Sengoku Amahara
Yet another attempt at an RPG of some kind by Mal.
Setting
The land of Amahara is fictional medieval Japan. There are no muskets.
Character Slots
Put your character's name and your name under the slot you're applying for please.
- The Princess is the daughter of a local warlord of some importance. She is probably educated as a lady but may also have been brought up as a warrior's daughter or various other options if she's scandalous enough.
- Ikoma Hikari-hime (Shrike)
- Retainer 1 is a samurai and gets the basic samurai package.
- Kikuchi Katsuyori (Rex)
- Retainer 2 may or may not be a samurai - he/she could be anything. Slot in flux.
- The Ninja is a ninja and will have the basic ninja training package and will at least nominally split his loyalty between the princess's realm and his/her secret ninja clan.
- Akayama Ryunosuke (Five)
- Shrine Maiden is a member of a branch family of the princess's clan that manages the clan shrine.
- Nakatomi no Chifuyu (Exhack)
System
In flux and will be changed in case a huge imbalance crops up.
Your stat is your Full Pool of dice which you roll as a set of d20's. You can split this Full Pool into partial pools (small p) any way you wish within a single round at no penalty. In other words if your Dexterity is 6, you can take up to 6 actions.
The dice system is apparently based on Cthulhutech - the result of your roll in a given pool can be:
- The highest single number if no meaningful combination is rolled.
- If more than one die turns up as the same result, they are added together, so a set of (9, 9, 9, 3) is 27.
- If at least three numbers are in a row, you add those together, so a set of (2, 2, 3, 4, 5) is 14.
The result of this roll is added to a skill. Skill is a solid number and will easily go into two figures for someone who knows what they're doing, so they're a more important determinent of peak performance - having the stat allows you to do it more consistently and more often.
If a pool (small p) turns up all 1's, that is a botch and this is bad. For the purpose of combat for example, a botch stops a flurry and instantly triggers an opening for a counterattack. This is why you don't typically want to split dice all the way, since this represents rushing things, overstretching yourself, or doing something you have no talent for. Botches happen 5% of the time obviously so it will happen eventually if you keep rolling single d20's. If your Full Pool happens to be a single die, the botch may be more forgiving - there's a chance you'll do something amusingly dojikko instead.
Extra Actions beyond the first are resolved after everyone else in the round has gone.
Stats
Strength
Dexterity
Presence
Intelligence
Wits
Tenacity