Tazo

[madkat]

CotG Character Idea:

Name: Tazo
Race: Troll
Class: Chaos Archmage
Age: 80-130; He's unaware of his age in practical measurement terms

Primarily a wielder of fire, he's extensively adept at conjuring, controlling and manipulating flames. In addition, he's studied under many great masters of the arcane and shadow to fine tune his understanding and control of magic. He's capable of controlling shadow magics to nearly the same extent as fire, but chooses to use shadow magic mainly as a means to manipulate and toy with his adversaries. He's called a Chaos Archmage due to the extreme chaos and fear that ensues when he enters battle. Many landscapes have been left charred and decimated. It's believed that he gave himself the title.

His eyes glow green with magical energies.

Attributes:

P. Ability - L Forbidden 10/20
Str - VH Supernatural
End - VH Godlike
Will - M Forbidden 10/20
Keen - VH Godlike
Reflex - VL Godlike
Charisma - VH Godlike

Affinities:

Magic: 1900
Psy: 700
Tech: 300
Ki: 100
Stillness: 500
Cease: 500

Classes:

Shadow Priest: 40
Firebender: 9
Airbender: 9
Dweomer Mage: 8
Fire Warlock: 8
Fire Druid: 8
Fire Elementalist: 8
Mage (70)
Fire Mage (70)
Arcane Mage (70)
Warlock (10)
Shaman (10)
Omni Ahmoqa Blado Randce (5) - This is access to all of the Blado Randce schools, or Ahmoqa. It grants you sword and weapon skill. I personally recommend developing the Irfry School skills, which would grant you friction control and aggravated wound knowledge, both of which would amplify your fire efficacy powers (basically, simply passively fighting would raise the heat at your disposal).
Siprt Limbce (5) - The Blado Randce shamanic class. In your case, getting affinities with spirits associated with fire and magic (including the ability to transform into them) would be good to get from this class.
Dragon Thief (10) - A very fun little class combining elements of Ninja, Thief and Mage. Dragon Thieves are a class designed to steal magical power at all costs. In your case, Dragon Thief broadens your spell-stealing, arcane control and siphoning potential.
Veneficium Secutor (10) - A battle magus class of rare variety and skill. I'd recommend DEFINITELY getting Ghost Flame Kata.
Martial Artist (10) - No duh. This Class signifies that you have a broad martial arts base. In Ta'zo's case, abilities should mostly have to do with ki control, energy consumption and defense.
Red Mage (10) - Another classic. Red Mage gives you healing and offensive magic plus middle-range weapon and armor skill. Use this to maximize your spell casting rate (since Red Mage gives that oh-so-coveted X-Magic) and just to get some FF-style utility spells.
White Witch (5) - If you've seen Charmed, that's all you need to know. If not, this has to do with traditional pagan magic and spells that can be cast for low cost with simple rhyming or poetic chants.
Paladin (5) - You know.
Shinigami (9) - You've seen Bleach. Shinigami abilities basically come in a few flavors. First is the stock abilities: Having a zanpakuto, being able to redeem Hollows and send them to their rest and processing, etc. Second is kido, undoubtedly Ta'zo's specialty: Spells of binding or destruction. Third is the swordsmanship/zanjutsu and manueverability tree, the skill Ichigo is best at: Using one's zanpakuto and its innate powers plus the flash step skills. Fourth is hakuda, or shinigami martial arts.
(Alchemist class) - You can choose any alchemical specialty to be a class. My recommendations? Either Roy Mustang's Flame Alchemy or a more conventional Fire Alchemist.
(Tome choices) - Choose one Class having to do with fire, one having to do with engineering or smithing or enchanting or artificing or..., one having to do with magic, one having to do with martial arts, one having to do with psi. cotgrpg.proboards78.com/index.cgi?board=cotgrules&action=display&thread=1132013824 has relevant choices.
(Choices from the Job Gems) - cotgrpg.proboards78.com/index.cgi?board=cotggroupresources&action=display&thread=1132175266
has all the Job Gems. You choose one from each. When those Classes reach 8 CPs, you choose again from the same Gem.

Abilities:

Arcane:

Blink: A progressively limited teleport ability. The more he uses it in battle, the less of a distance he can travel. Under dire circumstances, Tazo can pour life energy into his blink ability to attempt a final teleport to safety.

Arcane Explosion: An ear-shattering shockwave dealing little damage but hits with enough force to knock over buildings.

Arcane Infernal: A unique ability, Tazo can conjure through pure arcane energy an Infernal, a cross between arcane and Twisting Nether power!

Arcane Retribution: Tazo concentrates on an incoming magical attack, feels the full force of the attack (taking full damage) and releases the attack's energy back at the caster in a chaotic manner.

Conjure Food:

Conjure Water:

Polymorph:

Portals:

Slow:

Summon Silithidrius:

Fire:

Scorch/Ignite: Light the target's body on fire.

Fire Blast: Concentrate a great deal of fire in a small area and release it.

Fireball: Gather fire energies within his palms and throw them at a target.

Flame Shield:

Dragon's Breath:

Molten Armor:

Pyroblast: Gather massive amounts of fire energies within his palms and throw them in a direction, engulfing anything in their path.

Rain of Fire:

Flamestrike: Create a pillar of flame within a target area. Takes high concentration.

Shadow:

Soul Glimpse: Examine a target's innermost fears and make them live them for a brief moment. Long enough to shatter confidence and disturb concentration.

Shadow Trance (Channeled): His piercing gaze will captivate a target, forcing target to lose all conscious thought, will and appear soulless until the trance is broken. Permanent damage can occur.

Sever Ties: Causes a psychic capable character to lose their psychic abilities. They suffer, what could be considered, the most extreme migraine imaginable. Sudden loss of psychic abilities may result in vomitting.

Shadow Weave: Covers an area in shadow energy. Targets within shadow area are slowly drained of magic and life energies, transferring them to the caster.

Equipment:

Enchanting materials
Tailoring materials
Netherweave
Runecloth
Silk Cloth
Linen Cloth
Wool Cloth
Mageweave
Netherwing Drake
Kodo
Raptor

Merits:
Iroh Training
Harry Potter Training

Skills:

Lore: Mana 700%
Lore: Elements 700%
Geomancy 700%
Staff 700%
Magician Staff 700%
Wand 700%
One-Handed Sword 700%
Dagger 700%
Firebending 700%
Lightningbending 700%
Firebending Martial Art 700%
Northern Shaolin 700%
Praying Mantis 700%
Defense Against the Dark Arts 700%
Brew Tea 500%
Enchanting 725%
Disenchanting 700%
Tailoring 725%
Riding 700%
Horsemanship: Exotic 700%
Alchemy - 550%
Lore: Magic - 700%
Martial Arts - 550%
Armor Proficiency - 300%
Assassination Techniques - 300%
Astronomy - 300%
Ax - 300%
Barometry - 300%
Barter - 150%
Biology - 300%
Botany - 300%
Brewing - 300%
Chainsaw - 300%
Chain Weapons - 300%
Chakra Mechanics - 300%
Clockwork Mechanics - 300%
Close Quarters Combat - 300%
Competitive Eating - 300%
Cooking - 300%
Dancing - 300%
Demolitions - 300%
Disguise - 300%
Doctor - 300%
Drunken Boxing - 300%
Electromagnetic Mechanics - 300%
Escape Artist - 300%
First Aid - 300%
Fishing - 300%
Fleshcrafting - 300%
Food Criticism - 300%
Forging - 300%
Gas Mechanics - 300%
General Science - 300%
General Weapons - 300%
Genetics - 300%
Hacking - 300%
Hammer - 300%
Heavy Weapons - 300%
History - 300%
Imperial Rule - 300%
Interrogation - 300%
Infiltration Techniques - 300%
Iscariot Art - 300%
Knife - 700%
Lenscrafting 300%
Lore: Astral - 300%
Lore: Colossi - 150%
Lore: Cult of Bloody Debauchery 150%
Lore: Demons - 300%
Lore: Doomsday Weapons 300%
Lore: Dragon - 300%
Lore: Dreams - 300%
Lore: Everything 150%
Lore: Hollows - 300%
Lore: Legendary Weapons 300%
Lore: Raiga 150%
Lore: Realms of the Dead/Ghosts 300%
Lore: Rituals 300%
Lore: Taoist/Mythological Creatures/Spirit Realms 300%
Lore: Universe 300%
Lore: Void 300%
Mechanics - 300%
Mime - 300%
Music - 300%
Negotiation - 300%
Neurology - 300%
Ninjutsu - 300%
Observation - 300%
Origami - 300%
Pick Locks - 300%
Pick Pocket - 300%
Pilot Car - 300%
Pilot Eva - 300%
Pilot General 300%
Pilot Mech 300%
Pilot Spaceship - 300%
Pilot Veritech - 300%
Police Tactics - 300%
Portal/Dimensional Mechanics - 700%
Potionmaking 300%
Prowl - 300%
Psi-Sword - 300%
Psychology - 300%
Rifle - 300%
Rod - 300%
Running - 300%
Sniping - 300%
Shotgun - 300%
Spear - 300%
Start and Manage Fire - 700%
Sutra Writing - 300%
Sword - 700%
Tattooing - 300%
Torture - 300%
Track and Field - 300%
Tracking - 300%
Transmutation Circles - 300%
Trident - 300%
War Pick - 300%
Weightlifting - 300%
White Lotus - 300%
Wrestling - 300%
X-Men Commando Martial Art - 300%

DIO:

Ta'zo
Living Flame
RSN
Warlock Pet
Mount
1 Ally
Tzemke Hive

[Any weapons that either independently act or attack quickly enough to elicit a second turn also work for this list.]

[Frederic Bourgault-Christie]

As I've mentioned, this character is nuts. So we have a lot of options in various categories to consider. I'll start with the most basic.

Affinities: Distribute 3000 among the four basic Affinities: Magic, Tech, Ki, Psi. Your character would obviously be massively specialized in Magic, with perhaps some in Psi for the Shadow Priest-style abilities and some in Tech for some of your combat skills and skills. I can't see any reason you'd need more than 100 in Ki. My recommendation is between one of the following two builds:

Magic - 2100
Tech - 100
Ki - 100
Psi - 100

(Yes, that's only 2400, I know. That's a price for the extreme specialization. That specialization would make any non-Magic attacks carry the relative power of being smacked with a dull sheet of paper, though that's still enough to blow up a planet... Meanwhile, your Magic would devastate damn near anything in the universe.)

Magic - 1500
Psi - 650
Tech - 650
Ki - 200

(Just covering your bases).

Attributes: Again, this is really easy. Just tell me what you want to specialize in, and whether you want to be severely underpowered, underpowered, average, overpowered or severely overpowered in it.

P. Ability - This will be your bread and butter, or at least your mustard and crackers. It refers to your punch with all paranormal effects and your general capacity to relate to the supernatural.

Str - Can't see what you'd need this for. You do use some sword play and so on, but nothing that P. Ability or Keen wouldn't cover.

End - Stamina. You shouldn't be getting hit. However, having Endurance can help if you need to call on your own stamina for spells instead of mana reserves.

Will - Willpower. Very nice to take for a few reasons. First of all, manipulating the weave of magic and maintaining one's sanity requires some mental fortitude. You're not a primarily Warlock type, which would need it more, but you still have some need. Second, it raises your HP. Third, just like Endurance, sometimes sheer willpower can at your level manifest in magical effects.

Keen - Very nice to have. This is your manual dexterity and precision. It'd help make your magical strikes more effective and accurate, allow you to execute your skills with more grace, give you some capacity to dodge as well as adequately see your opponents, etc.

Reflex - Not very necessary. Reflex is your sort of raw musculo-neural capacity to get where
you're going: Move quickly, propel fists quickly, etc.

Charisma - Not necessarily vital for your character, but if you don't invest in Str and Reflex, your ways of getting out of a conflict amount to "blast it", "stun it", "mount up" or "teleport". Charisma at least gives you a third option, not to mention ability to assist allies and coordinate pets better, haggle and get better deals, etc.

Classes: These define your primary skill set. We're nearly done with these, so I'll just need final approval from you. We have 60 CPs left for you to choose, as well as your choices from the various Communals and the automatic Communals (which I describe extensively). I'll break all that you have down for you.

Mage (70)
Fire Mage (70)
Arcane Mage (70)
Shadow Priest (30)
Warlock (10)
Shaman (10)
Omni Ahmoqa Blado Randce (5) - This is access to all of the Blado Randce schools, or Ahmoqa. It grants you sword and weapon skill. I personally recommend developing the Irfry School skills, which would grant you friction control and aggravated wound knowledge, both of which would amplify your fire efficacy powers (basically, simply passively fighting would raise the heat at your disposal).
Siprt Limbce (5) - The Blado Randce shamanic class. In your case, getting affinities with spirits associated with fire and magic (including the ability to transform into them) would be good to get from this class.
Dragon Thief (10) - A very fun little class combining elements of Ninja, Thief and Mage. Dragon Thieves are a class designed to steal magical power at all costs. In your case, Dragon Thief broadens your spell-stealing, arcane control and siphoning potential.
Veneficium Secutor (10) - A battle magus class of rare variety and skill. I'd recommend DEFINITELY getting Ghost Flame Kata.
Martial Artist (10) - No duh. This Class signifies that you have a broad martial arts base. In Ta'zo's case, abilities should mostly have to do with ki control, energy consumption and defense.
Red Mage (10) - Another classic. Red Mage gives you healing and offensive magic plus middle-range weapon and armor skill. Use this to maximize your spell casting rate (since Red Mage gives that oh-so-coveted X-Magic) and just to get some FF-style utility spells.
White Witch (5) - If you've seen Charmed, that's all you need to know. If not, this has to do with traditional pagan magic and spells that can be cast for low cost with simple rhyming or poetic chants.
Paladin (5) - You know.
Shinigami (9) - You've seen Bleach. Shinigami abilities basically come in a few flavors. First is the stock abilities: Having a zanpakuto, being able to redeem Hollows and send them to their rest and processing, etc. Second is kido, undoubtedly Ta'zo's specialty: Spells of binding or destruction. Third is the swordsmanship/zanjutsu and manueverability tree, the skill Ichigo is best at: Using one's zanpakuto and its innate powers plus the flash step skills. Fourth is hakuda, or shinigami martial arts.
(Alchemist class) - You can choose any alchemical specialty to be a class. My recommendations? Either Roy Mustang's Flame Alchemy or a more conventional Fire Alchemist.
(Tome choices) - Choose one Class having to do with fire, one having to do with engineering or smithing or enchanting or artificing or..., one having to do with magic, one having to do with martial arts, one having to do with psi. cotgrpg.proboards78.com/index.cgi?board=cotgrules&action=display&thread=1132013824 has relevant choices.
(Choices from the Job Gems) - cotgrpg.proboards78.com/index.cgi?board=cotggroupresources&action=display&thread=1132175266
has all the Job Gems. You choose one from each. When those Classes reach 8 CPs, you choose again from the same Gem.
We're not doing Abilities yet, but Classes are a primary source of your abilities. The ones you've selected stem from these Classes.

The remaining CPs? Well, I'd spend them on classes like the following:

Firebender
Fire Shaman
Fire Elementalist
Fire Adept
Fire Warlock
Fire Druid
Ley Line Walker
Mystic
Mystic Knight
Dweomer Mage [basically pure arcane and meta-magic skills]
Burster [pyrokinetics]

(We're not doing Traits yet, but we were considering Elemental Limitation: Ice so that you would always be weaker in Ice at the benefit of getting some other advantage. Your various fire, arcane and shadow training would also be considered a Positive Trait, BTW.)

Skills: I mention these because they are easy to do. Simply assign a percentage from 1-725% in any number of skills, including the following Communals (if you find any useful or interesting to your build, otherwise keep them as they are and they will simply enhance your skill set). You have a total of 35,000% to spend. The following Communals do not cost any of this, but boosting them does.

Lore: Mana 700%
Lore: Elements 700%
Geomancy 700%
Alchemy - 550%
Lore: Magic - 550%
Martial Arts - 550%
Armor Proficiency - 300%
Assassination Techniques - 300%
Astronomy - 300%
Ax - 300%
Barometry - 300%
Barter - 150%
Biology - 300%
Botany - 300%
Brewing - 300%
Chainsaw - 300%
Chain Weapons - 300%
Chakra Mechanics - 300%
Clockwork Mechanics - 300%
Close Quarters Combat - 300%
Competitive Eating - 300%
Cooking - 300%
Dancing - 300%
Demolitions - 300%
Disguise - 300%
Doctor - 300%
Drunken Boxing - 300%
Electromagnetic Mechanics - 300%
Escape Artist - 300%
First Aid - 300%
Fishing - 300%
Fleshcrafting - 300%
Food Criticism - 300%
Forging - 300%
Gas Mechanics - 300%
General Science - 300%
General Weapons - 300%
Genetics - 300%
Hacking - 300%
Hammer - 300%
Heavy Weapons - 300%
History - 300%
Imperial Rule - 300%
Interrogation - 300%
Infiltration Techniques - 300%
Iscariot Art - 300%
Knife - 300%
Lenscrafting 300%
Lore: Astral - 300%
Lore: Colossi - 150%
Lore: Cult of Bloody Debauchery 150%
Lore: Demons - 300%
Lore: Doomsday Weapons 300%
Lore: Dragon - 300%
Lore: Dreams - 300%
Lore: Everything 150%
Lore: Hollows - 300%
Lore: Legendary Weapons 300%
Lore: Raiga 150%
Lore: Realms of the Dead/Ghosts 300%
Lore: Rituals 300%
Lore: Taoist/Mythological Creatures/Spirit Realms 300%
Lore: Universe 300%
Lore: Void 300%
Mechanics - 300%
Mime - 300%
Music - 300%
Negotiation - 300%
Neurology - 300%
Ninjutsu - 300%
Observation - 300%
Origami - 300%
Pick Locks - 300%
Pick Pocket - 300%
Pilot Car - 300%
Pilot Eva - 300%
Pilot General 300%
Pilot Mech 300%
Pilot Spaceship - 300%
Pilot Veritech - 300%
Police Tactics - 300%
Portal/Dimensional Mechanics - 300%
Potionmaking 300%
Prowl - 300%
Psi-Sword - 300%
Psychology - 300%
Rifle - 300%
Rod - 300%
Running - 300%
Sniping - 300%
Shotgun - 300%
Spear - 300%
Start and Manage Fire - 300%
Sutra Writing - 300%
Sword - 300%
Tattooing - 300%
Torture - 300%
Track and Field - 300%
Tracking - 300%
Transmutation Circles - 300%
Trident - 300%
War Pick - 300%
Weightlifting - 300%
White Lotus - 300%
Wrestling - 300%
X-Men Commando Martial Art - 300%

To be clear: Communal means knowledge, power or equipment the team shares. Some are automatic and unchangeable or unreplaceable. Others can be altered or are extra bonuses you can choose, such as the nature of your Godbeast form, zanpakuto, your classes from the Tomes, etc. You can elect not to take anything you don't want, perhaps gaining a substitution, but I recommend not. If you find the data daunting, I can simply tell you what everything does and answer questions as they come up.

The above should give you some ideas of what Skills are. Essentially, they refer to any discipline that should be in some form transmittable from person to person and forms a clearly delineated set of skills. All Professions from WoW, all Skills from Rifts or D&D or Fallout, etc. are eligible. It's all right, indeed preferable, if there's heavy overlap between skills. For example: A doctor may have First Aid, Paramedic, Diagnosis, Medical Doctor, Surgery, Herbal Medicine, and Oncology (all of which would form an oncologist).

Mages can be surprisingly Skill intensive, especially if they decide to take a very advisable route: Reducing their spell cost and raising their efficiency by leveraging skill instead of raw magic. For example, Chinese geomancers could simply arrange objects precisely according to the 60-year cycle of ki through the planet and create curses, weather and geological effects, and repel demons without exerting a single drop of Magic or Ki Points! Most traditional mages accomplish their goals at least as much through alchemy, science, diplomacy (or deception and trickery), charisma, sleight of hand, and a certain element of glamour as they do through spell-casting. Relevant skills might therefore include: Alchemy, Chemistry, Engineering, Diplomacy, Speed Reading, Literacy and Language skills (including Orcish, Gutterspeak, Troll, Taurahe, Common, etc. - even though you will probably get the Omniglot Merit, the skills are still quite useful), Research, Lore: Fire Element, etc.

Note that you could have every WoW Profession. However, if you want to specialize in two, I'll represent this in two ways. First of all, we'll choose two Skill Specialization Merits, say for Tailoring and Enchanting. Then we'll raise your skills to 725% in those two. To be clear: 725% is only for Skills you are an utter master in. It's primarily intended for your primary profession, weapon skill and so on.

1-150% is Normal, meaning a skill level a real normal human could achieve in that discipline. 151-300% is Legendary, meaning a skill level that only rare savants could achieve. 301-450% is Forbidden, meaning beyond mortal imagination granting skills that seem impossible. 451-750% are the Transgressive tier, which cuts into the skill power of the gods themselves!

So, to summarize: Spend 35,000% on whatever you want, choosing 3-5 skills for 725% and everything else capping at 700%. It really is easy.

Trainers:10 Old Guard Member trainers. It can be hard to pick at first, but you'll exhaust more people than you imagine very quickly. Any WoW NPC of note, ranging from Cairne to Antonidas to Jaina to Thrall, are eligible. Additionally, anyone from any continuity, ranging from Picard to Miroku to the Ta'zo from the CCG himself [all WoW CCG Heroes and Allies are eligible to be trainers], is a possible source. Here's a Wiki that's very helpful:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_fictional_characters_who_can_manipulate_fire

That's all we'll do for now. I know this post is huge and makes it seem daunting, but if we hang out I can get it all done in 10 minutes.

[madkat]

Affinities:

Magic: 1900
Psy: 700
Tech: 300
Ki: 100

Attributes:

P. Ability - Overpowered
Str - Severely Underpowered
End - Average
Will - Severely Overpowered
Keen - Average
Reflex - Underpowered
Charisma - Average

Classes:

Tome: Tome of Burning Flame

I like your breakdown. The remaining 60:
I'd like to increase Shadow Priest to 40.
Firebender: 9
Airbender: 9
Dweomer Mage: 8
Fire Warlock: 8
Fire Druid: 8
Fire Elementalist: 8


Uhh... I've temporarily lost interest. Will finish another time.

[Frederic Bourgault-Christie]

Undoubtedly due to the siren's call of WoW and Kris' laziness.

Sorry for the confusion on the Tome. Each of the team's Tomes gives you a Class irrespective. It's just a coincidence that, yes, Tome of Burning Flame kicks even more ass for you.

Any new changes should be edited in.

...High Will, huh? Didn't expect that, but a'ight.