly unmarked, with the exception of a long scar that runs from the base of her chin, up the side of her cheek and to her eyebrow.
Genre(s): Post-Apocalyptic Scrappunk Winter Weird Western
Name: Summer
Gender: Female
Age: 20
Personality: Summer is a compassionate, cheerful girl with a penchant for headstrong decisions and near-blind trust. She's a tireless optimist and incorrigible believer in the power of people to change their stars, though she is also easily frustrated and can be quick to argue with people who she perceives as being in the wrong.
She's very resourceful when backed into a corner, and has developed some fairly substantial issues with authority.
Bio: Summer is an adventurer, survivor, and engineer, who's spent the last few years wandering the frozen wasteland of her world, taking odd jobs, fixing things, and helping out wherever she can. She never knew her parents, and was raised instead by a family friend who taught her everything she knew about fighting and surviving in her world.

Skills: Summer is a decent shot with most kinds of pistol or revolver, and can handle herself fairly well in a brawl. Her world and her life as a wanderer have made her an adept outdoorswoman and wilderness survivalist, particularly in cold climates (as that's what she's been living in... forever). Finally, she's a talented engineer and mechanical prodigy, capable of fixing up, operating, or breaking down to make something new pretty much any piece of tech she can get her hands on.

Equipment: 9mm pistol
Reinforced wooden baseball bat
General Wilderness supplies (First Aid, flint and steel, rope, extra socks, etc.)
Engineering supplies (Blow torch, welding mask, wrench, etc.)
A variety of inventions, including:
A silent hand crossbow built from clockwork that fires nails
A taser-glove made from a mitten, toaster wire, and a lot of batteries
Several jury-rigged pipe bombs
A modcop sawn-off shotgun capable of firing flash powder, smoke pellets, flame accelerant, etc.
A netgun that can be quickly assembled
Knuckle dusters with collapsible spikes (made from nails and scrap metal)
Naturally, this all takes up a lot of space, resulting in her often traveling with a comically oversized set of backpacks.

The Setting

Summer's World: The New Frontier

Summer's world was a lot like ours, once - in fact, it was just another version of our reality. Where it differs is that, in some point not too far in our future, it began to snow, and it did not stop. Not for weeks, not for months, not for years. When that first great blizzard was finally ended, the few survivors who'd huddled wherever there was still food and fuel had a new world to build. But cold and hunger were far from their only problems.

Somehow, the ice and snow had given birth to strange creatures. From the snowmen, bizarre humanoid beasts formed of ice that attacked in hordes and hungered for flesh, to the yeti, massive man-eating beasts, mankind had a whole slew of new predators to contend with in their battle for survival.

People will find comfort where they may, of course, and the pioneers of this new world drew inspiration from a very singular source. So much knowledge and history had been lost that the world before the snows may as well have been a different planet, but some stories survived - particularly, the stories of a place called the Wild West. This was a grand place, a frontier, where every day could bring strange adventures, great danger, or greater rewards. The heroes of these tales - Billy the Kid, Wyatt Earp, John Wayne, and all the others - were revered, worshiped in places. And so, the new world was molded after these old tales. Civilization endured from big cities to small towns, vagabonds and bandits prowled the wastelands and the saloons in equal measure, sheriffs were the be all and end all of the law. The New Frontier was born.

But that's all ancient history to Summer. For her, the world has been this way as long as anyone can remember. Each blizzard is a little harder, each night a little colder, each year more narrowly scraped by. The world is on its very last legs, there can be no doubt; but if Summer has her way, it's going to go down swinging.

The Gifted: A Fast Paced Superpower RP (Relaunch)

The Monster

Name: Charles Metzger
Alias(s): The Monster
Age: 31
Affiliations: Independent.
Factions: Independent.
Description: In his standard form, he is a tall, pale man with brown eyes and crew-cut black hair. His face is smooth, unmarked, and 100% expressionless - his eyes stare straight ahead coolly, his mouth set in a hard line. He's pretty much never seen without some kind of business suit on, which are pretty much always in perfect condition or spattered with blood and shredded to high hell, depending on wha he was doing a few minutes ago.

When his powers are active, he can look like... pretty much anything, though he's incapable of simulating clothing or mimicking other people.

Powers: Fear-powered shapeshifting. When Charles causes someone to feel anxious, paranoid, nervous, or afraid, he gains energy to fuel his transformations, being able to reshape his body in just about any way he sees fit, from growing claws and sharp teeth and wings to adding feet to his height or thickening his hide to withstand punishment. The more fear, the more drastic his transformations can become - he makes someone a litte nervous, he can maybe grow and inch or two. He makes a few people absolutely terrified, he can become an almost inhuman monster. There's no upper limit on this power, though the amount of fear required would make becoming S-level only theoretically possible. When he runs out of fear (which can happen if the person he was drawing from calms down or dies) he starts to revert back to human form.

Skills: Charles speaks several languages fluently (German, French, English), is a talented investigator and practiced hunter - stalking, breaking and entering, sneaking around, and associated skills are old hat to him.
Equipment: A massive inherited bank account, a wardrobe of fine clothing, a Rolls Royce, and absolute moral insanity.
Ranking: Averages at Upper B Rank, though it's hypothetically possible for him to go much higher.

Biography: For now, it's enough to know that he obsessively hunts other metas. Further backstory may be revealed as he is developed.

The Gifted: A Fast Paced Superpower RP (Relaunch)

I'm refining my villain concept at the moment - and don't worry about the villain/hero imbalance, because of his nature as an anti-meta crusader, he's probably going to be in conflict with the other villains more often than not.

Still don't know about powers, though. While the notion that he steals other meta's powers was interesting, I think I definitely want his motivaton to be ideological (and insane) rather than coming from power-hungriness. I've got some thoughts for how I want him to feel, though - very much a movie-monster, implacable predator, 'hunt you down, scare the bejeezus out of you, kill you and move on to the next one' sort of thing. He's also have to be strong enough to really take on other metas, though. I was thinking some kind of shapeshifting to do with fear - maybe he feeds on fear, growing stronger and taller or reshaping his body into something suitably monstrous?

Ideas, good friends?

The Multiverse (Flashy title to come later.)

Oh, she should be good to go now.