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No map here until the first report. See the Map on your side.

Anything that has no deficient is Cheap, and can typically be assigned wherever needed.
1-2 deficient makes it Expensive. They will be assigned to elites, or a 1 in 10 case.
3-4 deficient items become Very Expensive. Only 1 in 100 will be deployed, compared to Cheap items.
5-6 deficient items are National Efforts, and can only be deployed in single numbers.
Infrastructure runs off a different cost, Power, with deficient causing inefficiencies. Generally, 1>2>3 being the benchmarks.
7+, and in Power's case, 4+, are Theoretical, and will only be deployed when the costs become manageable.

I'm running a 2d6 system here.

1+1 is snake eyes. These can be expected to explode, disintegrate, get eaten, rained on, or all of the above. You don't get any experience from this, and in revisions where you actually go below this, you can expect downsides to occur.

2+1 is Inoperable. It is a perfect example of what not to do. You can expect a good amount of experience from this.
2+2 gives you the Unadvised for Use. While it might operate, it won't be going into the field. Slightly less experience that a 2+1.
2+3 is a Buggy Mess. It works, but bugs abound in practice. Minor Experience gains.
3+3 is Below Average. You get some of what was advertised. Not all of it, but it works. Take experience in related fields.
3+4 is Slightly Below Average. Expect it to work, though the more outlandish parts might not be included or work as advertised. Experience gained is that which was included in the final product.
4+4 is Average. You basically get what you paid for. Even if it was Ludicrous in the first place. Take experience in related fields.
4+5 is Above Average. It works really well.
5+5 is still Above Average, if only more so. You can build off of the knowledge you've gained from this.
5+6 is a Masterwork. It will undoubtedly perform it's tasks well into the future.
6+6, Unexpected Boon. As stated, you can expect something extra in addition to it being a Masterwork.

+4: These are related to the very easy, so much so that you might already have it. Generally, things that only require techs you have to produce, and no finicky parts. Generally show up during Revisions rather than Designs. If you are making a design with this modifier, you've screwed up somewhere, or are purposefully trying to get it after many failures.

+3: Like 4, but finicky things are a part of what is being produced. From guns to engines and bombs. Also sometimes applies to more ancient designs. Tends to appear in Revisions, rather than Designs, and usually after failures in which you manage to gain enough experience. Still not a number you normally want to see.
Note this does not apply to all Designs. They can reach it if your tech level is right for what you are making.

+2: Simple. This is a number that can be seen normally, when making things that are either re-purposed techs you already have, or you have a lot of experience in, with few to no new advancements. It can also apply to less modern weapons, so long as you can theoretically make them.

+1: Easy. May have a few advances for designs, or a single one for Revisions. Being very experienced in what you are using can also give you this number. It also appears often in less modern weapons.

+/- 0: You don't have any experience in the field, but it is within reason to make this. Alternatively, you do have the experience to build off of, and it is within reason.  Generally, any advancement forward that isn't difficult.

-1: Hard. It's hard to make this, basically. Generally appears in new tech without any previous tech of that class, or a major advancement. Ironically, it's often the best to shoot for in this system, since failures tend to give experience, and average is just as it says, what you paid for.

-2: Difficult. The case when you may have gone a bit far. It usually signifies a major advancement, if you succeed anyway. Tends to involve finicky things.

-3: Finicky. The difficulty where you are making something finicky that needs everything to work out, everything to fall into place, to get it to work. That probably describes it best. At this difficulty, Average is all you can shoot for. Hope and pray the RNG works out.

-4: Ludicrous. Completely out of left field. You literally have no experience with it whatsoever, or it's crazy enough it might work.

-5: Impossible. Anything here is effectively going to give you something new you didn't ask for, or you ran into a wall you didn't know about. Or you are literally trying to break things. May occasionally give you a Buggy Mess, or something Below Average.

-6 or less: Theoretical. Exactly as it says. This is entirely Theoretical, and will never give you anything but knowledge if it ever succeeds. The less likely it is, the worse the modifier.

Note, if a Revision rolls a 1 or less, something is going to break. And you won't like the result.
Designs on the other hand, won't break anything, usually. Except your Budgets.

None. Just a lot of stuff that needs to be used. Note there are going to be plenty of Designs as you fill in your Inventory.

Ore: 1
Wood: 1
Oil: 1
Power: 1

Map

Welcome to the Forests. Nothing but forests.

Put simply, it's a Tropical Seasonal Forest for miles around us.

Further data will be revealed as discovered. A Tropical Rainforest is towards the east though. Other than that, 320 miles before you will hit any new biome.

Mug(Your Mug, place outside of spoiler, everything else, in.)

Name: --(Name please)
Class: --(FC, & > Potential Promotion Path{if more than 1})
 
Character Specific Skill: (Skill from book, Please place name of skill.)
Secondary
Affinity: --Leave blank until start.
 
Personal Fault:
(T)Personal Skill:
(FC)Personal Skill:
(P)Personal Skill:
 
Preferred stats: (Place Pref stats from the book here)
Weapon profs: (Place Weapon Profs from the book here)
 
Progression spent: 335%/335%
 
Level: 1
Total Level: 1
 
Base Stats:(Place Base Stats from the book Below, and spread your Growths.)
 
HP: 0 (0%)
STR: 0 (0%)
MAG: 0 (0%)
SKL: 0 (0%)
LCK: 0 (0%)
DEF: 0 (0%)
RES: 0 (0%)
SPD: 0 (0%)
 
CON: - (-)
AID: - {-)
MOV: - (-)
 
Stat Gains:
(Put chosen stat boosts here on generation)
 
Current Stats:(Current Stats with additives.)
 
HP: 0 (0%)
STR: 0 (0%)
MAG: 0 (0%)
SKL: 0 (0%)
LCK: 0 (0%)
DEF: 0 (0%)
RES: 0 (0%)
SPD: 0 (0%)
 
CON: - (-)
AID: - {-)
MOV: - (-)
 
Supports:
(Leave empty)
 
Inventory:
{Weapon chosen, E rank.}
Vulnerary
 

 
Bio: If Any

-Aegis (Free): When suffering an attack from Bows, Hidden Weapons, Tomes and Dragonstones, there is a (SKL+LCK)% chance to reduce the damage dealt by half.
-Desperation (Free): When making an attack, if you are < or = 30% HP, you may make any followup attacks immediately before your opponent counterattacks.
-Dragon Ward (Free): When an adjacent ally suffers an attack, there is a (SKL+LCK)% chance, based on your stats, to reduce the damage by half.
-Pavise (Free): When suffering an attack from Swords, Lances, Axes and Monsters, there is a (SKL+LCK)% chance to reduce the damage by half.
-Rend Heaven (Free): During an attack, you have a (SKL+LCK)% chance to deal damage equal to half your enemy’s STR or MAG stat based on the type of weapon you are wielding. (lf using a physical weapon, calculate with enemy’s Strength. If using a magical weapon, calculate using the enemy’s Magic. Weapons capable of both use the stat that targets the same defensive stat as they do.)
-Trailblazer (Free): Penalties for moving into forest, desert, deep snow, and hills tiles are reduced by 1. No ill effects from Weather are suffered as well.
 
-Vengeance (Free) – During an attack, you have a (SKL+LCK)% chance to add half of your missing HP to your attack.

Lordship (Free) Add Lord Class to your own, +30% Progression Points to Spend. Can not be chosen as a secondary Skill.
 
Characters may also instead opt to take one of these three previously-Cost versions of these Skills in exchange for the usual 30% Progression:
-Celerity+ (Cost): Gives +2 MOV.
-Desperation+ (Cost): HP threshold is 50% maximum or less.
-Vantage+ (Cost): HP threshold is 50% maximum or less.

----The Fountain of Light----
Hehe, "This old thing was originally created to gather the flux into essence. It's long since broken down by now, and is dry as a well with no water."

"Assuming things happen, it should fill up over time, and a God who drinks from it will gain great power. For a single Cycle or two at least. I'll have to give you permission first though."

----The Weaver----
"Ah, I haven't introduced you yet, have I? This is The Weaver, She's my Bestest Friend in the Whole Universe. Eh.. You can't see her?"

----The Archives of History----
"Well, even if you can't, she still has this. There are a lot of tapestries in here, all of different periods. Or at, least, there should be soon enough. She'll probably go ahead and weave a few to tell of your own exploits in this universe."

----The Well of Prophecies.----
"Should any of you try to test your luck predicting events, just yell your prophecy into the well. If you're lucky, Destiny Coins will come out of it after a while. No idea where they come from, but my friend seems to like them."

"Ah, I should probably warn you guys not to go wandering to far off into the darkness.  There's Nothing out there."

Non-Playable Classes:
Primordial Ones:
 "Creators of universes, they are the only ones able to generate new universes. One of them was my own Parent. They are extremely rare, and the subject of legends among other divine beings. They are the supreme powers that rule the multiverse."


Titanic Ones:
"Titans... They are supposedly great world creators, wielders of primeval powers vastly surpassing the power of lesser Divine beings. Titanic Ones are born when a universe is created by a Primordial One, rising from the big bang. Well, the Titans that were born with me were Creators, but most of them just destroyed everything the others built, so here we are..."


Playable Classes:
Great Ones:
"It is written: 'Varied and powerful, greater ones are all the powerful beings born under the Law of the Primordial Ones. Some are fathered by Titanic Ones and Great Ones, while some are just created naturally by a universe. They are able to shape reality, and each and every one of them wield vastly different powers. They interact with the mortal plane from the divine plane. Mortals like to call them Gods.'
Gods in short?"

+ Can sire demigods
+ Can choose a specialization: Creation or Destruction
+ Stronger in the Divine Plane
= Realm in the Divine Plane
- Weaker in the Other Plane


Other Ones:
"These guys are interesting, here is what is written: 'Great Ones who conceptually rejected the Law of the Primordial Ones before they were even created by a universe. By doing so, they alienated themselves from the multiverse, and became an incomprehensible force. Their very presence and powers tend to warp the normal reality of a world, but being near a world under the Law is painful to them. As such, they generally interact from afar, specifically from the Other Plane. Mortals like to call them Eldritch Abominations.'
Personally I don't get what's all the big deal with rejecting the Law. I mean, I feel perfectly fine."

+ Innate eldritchness and reality warping
+ Stronger in the Other Plane
+ Realm in the Other Plane
= One specialization: Alteration
- Unable to sire demigods (they are infertile in short)
- Weaker in the Mortal Plane


Ascended Ones:
"It is written: 'Legendary Mortals who transcended their mortality, and attained power equal to that of a Great One. As pure blooded mortals, they have no problem interacting with the mortal world, but have difficulties interacting with the divine.'
That's pretty rare in my opinion."

+ Get a bonus to [Manual Labor]
+ Stronger in the Mortal Plane
+ Can move their Realm to the Mortal Plane
= Can sire mortals
= Realm in the Divine Plane
- Weaker in the Other Plane
- No specialization

------Planes------
The Mortal Plane: The plane where the world exists. The playground of all that lives above. From the mortal plane, divine realms appear as special constellations. To enter the Mortal Plane, a divine being must Incarnate.

"To simplify things, Incarnating is free there. I will supply the required energy myself. And as I'm pretty tolerant, Other Ones don't suffer from being incarnated."

The Divine Plane: The plane where most divine beings dwell, from whence they interact with the Mortal Plane. Each resident of the Divine Plane got a realm of its own, which is their home. Mortal life cannot persist very long in the Divine Plane without the help of a divine being.

"That's where most gods reside. It's rather hard to kill a god in the Divine Plane."

The Other Plane: A maze-like plane home to the Other Ones, so complex that the Other Ones themselves have great difficulty navigating in it. They each have a realm of their own there, and finding one without the help of its respective owner is a close to impossible task.

"That's where Other Ones reside. Truly a mysterious place, and very pretty. Good luck finding anything you don't know the location of in the Other Plane though..."

------Movement------
"You may only move between Planes once per Cycle. And as transplanar deplacement is rather delicate, you won't be able to do anything else for the cycle once you enter. Takes a good bit of uninterrupted time to do so as well."

"The most important rule! Everything you do, say or ask generate what I call Strain. It's because you Divine Beings are so powerful your very presence tend to warp everything, which is not really enjoyable for me. Try to keep the Strain low, or space and time could start slowing, or even breaking."

------Strain------
Low: "Really good! I'm in top form."
Moderate: "Still manageable, though you may start noticing some odd things."
High: "If you got to that point, that's entirely on you. You will have already noticed the space-time anomalies, and tears in reality will probably start appearing. I won't be held responsible for any accident that will occur."
Max: "That's the worse that could happen. Ever heard of hiatus? This word should make you shudder and understand the meaning of this level of Strain."

------Ema's Mood------
Happy!
Cheerful/Normal
Mixed Feelings/Potentially Annoyed
Angry/Bad Mood
Unstable
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"Ahem. Don't mind the last bit. Don't know where that blot came from."

------Hierarchy------
"One of the most important rules. You will all be ranked in order of important according to the cosmic order, so me. And as I'm a very biased person, don't except fairness at all times! I will try to be though, but well, my own perception may differ with yours.
As! Such!
You will not be equal. You will be ranked by order of importance: Primordial Gods, Major Gods and Minor Gods. Naturally, your standing can and will change!"

Primordial God:
-Get 1 Quintessence and 2 Greater Essences per turn
-Can have 4 active Prophecies at a time

Major God:
-Get 1 Greater Essence and 1 Essence per turn
-Can have 2 active Prophecies at a time

Minor God: 
-Get 1 Essence and 1 Lesser Essence per turn
-Can have 1 active Prophecy at a time


------Death------
"Gods can die. Watch your back, and surround yourself well."
 "Granted, the same was true of Titans."

"I mentioned some weird words in the section above. You have guessed it already, but Essence and Destiny Coins are what you would call resources. There is one thing I must stress out: you can't accumulate Essence. If you get more than you should have through sharing, I will take back the excess at the end of a Cycle. You can have as many Destiny Coins as you want though!"

------Sharing Essence-------
"You can share Essence with each other, there is no rule against this. A reminder though: any excess Essence will be returned to me at the end of a Cycle (turn)."


-------Destiny Coins-------
"The Weaver loves these! No idea what she does with all these coins though, I will leave that to your imagination."
> Destiny Coins are used to interact with the Weaver. That way you can:
-Alter an Event that happened
-Create a True Prophecy: make it so an Event will happen no matter what.


-------Essence-------
"The purest form of divine power! Aside from normal Essence, there are two other types of Essences: Greater and Lesser. The better the stronger, of course. Some stuff can only be done with quality Essence, so think well."


-------Quintessence-------
"You won't find stronger Essence here, Quintessence is on a whole other level. Handle it with care, some very crazy stuff can  be done with it!"


-------Conversion Rate-------
From top to bottom:
1 Quintessence to 2 Greater Essences
1 Greater Essence to 2 Essences
1 Essence to 3 Lesser Essences

From bottom to top:
5 Essences to 1 Quintessence
3 Essences to 1 Greater Essence
3 Lesser Essences to 1 Essence

"I don't really know why, but the Weaver doesn't seem to like you. She asked me to tell you that it will take 1 Destiny Coin to meet with her as a gesture of goodwill. Just throw it back into the well if you want to speak with her.."

Rules:
-Destiny Coins can only be used once per turn.
-Prophecies can not be erased for free.
-Every 5th Cycle, the Well forgets anything told to it. Bit strange, all told.

------Destiny Coins uses and costs-------

1) Erase one of your Prophecies (1DC)

2) Target an entity of the World to:
-Guarantee a negative/positive outcome during the Carver turn
> The more precise the statement, the better the potential outcome
-Increase the odds of rolling better combat rolls as long as they are not facing a God

Tier 0: 1DC
Tier 1: 2DC
Tier 2: 3DC
Tier 3: 5DC
Tier 4: 7DC

3) Write a True Prophecy, an event that will happen no matter what.
> True Prophecies cannot be modified
> A True Prophecy cannot conflict with an existing True Prophecy
> Only entities of the World can be included in prophecies (Ema's Status), as such, Gods cannot be included in a True Prophecy.

Guideline for pricing: In general, a True Prophecy should cost twice what would that Prophecy reward if it were to fulfill.


------General Guidelines for Rewards Calculation------

You can't lose Destiny Coins from a "negative reward".

Actors:
"The tier of the non Gods involved in the Prophecy. Is considered an actor any Mortal or Creature, Artifacts and Laws are not considered Actors unless directly specified in the prophecy."

Main Actors and Other Actors Tiers difference:
Tier Difference +1: 1DC
Tier Difference +2: 3DC
Tier Difference +3: 5DC
Tier Difference +4 or more: 10DC

Tier Difference -1: -2DC
Tier Difference -2: -4DC
Tier Difference -3: -6DC
Tier Difference -4 or less: -12DC

Example:


Gods Involvement:
The involvement of the Gods was direct: -5-1DC
The involvement of the Gods was indirect: +1-2DC
The involvement of the Gods was minimal: +3-5 DC
No Gods were involved at all: +6-10DC

Perceived Difficulty:
"At the time of writing, how likely it is for that Prophecy to occur."
Very Likely: +0DC
Likely: +1-2DC
Unlikely: +3-5 DC
Impossible: +6-10 DC


"If you are unsure of the cost of a Prophecy, just speak with The Weaver, though if you're willing to wait a Cycle, I can speak with her on your behalf. Typically, the more a prophecy has details, the less likely it is to happen naturally and the bigger its implications are, the costlier the prophecy will become."

Manual Labor
"You know how Essence is your power source? Well, it's not like you are completely helpless without it. You can roll up your sleeves and get your hands dirty to do some minor stuff."

>Any action requiring 1 Lesser Essence can be made for free at the cost of a die being rolled to check the success of the action.
>Manual Labor can only be done when you are in the Mortal Plane.


Upgrading Artifacts and Beings:
-For a permanent trait, 1 Essence of lesser tier than the one used to create the being.
-For an upgrade to a higher Tier, as much Essence as needed for the being's value to reach the desired tier's value.


Creation
World Shaping
"In a story, you need a setting! Stories are always better with a nice setting."

Create a World: 1 Quintessence
Create several Continents/Seas: 2 Greater Essences
Create a Continent/Sea: 1 Greater Essence
Create several Regions: 2 Essences
Create a Region: 1 Essence
Create several Locations: 2 Lesser Essence
Create a Location: 1 Lesser Essence
ex: city, tower, small island

Rebuild a Realm (Take 1 Cycle): 5 Essences (stackable)
Move a Realm (Take 1 Cycle): 5 Essences [Ascended Ones only] (stackable)


Disasters and Blessings
"The demonstration of your powers. Its cheaper to use this than creating Laws, so they can be useful in a pinch. Given Disasters and Blessings are acts of the Divine, all non-Divine beings are affected, though stronger beings will resist them."

Inflict a Disaster/Blessing affecting a World: 1 Greater Essence
Inflict a Disaster/Blessing affecting several Continents: 2 Essences
Inflict a Disaster/Blessing affecting a Continent: 1 Essence
Inflict a Disaster/Blessing affecting several Regions: 2 Lesser Essences
Uplift a race of Creatures: 2 Lesser Essences [Turn them into a Mortal race]
Inflict a Disaster/Blessing affecting a Region: 1 Lesser Essence
Inflict a Disaster/Blessing affecting a Location: Free!

Modifying a Creation (not applicable to Laws)
"Changing the very nature of a creation can be considered a Disaster or a Blessing depending on your perception. Either way, casting an alteration Disaster/Blessing is costlier than normal blessing."

If you have the creator's permission:
Modify up to T1 Creations: Free
Modify up to T2 Creations: 1 Lesser Essence
Modify up to T3 Creations: 1 Essence
Modify up to T4 Creations: 1 Greater Essence

If you don't have the creator's permission:
Do a Destruction check against the creation. If it succeeds, your blessing goes through.


Life
"Life is really interesting. Especially Mortals, as they make me quite inspired! As for Monsters and Abominations, they are respectively created by Great/Ascended Ones and Other Ones. While Monsters can be controlled to some extent, Abominations are on another level: they are completely uncontrollable!"

Create a Primordial Beast/Anathema: 1 Quintessence
Create a race of Greater Monsters/Abominations: 2 Greater Essences
Create a Greater Monster/Abomination: 1 Greater Essence
Create a race of Monsters/Abominations: 2 Essences
Create a Monster/Abomination: 1 Essence
Create several Ecosystems: 2 Greater Essences
Create an Ecosystem: 1 Greater Essence
Create several races of Creatures: 2 Essences
Create a race of Creatures: 1 Essence
Create several species of Plants: 2 Lesser Essences
Create a species of Plants: 1 Lesser Essence
Create a group of Creatures: 1 Lesser Essence
Create a Creature/Plant: Free


Mortals:
"Mortals. Interesting, amusing, and well, mortal. You have to Uplift something to have them become Mortals, though they can turn into Mortals on their own, rarely."

Create an Ascendant: 1 Quintessence
"A note about Ascendants. While one is very close to the Gods power-wise, it is not quite enough to be a divine being. They are just an Ascendant, not yet Ascended Ones."
Create a group of Legends: 2 Greater Essences
Create a Legend: 1 Greater Essence
Create a group of Heroes: 2 Essences
Create a Hero: 1 Essence
Uplift a race of Creatures: 2 Lesser Essences [A Blessing]
Uplift a Creature: 1 Lesser Essence


Servants
"These guys are an extension of your self, and as such will do your bidding with utmost loyalty! Aspects are a special case though, they are basically one of your Spheres given form and will! And that's as awesome as it sounds."

Create an Aspect: 1 Quintessence
Create an Army of Greater Servants: 2 Greater Essences
Create a Greater Servant: 1 Greater Essence
Create an Army of Servants: 2 Essences
Create a Servant: 1 Essence
Create an Army of Lesser Servants: 2 Lesser Essences
Create a Lesser Servant: 1 Lesser Essence
 

Artifacts:
"Tools with unique powers. The stronger they get, the more they tend to break reality. Keystones are the culmination of such tools, being part of reality itself, and only Keystones can affect Divine beings."

Create a Keystone: 1 Quintessence
Create several Divine Artifacts: 2 Greater Essences
Create a Divine Artifact: 1 Greater Essence
Create several Heroic Artifacts: 2 Essences
Create a Heroic Artifact: 1 Essence
Create several Magic Artifacts: 2 Lesser Essence
Create a Magic Artifact: 1 Lesser Essence
Create several Mundane Artifacts: 1 Lesser Essence

About Artifacts:
Keystone: can affect Gods.
Divine: can affect any non-Divine being.
Heroic: can affect Greater Monsters/Abominations/Servants, and Ascendant.
Magic: can affect Monsters, Abominations, Servants and Legends.


Laws:
"Laws are the guidelines I follow. In the hierarchy of Laws, a Lesser Law will always lose to a Greater Law if they contradict. Then there is the System, which is at the top. A System is a set of Greater Laws that only other Systems can oppose. Oh, and if two Laws of the same class are in opposition, they will act like oil and water: areas they affect will randomly have one or the other in effect. Do note that Divine beings are above Systems!"

Create a System: 1 Quintessence

Create a Greater Law-
-Affecting the World: 2 Greater Essences
-Affecting a Continent: 1 Greater Essence
-Affecting a Region: 2 Essences
-Affecting a Location: 1 Essence

Create a Lesser Law-
-Affecting the World: 2 Essences
-Affecting a Continent: 1 Essence
-Affecting a Region: 2 Lesser Essence
-Affecting a Location: 1 Lesser Essence

About Laws:
System: can affect anything except Gods. Effects are the strongest.
Greater Law: can be resisted by Tier 4 beings.
Lesser Law: can be resisted by Tier 3 beings.

-------Tiers-------
"Everything has a place in the cosmic order. Depending on its rank, a being has more or less power."

Tier 0: Plants, Creatures...
Tier 1: Lesser Servants, Mortals, Magic Artifacts...
Tier 2: Servants, Monsters, Abominations, Heroes, Heroic Artifacts...
Tier 3: Greater Servants, Greater Monsters, Greater Abominations, Legends, Divine Artifacts...
Tier 4: Aspects, Primeval Beasts, Anathemae, Ascendants, Keystones...
Tier 5: Minor Gods
Tier 6: Major Gods
Tier 7: Primordial Gods

-------Battle-------
Wounds:
"Okay, now is the serious part. If you lose a battle, you get wounded. A wound will severely impair you, and a second wound will kill you. You can only heal a wound by resting for one Cycle in your Realm without doing any action."

Power:
"A being's power is determined by its position in the cosmic order."

Tier 1 (Lesser Servant, Mortal, Creature...) - 1d6
Tier 2 (Servant/Monster/Abomination, Hero...) - 2d6
Tier 3 (Greater Servant/Monster/Abomination, Legend...) - 3d6
Tier 4 (Aspect, Primeval Beast, Anathema, Ascendant...) - 4d6
Tier 5 (Minor Gods) - 5d6
Tier 6 (Major Gods) - 6d6
Tier 7 (Primordial Gods) - 7d6

Artifacts:
"In addition its innate power, a being can become stronger using Artifacts. Wielding an Artifact will only be beneficial if the wielder has a Tier close to that of the Artifact though."

Gods only get bonuses from Divine Artifacts and Keystones.
Non-Gods only get bonuses from Artifacts with the same Tier or a Tier difference of 1.
Non-Gods can temporarily get bonuses from Artifacts they shouldn't be able to wield at the cost of their life and a die roll using RTD rules.

Non-Gods:
Tier 0 (Mundane) - +1
Tier Difference -1 - +1d3
Tier Difference 0 - +1d6
Tier Difference +1 - +2d6
Tier 4 (Keystones) - +4d6

Gods:
Tier 3 (Divine) - 3d6
Tier 4 (Keystone) - 4d6

Essence infusion:
"You can also infuse an Essence into a being to increase its power temporarily. It lasts only 1 Cycle, and only 1 Essence can be infused at a time."

1 Lesser Essence - 2d6
1 Essence - 3d6
1 Greater Essence - 4d6
1 Quintessence - 5d6

Realm and Plane Bonus (Battle only)
Realm: +3d6
Mortal Plane: +1d6 for Ascended Ones and -2d6 for Other Ones
Divine Plane: +1d6 for Great Ones
Other Plane: +1d6 for Other Ones and -2d6 for everyone else


-------Destruction-------
"Destruction happens if the destroyer's roll is superior to its the target's difficulty rating. The difficulty rating is determined by its overall Essence worth, and any kind of protection the target would benefit from."

1 Lesser Essence - 10
2 Lesser Essence - 15
1 Essence - 20
2 Essence - 25
1 Greater Essence - 30
2 Greater Essence - 35
1 Quintessence - 50
Realm - 40

Destruction Specialization: Get an additional 1d6 to destruction rolls.
Creation Specialization: Increase the Difficulty Rating of creations by 1d6.

Name: "Your true name, please."
Class: "Your class, and if applicable, specialization. Yes, it's not obvious to me whether you are a Great One or an Other One!"
Appearance: "Your true appearance."
Realm Style (Optional): "How is your home? Plain or gaudy? Square or Hypersquare? It's pure flavor, and I will create your Realm for free."
Spheres: "The concepts and/or elements over which you reign supreme. I heard they were mostly for flavor, but I think they will be of some import. Note that the maximum number any can have is 3, though you can buy more later on."

Name:
Description:
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Name: Acter NobodNobodNo- *ahem*. Acter Nobody.
Class: Ascended One. While the Great and Other Ones can change on occasion, that is not exactly an option for myself.
Appearance: Acter’s fundamental appearance is of the barest and most basic sketch of a person, although wearing a lab coat and a smooth, white mask with glowing eye slits, and he holds an ornate book in his hands. However, he is also perpetually subject to visual glitches and errors, akin to the graphics on a crashing computer.
Realm Style: Acter’s Realm appears to be a city, drawing facets of its appearance from the most advanced civilizations in existence in the world but otherwise mundane in its fundamental appearance. However, numerous buildings look half-drawn, or seem to have had parts erased without anything around them being affected, making the location look damaged, with only divine magic keeping it functional.
Spheres: Novelty, Protection, and the Arts. Why yes, I am trying something new.

Name: Zelthen, the Shining One, Cleansing Order, Holy Light, End of Evil, He Who Radiates, He Who Outshines the Brightest Gold, He Whose Followers Can't Stop Giving Titles
Class: Other One
Appearance: Zelthen manifests as a perfectly symmetrical humanoid made of glowing, radiant light. He is clad in a suit of battered, yet immaculately forged and maintained plate mail, and wields a white-flaming sword and blindingly-blazing shield with impossible skill, each movement calculated to perfection.
Realm Style (Optional): Zelthen's realm isn't a physical place, so much as it is an ever-expanding chamber of stagnant light, slowly pulsing in tune to a thousand thousand tongues uttering sacred hymns and prayers over and over again. All who die at his worshiper's hands come here, their souls are wiped clean to remove everything that made them who they once were, and they become one with The Light, enraptured in a state of eternal peace, bliss, and contentment. Zelthen believes reality as the Primordial Ones intended is fundamentally flawed, and he seeks to spread his faith until the last of the wicked are slain, and all things are one with The Light.
Spheres: Light, Order, Purity.

Name: "Joe, John, James, oh and billy, but you can just call us Xizillix'gragoonshif- the holder of damned drunks."
Class: Other
Appearance: three short old men with red pointed hats in a trenchcoat.  Oh, and one short man in a blue hat, atop the others.
Realm Style (Optional): A rather distorted plane divided up into innumerable rooms of distorted or unknown purpose
Spheres: Warfare and Alcohol(Wine)

Name: Meta machine #112
Class: Other one
Appearance: Giant mechanical humanoid covered in floating shapes
Realm Style (Optional): A mass of ever turning cogs and sparking circuits, also swarming with weasels for whatever reason.
Spheres: Machines, mecha, god killing devices.

Name:Abdasam, Protector of the dead, Judger of souls.
Class: Great One, even though a lot think I am Other for some reason
Appearance: A human form with chunks of it missing revealing inner organs, coverd in heavy cloaks
Realm Style: A hallway ful of mirrors, each reflect diffrent aspect of the one looking at them, this is the resting
 place of the souls I can get.
Spheres: Death, Judgment and Truth

The Dead rise. The Deimos remained dead, though from them, Titans came to being. And were promptly killed, the end.

Really though, this time period is mostly most of the Undead finally reviving. Took them long enough. Still, no Dracozombies around.

This did cause some friction between the various races, of the sense of them remembering the undead from the few stories passed down.
The Bael Watched, the Gorgon Plotted, and the Tarvos didn't bother, simply happy to have some sport again.

Of course, these undead, other than the titans, hollow husks that they were, were no easy thing to fight against, though the undead themselves weren't as hostile anymore for some reason.

Mogall, Tarvos & Bael, Various Undead and Gorgon, Sprites, Mauthe Doog and Hellhounds,, more undead, Ogres, Fiends, Golems.

The spark of Intelligence and will came to all of them over time, in this order. While their was society before this, it was far more basic, and with intelligence came a new era.

Bael: Spiders who have been known to live for 200-300 on average. They never quite stop growing, if slowly, and are an adult around 25 years of age. Their chitin grows stronger as they age, as does their poison, until it becomes like acid.

They make good silk, and are quite shrewd. While somewhat low in number in comparison to other living monsters, they seem to be acting as merchants now. They are fairly clannish, and won't hesitate to protect their own if threatened in their nests. Non-aggressive, though that is by choice rather than being unable to fight. Quite a few of the younger adults have shown signs of wanderlust, while the Elders from before the Spark remain in their lairs.


Tarvos: Hunters for sport and pleasure, their ranking in the tribe is determined by their kills. The best of the best are allowed to use bows, though they themselves have trouble crafting them. The Spark seems to have made them more polite to those outside their social grouping, though it has also led to some tribes splintering. A good number of them keep trained Mauthe Doog, who don't seem to have the Spark as wild ones do. This has led to tension between Tarvos of Mauthe/Hellhound packs.


Gorgon: Crafters of Items and Magic, they make a living selling their wares. It's rather rare to see them attacking others, though their are those who splintered off to make their own way. Their Relationship with the Sprites seem to have changed for good though. They tend to live together in various places, and have crafted homes as well..


Sprites: Anima and Dark Sprites both have proven greatly effected by the Spark, traveling from their own homes rather often in search of opportunity. While still somewhat simple in their outlook, they have proven to be able to create Gems of various effects, both naturally and otherwise. They appear to have a great respect for Nature and ancient history, respectively, though this is not always the case.
sidenote: Light Sprites still prove Hostile to any who enter their hallow territory. I have yet to see any affected by the Spark be open to any degree of dialogue.


Undead: A general term for those raised from the grave. They are as varied in outlook as they are in combat. From the Revenants to the Fiends. My own experiences has shown that they all seem to retain something from their lives previously, and they usually seem to revive after enough time has passed. Most of them seem limited to the very basics of their martial skill though, but that by no means mean they are weak.
side note: As a merchant, they tend to be the main consumer of items, mostly cause of their variety and their old human instincts. They trend toward human actions as well, but given how good & evil are so prevalent, this makes predicting them impossible for most monsters.
They have no trouble grouping up to take down those tougher than them, regardless, unlike many others.


Mogall: Birthed of Dark Magic they may be, they are still wellsprings of knowledge. They never forget anything they see, as far as I can tell. They are a dying race though, and most remain motionless in slumber unless someone retains their services. I've had to gather this info secondhand, given they really don't like me.


Gargoyles: There are two types of Gargoyles, the insane guardians, and the roaming loners. Of the two, the wanderers are learned indeed. New gargoyles are birthed from stone, and only rarely. And when they have died, they crumble to dust and masonry. Like the Bael, they watch, though they will often defend their own homes, and prefer the company of others besides their own. This is likely why their birth rate is so low, as the insane do not replenish beyond what is needed, and those others must gather in groups atop mountains for their century meetings to discuss, which is only a recent activity for those with the spark The third such meeting will be coming up soon..


Golems: Rarities born from magic and statuary. The Spark has affected the number of newbirths. Before, they were, as far as most know, never born. They can be seperated into the Old Ones, and New Ones. The old continue to guard, resting. Communication with them is difficult, and nearly impossible in a social, as they usually remain in old areas infested with Gargoyles.


Titans: There are no Titans. The old bones collectively assembled were destroyed with their rebirth. End of story. There are no Deimos either, or Onuuos.
What remains of them are but hollow fragments, only rarely imbued with the Spark, and far to Small to be called titans.


Ogres: Ogres, and their derivative elders, the Cyclops, were not exactly smart in early days. These days however, the Spark has given birth to those with a natural ability to create medicines that work on any living being. While simple, they are well versed is Sprite-speak, and communicate and commune with them regularly in their work. A peaceful race, in most cases, and quite simple in their reasoning. Their might makes them good traders, couriers, and bodyguards, when you can convince them to work for you, and they will complete their job most times with all their effort.
side note: Trying to trick an Ogre, is not the best idea, as they have a long history of stories. And trying to trick a Cyclops will likely end with your death.
 A few have become warlords in some parts of the world lately, which adds to the theory of them being far more shred than they seem.


Mauthe Doog and Hellhounds: I split these together, because they are only tangibly linked to one another. The culture of these packs can differ greatly from one another, and Hellhounds are almost universally strong of will. They also have an affinity for Fire almost unheard of in this age. They also like bones.. Not the best situation for gathering info from them.
side note: It should be noted that Tarvos are almost never seen with Hellhounds, unless they happen to be fighting. There is not a single known instance of them working together, and the Tarvos' Mauthe Doog are almost universally weaker then their Spark counterparts. The growth to Hellhound always seem to end in the Mauthe Doog either dying or rebelling in madness in Tarvos trained Mauthe Doog..

As you can tell, this is a Game of Monsters. As such, for bases, we'll be using the GM Book of Monsters.

Also this 2.1 handbook, for those of you who haven't seen it.

Discord Link for talking to your fellow players/FEF talk
Now, suppose I should put in some houserules here.
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1, Dracozombie is off limits. 2, All skills listed in bestiary are skills you have. 3, You start with 1 E rank weapon of your Subcatagory and 1 Vulnerary.

Golems are fine to pick, though do note that for FC, Bolder Toss' range is reduced to 5-7 instead. Also, Boulder Toss requires you to not move to use it, and still has a 40 hit penalty. It also does not receive support or PS bonuses. You do counter with it though, but that will usually only apply to other Golems, and those that have Siege Magic.


For Character Design, check the Bestiary. You have a Growth of 330% to spend. Note that your Base stats are what is in the book, and your Growths for an individual Stat can not deviate by more than 40%. You also get 4 points to spend. No more than 2 to a stat, and HP Growths count for 2 per point rather than 1.

Pick a Character Skill, and make some Personal Skills and a Personal Fault.
You have-
1 Character Skill
1 Personal Fault
1 PC Personal Skill
1 First Class Personal Skill
1 Promotion Personal Skill


Finally, your Lord isn't going to join for a while yet. She's a Dracozombie by the way.


I'll be taking 4 to 7 players. 4 Starting in the Prologue, then the others will join in subsequent chapters. Campaign length is.. longish.

Signups should close on January 12th.

I also would mind if someone drew me an old nature overrun Magvel either. And my mugging skills mean enemies with faces are not going to be common at all without help.


New info. Mostly a small change. Two NPCs will end up joining at some point. 1 of them is the Dracozombie, but they've been pushed back a bit.

Still a Lord, but that's mostly cause of import. The other NPC is a Modified Healer, if a limited/unconventional one. She's likely to join around Chapter 6 or so. Once you have some levels at least. Bring Swords and Magic.

Same reasoning applies to the Dracozombie joining, actually. If I threw you all in with those weapons, you'd all die.

Said healer actually starts with only being able to heal for 5, due to having 0 MAG at Level 1..
 Along with a few other problems till her promotion.


Almost Forgot. Anyone with 15 CON has an extra inventory slot. Same goes for 20 CON.

Not a major thing, but it's there for the heavier ones.

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The People have been chosen. Sorry about any who didn't get in. There may be more room {way} later down the line though, we'll see.

Send me three Yu-Gi-Oh monsters. I'll roll a die to see which gets picked for your role. That's really all there is to it. Really..

Oh, you also need to post IN here.