Dracostern / Adela Beran

For discussing your chargen.

Thank you! I'm thinking of making a dragon lady, but I need to figure out where to start.

Do you have suggestions?

Hi, I sent you a message.

Hi, I sent you a message.

Thank you, I got it!

Ok here is the first draft:

Concept: A clay statue brought to live by magical runes.

Powers: Super Strength and Endurence, Density shifting, Shape shifting. Also immune to poisons because she's clay lol
Weakness to Water and her magical runes being tampered with.

Abilities:

Attack (+2)
Highened Senses - Hearing (+1)
Knowledge - Art (+3)
Perceptive (+2)
Resistance - Blunt Force (+3)
Resistance - Poison (+3)
Shapeshifter (+2)
Strong (+3)
Iron Willed (+1)


Weaknesses:

Bizzare Appearence - Mannerisms (+1)
Complusion - Protect the Weak (+3)
Emotionless (+2)
Infamous (+2)
Loner (+1)
Outcast (+2)
Rude (+1)
Vulnerability - Water (+3)
Vulnerability - Magic Rune tampering (+3)

Backstory:

Adela Beran is the daughter of a Czech artist and sculptor Tomas Beran. Tomas always wanted a daughter but couldn't find love in his home, Prague. A traveling witch felt sorry for him and taught him the magic words to bring a statue to life.

So he would use these words, carving them under the tongue of a clay sculpture he made, and the figure came to life. Adela was born that day. Tomas loved his daughter, though he knew she was not human.

Adela struggled to fit in at school and would become infamous for beating up bullies to protect the bullied. So she was kicked out of a lot of schools.

One day, Tomas got a new art job in Japan and he moved there with his daughter, the witch he had met before mentioned Youkai Academy so he enrolled her there, believing Adela would get along better with fellow non-humans.


Personality:

Seemingly cold and rude. Adela struggles to express her emotions. She is blunt and soically awkward. Yet has a complusion to defend the weak.

She is, however quite expressive with her art, creating amazing and beautiful pieces.

Alright:
1. Being resistant to poison is something really specific and accidental, don't bother spending points with it, you get it for free. Now, life support is an ability that you could look into.
2. I think you'd profit from a bigger balance of weaknesses - by the way, in the current stats, there's leftover points, you spent +17.5 points (knowledge is an ability that only costs half, so you should always pick an even number or take two different knowledges) in abilities and -18 weaknesses, meaning you still can spend 3 more points to reach the balance of +5. Thus, try thinking of ways to enrich your character and give him more weaknesses, that's the advice I'd give. An idea: being that she's a created being that may have had a very brief existence, she could have the Naive weakness, to reflect that. On the other hand, I should ask you what would fuel her infamy? There's also the dull weakness, which seem to describe her very well. Finally, wouldn't she be weak to fire and heat too? Things that could involuntarily harden her.
3. I think that the essential abilities this character would enjoy having are: armor (to reflect her being hardy when she wants to and augmenting her density), maybe some more points in shapeshifter, if you intend on making her able to copy other people, and maybe objects. Besides that, some levels in though would be a good idea, for her to have more Health.

So new abilities would be:

Tough

Armour

And weaknesses would be:

Fire

Naive (maybe)

Also she’s infamous because she got into a lot of fights in the past.

Alright, got it.

Abilities:

Attack (+2)
Highened Senses - Hearing (+1)
Knowledge - Art (+3)
Knowledge - Folklore (+2)
Perceptive (+2)
Resistance - Blunt Force (+3)
Shapeshifter (+2)
Strong (+3)
Iron Willed (+1)
Tough (+3)

Weaknesses:

Bizzare Appearence - Mannerisms (+1)
Complusion - Protect the Weak (+3)
Dull (+2)
Emotionless (+2)
Infamous - Known to get into fights (+2)
Impulsive (+2)
Loner (+1)
Outcast (+2)
Rude (+1)
Vulnerability - Water (+3)
Vulnerability - Magic Rune tampering (+3)
Vulnerability - Fire (+2)


Is this better?

Sure it is, but you still didn't spend all of your points: you've +19.5 points in abilities (the .5 is because you have remaining 1 point in knowledge skills to fill their cost) and -24 in weaknesses, so you can spend 10 more points in abilities! Remember, the overall balance of abilities minus weaknesses should be +5.

Oh, well we can get rid of that .5 by bumping Knowledge Folklore +2 to +3

I don't...really know what other abilities to give her tbh, she's a very basic character.

Well, you still have some time to think about other abilities if you want, but pumping the ones she already got is a good idea also! Like raising her Shapeshifter, Tough, Resistance and Strong? Maybe pick some armor (that would stack with her resistance to blunt force).

I think bumping what she already has makes the most sense. Also can you explain how picking armor works real quick?

Armor and resistance work the same way, the only difference being that resistance only works for an specific type o damage. In combat, there's two relevant stats, the Attack Roll (for the attacker), Defense Roll (for defender) and DX (damage multiplier, for the attacker). DX is 1 plus your levels in Attack and Strong (should it be a physically powered attack), in your characters case, her DX would be 6: 1+Attack (2)+ Strong (3).

That means that for every point of damage you do, you multiply that by 6!

Armor and resistance directly reduce the DX of the attacker, so: if you attacked something with Armored +3, your DX would merely be 3.

If DX goes below 1 because of Armored, the Attack only deals half damage;
If DX goes below 1 because of Resistance, it's nullified (it may heal, if that makes sense, like if it were resistance to some kind of energy)

Got it, thank you! Ok updated list!

Abilities:

Attack (+3)
Highened Senses - Hearing (+1)
Knowledge - Art (+3)
Knowledge - Folklore (+3)
Perceptive (+2)
Resistance - Blunt Force (+3)
Shapeshifter (+3)
Strong (+4)
Iron Willed (+1)
Tough (+4)

Armor (+3) - Hardening her body to take hits.

Weaknesses:

Bizzare Appearence - Mannerisms (+1)
Complusion - Protect the Weak (+3)
Dull (+2)
Emotionless (+2)
Infamous - Known to get into fights (+2)
Impulsive (+2)
Loner (+1)
Outcast (+2)
Rude (+1)
Vulnerability - Water (+3)
Vulnerability - Magic Rune tampering (+3)
Vulnerability - Fire (+2)

That's better! Though you still have 2 points remaining!

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That's better! Though you still have 2 points remaining!

Are there any crafting based skills? Like maybe she can morph her hands into weapons like spikes or something

The morphing into weapons thing doesn't need another ability, it's just an attack, you make it with perks/flaws, and if you only want it to be a visual thing, it isn't necessary either.

As for crafting abilities, there's inventor, and knowledge can be used too.

Ok so I’ll keep the hand changing to just visual then

Hmmm….nevermind then. I’m not sure what she would be able to craft- choosing abilities is hard haha.

Maybe Agile (+2)?

I know I keep copy/pasting this, but it helps me keep track of things.

Abilities:

Attack (+3)
Agile (+2)
Highened Senses - Hearing (+1)
Knowledge - Art (+3)
Knowledge - Folklore (+3)
Knowledge - Craftsmanship (+3)
Knowledge - Literature (+2)
Perceptive (+2)
Resistance - Blunt Force (+3)
Shapeshifter (+3)
Strong (+4)
Iron Willed (+1)
Tough (+4)

Armor (+3) - Hardening her body to take hits.

Weaknesses:

Bizzare Appearence - Mannerisms (+1)
Complusion - Protect the Weak (+3)
Dull (+2)
Emotionless (+2)
Infamous - Known to get into fights (+2)
Impulsive (+2)
Loner (+1)
Outcast (+2)
Rude (+1)
Vulnerability - Water (+3)
Vulnerability - Magic Rune tampering (+3)
Vulnerability - Fire (+2)


Does this work? Also have a few ideas for physical appearance. She's around 6'0 tall.



(The FC is Shibuya Rin from Idolmaster Cinderella Girls)

This would be her human form, I can't find a good ref of her monster form, but I imagine that it's just a humanoid shaped figure made of slightly melting clay

Alright! That looks good. You don't need to bother with an alternate pic for her monster form if you don't want to. Next, you must only fill the Character sheet and submit it; if you don't know how, it is thus:

Go to the subforum called "Welcome to Yokai Academy", and then on the thread "Building a character", which is in here. Then you'll see a collapsible segment, you open it and it's the sheet; there'll be a button in the upper-right corner of it, "Create Character", you click it and a popup should appear, asking your character's name.

That will be saved and you'll be able to find it in the "characters" tab of the website. When you're done, you go to the "Game Details" page of our game and in the bottom you'll find the option to submit the character.

By the way, seems like there'll be a second towering girl to catch all attention, heh!

Thank you for the explanation! I will get to it right now ^^

Also I mean her monster form is just mud shaped like a young woman so it wouldn't be hard to mentally visualise.

Also I still don't know how to figure out Attack Stats and Defense, can you help with that?

What exactly are you referring to as attack stats? Excepting Health and Endurance, everything in this game is revolved around Abilities & Weaknesses, and Perks & Flaws. In combat, you'll just use your abilities to roll, same as normal checks. Oh, there's also DX, which I've already explained earlier in this thread: 1+Strong+Attack(+perks and other bonuses)

Alright got it, then I guess I've pretty much done? Will submit.

Alright!

By the way, if you want some guidelines, you could check the other PCs' sheets.

You mean from their threads?

Also submitted it!

Oh, forget that, it's probable you can't see their sheets.

Anyway, if your question about combat stats were referring to that table in the sheet, that's a place to put one's special moves: which are your Attack ability modified by different sets of Perks and Flaws. Attack isn't the only Ability that can be modified that way, but it is their main use.

Your character isn't required to have any (verily, the series we're basing ourselves here is very light in them itself) but it could be interesting for you to look that up (until we start our game); it could make combat more exciting for you (and everyone else, as they make the combat less lengthy).

Yeah that was what I was referring to haha!

I probably should have waited before submitting to add it, but combat for her is really easy, she can punch really hard and turn her hands into spikes to stab...that's really it to be honest.

Alright! Don't worry about that, these aren't fixed in stone, and can be added, changed and removed at a whim.

Yup yup! I've edited my character application already a little there, you can go through it to see if I got it right when you have the time!

Leave it to me!

So, how is everything looking?

Everything looks good, your character is already approved.

Just one thing: you mustn't bother to list your combat moves if their only difference is descriptive, for that, you merely describe the attack however you like.

Oh thanks for reminding me, also didn't notice the approval, sorry to bother you!

No problem.

I just realised that I have Strong and Tough at +4, is that ok? Or should I change it?

It's ok, nothing wrong with that. If those are core abilities of her (that define her character) she can have them in those values.