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[TopHat]

Job Description: You are a villain, attempting to take over/destroy your average medieval-fantasy world.
'great!' I hear you ask, 'how do I get started?'
Good question! Fill in this!

Spoiler: sign up sheet (click to show/hide)

Name: Obvious
Race/Archetype: Race is obvious, but split into two groups: Mortal (eg Human, Goblin, Kobold) or Supernatural (eg Demon, Super-powered mutant) Whilst the latter may seem advantageous, there are some disadvantages, which I'll come to later. Archetype is again, obvious, (eg bandit lord, dark wizard, stuff like that.) and may be the same as your race (eg. Demon also counts as an archetype).
Background: Explain why you are evil (not needed in some cases) and imply A BASE, STARTING MOOKS (MINIONS) and A STARTING ADVANTAGE (not too overpowered, please.) if you want to be a role/race that does not fit the setting, explain how here (eg. Time travel, quantum hangover)
Bonuses & Maluses: You get one standard bonus and malus (+1 & -1 respectively) according to your race/archetype/background. Try to make them roughly balanced (so +1 to rolls in forests and -1 to rolls in plains would be fine, but +1 to rolls to do with battle and -1 to rolls to do with understanding the meaning of life would not. Beware, I can muck around with these if they're unbalanced)
And finally: SUPERNATURALS ONLY!
Source of power:(easy)
One weakness: (simple, again)

For Example:

Spoiler: example (click to show/hide)

Name: Kraggle
Race/Archetype: Dragon (mortal)
Background: standard dragon stuff. Found a nice cave system with a tribe of goblins living in it. The ones who were not killed quickly began worshipping Kraggle as a god, and doing his bidding. Like all dragons, has built up a nice hoard.
Bonus/Malus: +1 to rolls involving demanding/ gaining tribute, -1 to rolls involving settling disputes peacefully

'sounds fab' you say. 'but how will this work?'

Spoiler: how does this work? (click to show/hide)

Standard RTD rules (0 = ouch, 1 = epic fail, 2 = fail, 3 = meh, 4 = success, 5 = epic success, 6 = overshoot, 7 = ridiculous overshoot)
0 and 7 can only be reached by using modifiers.

'brilliant' you say. 'but how many people can play?'

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

6, at first

'anything else I need to know?'

Spoiler: other stuff (click to show/hide)

 I will post your statuses at turn 0, the pre-turn. After that, could you all please put your spoilered status with your action. I will inform you of any changes in bold text.

EDIT 1 - WAITLIST!
Scelly9 (pg1)
Innsmothe (pg2)
SuperBlast (pg3)
Pandemonius Ivy (pg3)
Eotyrannus (pg3)
Feldrain (pg3)

[Errol]

Nah, forget it.

[scapheap]

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Name: Clair Riven
Race/Archetype: five-tailed Kitsune/illusionist
Background: Jade Riven was a kind being, helping many humans. But the greed of man grew to much and killed her for her parts. On that day, her daughter, Clair vowed to bring terror to the humans that would become monsters at the drop of a hat.
However one must start at the bottom and so we join Clair in the middle of a swamp with her loyal orcs and own charms to carve her mark upon this world.
Bonuses & Maluses:
+1 to magic
-1 to melee
And finally: SUPERNATURALS ONLY!
Source of power: Souls
One weakness: Her hoshi no tama(it a glowing ball, if someone take it, she has to do a favour for them yo get it back. Shattering it is also bad for her.)

[Flying Dice]

Name: Jerome Archibald
Race/Archetype: Lich Necromancer
Background: In life Jerome was fascinated by the mystery of life, devoting much of his time to the study of it. This lead, as it often does, to the art of necromancy. When his habits were discovered, Jerome was ejected from the [College/Guild/Insert flavor-matching name here] and his fiance broke off their engagement. With resentment and knowledge of death it was only a matter of time before he took that final step and ripped his own soul away, storing it in an artifact precious to him. From there, he began raising those he killed with more traditional magic as absolutely obedient servants. Now he seeks nothing less than the destruction of those who spurned him.

At the moment Jerome resides in a remote tower far from major cities. His primary advantage, obviously, is his immunity to death barring the destruction of his phylactery, which is currently quite well hidden. Of course, this is a double-edged sword: if he keeps his phylactery on his person or in his base, anyone who defeats him could destroy it easily. Conversely, keeping it hidden well away from him (as it is now) risks the chance of some random person finding it. Still, so long as it remains safe, he can return from the destruction of his physical body.
Bonuses & Maluses:
+1 Necromancy/Destructive magic
-1 Healing/Divine magic

Source of power: Magic
One weakness: Being reminded of his former fiance. Dem feels.

[Chink]

Name: Sinjoro
Race/Archetype: Lich
Background: I wanted to live forever, but I had to do some bad stuff on the way.

Currently, Sinjoro resides in a a dark forest (think Mirkwood), surrounded by creatures bound to his will by magic. His phylactery is small metal ball, and he keeps buried deep under a clearing in the middle of the forest.
Bonuses & Maluses: +1 to spellcasting, -1 to physical actions
And finally: SUPERNATURALS ONLY!
Source of power: Phylactery Magic
One weakness: Destruction of Phylactery

[GreatWyrmGold]

Reminds me of my first RtD...kinda.

Spoiler: Lynda Kuznetsova (click to show/hide)

Race: Mostly Human (Supernatural)
Archetype: Transhumaniac Mage
Background: Lynda was never satisfied. When she had a copper coin, she wanted silver; when she got silver, she demanded gold. As she grew, she gained a good idea in both how to attain coins and how to increase their value; by her second decade, she had attained a fair fortune and bought a decent castle. She continued to invest, and spent her earnings on a skeletal staff and a pretty good library of alchemal, golemic, and magical texts. Soon enough, she was ready to begin. She made some simple golems and an aveculus, and had summoned some lesser spirits. She began replacing her limbs with these replacements and found some new servants who weren't so...picky about their master. By her thirtieth year, she was a strange thing, with a body of stone, a right arm of metal with a replaceable hand and lower arm, legs of bone, wood, and magical enhancement, a left arm of reanimated flesh, and a head hidden within of the body most of the time, sustained by an alchemal mixture. She has a large number of small creations, many blending such disparate arts as golemancy, necromancy, alchemy, and binding, as well as servants with various augments.
Bonus/Malus: +1 to ritualistic/long-term magic (e.g, enchanting, binding, alchemy, and other magicks which require at least an hour to complete); -1 to "fast" magic (e.g, spells which take less than a minute to cast, including 99% of combat magic)
Power Source: Various magicks
Weakness: Since Lynda is built from so many different kinds of magic, normal dispelling spells have little effect on her unless used in great number. However, due to this same cause, any kind of spell not carefully crafted to avoid such causes disruption of her components relative to the power of the spell. A spell of sufficient power could kill her, even if it was simply a hasty and ill-thought healing spell.

How's the power?

[Krath]

Name: Hatiz
Race/Archetype: Sloth Demon
Background: As a Demon, Hatiz is all about world destruction. Or domination. He doesn't really care which way. Unfortunately, he might just be the laziest evildoer there is. There's no way he'd ever do that much work himself. Luckily, he doesn't have to! A group of numbskulled cave-dwelling goblins seem to have accepted him as their god-king. Silly goblins. At the very least, the cave is in a pretty good defensible position up in the mountains, and there might even be goodies in the mines!
Bonuses & Maluses: +1 for minions doing menial tasks (AKA anything that wouldn't be too complicated for the standard brainless mook, doesn't include combat), -1 for doing absolutely ANYTHING himself (outside of ordering minions around)
Source of power: Laziness. Hatiz practically sucks it away from anyone near him, which is why he makes such an oddly effective leader. The more minions he has, the stronger he gets!
One weakness: His loafing nature makes him very complacent.

[TopHat]

Time for some clarifications:
1. By source of power, I refer to the various means of gaining power. For the three above, 'magic' will do fine.
2. Chink: you need to add some more to your background. You know, the base and minions and stuff. I'll just randomly choose if not.
3. GWG - by 'skeletal staff' do you mean a staff of skeletons or just a skeletal (not many) staff.

[+!!scientist!!+]

Reminds me of my first RtD...kinda.

same here

Spoiler: Grigori Teuflish (click to show/hide)

Name: Grigori Teuflish
Race/archetype: Human Thief
Background: Grigori has been an orphan for as long as he can remember, he had to steal in order to be able to eat, so he learned, and learned well. It did not take him long to become a member of the thieves guild, and he had already killed the leader and his right hand man before he was 20. He had killed silently, and without a fight, as he was built for stealth, not combat. Now in control of the thieves' guild in his city, he decided to go much farther than any of his predecessors. He plans to take over his city, and from there... well, whatever he can.
modifiers: +1 to stealthy actions, -1 to actions while injured. (if not enough then add -1 to recovering from wounds)

((Yay for first mortal character!))

Reminds me of my first RtD...kinda.

same here
will post sheet soon.

Will it be inspired by a character in that game?

no, though I guess that's obvious now.

[GreatWyrmGold]

3. GWG - by 'skeletal staff' do you mean a staff of skeletons or just a skeletal (not many) staff.

The latter. Not many people want to work under a crazy former woman who pays primarily in room, board, and augments.

Reminds me of my first RtD...kinda.

same here
will post sheet soon.

Will it be inspired by a character in that game?

[Scelly9]

Name: Korath
Race/Archetype: Demon
Background: The offspring of a Demon and a seduced maiden, Korath was born to be bad. He lives in a network of caves, and commands a small army of goblins.
Bonuses & Maluses: +1 to fighting in the dark, -1 to fighting in bright light.
Source of power: Evil Powers
One weakness: Holy Water

[TopHat]

TURN 0 - BEGINNINGS

Clair Riven stands in the middle of her swamp 'home', cerimoniously waving a skull-shaped charm before placing it around the neck of one of her orcs. The orcs cheer, before turning, grunting with anticipation, towards an obviously terrified human cowering in the bone cage sitting near the centre of the camp. The first of many to try to search the swamp, and soon to be the first to face her vengeance.

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Clair Riven
 - 5 - tailed kitsune
 - Unharmed
Base
 - five crude Orc dwellings
 - bone cage
 -- human prisoner
Minions
 - 15 orcs

Jerome Archibald surveyed the surroundings from the top of his tower, cackling maniacally from the sheer excitement of it. The news that one of his slaves had delivered earlier, the fact that his soul jar had been hidden away in a place no-one would look, was but the first step on his road to destruction.

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Jerome Archibald
 - lich
 - unharmed
 - phylactory, hidden
Base
 - Tower, the middle of nowhere
 -- small magical library
 -- cellar, converted into a small jail
 -- ten unused floors
Minions
 - 5 zombies
 - 5 skeletons

Sinjoro the lich sat in his lair, petting a small rabbit, the first of his bonded 'pets'. Many more had swiftly followed, including some of the forest's more dangerous denizens. His time would come, he knew it.

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Sinjoro
 - lich
 - unharmed
 - Phylactory, buried in forest clearing
Base
 - none, as of yet, but several possible sites in the forest if he wants to settle permanently.
Minions
 - 5 dark bears, bonded
 - 5 giant centipedes, bonded
 - 1 dread bat, bonded
 - assorted smaller forest animals, bonded

Lynda Kuznetsova stared down from the tallest tower of her castle. She could no longer feel the wind whistling through her hair as she did so. She had no more hair. What might have been described as a grin passed across what was left of her face. This was it. This was the time.

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Lynda Kuznetsova
 - Transhumanic
 - unharmed
Base
 - small castle
 -- quarters, both servants and living
 -- large magical library
 -- magic circle
 -- room full of assorted body parts (not in the sales brochure)
 -- 10 unused rooms
Minions
 - 10 'improved' human servants
 - 3 'normal' human servants

Hatiz snored away, dreaming evil dreams. Quite amazing when you realise that demons aren't supposed to sleep.

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Hatiz
 - Demon
 - unharmed
Base
 - cave system
 -- shrine to the great Hatiz (throne room)
 -- mining area
 -- 3 unused 'rooms'
Minions
 - 20 goblins
 -- preist to the great Hatiz

Grigori Teuflisch, master thief of the Antari thieves guild, sat in his office in the thieves' headquarters, reading through the final draft of his plans. This WOULD work, he just knew it. And then his predecessors would be proud of him. If they weren't lying in sacks at the bottom of the nearest river, that is.

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Grigori Teuflisch
 - human
 - unharmed
Base
 - thieves' guild safe house
 -- cell
 -- small torture chamber
 -- four unused rooms
 -- secret tunnel leading into the sewers
 - Grigori's house
 -- living quarters
 -- secret tunnel leading into sewers
Minions
 - three thieves
 - ten thugs
 - one assassin, on loan from assasains' guild

Scelly, you are the first on the waitlist.

[scapheap]

eat the soul of the human out to increase my own power and order the orcs to set traps around the swamp to catch any humans.

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Clair Riven
 - 5 - tailed kitsune
 - Unharmed
Base
 - five crude Orc dwellings
 - bone cage
 -- human prisoner
Minions
 - 15 orcs

[Flying Dice]

Search magical library for spell tomes, try to remember what spells I know.

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Jerome Archibald
 - lich
 - unharmed
 - phylactory, hidden
Base
 - Tower, the middle of nowhere
 -- small magical library
 -- cellar, converted into a small jail
 -- ten unused floors
Minions
 - 5 zombies
 - 5 skeletons

[Chink]

Search for natural caves. If one is found, enslave any creatures that live there and make it the start of my base.

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Sinjoro
 - lich
 - unharmed
 - Phylactory, buried in forest clearing
Base
 - none, as of yet, but several possible sites in the forest if he wants to settle permanently.
Minions
 - 5 dark bears, bonded
 - 5 giant centipedes, bonded
 - 1 dread bat, bonded
 - assorted smaller forest animals, bonded