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I am going to start an rp for a fates au I had in mind. I want it to be a bit more like FE4 in tone and nature (because let's face it Corrin is a watered down Altena.) I'm looking for a combination between OC's and cannon characters. Please Fill Out the Character Sheet Below Name: Gender: Allegiance: (Hoshidan, Nohrian, Vallite) Job:(knight, maid, prince ect.) Appearance: Personality: Bio: Other: (anything that doesn't fit above) Feel free to apply for cannon characters to. _________________________________________ No more Nohrians OC'S for the time being please

Hello everyone. I've been a Forum Emblemier for a while now, playing Fire Emblem Play by Post games all over the internet for about 7 years. These have ranged from Freeform RP, to straight up Fire Emblem on a forum, and I think after all this time I'm ready to throw in my hat as a Forum Emblem GM. To facilitate this, I've created this system that draws from many different Fire Emblem games in order to give the feeling of the more recent games, while still remaining as balanced as the GBA games could be at times. I drew particular inspiration from aje8's setup, and by proxy, Thesummoner's setup over from the Giant in the Playground Forum, but have thrown in some Fates style changes as well. [spoiler=Here's the link to the google doc]https://docs.google.com/document/d/1RXZgfU-7QhKv-Oi0d03hpVgFaoPfT3kRPNvrADDIE0I/edit?usp=sharing Frequently Asked Questions: Q: What does PEACH stand for? A: Please Evaluate and Criticize Honestly. Q: Why do Trainees have lowered growths? Aren't they supposed to start weak and grow strong? A: This is something of a misconception that pops up a lot. Trainees grow stronger because they get 10 more levels than other characters plus promotion bonuses when they promote. The Three Trainees from Sacred Stones actually have pretty poor growths and bases to offset this. What you might be thinking of is an Est or Nino archetypal character. A character who joins much later than the others and at a much lower level than the party average in exchange for sizable growth bonuses. Q: Why haven't you doubled HP investment like most systems? A: I have adjusted both the growths and base stat totals to account for the minimum HP thresholds which often are the reason for the HP investment doubling in the first place. Q: Why is there a minimum on growth rates? A: Minimums prevent players from dumping weaker stats into oblivion for massive unintended benefits such as sword users dumping skill, or everyone dumping luck. Q: Why is X class penalized/benefited by the base stat rules? A: My goal was to bring parity to classes in a way that didn't cripple their unique strengths and to compensate knights for the loss in movement. Movement is king, and those with more need to have meaningful tradeoffs. One to Two range units don't have to worry about an awful Enemy Phase offense by being defenseless like Archers against melee or melee against ranged, so they have to pay for the massive leap in versatility. Fliers already pay for flight by losing all terrain bonuses and being weak to a common weapon type. Mages hit a defense stat that is almost nonexistant on the majority of the classes, can counter in melee, can attack at range, and often have solid utility tomes. My changes to bases align with the core series and most Homebrews of FE games. In particular, despite mages receiving large penalties (-5 base stats, -20% growths) this is a straight buff from the gigantic base and growth penalties they have in Fire Emblem Fates. Q: Why not both Strength and Magic? Why only one? A: Hybrid classes are by their very nature, insanely difficult to balance. Because they have to split their bases and stats between two different offensive stats, hybrid characters often teeter on the brink of being overpowered by being able to hit every unit in their weak spots at all times, or being able to barely do competent damage to any unit because they're all over the place. Fates and Awakening try to solve this by loading up the hybrids with tons of free stats and growths to bring them to parity for the other classes, but I personally feel that someone shouldn't be rewarded for being versatile with more stats to increase their reliability. In the end, I couldn't find a way to meaningfully implement hybrids in both a satisfying and balanced way, so I had to make the compromise to cut them out entirely. Q: Why no weapon durability? A: I'm gonna be honest here. Weapon durability has always been an insignificant hindrance to 99% of Fire Emblem players save for LTC runs of certain games in the series. Either you got to shop in between chapters making it needless bookkeeping, or you just wasted a turn ferrying an item mule back and forth. I've opted to save players and myself the headache. This does mean that I needed other balancing levers to pull from which is why... Q: What are these odd effects on weapons? A: Drawing inspiration from Fates, I've used add effects and add penalties to weapons in order to fine tune each weapon class to have a niche. I don't know if they're all 100% balanced, but I could definitely use advice here. Q: Why aren't you using Fates style Weapon Triangle Advantages and Disadvantages based on rank? A: I'm not using this because it's a real pain to manage all the bookkeeping. It also obfuscates the significance of the weapon triangle until much later when the player has already been conditioned to ignore it because the effects are so minor which is why I use the series standard +/- 15 hit +/- 1 Might. Q: Why are you using pre Fates stat calculations? A: Fates has very awkward stat calculations such as (Skill/2)-2 for crit rate or 3(Speed/2) for avoid. Not to mention the humongous luck nerfs. To keep things simple, I am using the GBA/GC formulas. Q: Incapacitation? Why not permadeath? Barring that, why not just let players come back for free? A: Dying and losing a character isn't fun. While the element of tension and suspense of hitting 0 hp must exist for the game to have meaningful consequences, Forum Emblem games with one and done death systems tend to die very, very quickly due to player attrition. This element still leaves death on the table as a meaningful consequence, but also makes it so one bad crit doesn't end a character and an entire game. Q: What are these Status Effects? A: They are a framework for either other people wanting to add items and weapons in that cause them, or an element that is easily stripped out by those who do not. I felt that their inclusion outweighed the negatives so I added them in, though they are incredibly rare. Q: X Class isn't here and it's my favorite! What gives? A: I am using a very heavily modified version of the Fates class trees that brings it more in-line with the GBA and GC classes. I also renamed classes to their classic names to foster a feeling of nostalgia. If you really want to be a samurai, feel free to rename myrmidon on your name plate, or thief for ninja and so on. Q: Do these unpromoted class bonuses like Myrmidon's Crit +5 stack or get replaced by a promoted class's benefits? A: They stack. So Myrmidon to Swordmaster gets Crit +15, Avo +10 for example. These are based off the Fates bonuses, but slightly modified along franchise lines. Q: What are Class Base Growths? Do I have to set my growths as these? A: Class Base Growths are growth rate bonuses added on top of your character's personal growths to reinforce the intended roles of each class. Q: What are Class Base Stats? Do I have to use these? A: While generic unnamed mooks do in fact use these, you do not have to. They exist as a means of calculating Promotion bonuses. Q: What are promotion bonuses and how do I calculate them? A: As mentioned in the doc, Promotion bonuses are found by subtracting the base stats from your intended promotion choice and your current class. In rare cases, this does mean that some stats can go down on promotion, though I tried to make this as uncommon as possible, Q: Why don't daggers have status debuffs? A: Raw stat debuffs that are dynamic and changing every turn on potentially multiple units a turn on both phases, mid phase are a massive bookkeeping headache. Q: What are braces? A: Similar to earlier FE games in the series, I tried to give dancers a bit more to do than just being a refresh bot. I gave them other strong utility tools that should see them making more significant choices in combat other than just "refresh the biggest hitter." ERRATA: Q: What exactly does the Retainer system do for me, and why add it? A: Forum Emblems that I've seen and participated in offer suffer from two major problems as I've mentioned earlier. The retainer system doesn't solve either problem, but it blunts both player attrition and player density. By offering more units tied to player performance and RP, more goal is to encourage players to experience all the game has to offer on hand, As for what they do, they can be deployed to the player's current map as a unit, deployed to a side map the players chose to pass up to still reap some benefits or serve as a replacement PC in case a player dies. Q: Who creates the retainers? Do Players get to decide on their backstories if they do? A: It's up to the player. If while RP'ing, they feel like an NPC would make a good retainer of theirs, they can take it up with me and we'll discuss whether it's appropriate in the context of the RP. If it is, I will decide the NPC's backstory, but still allow the player to build the characters stats within their pre-existing class if they had one. Otherwise, the PC fully creates the retainer and is in full control of their backstory. They can either RP them themselves, or let me RP them. Q: Why an MvP system? A: I wanted to reward the players for being exceptional in both RP and playstyle. I've seen other Forum Emblems use this system and wanted to give it a go. Q: Why change Weapon Mastery bonuses? A: I've folded weapon proficiency bonuses into the base stats of weapons to discourage sticking to primarily lower ranked weapons only and to encourage moving on up the weapon world. This also lowers general bookkeeping and should serve as a net gain to the system. Q: Why lower enemy base stats? A: So that players don't have to struggle to just kill a group of 2 or 3 enemies until higher level. And that's all. Let me know what you think/give me advice/criticism in the posts below. Thank you for reading!

Hey Shepherds! Uh, listen, I know this was the last resort. But well... Miiverse is for different purposes now, and Skype is merely a chat, so I thought we could try this out. This is simply a test post, feel free to comment! Let me know what you think by this idea, feedback would be awesome. Thanks! ~Mist

I'm sure that most of you on SF are used to long and drawn out roleplays with lots of character development, story-driving conflicts, and your typical red and green cavaliers in the early game. For those of you who would like a change of pace, or just like boasting your tactical prowess, I present to you: Fire Emblem: Battle Royale! Battle Royale is a storyless, combat driven roleplay, where players will be able to use their own custom Lords and armies to wage wars with and against other players in the game engines that make Fire Emblem one of the best strategy game series of all time. Many key features of Battle Royale include: Like I said before, there is no story for this roleplay, no character development, etc. BUT, if you as the players want to create a story to go along with the grudge matches that I will be hosting, then by all means do so, as long as the premise or flow of the plot does not conflict with the system I've set up for this. I am also encouraging any ideas you guys have for new classes, skills, game-types or other mechanics. They won't be taken for granted but I will give consideration to any suggestions made. With enough interest, I'll supply an OOC with everything you need to know about how to create your character, charts with class information, skills, and how to use your units in battle with the Command System I designed.

DISCLAIMER: Even though this roleplay has started, feel free to sign up and join late! Welcome to the Magic Valley High School You have been recognized for having an exceptional aptitude for magic and are now given the opportunity to attend the most prestigious magic school of your generation. Please fill out the student application card below: [spoiler=student application card] Name: Gender: Age: Race: Element: Dream for the future: Greatest fear: Personality: Back story: Please attach a picture of yourself: Thank You, Headmaster Barron About the world; [spoiler=Races] Elves - highly intelligent, but weak physical stature. - excels in ranged and elemental magic, but does poorly in close combat situations - are born pure of heart and take on a more human appearance, if corrupted they take on a more demonic appearance - are considered to be the nobles of the magic world Humans - highly varied intelligence and strength - neither excels or fails in any school of magic - the most wide emotional range of all the races - often seen as weak by the other races because of their attachment to each other Fairies - small and speedy with average intelligence - excels magic involving trickery, stealth and healing - they share a strong bond with animals and nature - close allies of the elves, look higher upon than humans but less than of the elves Giants - below average intelligence and extremely strong physically - excels in magic that enhances physical strength - wanders and often travels alone, a less populace race - regarded as outcasts, more allied with the humans than the fairies or the elves [spoiler=Elements] Fire - weak to water, strong against air Water - weak to earth, strong against fire Earth - weakt to air, strong against water Air - weak to fire, strong against earth Light - weak defensively to shadow, but strong offensively to shadow Shadow - weak defensively to light, but strong offensively to light [spoiler=Rules] NO MARY/GARY SUES/STUS No controlling the actions of any character but your own Keep a primary focus and give slower posters the time to catch up and reply If you want to drop-out of the RP write a death scene Please post all OOC comments in this thread and leave only rp posts in the rp thread Use common sense *If rules are broken multiple times the RP Master will kill your character off*

Welcome to the Magic Valley High School You have been recognized for having an exceptional aptitude for magic and are now given the opportunity to attend the most prestigious magic school of your generation. Please go to your assigned room: [spoiler=assigned rooms] Room 1: Esmund and Faenor Room 2: Soles and Cindy Room 3: Athena and Carter Room 4: Aleksander and Sonny Room 5: Felina and Chris Room 6: Aria Room 7: Rikku Thank You, Headmaster Barron [spoiler=students] Esmund, Human, Male, 17, Air Soles, Fairy, Female, 17, Light Athena, Elf, Female, 18, Shadow Feanor, Elf, Male, 16, Fire Aleksander, Human, Male, 17, Fire Cindy, Human, Female, 16, Water Chris, Human, Male, 17, Air Carter, Human, Female, 14, Water Sonny, Giant, Male, 18, Earth Felina, Human, Female, 18, Air Aria, Human, Female, 16, Air Rikku, Elf, Male,17, Earth On each of the student's beds, there is an ID card with their picture on the front and a number on the back in big black text. [spoiler=Girls] Soles: 3 Cindy: 4 Athena: 1 Carter: 5 Felina: 2 Aria: 6 [spoiler=Boys] Chris: 5 Aleksander: 2 Sonny: 4 Esmund: 3 Faenor: 1 "Please wait in your rooms until further instruction" is heard over the loudspeaker.

Nub's nostrils flared as a light fluttering into the Giant Chasm's cave woke him from his nightly slumber. Nub pushed himself out from under his little rock as he felt his stomach grumble. "Well, well, well. It's the morning alarm. Nub's stomach." A group a Golbats flying by chuckled to themselves. Nub growled to himself. He was not in the mood for this. Suddenly Nub noticed a Clefairy running around in a panic inside the cave. Nub was confused. Clefairys never ventured into the cave, they were usually only in the Giant Chasm's plains. Nub's gaze met with the Clefairy as she wandered over to him huffing and puffing. "It's just a disaster! Just a disaster!" Clefairy exclaimed. "What's going on?" Nub asked, the cave seemed suspiciously quiet this morning. "L-last night!" "Is there a powerful trainer trying to capture pokemon in the plains or something?" Clefairy shook her head, "you're not listening! There's a giant wall of ice. Ice so strong nothing can break it! Nothing is getting in and nothing is getting out-" "What's the radius of this ice wall?" [spoiler=available areas] [spoiler=the cave] [spoiler=wild pokemon in the area] [spoiler=plains] [spoiler=wild pokemon in the area] [spoiler=inner cave] wild pokemon are the same as the cave with dewgongs and seels in the water [spoiler=outside] [spoiler=wild pokemon in the area] "Well can't a Swellow just fly over top of the ice wall?" Clefairy shook her head again, "no no! It's too cold! None of the flying-type pokemon can even get off the ground, nor can fire melt the wall!" Nub snarled, "this is clearly a curse put on us by those damned Absol's from the Giant Chasm's outside." Clefairy, "w-well there is one more strange thing." "What could it possibly be now?!" Clefairy and Nub traveled to the outside to see a group of confused pokemon sitting in front of the ice wall. They were clearly not wild pokemon, but where were their trainers? Nub could tell they didn't even know themselves. Nub approached the group of pokemon, "who are you? What are you doing here? Did you do this?!"

So I've decided to start a pokemon roleplay :) if you want to sign-up just post your character sheet in a comment. Basic Story: Rules: Character Sheet: Pokemon: Swinub Level: 24 Gender: Male Nickname: Nub OT: wild pokemon Nature: Adamant Attacks: - Ice Shard - Icy Wind - Mud Bomb - Endure Anything else: Just a wild swinub shocked to see the recent invasion of seemingly abandoned pokemon in his homeland.