KaintheSeeker
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Tokiwong said:
Sounds interesting.. I'll definitely want in on that
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Sounds interesting.. I'll definitely want in on that
Shalimar
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Maybe you guys can answer a question for me, why wouldn't absolutely everyone buy up legend at character creation? Legend costs 8 x rating, so 24 + 32 = 56 exp, and by not buying it to start at most you can have level 1 boons and epics, and boons and epics are really expensive to by up later. It seems like the rules are set up to make people max out Legend and Epics and then buy boons later.
Is there a reason to not buy at least legend 3?
Is there a reason to not buy at least legend 3?
Shalimar
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Tokiwong said:
There are only so many level 1 boons that you can buy since you have to buy relics for each. I think that generally Legend 2 would be kinda limiting since level 1 boons aren't that good, same with level 1 epics, but legend 4 might be a bit too expensive depending on the concept. Legend 3 looks like the sweet spot as far as having a good bit of points to spread around and still have cool powers and skills.
KaintheSeeker
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Shalimar said:
Actually you need a relic to access Purviews.. not specific boons. Still trying to find out if you're restricted to the scion stuff for a particular god with your creation points (ie.. if as a Scion of Thor I want something other than the 3 purviews Thor has would I need to spend backgrounds to get them?)
Shalimar
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Thats what I meant, you need to spend a pt of birthright or a bonus point on each purview. At Legend 2 though you can only buy level 1 boons of each, so you do have to buy a relic for each.
It doesn't say you need to spend bonus points on non-parent boons, so I'd think not, as long as you spend a birthright to have a relic to channel it. For instance my character concept has Loki with Thor when she receives her visitation. The book gives the backstory on Loki that he is always betraying the gods and then trying to buy their forgiveness back, so I worked that in as an attempt by Loki to both get on Thor's good side and to confuse him. He gave the scion a ring of Chaos that she uses to Channel Eye of The Storm.
It doesn't say you need to spend bonus points on non-parent boons, so I'd think not, as long as you spend a birthright to have a relic to channel it. For instance my character concept has Loki with Thor when she receives her visitation. The book gives the backstory on Loki that he is always betraying the gods and then trying to buy their forgiveness back, so I worked that in as an attempt by Loki to both get on Thor's good side and to confuse him. He gave the scion a ring of Chaos that she uses to Channel Eye of The Storm.
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Tokiwong
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I have some more concrete details now, that I have had time to mull things over and draw some inspiration for a few places. I am going to start the game in Tokyo and since it sounds like the two of you want to both be apart of the Aesir, at least from my initial glances at the thread, the duo will most likely be there tracking down a stolen Aesir artifact.
Pretty much the action would be picking up in medias res, so we should get a firm idea of what the scions were doing before they got to Tokyo. The object is important to Odin, and at first it was believed to be stolen by a rival pantheon, but the trail has revealed that the Titans and their minions may be ultimately responsible. But this object is only one piece of many and the Titans may have brought here because another suspects piece of the “Artifact” may be near.
As a show of faith the Japanese gods have asked one of their scions to assist the duo in retrieving the objects and to prove that they were not responsible for the theft. A scion of Tsuki-Yomi, Hirashi Toda, a street racer with some criminal ties. The other details will come, go ahead and start making characters and we will fine tune from there.
Hirashi Toda
Pretty much the action would be picking up in medias res, so we should get a firm idea of what the scions were doing before they got to Tokyo. The object is important to Odin, and at first it was believed to be stolen by a rival pantheon, but the trail has revealed that the Titans and their minions may be ultimately responsible. But this object is only one piece of many and the Titans may have brought here because another suspects piece of the “Artifact” may be near.
As a show of faith the Japanese gods have asked one of their scions to assist the duo in retrieving the objects and to prove that they were not responsible for the theft. A scion of Tsuki-Yomi, Hirashi Toda, a street racer with some criminal ties. The other details will come, go ahead and start making characters and we will fine tune from there.
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Shalimar
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My scion of Thor was actually going to be from Tokyo, the best way to get her involved is to have a messenger from Thor tell her to help out her half-brother/sister in getting back the artifact from the titans and then she'd be good to go.
Here is her history and birthrights ala the sample characters:
History: Kendal grew up in Tokyo, looking very different from everyone around her, including her mother, instead of her mother’s Oriental feature she had the pale fair-haired complexion of a stereotypical Nordic milkmaid. Constantly teased for being different, Kendal was in an unending string of fights. In high school the girl was staying out all night and bar hopping, until one night she mouthed off to the wrong gang. They took it outside and the girl was enjoying the fight until one of her opponents took a beer bottle to the back of her skull.
The gangers were expecting to have a good time with her when she stopped putting up a fight, but someone showed up to put a stop to their fun, a red bearded giant of man that laid out the thugs two and three at a time. Eventually it was just the two of them, and the man introduced himself as her father, Thor. He told her he was proud of her, and explained what was going on with the Gods and the titans. She agreed to help him out in taking on some titan-spawn when he offered to awaken her powers. Kendal continued on after that first fight out of enjoyment, but also because having the world disappear out from under her wouldn’t really be all that great.
Birthrights: Kendal received two gifts from her father, and surprisingly a gift from her Father’s enemy Loki, who he was shepherding around when Thor saved her. From her father she received the boots of the Skywalker that leave traces of electricity and soft booms of thunder when she uses them. Thor also gifted her with Skrymir, a great two handed sword, with a blade of solid lightning that she can loose for a few seconds. Her final gift was from Loki, to create a bit of goodwill after yet another betrayal, and to stymie Thor. Loki’s gift was the ring of storms, the embodiment of Chaos that also allows her to summon forth her mighty blade in a flash of lightning and a boom of thunder.
Here is her history and birthrights ala the sample characters:
History: Kendal grew up in Tokyo, looking very different from everyone around her, including her mother, instead of her mother’s Oriental feature she had the pale fair-haired complexion of a stereotypical Nordic milkmaid. Constantly teased for being different, Kendal was in an unending string of fights. In high school the girl was staying out all night and bar hopping, until one night she mouthed off to the wrong gang. They took it outside and the girl was enjoying the fight until one of her opponents took a beer bottle to the back of her skull.
The gangers were expecting to have a good time with her when she stopped putting up a fight, but someone showed up to put a stop to their fun, a red bearded giant of man that laid out the thugs two and three at a time. Eventually it was just the two of them, and the man introduced himself as her father, Thor. He told her he was proud of her, and explained what was going on with the Gods and the titans. She agreed to help him out in taking on some titan-spawn when he offered to awaken her powers. Kendal continued on after that first fight out of enjoyment, but also because having the world disappear out from under her wouldn’t really be all that great.
Birthrights: Kendal received two gifts from her father, and surprisingly a gift from her Father’s enemy Loki, who he was shepherding around when Thor saved her. From her father she received the boots of the Skywalker that leave traces of electricity and soft booms of thunder when she uses them. Thor also gifted her with Skrymir, a great two handed sword, with a blade of solid lightning that she can loose for a few seconds. Her final gift was from Loki, to create a bit of goodwill after yet another betrayal, and to stymie Thor. Loki’s gift was the ring of storms, the embodiment of Chaos that also allows her to summon forth her mighty blade in a flash of lightning and a boom of thunder.
Shalimar
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Still fine tuning the stats, I'm not sure if I want to use the last 4 BPs to up her strength to 4 or do something else with them, actually I'm not quite sure on the last 7bp, which I have tenatively slated for 3 skill and 1 strength.
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ATTRIBUTES (8/6/4)
Strength: 3[2] Perception: 2 Charisma: 3
Dexterity: 4[2] Intelligence: 2 Manipulation: 2
Stamina: 4[2] Wits: 3 Appearance: 4
ABILITIES (30)
Athletics (F): 5 Brawl (F): 3 Control (F): 1
Melee (F): 5 Presence (F): 3 Thrown (F): 1
Fortitude: 3 Integrity: 3 Larceny: 3
Awareness: 2 Stealth: 2 Marksmanship: 3
Birthrights
Boots of the Skywalker (Sky) 1
Ring of Storms (Chaos, Summon Skrymir) 2
Mark of Odin (Death, Guardian, War) 3
Skrymir (Spatha 2 enhancements, 1 power) 3
Accuracy +1, Damage +5L, Defense +1, Speed 3; Range of Legend x5
Virtues: Will Power: 6/6
Courage 2 Legend: 3(9/9)
Endurance 3 Health:
Expression 1 Soak: 6B/4L/2A
Loyalty 3 Armor:
Dodge Defense: 8 ((4+5+3)/2+2)
Parry Defense: 7 ((4+5+1)/2+2)
Weapons
Skrymir:
(Melee) Accuracy 10[2 auto], Damage +10L, Parry DV 7, Speed 3
(Ranged) Accuracy 10[2 auto], Damage +10L, Range 15, Speed 3
Boons (10/10) Knacks
Epic Strength 2 Holy Bound, Uplifting Might
Epic Stamina 2 Self-Healing, Damage Conversion
Epic Dexterity 2 Untouchable Opponent, Trick Shooter
Sky's Grace 1
Eye of the Storm 1
Wind’s Freedom 2
BP (15/15 spent)
Legend +1, Relic 4, Athletics 4+5, Melee 4+5
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