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Skill Tiers

Each person starts with their character having a total of 6 Skills that they may use. 3 Tier 1 skills, 2 Tier 2 skills and 1 Tier 3 skill. Every 10 levels (starting at level 10) you will gain a Tier 1 Skill slot that can be used with any ability you have.

You may combine Tiers of the same level to increase their tier value.

I.e. 2 Tier 1's fused together to create a Tier 2, or 2 Tier 2's fused together to create a Tier 3. You may also break down tiers, however this will always result in only 1 of the reduced tiers.

(All cooldowns are in effect at the first post of you within the fight of a thread)

If you perform an action that is not a part of a skill, it will be known as "Tierless". These give no bonuses, and no extra effects regarding the ability you are using to produce the Tierless skill.

Tierless Actions can not increase in tier via the Damage scale. And Tierless actions CAN NOT clash with Tiered attacks. You may only produce Tierless attacks for things your Ability can do. If your Ability is manipulating fire, you can not then create a sword of ice. Hand to hand combat that does not use Tiered skills will be counted as Tierless.

Range: Can vary, but won't be more than 50 ft.

This is the weakest of any attacks, with a maximum damage of 1.

Damage = (Tier 0 x STR/END DIff) + 1

Skill Types

There are plenty of skill types within Bleach: Shattered Realms. And more are being added on all the time. If you want to ensure that your skills will be accepted, check here and see if it falls under one of the types and follow the rules set out for it to help ensure quick and easy approval! If you have something that DOESN'T fall under any of these, please bring it up for discussion. Who knows! Maybe you'll have created a new type of skill we don't have!

As a rule of thumb, your skills may only fall under 1 of these categories. If it falls under more it may be subject to stipulations or denial.

No Skills within our system will be instant. All Skills and talents will have some sort of speed associated with it. The only talent that is actually "Instant" is Titan's Blink Talent.

Any sort of transformation, that effects your own body that puts you in a release state will be an instant transformation. Even if you go full on Magical girl transformation and write up a fantastical post that details every bit of it, it will all be in nothing but a blink of an eye. This is to stop anyone from stopping your transformations cuz... that's just against the rules of Shonen.

On top of the increase of power you get, your transformations will also increase the amount on the Endurance rule. Adding +5 to this rule for each tier of release. (i.e. If entering Shikai, this will increase the rule to being +15, if entering Bankai this will increase the rule to being +20)

Buffs are intrinsic to a stat system and some people may want to enhance themselves through whatever means they wish. And you're more than welcome to do so within the confines of whichever Skill Tier you are using. These buffs will temporarily increase your stats by a flat amount and may target a single stat and will not affect any "Hidden" stats.
Tier 2: Tier 2 buffs provide a 2 level increase to a single stat for one (1) turn, or a 1 level increase to a single stat for the duration of upkeep.
Tier 3: Tier 3 buffs provide a 4 level increase to a single stat for one (1) turn.

If you use a buff within a skill, it can be used to attack using the new stats for the attack.

This works the same way as Buffs except that it works in the negative against the person afflicted, and are able to be upkept. However, they lose 1 level of effectiveness each posting turn.

Meaning that if you debuff someone at a Tier 3 it will debuff them by 4 levels, then next turn it will debuff them by 3 levels, and so on and so forth. Stats can not go below 0, and this does not effect any "Hidden" Stats.

A debuff may do damage, but will do said damage at 1 Tier lower than what tier the skill is at.

Damage Over Time

Damage over time, or DoT Skills work similarly to Debuffs in the sense that they can be upkept to do slowly deteriorating damage to the opponent until it fizzles out. A DoT Skill will deal the Tier that it is in damage for the round it is used. Then for any turns subsequent to that, it will be reduced by a Tier for each round until it is dissipated.

For example, you use a T3 DoT. It will do T3 damage the first turn, then if you upkeep it, it will deal T2 damage the next round, Then T1 damage, then Tierless before finally it dissipates completely and you will have to reapply the DoT to do it all over again.

Upkeeping the damage over time will still start your cooldown for your subsequent skill. However, if you are attempting to upkeep a T3 DoT, you MUST have your T2 off cooldown in order for it to continue to do damage. If you do not, then it dissipates immediately. Likewise, if you use a T2 DoT, when you upkeep it to a T1 your T2 cooldown begins.

Combination skills combine your strength with your speed to make you move faster, or combining your speed with your strength to make you hit harder.

Combination Skills must be at LEAST Tier 2.

They do not effect any Hidden Stats.

Combination Skills cost 1 extra Stamina than their equivalent Tier, T2 costing 3 Stamina and T3 costing 5

Each character can only have a SINGLE T2 and T3 Combination Skill in their repertoire over ALL of their skills

Combination Skills CANNOT be: AoEs, Projectiles, Barriers, Barrages, or Upkeepable.

Rate for each combination is as follows:
Strength to Speed: Every 4 Strength combines to 1 Speed.

Speed to Strength: Every 6 Speed combines to 1 Strength.

Blocking

Blocking counts as a combination, though you do not need a Skill to do so. To block an attack, you must actively be attempting to do so and this will count as a Major Action. This does not effect any Hidden Stats. Blocking will only use your Physical Strength, as "blocking" with Reiryoku will act as a Clash instead.

Rate for combination is as follows:

Physical Strength to Endurance: Every 6 Strength combines to 1 Endurance.

These are projectiles that are thrown, punched, or otherwise would use your Strength in some form or fashion. These projectiles are not able to be redirected AT ALL and will fly forwards in a straight line from the point in which they are fired. If you use your Rei strength to supplement your Strength, you may use Rei Strength for this calculation instead of Physical. Both will now act as the speed of what is thrown.

These projectiles will be subject to a distance detriment, starting at 20ft and doubling every 5ft after that. Meaning that if you create a strength projectile, it will lose 2 speed at 20ft, and increased to 4 speed at 25ft, and 8 speed at 30ft, etc. This will continue until the speed would ultimately reach 0, at which point the projectile will fizzle out. However, these projectiles do not have a minimum or maximum range associated with them. Once thrown they can go as far as their speed will allow them to do.

Your Perception/Precision will be effected by the amount of Speed that the projectile itself will have. So if you have too much Strength over your Perception, you will not be able to throw accurately.

These are projectiles that are fired from an apparatus of some sort (i.e. A gun, a crossbow, a trebuchet, etc). These projectiles MAY be redirected by ricocheting off of other objects that are not the intended target, or by redirection through an ability that allows you to do so. However, as it is redirected, it will lose half it's speed for each 90 degree change. These projectiles will use Reiryoku Speed for their speed, but can do Physical Strength or Reiryoku Strength for their damage calculations depending on if it is a Reiryoku construct or a physical one.

These projectiles are not prone to the speed detriment rule for distance. But do follow the set distances for Tiered skills.

Beams are like projectiles in that they are fired in a direction, and typically do not change direction. However, they will not take a decrease in speed if there is a change in direction and will continuously move at your Reiryoku Speed unless some outside source acts upon it. You can not innately change the direction of your beams unless you have an ability or skill that does so. Beams have set dimensions that they operate within and taper off closest to the source. A beam may be upkept but will require the same amount of stamina as the initial cost to maintain the damage output, and is only able to be upkept at a Tier 2 level or below.

Barrages are attacks that have multiple hits in the same action. These can be broken up in multiple ways in order to combat the situation. But however you do it, it will still count as a singular major action.

1. If your attack can be divided by the tier (i.e. 2 hits for a Tier 2, or 3 hits for a Tier 3) then each hit will strike at the equivalent of the lower tier. If your Tier 3 only has 2 hits, both of them will strike at a T2.

2. Your attack will have its strength divided by the amount of strikes it is intending to do, up to 1 for every 3 points in your speed and as long as that number does not decrease below 1. As an example, for 15 speed and 11 strength, you may produce a barrage of 3 attack, simply because your strength would not allow a division any lower than that. Your speed would allow for 5 attacks in total, but your strength would not allow for more than 3. In this scenario, all 3 attacks would be at 1/3 of your total strength (rounding down) and only the strikes that hit will be counted towards the strength total against the opponents Endurance. (i.e. if 2 strikes hit but not the 3rd, only 6 strength will be going towards your opponents Endurance)

These are skills in which they have no effect on combat as a whole. These may be healings of sorts, or information gathering, or a whole plethora of things that do not effect combat and may be used outside of combat. These will have stipulations on what they can do, and once combat ensues they will no longer be able to be activated or used in anyway until combat ends. These don't typically cost stamina as they happen outside of combat. However, if used directly AFTER combat, you would have had to have enough stamina at the end to do so. Meaning if you tried to use a Tier 3 Out of Combat skill and you only had 3 stamina left at the end of the fight, you would fail.

Area of Effect: These type of skill, referred to hereafter as AOE, is generally an omnidirectional attack from a point of origin. Skills classified as AOE are subject to the following:

1) Half the range of a normal skill, in regards to the tier of skill they are for. Therefore, an AOE at Tier 1 will have a maximum range of 50ft.

2) AOE require a difference of 6 stat points to overwhelm in a clash. This is due to being more so an area denial or crowd control option than a means of raw single-target damage.

3) An AOE may not be a combination.

Upkeep skills, being skills with upkeep, have an initial cost followed by half of that paid per action per round. Upkeep can also be paid per action additionally to bring about the effects of an Upkeep skill more than once per round. This, however, only applies to single type of action. Thus, if you make a skill that turns sword slashes into tiered attacks, this upkeep would be paid upon every slash. At the same time, attacking with a bow would be decidedly not a sword and therefore would not have this skill apply. It would deactivate in this case, meaning the initial cost has to be paid again.

Damaging skills that are upkept only do 50% of the total damage compared to their full counterpart if paid for with half stamina. As such, damaging upkeep skills may be paid for in full in order to retain their maximum damage, making the decision on which cost to pay at the start of each round.

Tier 3s May not be upkept with the exception of Debuffs and some Kido.

A versatile skill type, Stances allow the user to move their base (meaning buffs and transformations do not apply) stat points about. This cannot affect hidden stats, and the full move is applied every time, disallowing partial conversions. In order to move 3 stat points, for example, the user must have those 3 to move without any buffs or transformations involved.

The types of stances are as follows:Normal Stance: The stance in which everyone is normally, this is used to refer to the base stats of a person.

Strength Stance: This stance moves stat points from Speed to Strength.
Speed Stance: This stance moves stats from Strength to Speed.
Enduring Stance: This stance moves stats from Strength to Endurance.

In order to enter a stance, the user must pay the initial cost. Doing so causes them to move to one of the above stances, within which they remain until the fight ends or they pay to switch back to Normal Stance early.Only one stance can be active at any time, and the aforementioned stances may not produce tiered damage alone.

Tier 1

Stats Moved: 3

Costs 1 stamina to switch in and out of this stance.

Tier 2

Stats Moved: 5

Costs 2 stamina to switch in and out of this stance.

Tier 3

Stats Moved: 6

Costs 4 stamina to switch in and out of this stance.

Snares are skills that add to a character's Counter Total, giving them an effective Speed penalty to their movements as the collect counters. These skills inhibit the movements of others in some way such as tying down their arms or exhibiting incredible force over their body as a whole. As such Snares inhibit counters on enemies dependent on the Tier of the skill used.

Tier 1: 1 Counter

Tier 2: 2 Counters

Tier 3: 4 Counters

Every 2 Counters someone accrues will temporarily disable one of their limbs (simple logic applied as to which one), and 10 counters total will completely immobilize someone, effectively stunning them as they maintain that total.

Fusion skills are skills that are combine together in order to create a larger tiered skill. You may fuse skills with an ally in order to create higher tier skills without needing to use subsequent tier cooldowns. It will require 2 of a tier level to increase the tier. i.e. 2 Tier 1 Skills fused will create a Tier 2, 2 Tier 2 Skills fused will create a Tier 3.

The fused skill will use the lowest stats of the two characters, and must make sense for what you are trying to do and explain what it does. i.e. I throw a fireball and you create a tornado, they fuse together to make a flaming tornado to engulf the enemy in flame.

AOE's will be unable to be fused and any Martial combat (the type of skills not the talent) skills will work as a "team up" attack, where the two people attack at the same time in combat flow in order for it to "fuse". A skill does not have to have that it is a Fusion Skill. It would just need to make sense as it is used and will be up to the discretion of those involved. If needed, contact a staff member for judgment.

Summons refers to anything that is created from a user's Reiryoku that can act independently. These summons will be able to be upkept at as long as they are NOT Tier 3. If they use any sort of ranged attacks, it will be at a tier lower than what they were summoned at. (Tier 3 ranged attacks will act as Tier 2s, etc, etc.)

Note: Summons may not be Tierless

If those summons are struck by any skill of the same tier, they will be destroyed. Likewise, if they are clashed by a same tier in a melee contest they will be destroyed. (i.e. punch vs punch)

Summons will copy the BASE stats of their summoner with no buffs and act in their own "turn order" Where they will act at the same time as their summoner. The summoner will need to upkeep the summon first as a major action but this major action will not effect the summon's speed. (Note: This is how Bount dolls and Witch's familiars work innately)

Healing skills are skills that increase the health of a character. And will heal health equal to the stamina spent plus 1.

Meaning if you use a Tier 2, it will heal 3 health. However, if you UPKEEP that heal, it will only heal 2 while being upkept.

Tier 1 Healing skills may only heal yourself and may be upkept, but does not count as a supplementary skill.

Tier 2 Healing skills may heal yourself and others within a 10 ft range of yourself, limited to 1 person at that range, but you may heal more by halving the range. Meaning 2 people at 5 ft and 3 people at 2 ft. These may be upkept but does not count as a supplementary skill.

Tier 3 Healing skills may heal yourself and others within a 20 ft radius, and does not have a limit to the amount of people it can heal within that radius. These may NOT be upkept. These may also reattach limbs, and in some cases depending on your race/subrace, regrow them entirely.

These skills (simply called Perception Skills) are things that effect the hidden stat "Perception". Rendering someone's senses useless is difficult to do, and difficult to balance. If you blind them, their other senses could pick up on your movements and just make the blind nothing but fluff that makes someone write around being blind and it could feel unfair on both parts. This works to counter that. And just as someone may reduce perception, you may also work to increase your perception as well! This could work in a multitude of ways as long as it makes sense.

Perception is affected by level, equal to the tier of skill. (Tier 1= +/- 1, Tier 2 = +/- 2, Tier 3 = +/- 3)

Perception skills may be upkept AT ALL TIERS, and do not depreciate. However, they will not count as supplementary skills!

Barriers are skills that produce no damage, but are used to clash against other attacks in a defensive nature. As such, they are typically harder to break. These will not be supplementary skills as they deal with damage.

These skills may not interact with other skills in any sort of way and are purely defense capabilities. Any barrier skill that follows these principles will have an increased difficulty to overwhelm. Causing a strength vs strength clash that needs greater than a 7 difference to overwhelm.

Banned Skill and Ability Types

Simply these are the Skill types that are deemed too broken to fix and should be avoided at all costs. As such, any skill types based around these tropes will be immediately denied and sent back to you for reconsideration.
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Time - Anything to do with the concept of time or the formation of said time to include timelines.
Space - Space in reality, or even space as a concept are not valid. Removing said space is also null and void (pun).
Gravity - Effecting of gravity in anyway is a no go. Albeit if you were making something lighter or heavier that is technically different.
Amalgamation - Combining of races, skills, or others as not intended in the system. Or trying to be a combination of everything possible is not viable. You are what you are, reroll if you are wanting to change it.
Resurrection - No. You may not "Die" and come back to life through some sort of Cell (DBZ) mechanic. This is not fun to play against and it is not allowed. If you die, you're dead. Move on.
Canon - No. Stop it. You're not Ichigo, you're not Toshiro. You're your own character, be original.