Final Fantasy meets D&D, or something
 

That's right. I'm going to try GMing another RP. I can't promise how well it will go, but we'll try.

Basic Story: Lex Legim and Licentiaus: two countries have been at war for as long as anyone can remember. No one is really sure who started the war, but it has been being fought for so long that it no longer matters. Each country has demonized its opponent with propeganda for so long that only hate, distaste, and antagonism exists between their people, and that is all that is required to fuel the war.

Lex Legim: Is a country ruled by draconian law of the highest degree. From a distance it appears to be a near utopia. The streets are clean, despite the medieval living conditions, and the people are well fed and at peace, at least near the capital. The same can, obviously, not be said for the border where war rips apart both nations. Internal violence is almost entirely unheard of. However, such peace does not come without a price. The rules are strict and harsh, and it is not uncommon for a simple thief to be drug off to the dungeons and never heard from again--executed for his crimes. In Lex Legim law and the community take precedent over any human needs or cares.

The religion and laws here are very conservative in nature. Copulation outside of wedlock can lead to castration, for instance (justified by the orphans created by such copulations).

Licentiaus: Named after an ancient word for freedom, Licentiaus is not so much a country as it is a collection of city states who have come together and formed something RESEMBLING a country in order to fight Lex Legim's more organized military might. The law, religion, and enforcement of said law varies from city to city, with only a federal tax and military recruitment running congruent throughout. In general, however, the closer to the borders of Lex Legim one gets, the more conservative the views, thanks to black market trading, and intermingling of views. They are, however, no where near as strict as even the least conservative of Lex Legim's, and, indeed these black market deals and occassional border hoppers have served more to 'weaken the moral fabric' of Lex Legim's border cities than to strengthen that of Licentiaus's, as that chaos always spreads easier than order, causing Lex Legim to enforce stringent border controls to keep out the 'undesireables'.

Races: Pretty much anything is acceptable, just give me your race and how you want it to act. Animal-people, elves, half-what-the-fuck-evers. I'll make rulings on how over-powered they are, if at all, and if things need to be altered.

One thing, however, demons ARE evil. There are no good demons. No reformed fiends. They're bad things. Bad. I'm not saying you can't play one, but I'm going to be leery about it, and you won't be a nice person. This, further, extends to half-fiends, or anyone else with direct demonic influence (infernomancers, for instance). You can fully expect me to take control of your character in emotionally charged moments and 'release the beast', as it were. Simply because I think this makes things more interesting (and will maybe keep everyone from copping out by just being like "I'm part demon and control fire/shadow/your mom because I'm a fire/shadow/your mom demon")

Technology: Think FF6, except more than two people have airships. Further, all technology is powered by magic. For example--there may be guns, but they're more like channeling rods for pellets of condensed magic, allowing anyone to fire off blasts of eldritch energy than they are black powder hurling metal balls, and air ships are powered by various powerful crystals enchanted with various powers of flight and movement, which are controlled by carefully calibrated piping systems. Etc. Etc.

Further, magical equipment's rarity is going to be closer to D&D than Final Fantasy, which is to say, not very rare at all. I mean, really, with all those wizards in the world, why wouldn't they be making magical items and selling it for a profit, eh? However, the big stuff like airships etc. are pretty much military only.

PvP: Will be handled in a T1 fighting situation. If someone isn't posting fast enough, and it's threatening to cause serious damage to the RP, I'll have to step in. I fully expect PvP to happen, and have no problems with it.

Character Sheet:

Name: What they call you.
Species: Are you an elf? A human? A viera? A half-fiend half-unicorn moon princess fairy from jupiter?
Age: How old you are.
Morality/Ethics: A quick break down of your character's basic moral code.
Faction: Lex or Lic
Class: Just try to define what you do as concisely as possible. Are you a swordsman? A barbarian? What?
Equipment: Any equipment of note. Foot soldiers are going to have at least some armor.
Biography: Write as much or as little as you want. This is basically just a way for me to make sure you aren't being a goddamn idiot.
Physical Description: What do you look like? This should include some of your basic equipment, some measure of your mass, etc. Just basically use this to give us a better feel of who your character is and what he does.


Edit: Sample character

Name: Marilk Talthos
Species: Warforged--A living golem given sentience through various magics. Healing magic is only half as effective, can not be treated by a normal medic. Is repaired through engineering. Doesn't need food, sleep, or air.
Age: 250
Morality/Ethics: Extremely empathic, with a penchant for becoming enraged at what he deems unfair treatment of others.
Faction: Lic
Class: Berserker
Equipment: A weakly enchanted (Think +1) magical battle axe, and that's about it.
Biography: As this is a sample character, I don't feel like writing this.
Physical Description: Marilk stands roughly six and a half feet tall, metal plates covering partially organic looking strands of a strange metallic material, which are braided together and shaped in ways that resemble the muscles of a skinned human corpse. His eyes are lenses which glow with a dull yellow light, and a small rune is carved upon his forehead.

Name: Borgnine
Species: Half-Esper(Espers are like fairies, or the Inuyasha creatures)
Age: 55 years old
Morality/Ethics: Acquisition of logic and empathic thought patterns. Borgnine values research and a status of mental stability, with a calm serenity and concerned manner of thought for the events unfolding in the world.
Class: A summoner and enchanter. He manipulates the forces in his body in order to achieve magical effects. He can use brain waves for psychic powers. He can use his blood to fight off vampires. He can use his breath to cause microbursts/tornados, etcetera. Furthermore, with his summoning/calling magic, he can make pacts with non-evil creatures in order to receive help. The non-powerful summoning magic is useful for conjuring weapons, calling upon animals, plants and insects for help, and even simple telepathy is categorized here as "summoning".
Biography: Borgnine desires to be left alone in his tower. However recent events have led to him to want to temporarily leave his place of study and focus on diplomatic concerns. He has a tiny, but nonetheless, independant, country of several hundred commoners. With a pact he has made for powerful creatures to protect his tower, he leaves Borgnine Tower and hopes for the best in keeping his country safe from both the much larger Lex Legim and Licentius countries.
Physical Description: Dark black hair and eyes. He dresses in a blue robe with "The Serpent's" ring on his finger. A stereotypical serpent swallowing it's tail. The ring's powers are unknown, but it emanates a magical energy. In addition to his black hair and black eyes, he has a broad nose, and is mid-stature at about 6'0.

Name: Ashi
Species: Blood Demon
Age: Relatively young for a demon
Morality/Ethics: Evil. Any life but his is worthless, therefore expendable if it helps him in any way. However, he will restrain himself to simply being a violent jackass if he needs to work with others for his goal.
Class: Barbarian Blue Mage
Faction: Licentiaus

Biography: Ashi was spawned deep in Licentiaus territory. The mother demon makes 30 eggs, then leaves. Ashi was the first to hatch, so he killed his brothers and sisters for early nurishment.

Being a wild demon, and far away from the two countries borders, Ashi was unaware of the war. So when he first ran into humanoids, he assumed they were all weak, unaware that the powerful ones were sent to war. This strengthed his self, and demon, superiority.

His early life was spent hunting for blood, mostly demon blood. The more he aged, the more he wandered, and he realized that the humanoids were fighting a war. After more time he started wandering into old battlefields. The amount of destruction surprised him, since it was nothing he expected from puny mortals. Eventually he found an active battlefield, and got to witness the power of humanoids at their fullest.

After watching a battle for himself, Ashi decided he should be a part of this war. He wanted to help Licentiaus destroy Lex Legim.

Physical Description: http://img137.imageshack.us/img137/7968/image1ox5.jpg 6' 6"

Race Description: Drinks the blood of a human/demon/animal/other, and gains their abilities, appearance, and traits. So if one drinks the blood of a moggle white mage, it will get shorter, furry, a puff ball, big ears, little wings, physically weaker, white magic abilites, and say "Kupo" at the end of sentences. The more blood drunk, the more drastic the changes and the longer the effect.

If one drinks a lot of blood from many different sources, strengths, weaknesses, and/or attributes overlap and/or cancel each other out. Also becomes a strain on the demon due to overlapping traits.

Without drinking blood, they are physically stronger and faster than humans, but have no magical abilities.

Name: Gavald Telnar
Species: Mostly Human
Age: 28
Morality/Ethics: Any action is admissable in the pursuit of personal enhancement.
Class: Researcher/Fighter
Biography: Gavald was always smaller than the other kids. He was a lonely child because his so-called friends would always make him help them play tricks, then blame him when they were caught. When he was 10, he lost his hand in an accident, and had it replaced with a magically animated metal one. When he returned to his "friends," he realized that his new hand made him stronger than any of them. Gavald used his newfound strength to his advantage, and began training himself to fight to make the most of it. Soon the kids who had pushed him around were all but serving him hand and foot. He became very interested in prosthenics and artificial enhancements as he grew older, and eventually replaced his entire arm with a powerful metal replica. He continued training to fight, and began searching for better weapons to integrate into his body.
Physical Description: Gavald is about 5'6", with flat grey eyes and reddish-brown hair. He wears a loose sleeveless tunic and pants that allow for easy movement, along with a cape to hide his arm if needed. He carries no weapons, preferring to rely on his own skill and metal arm.

Ok, it's hard to really get a clear picture of his morality from this. It sounds like he's basically a bystander/calm guy who is mostly nice and not prone to violence?
I'd rather there not be summoners. Also the rest of your powers sound a little... overblown perhaps. Psychic? I'd rather that not be around. It just causes too many problems. And breath making a tornado? How about just having normal magic... 'cause it's just less of a problem for me.
No owning any countries. Small or not, it's too much in the way of potential problems.


Throw some vowels into the permanent name, please? I mean, it's not technically necessary... these CoC-esque names just hurt my fragile brain meats.

A combination. Basically if one creature is extremely strong and another is extremely weak, yah, they're going to cancel out. Further an extremely strong creature's bonus will be weakened (though not as much) by an average strength creature's. However, let's say you drink a white mage and a black mage's blood. Well white magic and black magic don't cancel out, so you're just going to have both. Also, weaknesses and strengths would both stack. So if both those mages were physically frail, you'd get frailness from both.

And as for losing control, it won't be so much losing control as that all the traits from the creatures you eat will start stacking on top of each other... and could make functioning difficult to downright impossible depending upon what traits you've gathered from them. You might even end up altering into some kind of mass of painful flesh incapable of doing anything if you drink too much.

Further, your powers are, obviously, going to be temporary. I'm figuring the powers start to fade away after an hour, and how long they last after that depends upon how potent they were in the first place. Traits and undesirables will work the same way.

One last thing--I'm going to rule that the blood need be fresh, because a jacket full of blood containers from different creatures (like you did once a long while ago) could easily become over powered rather quickly. Plus, it'll drive you to kill and be violent more often.

And Argent: the only issue I have here is A) How much stronger? And B) You realize that only the replaced limb is going to be more powerful, right? I mean, having a hand is going to make you able to crush things in your fist pretty easily, but you aren't going to be able to lift things more easily or punch harder (though it'd hurt more 'cause it's metal). So I'm not sure how much stronger he would have been as a child. At present he probably has a really mean right(?) hook and can do things with that arm which would generally be rather impossible for a normal person. However, his off hand isn't going to have any extra strength at all.



ALSO: could I ask that people bold their name etc. categories like IHMN did? It makes it far easier to read. Further, I'd like to add a 'faction' area to the character sheet, where you just fill out which side of the war you're on, and an equipment one, for magical items etc.

So character sheets should now look like:

Name: What they call you.
Species: Are you an elf? A human? A viera? A half-fiend half-unicorn moon princess fairy from jupiter?
Age: How old you are.
Morality/Ethics: A quick break down of your character's basic moral code.
Faction: Lex or Lic?
Class: Just try to define what you do as concisely as possible. Are you a swordsman? A barbarian? What?
Equipment: Any equipment of note. Foot soldiers are going to have at least some armor.
Biography: Write as much or as little as you want. This is basically just a way for me to make sure you aren't being a goddamn idiot.
Physical Description: What do you look like? This should include some of your basic equipment, some measure of your mass, etc. Just basically use this to give us a better feel of who your character is and what he does.

Name: Ingram Valous
Species: Half Demon
Age: 28
Morality/Ethics: His magic is as cold as his heart. On the battlefield, he is a killer, taking out every enemy. He shows no emotions in the kill, only a sense that he is getting closer to victory. In fact, he doesn't even show emotions at all. His human self has shown though that he does have respect for order rather than chaos, taking to the laws of Lex Legim rather easily.
Faction: Lex
Class: Mage Knight - Skilled in both areas of magic and swordsmanship.
Equipment: His armor is some of the nicest Lex will give to its warriors. Its enchanted with a cold touch, so that foes that strike it will feel cold as ice. His weapon, of similiar design, happens to have the same enchantment. His cape is just decoration.
Biography: Ingram is one of the most recognized warriors on the Lex Legim side. His birth was not even noted, probably because he wasn't born in Lex. In fact, he isn't sure where he was born. All he knew was that his mom took him too the capital of Lex to raise him, since she knew he could eat and have a house. She died in Ingram's early teens, and what was scary was that Ingram didn't even show up at the funeral, too concerned with what lay ahead.

After the death of his mother, he chose to work himself. His lack of feelings for the punishment of crimes lead him to join up in the guards. He worked, and did whatever he had to do. At first, he mostly relied on magic to take in foes, but later he relied on his strength as well. His talents were okay really, but his ability to instill fear was what really got him far. Far enough to, infact, send him into the military. It was only his respect of the system that he didn't break away from this decision.

Also, he has good command over ice magic. Though its not really that important to him.
Physical Description: Standing over 6 feet, Ingram looks like a fierce man to behold. The armor that rests upon his shoulders is a dark blue color of a more demonic design. The two-handed sword that sits in his hands is of the same design. With the articulate design upon the blade as well. His hair hangs down in a thick brown color, with a just as thick beard to match. His eyes are that icey blue that just chills to look at. He also has a cape of an even darker blue, dark enough to be mistaken for black. Looking at it closely, you can see it also has that evil design the rest of his stuff has.

(I think I'll experiment with something new)

Name: Naomi
Species: Human
Age: 23
Morality/Ethics: Safety and well being of the people under the rule of Licentiaus.
Faction: Lic
Class: White Mage
Equipment: Blessed Oak Staff (Holy Magic), blessed white robes,
Biography: Brought into the church at a young age, Naomi grew to love the life she lived. She was part of one of the smaller noble houses but enjoyed what luxury came her way. Naomi's life long dream was to serve the church. Later in life she found her calling healing the wounded soldiers of the war. Naomi was overjoyed when she got use her powers for good.

It became odd when the services of the white mages were called in for battle. Naomi only thought this was temporary because the white mages were ones charged with healing the soldiers after a tough battle, not during one. But after a few years it seemed like a normal thing to her. She was happy saving soldiers from the brink of death, they gave her thanks yous and gifts she refused saying that she was only doing something she loved.

Physical Description: 6', just past shoulder length brown hair, emerald green eyes, peach toned skin.

Just a few things...

You aren't old enough to have come before the war. No one is.

Also, you don't have your faction or equipment filled out.


And... guys, could you stop all being demons? Seriously, how about a little bit of diversity? I mean, there are like a bajillion other races to choose from, many of which are COOLER than demons.

Be like, a half-dragon... or a fae... or maybe a half-celestial or something, if you want to be something with magical powers. How about a lunarian? Maybe a warforged, or an enchanted suit of armor? Half-bird, half-man? The sky is the limit.

If before you start this you think there are to many demons, I'll switch to a moggle of some sort. I just wanted to reuse the blood demon guy since that RP died in first chapter.

Hmmm.... I have a different idea then... Just hope it doesn't break anything. Oh, may I also make mention that there are absolutely no male viera? I guess that must already be a given through FFTA and FF12.