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ways and means:

--- Quote from: PirateJack on March 03, 2015, 03:56:04 PM ---Just needed to make that clearer. Actual Japanese schoolboys are nothing like anime portrays.

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You have point but not having met an actual Japanese school boy I couldn't possibly comment. 

Sanctaphrax:

--- Quote from: ways and means on March 03, 2015, 01:39:59 PM ---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).
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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?


--- Quote from: Shaft on March 03, 2015, 12:56:22 PM ---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.
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Everything's allowed. I'll give them a try when I come back to this thread.


--- Quote from: Shaft on March 03, 2015, 12:56:22 PM ---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.
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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.


--- Quote from: Shaft on March 03, 2015, 12:56:22 PM ---I don't know if you submitted an entry for the contest
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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.

ways and means:
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.

Quantus:
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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--- Quote ---Shirō is unskilled in most traditional forms of sorcery, and thus focuses on two basic spells; Tracing, the power to analyze the structural composition of objects, and Reinforcement, the power to increase their structural integrity,[2] such as the sharpness of a sword and durability of a shield. Even so, he is unskilled in using Reinforcement, and can only use Tracing competently, and his various applications of them are limited. Later on, he discovers that his true primary ability is Projection, which allows him to recreate objects from memory. The clearer the image in the user's mind, the better the final result. It is also later revealed that the reason for his sub-par performance is the fact that he is not actually using his inborn Magic Circuits, but is rather making Circuits from his nerves, a ritual Kiritsugu had taught him; once his circuits are finally opened, Shirō experiences a great boost in power and performance. Shirō finds himself to be particularly adept at Projection, able to Trace the history and special properties of the items, though they are of slightly lesser quality (they are downgraded one rank from the original) due to the Earth trying to destroy them. This spell gives Shirō the unique distinction as one of the small handful of modern humans capable of matching and even defeating Servants in direct combat. At the culmination of his abilities is his Reality Marble, Unlimited Blade Works, which is the source of his unusual projection magic. In order to activate it, Shirō must recite a ten-line incantation that represents his entire life and worldview. It is his inner world that is a self-contained alternate reality, within which exists all of the materials Shirō needs to recreate any bladed weapon, and manifests itself as a barren wasteland covered in all the swords Shirō has ever seen or known of with a beautiful dawn on the horizon to represent his unbreakeable hope. The fact that he has a Reality Marble makes Shirō a one-of-a-kind human, as only non-human creatures such as demons or vampires usually possess them due to their non-human perception of the world. He loses this spell permanently in Heaven's Feel due to him becoming "human" again and his perception of the world normalizing, though it is noted that he is attempting to find a way to regain it after the war. For Shirō, projection is not truly creation, but transporting the desired sword from his inner world to the outer, explaining his unusual proficiency with it. Shirō is able to control all of the swords in Unlimited Blade Works using only his mind, using them to attack his opponent without having to physically touch them and can even create his own weapons with enough concentration. His swords also suffer no degradation of strength when his Reality Marble is deployed, as his world overwrites the Earth and its laws. Backing Shirō up is his and Saber's Noble Phantasm: Avalon: The Everdistant Utopia which renders the user safe in the realm of the fairies and keeps them from dying or aging through constant regeneration.
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Tempestaire:

--- Quote from: Sanctaphrax on March 03, 2015, 12:05:19 AM ---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.

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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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