So what you're telling me is that /random is now useless.

Oh no. The opposite of that, actually. The system COMET uses is here to enhance /random rolls, not get rid of them entirely.

Alright, so what's involved?

Participation in a system like this will require a bit of basic math (addition and subtraction) and a character sheet. While most people balk at the idea of these things, as it reminds them of D&D... we promise, we tried to make the system as uncomplicated and fun.

If I wanted to roll dice and have character sheets I would just play D&D...

The rolls in this game, and all of the actions of both enemies, NPCs, and players alike, still take place within Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn -- however, the number values for custom stats will typically be stored on a simple to use, easy to read sheet for you and your DM--(Dungeon Master, Game Master, whatever you want to call it)-- to view on another window, or on a mobile device. The COMET system has its similarities to Dungeons and Dragons, yes, but the overall experience is still immersed in what Roleplaying in Final Fantasy XIV is all about: creating adventures and sharing things alongside fellow members of the Roleplaying Community.

That being said, you can't expect everybody to like our system, but we do expect those who roleplay in our FC to adhere to it. Make sure that this is the type of roleplay you want to do. This system was created to aid our free company's roleplay, not to impose our way of doing things onto others. This is simply a tool to benefit others and make things more fair and balanced without entirely relying on fate and chance.

Evolution and Changes

This system is a constant work in progress as we keep breaking it and putting it back together, seeing what can potentially be abused, things that could ultimately make short work of things that should be a lot harder, or simply toning down monsters or abilities that should not be as strong as they are. Don't be frustrated if you see a "Patch Update!" COMET and her allies are working hard to make sure that this system is as fair and balanced to as many people as possible. We promise that any updates are with very good reason and that we try to minimize people needing to remake their sheets too often.

Copyright Information & General Notice:

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Designed the original version of the COMET and Raven's Keep systems from scratch. Overviewed, playtested, and balanced checked every aspect of every patch of the system since it was originally created. Some dumbasses once told her she did less than 50% of the work for the Free Company.

Growing your Character

It goes without saying that the more points you put into a stat, the stronger it will become---however, it does not stop there: The COMET system allows for "Perks" that grant more dynamics to certain playstyles as the character grows with each encounter.

Combat Stats

In a world full of magic, wonder, and dangerous things...you're bound to get wrapped up in some kind of trouble somewhere down the road. These stats will help you fight whatever comes your way, and can help in other ways, too!

Investigation (INV)

Investigation represents your character's awareness and perception. Investigating a room for clues, looking out for danger, or poring over the finer details of a strange object are all examples of this perceptive prowess.

Charisma (CHA)

Charisma represents your social abilities, whether it's gathering information, calming a frantic NPC, causing distractions, performing in front of others, or determining if someone is lying, Charisma covers everything that has to do with interacting with NPCs or your character's "street smarts."

Reason (RSN)

Reason represents a Seeker’s critical thinking, mental fortitude, and ability to think back on previous knowledge in a pinch. With Reason you can recall previous knowledge, to get hints on a tough puzzle, or ensure your character isn’t mentally rattled in stressful situations.

Creation (CRE)

Creation represents your ability to, quite literally, make new things! This can be objects, techniques, or even spells. Creation has its own system of creating items and abilities that you will see later in this book!

Cooldown (CD)

Summoned Companions

The general term used to describe "pets" in the COMET system. Summoned Companions are considered "true pets", which means they have their own HP, HC, and so on. Most Summoned Companions are granted as a part of certain Job's Passives. [See the end of the Job Book for a full list of rules about them!]

Assurance

A player cannot roll lower than the listed number assured to them. This is specific to racial abilities only. [See: Picking Your Race]

Backstory Bonus

This is a 20% Specialty Mastery to your rolls on any specialties or abilities that pertain to your character's backstory. [See the Specialties page for more!]

Limit Break / Team Attack / LB3

Powerful abilities that are generated with Limit Break Coins (earned by rolling 900+) that can make or break your combat encounters. For more information, see the [Limit Break] section.

The Help Action

Either cleanse 1 Negative Status Effect from a target or give a target Advantage on their next roll (cannot target yourself). If they would already roll with Advantage, they gain +100 instead. This is performed as a Standard Action. (StA)

Positive, Neutral, and Negative Status Effects

These refer to a very specific set of effects in the COMET system. Please see the sections on them for more information.

Step 1: Stat Points

You will be given 35 POINTS to put into COMBAT STATS (END, DEF, STR, DEX, MP) and 30 POINTS into NON-COMBAT STATS (INV, CHA, CRE, RSN). Don't forget to double-check your math! Your END, DEF, STR, DEX, and MP should equal 35 when added together---your INV, CHA, RSN, and CRE should add up to 30! You can gain more stats later at the cost of 5 commendations per point.

Step 2: Picking your Jobs

COMET elected to place Jobs in-game in order to allow players to better customize their characters and more personalize their styles of combat. You can decide which jobs best represent your character and be given bonus perks and abilities that may help you and your allies in a pinch! Remember that you can flavor any job's abilities to fit how your character would fight!
Please note that new jobs will be added, removed, balanced, or changed during expansions and major patches as the game evolves! The COMET staff requests your patience as new items are taken care of.

Click here to see the list of available jobs, and what they do!

Player Stat Tiers:

• Tier 1: 1 point - 7 points
• Tier 2: 8 points - 14 points
• Tier 3: 15 points - 35 points
• Tier 4: 36 points - 42 points (Only THREE STATS can be tier 4)
• Tier 5: 43 points (Only TWO STATS can be Tier 5)

"How do I get more stat points, though?"

You can trade in COMMENDATIONS for stat points!

A Note On Archetype Changes:

In addition to the Commendation expense, a character's archetype should only change when said character has gone through a major change. [EX: An assailant decides they don't want to destroy anymore and switches off to support to better aid their allies in battle.] This change must happen during an active RP, with another person present, and it is encouraged that a journal post be made in addition to this!

What's the difference between a "Levequest" and "Campaign"?

• A Levequest is a one time event that is made by one of your fellow RPers!

• A Campaign is a set of Levequests connected to one another. Attending an entire campaign of 3 leves or more as the same character will grant a bonus stat point at the DM's discretion.

Why Have Stats Decay at All?

Time is the one thing that nobody, not even the most powerful of beings, can stop indefinitely. Much like a muscle, if your character doesn't keep at working out aspects of their abilities, they may atrophy over time. In order to help stagnate an issue the COMET staff calls "Commendation Bloat" -- where players have more commendations than they could ever reasonably spend -- when you reach a certain point in your character's growth, stat decay activates.

A detailed list of the traits can be found on the following page.

Please do not ask for additions to the racial features that include the following:

Within the bounds of this RP system, racial traits are displayed via a pair of small bonuses each character attains on their character sheet. As a rule of thumb each race's subspecies will normally have the same secondary trait but a different primary. If a character is a half-breed between two of the races represented in the system then their traits will some mix of the two, automatically calculated when filling out their information.

Adaptable

Elezen are possessed of a longer lifespan than Hyur, including a longer childhood. This extended precocious state allows Elezen to learn more rapidly in childhood, and gain more skills in the same length of time. Select a single General Specialty, and a single related Focus Specialty to gain.

Duskwight - Sharp Hearing

Gelmorra is especially dark. Without the benefit of natural light sources, Duskwight Elezen have, over time, developed a means of overcoming the shadow. INV rolls are made at an Assurance of 300.

Wildwood - Natural Dexterity

Wildwood Elezen, by virtue of generations lived in the Twelveswood, are possessed of an agility unmatched by the other Spoken Races. A Wildwood Elezen have an Assurance of 300 on DEX-related rolls. This bonus does not apply to Attack Rolls.

Ishgardian - Survivor of the Song

Ishgardian Elezen have been changed by generations of combat with the Dravanian Horde. An Ishgardian Elezen does not become Winded until -3 HP, and does not become Unconscious until -5 HP.

Natural Fortitude:

Roegadyn are massive, and solidly built, providing them a level of resilience rarely seen among the Spoken Races. A Roegadyn has an Assurance of 300 on END-related rolls. Additionally, they have +2 HP.

Seawolf - Sea’s Fury:

You channel the rage of waves. You may choose to deal +2 damage with all attacks until your next turn begins, but take +2 damage from all sources until your next turn begins. This is a Passive Action with no cooldown.

Hellsguard - Land's Calm

Hellsguard have a famously even temper. Any Negative Status Effect which impacts the mind (including, but not limited to, Fear, Berserk, Debravery, Defaith, and Delibra) last one fewer turn than normal, and makes all checks to avoid such conditions at Advantage.

Spatial Awareness

Au Ra’s unique resonant hearing provides them a unique perception of the world around them. Once per Combat, they can negate the cooldown of any one ability.

Raen - Natural Charisma:

Social Chameleons of the highest order, Raen are so in-tune with people that, if not for their scales, you'd never know they were a diaspora. Raen Au Ra have an Assurance of 300 on Charisma rolls, or on rolls involving Seeker of Culture Specialties they have. If the roll is Charisma-based, and a Culture Specialty applies, they have Assurance of 500.

Xaela - First to Fight

Xaela are especially combative by nature. In combat, they may make any one roll at Advantage. This is normally Once per Leve, but gains a second use the first time the Xaela hits 0 HP.

Natural Strength:

Hrothgar, despite their bidpealism, are built like Jungle Cats. A Hrothgar has Assurance of 300 on STR-related rolls. This bonus does not apply to their STR Attack Rolls.

Helion - Survivalist

Whether assailed by the Garlean Empire or living in the untamed wilds of Tural, Helions have become adept at surviving no matter the situation. They gain the General Specialty “Survival”, as well as one level in any one Focus Specialty related to Survival.

The Lost - Band Together

The Lost foster companionship wherever they can find it. You can spend any action to ‘Help’, gaining an assurance 200 and advantage; if removing a status, you are healed +1.

Survivalist

All Viera are keen survivalists that live in small groups among hardy and less tamed regions of the world, they gain the General Specialty “Survival”, as well as one level in any one Focus Specialty related to Survival. Rava Viera must select the Forest Focus. Veena Viera may select any Survival focus other than Cartography or Wildlife Ecology.

Rava - Sharp Hearing:

Despite leaving their forest homes, Rava are incredibly skilled hunters, able to use their hearing to detect danger even when hidden. INV rolls are made at an Assurance of 300.

Veena - Social Survivalist:

Veena who leave their homes find that the pulse of civilization speaks as loudly as the Green Word, if you know how to listen. Veena gain the General Specialty “National Cultures”, as well as one level in any one National Cultures Focus, except Modern Linguist.

Third Eye

Pureblooded Garleans are most noted by the presence of a third eye, which gives them extra perception to the world around them. A Garlean have Assurance 300 on rolls relating to movement, mounts, vehicles, or magitech, roll Initiative at Advantage, and they make all Ranged Attacks at a +50 bonus. (Note: For the purposes of this ability, a Creature Mount counts as a vehicle)

Adaptable

Normally a trait attributed to Hyur and Elezen, none could contradict the sheer tenacity of the Garlean people, having built their empire from the heart of an unforgivingly bitter land. Select a single General Specialty, and any one related Focus Specialty to gain.

The People of Norvrandt: (The First, Vrandtic)

The People of Alexandria: (The Ninth, Alexandrian)

The People of Baron: (The Thirteenth, Baronic)

How many Specialties do I get?

• +4 from your backstory

• +2 for every 20 years your character has been alive.

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EXAMPLE:

Billy is 40 years old and has studied swords all of his life. He would gain 4 Specialties of his choice, due to his age, and an additional 4 for just...existing.

This gives Billy a total of . . . 4+4=8 Specialties!

VERY IMPORTANT NOTE:

When you are starting out, you may pick up to 10 specialties to start out with. If it's in your backstory, it's in your backstory!

But what do Specialties do?

When you encounter something within an event that matches up with a specialty your character has, you will either gain access to doing something you couldn't normally do or will gain a bonus to a roll corresponding to that specialty.

[Designer's Note: If you want to add additional specialties gained at the start of your own character's journeys for your own system, it will require doing some number crunching and significant amount of spreadsheet formula work.]

General Specialties vs. Focused Specialties

With the 7.0.0 update "Expanding Sights" specialties have been divided into two different types -- General and Focused. These updates allow for players to specify more clearly what their characters are knowledgeable of -- after all, nobody knows everything!

Each Mastery Level towards your specialties costs 50 Commendations, and grants an additional +20 to your rolls.

By the time you reach 100% Mastery level of a Specialty, it will grant you an additional +100 to any rolls involving that specialty, and this stacks with other bonuses mentioned before!

Backstory Bonuses

Some things your character may have been interested or exposed to from their earliest years, and so these backstory bonuses reflect on those things that have happened in your life. These bonuses give you an extra boost to things your character has been doing since before they joined the Seekers of COMET!
A backstory bonus will grant you a free 20% specialty mastery on any specialty that came with your character's backstory.

General: Fundamental Aetherology

Many do not understand the basics of how aether works, choosing to focus only on how it can benefit them. Those who take the time to learn the fundamentals, however, will find themselves with a much richer understanding of aether.

• Focus: Aetheric Interactions -- You have spent more time than usual studying how different types of non-elemental aether interact with one another across the world of Hydaelyn.
• Focus: Elemental Aetherology -- The elements have their own rules and methods of interaction, and you have chosen to focus on their study.
• Focus: Celestial Aetherology Aether from outside of the star can have its own impact upon it. Topics like gravity, inertia, and the transfer of energy are what you focus on. (I.e. this is physics)
• Focus: Skywatching -- You have studied how aether swirls around the world, observing weather patterns carefully and know how they change and affect one another.

General: Practical Aetherology

This field of aetherology focuses on topics that pertain to daily life and how it can benefit all peoples. Many choose to forgo the basics and focus only on this field, as it proves to be the most immediately beneficial for the average layperson.

• Focus: Crystal Aetherology -- You study how crystals play a major part in everyday life across Hydaelyn, from artisans using them to hone their crafts, to how they interact with the land itself.
• Focus: Corporeal Aetherology -- Corporeal aether is the aether within physical lifeforms all around us, making up the form of living beings and sustaining them.

• Focus: Aetheric Lifeforms -- Elemental beings like sprites and carbuncles are different from normal physical life, yet they’re all around us. It’s your goal to understand how they function.
• Focus: Aetherotech Studies -- You primarily focus on how ceruleum and other similar materials are used to power machinery.

General: Theoretical Aetherology

Many theories and hypotheses about aether cannot be studied easily, relying on advanced models and equations to make sense of them. Yet one would be foolish to dismiss it easily, as the concepts in this field have proven to be very real - and important.

• Focus: Echo Aetherology -- The Echo is an uncommon gift, though not exceedingly rare. With how its power manifests in different ways for each person, it’s your goal to understand it.
• Focus: Soul and Memory -- The aether that makes up memories and the soul are difficult to study due to their intangible nature, but you have gone out of your way to understand the theories behind both.
• Focus: Lifestream Specialist -- Lifestream theory is constantly changing and evolving, but its lack of tangibility makes for a challenging topic of study. You know how aether enters and exits the lifestream and how aetherytes function.
• Focus: Eikon Specialist -- Hypothesized to be advanced elemental beings, Eikons are a category of their own. Few have studied these “Primals” and lived to tell the tale.

General: General Magicks

These individuals have a general understanding of magicks, such as those found in Thaumaturgy or Conjuration. A strong grasp on the fundamentals can be far more important than fancy techniques.

• Focus: Unaspected Magicks -- Magicks that don’t fall under any element as well as knowledge of astral and umbral aspects.
• Focus: Elemental Magicks -- Magicks that can be found in the circle of elements, including Fire, Water, Earth, Ice, Wind, and Lightning.
• Focus: Life Magicks -- Magicks that deal with lifeforce directly, including healing spells and life-draining spells such as Drain and Miasma.
• Focus: Wards and Barriers -- Magicks meant to prevent entry or mitigate physical and magic damage.
• Focus: Livithiomancy -- Magicks that bring inanimate objects to life. Simpler objects like brooms are simpler, while objects like statues or golems are much more difficult.

General: Niche Magicks

The study of magicks that restricted, but not necessarily forbidden, understanding their complexities despite their rarity. Most of these magicks require some form of soul crystal as part of their teachings.

• Focus: Astromancy -- Limited to Sharlayan astronomers, Astromancy is the study of taking aether from celestial bodies in the sky, including the sun, the moon, and stars.
• Focus: Scholarship -- The ancient magicks of the Nymians which involved using a faerie simulacrum to assist in healing and shielding.
• Focus: Summoning -- The ancient Allagan arts of binding primal energy to yourself to summon miniature versions under your control. While quite rare, the Sons of Saint Coinach have been known to unearth some of the ancient soul crystals holding the summoning arts.
• Focus: Somanoutics -- The Sharlayan-born healing profession of Sage uses a technique of healing and harming through surrounding the target with mystical stones. A mixture of aetherology, sorcery, and medicine, Somanoutics is a unique method of spellcasting known only to a select few.
• Focus: Geomancy -- The far eastern arts of manipulating earth, wind, and water for working with spirits and kami. This school of magic can also tell fortunes, though many modern Geomancers focus on the monetary value their fortune telling can provide.
• Focus: Abstract Magicks -- There exist obscure magicks such as Green and Blue magicks that don’t quite fit into any other category. Blue Magicks especially hail from people of the New World.

General: Forbidden Magicks

These folks delve into the forbidden arcane, spells that are generally illegal or were thought wiped away from history for their danger.

• Focus: Black Magicks -- The magicks of Mhach have a long and bloody history, focusing on using a soul crystal as a life-saving catalyst and the aether of the surrounding world to make way for power. After the Fifth Umbral Calamity black mages were hunted to obscurity.
• Focus: White Magicks -- The white mages of Amdapor siphoned aether from the land to heal others and bring order, even using their powers in advanced vivimancy of golems. Now these arts are restricted to the Padjal... Normally.
• Focus: Void Magicks -- The art of summoning and binding creatures from the Void is an easy road towards corruption and death, but a surefire way to gain power, no matter how unethical.
• Focus: Necromancy -- Different manners exist to raise the dead, such as imbuing voidsent into them or using alchemical powders to make them rise. These practitioners are often considered vile for their defilement of sacred death, and are heathens to the Order of Nald'thal.
• Focus: Time Magicks -- One of the most dangerous forms of magic due to the myriad unknown consequences it can produce. Thankfully these spells are highly difficult to learn and master, but that hasn't stopped some mages from trying.

General: Magic Lore

With a focus more on the knowledge of spellcraft and things related to Magicks moreso than different schools of magicks, these lot break spells down to their most basic of components.

• Focus: Spellsmithing -- You are an expert in crafting new spells for various uses, or potentially repairing or enhancing lost magicks.
• Focus: Spell Translation -- You can easily translate spell tomes, scrolls, and ancient magic languages.
• Focus: Rituals -- Rituals are spells which require more work than instantly casting from a focus. You know all about creating rituals, the items they need, and what their effects are.
• Focus: Void Lore -- You have studied the hierarchy of Voidsent and can identify them or Void-related items and magicks.
• Focus: Rune Lore -- You understand the principles of rune magic and how to inscribe runes carefully to enchant weapons and items.

General: Engineering

Engineering oversees designing, evaluating, developing, testing, modifying, installing, and inspecting various products and systems, both electricity-based and otherwise.

• Focus: Maintenance -- Your focus is based on keeping things from breaking, as well as functioning properly. Be it Airships or the mechanical workings of the estate, your duties are what help keep things running.
• Focus: Vehicles -- From Airships to tanks, you aid in designing, creating, driving, and repairing them all.
• Focus: R&D -- The heart of the Technology department, Research and Development's drive is to develop new services and products, while improving existing ones.
• Focus: Mammetry -- The creation, maintenance, and development of mammets.
• Focus: Circuitry -- You study aethero-circuitry that allows for magitech to function, and basic electrical outputs.

General: Magitek Study

Many drawn to technology are most interested in machinery powered by external sources like Ceruleum.

• Focus: Magitek Arms -- The development, maintenance, and testing of weaponized magitek.
• Focus: Machina -- You create, repair, and field test machina of different types, from generators to warmachina.
• Focus: Ceruleum Study -- You have a good understanding of the properties of Ceruleum, and how it interacts with other objects.
• Focus: Forgekin -- Distinct from mammets, automatons given rudimentary forms of life are of interest to many technologists.

General: Allagan Technology

The mysteries of Allag are one of the most interesting among many fields, especially those interested in their inventions and machina.

• Focus: Biomagitek -- You research, develop, and create magitek designed to enhance the capabilities of living creatures, typically by implementing them onto the subject themselves.
• Focus: Allagan A.I. -- Your focus is on the artificial intelligence of Allagan Nodes; how they function and even how to mimic their abilities.
• Focus: Allagan Reproduction -- You study how to reproduce technology from Allag or produce technology based on Allagan designs.

General: Unusual and Abstract Technologies

Beyond the scope of those technologies commonly studied in Garlemald, the city-states of Eorzea, and the ancient examples of Allag, there are many other places and peoples with their own technologies. Those who study these fringes also tend to appreciate the more abstract side of technology.

• Focus: Beast Tribe Technologies -- From the tinkersmithing of the wandering Goblins to the constructs of Vylbrand’s Kobolds and beyond, you are familiar with those technologies employed by the various Beast Tribes that inhabit the star.
• Focus: Foreign and Niche Technologies -- From the Hanyas and Kiyofusas of the Far East to other technologies employed by people far afield and little known, you have taken the time to study those works that are generally on the fringe of what most technologists work with. Even when you encounter technologies totally foreign and unknown to the world at large, you are likely to be able to glean at least some information from them.
• Focus: Systems and Methodology -- Technology is the application of knowledge in the creation of material and immaterial things that are meant to achieve objectives, from spoons to Magitek armor to business models to laws. You have studied these things on a broader scale - the way laws come together to create a judicial system, the way metal pieces come together to create a Magitek armor, the way people organize and create systems that are more than just the sum of their parts. Technology is, in this way, also technique - the way things are done, the methods we employ to achieve our goals. You do not understand all systems and methods in detail, but you are skilled at analyzing them in a broader sense.
• Focus: Cooperation and Communication -- You have spent much time learning how technology can be used to improve the lives of others. You are skilled in analyzing situations to figure out how to improve efficiency and solve issues through the use of new techniques and creations. This Specialty also covers the study and use of communication technologies, such as linkpearls.

General: Fundamental Alchemy

Brave are those who seek to make sense of the physical world down to the molecule. Those who do know some tried and true mechanisms of the world with which to form their hypotheses.

• Focus: Metallurgy -- You understand the composition of metals and how to identify and form alloys.
• Focus: Potioncraft -- A simple affair, but one that can easily be done wrong! You know the ins and outs of making potions and other liquids.
• Focus: Combustion -- Fire is much more than simple magic, and you know how various forms of matter combust, and how to stop them from doing so.
• Focus: Aetheric Ink Creation -- You know the foundation of creating aetherically-conductive ink for use in creation of tomes and aetheric circuits.
• Focus: Enchantment -- Bestowing special traits and abilities into items is a hallmark of alchemy, and something you know well.

General: Organic Alchemy

All life is made up of similar substances, enough so to justify their study as its own field. Organic alchemists narrow their focus on these interesting reagents.

• Focus: Bioalchemy -- You focus on the study of living specimens and how to improve their quality of life through alchemy.
• Focus: Poisons and Toxins -- You understand the substances that prevent the continuation of life, whether to prevent them or use them nefariously. This does not mean you have them on hand at all times
• Focus: Fuels -- The combustion of certain life substances allows devices to function, making an understanding of these fuels crucial in some industries.
• Focus: Edible Alchemy -- Cooking is as much a science as an art, but you focus on the former. You can determine if a substance is edible, how to prevent foodborne illness, and how to season food perfectly.
• Focus: Naturalist Alchemy -- Folklore teaches the benefits and detriments of different plants passed on through generations. You study the alchemical value of plants and herbal remedies.

General: Experimental Alchemy

Alchemy requires more than simply copying the experiments of others, but at times it can become dangerous. Still, a scholar isn’t worth their salt if they aren’t willing to get their hands a bit dirty. Or their eyebrows singed off.

• Focus: Aetheric Alchemy -- Aether is in all things, but applying it to physical objects can be dangerous. Less advanced than Allag’s Aetherochemistry, Aetheric Alchemy is a blend of modern-day aether studies to enhance or change an alchemical reaction.
• Focus: Bestial Essences -- Most organic substances are derived from plants, with only a handful being taken from animals. You go above and beyond, studying how the essence within monster parts can be harvested and used to their full effect.
• Focus: Extreme Material Handling -- There are many prized but dangerous materials capable of use in alchemy, and handling them with intense care is a highly important skill. Some even dedicate their lives to the handling of these substances alone.
• Focus: Chimera Study -- Beasts formed by the Allagan Empire of eld, many alchemists see these creatures as the pinnacle of alchemical prowess. Creating them nowadays is near impossible, but studying them and knowing how to care for them is a field full of potential.

General: Fighting Styles

Many people know how to fight, but the actual study of fighting, also known as Hoplology, is equal parts an art and science. You study and can recognize different fighting styles.

• Focus: Unarmed Arts -- Practitioners of unarmed combat know that their body can be as deadly as any blade when trained right. You can recognize when someone is trained in unarmed combat.
• Focus: Melee Weapon Arts -- You can recognize when someone is trained in melee weapons such as swords, axes, and spears, and can get an idea of the quality of a melee weapon.
• Focus: Ranged Weapon Arts -- You can recognize when someone is trained in ranged weapons such as bows, firearms, and throwing weapons, and can get an idea of the quality of a ranged weapon.
• Focus: Magic Combat Arts -- While not trained in the finer understandings of magic and aether, you can recognize when someone is capable of casting different types of offensive magicks or how they weave aether in with other combat arts.

General: Glory Hound

Seeking out fame and recognition is what being a student of Challenge is all about! You know how to boast, and often how to put action behind your words too.

• Focus: Trophy Hunter -- You collect trophies of your accomplishments, and can tear off or find these trophies with ease.
• Focus: Ambush Tactics -- Sometimes glory is all about getting the upper hand first. You know how to set up a fight ahead of time in your favor, should you already be aware of it.
• Focus: Reckless Antics -- Some fly by the seat of their pants rather than understanding everything they’re actually doing, and that’s just fine. These spur of the moment antics are what you excel at. Just don’t expect things to go smoothly.
• Focus: Pickpocketing & Heist Planning -- "What's yours is mine" is a simple way of living, and you live it well. Whether it's deftly taking things live and in person from someone's pockets, or spending your hours plotting to delve into the realm's most guarded vaults, you live your life on the edge...one sneaky score at a time.

General: Know Thine Enemy

Most fighters naturally learn about the different types of enemies they face over time. You’ve taken it a step further, having actively studied how to beat some of your targets efficiently.

• Focus: Monster Hunter -- Eorzea is made up of all types of beasts, and you know just how to track and take them out.
• Focus: Man Hunter -- The peoples of Eorzea can be far more dangerous than mere beasts. You know effective ways to cripple or even kill others should you have the need to, and can easily track people down if it's required.
• Focus: Void Hunter -- Creatures of the Void are among some of the most terrifying, leading some to pursue hunting them down as a life’s work. You are able to track Voidsent and have some know-how in dismantling their charms and magicks.
• Focus: Primal Hunter -- Only the most fierce of warriors fight against Primals or Primal-like beings and live to tell the tale. You are one of them, and know how to prepare for an encounter with one.
• Focus: Military Tactics -- You can easily analyze enemy positions and uncover safe or advantageous positions for you, your foes, and your party members. Identifying good ambush points for your friends and imposing disadvantages on your opponents is a simple task for you.

General - Health Studies

A good physician is forged from the pillars of astute observation, acute knowledge, and compassionate bedside manners. You’ve learned the fundamental procedures of the medical field such as treating basic wounds, caring for patients, and diagnosing common illnesses.

• Focus: Psychology - You are dedicated to the study of mental health, and go above and beyond to try and keep those you study in a healthy state of mind.
• Focus: Chirurgeony - Over the years, you've gained a deft hand, and a knowledge of surgical techniques.
• Focus: Pathology - You're studying the causes and nature of diseases. Through microscopic examination and clinical lab tests, pathologists work to diagnose, monitor, and treat diseases. They examine tissues, cells, and body fluids, applying biological, chemical, and physical sciences within the laboratory. They may examine tissues to determine whether an organ transplant is needed, or they may examine the blood of a pregnant woman to ensure the health of the fetus.
• Focus: Healing Magicks - Through your studies, you’ve gained a proficient skill in dealing with wounds through the use of healing magicks. You’re also able to quickly identify magically afflicted ailments and diseases to ensure the safety and proper treatment of your others.

General - Medicine

Magicks are not the only form of healing a physician may learn; sometimes it takes one with the proper knowledge and ingredients to save one’s life. You’ve proven yourself capable of concocting basic potions, tinctures, and medicines to treat your fellow man in their times of need.

• Focus: Emergency Medicine - Your focus is care for patients in emergency situations (deadly wounds, loss of limbs, etc.)
• Focus: Preventative Medicine - You work to prevent disease by promoting patient health and well-being, covering elements of biostatistics, epidemiology, environmental and occupational medicine. The field combines elements of medical, social, economic, and behavioral sciences to understand the causes of disease and injury in population groups.
• Focus: Anesthesiology - Those who enter this field of study are typically dedicated to pain relief in their patients.
• Focus: Internal Medicine - You study diseases of the heart, blood, kidneys, joints, digestive, respiratory, and vascular systems.

General - Anatomy/Physiology

Proper knowledge of the body is the foundation to a physician’s study; you know of the inner workings of the body as well as its organs.

• Focus: Physical Rehabilitation - You try to help patients with disabilities of the brain, spinal cord, nerves, bones, joints, ligaments, muscles, and tendons. Unlike other physicians, these folk work to improve patient quality of life, rather than seek medical cures.
• Focus: Neurology - Neurologists diagnose and treat diseases of the brain, spinal cord, peripheral nerves, muscles, autonomic nervous system, and blood vessels.
• Focus: Autopsy - A physician’s work is never done even for those who have fallen. People who focus upon this line of study are more than capable of identifying the cause and manner of one’s demise.

General: Information Gathering

Not everything for these persons involves espionage, in fact, most of their work is the accruing and analyzing of information in many forms.

• Focus: Rumormonger -- From a life with their “ear to the ground” so to speak, these folk are adept at taking the idle chatter of the masses and wringing truth from it.
• Focus: Data Analysis -- These folk spend much of their time behind a desk, yet, they’re no less vital for it; no others can look at masses of raw information, looking for the finest details until they find what they're looking. They can very easily determine trends or anomalies, even through paperwork that would make most people's eyes glaze over...
• Focus: Forensics -- Dealing with crime is an unfortunately common part of being a follower of Information, these people have a hawk’s eye when it comes to examining the scene of physical law-breaking.
• Focus: Interrogation -- Anything from skilled questioning to flat-out torture is what these people focus on, making sure they get information from an individual one way or another.

General: Espionage

The other side of the coin to gathering information, these individuals are deployed to more dangerous situations in order to examine the foes and potential threats.

• Focus: Sabotage -- Skilled hands and rudimentary knowledge of many things from magic to technology, these people while incapable of using this knowledge to make or repair instead use it for negative goals; to destroy, to lame, or to disfigure.
• Focus: Shadowing -- When it comes to following a mark or vanishing into a crowd, you are above the grade; hours of training allow them to melt into the surroundings while following or observing a target.
• Focus: Codes and Cyphers -- No spy would be caught dead unable to decipher hidden messages in things invisible ink, encrypted missives, or dots and dashes.
• Focus: Disguise -- Whether weaving magicks to create illusions or if you're an expert on prosthetics and makeup, you can alter yourself and others to enough of a degree where people wouldn't look twice. [Within REASON.]

General: Unsavory Insight

The dark side of society; banned goods, money changing, and fugitives. You immerse yourself in the dredges of the world in order to aid their allies.

• Focus: Underworld Trading -- These folk ply the dark markets of the world; keen on finding illicit goods they know just where to find them and how to behave in such circles.
• Focus: Mark Tracker -- From finding those who've vanished, have gone on the lamb, or those with a price on their head; these individuals ply the dark tides of society to find their mark.
• Focus: Illicit Appraiser -- While an Underworld Trader finds and procures goods, these people draw on experience to determine whether illicit goods are genuine, if they’re illegal in the first place, and just what the heck they’re looking at when it comes to items procured outside of the law.
• Focus: Source-Finding -- You can easily find people willing to talk about things to you, on a variety of subjects. If there's something someone needs to find, you likely know someone who can point you in the right direction...

General: Religion

Faith moves mountains, and is often the reason for many cultural phenomena. You understand theological ideas and studies.

• Focus: The Twelve -- The most widely worshiped religion in the world, especially in Eorzea. It includes the gods Halone, Menphina, Thaliak, Nymeia, Llymnlaen, Oschon, Byregot, Rhalgr, Azeyma, Nald’thal, Nophica, and Althyk. This includes the myriad Saints of the Twelve, people who accomplished great deeds for the good of all.
• Focus: The Kami -- A religion practiced in the Far East, including Doma and Hingashi. The Kami cover many things including celestial entities, deified people, long-lived flora and fauna, or items that gained divine spirits. There are also greater deities said to have descended from the heavens called Amatsukami, who include Amaterasu, Tsukuyomi, and Susano.
• Focus: The Manusya -- Practiced by the people of Thavnair, the Sisters and other divine beasts play a large role in Thavnairian religion.
• Focus: Azim and Nhaama -- The faith of the Azim Steppe in Othard. Azim, or the Dawn Father, is represented by the Sun, while Nhaama, the Dusk Mother, is represented by the Moon. It is believed that Raen are the offspring of Azim and Xaela are the offspring of Nhaama.
• Focus: The Light of Kiltia -- The old faith of Dalmasca which had its worship banned and institutes abolished by Garlemald after its occupation. It followed a pantheon of gods headed by Faram, the god of light. Other gods within the faith included Miriam, Arnath, Artemis, Nike, Kali, Ravana, Asura, Kadesh, Marduk, Palolo, and Tamulis.
• Focus: Tribal Gods -- Many of the Beast Tribes of the world have their own deities and customs surrounding them. You have taken the time to study these lesser-known deities and their religious worship.
• Focus: Minor Religions -- There are some regions of the realm with lesser known religions and coinciding deities. You study these fringe religions.

General: People of Hydaelyn

The many people of Hydaelyn have all come to rest where they are through migration and survival. Rather than nations and countries, you focus on the different ethnicities of Hydaelyn and their societal origins.

• Focus: Western Natives -- You study the origins and development of Hyur, Elezen, Miqo’te, Roegadyn, and Lalafell in Eorzea and Sharlayan.
• Focus: Near Eastern Natives -- You study the origins and development of Hyur, Viera, Bangaa, Seeq in Thavnair, Corvos, Uznair, and Dalmasca.
• Focus: Far Eastern Natives -- You study the origins and development of Hyur, Au Ra, Lupin, and Roegadyn in Othard and Hingashi.
• Focus: Northern Natives -- You study the origins and development of Garleans, Roegadyn, Miqo'te, and Hrothgar in Ilsabard, Corvos, and Aerslant.
• Focus: Far Western Natives -- You study the origins and development of natives to the New World, including Hyur and Mamool Ja.
• Focus: Southern Natives -- You study the origins and development of Hyur, Lalafell, and other natives in the South Sea Isles and Meracydia.
• Focus: Beast Tribes -- You study the origins and development of beast tribe societies such as Goblins, Amalj’aa, Ixal, Kobolds, Sylphs, Sahagin, Namazu, Kojin, Vath, Vanu Vanu, Moogles, etc.
• Focus: Dravanians -- You study the origins and development of dragons, their broods, and transformed Ishgardians.

General: National Cultures

Modern borders between countries and states are important to the politics of the world and global interactions.

• Focus: Eorzea -- You study the country of Eorzea’s culture, history, laws, and politics. This includes the city-Ul’dah, Limsa Lominsa, Gridania, Ishgard, and Ala Mhigo.
• Focus: Sharlayan -- You study the country of Sharlayan’s culture, history, laws, and politics.
• Focus: Thavnair -- You study the country of Thavnair’s culture, history, laws, and politics. This includes neighboring regions like Corvos.
• Focus: Dalmasca -- You study the country of Dalmasca's culture, history, laws, and politics.
• Focus: Nagxia -- You study the country of Nagxia's culture, history, laws, and politics.
• Focus: Doma -- You study the country of Doma's culture, history, laws, and politics.
• Focus: Hingashi -- You study the country of Hingashi's culture, history, laws, and politics.
• Focus: The Azim Steppe -- You study the country of the Azim Steppe's culture, history, laws, and politics.
• Focus: Bozja -- You study the country of Bozja's culture, history, laws, and politics.
• Focus: Garlemald -- You study the country of Garlemald's culture, history, laws, and politics.
• Focus: The New World, Tural -- You study the Tural continent and what is currently known about it and the culture of its inhabitants.
• Focus: Meracydia -- You study the southern continent of Meracydia and what is currently known about it and the culture of its inhabitants.
• Focus: Modern Linguist -- While most civilizations have defaulted to Eorzean as their main language, there are some civilizations that still primarily speak a national tongue. You study these languages and may know how to speak them.

General: Craftsman

You know the basics of working with different materials, turning items from the natural world into practical items for everyday use.

• Focus: Blacksmithing -- These crafters specialize in working with black metals like iron and steel, usually to make items like tools.
• Focus: Goldsmithing -- These crafters specialize in working with white metals and gems, usually to make jewelry.
• Focus: Carpentry -- These crafters specialize in shaping wood into various items, tools, and furniture pieces.
• Focus: Stoneworking -- These crafters specialize in shaping stone into various items, tools, and furniture pieces.
• Focus: Weaving -- These crafters specialize in using plant and animal materials to make wearable clothing and other cloth items.
• Focus: Leatherworking -- These crafters specialize in using animal hides to make wearable and decorative items.

General: The Arts

There are many skills and crafts that don’t seem to have any utilitarian value, but appeal to the emotional soul. You are skilled not only in your own ability, but have a keen eye for methods used by others with similar crafts as your own.

• Focus: Painting -- Your skills lay in painting, whether it be landscapes, still life, or portraits.
• Focus: Songsmithing -- Your focus is on weaving word and song to create memorable and elaborate musical pieces.
• Focus: Wordsmithing -- Poetry, stories, and tales have their value in teaching lessons and preserving culture. You too are adept in these ways.
• Focus: Culinary Arts -- The balance of flavor, presentation, and timing are all unique to the Culinary Arts. Your focus lies in understanding these methods and applying them accordingly.
• Focus: Architecture -- Without a proper architect, structures crumble and lives suffer. Your unique eye for detail concerning the building methods of various lands, ages, and cultures allows you to recognize and imitate these abilities, as well as develop your own.
• Focus: Performance -- You're able to sing, dance, or perfom in your own way to provide entertainment to others.

General: Arms Knowledge

There is an art to crafting weapons and armor that separates their creation from other crafts. You understand this well.

• Focus: Armor and Shields -- You comprehend the methods used to create and repair all manner of shields and armors, from heavy platemail, to scale male.
• Focus: Bladed Weapons -- You are knowledgeable in the skills needed to create, identify, and repair various bladed weaponry from all over the realm, from daggers to swords to greatswords.
• Focus: Polearms -- Your abilities allow for you to understand the methods used to forge and properly handle all manner of polearms, from the scythes of Reapers to the spears of Ishgardian Dragoons.
• Focus: Gauntlets -- You have skills relating to the design, forging, and handling of weapons traditionally used by martial artists, Monks of the Fist of Rhalgr, and pugilists.
• Focus: Throwing Weapons -- You understand what it takes in order to create and make weapons designed to be launched by hand, such as the kunai of ninjas.
• Focus: Hafted Weapons -- Weaponry such as axes, clubs, maces, flails, whips, and warhammers are your skillset.
• Focus: Ranged Weapons -- You are knowledgeable in the skills needed to create, identify, and repair all manner of bows, crossbows, pistols, and other ranged weaponry.
• Focus: Foci -- Your abilities allow for you to comprehend the methods used to create magical foci, such as tomes, nouliths, staves, wands, and rapiers used by Red Mages.

General: Survival

You’re an outdoorsy person who understands the basics of surviving and thriving out in the wilderness.

• Focus: Cartography -- You can easily read, decipher, and create maps.
• Focus: Wildlife Ecology -- You focus on how plants and animals relate to one another within the delicate balance of their ecosystems.
• Focus: Mountains -- You know how to navigate mountainous and rocky terrain and know the wildlife usually found in them.
• Focus: Grasslands -- You know how to navigate plains and flatlands and know the wildlife usually found in them.
• Focus: Coastal -- You know how to navigate in coastal areas and shallow waters, and know the wildlife usually found in them.
• Focus: Deep Sea -- You know how to navigate on the open sea and deep beneath the waves, and know the wildlife usually found there.
• Focus: Caverns -- You know how to navigate through caverns and other dark places, and know the wildlife usually found in them.
• Focus: Forests -- You know how to navigate through different types of forests and woods, and know the wildlife usually found in them.
• Focus: Deserts -- You know how to brave deserts and badlands, and know the wildlife usually found in them.
• Focus: Arctic -- You know how to survive in very cold climates and know the wildlife usually found in them.
• Focus: The Clouds -- You know how to survive above the clouds, atop airships, floating islands, or otherwise.

General: Geology

You understand Hydaelyn’s physical structure and substance, its history, and the processes that act on it.

• Focus: Stone Identification -- You have studied rocks, minerals, and ores, and have the ability to identify them easily.
• Focus: Mining and Quarrying -- You know how to wield mining tools effectively, where to find ore veins, and how to quarry useful stones.
• Focus: Paleontology -- You can find and identify fossils of varying types, and can extract them easily.
• Focus: Soulkin Study -- Living creatures formed of stone with a unique Soul Stone core, Soulkin are mysterious and interesting to geologists and aetherologists alike.

General: Botany

You study the physiology, structure, ecology, distribution, classification, and economic importance of plantlife.

• Focus: Plant Identification -- You have studied many different types of plants and can identify them easily.
• Focus: Plant Husbandry -- You can cultivate different types of plants and grow your own, even possibly modifying them to suit your needs.
• Focus: Harvesting and Logging -- Taking materials from a plant without too much damage is an important skill, and you can do so with both small plants like herbs or large plants like trees.
• Focus: Seedkin Study -- Living creatures formed of nothing but plant material, Seedkin are of great interest to some botanists and plant lovers.

General: Zoology

You study the many creatures of Hydaelyn, including the evolution, classification, habits, and distribution of all animals, both living and extinct, and how they interact with their ecosystems.

• Focus: Animal Husbandry -- You can breed, feed, and take care of animals of all types.
• Focus: Scalekin Study -- You understand the physiology of scaled creatures and can easily identify or work with them.
• Focus: Cloudkin Study -- You understand the physiology of most flying creatures and can easily identify or work with them.
• Focus: Beastkin Study -- You understand the physiology of warmblooded land animals and can easily identify or work with them.
• Focus: Vilekin Study -- You understand the physiology of insects and can easily identify or work with them.
• Focus: Wavekin Study -- You understand the physiology of sea-based animals and can easily identify or work with them.

General: History

Some do not take the time to learn history as a whole. The focus on history allows archaeologists to share the importance of it, and explain why time throughout the eras are important.

• Focus: First Umbral/Astral Era -- Also known as the end of the Age of Gods and the beginning of the Age of Man. Following the Calamity of Wind, this point in time covers the invention of tools and basic sciences and the beginning and end of hunter-gatherer lifestyles. How long ago this was is a mystery to this day.
• Focus: Second Umbral/Astral Era -- Also known as the Age of Prayer. Following the Calamity of Lightning, this point in time covers the migration of people to caves during nature-made “eternal darkness”, the creation of prayer-based magicks, the rise of theocracy, and the advancement of arts and steelwork. This time was well over 6,000 years ago.
• Focus: Third Umbral/Astral Era -- Following the Calamity of Fire, this point in time covers the holy wars, the witch hunts, and the subsequent rise and fall of the Allagan Empire up to 6,000 years ago.
• Focus: Fourth Umbral/Astral Era -- Following the Calamity of Earth, this point in time covers the great loss of knowledge and the eventual reversion of technology back to pre-Allagan levels as mankind rebuilt.
• Focus: Fifth Umbral/Astral Era -- Following the Calamity of Ice, this point in time covers the migration of many people including the Miqo’te and the creation of modern magicks, including the pioneering of black magicks, white magicks, and scholarship.
• Focus: Sixth Umbral/Astral Era -- This point in time covers the start and end of the War of the Magi, the start of many modern nations including Eorzea, the start of the Dragonsong War, and much of recent history in the last 1,572 years.

General: Ancient Studies

Your skillset lies in the knowledge hidden beneath the earth, uncovering information lost within shattered pottery and lost bones.

• Focus: Artifact Lore -- You can easily identify magicked items that are found in ruins, and understand not only their abilities, but what their purpose.
• Focus: Skeletal Lore -- The remains of the dead can tell a tale of times long past, and you have the ability to comprehend them.
• Focus: Ancient Tales -- Your knowledge of the stories of eld can often help you uncover greater mysteries before you and your companions.
• Focus: Preservation -- A skillset requiring keen eyes and cautious hands, your calling is to ensure relics uncovered are kept unbroken and, eventually, restored to their former glory.
• Focus: Chronology -- To understand the future, you must understand the past...and to see a clear picture, one must put things back in order. Your focus is to uncover how events happened...and when.
• Focus: Ancient Civilizations -- Nations long dead by way of war, calamity, or misfortune are where you specialize. You've spent much time studying these realms and understanding how their cultures impacted modern society.
• Focus: Ancient Linguist -- Your focus is on languages long lost, recovering the written and spoken word of places and people long since passed.

General: Archaeological Fieldwork

Fortune favors the bold. Not all information is found in a history book. There are some lost shards of history still deep in the ruins of old. Relic hunters primarily focus their efforts on the field and dig sites alike.

• Focus: Dungeoneering -- You can carefully navigate ancient ruins without becoming lost.
• Focus: Trapfinding -- Seeing potential traps and disabling them appropriately can save the lives of yourself and others.
• Focus: Excavation -- Being able to carefully and quickly unearth potential relics is a staple of archaeology, and you are no exception.
• Focus: Surveying -- Before you dig for ruins and treasure...you must first know where to look.
• Focus: Soft Touch -- A clumsy hand can cost you the entire measure of your precious treasure's worth. Blessedly, you have the skills to handle delicate work.

General: Economics

Knowing how money changes hands is a highly coveted skill within developed societies.

• Focus: Accounting -- You have knowledge of funds going in and out of the organization and other companies of interest.
• Focus: General Market Studies -- You can easily navigate markets, tell when you’re getting swindled, can haggle easily, and can tell when trends in the markets are going to rise or fall.
• Focus: New Market Opportunities -- Your knowledge of the markets lends you an easy eye for spotting which up and coming items may be priceless or highly demanded, and which are only passing fads.
• Focus: Money Fraud -- Your ability to notice trends in a sea of numbers and paperwork can detect when someone is pulling the wool over someone’s eyes. You can also spot fake currency with a bit of study.
• Focus: Bartering -- With your knowledge of how money trades hands, you’re better at striking deals and ensuring you make the most out of an exchange.

General: Tome Handling

You know how to treat a book and the skills best used to quickly locate information held within them.

• Focus: Tome Restoration -- You have studied techniques on how to carefully restore damaged books, tomes, and scrolls of various materials.
• Focus: Transcription -- You are able to copy the materials from one or more written works into another, and can quickly jot down notes from them.
• Focus: Translation -- You understand how to translate written works from one language to another, provided you either know the language or have a translational dictionary.
• Focus: Archivist -- You assess, collect, organize and maintain records and tomes for long-term preservation.
• Focus: Speed Reading -- Skimming through a tome to find specific information you need is a practiced skill. What could take hours to find among pages and passages, you can locate quickly by logical assessment of paragraphs from the first few lines.

THE DEFENDER

Tier 0:

The level of your average, ordinary person, creature, and non-adventuring sort. The absolute weakest any character could possibly be, with the exception of younger or older creatures/children.

Stats of this tier add -100 to all of their rolls.

Tier 1:

The normal level of any typical adventurer, or someone with particularly high racial traits. (A Roegadyn NPC, for example, is likely to have higher STR than a Lalafell NPC.) Has a few fights under their belt, but nothing terribly impressive.

Stats of this tier add 0 to their rolls.

Tier 2:

More experienced adventurers. By no means experts, but with a few more scuffles to their name and a measure of understanding on bigger things going on in the world. Think members of the Scions of the Seventh Dawn.

Stats of this tier add +50 to their rolls.

Tier 3:

A Master combatant, mage, etc. Seasoned fighters in their respective classes who are fully prepared to use all their techniques should the need arise.

Stats of this tier add +100 to their rolls.

Tier 4:

A powerful opponent, a little stronger than someone who has studied their whole lives fighting. Think Gaius Van Baelsar or any of his cohorts. NPCs of this level will definitely be taking a lot of hits and packing a significant punch.

Stats of this tier add +150 to their rolls.

Tier 5:

This tier is the Warrior of Light in any cutscene. You're cutting through enemies, blasting powerful spells, all within the reason of a mortal being. You will have your match in forces of nature such as primals and other powerful beings, however. This tier is as far as any player characters can reach.

Stats of this tier add +200 to their rolls.

"Archetype HP Block Replacement"

When an Archetype is applied to END, the Base HP values are replaced, not added.

General Perks

General Perks

General Perks

Archetype Hit Class Replacement

When you select an Archetype to apply to the Defense stat, you will replace the BASE Hit Class values with that of the selected Archetype.

General Perks

Inner Guard: Every Tier, your Hit Class (HC) increases according to your archetype. (See above.)

Defend (StA): Forgoing an attack, you may instead enter a defensive posture to increase your hit class by an additional +100 and reduce damage taken by 1, to a minimum of 1. This effect ends if another StA is taken.

Tier 1:

You gain +0 to your rolls.

You don’t particularly notice anything out of the ordinary most of the time. If you concentrate on something or someone hard enough you might get some details, but it does take some time... things out of your experience range will go right by you without you even noticing.

Perk: Master Detective

Tier 1:

You gain +0 to your rolls.

You're not the smartest Chocobo in the cookie shed, and that's okay. You can remember some things, though recalling more obscure information is difficult for you in some higher-pressure instances.

Perk: Scholar Network

Tier 1:

You gain +0 to your rolls.

You’re able to talk to most sensible people without much hassle. If someone is experiencing frustration or fear, you’re typically able to talk them into coming back around to logical thinking and calm.

Perk: Joint Relations

NOTICE: This is the COMET version of creation. If you want your own version, we recommend ignoring this section.

When you have put enough points into Creation, you can begin making items and effects that have unique and useful properties. There are also instances where you may examine the body of a fallen enemy, and gain an item from them! Items can be used to benefit yourself or party members, or potentially give disadvantages to your enemies. Players with the CREATION stat will be able to better utilize and create items with more powerful effects and utilize items to their fullest extent!

Decisions about approval of items can be taken back.

Sometimes items end up working differently in play than concept, so please bear with us as we try to make the system fair for everyone.

Augmenting Items:

Beginning at Tier 3, you can use a crafting slot to augment an existing item. The time spent augmenting is equal to the time needed to make the original item.

General Perks (Tier 0):

Tier 1:

You are a beginner at making magical or exceptional items. They can provide a boon, but due to your inexperience these items don't have much of a charge and they break as they are used.

Tier 2:

Perk: Craftsman Workshop Access

You have been granted a larger area to work in the COMET workshop. You can now craft 2 items at a time, as well as 1 commission for another player.

Perk: Rare Crafting

You are now able to craft Rare items. These items can be used thrice per leve, their effects last 3 turns, and have a 3 turn cooldown after the effect wears off. Rare items can give all the benefits of the previous Tiers, (Adjusted to 3 turn duration and +200) as well as grant the abilities: Reflect, Inspired, Frenzy, Slow, Silence, Paralyze, Addle, Elemental Curse. These items take 4 weeks to make.

Perk: Alpha Augmentation

You are now able to Augment items you already have. An augmentation takes up 1 of your workshop slots and takes as long as the original item would have taken to finish. Augmentation can: double a bonus (i.e. a common item now gives +200 for 1 turn), double the duration of an effect (i.e. an uncommon item now gives +150 for 4 turns), double the uses per leve of an item, or add a secondary effect (an uncommon item that when used grants both Elemental Weakness to a target for 2 turns and then Aspects your attacks to that element for 2 turns).

Perk: Large Pockets

You can carry 5 Consumables, 3 Common Items, 3 Uncommon Items, 2 Rare Item & 1 Unique Item.

You have gained mastery over the creation of custom spells and abilities, giving yourself access to the creation of stronger versions of the abilities you have created. You may also further improve your Uncommon items by taking the time to do so!

Perk: Master Crafting

You are now able to make a Masterpiece level item. These items can be used 5 times per leve, their effects last 4 turns, and have a 3 turn cooldown after the effect wears off. Master items can give all the benefits of the previous Tiers, (Adjusted to 4 turn duration and +300) as well as grant the abilities: Mini and Break. Masterpiece items, by their nature cannot be Augmented.
Masterpiece level items can also have custom abilities, or borrow abilities from other classes. This ability would be equivalent to an Ultimate Skill. This requires collaboration with a DM to assure balance and proper power level, and final approval of Joy, Rainy (Jojo) or Agine.
Masterpiece items take 4 weeks plus at least 4 journal entries about the progress IC.

NOTE: You can only ever have 1 Masterpiece. It becomes an expression of your character’s research and grit, and should be as personal as a legendary weapon. Do not waste it!

Once you have someone who has agreed to make an item for you, there are a few additional steps that need to be done. First off you must RP with the creator at least once to begin the process of creating the Item. Additionally, these items will cost Commendations to make.

Additionally, yourself or the creator can create a leve tied to the creation of this item (such as gathering materials, or slaying a monster for parts). Doing this will reduce the time needed to make the item by 1 week.

There are five types of creations that you can make, please check the tier for what can be made when. But the distinction between them all are as follows:

What you need listed:

• Weapons - (Hidden weapons are included.)
• Research tools - (Paper, Vials/Jars, Components, ect.)
• Survival tools - (Tents, Rope, Rations, ect.)
• Creation Items - (Items made with Creation.)
• Specialty Items - (Items won from events or the Gambler's Wheel of Fate.)
• Companions - (Mammets, Summons, Ect.)

Purpose

When one has customized their character in all the manners in which they'll ever need as far as jobs, archetypes, and stat allotment one may choose to turn their commendation saving towards a weapon of their own, or, perhaps one would rather save for a weapon first while leaving their stats for later? Either is possible, but these weapons are intended to be a goal, something one saves a mountain of commendations for in order to further their character both in story and the system.

The hunt for materials

To create a legendary weapon one must gather materials in the form of "Glittering Shards", three of these special items are required in order to begin crafting one's weapon. To obtain these one must first attend an RP event at the end of which they may announce to the DM they would like to roll for their shard, at which point the player will have to roll over 700 in order to obtain a single shard and they may roll once for every event they attend.

Creation

Though the time it takes to gather materials for one's weapon may take the longest, this step of the journey is the most difficult. In order to obtain and finish one's weapon they will have to undertake a Levequest specifically tailored for them; this quest is incredibly difficult and one may only take their most trusted of comrades with them in order to achieve it. At the end, if successful the weapon will be created and one may name their weapon.

Customization

For fifty commendations one may affix an aetheric gem of great potency to their Legendary Weapon. This gem's power flows into the weapon allowing for an additional ability or trait to an already potent tool.

• Power Slot - This gem allows for one to, once per event, increase the bonus of a particular type of stat roll by +200 for one roll. (PA)

• Swiftness Slot - This gem once slotted into the legendary weapon will decrease the cooldown on the ability it contains by 10 days, giving it a 20 day rest period rather than 30.

• Charge Slot - This gem grants additional flexibility to the Legendary Weapon and allows for another main ability to be available to choose from when using the legendary weapon.

One and Done

You may only have one legendary weapon per character.

Replace your weapon?

For a cost of forty commendations one may, with permission, cast aside their legendary weapon in order to acquire a new weapon. While they will not be required to find another group of materials they will be required to complete another difficult quest in order to earn their replacement.

What is the main ability?

The ability that you legendary weapon is capable of is something you will consult with an officer about after you have gathered your three glimmering shards! The flavor of what the effect will do and the image of what a legendary will do is up to you, and the conversation will ensure the effect is balanced and able to be used in our system!

Positive status effects:

• Regen -- You are healed for 1 HP at the end of each of your turns. [3 rounds]

• Bravery -- Grants one target +100 to STR rolls. [3 rounds]

• Faith -- Grants one target +100 to MP rolls. [3 rounds]

• Libra -- Grants one target +100 to DEX rolls. [3 rounds]

• Haste -- Allows for the target to use two Standard Actions (StA). [1 round] [CD: 3 rounds]

• Stoneskin -- Clears a negative status effect upon the target, and prevents the next negative status effect the target would take. [3 Rounds]

• Reflect -- Bounces attacks back to the caster. [1 round] [CD: 6 rounds]

• Vanish -- Immune to everything, including heals and buffs, and cannot act until your next turn. [1 round] [CD: 6 rounds]

• Shield -- An effect that protects you from a certain amount of damage, acting as a form of extra HP, until this HP is expended or the duration ends. The exact amount of HP depends on the ability that applied the Shield. [3 rounds]

• Inspired -- Grants target +2 to damage on their attacks. [3 rounds]

• Shell -- Take -1 damage from magical attacks. [3 rounds]

• Protect -- Take -1 damage from physical attacks. [3 rounds]

• Dedication -- Decreases the amount needed to roll a Limit Break from 950 to 900. [Passive, Special]

• Trance -- You enter into a heightened state, allowing all of your attacks to hit for an additional +4 damage. [3 rounds] [Special]

Neutral status effects:

• Reverse -- Reverses status effects: Regen becomes Poison, Fear becomes Bravery, damage becomes healing, and vice versa. Status effects with no opposite are nullified. [Lasts 2 turns for players -- Lasts 4 for bosses] (NPC ONLY)

• Winded -- You are exhausted after exerting an incredible amount of energy. All of your rolls are given a -50 penalty. [Lasts 3 turns. THIS EFFECT CAN STACK. Granted in extreme cases or when reaching 0 HP. ]

• Knockdown -- Rolling over a certain threshold will knock enemies equal or lower to your STR tier down to the ground, forcing them to take a turn to return to their feet if their END is not T3 or higher. [Cannot be used by players without T4 STR or higher--for details, see "Raw Power" perk.]

• Spread -- Spreads a negative or positive status effect to up to 3 targets. The caster of spread is not automatically a recipient. [Lasts remaining duration]

• Hidden -- You are unable to be targeted by either allies or enemies. In addition, attacks made while Hidden are rolled at Advantage. If you aren't a Thief or Ninja, any action you take will remove Hidden and apply Visible. If you -are- a Thief or Ninja, at the end of each turn after applying Hidden, roll another Hide check as a Free Action to see if you can maintain this effect. If you fail, you lose Hidden and are afflicted with Visible.

Elemental Status Effects

• Elemental Curse -- Deals specific elemental damage over time to an enemy. (Example: 1 fire damage per turn) [3 rounds]

• Elemental Weakness -- Increases specific elemental damage taken by an enemy. (Example: +1 additional fire damage taken from all sources) [3 rounds]

• Nul(?) -- Grants immunity to a type of damage, element, or status effect. (IE: NulFire, etc.) [3 rounds]

• Bar(?) -- Prevents the use of a type of damage, element, or status effect (IE: BarFire, etc.) [3 rounds]

Elements:

• Fire
• Levin / Lightning
• Water
• Ice
• Earth
• Wind
• Light
• Darkness
• Poison ‡
• Dynamis ‡ (Soul)
• Time ‡
• Gravity ‡
• Unaspected (Raw Aether) ‡

[ ‡ These damage types are not technically elemental-based (as they have no natural opposites), and cannot be accessed by players, but are listed for clarification purposes.]

Maximums and Minimums

In order to prevent the abuse of buff-creeping and singular characters being the entire focus of a party's application of status effects a cap on +DMG.

• From outside sources one cannot gain more than +4 DMG on their next attack, this does not include internal self-buffing from job benefits as we believe including that in the calculations would harm job flavor.

• Buffs to hit class cannot exceed the cap (650).

• The rules from +DMG also work in the reverse; an entity cannot be debuffed further than -4 DMG without DM intercession (Difficult encounters) In addition, only the largest -Hit effect will be in effect when the target attacks. (The debuffs will remain even if not in effect, in case some fall off sooner than others.)

• Damage cannot be reduced below 1 (including DoTs) Regardless of how much mitigation the target may have. (Unless invulnerable.)

Buff stacking and refreshing:

Another noticeable issue with leaving things undefined is that members have been using positive status effects in a manner that either stacks or refreshes them, neither of these were intended and below are some guidelines to follow.

• Positive status effects CANNOT stack, if one is already under the benefit of a buff like Haste, Haste cannot be cast on them in order to give them more attacks that turn. (This includes internalized self-buffs that a job may have).

• Postive status effects MAY NOT be refreshed before the effect has fallen off; for example, if a player's haste is over in 1 turn, an ally MAY NOT apply it that turn, they must wait until the turn where it has fallen off and is no longer applied in order to place a new one.

• In the event that a positive status effect has a degree of potency in its description only the highest of those applied will be counted; for example, if one player applies a +2 HP shield to the party and then another applies a +3, the shields are NOT cumulative and instead only the +3 HP shield will be counted.

Clarifications:

• Concerning Reflect: Reflect will not reflect back damage or status effects (including DoTs) that have been previously applied -- only things that are done after it has gone off.
• Stacking Damage: DoTs cannot stack with each other, with the exception of Bleed and other Unaspected DoTs.
• Spreading Effects: Spread will spread ALL effects on the original target, to all targets within significant range of the original intended target, and CANNOT spread ITEM EFFECTS.
• With Haste: Haste is based on the cooldown of the CASTER, not the recipient.

Definition of a "Turn"

This has been an issue of some confusion at times, therefore below are the two primary instances one uses when deciding what a "turn" is and when one has passed.

• First, the overall "turn" for these purposes a "combat turn" is ended when the entire initiative order has been played through and it is once again the character with the highest initiative's action.

• When figuring out what a "turn" is in respect to a party wide or event-wide effect (for example, +100 HC to the entire party for 2 turns) then a "turn" has passed when the initiative order has passed through that combat turn and back to the action of the original caster in the next combat turn.

• When figuring the duration of a singular negative or positive status effect applied to one character in particular the "turn" is over when that character's next action is up (Examples 1 DMG DoT or a single target +100 to hit). Once cast by whoever is applying the buff or debuff, the next action for the target of such effect will be one a "turn" has passed for that effect, whether or not this falls within the same combat turn is irrelevant.

Interacting with your world

During an episode or Levequest, you may ask your DM to do certain things, such as talk to NPCs, investigate areas, or other actions. Please make note that you NEED to emote what it is you're trying to do BEFORE you /random roll. If you roll...randomly...you will be ignored.

Roll Initiative

When your DM informs the party to "Roll Initiative" -- you will be asked to /random to determine the order in which characters, both your allies and enemies, will be attacking in. The higher you roll, the higher up on the list you will be.

"What Can I Do On My Turn?"

During each of your character's turns, you can do one each of the following actions: a Standard Action, a Swift Action, a Movement Action and a Passive Action. You can also use one Reaction per round of combat, and most Reactions do not need to be used on your turn. For more information about these actions, please see the System Terminology section at the start of this book!

Most of the abilities that are used with these actions will come from your chosen Job(s), but you can also get some from the Archetype and Creation systems.

Every character also has access to the following list of Basic Abilities, no matter your Job or Archetype!:

Basic Abilities

Damage Calculation Table

Looks a lot easier now doesn't it?

"My Party is in DANGER how do I HEAL them?!"

Relax friend. We also have a chart for that, too!

AoEs for Damage

Without the Multi-Target Perk from having Tier 3 in either MP, STR, or DEX it is normally impossible to make an AoE attack without using an ability from a Job that is inherently AoE. With this Perk, you can make a basic attack that has -50 to the roll for each additional target beyond the first.

AoEs for Healing

The Multi-Target Perk is also needed to make basic heals that affect more than one target. However, unlike dealing damage, all Healing AoEs take -100 to their roll per additional target, in addition to HALF to the final healed amount, including bonuses before this.

Fall Damage Chart

ANYBODY CAN HEAL.

You don't have to be a mage or a healer specifically in order to tend to the wounds of your allies! Potions, bandages, and other medical supplies can be used just as well as spells! Don't feel like you're limited just because of your class--if your character has basic first aid knowledge, they do their best to heal the wounds of their allies!

Limit Breaks:

These powerful abilities are meant to turn the tide of battle and be used in a dire situation. Limit Breaks are limited to the player's primary Archetype associated with that particular Limit Break, but are highly powerful abilities.

Earning your LB3:

When you have stored up 3 Limit Breaks, you can combine these three Limit Breaks to perform a "LB3". These are more powerful than their normal counterparts, and can turn the tide of battle when things are looking particularly grim, or if you want to finish off a foe in an utterly spectacular manner. The question is, do you want to use your Limit Breaks sparingly, saving them for potential high damage or emergency protection...or, perhaps you would like to expend them immediately?
The choice is, ultimately, up to players to decide for themselves!

"My class has a stance--can I switch between and then attack?"

Yes! Swapping stances is a Passive Action, and as such you can swap, then make your turn! Due to only having one Passive Action a turn, however, you may only do this once per turn!

"How much distance can I cover when I move around the battle during my turn?"

Two seconds IRL time is the amount of ground you can traverse with your movement action!

"When do things like DoTs and Regen tick? Is it on my turn, or the beginning of the turn order?"

These things all happen at the beginning of the turn. It's up to you as a player to keep track of when things like your cooldowns, status effects, ect go off. The DMs will help you, but it's important to remember when, for example, your poison gets off of your character or not.

"So I cast Regen on myself. Does the cooldown start this turn?"

For STATUS EFFECTS (like Regen and Poison) the cooldown starts AFTER THE EFFECT ENDS. So on the turn when your Regen comes off, the cooldown will start then.

For ABILITIES the cooldown happens right after the ability has gone off.

"So do I switch between the classes I have, or do I have access to everything?"

You have access to all your abilities at the same time. At the beginning of a fight, you should have access to at LEAST 10 abilities.

"How Many Things am I Allowed To Use Per Turn?"

• 1 Standard Action (StA)

• 1 Reaction (RA)

• 1 Swift Action (SwA)

• 1 Movement Action (MA)

• 1 Passive Action (PA)

"How Does Confuse / Frenzy / Blind Work? How Do I Know If I Hit My Ally Or Not?"

If you roll EVEN you will hit your ENEMY.

If you roll ODD you will hit your ALLY, or YOURSELF. If there is an ally beside you, you'll hit them. If not, you hit yourself.

In the case of BLIND, even numbers will cause you to miss.

"What's the Difference Between REFLECT and VANISH?"

REFLECT will reflect all enemy attacks back to the opponent for ONE turn.

VANISH makes you untargetable, negates any damage, and makes you unable to take actions for one turn.

"Can I use Multi-Target on Buffs or Debuffs?"

No, however, they CAN become multi-target if you SPREAD them.

Element Weaknesses

In other words, the following status effects can be resisted:

• Addle
• Bind
• Blind
• Confusion
• Curse
• Daze
• Disable
• Knockdown
• Paralyze
• Silence
• Sleep

Other status effects not listed here may be subject to RESISTANCE at staff or DM discretion.

Additional Methods of Finding Weaknesses

There may be other ways for you to find other possible information on your enemies besides Scan...however, what these means entail is entirely up to the DM running your event - should they choose to add such additional means!

Nobody Likes Fractions

When encountering a fraction (such as 1/2 HP, ect) it is important to know how to deal with non-whole numbers. Therefore:

How Hide Works Out of Combat:

Once per scene (during an event), a player may roll to hide just as in combat, and must reroll per scene change in order to remain hidden, at the DM's discretion. (Scene change may be defined as entering a new room, or perhaps after a major event has happened depending on the DM)

Defense for Hide checks scales the same way non-combat stats do. Dex may also be used for hiding. If a player has ninja or thief as their job, they gain a +100 to all Hide rolls due to their job, no matter the stat used. This buff stacks.

DMs may choose to operate Hide mechanics differently for their events, or may choose to use different stats for the hide checks, always follow the DM's rules for out of combat encounters over what is written above.

Hide in Combat:

Any player may use the Hide action when in combat as a Standard Action, and makes either a DEF/EVA or DEX check in order to Hide on a combined roll of 600+. If successful, apply Hidden to yourself, stopping you from being able to be targetted by enemies OR allies. AoE attacks aimed at an area may still strike you, as well as skills that attack or heal -all- targets. While Hidden, all attacks are made at advantage. If a seeker using Hide isn't a thief or ninja, using any skill will remove hidden and apply Visible (Which stops the use of Hide for 2 rounds.) If the user -is- a thief or ninja however, at the end of each turn AFTER applying Hidden, they make another Hide Check at no action economy.

Step 1: Agree on the Rules of Engagement

There are various ways you can agree to PvP combat, but we will go over the most common 3 here.
[Note: These rules can easily be used for free-for-all and teams of players. Adjust as you see fit.]

Feint:

Feints are typically used to trick your opponent into reacting to your movements in a predictable way, so you can maneuver in an unexpected direction. A Feint can be used to counter a Parry, but are weak to Engagements.

Parry:

A Parry is used to halt an attack you can see coming, and uses your momentum in defense to counter-attack. A Parry can counter an Engagement, but they are weak to Feints.

Engage:

Engaging the enemy directly can sometimes throw them off-guard, as they might be expecting a more complex attack pattern. An Engage counters Feints, but are weak to a Parry.

Guard:

Guarding yourself against your enemy won't do any damage, but you'll be able to avoid taking any hits! By using your DEFENSE/EVASION [DEF/EVA] Tier, you can guard up to as many hits as you have DEF/EVA tiers.
[EXAMPLE: If you have T3 DEF/EVA, you would be able to guard 3 attacks! It's that easy.]

As an Example:

Bill FEINTS, ducking underneath his opponent's sword to strike him in the face with his fist. [FEINT, STR]

As an Example:

Steve and Jim are fighting!
STEVE is using his T3 STRENGTH and JIM is using his T5 DEXTERITY!
Steve and Jim both try to FEINT. It's a tie! Since both players decided to make the same move, it's time to see who falters first!
Steve and Jim are asked to add their TIER BONUSES to a /random roll!
Steve has T3 and adds +150 to his roll. Jim has T5 and adds +200 to his roll.
Steve rolls 400! (150+400=550)
Jim rolls 100! (200+100=300)
STEVE wins the tie! JIM will take disadvantage the next time there's a tie! NO DAMAGE IS DEALT!

AoEs:

You are ALLOWED to AoE if you have multiple targets -- while there IS NO PENALTY FOR AOE ATTACKS keep in mind you opponents may be using more than one type of strategem, and you could be countered!

Unlocking Gear Sets:

To unlock a Gear Set, you will need to pay a specific amount of commendations in order to unlock them -- as you can see on your character sheet, you have two (2) Gear Sets available for you.

Customizing Gear Sets

Once you've unlocked the Gear Sets, you can pick up to two (2) additional jobs. As always BOUND jobs remain unable to be combined with other jobs.

Current Patch: 8.5.0 - Scale & Measure