Fire emblem Random fights Recruitment thread

[GrassyGnoll]

Which reminds me that I ought to provide some direction to my sprites in prospect...

Nil [base: Lucius]

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I had in mind a palette-swapped Lucius bishop sprite. The color scheme I wanted to use for reference was the silver-black-gold-red of vanilla WoW's tier 1 priest set (minus the big glowy staff and red bunny ears).

For a portrait, Lucius with the corresponding color swap and gray eyes should do. Maybe contour the eyebrows into a less gentle look.

Nadir [base: Igrene]

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Just Igrene with brown hair. Lighten the poncho color if it clashes. Keep the lipstick and beauty mark.

In case you couldn't place the quotes, Nadir is an expy of the condition suffered by Leonard Shelby in the movie Memento. His eyes should look distant; so smudge the eyebrows and maybe give him silver-gray irises.

Boudica [base: Ekhidna]

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Dye Ekhidna's hair strawberry blonde and give her a light blue-steel gray color swap. I can leave or take the pauldrons on her shoulders, so if you find a fur mantle to replace it with go ahead. The battle sprite may be more difficult, as you'll have to swap a Warrior chest-piece onto the typically bare-chested Berserker...

Or just use a modified Warrior sprite...

[Illven]

Originally Posted by Sairyu

Abby has 5% too many growths.

Otherwise, everything checks out.

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I'd rather just start the draft (once we hit 16 characters that aren't mine) with my generated characters in it. Sure you lose a slot or two, but I'd really rather start this sooner than later. I mean, you don't really need 9 people to out-strategize me in a 1L8P map, right?

Forgot about flier -5 Growth. I fixed it. Does it check out.

Originally Posted by Ascaloth

Hmmm. What are the promotion bonuses for a male Paladin? My gears are churning out yet another character concept...

Hp +2 Str +1 Skl +1 Spd +1 Def +2, Res +1 Con +2, Mov +1

[Niek]

I think I'll play a Pegasus Rider going into Wyvern Knight MAGE KNIGHT

Gerald Deus

	Base Stats	Base Growth	Promotion	Average Initial Stats
Hp	8 (16)	25(50)	4	30
Mag	7	35	2	16
Skl	9	25	0	16
Spd	6	45	0	15
Lck	10	45	0	19
Def	0	45	2	11
Res	0	45	2	11
Con:	6	0	2	8

Affinity: Anima

Alternatively, I could drop a point from Luck, Skill, and Magic for the Lord bonus, if we could use more Lords

[Sairyu]

@Illven
Yep, Abby's stats are all fine now.

She doesn't seem to have an affinity, but (as I said earlier) I don't think that matters for this.

@Ascaloth
For future reference, you can find promotional gains at:

http://serenesforest.net/fe8/promotion.htm

[Illven]

Originally Posted by Sairyu

@Illven
Yep, Abby's stats are all fine now.

She doesn't seem to have an affinity, but (as I said earlier) I don't think that matters for this.

@Ascaloth
For future reference, you can find promotional gains at:

http://serenesforest.net/fe8/promotion.htm

Right uh. Probably Fire affinity.

Also if you want to check other characters, I'll take your word for it. I mean you're running your own game.

[Sairyu]

Alright, I'll check whatever I see something that you haven't yet then.

[Sairyu]

Working backwards for Niek's character to determine the promotion bonus, I get...

Promotion Bonus: +3HP, +1MAG, +1SKL, -1SPD, -1LCK, +1DEF, +1RES

Okay, I don't know what that is. The stat/growth assignments do check out though, so grabbing a baseline...

Calculating for 20/1 (not including promotion bonuses)

Stat	Base	Growth	Total
HP	8 [16]	25 [50]	26
MAG	7	35	14
SKL	9	25	14
SPD	6	45	15
LCK	10	45	19
DEF	0	45	9
RES	0	45	9

For...
Mage (M) -> Mage Knight: +4HP, +2MAG, +2DEF, +2RES, +2CON
Mage (F) -> Mage Knight: +3HP, +2MAG, +1SKL, +2DEF, +2RES, +2CON
Troubadour (F) -> Mage Knight: +3HP, +2MAG, +1SKL, +2DEF, +2RES, +1CON

The character's also missing a CON value [6+promotion bonus] and an affinity.

[Niek]

Ah, right forgot the CON and affinity.

20/1 means 19 levels of growth, right? since you dont grow at level 1 or on the promote

[Illven]

Originally Posted by Niek

Ah, right forgot the CON and affinity.

20/1 means 19 levels of growth, right? since you dont grow at level 1 or on the promote

Ah, but you start with growths, so that your second level isn't empty.

Either way, since the stats check your character was accepted.

Although I need to know what your base class is.

[Niek]

base class was Mage (M). And alright.

Edit: Going to try to be a dodge tank, with those high luck and speed stats

[Ascaloth]

Thanks Illven, Sairyu! Alright, how about a third hero from the Three Kingdoms era?

Lu, the 'Flying General'
Mounted Knight (Lance) 20/Blackguard (Paladin) 4


"No warrior is my equal under the sky!"

Stat/Growth Mods: -30% Growths (+3 Jeigan), -5% Growth (Lance Mounted Knight)
Growth Model: Fixed Averages
Promotion Bonus: +2 HP, +1 STR, +1 SKL, +1 SPD, +2 DEF, +1 RES, +Con 2, +Mov 1


Stats (Promo Bonus not included)

Stat	Base	Growth%	Final
HP	8 [16]	40 [80]	36
STR	7	40	17
SKL	6	40	16
SPD	6	40	16
LCK	4	20	8
DEF	5	30	13
RES	4	20	9

CON: 10 = 8 [base] + 2 [promotion]
MOV: 8

Affinity: Light

Class Features: Mounted, A Rank in Lances, E Rank in Swords



This time, the 'Flying General' is based on this guy. Paging for a portrait and battle sprite for Lu; I don't really have any firm guidelines in mind for his appearance, save that his horse must be red.

Yes, I'm building him as a strong and versatile unit who will be useful in the early and mid game, but falters in the end game.

How does this look?

[Illven]

Everything checks out.

[Ascaloth]

Awesome. This was my only 'average growths' character entered thus far, and a Jeigan what's more, so I was wondering if I missed anything.

[Sairyu]

I am so bad at translating maps from paper to the computer.

Damn you, sand and water tiles!

[Illven]

I'm bad at art in general if that makes you feel better. (Seriously my sprites are about all I can do)

[Rising Phoenix]

Originally Posted by Water_and_Wind

A man among men.

This... this...is amazing...

As for joining, I dunno, I don't have much time these days and if there isn't a core storyline and not much rp I'd rather not join sorry

[Water_and_Wind]

A pretty smart dude.

[Rising Phoenix]

Originally Posted by Water_and_Wind

A pretty smart dude.

OMG...Ok if water and wind will make a sprite I will join this game...

[Herpestidae]

There's a saying on tumblr:

"Everyone else go home."

It's not a put-down or insult to anybody, just and acknowledgement that you know, deep down, that nobody will ever be able to compete with the work of art (music, writing, drawing, sculpting) you see before you.

So now, I officially declare Water_and_Wind to be the best spriter on these forums, and everyone else can go home.

I've actually gotten the "everyone else go home" reaction a couple times for my voice impression of a deep-voiced character that everyone seems to love even though he was only in like three episodes.

[Ascaloth]

Darn, W&W. You HAVE to tell us how you managed this one.

If you're planning to create Lu Bu as well, you HAVE to tell us how you're planning to go about it.

Words fail me. Thanks so much, man.

[Rising Phoenix]

Originally Posted by Ascaloth

Darn, W&W. You HAVE to tell us how you managed this one.

If you're planning to create Lu Bu as well, you HAVE to tell us how you're planning to go about it.

Words fail me. Thanks so much, man.

Aye, perhaps a youtube video?

[Water_and_Wind]

Its just Saul with a beard and a custom hat and fan. I'm not sure where all the praise is coming from, because frankly the custom parts are a rush job. Just ask one of the artists in the playground, I think they'd concur with me on that.

But, still, thanks guys

[Illven]

Originally Posted by Rising Phoenix

This... this...is amazing...

As for joining, I dunno, I don't have much time these days and if there isn't a core storyline and not much rp I'd rather not join sorry

Okay, that's fine. I understand.

[Acanous]

If anyone finds a decent "Magician" sprite, could you toss me a PM? I'm trying my luck at making a portrait, but the battle map sprite is NOT going to look like the standard mage...

[Illven]

Well I have a map. Probably not a good one, but the tiles are clear at least. Herp will be our first lord. Yay for him.

[Sairyu]

I'll have my maps ready for the weekend I think, so we can start the draft then. Well, assuming we get 2 more recruitable characters done in.

[Illven]

If we don't have any by friday, I'll draw two up

[AlphaPanda]

Oh man, this looks like a ton of fun! I'm really unfamiliar with the process of making a character for a Fire Emblem game though, so I have absolutely no idea where to begin.

[Illven]

I can help. First what weapon do you want to wield?

[AlphaPanda]

That'd be awesome. Hmm I'm up in the air between wanting to be a caster (shaman-druid) and wanting to be a mercenary-hero/myrmidon-swordmaster. Looking over your list of characters though, I see two swordmasters already so that might be out. Which would be more helpful/desirable if any?

Oh and I've played the video games, so you don't have to worry about walking me through the general mechanics. I'm just not well-versed in the stat/growth distribution process for creating a character.