Fate/Esoterica - A Fate/stay night RP, interest/discussion thread!

Accepted Servants :D!:

• Assassin: Jack the Ripper, played by me.
• True Assassin: Hassan i Sabbah, played by Sullen Frog.
• Archer: Ashwatthama, played by KSPAM.
• Berserker: Achilles, player by Raineh Daze.

, I understand that, but, I mean, is there no balance written into the rules? I was using hyperbole with the all A+s thing, but one could conceivably make an overpowered character while still staying true to the stories... Is there anything in the actual rules to prevent that?

edited 12th Dec '11 11:17:23 AM by deathpigeon

Nothing really, except basic human decency >:|

Yeah, Ash has stupidly low luck. Dude lost his dad, failed to kill his target, killed the wrong target, suffered bloody reprisal for it, sought vengeance for himself and his father, failed to get that, and was then cursed by the gods to forever wander as a seething mass of infection and disease. Motherfucker can't catch a break.

His second highest stat, Agility, is still only a B. The only reason he has an A in endurance is he is the quintessential Implacable Man.

edited 12th Dec '11 11:19:29 AM by KSPAM

You mean aside from the fact that I'll veto anyone with those kind of stats?

>.>

edited 12th Dec '11 11:18:21 AM by Moerin

Ok, just wondering... To be honest, I'm wondering because I don't actually know what fair and balanced stats would look like, and I like concrete rules existing for me to work with because it makes things easier for me... >.>

edited 12th Dec '11 11:21:42 AM by deathpigeon

... If the bow's strength varies, which the thing implies it does, wouldn't its rank be E-A++?

And that sounds like you'd have to be stealing someone else's NP to get the top thing. O_o

I'm still fiddling with it. The source material pretty much likens Brahmastra to a nuclear weapon, stating the collision of two of them would destroy the world. So I need to give it some balance, like slightly reducing destructive power.

A good idea is two Bs, one A and two C or lower.

edited 12th Dec '11 11:23:11 AM by KSPAM

Having a nuclear weapon would make it pretty impractical to use at any strength. XD

The Berserker class seems to have a gravitational attraction to insanely strong people. One of them was Heracles, who had to be killed 12 times with A-rank techniques. So... the above guide kind of breaks down in face of all-consuming madness.

edited 12th Dec '11 11:24:52 AM by RainehDaze

Besides, the only Servant I can think of whose attributes were mostly As (he had two Bs, three As and one A+) was Fate Stay Night's Berserker, and that's because he's Hercules; they don't get much more heroic or well-known than that guy.

Exactly. So I'm thinking either railgun or Instant Death Bullet (as it was used to target the womb of a woman to kill the unborn)

edited 12th Dec '11 11:24:55 AM by KSPAM

FWOOSH-BOOM.

Well, Servants by nature wouldn't be able to use the full Brahmastra anyways. In the Mahabharata, I'd assuem that Brahma would be supplying the full source of the power, but since Ash is summoned as a Servant, he would be doing it from his own mana.

Also, Berserker class is uspposed to be for naturally weak people, with ME giving that weak servant an edge. Except people are stupid.

edited 12th Dec '11 11:26:21 AM by HazzyHaz

... Given their relative luck scores, I wouldn't want to see how the hell that interacts with Achilles' heel.

Because he's Hercules and because of Mad Enhancement. His stats would've been lower if he wasn't a Berserker, although they'd still be abnormally high.

Anyways, I've added a list of accepted Servants to the OP so... Yay~

edited 12th Dec '11 11:26:18 AM by Moerin

Achilles luck is therefore Beyond the Impossible if that's with Mad Enhancement applied. It's E with the B-rank, which boosts luck!

The Masters tend to suffer horribly due to picking strong people and making them lose it.

edited 12th Dec '11 11:28:41 AM by RainehDaze

Precisely.

So, how does this sound? Strikes near the speed of light, hits the target without fail (but only if intent and target is announced), and is generally incredibly but not absurdly destructive (like not "destroy the city" levels of boom, but fairly explosive). It is also somewhat slow to "reload" and requires a physical medium to use.

edited 12th Dec '11 11:30:29 AM by KSPAM

Yeah. At least Kariya's excuse was that he didn't know that he'd summon freaking Lancelot of the Goddamn Lake.

Ilya, on the other hand, has no such excuse.

... You do realise that 90% of the speed of light, or thereabouts, causes the projectile to strike with force equivalent to its weight in antimatter?

Wasn't Ilya prepared for it?

edited 12th Dec '11 11:31:54 AM by RainehDaze

Ilya was created with a whole buttload of magic circuits, so she easily had the magical power to actually fuel and control a berserked Hercules. >.>

Yes, I do. Hence incredibly (yet not absurdly) destructive, and why Ash only tends to use pebbles and blades of grass.

edited 12th Dec '11 11:32:39 AM by KSPAM

Herk doesn't need that little stat bonus, though. Comparatively, it doesn't do much for him as it would for a lesser known, weaker Berserker.

And she also deprived him of Nine Lives and Hydra Bow for a guy who can HULK SMASH.

A gram of antimatter is enough to cause the force of a nuke. :|

Three Hiroshima bombings, actually.
Fact Nazi, away!
-Flies off into distance.-

And a blade of grass is roughly equivalent to .00375 pounds. If this antimatter calculator I'm using is right, that's about 0.0732 megatons. The average low yield nuke is between 5 and 10 megatons.

edited 12th Dec '11 11:39:07 AM by KSPAM

Nagasaki was 18 kilotons. A megaton is one thousand kilotons, therefore that blade of grass is ~0.07*1000 kilotons, which is therefore 70 kilotons.

edited 12th Dec '11 11:39:35 AM by RainehDaze

My bad. Still, using objects like pebbles, feathers, and grass, he should still be able to make relatively safe, non-city-destroying explosions of a sufficiently lethal size.

edited 12th Dec '11 11:39:57 AM by KSPAM