GM wanted for Dragonball Z Adventure Game [System Game]

[Laughing Hyena]

Starting premise is that the qualifiers for the World Tournament is approaching. Yet at the same time heavy favorites are going missing. There are a few things I'm going to keep hidden also. The location is Northern City. With one of the primary settings being the university/high school. Ask other questions if you want more clarity.

[Green Goo Theory]

Any possibility of the alien and/or Android rules making an appearance for players at some point?  Or any of the other material in those books like techniques available? I can share those with you if you want unless someone else already has.   Also, is this a setting modeled after the Canon timeline where certain charcter and events exist but it's tweaked or complete AU where it's all fresh?  And if a Canon timeline where abouts in the timeline does it take place? 

Just wanting to know to see which charcter I can use or what I need to tweak.  I'll probably have some followup in pms or discord if certain things need to be hammered down.  

[Laughing Hyena]

Any possibility of the alien and/or Android rules making an appearance for players at some point?  Or any of the other material in those books like techniques available? I can share those with you if you want unless someone else already has.   Also, is this a setting modeled after the Canon timeline where certain charcter and events exist but it's tweaked or complete AU where it's all fresh?  And if a Canon timeline where abouts in the timeline does it take place? 

Just wanting to know to see which charcter I can use or what I need to tweak.  I'll probably have some followup in pms or discord if certain things need to be hammered down. 

Do share them with me as it can help me flesh antagonists out.

But to answer your questions: its an AU that is set within the timeline of late Dragonball and DBZ. Taking place in Multiverse 21. As an AU, there are certain things I added. Such as elements of Dragon Quest. For example Magic is a thing in this game and the power creep isn't as nuts as it is for Human in Canon.

[wander]

Oh, looks like this is happening?

I wonder if I still got my old character for this lying around on my laptop still?

*checks*

I got at least two character stat blocks to apply. 

To add more to the explanation on character generation, the four main stats are Physical, Mental, Combat and Move.
Physical decides Hit regen whilst Mental decides Initiative in fight rounds. Combat decides on the chance of draws for initiative.
Skills are: Body (strength & dexterity feats), Mind (any mental skill use), Evasion (dodging), Fighting (punching), Weapon (using weaponry), Power (using ki/energy attacks).
Body uses Physical as a base stat for checks, Mind uses Mental as a base stat, all other skills use Combat as their base stat.

[Malkavian]

Keen to see who my Saiyan will be paired off with. 

[wander]

Of course I'll roll for species and power level as usual, though when it comes to making up special attacks and arrays of stats and skills, it helps to have something plotted already. 

Though ja, Saiyan gal's a cutie. 

[Malkavian]

She's a fire-cracker to be sure. I was lucky as crap with her rolls, which is why I was so desperate to play her - no one local to me plays, or likes, DBZ, so she's just sat there collecting dust.

[Laughing Hyena]

Glad to try and scratch that itch. ^_^

[wander]

She's a fire-cracker to be sure. I was lucky as crap with her rolls, which is why I was so desperate to play her - no one local to me plays, or likes, DBZ, so she's just sat there collecting dust.

Story of my life.

My hobby is making character sheets for rpgs when I'm the only dude who is interested in them in my circle and I get near zero replies when asking for system rpgs...

I have so many characters I'd love to play with!

[Malkavian]

I am keen to hear these concepts - even if you don't get the qualifying rolls for some of them, I'm eager to hear who Okura could be teaming up with to form this universe's Z Fighters.

[Laughing Hyena]

By all means show the concepts. It should help me adapt and tweak the plot if I have motivations and such lined out.

[Green Goo Theory]

I'm still not super familiar with the dice but usage here by if I read it correctly it sent the results to you,  hyena?  It was an 8 so it hardly matters.   I'll rattle off charcter ideas when I get home and onto my computer.   

[wander]

Getting late here and my character stuff is generally crunch only, no real fluff, also very flow of mind text on notepad docs.

Come tomorrow I'll see what I can do to read through and see what comes along. I am going to send the species roll over presently.

I also own the Android saga (rare af as I understand it) and also I've had on my comp the unreleased Cell saga doc from /tg/, though haven't read much of the latter to see what it adds, though I'll get on that if people are interested.

[Laughing Hyena]

Yes, by using that ID in that dice roller it should send it to me.

Well I doubt there are any details on magic and sorcery since they never got to the buu saga. So I am on my own for that stuff.

[Green Goo Theory]

comp the unreleased Cell saga doc from /tg/, though haven't read much of the latter to see what it adds, though I'll get on that if people are interested.

You happen to still have a link or something?  I haven't had a chance to see that one yet.

[Laughing Hyena]

Well I'm checking and the results are working nicely.

[Malkavian]

Looking forward to having Okura boogie over the faces of some non-Z Fighter opponents.

[Laughing Hyena]

Didn't Piccolo, nuke a city surrounding the world tournament by the climax of the original Dragonball?

[Malkavian]

Possibly? I'm re-watching the original Dragon Ball series and Dragon Ball Z, too.

[Green Goo Theory]

Looking forward to having Okura boogie over the faces of some non-Z Fighter opponents.

Leave some for everyone else. 

Didn't Piccolo, nuke a city surrounding the world tournament by the climax of the original Dragonball?

The city and the whole Island, I believe. 

[Malkavian]

Leave some for everyone else.

Hurry it up, slowpoke. There's a-killin' to be done.

[wander]

You happen to still have a link or something?  I haven't had a chance to see that one yet.

Sadly no, it was on a /tg/ thread like 2 years ago I was lurking in, so I snagged it then and there. I can't even remember what kind of thread it was, let alone it's title, so sifting the archives is too huge a chore.



So, there seems to be zero limit on the amount of special attacks you can make for a character that I can see... I could literally do +1, +2, +3, +4 etc all the way to my total base test for an attack... The only issue is fluffing and naming each and every one?

[Malkavian]

Techniques and Energy Attacks have no limits I believe.

Techniques are simply a case of detailing them, seeing how much damage you want to deal extra and then taking a penalty of equal amount. It should be noted however that the penalty is to your Skill, not the combined total of your Combat + Skill - so the way I read this is that you cannot take a bigger penalty than your Skill value.

Powers are the same in that you can do what you want in theory, with the caveat that you need to be able to pass the check involved or lose the Energy. Later books make it clear that you can summon and maintain energy over Phases to release a big blast that you couldn't otherwise do: like Krillin's Destructo Disc. I'll need to read up on the specifics, but yeah.

[Pink Professional]

Colour me curious, if nothing else. I'll have a read of the Tl;DR and this is all assuming you need an extra hand, but I'd be willing to give it a crack.

I got a 12. Does that make me the most Human-ee human who ever human'd? Am I the doomed Yamcha of the group!?

[wander]

Ah nice, yeah that makes sense for Skill level only.

It's been years since I read the books, so just getting to grips with the system again now I'm a smarter boy and know more mathhammer. Like how on average 3d6 yields 11 at a higher percentage, so to meet a Hard action of 18, you only need a stat + skill of 8+ to do something, which is pretty trivial when the average stat for the 4 stats is 10 (this formula is also a neat way to figure out if your character could feasibly use a Power on average too).

2d6 averages to 7 too, so you can mostly figure out how much damage on average an attack will do by dividing it's damage dice by 2, then multiplying that by 7.
So if I had an Energy Attack with a dc of 28, it'd do (14x7) = 98 Hits on average.

Also dealing with the physical tome and how it's all walls of text with fluff mixed with crunch and rando side-panels explaining things on random pages makes it a lil tough to find exact rulings...