Post by Grimm on Jan 4, 2017 17:33:26 GMT -8
Welcome to the Character Template. Before we begin, we have a few questions:
Have you read The Rules?
Have you read about Combat?
Related: Have you read about Aura, Semblances, and Dust?
To familiarize yourself with our Setting, Have you read the Lexicon?
Yes, that’s a total of about 8000 words to go through. But, we regard these as required readings for the understanding of the site and how things work here. Having read them helps you and us tremendously to work from a common point of site canon.
That little piece of business out of the way, you have come here for a reason. To make a character. Hopefully, you will find this process smooth, easy, and intuitive. If not, grab a staff member and they can help you sort things out.
When you apply with your character, please post a new thread with the title as the name of your character in [Surname, Given Names] format. No need to put [WIP] or any other descriptors in the thread title or subtitles.
Next, you will find our character template below. Copy that and put it in a MS Word or Google Document. Both autosave your progress and act as built-in spell checkers.
For the upper half of your profile, you’ll run into the basic sorts of character information you would find most places - Appearance, Personality, History. Note that for Faunus characters, you only get one animalistic trait to work with.
The combat section is where things get a little trickier. Your weapon and dust supplies are rather self-explanatory.
Your Aura section is one area you can customize a little bit. While the stats we have in the template and use as examples in the combat thread are a good baseline, you have the ability to tweak how much your Aura affects particular parts of your combat abilities. You will note that there are two categories that are listed as NA. The first, Dust Affinity can be used if both “Active” abilities are removed; an equal share must be taken from both and that amount is converted to Dust Affinity. So if you have +7% in both Active Offense and Defense, you would instead have +7% in Dust Affinity. The second, “Healing” may be put at 1% if “Passive Offense” is lowered by 3%.
For both the “Passive” and “Active” skills, one can convert 2% of an “Active” Skill to a “Passive” Skill, or vice-versa. Up to 2 “Passive” points in Offense can be swapped to Defense, or the reverse.
Some valid Aura spreads are as follows:
Passive Offense: 5%
Passive Defense: 2%
Dust Affinity: 5%
Passive Offense: 4%
Passive Defense: 4%
Active Offense: +1%
Active Defense: +1%
Healing: 1%
A couple more Esoteric spreads are as follows:
Active Offense: +15%
Active Defense: +5%
Passive Offense: 3%
Passive Defense: 3%
Dust Affinity: 3%
Healing: 1%
More experienced characters who have graduated from Abditus gain two of the following when the graduate:
+1% to Passive Offense (or +2% to Active Offense)
+1% to Passive Defense (or +2% to Active Defense)
+1% to both Active Offense and Defense
+1% to Dust Affinity (if they already have it)
+1% to Healing (if they already have it)
If you do not already have Dust Affinity or Healing, you can spend both of your points to gain the trait. Graduation is your last chance to gain either after character creation.
Every 4 years of being an active Huntsman after graduating, you may select one of the above traits again.
If your history is not the wordiest part of your application, your Semblance probably will come close. It cannot be stressed enough; be as detailed as possible with this portion of your application. If you want, go through and provide a breakdown on where your ability comes from in a similar fashion to the examples in the Combat thread.
If you don’t use a field in your profile - most often Dust or a Weapon, feel free to remove that section from the application, aw well as any Aura techniques you do not use.
A few hints on your profile that will lead to it being approved faster:
-A basic by design Semblance (Though do what you want with your semblance - it just might take a couple rounds of replies to get the desired effect, costs, and kinks worked out.)
-A profile <5000 words. (Length is not always a good thing; aim for key content and events in life. Didn’t do anything noteworthy until 7? Just say that and start from there.)
-Talking to members in the CBox while writing the application (They and staffers can give you ideas on what to do and not to do.)
Once you are done with your character, post a reply in the Review Request Thread so that a staffer can get to it.
Have you read The Rules?
Have you read about Combat?
Related: Have you read about Aura, Semblances, and Dust?
To familiarize yourself with our Setting, Have you read the Lexicon?
Yes, that’s a total of about 8000 words to go through. But, we regard these as required readings for the understanding of the site and how things work here. Having read them helps you and us tremendously to work from a common point of site canon.
That little piece of business out of the way, you have come here for a reason. To make a character. Hopefully, you will find this process smooth, easy, and intuitive. If not, grab a staff member and they can help you sort things out.
When you apply with your character, please post a new thread with the title as the name of your character in [Surname, Given Names] format. No need to put [WIP] or any other descriptors in the thread title or subtitles.
Next, you will find our character template below. Copy that and put it in a MS Word or Google Document. Both autosave your progress and act as built-in spell checkers.
For the upper half of your profile, you’ll run into the basic sorts of character information you would find most places - Appearance, Personality, History. Note that for Faunus characters, you only get one animalistic trait to work with.
The combat section is where things get a little trickier. Your weapon and dust supplies are rather self-explanatory.
Your Aura section is one area you can customize a little bit. While the stats we have in the template and use as examples in the combat thread are a good baseline, you have the ability to tweak how much your Aura affects particular parts of your combat abilities. You will note that there are two categories that are listed as NA. The first, Dust Affinity can be used if both “Active” abilities are removed; an equal share must be taken from both and that amount is converted to Dust Affinity. So if you have +7% in both Active Offense and Defense, you would instead have +7% in Dust Affinity. The second, “Healing” may be put at 1% if “Passive Offense” is lowered by 3%.
For both the “Passive” and “Active” skills, one can convert 2% of an “Active” Skill to a “Passive” Skill, or vice-versa. Up to 2 “Passive” points in Offense can be swapped to Defense, or the reverse.
Some valid Aura spreads are as follows:
Passive Offense: 5%
Passive Defense: 2%
Dust Affinity: 5%
Passive Offense: 4%
Passive Defense: 4%
Active Offense: +1%
Active Defense: +1%
Healing: 1%
A couple more Esoteric spreads are as follows:
Active Offense: +15%
Active Defense: +5%
Passive Offense: 3%
Passive Defense: 3%
Dust Affinity: 3%
Healing: 1%
More experienced characters who have graduated from Abditus gain two of the following when the graduate:
+1% to Passive Offense (or +2% to Active Offense)
+1% to Passive Defense (or +2% to Active Defense)
+1% to both Active Offense and Defense
+1% to Dust Affinity (if they already have it)
+1% to Healing (if they already have it)
If you do not already have Dust Affinity or Healing, you can spend both of your points to gain the trait. Graduation is your last chance to gain either after character creation.
Every 4 years of being an active Huntsman after graduating, you may select one of the above traits again.
If your history is not the wordiest part of your application, your Semblance probably will come close. It cannot be stressed enough; be as detailed as possible with this portion of your application. If you want, go through and provide a breakdown on where your ability comes from in a similar fashion to the examples in the Combat thread.
If you don’t use a field in your profile - most often Dust or a Weapon, feel free to remove that section from the application, aw well as any Aura techniques you do not use.
A few hints on your profile that will lead to it being approved faster:
-A basic by design Semblance (Though do what you want with your semblance - it just might take a couple rounds of replies to get the desired effect, costs, and kinks worked out.)
-A profile <5000 words. (Length is not always a good thing; aim for key content and events in life. Didn’t do anything noteworthy until 7? Just say that and start from there.)
-Talking to members in the CBox while writing the application (They and staffers can give you ideas on what to do and not to do.)
Once you are done with your character, post a reply in the Review Request Thread so that a staffer can get to it.
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CHARACTER NAME
[/b][span style="font-size:8px;color:#bbbbbb;"]USERNAME[/span]
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[span style="font-size:10px;letter-spacing:2px;text-transform:uppercase;"][b]Essential Information[/b][/span]
RACE: (Human or Faunus)
AGE: (How old is your Character? They tend to start school at 16 and 'Graduate' around 20.)
GENDER: (Male or Female)
OCCUPATION: (Civillian, Student, Huntsman, Teacher, Antagonist, or Other?)
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[span style="font-size:10px;letter-spacing:2px;text-transform:uppercase;"][b]Appearance[/b][/span]
DESCRIPTION: (How does your character look on the regular? Note any distinguishing markings here. If using a Faceclaim, place reference in a spoiler block below description.)
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[span style="font-size:10px;letter-spacing:2px;text-transform:uppercase;"][b]Personality[/b][/span]
Persona: (How do they act around others? What are their likes, dislikes, fears, and goals? Anything non-combat related that they are good or otherwise fail at?)
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[span style="font-size:10px;letter-spacing:2px;text-transform:uppercase;"][b]History[/b][/span]
Story: (Give a good overview of your character's history - their defining points, and what things made them who they are today. If anything is not necessarily public knowledge, toss it in a spoiler tag and mark individuals who might know this information.)
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[span style="font-size:10px;letter-spacing:2px;text-transform:uppercase;"][b]Aura: 150[/b][/span]
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[span style="font-size:10px;letter-spacing:2px;text-transform:uppercase;"][b]Weapon[/b][/span]
Description: (Describe your weapon here, including any alternate forms it might have. If there's a picture for inspiration, spoiler tag it below.)
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[span style="font-size:10px;letter-spacing:2px;text-transform:uppercase;"][b]Dust[/b][/span]
Inventory: (Detail on the inventory of dust your character carries here. Tattoos or dust fabric also go in this category.)
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[span style="font-size:10px;letter-spacing:2px;text-transform:uppercase;"][b]Aura[/b][/span]
Description: (To the observer, does your Aura look like something? Does it have a distinctive color or does it behave in a certain way?)
Passive Offense: 5%(8)
Passive Defense: 2%(3)
Active Offense: +5%(8)
Active Defense: +5%(8)
Dust Affinity: NA
Healing: NA
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[span style="font-size:10px;letter-spacing:2px;text-transform:uppercase;"][b]Semblance[/b][/span]
Cost: 5%(8) (This is the minimum. You may be asked to go higher.)
Description: (What does your semblance do? Be as descriptive as possible here and give clear notes on what it can and cannot do. Any ambiguities or questions raised in approval will likely come about due to wording choice here. If you don't list it, you can't do it.)
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[span style="font-size:10px;letter-spacing:2px;text-transform:uppercase;"][b]Expertise[/b][/span]
Style: (How does your character fight? Is there one thing they are particularly good at doing? How do they compare to their peers by standard metrics?)
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