um download the scorpion doc.

Right, Shosuro Kamigari, Scorpino Ninja... I have 3 minutes left on my Internet timer so you'll pardon me for not being more detailed than that.

How will multiple identities be handled?

Well here is the magic.

Bah, somebody already took ninja. Never mind, Kakita Haku, iaijutsu duelist of sorts.

Can we take backgrounds like Empress' cousin/brother/sister, etc?

You can marry into the family

Hmm, is the Empress an Asahina, Kakita or Doji? (Not sure of Doji/Daidoji are peoperly members of the clan... maybe I'm remembering wrongly...

I was thinking of having this guy be distantly related to the Empress in some way...

Go ahead and now the imperail families are the Hantei, Seppun, Otomo, and Miya.

Is it acceptable for a Kakita to dye his hair?

Well they die their hair White, or not at all.

Could I get a good family name for Taken before his master got assassinate, seeming as you seem to have a list of them or something?

Take the wrong one and you'll need to rebuild your character.

Which is why I was hoping you could suggest one...

Edit: Or I could just not mention what it was in the bio, either works.

I always thought that all of the Cranes had natural white hair... or was it just the Asahinas? Ah well.

You strike me as a mantis, but I don't know about your kama technique. The mantis caln lost their family name when they kidnapped the emporer as part of a bet.

dante- no they die it that color in memory of the first Daidoji son of doji and kakita who went into the shadowlands to find something i don't feel like looking up and came back with white hair. Proof that the prissy Crane should leave fighting the demons of hell to the real men in the crab clan.

Finished character. Changes: Dropped per by one to give him 5 reflexes. Also noticed Ronin have 2 base honor, so I gave him that, and, upon writing his bio and the extra notes (which would have seemed contrived to stick in the bio) I realized death trance (namely the part about him not believing in suicide) didn't make much sense, so I dropped that and used the three points to give him perfect balance and one point in shintao. I also gave him weapons, selling his arrows for a sai and bow for the money, and calculated his T.N. to be hit... and I must say I like that part of his sheet. I also thought of giving him a sworn enemy from his ex-clan, but decided he had enough problems. I think that covers the changes.

Also, I was wondering if I could take a +5 or 10 TN to use the back of his katana in Iajitsu (because if it's focused too much he might be able to kill someone with a single draw) which would be for people with the same or lesser skill, or aim for an arm which would be for people he THINKS are of equal skill (those better, that he thinks are the same due to his over confidence).

Edit: I'm also thinking of dropping dangerous beauty, as that he can still be pretty, but just be unaware of how to use it (due to being a social bore), and a point of honor to remove unluck...

Edit 2: Does ambidextrous allow him to wield two weapons at once and does wielding two give an advantage? Because if it does I'll add wakizashi, if not, I'll drop it and something else to remove unluck.

Name: Nanashi Taken (pronounce ta-ken, using the kanji for great and sword when written)
Clan: Ronin
Profession: Swordsman
Bio: Once Taken was once a samurai in the service of a daimyo; however, that did not last. Taken was always an idealistic youth, and did not believe in killing under any but the most grievous circumstances. Unfortunately, this led to problems in the young samurai's life, as that an assassin attacked his daimyo, and, although Taken was able to defeat the assassin, he elected to allow the man to live. That night, the assassin freed himself from his cell and killed Taken's lord, making the man a ronin. His family shortly disowned him, and Taken has been roaming the country side since.
Extra notes: He doesn't believe in killing or suicide, and never grasped the part of bushido that claims death is not failure, other than that he more or less follows the code.

Fire: 2
Agility: 4
Intelligence: 2

Air: 2
Reflexes: 5
Awareness: 2

Earth: 2
Stamina: 2
Willpower: 2

Water: 1
Strength: 2
Perception: 1

Void: 4.

Primary Weapon: Average quality Katana--2k2
Primary Armor: Light Armor+5 TN to be hit.
T.N. to be Hit: 30


Skills:
......Defense 2
......Iajitsu 2
......Kenjutsu 2
......Battle 2
......Nofujutsu 1
......Acting 1
......Athletics 1
......Shintao 1


Techniques / Spells: None

School: None
Rank: 1

Advantages / Disadvantages:
......Antisocial +4
......Bad Reputation +2
......Black Sheep +5
......Idealistic +2
......Overconfident +3
......Soft Hearted +2
......Unluck +5
......Vanity +1
......Compulsion +3 (Condition is that when he sees a defenseless person or persons attacked, he will step in regardless of his chances)
......Ambidextrous -3
......Crafty -3
......Quick -3
......Perfect Balance -2
......Dangerous Beauty -2

Glory: 6

Honor: 2

Insight: 121
(Rank1: 0-150 pts
Rank2: 151-175 pts
Rank3: 176-200 pts
Rank4: 201-225 pts
Rank5: 226-250 pts)
Experience Points: (I'll give these out and instructions for their use when the RP starts)

Wounds: 4
-0:
-1:
-2:
-3:
-4:
Down:
Out:
Dead:

Allies and Enemies: No real allies, no real enemies.

Weapons and Equipment: Sai (bought with 10 silver from selling arrows), Katana, Wakizashi, Light Armor, Kimono, traveling pack, 4 Koku (left over from selling bow), 10 bu

Gifts, Bestowments and Recognitions: (None yet)

History and Glorious Deeds: (None yet)

Your math is off by 13 points I'd reccomend cutting disadvantages. To lower a trait below 2 you need to use the weakness disadvantage. You also still need Hunting skill and the ronin disadvantage. You will leave your wakizashi alone and ambiextrous means your ambidextrous if you want to weild two weapons there is a school for that. It's called the Mirumoto bushi school

Bah, I forgot to add hunting and ronin to the file on my computer, which I did that off of. Hold on while I figure out where I screwed up my math and fix it.

Now this... is highly aggravating. Mostly because I think a character concept hasn't been taken, then I find out it has, then I decide on another one, find out that the other one was taken as well, and tha the original... wasn't.

I'll hold off on the character creation, but as it I'm either a ninja or a swordsman.

oh don't worry about krylo, He's taking a combat twink to a social gathering. Make your crane swordsman.

Krylo- both our math scores were off. when I said you had 13 points unspent i was mistaken. You are 11 points in debt. I'll let you try again one more time, then I'll intervene and make necessary edits if you are off again.

Ah well... we'll see...

I ran it through the calculator, and I got 14 points in debt... I'm going to run it through again to make sure I didn't subtract something twice, then I'm going to start altering things. Might end up reworking him from the ground up.


Edit: Gah. 19 in debt... guess I'm reworking nearly the whole thing.

Edit 2: 18... I accidently counted his hunting skill against him.

Repost: My math should be right on now, unless I get 8 points (from losing the point) plus the five for weakness... then I have 8 more points to spend, which will go into agility. He's considerably less combat twinked and better with people. Also, tell me about ascetic... I may drop it and rebalance him a bit if it's too constricting. Related to that, can I drop a point of honor to gain three points (I'm not sure how low I can have honor)? I want to add a couple of other skills.

See attachment for his good looks. And excuse the censored boobies. Ren drew it.

Name: Nanashi Taken (pronounce ta-ken, using the kanji for great and sword when written)
Clan: Ronin
Profession: Swordsman
Bio: Once Taken was once a samurai in the service of a daimyo; however, that did not last. Taken was always an idealistic youth, and did not believe in killing under any but the most grievous circumstances. Unfortunately, this led to problems in the young samurai's life, as that an assassin attacked his daimyo, and, although Taken was able to defeat the assassin, he elected to allow the man to live. That night, the assassin freed himself from his cell and killed Taken's lord, making the man a ronin. His family shortly disowned him, and Taken has been roaming the country side since.
Extra notes: He doesn't believe in killing or suicide, and never grasped the part of bushido that claims death is not failure, other than that he more or less follows the code. He's also quite attractive and somewhat proud of that fact. Also: He's left handed, which is why the sword is on his right hip.

Fire: 2
Agility: 3
Intelligence: 2

Air: 2
Reflexes: 4
Awareness: 2

Earth: 2
Stamina: 2
Willpower: 2

Water: 1
Strength: 2
Perception: 1

Void: 3.

Primary Weapon: Average quality Katana--2k2
Primary Armor: Light Armor+5 TN to be hit.
T.N. to be Hit: 25

Skills:
......Defense 2
......Iajitsu 2
......Kenjutsu 2
......Battle 2
......Advanced Medicine 1
......Etiquette 1
......Athletics 1
......Hunting 1
Following skills he has through crafty, but I just figured it'd be easier to keep track of them this way instead of looking for low skills on the list:
......Forgery 1
......Ninjutsu 1
......Nofojutsu 1
......Poison 1
......Seduction 1
......Sleight of Hand 1
......Stealth 1
......Torture 1 (he will never ever ever use this, but it's there)
......Traps 1

Techniques / Spells: None

School: None
Rank: 1

Advantages / Disadvantages:
......Ronin Disadvantage
......Black Sheep +5
......Idealistic +2
......Vanity +1
......Overconfident +3
......Compulsion +4 (Defenseless people attacked, he steps in.)
......Ascetic +3
......Weakness +5
......Luck -6
......Dangerous Beauty -2
......Crafty -3

Glory: 6

Honor: 2

Insight: 121
(Rank1: 0-150 pts
Rank2: 151-175 pts
Rank3: 176-200 pts
Rank4: 201-225 pts
Rank5: 226-250 pts)
Experience Points: (I'll give these out and instructions for their use when the RP starts)

Wounds 4
-0:
-1:
-2:
-3:
-4:
Down:
Out:
Dead:

Allies and Enemies: None.

Weapons and Equipment: Sai (bought with 10 silver from selling arrows), Katana, Wakizashi, Light Armor, Kimono, traveling pack, 4 Koku (left over from selling bow), 10 bu

Gifts, Bestowments and Recognitions: (None yet)

History and Glorious Deeds: (None yet)

Your math was still off so this is one is correct. Also the Black sheep disadvantage and Social disadvantage Ronin are the same thing. Also you don't have a school to advance in. So no Black sheep for you. I replaced it with brash.


Name: Nanashi Taken (pronounce ta-ken, using the kanji for great and sword when written)
Clan: Ronin
Profession: Swordsman
Bio: Once Taken was once a samurai in the service of a daimyo; however, that did not last. Taken was always an idealistic youth, and did not believe in killing under any but the most grievous circumstances. Unfortunately, this led to problems in the young samurai's life, as that an assassin attacked his daimyo, and, although Taken was able to defeat the assassin, he elected to allow the man to live. That night, the assassin freed himself from his cell and killed Taken's lord, making the man a ronin. His family shortly disowned him, and Taken has been roaming the country side since.
Extra notes: He doesn't believe in killing or suicide, and never grasped the part of bushido that claims death is not failure, other than that he more or less follows the code. He's also quite attractive and somewhat proud of that fact. Also: He's left handed, which is why the sword is on his right hip.

Fire: 2
Agility: 3
Intelligence: 2

Air: 2
Reflexes: 4
Awareness: 2

Earth: 2
Stamina: 2
Willpower: 2

Water: 1
Strength: 2
Perception: 1

Void: 3.

Primary Weapon: Average quality Katana--2k2
Primary Armor: Light Armor+5 TN to be hit.
T.N. to be Hit: 25

Skills:
......Defense 2
......Iajitsu 2
......Kenjutsu 2
......Battle 2
......Advanced Medicine 1
......Etiquette 1
......Athletics 1
......Hunting 1
Following skills he has through crafty, but I just figured it'd be easier to keep track of them this way instead of looking for low skills on the list:
......Forgery 1
......Ninjutsu 1
......Nofojutsu 1
......Poison 1
......Seduction 1
......Sleight of Hand 1
......Stealth 1
......Torture 1 (he will never ever ever use this, but it's there)
......Traps 1

Techniques / Spells: None

School: None
Rank: 1

Advantages / Disadvantages:
......Ronin Disadvantage
......Idealistic +2
......Vanity +1
......Overconfident +3
......Weakness +5
......Brash +2
......Compulsion +4 (Defenseless people attacked, he steps in.
......Luck -6
......Dangerous Beauty -2
......Crafty -3

Glory: 6

Honor: 2

Insight: 121
(Rank1: 0-150 pts
Rank2: 151-175 pts
Rank3: 176-200 pts
Rank4: 201-225 pts
Rank5: 226-250 pts)
Experience Points: (I'll give these out and instructions for their use when the RP starts)

Wounds 4
-0:
-1:
-2:
-3:
-4:
Down:
Out:
Dead:

Allies and Enemies: None.

Weapons and Equipment: Sai (bought with 10 silver from selling arrows), Katana, Wakizashi, Light Armor, Kimono, traveling pack, 4 Koku (left over from selling bow), 10 bu

Gifts, Bestowments and Recognitions: (None yet)

History and Glorious Deeds: (None yet)

Ok all the magic spells are now on page nine of this thread.

Lots of info to digest, but I'm going to try and have a basic sign-up ready by tonight at least. I'm interested, just need to actually work on my sign-up.

I'm not getting a zero point value left over for your reworking of my thing...

45 - 8 for agi is 37 - 16 for reflexes is 21 - 12 for void is 9 - 12 for skills is -3 + 2 for idealistic is -1 + 1 for vanity is 0 + 3 for overconfident is 3 + 5 for weakness is 8 + 2 for brash is 10 + 4 for compulsion is 14 - 6 for luck is 8 - 2 for dangerous beauty is 6 - 3 for crafty is 3.

Now, if I get an extra 8 points from dropping that skill with weakness I have 11 - 10 for glory, leaving me with 1 point unspent.

If I didn't get the extra 8 I have 3 - 10 for glory which is -7.

On my above I have...

45 - 8 for agi is 37 - 16 for reflexes is 21 - 12 for void is 9 - 12 for skills is -3 + 5 for black sheep (which I apparently don't get, but just for math we'll leave it) is 2 + 2 for idealistic is 4 + 1 for vanity is 5 + 3 for overconfident is 8 + 4 for compulsion is 12 + 3 for ascetic is 15 + 5 for weakness is 20 - 6 for luck is 14 - 2 for Dangerous beauty is 12 - 3 for crafty is 9 - 10 for glory is -1. (We'll leave out the 8 points from weakness seeming as I'm still unsure whether I get those, and didn't count them there)

So, in conclusion, we both suck at math. (unless I write it out, in which case I'm apparently ok).

Either that or I have the price for skills or something wrong in my .txt file. If my math holds true, however... put that one point into juijutsu.

Actually, just tell me, and I'll repost it with the attachment again. I like the attachment.

You get 6 free skills and hunting. Those are your schooled skills. I did my math 3 times and it came up 0 three times.

45 - 10 for glory
35 - 8 for agility
27 - 16 for reflexes
11 - 12 for void
-1 - 5 for skills
-6 + 2 for idealistic
-4 +1 vainity
-3 +3 overconfident
0 +5 weakness
5 +2 Brash
7 + 4 compulsion
11 - 6 luck
5 -2 dangerous beauty
3 -3 crafty
0

That's where I kept messing up.

Besides you don't want ascetic. You have enough problems. Being limited to a kimono and your swords is not a problem you need to add to your impressive list.

Ronins seem rather strong...

Not really. They get more points, but over the course of the RP we'll get exp, which will allow you to move up ranks and get techniques. Well, I don't know about you mage characters (which is why I wouldn't have made one), but some of the techniques the clans can learn are down right unbalancing.

One clan gets three attacks per round eventually, another has the ability to never fail a roll completely... etc. etc.

Ronin don't get that... unless they can join a school, which I don't know will be possible here.

Appearances can be decieving. The only strength a ronin has is at the very beginning. As you move up in rank you will out stripe krylo quickly. especially when you pick your spells IHMN.

According to the attachments though, mages don't have ranks.

And yeah, with 10' fireballs, giant fist of lighting, flying, and blinding people, I think I can outstripe some people.

oh yeah they do. it's just not as pronounced. your rank determines the strength of your magic. when you roll magic you roll Ring + rank.

Wouldn't a ronin always have better stats and skills than non-ronin by about 20 points, however? I was thinking this would just become unimportant as the others reached higher ranks and gained abilities that made the two extra stat points and four extra balanced.

I suppose 20 points isn't really all that much as you get more and more points, though...

I have finished selecting my spells. What do I do now?

Well I can wield 2 weapons to increase my protection, by rank 2 I can make 2 attacks a turn, doubling my damage potential in combat, at rank 3 i can help or hinder a magic spell, at rank 4 if I kill my opponent I can make another attack. and at rank 5 I can make 3 attacks a turn. Not to mention my stats and skills will get better.

Ihmn will get a free raise to his fire magic for every rank he increases, not to mention get better at casting his spells. and improve his traits and skills

Batgirl will become more adept at spell casting, and learn valuable secrets making her more important to her clan. Which will put ninja at her disposal. and increase in traits and skills.

krylo, however, can only improve your stats and skills.

If you picked your spells post them in your character sheet.

How do we choose our spells?

I've already done that

EDIT: Put them on my character sheet, that is.

You, ihmn, pick two fire spells you like. I reccomend Biting steal or fires of purity, and Fire from within or Fury of Osano-wo for you. And an air spell. I think Accounts of Shorihotsu, Quisesence of Air, or by Lord Moon's light might be useful

Can Fury of Osano-wo only be used on buildings, or can you target a gerenal location?

And the mind control or mind reading air spells seem useful...

So Jad, what advantage would be best to repel mind control spells...

ok here's the difference. FIST of Osano-wo is a magical wrecking ball.
FURY of Osano-Wo is a lightning spell.

and the mind control spell is tricky, since it can require up to three rolls at slim odds to succeed and even then it may not work.

And to repel mind control you want clear thinker.

What type of dice will we be rolling for these things?

10 sided and I'll be rolling them

Hm... We seem to have a large number of mages (3 mages, 3 fighters, empress), and apparently Elmister is a fire mage as well (And apparently a better one...). Should I switch to some other clan?

That what I thought, just making sure. Time to shift some numbers around...

That and magic resistance.

edit: Elminster is an earth mage. Immortal steel, earthquake and tomb of jade are earth spells. Your school is better than his, it's just more specialized.

Spelled added in.

Fires of Purity
The Fire from Within
Quiescence of Air

Question, I noticed some skills like Research that help learn spells faster. Is it possible for those that don't start as mages to learn magic, or is that restricted to starting mages? I'm staying a Samurai either way, just asking as I put points in skills.

no. There is only one Samurai Shugenja, the Togashi Daimyo, Champion of the Dragon Clan. You can ask him how he did it, but talking to him is like talking to a magic 8-ball

http://www.teuton.org/~lynx/L5R/IMAGES/teragassy.JPG

Name: Kakita Tama
Clan: Crane - Kakita
Appearance: In his late 30s. He wears a full suit of Samurai armor, which he took off a rogue samurai that had ran from his master. He carries a large katana on his left hip, and a sake bottle on his right. He has long black hair, which he keeps tied back in a pony-tail.
Profession: Swordsman
Bio: Tama was an incredible swordsman, very well known by any who use a sword. He had a habit of taking the sword of his opponent when he won. It didn't matter who it was. Those that didn't know Tama knew his alter ego. He was the Sword Beast. The Sword Beast would kill anyone for their sword. Whether it was a trained samurai, or simply a novice. No one could tell that the Sword Beast and Tama is the same person, but if anyone did, he would make a whole new bunch of enemies. His best friend used the swords to make new ones. His friend's name was Kame Sami. Kame Sami was a master swordsmith. As a team, they were unbeatable with Kame supplying Tama with the best swords around. But, Kame belonged to the Yogo family of the Scorpion Clan. Hence, there friendship was doomed from the start. Once, while Tama was out for a stroll at night, an assassin appeared and challenged Tama to a duel. He accepted, and they fought in the forest. During the fight, Tama's sword shattered. He managed to use a fragment from his blade to slit his enemy's throat. After the fight, Tama took the assassin's sword, but found something horrible. The sword was specially crafted by Kame in order to shatter Tama's blade. His friend had betrayed him, and Tama left. He now sits around in any bars that will take him.

Fire: 2
Agility: 2
Intelligence: 2

Air: 3.5
Reflexes: 3
Awareness: 4

Earth: 2
Stamina: 2
Willpower: 2

Water: 2.5
Strength: 3
Perception: 2

Void: 2

Primary Weapon: Katana
Primary Armor: Heavy Samurai Armor
T.N. to be Hit
(Reflexes x 5 + Armor)

Skills: Horsemanship-2
Kenjutsu-3
Defense-2
Etiquette-2
Sincerity-2
Iaijitsu-2
Torture-3
Archery-3
Nofujutsu-2
Techniques / Spells: Way of the Crane

School: (Look under the clans. To be posted later this week.)
Rank: 1 (see insight)

Advantages / Disadvantages:
Overconfident +3
Kakita Blade-3
Soft Hearted +2
Voice-2
Vanity +1
Compulsion +3
Ambidextrous -3
Crafty -3
Quick -3
Death Trance -3
Dangerous Beauty -2
Dark Secret+5


Glory: 4

Honor: (Dependant on School)

Insight: [(Sum of your Rings)x 10 + Sum of your Skills]
(Rank1: 0-150 pts
Rank2: 151-175 pts
Rank3: 176-200 pts
Rank4: 201-225 pts
Rank5: 226-250 pts)
Experience Points: (I'll give these out and instructions for their use when the RP starts)

Wounds (Earth ring x 2)
-0:
-1:
-2:
-3:
-4:
Down:4
Out:4
Dead:4

Sworn Enemy: Yogo Sami

Allies and Enemies: Yogo Sami-enemy

Weapons and Equipment: (All items are of fine quality) bow, 20 arrows, katana, wakizashi, Grappling Chain, heavy armor, helm, kimono, traveling pack, steed, 10 koku

Gifts, Bestowments and Recognitions: (None yet)

History and Glorious Deeds: (None yet)

Geez, that was hard.

Crane family names are Daidoji, Doji, Kakita, and Asahina, Also you don't have an ally since you pruchased neither the True friend, or ally advantage.

I know. I couldn't find a place to put the family. I'll do it now.

Also deadliness is not a skill.

Really? But it was in the skills.....

Alright, I'll change it.

Things to change.

Kakita Tama or Kakita Kayate.

I'd recomend Defense over traps. Also if you want to not hurt yourself with your chain. you need nofujutsu. To bad that it's considered a low skill, You'll lose one point of honor for every point of skill you take in nofujutsu.


I seriously reccomend trimming the fat here. Having as few disadvantes as possible is best. Cause invariably they all come to bite you in the ass latter.


Either true friend or Ally for you to have an ally. Sworn enemy or nemesis to have an enemy. also from your bio his name would be Yogo Kame

Got it. Like I said, it took a while. There was quite a bit to read.

It's worse if your a shugenja. I reccomend the Kakita school.

Which is why I chose it.

You know, you use Iaijutsu instead of Kenjutsu for sword fighting. You only need a one in Kenjutsu and a 3 in Iaijutsu and for terms of fighting you have a 3 in both. that would give you an extra skill point. Also for your bio I'm giving you the social disadvantage Ronin.

Is that a bad thing?

That's a good thing, The ronin thing is bad.

Fun.

Also the technique you chose is the Doji courtier school. You want Way of the Crane.