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Hello there!

I don't know how many Italians there are here on tumnblr, but I just finished a new video on my boy Gideon, so if you know someone interested, please feel free to spread the word :)

patientno7

the suffering never ends

sinksanksockie2

This is the real process

thewritingbeast-blog

Resources for you!

Character Ideas:

Character creation masterpost

Character Alignment Chart

More character alignment descriptions

Muslim Character questions

Characters with magical powers

Building a new character advice

How to create a character for an online or tabletop RPG (also a good guide on creating characters in general)

Royalty/nobility TV Tropes page

Basic character profile

OC masterpost

Random character generators - (1), (2), (3), (4)

D&D Character Building Tool

Character Design Ideas:

How clothing affects a character’s personality

Character Design Inspiration blog

Concept art, fan art, cool art to be inspired by

Character design references and inspiration

Sources for POC character design ideas and models

Create your own character model using HeroForge

For horned characters

Body and hair types guide

Random outfit generator

Naming Help:

Amazing site with an endless amount of naming resources

General advice on avoiding naming appropriation

Hispanic Surnames

Gothic Victorian names

Huge master list for character things in general

Masterlist of names of all types - including but not limited to ancient/old world names, Celtic, African, Northern European, Southern and Central American Native names, Japanese, Chinese, Mongolian, Polynesian, and more

Another name masterlist

How to pick a character name guide

Yet another names masterlist

Creating Background/backstory:

Character Sheet/Development Sheet

Another character development list

In-depth character personality, motivations and traits sheet

320 talents and passions for characters

On writing likes and dislikes that aren’t frivolous

Why you should write non-human characters non-conforming to the gender binary

Stereotypes, tropes, and archetypes

Random backstory generator

Assassin and thief character tropes to avoid

Character Interactions and putting your character into your world/story:

Comparing character height/height references

Characters who are scientists and writing about them doing science

Describing what different voices sound like

Describing skin tones

Writing friendship interactions that are platonic

Why having one character knock their friend unconscious to prevent them from doing something is a bad idea

Advice on shipping OCs with canon characters and what to avoid doing

Sweet Polly Oliver and Sweet on Polly Oliver situations (think of Disney’s Mulan for an example)

How to write multiple viewpoints/juggling a main cast of more than 4 to 6 characters

How to make readers care about your morally gray hero/anti-hero

On platonic OC and canon character relationships

How to avoid Godmodding in RPs

When it’s cheap to kill off a character

Writing dialogue

Things you shouldn’t do to canon characters

Avoiding purple prose in writing and RPs

Slang resources

Dialogue tips

Websites to chart your story/plot/character relationships

Bonus art masterlist!

brucewayneright

BLESS EVERYONE IN THIS POST.

pervyking

I will always reblog this!

unoutan

YESSSSSS. GOOD SHIT. GOOD SHIT FOR CREATIVES <3

askkrenko

Sagas

@drone00blog The Saiyan Saga 2WW Enchantment- Saga 1. Exile target creature until The Saiyan Saga leaves the battlefield. 2. Destroy all creatures. 3. Until end of turn, whenever a creature enters the battlefield under your control, put three +1/+1 counters on it. The Namek Saga 2UU Enchantment- Saga 1. 2. Search your library for an artifact, reveal it, and put it into your hand. Then, shuffle your library. 3. If you control seven or more artifacts with different names, you win the game. The Cell Saga 2GG Enchantment- Saga 1. 2. Create two 1/1 colorless Construct artifact creature tokens. 3. Sacrifice all creatures you control. Then, search your library for a creature card and put it onto the battlefield. Shuffle your library afterward. The Buu Saga 2RR Enchantment- Saga 1. Target creature you control fights target creature you don’t control. 2. You may sacrifice a creature. If you do, put three +1/+1 counters on target creature you control. 3. Each creature you control deals damage equal to its power to target creature or player. The Black Saga 2BB Enchantment- Saga 1. Create a token that’s a copy of target creature card in an opponent’s graveyard except it’s Black. 2. Creatures you control are indestructible until the beginning of your next turn. 3. Each player discards their hand.

….Alright, what do you think? Do they look good mechanically? Did I hit the story beats right? I know the last one comes later, but after I realized I had a four-color cycle going, it had to be done. It was that or Garlic Jr.

The real question is “are the story beats recognizable” and “do the cards seem cool?” Balance is probably off, but that’s for development to figure out.

mtg-dbz

Ahah those are awesome! They all seem pretty balanced to me, but the most important thing is that you can understand the story from the effects. Good job! Maybe the Black saga is too good? Reanimate effect for 2BB that also do other things? I don't know. It can be a mythic rare or something.

drone00blog

DBZ Custom Magic set (2/25)

askkrenko

Goten! Mechanically fine. Looks weird without flavor text. My suggestion: give him “Protection from Snakes.” I think it’ll be funny and randomly screw with Cell.

Grab! I like the concept, but it’s a bit wordy I think. Maybe have it work the other way… That is…

Enchant Creature

Enchanted Creature has “Tap: Exile target creature an opponent controls for as long as this creature remains tapped.” and “You may choose not to untap this creature during your untap step.” And then still the return ability. It’s cleaner and basically does the same thing. Kibito’s good, unless there’s a LOT of Shinjin in the set, in which case he should lose a point of toughness.

Kidnap is Journey to Nowhere, which is fine, but you should use the updated Banishing Light wording for rules simplicity.

Korin is a good kitty.

Kamehamehaaaaaaaaa! Check out Goblin Barrage for proper Kicker templating, but mechanically this is fine.

Instant Transmission! Thaaaat’s a blue effect. White creatures don’t get to dodge blockers like this. I like the design, but it is super blue. Or even Blue-White. I’d probably cost this at WU.

Great Saiyaman and Great Saiyaman Mark II: I’m sure I went over these already. They’re good.

mtg-dbz

Ok! part 2!

Side note, I didn’t put any flavor text because I wanted to finish the set before adding details (like, maybe a card I write the flavor text for result unused, in which case I would have waisted a bit of time. I know it’s not a lot, and I could have done that, but ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ ).

So yeah, Goten could have protection from Snakes, or also a bit of flavor to fill that blank.

Grab is way better as you worded it, so I’ll use that. I get a lot of templates almost nearly correct, but I’ll update them now.

There are not so many Shinjin for Kibito.

Kidnap and Kamehameha as above ;)

I partially agree on Instant transmission, because what it wanted to be in design, turned out to be different in ““development””. So maybe now it could be UW and the card I have now for UW (rescue something) can become white some work.

#design #custom magic set #custom magic card #mtg #dbz

drone00blog

Hi! I finished my set!

This is the “first version” and I did some drafts, it turned out really smooth, the Perfect mechanic (changeling) is pretty OP in this set, so it must be nerfed.

There is still work to do, but I’ll post all the cards, grouped in posts like this, 9 cards in each post twice a day, until the whole set is out.

If you can’t wait and want to see the whole spoiler list, I’ll put a link here

( –> https://ibb.co/album/jiXywF )

Have fun, and comment! I always appreciate feedback, I alredy know about some “bugs” (like the absence of subtype in the Dinosaur card) but tell me again please, it’s better twice than none ;)

I made a mistake and uploaded aaaaall the queue in this blog (not the DBZ-releted one) so each day I’ll reblog posts from that blog to have them there. I apologize if you happen to read the same post twice :/

DBZ Custom Magic set (1/25)

askkrenko

Alright, 1 of 25! Let’s get to examining! Also sharing! Not gonna go into set design as a whole because without actually getting to draft it I can’t say, but I’ll definitely give each individual card a good once-over.

But as far as the comment given, what’s making the Perfect mechanic OP? Maybe move the Cell Jrs to uncommons in order to still give that help for form smoothing but make it less reliable? Alright, first nine! Seen some of these before, and definitely gave input on some… as for others… Chiaotzu feels a bit low impact for an uncommon. Upping the ability cost and damage could help a lot. Like making it 2R, Tap: 4 damage to target creature. Two color uncommons tend to be specal, and he feels like I’d rather just take a Magma Spray or whatever over him most of the time. You can also reasonably up the damage and keep a R/W feel if it’s “target attacking or blocking creature” instead of just target creature. In fact, you could match him with Gideon’s Reproach and make him W to play, 1R to activate, for 4 damage to target attacking or blocking creature. Also, Chiaotzu’s creature type should probably be Vampire rather than human. It doesn’t actually come up in Dragon Ball, but he’s based on eastern vampire mythology, and honestly, that’s no human. Chapuchai is a better Myr Propagator. I’m worried he’s a bit strong. Obviously, that’s something to tell in playtesting, but my instinct says that adding 1 to his activation cost will go a long way to making him still good but inhibiting his ability to win games on his own.

I love Goku, Trained Fighter. Great design. I don’t think I saw that one before.

For Gohan, Diligent Scholar: are the only Videls the 2/1 and the Great Saiyaman 2? If so, this ability’s a bit too narrow. This doesn’t mean it shouldn’t exist, but it should probably be stronger. Maybe just adding +1/+0 in addition to Vigilance. … Though I can see the “Perfect” cards being relevant here so maybe it’s fine because Cell Jrs turn it on.

mtg-dbz

Ok! Finally have some time to read and respond :)

Chiaotsu is a bit weak. I agree. In our draft he didn’t shine, so maybe it’ll get a boost. (He can be a vampire too, I think. That’s a good idea. I used “human” because it’s what I use to translate “Earthling”, but they are a bit different. I can either use vampire for him or use Earthling for all...Earthlings ;) )

Chapuchai is strong, and needs nerfing. Instead of increasing its cost, I think something like this could be even more flavourful: “1W, T: Create a 0/0 white Human Chapuchai Clone creature token. Clone creatures you control get +1/+1.” This way, if you kill the “original”, all copies will disappear.

Gohan need to get a better bonus from Videl, and viceversa.

The Perfect mechanic was meant to be useful to smooth draft sinergies and increase the power of techniques. In draft, and only in draft, i realized that Form and Fusion also cared about creature types, so you could exile two Jrs. and get a monstrous Gotenks. This was not meant to be a thing, so I think I’ll reword Perfect to be something similar to “Perfect (This creature is considered every creature type as long as you’re choosing to pay additional costs of Technique spells you cast”. Wording is terrible, (and you could suggest something better, I hope xD) but this way perfect creatures could be balanced.

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