[Fineus]

I stick my hand up for NPCing.. I believe the roll of "God" hasn't been taken yet?

Seriously though - if you need another NPC admin, I'll do that. Just say the word.

[Tiara]

Only admins can be NPC Else we'd end up with exactly zilch player characters

Kal Edit: I am an admin, foo

I know. I was talking to Venom And who are you calling f00? I'm Mrs. T, f00! I can make yo ass a whiny ***** in the RPG. Now shaddap, f00!

[Setekh]

Originally posted by Nico
Reading the future in the lines of miced steaks, heh?

I could see myslef as a NPC too, something like Sora in .Hack Sign

Not lines of steaks, but arrays of steaks.

Hey, you watch .Hack//Sign? Cool, my friend (Impurial on HLP) introduced me to that series, I've gotta find more eps somewhere

[Gortef]

Being an NPC would be a nice job. One could make the conversations be quite amusing, not to mention the possible quests
(nice battle screenie)

but anyway, here are my stats

Name: Gortef
Degree (Title/Job): Artist (as Turnsky said... a bard/magician like)
Portrait/Looks: A dude with glasses and a long black leather jacket and brushes
Initial Level: 1
Maximum Level: full (no experience restriction)
Battle Style: One handed weapon, a brush.

Abilities:
Average Hitpoints
High Energypoints (Mana)
Low Attack
Low Defense
High Mind
High Agility

Special Resistances / Weaknesses:
Resistance against mind affecting spells.
Weak against criticals

Special Skills:

Early Skills (levels 1-15):
Sketch - Makes one enemy confused
Hidden knife - Attacks with a hidden knife inside the brush (double physical damage)
Color Blue - Increases party's defence to 125%
Color Red - Increases party's offence to 125%

Later Skills: (15-30)
Portrait - Stops the enemy for two rounds (or one if restricted)
Color Green - Increases party's defence to 150% and makes them immune for mind affecting spells for one round (or two if possible)
Color Black - Increases partys's offence to 150%
Comic strip - Confuses all the enemies
Stick figure - Summons (draws) the allmighty stick figure to help in fight (Which cut's the enemy's hp in half)

High Level Skills: (30-xx)
All Colors of the world - Increases party's Defence and Offence to 185% and makes them immune to mind affecting spells for one (or two) rounds)
Childhood scribbles - Summons the childhood scribbles (a dog, a cat, a car and a goofy looking mecha) to help in  battle. High magical/physical attack.
Character - Summons (draws) a manga girl to help in fight. Very High physical attack.
Angry Moustaches - Goes and draws moustaches to the enemies. Makes all the enemies: poisoned, confused, mute and slow.

[Setekh]

Oh yeah, I forgot to ask. Is that a real screenie? That's sweet! :yes:

[Tiara]

Yeah, real screenie A simple one really. Just a regular axe attack Once I get the special skill animations in it'll be cool

[Setekh]

No kidding! Keep us tabbed on the visual progress. If you can make a particularly exciting screenie maybe we can get you a highlight.

[Fineus]

Maybe? You're kidding - this is definitely turning into highlight material

[Lightspeed]

Next few...

Ace

"Low Hitpoints -1
High Manapoints +1
High Attack +1
Low Defense -1
High Mind +1
Low Agility" -1

--> 0 = balanced

Seems okay.

Turnsky

Noticeable that you dont know RM2kX, but your stats are okay

Shikaze

"Average Hitpoints 0
Average Energy Points 0
Average Attack 0
Average Defense 0
Low Mind -1
Excellent Agility" +3

Change the agility down to "good" or decrease any other skill. An experience limit also would be possible.

Also, I'd change the "Luck" effect to a 2% resistance against everything.

Shrike

"Average Hitpoints 0
High Manapoints +1
Low Attack -1
Low Defense -1
Very High Mind +2 (very high is worse than excellent, but still better than good )
Average Agility" 0

--> +1 = balanced.

Rest is also properly balanced

Gortef

"Average Hitpoints 0
High Energypoints (Mana) +1
Low Attack -1
Average Defense 0
Exellent Mind +3
High Agility" +1

+4 --> OVERPOWERED.

"Resistance against mind affecting spells." - Add at least one disadvantage to compensate.

Or, you might have an experience restriction to make up for it.

[Tiara]

Originally posted by Kalfireth
Maybe? You're kidding - this is definitely turning into highlight material

Did you say highlights? *grins* I'll be sure to get some material up when its available

[Turnsky]

Originally posted by Lightspeed

Turnsky

Noticeable that you dont know RM2kX, but your stats are okay

[/B]

crikey.. oh, i couldn't think of many special skills to go in addition to the ones i've already made up, would generic skills (as in normal ones) be included?

also, you can tell by the skills i made up i'm not much of a magic user,,

EDIT: Tiara, awww, you're not using the RPG artworks?

*decides to make some special-edition headshots *

[Tiara]

Originally posted by Turnsky

EDIT: Tiara, awww, you're not using the RPG artworks?
 

Yes I am, hence the pre-pre-alpha state of the screenie It was just a test battle to see if the axe worked properly

[Nico]

Originally posted by Setekh
Hey, you watch .Hack//Sign? Cool, my friend (Impurial on HLP) introduced me to that series, I've gotta find more eps somewhere

Seen all the series already, now I'm watching hack liminality ( OAV, not TV series ), but the episodes aren't all out yet I believe.

[Turnsky]

Originally posted by Tiara

Yes I am, hence the pre-pre-alpha state of the screenie It was just a test battle to see if the axe worked properly

sweet, if you need anything, let me know..

[Gloriano]

Gloriano:

a weapon style fights with long katana like sword (like sepiroths sword was)

"HP:  +1
MP: -1
Str:Good +2
Def:Low  -1
magic  0
Mind:-1
Magic def: -1
Agility: -1

Edit :

Special Resistances / Weaknesses:
Immune to KO/Death effects/Weaknesses:water

[Unknown Target]

Originally posted by Lightspeed
Okay let's get through with all them - *puts on magical balancing glasses*

Unknown Target

"Maximum Level: 5 from highest (Minor experience restriction)"
Theres loads of levels (up to 99 AFAIK), so limiting it to 80 would be appropriate in this case.

"Large Sword and Pistol" is no weapon type choice. Theres two 'modes' - either you get a shield and a gun, or two guns - the actual weapons are changeable.

"MEDIUM Hitpoints
LOW Manapoints
HIGH Attack
LOW Defense
EXCELLENT Mind
EXCELLENT Agility"

excellent shouldnt be given if you dont have some really bad disadvantages. excellent pretty much means "better than any other out there".

In your case you get something like:

Hitpoints: 0 points
Manapoints: -1 point
Attack: +1 points (assuming high = good)
Defense: -1
Mind: +3
Agility: +3

Total: +5 --> OVERPOWERED

We'll look at extra skills later on.

 

I added the weaknesses to any kind of gunfire and magic to counter the high regular points.
And I thought the max level was 30?

[Lightspeed]

I'm afraid that they dont even make 1/2 of the point advantage up. Try getting the point balance to something between -1 and 1.(you could go +2 or maybe even +3 but that would need some really hard experience lock then.)

[Unknown Target]

Rebalanced

[Lightspeed]

Yes, that's looking much, much better.

[Genryu]

Also rebalanced.
Can someone tell me what they think of the skills I gave my character, if they're over or underpowered ?