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| Eisenritter | Sep 27 2014, 01:06 PM Post #21 |
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Dug up a few more that I somehow passed over last time... Timelord (LostJediSentinel) - Not a fan of the "prestige Exalt" thing, and it's a bit too Doctor Who for my liking. Maou (LostJediSentinel) - Another "prestige Exalt." Could be adapted to represent something like Warhammer's Daemon Princes, the ascended Chaos Champions? Sage (Soulblazer_87) - Druid: The Exaltation. Jokes aside, it might be nice to have another elementally-charged exalt; this one's externally-oriented, compared to the Dragonblood's internal charge. Reminds me of MtG's planeswalkers. Muse (IterationDrive) - Bard: The Exaltation, with Sidereal to taste. Definitely needs fleshing out at the least. Noting that several of the ones I've posted up are dead or at least lost to disinterest. Soulblazer, at least, is still active, so post in his threads if you have something to contribute. Otherwise, if you rewrite something, start a live thread for it, but remember to link the original! Gotta give credit where it's due, yeah?
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| weredrago2 | Sep 27 2014, 02:53 PM Post #22 |
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Though I'm not a fan of Blades of Time, the idea of the Chronomancer got me thinking of a time themed Exaltation that can avoid death by avoiding time. Ticks allow you to manipulate time, but can Tocks can take you out of time entirely. Imagine yourself in a gunfight. Ticks would allow your future self to show up and provide covering fire for you while your Tocks would allow your present self to go to the past, creating a loop. The Chronomancer would then disappear until his Tocks are balanced with his Ticks. Should Chronomancer be unable to pay off his debt of Tocks (or are interrupted while doing so), then the damage you would have done is reversed and you are removed from time until your Tocks are paid back. Part of it came from the idea of the idea that if a hero can overcome death, then they can overcome time. That, and these: http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Analysis/JojosBizarreadventure http://www.mythologydictionary.com/balkan-mythology.html#ora We have enough JoJo right now, but it's still an interesting idea. |
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| Eisenritter | Sep 27 2014, 03:45 PM Post #23 |
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Yeah, that's... almost exactly the way I'd had the time-looping ability written, except that my version had you spend up to X Ticks (where X equals your Slipstream), getting X Tocks and a time-clone in the process. Each turn, both you and your time-clone act on the same initiative, and at the end of that turn one of the Tocks you gained from it reverts to a Tick. If, at the end of your turn, the last Tock you gained reverts, your time-clone disappears, and so do you, as you've gone back in time to assist yourself. Last writeup that I can remember had the Chronomancer being able to call in time-clones equal to his Slipstream - 1 (min 1), with all time-clones disappearing at once, and the Chronomancer herself dropping out of the loop for a number of rounds equal to the number of clones afterward. Now that I know better (and that there are indeed other people who like the idea), I'll make a proper starting writeup, and will definitely include a bit of Sakuya Izayoi (who herself is based on Dio Brando). Indirect JoJo might be better than direct JoJo, yes?
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| weredrago2 | Sep 27 2014, 04:04 PM Post #24 |
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YES! YES! YES! I want to use some Doctor Who, but they wouldn't actually be Time Lords. Maybe Regeneration (done when burning a Fate Point) lets a Chronomancer reassign their characteristics and assets? It would be lengthy to do during game, so back up character sheets would be a must. You can even fluff it as being reborn using the time from a life they never lived. How does one become a Chronomancer, anyway? |
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| Soulblazer_87 | Sep 27 2014, 04:29 PM Post #25 |
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Alright, since I haven't posted here for so long, I'll adress several points at once; Firstly; how about changing the Kryptonian to 'Blessed Saint'. Then go around just renaming everything because, so far, seems pretty damn decent as an Exaltation. Then you could see about inserting various little tidbits here and there that reference Kryptonians in a bit of an indirect way. Also, this way, it's not about the race, it's about a person that stands up from the mire of fear, agony and villainy and takes their place in the sky, the better to act as a beacon of hope, light and prosperity to his fellow beings and lead them into a new dawn! And that was my poetic moment for the hour, back to scheduled broadcast. Second; Would the new Undead Exalt you want be closer to the Mummy? I'm seeing quite the trend with the minion-mustering here. Anyone having dreams of just hanging back right before a big fight and just saying 'sic'em boys!'? I sure am. I would LOVE to see a foe's face when he gets stampeded on by my horde of Undead Elemental Minions Of Exploding. I like the Chronomancer idea and would like to suggest a Choromancer (or the Spatial to go with your Temporal). Wouldn't that be FUN? Could even double as your Demiurge. Instead of 'creating' rules in an already-existing space... he could just create the space and declare the rules. Also, cool idea with the Regeneration, weredrago2. Could easily be included if Eisenritter can't fill up a Power Stat rank. |
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| Eisenritter | Sep 27 2014, 04:52 PM Post #26 |
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Mummies, ghouls, death knights and liches, yes. Your non-Vampire corporeal undead, basically. Unfortunately the only one that comes to mind immediately is Lord Soth; flavor might be somewhere along the lines of a properly "cursed" exaltation? As opposed to the Vampire, who seems to treat it as a gift? ...And this is a Time-based exalt, why stop at Regeneration? Why not, say, Reset? Or Savescum? That's basically what we're doing, isn't it, we die, respec and try again, yes? As to how one becomes one... never thought of that. Might tie into exaltations... Sakuya has a magic pocket watch that warps space and time, Mikuru and That Sneering Bastard were sent back from a future where it's apparently fairly commonplace, and of course we have the Warp that sees your "laws of causality" and scatters them to the eight winds. Could also snatch some stuff from Chrono Trigger, as needed. (Also: Phoenix and Asura/Rakshasa alts for Atlanteans and Daemonhosts, respectively?) |
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| Soulblazer_87 | Sep 27 2014, 05:08 PM Post #27 |
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Being a being who's died and has returned countless eons from it's death, now cursed to walk around aimlessly because time erased whatever it was it had had to protect, essentially scattering it to the eight winds, so in essense, its domain is EVERYWHERE... Having been free to touch Heaven and then ripped from the Eternal Rest so as to fulfill an impossible duty? Or worse; trapped for countless eons in a quantum state of existence and now being forced to try and perform the duty that would return you to that state, costing you that precious, precious 'stability' of your existence? Is that not cursed? Keep in mind I'm a huge Doctor Who fan (Davit Tennant ftw). Also, no idea what Savescum is. And Chronomancers don't die. It's just that, at some point, the Patter of Chronos can't bear their existence any more and, without their lifeforce to keep everything anchored, they... unravel. Sure, they can weave themselves back into existence again, but never the same -for fear of being Paradoxed into utter and complete obliteration if nothing else. And therefore; Start New Game! One could be touched by another Chronomancer in a way that, a bit of a stray weave of that Chronomancer's Pattern infuses them. Or it might just be that they got tossed into the Warp and came out... with a different understanding of what 'time' is. Maybe another created a time pocket and tied it to themselves, unfortunately causing them to exist and not exist at the same time, but after a lot of work, letting them decide whether or not they exist and when. Also; Feel free to make them. Or provide ideas for me to make them, because I'm not thinking anything right now. |
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| Eisenritter | Sep 27 2014, 05:13 PM Post #28 |
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"Save scumming" is what happens when, faced with a particularly difficult boss and/or RNG drop, you save the game immediately before facing it and, if it doesn't go your way, soft reset immediately afterward. Then you do it again. And again. And again. Until you get it right. And... now I'm reminded of El Shaddai. "Allow me to tell you a tale. It took place 360,000... No, 14,000 years ago. But what is time, anyway? To me it seems like yesterday. For you, it might be tomorrow. It's the story of a man." |
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| Soulblazer_87 | Sep 27 2014, 05:22 PM Post #29 |
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I don't like the idea of Savescumming. Far, far too 'we always get it right'. But regenerating, somewhere else, starting a new life? One that might have always existed because, having foreseen (or felt) your future demise, you took pains to 'start a dummy account' so to speak? This way, one could say, there's only ONE Chronomancer... but he's running a bazillion different accounts, some active, some left there to wait for activation. |
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| Eisenritter | Sep 27 2014, 05:27 PM Post #30 |
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A point, yes. Either way, time's probably not too happy with him... |
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