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Re: Request A Character
« Reply #120 on: March 03, 2015, 05:35:58 PM »
Just needed to make that clearer. Actual Japanese schoolboys are nothing like anime portrays.

You have point but not having met an actual Japanese school boy I couldn't possibly comment. 
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« Reply #121 on: March 04, 2015, 06:18:00 AM »
Emiya Shirou is where tracing came from he can summon lots of magical weapons which grant him modular abilities. He has the hilt of Excalibur in his body which grants him mythic recovery. He has the ability to project his demense full of blades on reality.

Personality wise he a typical Japanese school boy with PTSD, survivors guilt and white knight syndrome (has to protect everyone).

I don't really know what a typical anime Japanese school boy is like, but I suppose I can just make that an Aspect. And Tracing + Recovery + Variable Abilities is easy enough to handle.

A few clarifying questions:

-What abilities can he get from his weapons?
-Can he launch his weapons at people? I'm pretty sure there's someone in the series who can do that, but I might be thinking of Gilgamesh.
-What mundane skills does he have? I'm pretty sure he's got high Weapons, but other than that...
-Can he copy non-weapon objects?
-What exactly happens when he uses his Reality Marble? It imposes his little world on reality, I get that, but...how does that work? Are these good representations, and if so what special benefits should his Marble-world give him?
-He's one of the competitors in the contest for the Grail, right? Is he paired with Saber?

I have a slightly unusual request.  I don't know if Dresden characters are "allowed" in this thread, but if they are I'd like to see your take on an experienced Harry Dresden and the Rag Lady.

Everything's allowed. I'll give them a try when I come back to this thread.

I know that there's supposed to be an update for Dresden in the Paranet papers, but you're something of an authority on statting characters.

I don't really like being thought of that way. Forum communities can easily get cliquish, and looking on long-time posters/moderators as authorities contributes to that.

Obviously it's nice if people respect and care about my opinion, but I really don't think I should be deferred to.

I don't know if you submitted an entry for the contest

I didn't. I'm actually not that well-versed in the novels; I read each once when it comes out and then I put them into storage. I'm here for the system, not the setting.

So I usually leave stuff like this to the real Dresden Files fans.

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Re: Request A Character
« Reply #122 on: March 04, 2015, 09:29:50 AM »
He can throw his weapons at people and some of them bommerang, a lot of the weapons do big energy blasts, he mainly gets strength, speed, toughness and skill from the weapon. He has at least good skills in repair, weapons, unarmed and guns (archery).

Unlimted Blade Works allows him to change his weapons practically as a free action and gives the aspect "field of weapons as far as the eye can see" area aspect.

He can also reinforce stuff making and repair stuff using his magic.
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Re: Request A Character
« Reply #123 on: March 04, 2015, 02:23:13 PM »
This is a pretty solid write-up of how his powers work and interact.  In the anime at least he was also skilled with electronics and such, using his Trace ability to diagnose and repair internal workings easily. 
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Re: Request A Character
« Reply #124 on: March 05, 2015, 10:29:31 PM »
I can do Armstrong.

I'd need a description of the other two, though. I know a few things about them through osmosis, but not enough for a statblock. And I'd rather not have to do research.
Emiya Shirou is a kind, brave and serious young man who happen to have been adopted and raised by a mage. He originally has little talent for magic himself, apart from the ability to analyze and strengthen objects. He finds himself invovled in a war between mages for the possession of the Graal, waged with the help of summoned heroic spirits. He manages to summon the most powerful of those spirits, Saber, but his lack of talent for magic cripples her power, and his sexism/chivalry makes him try to fight instead of her, getting them both in trouble. Quantuse gave an excellent description of his powers.

Nanoha Takamichi, is the last child of a family of martial artists, who as a little girl, finds herself charged to collect dangerous magical jewels by a wounded mage transformed into a ferret. She's given a sentient magical staff which gives her the power to fly, summon a protective garment called a Barrier Jacket and create extremely powerful magic blasts, missiles and shields. She demonstrates surprising skill and power in battle, as well as a keen sense for tactics. She is famous for befriending her adversaries after defeating them, often with overwhelming power.
She grows up to become a magical combat instructor, so powerful that she has to wear a power limiter outside of critical situations.

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Re: Request A Character
« Reply #125 on: March 05, 2015, 11:07:58 PM »
Which Nanoha she moves from a city buster, continent buster ?

Also for that matter what Emiya I went with end UBW route Emiya because it is the most iconic but Heaven Feels Emiya and Atraxia Emiya have a different power set.
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« Reply #126 on: March 06, 2015, 05:25:20 AM »
That should be enough for Shirou.

Does Nanoha have any abilities beyond flying, being hard to hurt, and shooting giant energy blasts?

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« Reply #127 on: March 06, 2015, 06:49:29 AM »
She does forcefields/magic barriers that can hold stuff in place.
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« Reply #128 on: March 06, 2015, 05:36:48 PM »
She does forcefields/magic barriers that can hold stuff in place.
Freeze only or can she push/pull, ie full telekinesis?
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Re: Request A Character
« Reply #129 on: June 07, 2015, 07:00:39 PM »
Alright, bringing this back. The list of requests is...

Joel from the last of us.
Link from the Legend of Zelda
Yujiro Hanma
Jonathan Goldsmith, The Most Interesting Man in the World
Kirei Kotomine from Fate Zero
Trafalgar Law from One Piece
Armstrong from Full Metal Alchemist
An experienced Harry Dresden
The Rag Lady
Nanoha Takamichi from Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha
Shirou Emiya from Fate Stay Night
The best illusionist you won't realise you've met
A summoner like binder in a focused practitioner
An empowered mortal Bartitsu fighter
Emissary of the Monkey King
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Re: Request A Character
« Reply #130 on: June 07, 2015, 09:06:08 PM »
Here's my take on Alex Armstrong, aka the Strong Arm Alchemist. I think I did quite well, though I think an FMA setting would get rid of Lore as a skill and just use Scholarship instead. That'd make for characters that don't have to spend 2/3 refresh on stunts moving trappings around. Armstrong could have done with maybe an Empathy or Rapport stunt, probably a Might one too.

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« Reply #131 on: June 08, 2015, 01:30:39 AM »
Good stuff. Although if I were you, I'd replace the skill-swap stunts with Alternate Magical Paradigm. Not like it'd be overpowered. And Obfuscating Machismo seems weak compared to Corner of My Eye.

Now here's Link.

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PS: Edited the request list to add the Emissary of the Monkey King, which I missed on my first pass through the thread.

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« Reply #132 on: June 08, 2015, 04:49:47 PM »
Edited with AMP and a new stunt, which I find particularly amusing.
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« Reply #133 on: June 09, 2015, 01:55:12 AM »
That's great. Seriously, it's the most Armstrong thing I've ever seen.

Sometimes a single stunt can really encapsulate a whole character, you know?

Anyway, here's Yujiro Hanma.

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Re: Request A Character
« Reply #134 on: June 09, 2015, 12:29:34 PM »
Adding to the Request list:

A Mistborn (ie from the Brandon Sanderson series)
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