Emergency Topic #1. Wasn’t planning on this, thought about what I like, what I’ve seen lately.

Shmi came up with an interesting thought on another thread.





History lesson. For those unawares, the Original CCC meant “Custom Character Creation” but it seems we’ve each developed unique perspectives to its meaning (Nothing wrong with That.) Is it meant to be competitive, playable, fun, or thematic? I believe, IMHO, that it should be always thematic in that it should be star wars-like (for the purposes of our game,) but after that, as long as it’s at least one of the other, it’s your creation.

This week, create a character; any faction, 25 points max, unique or non-unique, no more than six abilities (Melee counts as an ability, Force X doesn’t) with at least Two (2) custom abilities created by you.

I’m not a meta-changing guy and I’m not worried, again IMHO, whether it will fit into X Tier. Your creation, Create! Play on.

1. You may update any existing versions you already have and/or create a new one. You may update/create several versions of the character but you must ultimately select 1 you wish to run with. (this must be done by the schedule below)

2. Place a hyperlink in this forum to make it easier to find your character. You can just post the stats or image here but if changes are needed it would be easier (and save space) if you just used a Hyperlink (If you don't know how to post Hyperlinks in a forum setting please ask and we will help you. It's not hard )

3. Voting works as follows, pick your three favorite customs based on accuracy to the character, design, balance or whatever you decide makes the best incarnation of the challenge character. First place receives 3 points, 2nd place receives 2 points, and 3rd place receives 1 point.

4. You do not have to enter the contest in order to vote. But unless you enter you must have at least 10 forum posts.

5. To make things fair you must vote in order to win the contest. Try to give feedback if possible to help designers out. You must choose three characters entered in the contest and you may not rate or vote for your own character.

6. The winner will be decided by how many points they receive. Ties will be broken by most 1st place votes, then if still tied, 2nd place votes and then 3rd place votes. If still tied, then the outcome is a tie.

7. You may not change or update the entered character AFTER the deadline.

You will have until Sat, Feb 24th, 2018 @8pm EST to get your submissions in. Anything submitted after this point will not be included in the voting.


Voting will start at 8pm on Saturday evening and end at 11pm EST on Monday, Feb 26th, 2018..
At the conclusion of the voting the scores will be tallied and the winner will start a new topic with their choice of theme.

Here he is... May end up changing characters completely, but wanted to see if I could do anything with this guy. I liked him in the books, but it may be hard to catch the character in this.

His "ARMS" system helped him reassemble himself even after losing all his arms and legs, and in the books he charges in and kills a lot of people with his weapons. Some of the names I'm not sold on, but I wanted to get something up to see what people thought.

http://www.bloomilk.com/Custom/30775/mr-bones

http://www.bloomilk.com/Custom/11075/x-7

Another old one (2012!) that I never fully finished. Obscure character.

I changed him up quite a bit, removed 4 abilities to fit the requirements. Not really a full representation of him, so I may go with something else if I have time.

I assumed Unique does not count toward number of abilities.

http://www.bloomilk.com/Custom/30700/knight-of-zakuul

http://www.bloomilk.com/Custom/30777/shadow-killer


Flavor text
Mother Talzin ""A skilled shadow killer can vanish from sight.""

Well, with three custom abilities, I erred on the side of caution; Kill Does let him move quicker, Dishonest Could be quite useful and the possibilities are pretty big; with Collaborator + Opportunist he could get a +12/30 shot off and multiple attack possibly from Independent ... so 22 was a shot in the Dark. I figured 16-22 and went cautious.

.... and here we have my first example of what is it, fun, playable, thematic, or world changing.

Thematic - Yes
Meta - He1l No :)
Payable - Possibly if for no other reason than its something different and like Ehpant, maybe situational
Fun - Its a Chevin! Have you Ever played one?

Now, would it be worth it if it costed 16? I went with the upper end, should I have costed him at 16?

Noghri - good example; a stealth piece that in the right situation, could, on its own without help, double +12/30 and yet he's never used. We've become so ingrained that a piece rated at 7.78 by the community 5 years ago is now .... unworthy. Somehow it makes me feel its not the Meta but the games broken. Probably +1700 mini's and only about 200-300 ever really see use if that. Something not right; no wonder so many want to play themed and not competative games now.

I almost made "non-human" as a contest requirement this week too .....

I'm confused on Dishonest right now. Could you clear up what it actually does for me?

That's helpful info, thanks! I thought maybe he was gaining the actual 'Supplies' ability, not what it was giving out.

Thief sounds better in context, but I certainly don't expect you to redo the card for our purposes here. :)

Edit: Wait, so is it 'on his turn' or any turn? Most stuff would only be usable on his turn. Relay Orders is a bit of an outlier there. I don't think it's a problem necessarily, but could a bit complicated to keep track of. (ie declare each turn).