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Kyle inspects the tapestries.

So does Will.

The most interesting thing that could happen to a physical character is fighting in a Jackie Chan style.

Yes. However, this is less like The Karate Kid and more like if said Karate kid was slightly less effective than someone in an epileptic seizure and got beaten up by the meek bookworm.

The Dragon Knight will go down in Tribulations annals as being "really kinda pathetic".

Horrible luck, yeah. I just wish I actually, you know, did something between my stints of horrible luck instead of swinging between a few kinds of horrible luck.

Or at least that my horrible luck lead to something interesting, and not just me flailing about, missing everything, and sometimes making a squiggly line in the air before dying to a boot to the face.

Still sounds sucky. I like Elf's system and dammit I'll defend it.

I'm behind a system that works.
Elf's system, maybe, but I'd reduce the die size to something like 20 or 30. Then, luck and attributes have roughly equal import.

What good is a physical-based character if I lose to wizards in a fistfight?!?

reserve spot, making character.

Whoops, missed Elf.

Element: The Moon. Specifically, her abilities are based around the manipulation of the Moon's magical energies.

Um, no. Right at the top of the Rules of Magic spoiler:

Magical Elements
Each sorcerer or sorceress has control of a general substance.

Rock, great. Marble's fine, too. But light, or "Moon", or anything about manipulating magical energies of something? No.

Traits:
- Well-Read: Selene spent a long while of her life studying, and so has a lot of knowledge. (+1 to knowledge checks, +3 if related to moon lore.)
- Fearful: Selene loses fine control of her abilities when scared. (Automatically wild casts when scared, -1 to control when scared.)

Other: (GM PLS CHECK) During her travels, she found a blade that resonated with her magical abilities. (Starts out with a scimitar that can inflict her element's damage, adding +1 to a damage roll)
(PLS CHECK) Is half as effective during new moons, normally effective during daytime or other phases of the moon, and doubly as strong during the full moon. (+2 to power during the full moon, -2 during the new moon.)

Those "Other" things would count as traits.
If you want a magical anything, you'll need to justify it in your backstory. And this is going by more of a "chunky salsa" damage system, so...

Wow. Six new replies.

His hair is curly, long and unkempt, forming something a time traveler would recognize as a mullet and shiver in disgust

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Mark: ... his Mark happens to be a jet black seven-pointed solid star right over his lips and his general mouth area, its edges reaching up to his eyes. If that wasn't enough, the black star glistens as if wet, unlike the rest of his skin, and its sheen has a slight purplish tone to it.
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Catalyst Emotion: Nausea

Yeesh.
Not bad yeesh, just...wow. I've met luckier folks, let's say.

Why multi roll though? It seems dumb to be able to attack more than once for a crit. A crit should be awesome not... you slash again. Woo.

Not that kind of multiroll, the kind where you roll multiple dice to see if you succeed. Like Shadowrun.

1: Douglas Gesserit
2: The Arrakian Marine Corps. Amusing name, since we're from a world best known for the sand.
3: A sword. Don't laugh, they can get through shields.