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Post by joegus on Feb 21, 2016 21:29:04 GMT
That Dark/Fairy Kirlia sounds super terrifying.
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Post by Raven on Feb 21, 2016 21:39:25 GMT
Maybe make her buy tent and water filter? If it wasn't against my character, I'd buy tent with remaining 1000$ (reminder, it's $ in this game, according to DM). *edit* oh, right. DM, would you allow to buy DR 1 outfit for 1000$? That would be waaaay more than enough for pair of durable clothing. (Prices are silly...) She spends most of her time indoors studying or doing generally geeky things (anime and the like). What possible scenario might she come up with that requires carting around a portable tent? Let alone a water filter? She's almost always going to be in places with access to clean water (or so she assumes).
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Post by Moriya on Feb 21, 2016 21:43:50 GMT
Maybe make her buy tent and water filter? If it wasn't against my character, I'd buy tent with remaining 1000$ (reminder, it's $ in this game, according to DM). *edit* oh, right. DM, would you allow to buy DR 1 outfit for 1000$? That would be waaaay more than enough for pair of durable clothing. (Prices are silly...) The core book mentions that the USD to PYen conversion rate is about 1:50. I assume that's what we're going with here. I somewhat doubt that you could pick up clothing worthy of a mechanical bonus for $20.
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Post by nekomimi on Feb 21, 2016 21:47:30 GMT
The core book mentions that the USD to PYen conversion rate is about 1:50. I assume that's what we're going with here. I somewhat doubt that you could pick up clothing worthy of a mechanical bonus for $20. You'd be surprised. Also, as in lore, she is making these clothes herself. That sure cuts down the costs Also, it's 1 DR. On what's one-piece (stylized to look like two-piece) clothing warm enough to go outside in it.
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Post by Moriya on Feb 21, 2016 21:58:57 GMT
According to the trends found in the book, making something from scratch cuts the in half at most. That means that you could make clothing worth up to $40. That's approximately jeans and a t-shirt, and I think we can both agree that those have no business providing a mechanical bonus.
You're also trying to add a homebrew recipe to Fashonista, which is a pretty questionable precedent to set. And that's not even mentioning that durable clothing is the opposite of what a Fashionista wants.
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Post by Jacquerel on Feb 21, 2016 22:03:22 GMT
I'm not the DM, but I don't see why your character concept would justify or require getting a mechanical bonus for cheap, even if it's only a very small one. It's a bit of an unusual request. In terms of "things for someone to spend money on", how about books? A "Study Manual" of something related to her interests, as she is a student, for instance. And you can always pick up some candy bars
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Post by nekomimi on Feb 21, 2016 22:03:50 GMT
According to the trends found in the book, making something from scratch cuts the in half at most. That means that you could make clothing worth up to $40. That's approximately jeans and a t-shirt, and I think we can both agree that those have no business providing a mechanical bonus. You're also trying to add a homebrew recipe to Fashonista, which is a pretty questionable precedent to set. And that's not even mentioning that durable clothing is the opposite of what a Fashionista wants. It's not Fashionista. It's just something she does for fun (and profit). 40$ = ~~120 pln. You can buy durable hoodie (one that's resistant enough to not break on first hit taken, and soft enough to weaken the hit) for 30-40 pln. Trousers are about 50-60. And I'm talking about new ones, used would be cheaper. Now, if crafting it yourself make it cost half of base... Well. That would be way more than enough for these clothes. Also, that was random idea :/
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Post by Moriya on Feb 21, 2016 22:10:11 GMT
Nah, the "half of cost" thing is straight from the book. A Fashionista can make Fancy Clothes for 2500 PYen, and they can be bought for 5000 PYen. Other Fashionista recipes follow the same trend.
You're still trying to argue that normal clothing is worthy of a mechanical bonus. No hoodie will fall apart on the first hit, especially if it's a punch. That doesn't mean that every character who wears one should get free DR.
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Post by Raven on Feb 21, 2016 22:27:10 GMT
Okay, I guess those make sense. I didn't see any books listed in the playtest packet that Raven actually qualifies for, so I just sort of made one up. Not that I'm really familiar enough with them to determine what boost it provides, but I'm sure we can figure something out. I also decided if she's a planner, maybe she is moderately prepared for a disaster. Japan is known for earthquakes, after all. It's the unfortunate downside of selecting Combat/Focus/Intuition as my big skills. xD (Replying to Jacquerei. I apparently screwed up the quote somehow and my text got built into it.)
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Post by Jacquerel on Feb 21, 2016 22:35:35 GMT
Ah yes I forgot that books require "novice" skill ranks rather than "untrained". I think books are only supposed to work off education skills or survival, so I don't know if a Focus book would be valid... You might maybe want to find a different sheet to write your character on too, that one seems to be based on 1.04 and sort of out of date, for instance you've got modifiers for skills you shouldn't have
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Post by joegus on Feb 21, 2016 22:41:09 GMT
I have a question. I took Researcher as a class and Apothecary as the feature. I thought I'd fluff it as my character not knowing how to make potions and the like at first, because as someone else pointed out, we don't have those, but rather he'll use his chemistry set to "learn" how to make them. Is this acceptable within the setting?
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Post by Raven on Feb 21, 2016 22:49:55 GMT
Ah yes I forgot that books require "novice" skill ranks rather than "untrained". I think books are only supposed to work off education skills or survival, so I don't know if a Focus book would be valid... You might maybe want to find a different sheet to write your character on too, that one seems to be based on 1.04 and sort of out of date, for instance you've got modifiers for skills you shouldn't have You know, I bet you're right. The sheet was made by a friend of mine pre-1.05. I have a less fancy sheet I pulled off the interwebz at some point, but that one seems slightly outdated as well, as it's very static. I'll fill out a new sheet from the quick link off to the side of the website and provide a new link. Thanks for pointing that out, Jacquerei! As for the book, I can always just flavor it as a fluff book instead and refund/respend the $1k price tag. Maybe get more disaster survival stuff. Decided to trade the made-up book for a sleeping bag. Keeping the book as a flavor item with only sentimental value. Edit: Added new character sheet link! Raven This sheet should be the correct one this time.
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Post by nekomimi on Feb 21, 2016 22:58:03 GMT
You're still trying to argue that normal clothing is worthy of a mechanical bonus. No hoodie will fall apart on the first hit, especially if it's a punch. That doesn't mean that every character who wears one should get free DR. Well, honestly, most of warmer clothes are worthy of a mechanical bonus. I already gave up on idea, it's just that you *could* get proper set that's good enough to provide DR for these 1000 pyen. I just believe that it's funny. On side note, you should be glad that you never had hoodie that fall apart on the first hit.* *On side note to side note, never try to fight person in full XII century body armor while in hoodie. Even if you are one with better sword.** **But it was awesome and still worth it. ...Wait. Now, after few years, I noticed that it was XII century armor in XV century reconstruction.
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Post by stygianrose on Feb 22, 2016 0:04:11 GMT
Question for the GM so I can get started on a character - when you say that all of GoT is allowed...
Does that mean that the Outsider Kabutops (and thus Kabuto) is allowed, given the nature of the game seemingly being in part about Eldritch entities?
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Post by ProfHemlock on Feb 22, 2016 0:37:31 GMT
I'm less than inclined to let someone's starter be a type shifted Pokémon. Not exactly a precedent I wish to set and all that.
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Post by Nether on Feb 22, 2016 0:44:53 GMT
Yep, that's why the official character still has a Gastly.
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Post by Moriya on Feb 22, 2016 3:39:22 GMT
Alright, I think I'm finally done. Here's Jackson "Jack" Michaels, who turned out a bit more misanthropic than I had expected. Any feedback is appreciated.
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Post by ultimakh1 on Feb 22, 2016 5:40:23 GMT
Hey, I'm pretty new here but I've played PTU for about 4-6 months and I'm currently in one game, GM'ing another, and setting another to GM up soon so I know my way around the system. Here's my character if it's not too late to apply! Vivian LorenskyJust to make sure it's noticed, I spent $3,000 of the starting money on an Arcane Simple Weapon that I don't have yet, unless you'd actually allow me to. I plan on getting it during the first session, and it being a One-Handed Long Ranged Wand with Rending Spell, if it can't be One-Handed Long Ranged I'm alright with having to hold the wand with two hands or just getting a staff though! Of course the character doesn't know they have any of the supernatural Arcanist and Prism abilties yet, since I assume it'll get 'awakened' or some such in the first session.
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Post by nekomimi on Feb 22, 2016 20:58:30 GMT
docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1mvDWl5hCUskTXA7HKkt-W0-7BTApkjrKOdZaIB_D-Mo/edit#gid=0
This was unusual idea, but Hawa had genuine fun with making it come true. She used to write blog on her combat trainings, and someone suggested that she should do few dress-ups. Few years later, she still used old methods every time - both poll and e-mail submissions, listening to viewers. There were few rules - First, the character had to be fictional. Second, there had to be some reason for it to use weapon, as awful lot of characters were just cute girls. Third, if you made a donation this month, no matter how big, your vote was counted twice. Fourth, she would walk around in cosplay for at least week - which also meant it couldn't be something indecent. She also did few purely sponsored cosplays - getting paid a lot for these.
What people liked? That was big mystery. She wasn't one of cute girls, she was tall and had slightly visible muscles. Hawa was one of these girls boys were running away from, even when she wasn't bringing random sword with herself.
That name sounded great. Maybe it's some kind of knight, she thought, writing it in google...
...Yep, it was a knight! Great, finally! She started to check out what to change...
Surprisingly low amount of stuff was to be done. First, braid own hair, already matching colour of character, in few spots. Second... hey, she *had* that sword! It was request made few cosplays ago. Huh, that would mean all that's left is to make Asuna's armor... well, it was more like clothing.
...Done. Four days of work, but it was... good! It felt nice, wasn't too revealing... Now just practice.
Two weeks since she began, and she felt like she was ready. That's better than usual score... But still long. That was part of her job, adapting battle style similar to character fans picked. So, despite clearly sword-like appearance, she had to use it more like rapier of some sort... Interesting. Well, it was time for last thing to do. Hawa had deal with local roleplay club, for sparings. She could show own skills (usually not too high due to often style changes, but still not bad), they could train for their LARP fights. She'd swear some of them let her win intentionally... But even when she had her ass kicked, posts with recording of combat were most popular ones.
...She'd better stop thinking about it and continue walk.
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