I will become God-Harem King of the World! [Highschool DxD/Exalted] (CLOSED)

Again, need to really emphasize this because people aren't reading things properly, WE DO NOT HAVE ANY DOTS IN OCCULT. WE HAVE SHITTY ROLLS FOR MAGIC. THIS SPELL WILL FAIL AND RIAS WILL GET SKEWERED.

 

Alternative plan then?

 

I changed my vote to this:

Shield doesn't appear to have an Occult roll, it's just "spend motes to reduce damage" whereas Bind uses clinching rules and needs an opposed roll against the enemy's stats to work the way we want it to.

 

Sounds like a plan.
[X] Get Rias out of the way while shouting a warning. Making sure you keep yourself between Rias and the weapons, cast [Shield] and activate Durability of Oak Meditation.
-[X] If an opening is available, shoot a full-strength [Fireball] at both arms each.

 

[X] time seems to slow as the lances approach Rias. your essence surges into action as you use monkey leap technique to move to Rais, pick her up Bridal style and leap to out of the way. As the lances pass below the two of you your feet lash out coated in the flames of the Unconquered sun and strike the arms holding the lances setting them alight. as the stray devil screams in pain your anima banner roars into existence. As you land the Dragon coils around you as if declaring that Rias is under your protection.

 

[X] Get Rias out of the way while shouting a warning. Making sure you keep yourself between Rias and the weapons, cast [Shield] and activate Durability of Oak Meditation.
-[X] If an opening is available, shoot a full-strength [Fireball] at both arms each.

 

Changing my vote to

[X]silversun17

 

Current Tally:

BFldyq, Smuthunter, Eler0, protoss16, Malcolmo, jes, overmind, ShadowAngelBeta, MHLord, megrisvernin

Selias

Dimensionist, kinglugia, noahgab1133, Deathwings, Walkir

Larekko12

Silversun17, Mu-Sensei


Votes are still open.

 

[X] Tackle her out of the way. If your face ends up buried in her breasts, that's just how things go.

 

[X] Around you, the world freezes. You can see the arms twitch, the spears gleam as they begin their descent to Rias' unprotected back. They are lethal, you know - they will skewer Rias without fail.

Not if you can help it.

You take all this in well before the arms have made any headway. You shout, alerting Rias of the danger, and intercept the attack. The spears are sharp, long and thin - not easy to handle when they're already moving.

But they don't have to be moving, do they?

You dash in between Rias and the arms. They're targeting Rias, and so it is child's play for someone of your level of skill to do this.

"Bind." You call out, dashing to the arms and touching them, activating the attack. The arms freeze, captured by your magic, and you use the opportunity to pounce, smashing the spears out of it's reach with your full power. No one will hurt your friends and allies while you're around, especially not such a beautiful girl like Rias!

 

[X] Around you, the world freezes. You can see the arms twitch, the spears gleam as they begin their descent to Rias' unprotected back. They are lethal, you know - they will skewer Rias without fail.

Not if you can help it.

You take all this in well before the arms have made any headway. You shout, alerting Rias of the danger, and intercept the attack. The spears are sharp, long and thin - not easy to handle when they're already moving.

But they don't have to be moving, do they?

You dash in between Rias and the arms. They're targeting Rias, and so it is child's play for someone of your level of skill to do this.

"Bind." You call out, dashing to the arms and touching them, activating the attack. The arms freeze, captured by your magic, and you use the opportunity to pounce, smashing the spears out of it's reach with your full power. No one will hurt your friends and allies while you're around, especially not such a beautiful girl like Rias!

 

Guys rewrite the stunt. Stunts are suppose to let the GM affect the story.

[Z]Around you, the world freezes. You can see the arms twitch, the spears gleam as they begin their descent to Rias' unprotected back. They are lethal, you know - they will skewer Rias without fail.

Not if you can help it.

You take all this in well before the arms have made any notable headway. You shout, alerting Rias of the danger, and attempt to intercept the attack. The spears are sharp, long and thin - not easy to handle when they're in motion.

But they don't have to be moving, do they?

"Bind." You call out, dashing to the arms and trying to touch them, activating the attack. No one will hurt your friends and allies while you're around, especially not such a beautiful girl like Rias!
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Stunts are that IN THE ACT. You must write them as if they are happening in that moment. Its the stuff three die stunts are made from.

 

Actually a stunt can allow you to parry lethal attacks barehanded as long as you justify how in the stunt.

The second.

 

We used Fireball easily enough in our fight with Dohnaseek. Why should this be different?

 

Point. I'd ask Alexander is we have the same type of skill check(dice, stat requirement) for the write-in that has us use bind as we did when we used our Fireball against Dohnaseek.

 

pretty sure he already said that occult is only for big exalted style ritual sorcery.

actual "magic missile" style spells and stuff run off something completely different (lore?) which is why we didn't put any points in occult.

 

For reference:

http://questionablequesting.com/index.php?topic=408.msg56216#msg56216

We used the Fireball spell without a roll here. It doesn't seem like we need to roll dice for using D&D spells.

 

We used fireball to hit a cloud of dust, not a moving target, so we didn't need a good attack roll; we stunted it into making a low-power environmental hazard. Bind is explicitly using clinch rules to maintain the hold, and clinches are maintained by opposed rolls -- our opponent's strength is guaranteed to be higher than our Occult score so it will be trivial for the spears to break loose, assuming the spell works in the first place.

I need a quote for this. Occult is the magic skill in Exalted, there isn't another one any more than there is a way to wield a sword with your Linguistics skill. Lore is for learning stuff and applying knowledge for things like finding countries on a map or deciphering dead languages, not for performing magic spells.

 

Um, no, the update clearly says we used our fireballs spell to hit Dohnaseek's wings and set them on fire while he was already flying. We hit a moving target with our Fireballs spell.

Here:

 

So we used them on two occasions in that fight, not just the one I remembered. In that case I have no idea what the fuck is going on. With a score of Occult 0 we should be completely useless at magic. Having dots in Lore or whatever would not change that at all, and the spell has to have some kind of (attribute + ability) combo applied to it or else we just succeed automatically every time we use DxD magic, in which case it's ridiculously broken and we can just fireball everything to death forever.

 

Considering the boost, it's probably a Dexterity + Archery/Thrown roll, and since we don't suffer the negative penalty for untrained skills thanks to being Exalted, we rolled 5 dice, and got lucky.

 

You know, it *could* just be as I said - namely, that D&D magic doesn't come under Exalted magic rules, being a separate system.

 

There are only two possibilities in that case: first, that there is a separate set of mechanics for the DxD magic that haven't been explained. I sincerely doubt that Alexander is using the Storyteller system for the Exalted stuff and, say, the D20 system for DxD stuff, it's needlessly complicated and entirely unnecessary when you're already in the practice of converting some things into charms under the ST system.

The other option is that DxD magic is narrative magic that doesn't require any mechanics or any check to succeed whenever we use it. This runs into the problem of being insultingly easy to abuse given that we have a "spend points to inflict damage" power as our most basic ability. If this is the case we can defeat every enemy we'll ever encounter just by throwing endless auto-hit fireballs at everything.

 

I offer option 3; that a fireball under the DxD system is so fuckstupid easy that even with Occult 0 an Exalt can pull it off, because they're Exalted. Especially since Issei's exaltation involves being the best at all the majiks.

Likewise, trying for 'make the ice not move no morez' without any extra bells and whistles that it too should be fuckstupid easy. Not guaranteed to succeed, but still not something to sweat about. Granted, our attempt will probably make anyone with Occult spin in their graves at how back asswards we're going about it, but it'd get the job done.

 

The second option works, and isn't as abusable as you'd think because:

- Alexander can use the existing information to decide if it hits or not, no dice rolls needed.
- Fireballs don't do that much damage.
- The other party isn't going to just stand there and take it.
- Defenses exist.

And a load of other reasons. Heck, narrative *works* a lot of the time in games.

You're making a mountain out of a molehill here.

 

Sorry, is going on that I made a mistake.

This is a reworked version of the DxD Spells Issei used.

Hope that now they're more balanced.

 

Is training Ruby & Yang in there(if omitted)?

 

He has yet to start it, so yes it's an omission.

 

Oh, this update was amusing. Are we supposed to post for something now?