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Alt Character🔸 I have nothing to say. Meidōka •	Post by Meidōka on Feb 21, 2017 6:52:20 GMT -5 Throughout much of the early Dragon Ball manga, Martial Arts and their associated schools were a large influence on the character progression of our favorite heroes. As time went on, those heroes became masters of their respective schools and consequently they played smaller and smaller roles- often only indicated by the symbol worn on a character’s gi. Even so, the Schools have been constantly present in the fighting aesthetics of Dragon Ball and in the series’ most famous techniques. Consequently, a Dragon Ball game can sometimes benefit from the inclusion of bonuses attached to a character’s involvement in Martial Arts Schools. Below is my proposal for the implementation of the aforementioned- all descriptions are placeholders, because descriptions are ass. Some styles that I had thought to include did not make it on this list either because I was not able to think up effects I liked for them, or they seemed like they would be things limited to GM rewards-- stuff like a Kami School, the Kai-o Schools, etc. Martial Arts Schools At any point in a character’s play, they may make a request to join a Martial Arts School if they meet that school’s criteria. Joining a Martial Arts school costs 10 Mastery Points, take up a technique slot, and may be requested in the Requests subforum using the format found below. Martial Arts Schools have a training time associated with them as if they were techniques; during this training period, a character may not train for any techniques. After the initial request and training time has been completed, that character becomes an ‘Apprentice’ of that School. After a character has participated in at least 10 Spars or Battles as an ‘Apprentice’ of their school, they may spend another 10 Mastery Points to become a ‘Master’ of that school, thereby freeing up the Technique Slot taken up by the school. ‘Apprentice’ and ‘Master’ effects stack and are simultaneously active unless otherwise indicated. Martial Art School Request Link to Character Sheet: Current Mastery Points: School Selected: Rank: (Apprentice or Master) Training Time: Mastery Points Remaining: List of Martial Arts Schools New Turtle School Description: something about perseverance and shit Apprentice Effect: This character receives DR 2 when under the effects of ‘Power Up’. Master Effect: Whenever this character receives Critical damage, they regain 5 Ki. Training Time: 3 Weeks Requirements: -- New Crane School Description: homie’s got three eyes Apprentice Effect: This character may now pay up to half of an Advanced or Finisher technique’s cost with HP instead of Ki. Master Effect: This character’s attacks now ignore 2 DR in addition to their other effects. Training Time: 3 Weeks Requirements: -- Demon School Description: DODGE Apprentice Effect: Increase this character’s Reflexes by 10 and decrease their Fighting and Energy Control by 5 each; this may allow Reflexes to exceed 50. Master Effect: Twice per battle as a Bonus Action, this character may treat all offensive Standard Actions on their turn as if they benefited from Edge 2. Training Time: 4 Weeks Requirements: -- Namekian Warrior School Description: i saw a bird. kick its ass. Apprentice Effect: Whenever this character receives critical damage, all actions on that turn will score a critical hit on a natural roll of 90 or higher. Master Effect: This character’s critical hits deal an additional 3 damage; this additional damage ignores DR. Training Time: 2 Weeks Requirements: Namekian or Participation in at least 5 Adventures with a character possessing this skill Satan-style Martial Arts Description: the biggest loser Apprentice Effect: Increase the Edge level of all opponents by 1 when targeting this character; this character receives 1 Shard at the conclusion of every Adventure, Spar, Battle, or Event. This character may never fail to flee from a lethal thread. Master Effect: Status Effects affecting this character last one additional turn; on a turn in which this character was dealt damage, increase their chance to inflict any Status Effect by 20%. Training Time: 2 Weeks Requirements: Human/Anthro or Participation in at least 5 Adventures with a character possessing this skill Heroic Sadla School Description: saiyan is 4 fite Apprentice Effect: For every 20 damage dealt to this character, increase their base Power Level by 5% for the remainder of combat; this does not apply to damage dealt to Temporary Health. Master Effect: Whenever this character is afflicted by a Status Effect, they gain 5 Temporary Health. Training Time: 2 Weeks Requirements: Saiyan or Participation in at least 5 Adventures with a character possessing this skill Piercing Rime School Description: damn girl thats cold Apprentice Effect: Side-kick items may be used one additional time per battle, add an additional 1 damage when used offensively, and have an additional 5 Health. Master Effect: This character now gains Edge 1 whenever their Power Level is 25% higher than an opponent. Training Time: 2 Weeks Requirements: Frost Demon or Participation in at least 5 Adventures with a character possessing this skill Endless Recess School Description: every time is play time Apprentice Effect: While under the effects of a Restorative Item, increase this character’s power level by 40%; this amount is calculated separately from other boosts and is included additively with other boots(rather than multiplicatively). Master Effect: This character gains additional damage on their attacks equal to their DR at the time of the attack. Training Time: 2 Weeks Requirements: Majin or Participation in at least 5 Adventures with a character possessing this skill Heaven School Description: the gods must be lazy Apprentice Effect: This character deals 1 additional damage for each point of Yang they possess; they receive 1 additional damage from each attack for each point of Yin they possess. Master Effect: Using ‘Heal’, ‘Ki Transfer’, or ‘Teleport’ also grants this character one (1) additional level of Edge vs all targets on the turn that those techniques are used. Training Time: 2 Weeks Requirements: Shinjin or Participation in at least 5 Adventures with a character possessing this skill True Devil School Description: rapscallions abound Apprentice Effect: This character receives an additional 3 damage from all sources; they have +1 to hit and deal +1 damage for each point of Yang that they possess. Master Effect: After successfully afflicting a target with a status effect, this character gains one additional Bonus Action. This effect may trigger only once per turn. Training Time: 2 Weeks Requirements: Demon or Participation in at least 5 Adventures with a character possessing this skill The Great Saiya-School Description: for justice! Apprentice Effect: This character may now treat any combatant as if they were on the same team as this character for the purposes of accessing and using ‘Intercept’ and ‘Support’. Master Effect: Intercept and Support now instead have a combined usage limit of eight (8) times per battle; each time a character benefits from this character’s Intercept or Support techniques, they regain 3 ki. Training Time: 3 Weeks Requirements: -- Kikōkenjutsu School (Energy Control Fencing School) Description: edgelords Apprentice Effect: After a Sword-type item used by this character has reached its per-battle usage limitation, it may then be used as if it were a basic ‘Steel Sword’ item two (2) additional times per battle. Master Effect: This character may now equip any one Sword-type item in their ‘artifact’ slot. As long as a Sword is equipped in that slot, it increases this character’s Power Level by 15% and deals 5 additional damage when used. Training Time: 4 Weeks Requirements: --
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Player Character🔹 God of Destruction Wannabe Character Sheet Character Page You honour me with your demonstrations of prowess. 𝕸𝖞𝖓𝖎𝖆 •	Post by 𝕸𝖞𝖓𝖎𝖆 on Feb 21, 2017 8:08:14 GMT -5 I'm not the best person to provide input on balancing, so I'll leave the tweaking to people who know that field better. But this looks pretty sweet. And the sheer variety of schools... wow, this can really add some variety to combat mechanics. I say if it needs any improvements, please go ahead and suggest them. As for myself, I really like this idea, and have a couple other schools in mind, but I'll wait for the format to be hammered out if it gets to that point. :3

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I have nothing to say. Deleted •	Post by Deleted on Feb 21, 2017 16:09:14 GMT -5 I like it, but I also see it as it's 500 years in the future, they're might be less schools and more people running around learning from "online" classes or stuff. But yeah this would be cool, I know we have New Crane School and people trying to learn about Turtle School and I think Kosen has had a Turtle School or whatever themed event planned for awhile now, unsure. Also I don't think there should just be a ton of schools, maybe 5 or so until later if even that. The school element has been interesting from the get go, like I said people are working on Turtle School stuff, picking through the history while we have someone, Ookami [me] who's going to try and take over New Crane School and potential branch out into a new school he wants to create, the Wolf School.

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Player Character🔹 $$$ DOSH $$$ I have nothing to say. Value Valencia •	Post by Value Valencia on Feb 22, 2017 12:39:00 GMT -5 Balancing aside THIS IDEA IS REALLY COOL

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Admin👑 🥒 Character Sheet Character Page Pretty fly for a green guy. Lute •	Post by Lute on Feb 22, 2017 13:21:10 GMT -5 I like some of these ideas. But, I would probably rather do something more generic with fighting styles. Only because, a lot of these (not all) are Earth oriented. Just like a lot of the Legendary Techs are Goku oriented. To me this takes away from the uniqueness of someone developing that part about their character. I didn't want to add a lot of the Legendary Techs, but they were heavily requested from the start of the site. People wanted Kaio-Ken and Spirit Bomb. So I'm cool with the idea about fighting styles playing a part, I'm not sure if this is how I would orient them thematically.

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Player Character🔹 $$$ DOSH $$$ I have nothing to say. Value Valencia •	Post by Value Valencia on Feb 22, 2017 13:35:20 GMT -5 Mechanically this is just bootleg Traits imo. Thematically they feel great though.

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Alt Character🔸 I have nothing to say. Meidōka •	Post by Meidōka on Feb 24, 2017 6:00:00 GMT -5 Okay! After giving this some more thought and reading through the replies a couple of times, I find that I more or less agree with the majority of the statements made here. Identifying canon schools is a sure-fire way to ensure that we’re going to have a thousand Goku clones running around, which isn’t really healthy for the site overall. That said, I think finding a way to incorporate them could be really cool- perhaps as special GM rewards that can be attached to the newer system that I’ve drafted up below. In addition to this, I fully recognize that my original proposal was exactly ‘bootleg traits’- because that was more or less what I was aiming for… and that’s not what a Martial Arts School/Fighting Style should actually be about. A character dedicated to the Crane School should fight fundamentally different than someone who is dedicated to the Turtle School, right? With that in mind, I kind of took some time to think about how to make ‘schools’ fundamentally change the way that someone does battle- without making it behave like something too far outside of the combat system we have in place… so I looked to Basic Techniques. Everyone has them, everyone uses them, and they mean that at our cores- every character is going to battle “more or less” the same. So… Here’s my new system proposal! Martial Arts Schools At any time during a character’s play, they may choose to make a Mastery Request to adopt a Martial Arts school. A Martial Arts School is a Trait-like mechanic that alters the functionality of New Era’s Basic Technique systems. A Martial Arts School may possess two Apprentice Effects that are chosen and purchased separately, at a cost of 10 Mastery Points apiece. After a character has purchased both Apprentice Effects for their Martial Arts School and has participated in at least 5 Events with their ‘completed’ School, they may purchase a Master Effect for 10 Mastery Points. Martial Arts Schools may be named and flavored as their creators/users desire and may claim to be descendents of(or inspired by) Canon Schools, but may not directly claim to be a Canon School in any other capacity. Name of Martial Arts School Description of the School goes here! Link to Character Sheet: Apprentice Effects: Master Effect: Current Rank: (1/2/3) Apprentice - This character’s ‘Charge Up’ now affects all attacks made on their turn, but grants only +10 to attack. - ‘Charge Up’ now costs 20 Ki but lasts for one additional turn. - Whenever this character uses 'Dragon Dash', the bonus damage granted now also ignores DR and Temporary Health. - This character’s ‘Dragon Dash’ now adds an additional +3 Bonus Damage, but applies to only a single Melee Attack made during their turn. - Whenever this character uses both ‘Energy Blast’ and ‘Strike’ on the same turn, treat both as if they had a ki cost of 1 and instead dealt 2d5 damage. - This character’s Energy Blast technique now must roll to hit 3 times, with each roll only dealing 1d4 damage. - Each of this character’s Grapple attacks that fail to hit increase the chance to Immobilize by 5%, cumulative throughout battle. This may not cause the immobilize effect to exceed 95%. - This character’s Grapple attacks now ignore DR but may not be used on a target that possesses any Temporary Health. - Whenever this character uses 'Power Up', they no longer gain bonus Power Level for two turns. Instead they replenish 2 HP per turn for 2 turns. - This character now only replenishes 5 Ki upon using ‘Power Up’; they receive +5 to all attack rolls while under the effects of ‘Power Up’. - This character’s ‘Rapid Movement’ now has a ki cost of 0, but may only be use two (2) times per battle. - On a turn in which this character has used ‘Rapid Movement’, they may use ‘Dragon Drash’ for free(still requires a Bonus Action.) - This character’s ‘Strike’ technique now has a base damage of 1d4, but scores a critical hit on a roll of 85+. - This character may now use ‘Strike’ as a Bonus Action to reduce the damage of an incoming attack by an amount equal to that ‘Strike’s’ damage. - Whenever this character removes ‘Suppression’ for the first time in battle by using ‘Power Up’, ‘Charge Up’, or a Finisher Attack, they may treat attacks made on their turn as if they possessed one Edge level higher than they would normally possess. - As long as this character’s power level is reduced by at least 50% of its Base Value through the effects of ‘Suppression’, this character regains 3 Ki at the end of every turn. - Whenever this character is equipped with a weapon that has not reached its per-battle usage limit, increase their Power Level by 10% of its base. Master - Select one Advanced Technique at the time this character gains Master status in their school. That technique loses its Minor Effect and may instead choose a second Major Effect. - Select one Advanced Technique at the time this character gains Master status in their school. That technique deals damage as if it were a Finisher technique, but loses its Major and Minor effects. - Select one Utility or Defensive Technique at the time this character gains Master status in their school. That technique may be used one additional time per battle. - Select one Finisher Technique at the time this character gains Master status in their school. That technique may now select an additional Major effect, deals an additional +10 damage, but may only be used once per battle. - Select one Legendary Technique at the time this character gains Master status in their school. That technique no longer takes up any Technique Slots but does not allow for the purchase of a Second Legendary technique.
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Suggestion \| Martial Arts Schools Posted Feb 24, 2017 6:00:00 GMT -5 Edited by Meidōka Feb 24, 2017 6:00:59 GMT -5 Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top

Player Character🔹 God of Destruction Wannabe Character Sheet Character Page You honour me with your demonstrations of prowess. 𝕸𝖞𝖓𝖎𝖆 •	Post by 𝕸𝖞𝖓𝖎𝖆 on Feb 24, 2017 9:56:29 GMT -5 Now thiiiis is pretty interesting. Allows for quite a bit of customization for both basic, advanced, and finisher techs. Allows quite a lot of leeway for customizing fighting styles, and making each school unique. Very nice. :3

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I have nothing to say. Deleted •	Post by Deleted on Feb 24, 2017 13:35:44 GMT -5 I'm still not too set on the stuff for Masteries or whatever, but not outright because of the options you've laid out, I just can't put my finger on it haha. Also will these schools have locked locations are are we going to say like, this is on Earth, this ones also on Earth, this ones in Space, that ones in Other World? Or will there be city/locations designed for Earth, will planets in particular be chosen for the various space ones? Etc. It seems to be coming together, I'm just skeptical about how it should all work honestly.

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Alt Character🔸 I have nothing to say. Meidōka •	Post by Meidōka on Feb 25, 2017 2:16:25 GMT -5 I was thinking that it would be more or less up to the character in question to decide that. There's some that might be available online(ie Pan's Battle Network), and some that characters might use an adventure/solo to RP going to in person. Without a hard-and-fast "these are your schools to choose from" sort of list, I don't think mandating specific places really works. As for the effects themselves, I'm definitely not aiming for them to pop out and be like a "oh, I absolutely must have that!" so much as a meaningful choice for play. Watching and participating in battles over the last few weeks has given me a pretty good indication of how they generally pan out at (most) current levels of play- and it's all mostly the same. My goal here is to give people an option to alter some of the fundamental mechanics of their play- making it so that actually battling as, say, Sawba will feel different than battling as Tap. It's a strong belief of mine that diversity in mechanics is a critical part of keeping a game healthy- and anything that can make posts where "Tap charges and then punches!" more interesting to work with is probably going to be a good deal.
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Alt Character🔸 I have nothing to say. rayu •	Post by rayu on Mar 24, 2017 5:22:34 GMT -5 I really like this idea. Right now there are only so many viable competitive builds, and while these would take some time to balance, (The Demon thing with +1 atk and +1 dmg per yin is pretty nuts) they could provide some very much needed diversity and also allow some of the items and traits that aren't top tier, a synergistic boost. It'd be cool to see some of the canon schools be immutable. Like the Turtle one looked like a really interesting angle to build around, and then others that could be customized.

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Supporter🌟 Crane Master Justice will prevail Marku •	Post by Marku on Apr 5, 2017 12:52:19 GMT -5 interesting ideas, keep developing them.

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