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Who dis? : (your name or whatever.)
Who you work for? : (company name and what they do)
Where dat?: (generic location of office. It's all going to be in the same city/suburbs so think "financial district" "by the river" "4th floor" or whatever)
Why you no here? (reason for skipping work)

name:
race:
size:
atrtributes
Mind
Body
Spirit
skills
inventory

select a race from the list below, or suggest a race.
if you suggest a race, it needs to be detailed and balanced. You'll need to give enough information for me to make a decision based on this game. Don't assume I know anything about races from other games, books, or movies - I won't stick to some other system's canon.
races can vary in size: tiny (insects, rodents), small (cats, rabbits),  medium (large dogs, humanoids), large (horses) huge (elephants)

basic race options:
human, obviously. The classic template race.
demihuman: elf, dwarf, kobold, draconian, etc. basically these races tend to emphasize one aspect of humanity at the loss of other aspects. Elves favor magic, Dwarves are durable and skillful, gnomes are creative, etc. in this setting, dwarves are practically carved from living stone, rather than being directly related to humans and other races, so half-dwarves are out as a race.
constructs: golems (alchemy made stone, clay, or wood beings with rather limited skillsets), mechanoids (steampunk magic powered robots),
the Winged: more a collection of races that have the capability to fly. For most, flight is a necessity rather than an option. Avians, Winged Serpents,
labor races: trolls, ogres, centauroids. low mind and spirit, high body creatures with high food intake needs. Not really a recommended race option for most
beast races: humanoid/animal hybrids. herbivore based races have an affinity for foraging and have eaasier access to food in grass and woodlands, but are more susceptible to monster attacks, while carnivores tend to have an affinity for hunting, but a more demanding diet.

assign stats. You have 18 points to spread between the stats. If a stat hits 0, the character dies.
body stat covers all primarily physical activities and rolls
mind covers skills, knowledge rolls, exploration, perception rolls and the like
spirit covers things like magic, charisma, willpower, etc.

assign skills. Select 4 or more skills. assign 24 points between them
food related: hunting, fishing, foraging
transportation: boating, flying, riding (if your character moves naturally by flying,swimming, or some other exotic method, this counts as one of your skills)
physical work: labor, carpentry, masonry, other (specify)
mental work: accounting, law, machine design, spell design, other (specify)
spiritual work: magic (see below), religion, creature empathy, aethyr sensitivity (sense at a distance: communication, spectral travel, clairvoyance)
combat: body, melee weapon, ranged weapon. specify the weapon. doesn't have to be super precise.

magic: each type of magic is a separate skill.
Elemental types are Mass, Energy, Motion, Space
life and death types are broken into plant, animal, monster, and Sapient (aka humanoid, aka, thinking, feeling beings), and primordial (mircobes, oozes, spores, and the like)
alchemy and ritual magic are possible, but both are resource and time intensive, so if you don't want to invest heavily in working those out, I suggest avoiding them. You'd have to develop a detailed magic system to work them.
Eldritch magic is also possible, at the cost of your character's soul. I advise against this route as well unless you dig doing some descent into madness RP and don't mind losing characters

For generic tasks, I'll typically roll a standard rtd d6.  may modify it if the task is easy or carefully planned or if there are extenuating circumstances like a blizzard or something.
for skill or attribute based actions  will roll a d10 or higher, depending on how difficult the action might be. You'll need to roll under your stat or skill value to succeed. The difference between the roll and your stat/skill determines how well or poorly you did. for example, you have a 4 in bows and attempt to shoot a deer. if you roll a 4, you wound the deer, but it runs off. you can then track it or shoot again or whatever. if you roll a 5, you might clip the deer, but not do enough damage to injure it, making tracking it much harder. roll a 1 and you get a clean kill. roll a 10, you break a bowstring. I won't track ammo.

Turns:
TUrns are broken into a Morning Turn and an Evening Turn. Morning is the time to prepare for the day's work. Evening is the time to prepare shelter for the night or do other things. Sleep happens automatically at the end of Evening Cycle, unless otherwise stated.

Shelter: Shelter can be made or purchased. Typically, to make shelter you need materials such as camping tents or sufficient survival skill to construct something out of natural elements nearby. Going a night without shelter (sleeping under the stars or in the streets) will result in a d6 roll to determine if a bad effect happens
1: hostile creature encounter (possibly sapient)
2: hostile non-sapient creature encounter. usually a less threatening encounter than teh above.
3: environmental effect: weather, magical effects, neighbors fighting - something that makes sleep unrestful
4: no ill effects unless one is explicitly ina bad effect area, such as a freezing biome or the middle of a gang war territory
5: restful sleep.
6: random magical effect. usually not a good thing, but not always.

Materials: your various parts are made of any material type you could find in a vanilla Dwarf Fortress world, with a few exceptions such as slade. For example, you could have a limb of wood, a torso of copper, and a core of tallow. Each material grants certain properties such as:
Value: the more expensive a material, the higher your value, this increases your energy, but also increases the interest other creatures have in obtaining you for their own uses. Higher value means higher risk, but possibly higher reward as well


Strength: Metal is stronger than wood, which is stronger than dirt. Living material is stronger than nonliving material. Bone is stronger than wood, blood is stronger than water.
Durability: Similar to the above, metal is more durable than wood, which is more durable than dirt.
Mobility: If you are entirely made of metal, you will have 0 mobility and cannot move. With 0 mobility, you will have no impact on the game and the character will be considered retired unless you have an alternative means of interacting. Mostly mobility comes from living materials, though certain nonliving materials can bestow varying degrees of mobility as well.
Dexterity: This is how easily you can interact with objects. If you have five parts all made of stone, you will be able to interact with objects mostly by falling on them or smashing into them. if you have flesh parts,your interactivity will increase. Fingers or grippers of some kind are necessary to wield weapons, write, craft and so forth.

Parts
Core: this is the part that contains your awareness and memory and such. This is your critical piece. If it breaks you die
Torso: this is the part that houses your core and acts as base for your other pieces to attach to. provides the highest durability for your overall character. Torso is also where your food is converted to energy.
limbs: how you move about, usually. also for interacting with objects or the environment
head: sensory and consumption parts are here. that is, if you want to see, hear, and eat, you need a head. without this part, you will need to gain energy through some other method such as photosynthesis, and will be generally limited to groping about blindly to feel your way through the world.
special:there are probably going to be unique or different parts that can be found or made later. they will have special rules attached.

your basic homonculus starts with a generic core, torso, head, two upper limbs and two lower limbs.
You also start out as a small creature, roughly cat sized.


the head contains one mouth, two eyes and two ears. feel free to specify binocular vs 360 degree vision. the first grants bonuses for coordination and focus, the second for awareness and spot checks. for ears, you start with a hole in either side of your head. Mouth has no teeth and is essentially a hole to stuff food into.
the torso converts food to energy. what kind of food works best is determined by the torso's material.
lower limbs are for movement. tey provide little ability to manipulate objects
upper limbs are for manipulating. the basic homuculus doesn't have hands or fingers, just upper limbs with rounded ends. you can carry stuff and turn doorknobs, assuming you can reach them. With some exceptions, manipulators attach only to upper limbs. (mandibles and prehensile tails are exceptions.)


you can swap out parts to start with a more specialized character if you like. here are the point values for each part:
Core: Priceless. one per being
Torso: 10
Head: 5
basic lower limb: 3
basic upper limb: 2
manipulators (one limb's worth): 6 (3 digits, claws, or the like, or 2 mandibles)
eye: 2
ear: 1
tentacle: 6 (acts as a weak upper limb and rudimentary manipulator)
tail: 2 (provides movement bonuses)
snake tail: 7 (acts as a lower limb and tail. grants similar movement to two standard lower limbs)
Size upgrade to dog sized: 20

Core:
Parts (below are the generic starting parts. if you swap them out, label accordingly.)
Head:
eye (2):
earholes (2):
mouth:
Torso:
Left Upper Limb:
Right Upper Limb:
Left Lower Limb:
Right Lower Limb:

Stats (I can't give starting stats for these, as they will depend on the materials you make your creature out of)
Mobility
Strength
Durability
Dexterity
Value
Energy: current/max (generic stating values are 5/5.)

This is a new, terrible RTD by your's truly, the worst GM: Ozarck. That's me.
You are an animal mercenary, signing up with a dismal adventure company on some backwater world in some low income inner city neighborhood.
This game will be mission based, probably. This here is the recruitment center - you may end up with a home base elsewhere.

Not much, really. I get these game oriented whims every now and then, and this is one of them. it's not very planned or organized, but it might be fun for a while. We'll see where it goes.

Yes I did. More specifically, you are either an Anthropomorphic Animal or an Intelligent Animal without humanoid traits (except intelligence and speech). Anthropmorphic characters will be standard fare with no special abilities, while Intelligent Animals may take one special ability, within reason. Everyone will have the option to use magic or technology, however - to a certain degree.

It should go without saying that 'human' doesn't count as an animal species in this case, eh? HUmans do exist in this universe though, and special exceptions can be made, but you gotta interest me in the character. and I'm notoriously fickle, so good luck with that.

Name:
Animal Species:
size:
Job / Class:
Special Trait:

Stats (4 points to spend as you see fit. Stats start at 0. 0 is 'average, or maybe a little less')
Mind:
Strength:
Dexterity:

Equipment (start with 100 monies)

Mostly standard RTD, but your stat points will make successes more likely or will determine what kinds of things you are capable of. a 4 strength Gorilla, for example, would be able to comfortably lift a car, while a 4 strength snake might be able to choke an elephant (if it's a boa or other large snake).

This is not an exhaustive list, but is to be considered a general guideline for what might cost what. Currently a very bare bones list.
Standard firearm: 30 monies
Standard melee weapon: 10 monies
standard armor set :40 monies
half armor: 20 monies
useful computer: 20 monies
spell book: 30 monies
magic focus: 10-20 monies
automobile: 50+ monies
small civilian aircraft: 1000 monies
small civilian spacecraft: 5000 monies.
autonomous helper bot: 50 monies (acts as a porter. useful especially for animals without opposable digits or other maniplulators)

This is a silly RTD about kids with short attention spans. I don't know. I haven't thought it out much beyond that.

Name:
Gender: (biological gender, a.k.a. sex)
Likes:
Dislikes:

Attention span:
Energy:
GM Attention Span:

post your character sheet with each action. Your GM has a short attention span and will not go looking for them
spend 35 points in the three attributes:
attention span: this number will be the target number under which you need to roll to succeed for actions requiring mental focus
Energy: this number will be the target number under which you need to roll to succeed for actions requiring physical activity
GM Attention span: this is the number of words in your action posts the GM will read. Rolls will be based on what the GM has read.

action rolls will usually be on a d20, probably.

Liks and dislikes will give bonuses and negatives to rolls, depending on the circumstances.
Gender may play a role. I don't know, it depends on the situation.
Your name will be a source of endless mockery by your peers. Children can be so cruel.

What's going on? you ask? this is a continuation of Omega Legion, with a modified ruleset and character sheet. Some dramatic events have left Omega Legion markedly changed from what it once was.  For New Players, Welcome! For former players who might like to rejoin, welcome back. For currentl active players, congratulations!

why, it's easy! -ish. easy-ish. You simply fill out the character sheet below. Once your sheet is filled out, we'll make any modifications necessary to fit the gameworld, and you'll be eligible for missions!

-All new characters begin with 10 coins to spend on equipment.

once your character sheet is approved, please transfer it HERE for bookkeeping purposes.

Name:
Creature type:
race:
size class:
Magical affinity:

Stats
Body:
Movement:
Mind:
Spirit:
{Special}:

Skills
Melee:
Ranged:
Medical:
General Knowledge:
Specializations:

Substats

Body
Strength:
Constitution:
Stamina:

Movement
Speed:
Dex:
Agility:

Mind
Intelligence:
Memory:
Intuition:

Spirit
Charisma:
Will:
Magic:


Subskills:
melee
natural weapons:
Unnatural Weapons:
Magical:

ranged
natural weapons:
Unnatural Weapons:
Magical:

Medical
organic:
mechanical:
Magical:

Here, I will epxlain in some detail what each part of the sheet means.

Name: This is What People Call your character, and how teh GM will refer to them, in general. Some characters might have a True Name, but those are secret and should be PM'd to the Gm, or left up to the GM to decide. Generally, you don't want to give out your True Name, but we all need to call you something
Creature type:This is the broadest category of types of creature that your character might fall into. Living, undead, construct (like robots or golems), Fey (fairies), Astral (spirit beings) Elementals, Alien/other dimensional
race: Are you a human, an elf, a human zombie, an elf vampire, an ogre, a salamander (a type of fire elemental), a pixie, a donkey or ogre? a goelm, cyborg, spider or chimera? What the heck are you, anyway?

size class:Size class: size will affect The body and movement stats
tiny: cats, birds, pixies
small: halflings, wolves, monkeys
medium: humanoids
large: horses, elephants, trolls, ogres
Giant: dragons, dinosaurs, some whales
Gargantuan: Blue whales, Dune Worms

Magical affinity: there are many types of magic in the universe of Omega Legion. What type does your character most resonate with? This is determined, first, by the creature type: an elemental will not easily resonate with mechanical magic (unless it is of the elemental plane of Order), and an undead will not resonate with Life magic or Nature Magic)
some magic types as examples:Life, necromantic, mechanical, Nature (with subsets like plant, animal, insect), elemental (with subsets like earth, fire, water, air, chaos, order), Fey, Astral (for spirit types). Note: there is no such Sphere as Holy, as holiness is dependent on the deity from which it comes. What is holy to one is anathema to another.

Stats and Skills
stats and skills have a range of values that goes as thus, from weakest to strongest: Cursed, Weak, Basic, apprentice, Journeyman, Master, Exceptional

Exceptional: these are the top tier beings. Olympic level physique, movement like lightning, or the skill of a master strategist. Decades of training get one to this level
Master: These are professionals. Career soldiers, famous actors, bodybuilders, surgeons. Very good at what they do, or at peak normal physical/mental capacity.
Journeyman: someone with enough experience to hold their own. they no longer need watched over by teachers, and can put out quality work, or fight on equal footing with normal soldiers or the like
Apprentice: Learners. They have enough ability to be dangerous to themselves and others, but they make lots of newbie mistakes.
Basic: what your average Joe would be like in a given situation
Weak: Clumsy, asthmatic, slow, fumbling ...
Cursed: This person is a danger to themselves and those around them. The Stat or Skill at this level is a constant threat to the life of the one so afflicted. Place a stat or skill at this level at your own risk, and be prepared to lose that character any time that aspect is used for anything

all stats and skills begin at basic level. You may lower two stats/skills by one level to raise one stat/skill by one level or lower one stat/skill by two levels to raise one by one level
examples: you may drop two stats to weak, to raise one stat to apprentice, or a stat and a skill to weak to raise a skill to apprentice, or a skill to cursed (not recommended) to raise a skill to apprentice. No stat or skill may start above Journeyman.

Leveling Stats and Skills When your character takes part in a mission, you'll receive level-up points to spend as you see fit. The number of level-up points will depend on the type of mission, it's threat rating, and your participation as well as whether the mission succeeds or not. Level up points will fall into two categories: stat points, and substat points

to level a stat it costs 4 to go from cursed to weak, 2 to go from weak to basic, 1 to go to apprentice, 2 to journeyman, 4 to master, and 8 to exceptional.

Stats
Body: - your physical strength, toughness, and basic health
Movement: how fast, agile, and dexterous you are
Mind: smarts, intuition, memory
Spirit: your inner essence - willpower, magical affinity, and ability to influence others

{Special}:this slot is empty for most characters. if you want your character to have a special trait, such as the ability to shapeshift or to have drones that detach from it's body, you must purchase this slot with two levels from stats or skills. otherwise, leave this slot alone (don't even put "basic" here, just delete the special tag)

Substats substats are governed by the main stat, and are a way to add a little detail to the character. these will have modifiers you start with 0, 0, 0, or with +1, 0, -1 to place as you see fit.

substats modify the base stat based on the base stat's level, and will act as sort of mini levels. to raise the substat from the level of the base stat to the one above requires the same number of points that it would cost to raise the base stat. that is, if you have a stat at basic level, a +1 will raise it to apprentice level, while a journeyman stat will require a +4 to raise the substat to master level.

Body
Strength: Lifitng, pulling, pushing, you know, muscle power
Constitution: Ability to take a bow, shrug off illness, recover from wounds. Toughness
Stamina: Ability to go for long periods without rest. Ability to stay in a fight longer.

Movement
Speed: How fast you can move across teh map. running, flying, swimming speed.
Dex: Coordination and fine motor skills - juggling, lockpicking, forging documents
Agility: ability to dodge, do acrobatics, dance, or put your foot behind your ear without excruciating pain

Mind
Intelligence: thinking power!
Memory: good for things like spellcasting, alchemy, or just remembering what the heck the objective was, anyway (you think I am kidding on that last one?).
Intuition: non-logical thinking. ability to take subconscious information and create a working understanding of a situation

Spirit
Charisma: This is how others view you. Higher means npcs will be more friendly, lies will be more readily believed, and intimidation will be more likely to affect your opponents
Will: This is the opposite of the above: how well you resist intimidation, magical intrusions
Magic: How strongly are you connected to magic?

Skills
Melee: Hand to hand combat
Ranged: combat at a distance: thrown weapons, breath weapons, bows, lasers
Medical: someone needs this for when you inevitably come down wit ha bad case of the stabbed. this is the healing skill, and all healing attempts, whether natural, magical, or mechanical, will use this stat, always.
General Knowledge: this is a catchall for if you aren't quite sure what to do and need a hint. if you are vague in your action, like "I try to find a door" or "I do something to help," this stat will be rolled.
Specializations: These are areas of expertise that your character has. for instance, if your character has been trained in swords, that will be a spec. you'll need at least one for your combat related skills, or you will suffer a penalty to using those skills. specs can be related to other things as well, thogh, such as sneaking, hiding, social interactions with a given type of being, and so forth. You get a set number of specializations depending on the level you set this skill at:
Cursed: 0, Weak: 2, Basic: 3, apprentice: 4, journeyman: 5, master: 7 and exceptional: 9

Subskills:
melee
natural weapons: these are weapons that are inherent parts of the character's body: fists, claws, teeth
Unnatural Weapons: things like swords and clubs. if hte character has to wield it, it is unnatural
Magical: this affects magically bufed attacks, or attacks like electrocution that might need direct contact to occur

ranged
natural weapons: same as above, but with breath weapons, spines, eye beams
Unnatural Weapons: same as above, bows, guns, thowing knives, small rocks
Magical: any magical effect that happens at a distance will roll this one.

Medical
organic: this is used when the character uses natural medical remedies, and when teh malady is natural in origin, like a cut or burn
mechanical: this is used for either using mechanical tools, like robot arms, or in fixing a construct, robot, or other mechanical type creature's injuries
Magical: this is used when the character is healing via magic, or when the malady is magical in nature, such as attempting to silence a Voice of Shouting Color Names.