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That would be a Diviner. However Offensive light magic would be more aimed at countering Necromancy and undead, rather than inflicting damage on people. Because a Diviner is technically an Acolyte they specialize in healing rather than damaging. Think of it like a White Mage from FF

 

No. I'd actually prefer it if we had one class that didn't specialize in combat in any way. Although I'm sure it'd be nice to anyone who takes Acolyte if they wanted to use an offensive magic, however I think they'd be better suited as a support class who specialize in morale, health, & escaping (e.g. Light Burst spell creates a blinding light allowing your character to flee.)

 

That's good, but we also wanna include the points too.

 

The Mage Points act as a type of XP, however its spendable. We don't need them to tell us what school they choose because we'll see that by how they spend their points. If someone puts in Fire and Earth then we assume they are going for Magmamage. Wind and Water head towards ice. I can keep creating a large list of sub-schools, but I don't think that's needed.

We are basically acting as the Admins either way. We are giving them spells for their class/es, we are setting up the story line, beginning and end, they choose how to write what happens in between. If we participate it can either be as RPers or NPCs. I actually thought of this last night, but I was planning on having you, Riku, play any villain NPCs -except for any of the five Warlocks who will be played by other RPers. This way people can verify which enemies will give them MP. While Merlin you could play as some of the good NPCs -e.g. Teachers at the Mage school-. This would allow us to help move the plot along.

As for giving the RPers something to aim for, that's what the spells and ranks are for. That's why everyone will be Sorcerer/Sorceress level and not gain a rank, but will gain power. At the end they'd all be Mage level casters, just w/o the title.

The templates are fine, however I don't want to tell them where they are best suited. That will have people creating characters for a certain school, but not for fun. As a negative it will also give the players less choices.

The HP and XP idea is nice, however I tried to suggest a mass KH RP for everyone to join, and it got shot down. That's why with this one its a bit more dumbed down and we don't have XP. We have to trust that the players won't do anything God like during the RP given their stats. We can also post major and minor boss stats so that way it'll give the Players a reference for the difference in power. I want the players to think like writers, not just players. If they think like this [as writers] I'm sure the RP will go smoother and more enjoyable for everyone, even people who are just reading.

Geomage is a universal mage. I don't like it being called Geomage because it implies earth rather than harmony. Maybe we can switch that to Harmony Mage? (P.S. Where is Geomage from?)

I think for the overall MP system, we [Band members] will have to award points based on the enemy(ies) that are taken down.

On a side note to the HP: Merlin is right on the HP making things complicated. We'd need to have a system for point reduction and that'd be pretty hefty work for something that should flow.

 

No HP deal. Again we have to go with the honor system. If a fire ball is hurled at you, and you can't dodge in proper time, you get burned near to death or are dead.

 

Hmm.. I guess it depends on if the players would have the same school. Other wise you'll have to play multiple charactes simultaneously.

Other than that I say we let Riku catch up and reply. See what he has to say.

 

Hey something that just came to mind: What if we gave the RP a controversal them? Like how FFIII (I think) had the bad guys the actual good guys.

You know?

Just a little something to make the story revolve around a constant them, rather than objects.

 

Right.

The baddies you'd be playing, Riku, would be the main antagonist -which you'd only post as under my direction- and more minor and semi-major bosses. While you play those, five RPers will play as the main antagonists subordinates.

The main parameters would be to play at the level you think is right against the players. I'm not gunna tell you the entire specs for the villains because that takes away from your creativity. Instead I'll probably come up with a rough or vague description or history and you could take it from there.

In contrast, Merlin would be playing NPCs like informants and the teachers at the school, so needless to say his posts at the beginning are going to be rather large if the players choose to interact with the teachers. I would hope that they do. From what I've seen little to no RPs -and posts- start out with multiple characters in a scene.

This is understandable from my viewpoint because most people don't want extremely short posts as it ruins the flow. However there are a lot of things people overlook when they typically RP such as scenery & emotions.

Many people will just blatantly state how their character feels and they ignore the entire world around them. A lot of RPers don't say how their character feels by body language which is something that many people over look.