Beaks
Wacky Woohoo Pizza Sadness Man
It's not, but seeing as how Tsubaki has had Permanent Release since forever ago it would be easy enough to retcon.
GM Review Thread
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These have been a long time coming but here are those Cerb Techs:
- This needs a maximum amount that you can store, so that way you aren't putting your entire reiatsu in, waiting a turn and getting +10% and taking it back out. Maybe a maximum of 25%ish?
- This one needs a set % of reiatsu to be paid into the tech when using, similar to the 11th tech.
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The following two techs are new submissions. Synthesis replaces Cocktail Tolerance, Overload replaces Salary Tech which was made into a base tech. Here's a brief guide about how the new drug system is divided.
[Synthesis]
[Overload]
Old Controlled Response
New Controlled Response
- This needs a maximum amount that you can store, so that way you aren't putting your entire reiatsu in, waiting a turn and getting +10% and taking it back out. Maybe a maximum of 25%ish?
Old Extra -Terrestrial
New Extra- Terrestrial
- This one needs a set % of reiatsu to be paid into the tech when using, similar to the 11th tech.
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The following two techs are new submissions. Synthesis replaces Cocktail Tolerance, Overload replaces Salary Tech which was made into a base tech. Here's a brief guide about how the new drug system is divided.
Info
[Synthesis]
Cerberus’ wide Apothecary is a key part of the agent’s life. While relying on their own powers is well and good, a properly chosen drug can change the tables instantly. The agent is trained in bolstering their body’s ability to handle the effects of multiple drugs at the same time. However, when this is completed, they are able to access a new portion of the Apothecary, allowing them to fuse two individual drugs together. Each drug must be bought separately. This technique allows the user to have up to two drugs circulating through their system at one time.
The activation cost of the fusion drug is equal to the sum of the individual activation costs x1.5. If the two drugs have different round durations, the round duration is set to the higher number. In the case of drugs whose cost is paid over multiple rounds, the combined activation cost must be paid per use.
The activation cost of the fusion drug is equal to the sum of the individual activation costs x1.5. If the two drugs have different round durations, the round duration is set to the higher number. In the case of drugs whose cost is paid over multiple rounds, the combined activation cost must be paid per use.
[Overload]
By paying 2% of their reiatsu along with 50% of the drug's original activation cost, the user is able to focus the effects of a capsule based drug to a single area of their body. Through physical contact with their target, the agent can spread the effects of the drug to the target at 75% of its original strength. The remaining round duration of the drug is transferred instead of being reset. Only two capsule based drug can be transferred per battle.
After the transfer has been completed, the effects of the drug on the user disappears. If a capsule fusion drug is chosen, it can still be transferred, however it counts as two individual drugs and 50% of the combined activation cost must be paid.
After the transfer has been completed, the effects of the drug on the user disappears. If a capsule fusion drug is chosen, it can still be transferred, however it counts as two individual drugs and 50% of the combined activation cost must be paid.
[ Oushurin ] - "Controlled Response"
Cerberus operatives know the value of reiatsu allocation during and battle and are adept at its usage. At the beginning of any battle, a Cerberus member may put up to 20% of his or her reiatsu away into storage. This reiatsu pool grows by 10% of that amount per round, up to +50% of the stored reiatsu.
This reiatsu must all be used in the round it is reclaimed.
[ Seigainin ] - "Extra-Terrestrial"This reiatsu must all be used in the round it is reclaimed.
As agents seek to further human evolution, they may find that some particular abilities of other races are impossible to match, and therefore learn to negate those threats. The user pays 5% of their reiatsu and is able to cut down the effectiveness of kidou by the amount they pay in, even up to canceling the spell entirely.
[ Sougou ] - "Synthesis"
Cerberus' wide Apothecary is a key part of the agent's life. While relying on their own powers is well and good, a properly chosen drug can change the tables instantly. The agent is trained in bolstering their body's ability to handle the effects of multiple drugs at the same time. However, when this is completed, they are able to access a new portion of the Apothecary, allowing them to fuse two individual drugs together. Each drug must be bought separately. This technique allows the user to have up to two drugs circulating through their system at one time.
By paying 150% of the cost of both drugs, the user gains the effects of both drugs simultaneously, for the greater of the two durations.
[ Kafuka ] - "Overload"By paying 150% of the cost of both drugs, the user gains the effects of both drugs simultaneously, for the greater of the two durations.
While under the influence of a drug or drugs (injections, capsules, or toxins), the user can choose to spend the full cost of the drugs again to deliver their remaining effects to another person through a successful physical contact. This removes the effects from the user's body completely.
Alright after talking about and whatnot, here's a new, new, NEW version of Extra-Terrestrial. Since Will helped me set this one up, Dippy or Shade needs to review it.
[ Extra -Terrestrial ] : Seigainin — 世外人
As agents seek to further human evolution, they may find that some particular abilities of other races are impossible to match, and therefore learn to negate those threats. The user pays 5% of their reiatsu to warp the reiatsu in their next attack.
Once the attack hits the target, the poisonous signature infects the target. While dormant initially, the effects of the virulent signature can be activated at anytime within the following two turns.
When activated the next ability the target carries out will have its cost increased by the amount the user paid in initially. This increased cost does not affect the strength of the attack. The user must wait two turns before activating this technique again.
[ Extra -Terrestrial ] : Seigainin — 世外人
As agents seek to further human evolution, they may find that some particular abilities of other races are impossible to match, and therefore learn to negate those threats. The user pays 5% of their reiatsu to warp the reiatsu in their next attack.
Once the attack hits the target, the poisonous signature infects the target. While dormant initially, the effects of the virulent signature can be activated at anytime within the following two turns.
When activated the next ability the target carries out will have its cost increased by the amount the user paid in initially. This increased cost does not affect the strength of the attack. The user must wait two turns before activating this technique again.
Eidolon
Murderface Murderface
Extremus Via
I've grumbled about this tech in chat before, but thought it dust in the wind. Seeing as its still being used, I fear it needs a review. Actually, finding a copy of this got hard, since the old div threads vanished.
Here's how it works from memory: one kidou, mid range, is cast twice per battle with no cost, no incantation or gesture, at 1.5x power.
Why is that bad: Aside from the fact it was from the anti-kidou div that used kidou, its just too much juice. The implications of buffing a kidou this hard are far ranging, and screams for abuse.
What to do: Leave the incantless part. However, it should cost normal value and likely not be amped.
I've grumbled about this tech in chat before, but thought it dust in the wind. Seeing as its still being used, I fear it needs a review. Actually, finding a copy of this got hard, since the old div threads vanished.
Here's how it works from memory: one kidou, mid range, is cast twice per battle with no cost, no incantation or gesture, at 1.5x power.
Why is that bad: Aside from the fact it was from the anti-kidou div that used kidou, its just too much juice. The implications of buffing a kidou this hard are far ranging, and screams for abuse.
What to do: Leave the incantless part. However, it should cost normal value and likely not be amped.
Eidolon
Murderface Murderface
New summon release
So I'm really glad a lot of my suggestions on how to make summons work got used, but one of the main provisos I put forth was missed. As it is, this summoning kai gives the user a huge boost in their release slots. TA's are supposed to have 3 abilities, and summoning was to used both form and one ability. This one now technically has 8 abilities.
Kronos: 0 cost mind rape based on a memory
Iapetos: Summons take his hits if they are in 15ft of him
Okeanos: Make insubstantial clones that confuse the senses
Prometheus: a generic energy attack that also bounces off walls
Atlas: Giant bomb attack
Helios: Switch weapons(what weapons?)
Problem: Well, lets face it. We all know versatility is power. The two are synonymous. With this set up, summons are about as flexible as flexible gets, and all the while are very very powerful. Getting a friend with 75% of your stats is no joke. Getting that Plus 7 other abilities is over the top.
Fix: form: summon desc; Ability1: costs and attributes of summon(s); Remaining 2-3 slots, what else you do. You can't just double the slots and have it work, summoners will need to make choices in how to make the kai work. But that's fine, because having a buddy that shows up and is very combat effective at your level is a powerful kai.
[Extremus Via] - "Extreme Path"
Though kidou-typed zanpakutou are banned and kidou itself is frowned upon, the 11th Decision members are instructed to train themselves in a single mid (40-69) level spell until they are able to use it instantaneously, no incantation or even recitation of the name being required. This technique is then used to enhance the strength of that single spell so that its effect is multiplied by a factor of 1.5. Granted, even though the training is extensive and focused on a single spell, the 11th Division members are simply not well adept to exerting their reiatsu in a manner befitting kidou spells, and so this technique can only be used twice in combat. Applying this technique to a spell ensures that it must be used in this manner, so there is no possibility of using the kidou in question other than the two times allowed.
This is how Extremus Via is currently written. You do pay the cost of the spell, and the spell itself is limited to twice, total. You can't EV it twice and cast it normally afterward. I think that is sufficiently limiting.
I'll write up something for summons in a little bit, because I need to write something official to say how they work. However, in this case, I would say that each ability should allow for at least two summon abilities, but still only allow equipping one. In Hiren's case, he could spend both of his remaining ability slots to get four choices of summon abilities, and when he summons, is allowed to apply only two of them to each summon.
The problem with the 2-3 ability limit is it doesn't account for varied summons. It would essentially leave most summons as pure melee -- and hey some of them will be, but that shouldn't be the only viable option. You are correct that they need to be limited, though.
Old TA
Alright after talking and clearing up some misconceptions, here's the updated TA. So, I added a small cost for Kronos and got rid of Helios.
New TA
Change approved.
Now for the summon write-up:
How can I do a summon as my release?
Summoning is a difficult thing to balance. If you handle it one way, the summons are paper targets and if you handle it another way, the summoner is little more than a cheerleader. So, if you have any plans for summoning an army of clones or pulling FFX-style world-ending summons, you're out of luck.
So, here's how it works:
An actual summon is only available for True Awakening or Bankai. For Initial Awakening or Shikai, you can have the appearance of a summon, but you cannot summon a creature with its own stats.
Your summoned creature gets your entire reiatsu boost from TA or BK. On top of that, you can choose to spend up to an additional 25% reiatsu (AH) or 15% reiatsu (Shini/Viz) to further strengthen it. How much you will spend is determined when you submit your release. This is how much reiatsu the summoned creature will have to spend on its own attacks.
For stats, the summoned creature will have a pool equal to 20% of your base reiatsu plus its base reiatsu (a summoned creature can never have total stats greater than 75% of the user's total stats). You can then pick whether the summon will use Shini, AH, or Hollow stats. If you summon a samurai, you would want Shini stats, but summoning a wolf you may prefer Hollow stats -- choose what best suits the summon. Summons do not gain access to base techs like Shunpo.
You will express the stat build as percentages. For instance, the samurai summon with 20% Hohou and 80% Zanjutsu, or the wolf summon with 40% Sonido, 60% Rage.
About Multiple Summons / Builds: Your total stats cannot exceed the numbers above. If you prefer, you could create three summons with 25% of your strength, but understand that they and their abilities will be weaker, accordingly. If you want, you can submit multiple 'builds' for your summons, so that you can pick a summon suited to a particular situation.
You cannot have more than three summons at one time or more than three summon builds total.
Abilities: The summon itself takes the Form and one Ability slot. Your remaining two Abilities (AH) or three Attacks (Shini/Viz) can be used to give your summon attacks or to give yourself attacks. For summons, you may submit two optional abilities per attack slot, but a summon can only ever have two abilities equipped at one time.
Now for an example:
Adam the Advent Human
Reiatsu: 10,000
Combat: 3,000
Agility: 2,000
Resistance: 5,000
Harmony: 10,000
He summons a shadowy, aggressive version of himself. He pays 25% of his reiatsu to strengthen it.
Mada the Summon
Reiatsu: 5,500
Combat: 5,000
Agility: 2,000
Resistance: 500
Total stats: 7,500
Adam uses one of his TA abilities to give Mada two abilities: Rip and Tear. His remaining ability he uses to create a barrier around his fist.
End result: Adam has 75% of his total reiatsu remaining, and his full stats. Mada has 55% of Adam's total reiatsu, and 75% of Adam's full stats. Adam does not gain any strength from his TA, but he gains an ally that's close to his normal strength.
Now for the summon write-up:
How can I do a summon as my release?
Summoning is a difficult thing to balance. If you handle it one way, the summons are paper targets and if you handle it another way, the summoner is little more than a cheerleader. So, if you have any plans for summoning an army of clones or pulling FFX-style world-ending summons, you're out of luck.
So, here's how it works:
An actual summon is only available for True Awakening or Bankai. For Initial Awakening or Shikai, you can have the appearance of a summon, but you cannot summon a creature with its own stats.
Your summoned creature gets your entire reiatsu boost from TA or BK. On top of that, you can choose to spend up to an additional 25% reiatsu (AH) or 15% reiatsu (Shini/Viz) to further strengthen it. How much you will spend is determined when you submit your release. This is how much reiatsu the summoned creature will have to spend on its own attacks.
For stats, the summoned creature will have a pool equal to 20% of your base reiatsu plus its base reiatsu (a summoned creature can never have total stats greater than 75% of the user's total stats). You can then pick whether the summon will use Shini, AH, or Hollow stats. If you summon a samurai, you would want Shini stats, but summoning a wolf you may prefer Hollow stats -- choose what best suits the summon. Summons do not gain access to base techs like Shunpo.
You will express the stat build as percentages. For instance, the samurai summon with 20% Hohou and 80% Zanjutsu, or the wolf summon with 40% Sonido, 60% Rage.
About Multiple Summons / Builds: Your total stats cannot exceed the numbers above. If you prefer, you could create three summons with 25% of your strength, but understand that they and their abilities will be weaker, accordingly. If you want, you can submit multiple 'builds' for your summons, so that you can pick a summon suited to a particular situation.
You cannot have more than three summons at one time or more than three summon builds total.
Abilities: The summon itself takes the Form and one Ability slot. Your remaining two Abilities (AH) or three Attacks (Shini/Viz) can be used to give your summon attacks or to give yourself attacks. For summons, you may submit two optional abilities per attack slot, but a summon can only ever have two abilities equipped at one time.
Now for an example:
Adam the Advent Human
Reiatsu: 10,000
Combat: 3,000
Agility: 2,000
Resistance: 5,000
Harmony: 10,000
He summons a shadowy, aggressive version of himself. He pays 25% of his reiatsu to strengthen it.
Mada the Summon
Reiatsu: 5,500
Combat: 5,000
Agility: 2,000
Resistance: 500
Total stats: 7,500
Adam uses one of his TA abilities to give Mada two abilities: Rip and Tear. His remaining ability he uses to create a barrier around his fist.
End result: Adam has 75% of his total reiatsu remaining, and his full stats. Mada has 55% of Adam's total reiatsu, and 75% of Adam's full stats. Adam does not gain any strength from his TA, but he gains an ally that's close to his normal strength.
Okay, along with the tech/stat changes, there are a few existing feats/techs that need revision. First up are common feats being removed:
Next up are the Trained Feats that are being removed:
Trained Feats that are being revised:
Current Division Techs:
Former div techs (legacy feats for some characters):
Let me know if there's anything important that I missed.
Bastion
Next up are the Trained Feats that are being removed:
Trained Utsusemi
Fyodorov
Tae Kwon Do
Trained Feats that are being revised:
Kidou Ikichi Kazou
Fruit of Labor
Current Division Techs:
10th Division: Clearcasting
Former div techs (legacy feats for some characters):
Reverse Slipstream
Let me know if there's anything important that I missed.
Eidolon
Murderface Murderface
[Expelling Strike]
When successfully striking a hollow, vizard, or arrancar with his zanpakutou, Theron may transfer up to 5% emptiness into the victim. If the target is a Vizard, their emptiness increases 5% in addition to the affect described after. If the target is arrancar or hollow, the injection of emptiness causes a distorting, internally conflicting debilitation, lowering one of their combat statistics by 10% of his zanjutsu for 2 rounds(this doesn't stack, just overlap duration). Further, Theron may only transfer up to 20% emptiness in total to any one target.
Why GM review: I had expected this to also fight off encroachment emptiness, building on Theron's theme of hunting to live. Shade said he didn't expect it should.
Suggested Change: If using it to expel encroachment emptiness, transfer only 2% and do not debuff the target.
When successfully striking a hollow, vizard, or arrancar with his zanpakutou, Theron may transfer up to 5% emptiness into the victim. If the target is a Vizard, their emptiness increases 5% in addition to the affect described after. If the target is arrancar or hollow, the injection of emptiness causes a distorting, internally conflicting debilitation, lowering one of their combat statistics by 10% of his zanjutsu for 2 rounds(this doesn't stack, just overlap duration). Further, Theron may only transfer up to 20% emptiness in total to any one target.
Why GM review: I had expected this to also fight off encroachment emptiness, building on Theron's theme of hunting to live. Shade said he didn't expect it should.
Suggested Change: If using it to expel encroachment emptiness, transfer only 2% and do not debuff the target.
I would actually consider the original to work with encroachment emptiness. It's specifically transferring the emptiness, not just Theron chilling with a drink until he calms down.
Eidolon
Murderface Murderface
Sumiyaka Kumori (Speed Shadow)
Due to an overuse of shunpo, Hikaru's body has adapted slightly, allowing him to string together flash-steps more so than before. From that, a new ability was born.
By adding 5% of his reiatsu to the cost of the lowest level shunpo available, through repeated shunpo Hikaru's body blurs, leaving behind afterimages. While at first they are simply dim likenesses that vanish soon after, as his hohou increases, the shadows begin to resolve themselves, becoming solid-looking, realistic, and longer lasting. These clones, while weak, are imbued with Hikaru's reiatsu, and as such have resiliency enough to resist one fatal strike or several less powerful ones.
At base level the speed clones last only for a few seconds, blurring and amorphous. Once Hikaru reaches 5000 Hohou, they become more solid and last for half a minute, copying the position he was in at the time. At 10,000 Hohou, they can last for a minute, and duplicate any motions Hikaru makes.
Such repeated shunpoing does take focus, and Hikaru may use this technique once per every five RP turns. Such focus also means he is completely absorbed, paying little attention to anything outside his immediate sphere of perception. In addition, once in motion he cannot stop quickly, and the technique does not allow him to go through solid objects.
Why: No limits on how many, or what they are capable of.
Fix: Likely say for 5% rei, he can generate two, max of four, which can't attack. Just a quick fix. As is he can pay 5%+200 and spawn infinite.
Due to an overuse of shunpo, Hikaru's body has adapted slightly, allowing him to string together flash-steps more so than before. From that, a new ability was born.
By adding 5% of his reiatsu to the cost of the lowest level shunpo available, through repeated shunpo Hikaru's body blurs, leaving behind afterimages. While at first they are simply dim likenesses that vanish soon after, as his hohou increases, the shadows begin to resolve themselves, becoming solid-looking, realistic, and longer lasting. These clones, while weak, are imbued with Hikaru's reiatsu, and as such have resiliency enough to resist one fatal strike or several less powerful ones.
At base level the speed clones last only for a few seconds, blurring and amorphous. Once Hikaru reaches 5000 Hohou, they become more solid and last for half a minute, copying the position he was in at the time. At 10,000 Hohou, they can last for a minute, and duplicate any motions Hikaru makes.
Such repeated shunpoing does take focus, and Hikaru may use this technique once per every five RP turns. Such focus also means he is completely absorbed, paying little attention to anything outside his immediate sphere of perception. In addition, once in motion he cannot stop quickly, and the technique does not allow him to go through solid objects.
Why: No limits on how many, or what they are capable of.
Fix: Likely say for 5% rei, he can generate two, max of four, which can't attack. Just a quick fix. As is he can pay 5%+200 and spawn infinite.
The way it's written, he gets one afterimage for each Shunpo. Since Shunpo itself has a per-turn limit, that would limit him enough on its own. He also limits its use to once per 5 rounds. Finally, even though they copy his motions, the way it's written I would say they already can't attack. They're just decoys.
Lady Stumble
New Member
Resubmitting a Div Technique and a couple of my kai stuff.
I'd like to possibly make the effect of attacking while Soph's Prudence is active harsher than something that can simply be rped as "ohh, headache, whatever." Possibly an actual stat debuff or something more conceptual? Oh, and I was wondering if I can specify that counter-attacking is also attacking, just to make it clear if it wasn't before.
As like Soph's Prudence, I'd like to either make the effect of disobeying a law harsher (noone's going to rp having a crippling headache for more than 3 seconds) or get rid of a rule or two (which i've bolded). (Or both effect and rules to a lesser degree if that seems better). In addition (to be taken into account if proposals can be reviewed), I'd like to lower the turn limit to 3 turns instead of 5, and change the name to Casted Fate.
With the Tournament coming up, I'm wondering if I can get the "blinding" effect reviewed, either eliminated or replaced. Also, just for bankai in general, I'd like to change the sword I get to a plain shield with a highly polished surface instead.
I'd like to possibly make the effect of attacking while Soph's Prudence is active harsher than something that can simply be rped as "ohh, headache, whatever." Possibly an actual stat debuff or something more conceptual? Oh, and I was wondering if I can specify that counter-attacking is also attacking, just to make it clear if it wasn't before.
Soph's Prudence
As like Soph's Prudence, I'd like to either make the effect of disobeying a law harsher (noone's going to rp having a crippling headache for more than 3 seconds) or get rid of a rule or two (which i've bolded). (Or both effect and rules to a lesser degree if that seems better). In addition (to be taken into account if proposals can be reviewed), I'd like to lower the turn limit to 3 turns instead of 5, and change the name to Casted Fate.
Will of Olympus
With the Tournament coming up, I'm wondering if I can get the "blinding" effect reviewed, either eliminated or replaced. Also, just for bankai in general, I'd like to change the sword I get to a plain shield with a highly polished surface instead.
Nemesis' Retribution
So!! After realizing how stupidly under defined my main ability is, I've decided to post it here for review. Right now it's either broken or underpowered depending on how you look at it, so I thought we could bang out some solid figures/parameterize the ability.
I was thinking of firstly, increasing the cost, so it's no longer an undefined, free barrier, and also parameterizing the 'dampening' effect of the outer flame. All in all, it would end up at a 15% Reiatsu cost, where 10% constitutes the armor's durability, and 5% constitutes the debuff to inbound attacks. Also, the offensive properties of the flame can be axed altogether as they kind of feel tacked on. If 5% Rei to repair damage to the armor is still reasonable, I'd like to keep that.
Thoughts?
As is
I was thinking of firstly, increasing the cost, so it's no longer an undefined, free barrier, and also parameterizing the 'dampening' effect of the outer flame. All in all, it would end up at a 15% Reiatsu cost, where 10% constitutes the armor's durability, and 5% constitutes the debuff to inbound attacks. Also, the offensive properties of the flame can be axed altogether as they kind of feel tacked on. If 5% Rei to repair damage to the armor is still reasonable, I'd like to keep that.
Thoughts?
[Shinjun] - 神盾
(Aegis)
Masato's armor has undergone several changes from its previous incarnation. First and foremost, the reishi composing his form is even further compressed, increasing its durability exponentially. As before, Masato is not totally invulnerable while using his power; should his armor break he can spend 5% of his reiatsu to reconstitute it and repair partial damage. This is where the similarities end, however. While in this form, Masato's armor is constantly surrounded by a fierce blue flame. These 'flames' are actually an extension of the armor itself; a chaotic flow of reishi that engulfs Masato's form. The blaze acts defensively as a buffer between Masato and any outside force, slowing and dampening incoming attacks by 5% of his reiatsu.
Creating the suit of armor costs 15% reiatsu, and the armor can absorb 10% of Masato's reiatsu before being completely destroyed.
(Aegis)
Masato's armor has undergone several changes from its previous incarnation. First and foremost, the reishi composing his form is even further compressed, increasing its durability exponentially. As before, Masato is not totally invulnerable while using his power; should his armor break he can spend 5% of his reiatsu to reconstitute it and repair partial damage. This is where the similarities end, however. While in this form, Masato's armor is constantly surrounded by a fierce blue flame. These 'flames' are actually an extension of the armor itself; a chaotic flow of reishi that engulfs Masato's form. The blaze acts defensively as a buffer between Masato and any outside force, slowing and dampening incoming attacks by 5% of his reiatsu.
Creating the suit of armor costs 15% reiatsu, and the armor can absorb 10% of Masato's reiatsu before being completely destroyed.
Red Dill
New Member
It occurred to me during my fight with Sev that this ability is completely ambiguous and I have no idea how it enhances the flames. I'm going to ask that it increases the total damage caused by the flames by 50% and piles all that damage into a single turn.
Current
Fix