Greetings once again.
I wanted to ask a favor of everyone here, and since this IS an RPG forum, and I run an RPG-style game (or want to again), I'm putting this out there.
As Robert "Proforce" Brown can attest to, I am trying one last time to revive my Sonic Street Fighter game.
You may want to view the Sonic Street Fighter pages here so this will make sense.
Before the revival, though, I am in the process of working out some kinks in the format to make it the best competition possible.
One of those kinks involves the characters' stats. I am changing two of these stats, SPEED and AGILITY, to their original definitions, DEXTERITY and ATHLETICS. Because of that, I need to re-evaluate the Dexterity stat.
Here is the official definition of this stat from the SF RPG books I have:
DEXTERITY
This trait measures your general physical prowess - speed, quickness and agility. It indicates the capacity for moving precisely and manipulating objects with accuracy and grace. Dexterity includes hand-eye coordination, fine motor manipulation, reaction speed, reflexes and bodily grace.
1 - Poor: You are butterfingered, so don't use a chainsaw.
2 - Average: You can chew gum and walk at the same time.
3 - Good: You have excellent raw athletic potential.
4 - Exceptional: You can juggle five knives.
5 - Outstanding: You can juggle five knives while blindfolded.
Those are the details. The stat can range anywhere from 1 to 5, but if someone is extremely superhuman in this or any other stat, the rating can go as high as 8.
Now, the task: Determine the Dexterity that each of the SSF competitors have.
Sonic
Tails
Princess Sally
Antoine
Bunnie
Amy Rose
Geoffrey St. John
Hershey
Knuckles
Julie-Su
Vector
Mighty
Espio
Lupe
Robotnik
Metal Sonic
Nack
Enerjak
Naugus
Brian*
Princess Sondra*
Shadow+
Rouge+
Rotor?
Ari?
* - Fan character (Sondra appears courtesy of Robert, and Brian... take a guess.)
+ - New character when the game returns (Kodos, Uma & Stryker will not be returning)
? - Possible new character (to be decided later)
OK, have at it. What do you think, gang?
This is not an RPG forum. It is an RP forum.
You may wanna put this in gaming academy.
As I usually have burst everyone's bubble; writing an RP is like writing a story, not a video game. Stat systems are really a waste in RPs, believe me I even tried to implement one as a way for anyone to see what someone's character was like at a glance. It failed miserably. To know a character you have to read their background, there's no other way.
What you can hope for from here is an idea of what the RPers think each character is like. I doubt we know anything about your fan characters so the maker of the fan character should be the one to decide what type of character they are.
The only thing I could really tell you is which characters Sega/Sonic Team/Archie portrays as being quick on their feet.
Sonic, Tails, Princess Sally, Espio, Lupe, Nack, Shadow, and Rouge all seem to be based around being quick and precise in their movements as a rule barring any witty scenerios the developers want to add in. Obviously running at insane speeds requires quicker reflexs than is humanly possible, as does flying. So the two speed demons; as well as the living hang-glider and helicopter would have to have very quick reflexs maybe to a higher extent than the others, I don't know, I'm not a doctor.
In conclusion: Dammit, Jim! I'm a writer, not a DBZ roleplayer!
~Rico
