Synergy and Feedback Discussion

[Divergent Reality]

Here is a place to share your previous characters. Be sure to include their Race, Class track(s), and Exaltation. Info about what worked, what didn't, and what made them fun would also be good to hear.

And hijacking this. To explain: On the old forum, we had a thread discussing how some bits fit together. What worked, what didn't, and, occasionally, what made the combination fun. This will now be that thread.

[Chips]

Korgy
Kobold Magic User, Atlantean
What worked: Pretty much everything, it's the most obvious class/exalt combo you can probably think of. I never really used his racial power much, but he made for a pretty decent evoker.
What didn't: Not much that didn't come from me not knowing what I was doing, as he was my very first ever character.
What made them fun: Well, there was a lot of things I could cite, but most of al- PARADOX!!!

Lori Saaderman
Human (Kid hindrance) Heavy, Paragon
What worked: Barraging enemies with maximal dakka, adjusting rolls with pressure to get optimal raises for said maximal dakka, enemies not being able to dodge the dakka
What didn't: Full auto largely means a lot of stand and shoot, your best damage source can get shut down pretty hard by cheeky shits running up in your face early on, reload times for the better storm weapons can be a fuggin bitch
What made them fun: Being a one girl death machine, spraying bullets indiscriminately and obliterating robots

Opal
Cecaelia (Inkvader asset) Magitek Gunman, Aria
What worked: Sniping the fuck out of enemies with a cool X damage sound rifle (which ended up with 10 armor pen), being a legit inkling, sea puns and musical magic shenanigans
What didn't: Aim and shoot is basically all you do, I was not at all ready to be the party face
What made them fun: Largely getting to play an inkling

[ScrapyardDragon]

"The trashman"
Shiva street samurai, evoluder
What worked: four arms for having fun with several weapons, and blasty magic from evoluder. He had an energon arm for built-in swords as well.
the faults: he honestly worked out pretty great to be real with you, but his lifespan was far too short due to the campaign not lasting more than a few sessions.
The fun: FLAMING DUMPSTER CHARRIOT! Beyond that my plan was to crank up the power stat to eventually reach six arms for even more multi-weapon fun, but again, session ended early.

Astrid Hirika
Soratami (lunar fey), songweaver program (with future media subroutines)
what worked: pure support via class feats spreading buffs and debuffs, and the hacking abilities were also more fun than you'd think.
the faults: she went down to stray bullets and enemies are dangerous, who knew?
the fun: literally a bunnygirl vocaloid. Shameless, but I had fun with it, shame the poor girl had the worst luck

Mirimia
arachnee necromancer but also random 1-2 level muticlasses into other things deathlord.
what worked: I built a mage but somehow she ended up as a melee unit. The arachnee racial feat that gives claws are actually pretty good, and she later figured out how to sword pretty good, and festering ruin+the false live spell made the jurry rigging into a melee fighter actually kinda work out well.
The faults: I rarely got to use the exalt powers beside the "you only die to head/body crit" bit though because to many of their powers burn up a resource thats far too slow and difficult to recharge efficiently imo. also I clearly had no idea what I really wanted to do with her and the wavering between classes contributed to her statblock being an unplanned mess of abilities. Also, low wisdom equals blind as fuck with some of the encounters we had.
the fun: nobody respects the undead spider loli or her bar. Freaking werewolves trashing the place every three sessions.

Julie
dredge mycosynth promethean mechomancer/robot master
what worked: I'm not entirely sure. She had vehicular power armor so she never really DIED but she didn't actually do much either.
what didn't work: I just never really got the opportunity to make the most of her abilities. the customized robo was removed from the fight before I could take full advantage of it, and the minions need some prep time to get the most out of them, which I never really got. Pluuuus she got separated from the rest of the group and being unable to socialize ended up in her just being tugged around doing her own thing for 80% of the game. If I went back I wouldn't rebuild her exactly but I still want to try a robot master setup as I never really got to enjoy it the first time.
what made it fun: the character's stat block wasn't taken advantage of, but I admit the antics she got involved in, such as the world's slowest car chase, getting drafted, and arresting the party was amusing.

Nicole
Tiefling chimaera ...melee fighter
what worked: got good mutation rolls pretty quickly so I got to have fun going sicko mode for the big pow kabaam.
what didn't work: dumb as a post and had minimal social abilities, plus having played one I don't think that chimaera is all that good. I wouldn't mind digging her back up far into the future and I enjoyed some character dynamics with her but I think I'd have been better off in the long run just statting her as a regular werewolf.



overall a big problem with my character building process is that I tend to make a random multiclass after a while for one reason or another, with varying levels of sucess. Other times its just bad luck, be it via compaigns ending quickly or being jumped and separated 1 session into the campaign.

[GuardianTempest]

In DtD I always play a reference character one way or another, there's something special about the crossover-y nature of the system that lets me stat almost anything. The only time I didn't was for a solo campaign.

General Fai
Human Overlord (Artillery Rule) Warfighter (with a dip in Gunrunner by late-game).
Reference: Command and Conquer Generals - Zero Hour
Summary: Also known as "The Anvil", he is a General from Space China Hinanawi sent to investigate a Warp disturbance on a nearby planet. He will bury you under a mountain of troops!
What Worked: The Overlord's custom spirits, had a lot of fun with them (Iron Boar, Silent Archer, Walking Furnace, Siege Princess and Crashing Landslide). Also, Warfighter's Killstreak Rewards working as I wanted it.
What Didn't: The minions themselves, what's the point of holding a parade on my enemies' faces if they're horrid?
What Made Him Fun: I managed to kill a building using generous usage of my Warfighter feats as well as impose my glorious presence for everyone to gawk at.
Other trivia: I joined the campaign late. The Warfighter and Overlord I used were of an older iteration (the latter one with something called Rift Stone). Also, I had to wake up at 3am just to join this campaign because time zones are pain.

Tsugu-Min
Promethean Cyclops Gunrunner
Reference: Contra
Summary: Little cyclops robot with a gun for an arm
Other trivia: Was made for a one-shot with me and another player, while waiting for the others to show up. She didn't really do much aside from shoot a halfling.

Kirisviel Eminzbern
Kor Wellspring Dip in Secret Service then Insurgent
Reference: Fate/Zero
Summary: Grimdark magical girl follower of the Raven Queen who believes in sacrificing the few for the majority.
What Worked: Well, managed to pull off the "weak but dirty fighter" thing, winning an encounter by sniping from the shadows.
What Didn't: So much for skulking in the shadows, what made me switch characters in the middle of this campaign is that all it took was one swipe from a Black Spiral werewolf and I need to burn a Hero Point so early.
What Made Her Fun: Through use of my Chronokinesis, I made tons of bombs, also I rolled so high on Stealth that I'm practically invisible until I corrected an NPC on something.
Other trivia: Her name is a fusion of Kiritsugu Emiya and Irisviel Einzbern. This would've been her character portrait but I changed my mind for some dumb reason. Maybe it's because she wears her Warpnode Device (a Rebreather) all the time.

Spartacus
Kython (Galerider, Gorebrute, Truedive) Spawn (Mutant lineage) Sacrificial Lion (with a little bit of War Hulk)
Reference: Fate/Apocrypha and Fate/Grand Order
Summary: He used to be a hero of the rebellion, now, not so much. Time has not been kind to him as the myriad of adventures has taken its toll on his form. Now he's only a shell of his former self, used by Kirisviel as a walking tool of destruction.
What Worked: Ginormous HP and tons of +Strength from mutations
What Didn't: None to my mind, I'm satisfied.
What Made Him Fun: "OPPRESSION?! BWUAAAARRRRGH!!!" Also brute forcing my way through problems and getting benefits from status conditions.
Other trivia: Has Kaban from Kemono Friends as an Escort Mission hindrance, and yet Spartacus was the most dangerous thing to her due to having Fear 3 constantly.

Lieutenant Alice L. Malvin (the blonde woman on the right)
Pleiadian Paragon Multi-classer
Reference: Pumpkin Scissors
Summary: A member of the nobility from House Malvin, she decided she does not like being an uppity noble and has taken it upon herself to be a shining beacon of justice, an actual good girl in Sigil's Bleak Cabal (as crazy as it is). Let's see how her naive justice plays out versus the world.
What Worked: As the party face, her high social characteristics and skills played to her favor.
What Didn't: I gave her some fighting ability but not "fend off the threat" and no Ballistics means her only spells are Magic Missile and Force Sphere.
What Made Her Fun: Sheer contrast with the rest of her party, being cutters who err on the side of collateral damage.
Other trivia: Due to a few stray "Awoo" and an incident with Psychic Phenomena, she now has a derangement that drives her to howl at inappropriate times, despite her alignment not being Luna. Also, at the middle of the campaign she up and left because the chaos was too much.

Ryoma Sakamoto (and his Dragonblooded wife, Oryo)
Human Mastermind Courtier/Consultant
Reference: Koha-Ace and Fate/Grand Order
Summary: One of the three founding members of the Centerfold Ministry, Ryoma the Ambassador (with help of his dragon wife) are out to change the status quo.
Other trivia: Alice's replacement. Oryo refers to herself in 3rd person and Ryoma has a phobia for assassination attempts. These two dorks joined late in the campaign and after a couple of sessions, I got IRL'd too hard to participate in the rest of them.

One thing I'm starting to realize is that aside from references, I plan characters with "cinematic moments" I want to have in mind. Kirisviel was supposed to explode someone with her bombs (probably an innocent person as an unwitting kamikaze). I wanted EMIYA (I didn't list him here, it was for a one-shot) to shoot a sword from his bow, charged with Broken Phantasm and imbued with Orgone Array (to warp the target and all allies around it). Spartacus was imagined to kill something in one or two hits from sheer force. Ryouma's dragon wife was supposed to go Maximum Dragoning and become a sweet riding steed for him.

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(to refine later)
"Noelle Holiday" (Tiefling Witch Glamour Mage/Rune Chaser/Spirit Swordsman/Magitek Gunman)

From my multiple PCs over at Journey to Carceri:
-Lanney Ca'Hadean (Svirnefblin Deviant Muscle Wizard/Monk)
-Scout Clawthorne (Alchiral Moigno Loose Cannon/Gunzerker/Heavy)
-Emi Shirouya (Human Font Bladecaller/Arcane Knight)
-Saito Hiraga (Human Novitiate Man-at-Arms), with his 5-dot Ally Razmi (Human Witch Pyromaniac)
-Poppy (Gremlin Paragon Juggernaut)
-Belgdor (Alchiral Warmachine Mystic...for now)

[Amanojyaku]

New thread identity is go. Should now be more reflective of what DR wanted in the OP.