Hi everyone,

I'm looking to create a new secondary skillset and I'm putting out a call for ideas. Please give a general idea of the skillset with a smattering (as few or many as you want) of skills. At least two, please!

Please keep in mind the mythos of Lusternia. We also don't want anything trivial, such as "Dentristy". Sure, nice teeth are great, but we don't want a skillset dedicated to them.

Please remember that we'll need a bunch of skills in the skillset, and nothing that duplicates other skills. Oceanweaving could be fun, but we already have aquamancy, and it's a pretty limited/specific option.

This thread is about NEW skillsets. Not OLD ones. If there are bugs that are still outstanding, please BUG them. They are and will continue to be sorted out and fixed.

As always, please keep it civil and constructive.

What archetype is this meant for? (ie. should it be magic-based or physical-based?)

And do you want a list of skills to go in it or just a general idea?

1) Give me whatever you've got!

2) Yes.
Though in all seriousness, it's probably better to give just a general idea, but if you want to give a smattering of skills to to cement the idea, that'd be perfect.

Awww I was thinking it was going to be a new added common skill.


I suppose I am obligated to bring up Rainbowmancy again.

RAINBOWMANCY!!



RainbowAura- Monsters will see you for the peaceful being that you allow and will not harm you
Prettyfy- Flowers bloom! Birds Sings! Rainbows form sparkling iridescently
Meld - Merge your magic with the rainbows
CraftMakeupkit- Must have all tints, some cloth and wood in your inventory to craft a makeup kit
Influence - Increase your sway over others in your pretty demesne.
Eyeshadow - Use any color tint that you want to create eyeshadow in your makeupkit (wearing increases charisma can be applied to other people Does stack)

bumblebees- Call fat cute bumblebees to make a hive in your demense that be harvested for honey
Squeekyclean- Use your powers of rainbows and cuteness to wash away stinky odors
Blush- Use a tint to create blush in your makeup kit (wearing blush increases Charima .. can be applied to other people Does stack tongue.gif)

Rainbowsight - Allows you to peak into the area of anyone that is within a rainbow demense
Center - Move to the center of your demesne.
Butterflies- Call pretty butterflies whose flightly dance will dazzle your friends and enemies
Lipstick- Use any colour tint that you want to create lipstick in your makeupkit. (wearing increases Charisma can be appliwed to other people Does Stack)


Ladybugs - Call a swarm of friendly ladybugs who will buzz warningly when an enemy enters your location
Fireflies - Call upon these little creatures to illuminate any secret areas on the first try
Rainbowgems- Attain any type of translucent gem and infuse it with rainbow essence.
(Drop this rainbow gem on the ground you will return to whereever you have dropped it)
Hummingbirdhunger - The amount of food that you have to eat has decressed greatly.
Dragonflywings- You have reached a degree of cuteness where you can now grow dragonfly wings!
Pegasus - Call a beautiful black and rainbow pegasus to carry you to the skies!
FashionPolice - Find someone that is naked or essentially naked and lower their charisma for the day. If they look like royalty raise it for the day!

Rainbowstaff - A staff that allows you to sense the minds of even the most ferrocious creatures allowing you to influence them instead

And that was a fine demonstration of the Ialie Archetype. If you ever add Totems/Illusions specialization to it, it will probably be Sister Rainbow or some form of glamours.

Well, maybe for Warriors, a new secondary skill replacing athletics.

It would be more aggressive, adding buffs to strength, damage and maybe con, while dropping the protective stuff like regeneration, surge and resistance.
It would make warriors more into Barbarians than into Warriors, if said in traditional D&D terms.

Not exactly sure about what you want, but:

-Archery (yay!)
Craft: Craft bows and arrows with wood and various metals
Poisons: Apply poisons to your arrows
Eyeshot: Blind and shock your opponent with a shot to the eye

-Creation of explosives, acids, etc (similar to poisons?)
Blast Powder: Create a somewhat explosive agent, can be used in other things
Small Bomb: Use blast powder and iron, throw it at your opponent or leave it in a room to damage/break people/things
(Varying) Acid: using the corpses of (various animals), mix up a powerful acid (various afflictions)
Cocktail: Mix two potions and watch them react (dangerously)

-Drunken combatant (the more you drink, the more you can do)
Feint: Lean in one direction and strike in the other - hard to block, used one at a time
Clouded mind: Mental afflictions are less effective when you drink
Speech Mastery: No longer will you sould like a moron when you speak while drunk!

-Something that ivolves protection of others (guardians in the true sense of the word)
Block: Use your shield to parry for another - cannot attack as well (or something)
Diving Defense: Leap in front of your friend to prevent an attack from hitting them
Improved Defense: Shields (or less effectively, your body) can be used to block any attack, maybe like timeslip-for-balance

-Something with shapeshifting (turn into animals, maybe other races, or possibly just changing specific parts of the body)
Fly Shape: Transform into a tiny airborne insect and escape unnoticed, also gain incredible dodging abilities
Carnivore: Grow teeth and claws, BITE or MAUL
Equine Charge: Gain superior leg strength and sprint to knock over your opponent

-Something revolving around rage (barbarism, etc, possibly enraging of others/groups as well?)
Basic Rage: Temporarily enhance your health and damage/wounds and minor resistance to mind effects, but become fatigued shortly after (bad penalties ensue)
Battle Inspiration: You and your present allies go into a Basic Rage
Scarring: Through ritualistic scarring of your body, you have gained enhanced resistance to physical damage

-Unarmed combat (hate to say it, but it's an idea)
Uppercut: Swing your arm up at your opponent's jaw, dazing and breaking teeth
ArmBreak: Break opponent's arm and do some damage, prevent parrying for small amount of time
ShatterKnee: Similar to KneeCap or whatever, except done via a (non-op-amount) kicks to a leg


Figured I'd just throw things out there.

moar!

-Powers granted by the Soulless gods (anti-divine? Heh)
Chaos: Similar effect to Chary, uses eq time of throwing a hex
Visions of the Void: Become immune to fear and (some other similar affliction)
Warp: Afflict with a random minor physical ailment

-Abilities to turn mundane items into limited-but-useful items (for attacks, healing, etc, I dunno)
Bottleblast: Shatter a bottle or vial, causing temporary blindness and minor bleeding
Strangle: Minor asphyxiation damage with a pocketbelt, opponent must cure like a normal entanglement
Disgust: Eat an item of food then vomit all over your foe, causing stench and "shyness" (running away)

-Various benefits and abilities, depending upon which plane you currently are (neat idea, probably OP and/or useless)
Hard as Rock: Become unmovable and gain 10% resistance to physical damage on Earth
Commoner: Influence non-guard denizens on Prime slightly more easily
Misty: Gain minor dodging on Nil due to the mists

-Um...creating an entourage of useful beasties-- from your mind! (I don't know...)
MindBird: Create a carrier flying animal to deliver one item to someone
MindCow: Create one cow per day, to be used as cows are
MindDog: Create a one-shot dog to attach to your foe (as per Tracking)

-Be able to sacrifice one area to gain in another, or be able to do more offensive things (just a concept, haven't thought about if it's done already)
Tough and Stupid: 50% higher chance of succumbing to a mental affliction, minor poison resist, minor physical damage resist
Nimble: Minor dodging, somewhat minor health reduction
Witty Charm: Convert a portion of your mana into ego

-Ability to channel (minorly) all of the elements to do certain things (sort of like astrology, but not really?)
Flame: Cause your opponent to catch on fire, damage between normal fire and the telekinetic one
Quicksand: Acts as sap, removed by climbing, climbing takes less time with larger size
Flash Flood: Blast everyone in the room (inculding yourself) zero to two rooms away with a sudden link to Water, affected by size

-Creation of mechanical things (mundane or otherwise)
Mechanical Eye: Create a seeing device (using comms) and implant it - Immunity to blindness, lasts six months, 50% failure chance (with 500 bleeding!)
RoboHorse: Create a steed, varying in comms amounts by type of mount (IE mule-like take a moderate amount, legendary ones take a huge amount)
Super vial: Uses metal comms, has 1/3 more sips

Already wrong from an RP sense. Soulless gods want to devour all of Lusternia, and I don't think they'd care for mortals enough to give them powers to help that cause along. Plus, you know, the whole incident with the Vernals and Lord Ayridion keeping Kethuru at bay, I don't really think he'd be inclined to help us...

Are we looking for secondary skilslets or split skillsets?

As in, skills to go from Master to Trans, or new skill ideas completely?

You're a soulless god. You're trapped somewhere unpleasant. You can't get out. You might consider giving a few mortals a couple of transient powers in exchange for being released and a chance to eat everything. I don't think it's as write-off-able as you're making it seem.

Thanks. I was too busy wracking my brain for more strange ideas to reply. :P

Granted, but is it worth it, on the part of the mortal, to gain the powers when you know you'll be backstabbed and tentacle raped once Kethuru is free?

Fain thought so.

For all you know Fain and Raezon did learn a few things from them, and decided to teach them to tainted folk.

That's for the admins and each individual character to decide.

Riding needs new skills
discipline needs more skills


Can someone write up a list of all the skillsets and which groups have options and which groups do not? For example, I am pretty sure that we don't need more knight weaponry skills.

Clockwork. (Tinkering. Gadgetry.) Making mechanical constructs that do interesting things. They've been on the website since day one!

Secondary skillsets. A skillset of the secondary nature.

At Ialie:

At everyone else:
Please include a smattering of skills in your ideas. Doesn't have to be many. We're getting a bunch of vague ideas that probably wouldn't pan out well, unfortunately.

I keep thinking of some sort of Beastmaster skill where you can gain control of non sentients and have them do things for you. (ratting, fight with you and so on.)

The higher your skill in Beastmastery the stronger you can make your beast.

EDIT: Ack. Let me fix that up before I post it again...

oooh.. me likes


Athletics is to keep the body fit, but the new one could be to improve fighting through magic items. Maybe giving us Warcries... Expand a little bit the body paintings instead of just painting our faces... using special trinkets, like masks to improve their speed or power... a warrior more inclined to the mystical ways rather than just empowering the body through rigorous training... This would be means to achieve our buffs we normally get out of athletics, costing comms perhaps and less power, but still having enough resistances a normal warrior has but achieved via different pathways... An Arcane warrior perhaps.. this could mesh perfectly with the idea of having magical runes on weapons and expand it a little bit

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dPRTo9CGZCQ

the last scene of Bleach(epsidoe 122) show us how mask could be like

EDIT: Expanding a little bit


Arcane body paintings... Painting over the pectoral of the armour or even the skin to improve special stats, like Con or paintings over the arms could give us more Dex... using comms to make masks, or charms in order to improve our chances to land a desired affliction or even giving a +1 to balance.. making some warriors even possible and opening up more functionability for slow warriors... Tae Dae Stag serenguard with a balance mask