DreamsnThings

ok i think i have a solid idea looking at the character sheet, i guess I should ask something that only just crossed my mind, is combat going to be... relevant as a baseline? i realized with cortex being narative I can kinda just... ignore combat and focus on being a a pheromancer? focus all my stuff on manipulating people and being stealthy without actually worrying what I would... do if a fight broke out?

I wanted to try my hand at making my own version of my distinction/SFX since im rethinking the scientist angle and feeling more of a secret agent esk honey trap angle, which i feel like could work well in a steampunk setting Distinction: Alchemical Agent Humans are simply beasts with a more refined mating call, and you? you have learned the pheromones to tame those animals. you are a scientist of scents bending your test subjects to your will, and agent of aroma crafting concoctions that hide your work in a haze of heat and need, a prophet of potions guiding your flock to a passionate paradise of your own design. you are nothing to them at first, but just as quickly you are their everthing... it is simply a scent away~<3 (wanted to angle a little away from the mental centric scientist concept since im currently actually playing a very similar character for a pathfinder 1e campaign, aiming to be less a creator of pheromones and more of a user) Possible SFX: (isabella's) Possible SFX: (Dreamsnthings) (isabellas are still the basis, im just adding/reflavoring things for the concept adjustment) SFX: Alchemical override as a desperate last ditch effort you can directly affect yourself with a curated strain of aphrodisiacs spend X PP to roll an additional D4 for each PP spent when trying to seduce a target, every hitch caused by these extra D4s rolling a 1 does not generate a PP like normal, and instead causes you to take an aroused stress die for every hitch as your nerves alight with need SFX: artificial bonds after maxing out a targets aroused stress track and helping that target "release" that specific "stress" you can take a asset in the form of the aroused target as you take advantage of their instinct driven, lust fueled mind. the asset only lasts for as long as their mind stays muddled, you can take actions to keep the asset aroused and engaged, with a hard limit of keeping them in this state for about an hour.

So this feels like it basically perfectly captures what i was going for, but i would like to have something that can redirect the aroused status track into another direction. IE make them a temporary ally when the stress track is filled, convert aroused into another form of stress, or cause two targets with high arousal to... "finish each other off" Basically i would like a finisher to tie things together if possible? Still not really confident with the system to flat out make something...

I absolutely adore this as a baseline! Oh my fucking god this is perfect <3<3<3

...ok so I had a thought, rather than go the sheriff with a busted gun angle I could play into the steampunk weird tech and make a scientist like gal who is researching pheromone compositions, who in combat would weaponize them almost like a DND enchantment mage, with her pheromones sometimes backfiring as being too sexually charged, leading to her being impromptly being made into her targets.. ahem.. "mate"... roughly on the floor.

fantastic, the sheriff is in with her fuzzy cuffs!

ah, i probably should have checked, on a scale of 1 to 10 how lewd oriented can/should we design our character concepts? @MagnificentBastard's concepts made me realize I could take things a few steps further if it works for the setting

ok, with all this in mind i think im going to go for some degree of a "scrap tech gunner" someone who has a ramshackled version of a steampunk esk gun they have tinkered with explosive results!... litterally... sometimes it works really well, others it backfires horribly and might actively blow up in their face... the specifics ill leave till the specifics of the setting is defined, but a sheriff seems fun for a wild west esk setting

a quick question, as far as character creation goes are we limited to humans of some variety? or can we use something like goblins, elves, steam punk golems, etc? currently i have a few character ideas but Im holding off on making any concrete choices till i have a concrete location or setting to work off of, currently im leaning towards being the former sherif of a town that was wiped out well she was investigating

im fine with either, if we had multiple DM's i would suggest smaller groups of 3 to keep things schmoving, but that ends up being a big ask for the DM, so for me being in a party of 3 or 4 would be great!

well last I heard the "setting" is going to be some flavor of weird west steampunk (assuming im not getting wires crossed) so i have been trying to use that as a baseline for ideas, but having a solid... connection point with the group will help...

personally i think i can work with any of these, I would just rather avoid 8 since that gets a little into incest territory with the kinds of RP's typical on this site, that said the found family version would be fine to me...

Oh god... OH GOD I MISSED ALOT! uh... where the hell do i even start? I opened a spoiler and on my phone it doubled the page size?... *overstimulated noises* For this whats like... the first things i should think about as someone really interested but whos life hit a busy period?

OH THIS IS HERE! I would be super happy to make a character for this! let me look at the primer

holy back log, what did I miss?

I would 1010% be interested in either of these, dear god both of them are absolutely leaving me drooling at the thought<3 one of my favorite time settings is the 1920's so being exactly 40 years apart on either side is 1 hillarious and 2 absolutely tantalizing in terms of potential options

anyflips has a full PDF of the basic 2014 5E handbook wikidot is the 5e reference I like to use for classes, races, spells, magic items, etc. its a really solid tool and far easier than flipping through every book released for 5E would have posted a link, but I was told just now its against TOS so uh... hope the site names helps?

Well i have played exactly one pathfinder 1e campaign before and it was... very brief, and im not sure what AP means here... nore Savage pathfinder really? But i like playing in new systems so ill be happy to play ^-^

I would be delighted by that assuming others would also want to join in!

haaiiii welcome back ignore the fact I was MIA myself

*shoots off some confetti* this is absolutely perfect!

hellllloooo peoples! I would like to offer myself as available for any DM's looking to DM any game system! I have been haaard out of the rythem and need a good TTRPG to jump back into the swing! im happy to play... litterally anything! 5e is a classic, pathfinder is great, any powered by the apocalypse works, and random ass game system you ever struggled to find a group of people to play? ill give it a go! any theme, any system! ... i just want to play somethin qwq

exactly! I can also imagine a litteral black market in the digital space! lets pull a wreck it ralph 2 and give the dark web a personality and a physical layout!

yay its slasher season!

the only thing I can specifically think of that would be fun to expand on would be the twitch equivilent I made up for my character, fleshing it out so its not quite a 1 to 1 and fits more in a cyberpunk style world. what does that mean? I have no clue! but it should be neat if say some folk could directly control compatible things in the stream environment, kinda like how twitch integration lets viewers give streamers gifts irl. would also be interesting if people who for one reason or another no longer have a physical body they could still have a sorta presence on the digital side of things, with VR modifications letting streamers stream with and see viewers who are digital only... for the lewd side of things, could be hilarious if particularly famous streamers could get a sex toy themed after their genitalia, and have it connect with the streamers nerves when they enable it lots of fun to be had with AR and VR style nonsense here