A Certain Role-playing Game

Started out as just an idea, then /tg/ picked it up. Basically, it's a game set in the To Aru universe complete with psychic powers and magic. (the word complete is used very loosely) It's not a dice-pool system, it's a d10 roll-under system.

Potential pdf cover

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toaru_Majutsu_no_Index - Reference to the universe. We can create our own expansion and fluff to the available materials eventually, once the system is in place.

IRC channel: #acertainroleplayinggame @ xen.thisisnotatrueending.com (suptg)

Current .pdf, WIP 6: http://www.mediafire.com/?s5vgfjyp5e9kle8

To Do List

Powers need to have their descriptions made. For the powers that already have descriptions, they need one example each of a small, medium and large effect for both mechanical adjustments to an attack and for deviations from the power.

Powers that need their own unique system for combat use: All the mental abilities - they should do some form of "mental damage" or otherwise impair the foe. Very few of these should be able to inflict physical damage. Anomaly abilities such as psychometry and precognition probably don't have much of a combat application. Either note that or come up with something they could do (precognition could add to dodge rolls?). Abilities such as shapeshifting, sizeshifting, physical enhancement, etc need mechanics that add stats or abilities to the esper without doing damage to an enemy directly.

Powers outside of combat. Someone should come up with guidelines for how powerful an effect an esper can generate at certain ranges of numbers when they roll to use esper powers outside of combat.

Weapons. Weapons need to be statted out with damage and with accuracy modifiers. Equipment such as riot shields, body armor, etc also need to be given stats for how much damage they soak or something.

Fluff. We have basically zero fluff right now. Anyone familiar with the To Aru verse is welcome to help write an introduction to the universe, an explanation of key terms. MAPS would be great if anyone has those.

Schools and Organizations. This is tied in with fluff. Each major school needs to have a description made. Organizations like Skill-Out and Judgement that the PCs can be part of also need descriptions as well as anything that affects gameplay (some organizations make it easier to get weapons, etc)

Sample characters and campaign ideas.

Base Stats

There are four base stats:

Physical - Covers everything physical strength and constitution.

Mental - Not only sheer intelligence, it's also the speed of thought and everything that's based in your head.

Social - How much of a people person you are.

Coordination - Agility, speed, and dexterity.

Generate stats by rolling 5 sets of 2d10 and assigning the best four to one stat each.

The player is then given 30 points to allocate to Level and skills.

One ESPer level costs 5 points

A skill costs as many points as it's bonus. (Running 4 costs 4 points)(There's no skill list, skills are completely freeform)

OR you can roll on the Level table, coming up!

HP: Number of hit points is your Physical stat multiplied by 5. At 0 hit points or below, roll against your physical each turn. On a failure you collapse and are unconscious. At -100% of your maximum hit points, make the same check but a failure means death.

Base Mechanic

Skill Rolls: A skill gives a bonus to your base stat (Running 4 gives a +4 bonus to Physical, Knowledge (Trees) 8 gives +8 to Mental if Trees come into play on a theoretical level.), which you then roll 2d10 and try to roll under the resulting number. 19 and 20 are critical failures, 2 and 3 are Spectacular Successes.

Powers: Powers are determined by rolling on the tables found below. Every combat round, an ESPer rolls a number of dice equal to their level to determine the amount of power points they can spend that turn. Power points are pretty abstract, but the more the more powerful the effect is. The ESPer can also choose to save half of those power points for the next round, thus "charging" their power.

Powers in Combat: (tentative idea) Each turn in combat, an esper can choose to spend the points they rolled for the turn or save up to half of the unused points. If an esper is ever holding more than the maximum number of points they could roll in a single turn (so 10 for level 1s, 20 for level 2s, 30 for level 3s, etc), then they lose all points over the maximum and take that much damage. The number of points you have is the base damage you can do with an attack. This assumes a short range attack against one target. These points of damage can either be used for the attack or be spent to modify the attack to have a longer range, to cover a larger area of effect or to buy additional effects on the attack such as an electrical attack that stuns foes.

Attack Effects: Rather than have a list of power effects, there will be guidelines for how much effects cost. GMs have the last word on how much a particular effect will cost. Small effects will cost 1 point. Medium effects will cost 3. Large effects cost 5. Each effect beyond the first costs an additional point. (ex: 3 small effects will cost 1+2+2 points = 5 points. 2 large effects would cost 5+6=11 points)

There are two cases for when effects need to be applied to attacks. The first is when the attack gives a mechanical benefit beyond simply doing damage.

Examples: Small: plants coming up from the ground and making grabs at your feet to try to trip you

Medium: A stunning effect to a shock, temporarily dropping you

Large: Plants wrap around someone and squeeze tightly, immobilizing them

The second is when the attack does something that deviates from what the power originally does. Small effects push the original power a little. Medium would be effects and addendums of the first power. Large would be huge changes and weird stuff.

Examples: Small: manipulating gravity to directly hit someone with force

Medium: Using electromagnetism to create a blade out of iron particles from the ground

Large: Using gravity to bend light

Obviously, powers like teleportation that don't have direct combat application wouldn't be able to do damage in these steps without use of added effects. They might also need different distance/range charts for balance.

Preliminary Range/AOE info: Each point of damage that is instead put into AOE or range increases the effect of the attack by 10 square yards of area or 10 yards of distance, with a maximum of 100 yards (10 points) for range and no maximum limit for area of effect of the attack.

Accuracy and Dodging: Upon declaring an attack using esper powers, the attacker makes an accuracy roll. For attacks doing physical damage, roll d10 against your coordination For this roll, add your ESPer level and the number of points spent on increasing the AOE of the attack to your coordination. Subtract 1 from your coordination for each point above 3 spent on increasing the range of the attack. The defender rolls coordination. Whoever succeeds with a higher margin of success wins (hits with or dodges the attack). For mental attacks, use the mental stat in place of coordination for both attacker and defender.

Defensive Abilities: If you have stored up esper powers when someone successfully attacks you, you can spend those points to negate some of the damage at the rate of 4 stored points per 1 point of damage negated. Describe how you do this with your power. Ex: bringing up a sheet of ice to block a launched rock, cutting through some of the vines of an attacking plant using a blade of vibrating iron particles, etc.

Critical Failures: When rolling dice each turn to determine power points, an esper can lose control of their power and suffer backlash from it. A level one cannot have a critical failure. A level 2 that rolls 2 or lower on both dice has a critical failure. A level 3 that rolls 2 or lower on 2 of their 3 dice has a critical failure. A level 4 that rolls 3 or lower on 3 of their 4 dice has a critical failure. A level 5 that rolls 3 or lower on 3 of their 5 dice has a critical failure. On a critical failure, the esper gains no points this round and instead loses all stored points and takes damage equal to the points they would have gained plus the stored points they lost.

Weapons:

(Level 0's and NPC's??? or LVL 5's can use them too??)

More to be added, probably

Powers

The current tables:

1d10

1-2 - Elemental

3-4 - Forces

5-6 - Mental

7-8 - Biological

9-0 - Anomaly

ELEMENTAL

1d10

1 - Air

2 - Fire (merged with Heat)

3 - Water

4 - Earth

5 - Metal

6 - Electricity

7 - Synthetic Materials (plastic, glass, ceramics)

8 - Magma/Lava

9 - Electromagnetic Waves (Radiation, UV Rays, X Rays)

0 - Transmutation

FORCES

1d10

1 - Gravity

2 - Friction

3 - Pressure

4 - Light

5 - Telekinesis

6 - Mass control (subtly but substantially different from gravity/vector; think portal vs teleport)

7 - Temperature (Heat/Cold)

8 - Torque (use your power on something and it TWISTS. Level 0: open a stuck jar. Level 2: Wrench a reinforced door off it's hinges. Level 5: Touch a 1,000 ton bank vault, tell it "roll over, Spot. Good, now roll over that house." or "liquify from internal stress; now spray those guys over there with molten steel.")

9 - Time Manipulation (Speeding/Slowing, Possibly hopping at high level)

0 - Momentum (Change the path of objects in motion. Higher level means bigger and faster objects.)

MENTAL

1d10

1 - Memory Manipulation (including eidetic memory)

2 - Telepathy (mind reading, communication, control)

3 - Confusion (ranging from switching one perception for another to causing outright insanity)

4 - Hallucination (any/all senses)

5 - Sensory Antagonism/Agonism (dull/cause pain, pleasure, etc)

6 - Emotion Antagonism/Agonism

7 - Dream Manipulation (might include Astral Projection)

8 - Power Nullification

9 - Power Absorption

0 - Mental Enhancement (thought speed, intellect, will, emotion, etc)

BIOLOGICAL

1 - Plant Control

2 - Physical Enhancement

3 - Sensory Enhancement

4 - Regeneration

5 - Shape Shifting/doppleganger

6 - Animal Control

7 - Animation (Temporarily bringing inanimate objects to life, possibly a golem)

8 - Photoreflexive Memory

9 - Size Shifting (Ability to increase or decrease one's size.)(And maybe others)

0 - Chameleon

ANOMALY

1 - Barrier-field Manipulation

2 - Teleport (See Kuroko for references on the limitations on power, at level 4 she can carry someone who's slightly heavier than her up to 80 or 90 meters)

3 - Precognition (Fluff as seeing statistical probabilities for future, prone to change, that way it won't break a GMs plans or make players feel railroaded too heavily?)

4 - Psychometry

5 - Portals

6 - Technokineticism (Control of machines)

7 - Duplication (Recreate any item touched, seen, or read about... fundamental knowledge of principles behind more advanced creations must be known otherwise it'd go horribly wrong)

8 - Probability (Trade off luck. Example. Win the lottery against huge odds, but then find everything goes horribly wrong in unlikely ways to pay back the luck debt and restore balance.)

9 - Projection (Temporarily projecting an object into existence. Flat board to cross roofs, club to beat with, etc.)

0 - Phase Walk (The ability to "phase" through solid objects)

Power Descriptions

Please note that these are guidelines, rather than restrictive definitions of the powers.

Elemental

Air Control

You control the flow of air, you can create mighty winds or snuff out the greatest flame with the power of your mind.

Fire Control

Mighty flames obey your every command, by rising to your full potential as an ESPer you can create infernoes with a snap of your fingers.

Water Control

Water forms itself according to the ground it flows on, the exception is you. You have the power to control and form water, with the right training tsunamis are within your reach.

Earth Control

The earth itself obeys you, it cracks open at your word and forms itself with a wave of your hand.

Metal Control

Metals bend to your will, cars quiver like jelly on a washing machine and U-beams bow before you. You ARE the Iron Man.

Electricity Control

The current within your body is at your command, you can shoot arcs of lightning from your fingertips and start appliances by looking strictly at them.

Synthetic Material Control

Man made materials like plastic, glass and ceramics are like putty, ready to be formed by your hands.

Magma Control

Earth melts under you stare, asphalt bubbles as you walk by and the guys in the skyscraper better hope the foundation isn't concrete.

Electromagnetic Wave Control

There is plenty of stuff all around us that we can't even perceive, but still affect us. You have power over them. Radiation, UV Rays, X Rays, Microwaves and Gamma Rays are all under your control.

Transmutation Control

Everything is matter, only in different states. You have the power to change this matter into anything you like. See the cellphone in you hand? Look again, the cellphone is now a wallet, the wallet is now diamonds. Anything is possible when you're a Level 5.

Forces

Gravity

You have control over gravity itself. Pin your foes with a crushing force or leap from rooftop to rooftop as if you were lighter than air.

Friction

Walk on ice with the greatest ease or watch your opponents slip and fall no matter how sturdy their footing is. Friction is under your control.

Pressure

You can manipulate pressure. Lazily pop balloons by increasing internal air pressure or crush your enemy’s bones with your power.

Light

Light bows to your command. You can switch a room between pitch black darkness and a blinding brightness with but a thought.

Telekinesis

Spooky action at a distance. Your ability to manipulate the world doesn’t stop at your fingertips. Lift and throw objects from afar.

Mass Control

Glass bends like rubber. Paper becomes a stiff cutting edge. Your thoughts can mold the rigidity and hardness of objects, twisting them to your will.

Temperature

You are Laplace’s Demon’s worst nightmare. Transfer heat between objects in ways that seem impossible. Never suffer through the scorching heat of a summer day again.

Torque

Many things give when you just give them a twist. Break open a bank safe with a huge shearing force, or just open a jar of pickles.

Time Manipulation

You can never have too much time. Slow down time and wow your foes as your pistol shoots faster than a machine gun. Hit your enemies before they can even see you

coming

Momentum

The trajectories of moving objects obey your whim. Redirect bullets Neo-style. You are The One.

Mental

Memory Manipulation

Revisionist history at it's best. Memories are our past, they define our personalities and experiences. So what happens when someone is able to control them? It's up to you to find out!

Telepathy

Skip those pesky human communication methods and plunge directly into the brains of others, even uninvited! Talk with them, see what they're thinking, you can even manipulate them! All of this and more in the wonderful field of telepathy.

Confusion

Blur the senses, change perception, warp the sanity of your foes. People won't even know what's going on, because, well, that is just the thing you do.

Hallucination

We humans are sensitive folk. We know our world because of that sensitivity. Touch, taste, smell, sight, hear; the senses are yours to play with. Have fun!

Sensory Agonism/Antagonism

The nervous system is your domain. Pain and pleasure are your toys. Care to test Pavlov's conditioning to the limit?

Emotion Agonism/Antagonism

Lovers and madmen have such seething brains, such shaping fantasies, that apprehend. More than cool reason ever comprehends... It comprehends some bringer of that joy; or, in the night, imagining some fear, how easy is a bush supposed a bear.

Dream Manipulation (and Astral Projection)

Leave the confines of your body and enter the wondrous field of dreams. Strolling through other people's subconscious, you can irrupt into them when they are most vulnerable. Just be careful, not every dream is a good dream.

Power Nullification

Strip the gifted abilities of the people around you, take them out of their comfort zone. What is a psychic without his powers? Test them, bring them down from their high levels.

Power Absorption

You are hungry for other people's powers, there's just no food finer than the abilities from others. Use it against their own masters. Just be careful, gluttony has never been good...

Mental Enhancement

You need a little push, a little extra on your performance? That's cool, that's cool. You've got what you need. Go beyond your own limits. Reach for the sky.

Biological

Plant Control

Some people have a green thumb, and can seemingly make any plant grow. You can do far more than that. Through sheer will, you can command plants into taking action, as well as conduce growth or withering.

Physical Enhancement

You understand the link between mind and body. Through your mind's psychic power, you can amplify the capabilities of your body to reach incredible heights.

Sensory Enhancement

You might not know anything, but with senses like yours, it's easy to find anything out. Tough test? Just read the answers off that guy in the far corner of the room, they might as well be written on the board, with eyes like yours.

Regeneration

Injuries fatal to the average person mean little to you, as you heal at supernatural speed. At a high enough level, you might even recover lost limbs.

Shapeshifting

Quick adaptation and adjustment to your body allows you to change your form to suit circumstances, be it with claws or another person's visage.

Animal Control

You're king of the jungle, and you have the power to make any animal obey your orders.

Animation

The power of life is in your hands, and you can share it with inanimate objects to make temporary golem servants.

Photoreflexive Memory

"Don't worry, I saw someone try this in a movie, once!" If you've seen it done, you can repeat it, from a parcour roll to a karate kick.

Disease

Colds, viruses, plagues, they're pawns to you. While only an elite few may generate a disease, you can manipulate them to infect your target, protect yourselves, or cure their victim.

Chameleon

Your body adapts to your surroundings to conceal yourself. Why run for cover when you can become all but invisible?

Anomaly

Barrier-Field Manipulation

The best offense is a good defense. Well, your mind provides you with the greatest defense. Create impenetrable walls with your psychic abilities and ward off any harm.

Teleport

No more traveling, no more hurrying up, no more stuck in traffic. Move from one place to another in the blink of an eye. Just be careful not to teleport into something nasty.

Precognition

Use your psychic third eye to reach into the future, acknowledge and defy fate. Why wait till things happen, when you can know it right now?

Psychometry

Everything is imprinted in reality, and your ability lets you see that. Take information from every object you see. If walls could talk... Well, they can. To you.

Portals

Want to teleport, but you want to actually see where you are going? Not instantaneous, but more practical. Portals: for the good of all of us, except the ones who are dead.

Technokineticism

Not just for hikkikomoris, now your computer can really be your best friend. Your control over machines can turn cars and toasters into deadly weapons.

Duplication

Ever wish to yourself that you had a lighter? Well, if you know how works, you can always have one. Your mind can create objects that it has encountered before and understands on a fundamental level.

Probability

You can twist Lady Luck's arm - but she'll get you back. Win the lottery but then find everything else in your life starts going wrong to pay back the luck debt and restore balance.

Projection

A simple thought can temporarily project an object into existence. You'll always have the right tool for the job.

Phase Walk

You are like a ghost - you walk through walls and other solid objects. Great for espionage and spying - or just peaking your head into the locker room.

Other

Student Background Table

1d10

1 - Experimental Subject/Child Error

2-3 - Delinquent (Skill-Out)

4-7 - Regular Student

8-9 - Honor Student

0 - Agency Connections (Judgement, Anti-Skill)

Level table

roll 1d100 and add your Mental stat

1-15 - Level 0

16 - 30 - Level 1

31 - 50 - Level 2

51 - 80 - Level 3

81 - 100 - Level 4

100+ - Level 5

Character backgrounds

1d100

1. Phobia

2. Always on the move.

3. Judgement.

4. Attacked by animal

5. Celebrity.

6. Orphan.

7. Hobbyist.

8. Bookworm

9. Hooligan

10. Shut-in

11. Inferiority Complex

12. Local hero

13. Unlucky

14. Fist-fighter

15. Computer whiz.

16. Undeserved reputation

17. Overconfident

18. Gluttony

19. Gemstone

20. Didn't want this!

21: Hero Worship

22: Animal Lover

23: Superstitious

24: Overachiever

25: Charitable

26: Olympian

27: Teamworker

28: Off the Grid (Higher level than one would think)

29: Musician

30: Wealthy

31: Firefighter

32: Main Character

33: Nervous

34: Anarchist

35: Pyromaniac

36: Fanbase

37: Part-time Job

38: Perfectionist

39: Family in the city

40: Still living at home

41: Connected

42: Emotionally scarred

43: Engaged to be married

44: Foreigner

45: In a relationship

46: Airhead

47: Attractive/Good Looking

48: Famous Parent

49: New in Town

50: Childlike

51: Independent

52: Butler/Maid

53: Tsundere

54: Stalker

55: Positive

56: Rebel

57: Class President

58: Royal Blooded

59: 19 year old ESPer

60: Karaoke Addict

61: Farmer

62: Cook

63: Journalist

64: Genius

65: Religious

66: Rock Star

67: Vertigo

68: Skilled with Weapons

69: Sympathetic

70: Fisherman

71: Anemia

72: Can't stand the Sun

73: Occult Fan

74: Coward

75: Book Author

76: Multilingual (Knows more than one lenguage)

77: Hermit

78: Pariah

77: Only Child

78: Last Child

79: First-born of a huge family

80: Motorcycle Rider

81: Memories of a past life

82: Hippie

83: Crybaby

84: Survivor

85: Melancholic

86: Sharp Sight

Threads on /tg/

First Thread

http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive/11754164/

Second Thread

http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive/11765694/