A new Type Idea

[Kyomei Kuchiki]

Type: Unstable

Description: These are the mentally unhinged, the eccentric, the "crazies". People of this personality type are generally seen as outcasts from society. They don't tend to be understood by others, don't tend to "play nice", and don't tend to play it safe either. On a spiritual level, these Unstable people are cursed with mental blocks to their abilities. This can show itself in a number of different mental illnesses such as severe depression, multiple personality disorder, Bipolar disorder, borderline personality disorder etc. At some times, they may think themselves on top of the world and as strong as Superman. At other times, they may think they have a physical deformity that prevents them from walking normally. This instability is frequently changing their mental state, often causing these people to be labelled with some sort of illness or brain damage. The same situation on different days can yield drastically different reactions from these kinds of people.

Advantage:

• Rank 1: Choose 2 stats that are not cut by the Drawbacks. These stats will randomly be decided at the beginning of every thread and every 5 posts afterwards on a scale from a 50% decrease (100 would be 50) to a 50% increase (100 would be 150) by rolling a die from 05-15 individually for both stats. (0.5x multiplier to 1.5x multiplier)
• Rank 2: Choose 2 stats that are not cut by the Drawbacks. These stats will randomly be decided at the beginning of every thread and every 5 posts afterwards on a scale from a 50% decrease (100 would be 50) to a 100% increase (100 would be 200) by rolling a die from 05-20 individually for both stats. (0.5x multiplier to 2.0x multiplier)
• Rank 3: Choose 2 stats that are not cut by the Drawbacks. These stats will randomly be decided at the beginning of every thread and every 6 posts afterwards on a scale from a 50% decrease (100 would be 50) to a 150% increase (100 would be 250) by rolling a die from 05-25 individually for both stats. (0.5x multiplier to 2.5x multiplier)
• Rank 4: Choose 3 stats that are not cut by the Drawbacks. These stats will randomly be decided at the beginning of every thread and every 6 posts afterwards on a scale from a 50% decrease (100 would be 50) to a 150% increase (100 would be 250) by rolling a die from 05-25 individually for all stats. (0.5x multiplier to 2.5x multiplier)

Disadvantage:

• Drawbacks for All Ranks: The potential Advantages of this Type are caused by some sort of mental instability brought on by mental illness or brain damage that causes the potential mental blocks in their abilities.
• Rank 1: Decrease Strength, Reiatsu Strength, or Spiritual Pressure by 30%. Healing Expertise is forever locked at 0. Cannot take the Calm Mind Skill nor increase Strength of Will above 2.
• Rank 2: Decrease Strength, Reiatsu Strength, or Spiritual Pressure by 30%. Healing Expertise is forever locked at 0. Cannot take the Calm Mind Skill nor increase Strength of Will above 2.
• Rank 3: Decrease Strength, Reiatsu Strength, or Spiritual Pressure by 40%. Healing Expertise is forever locked at 0. Cannot take the Calm Mind Skill nor increase Strength of Will above 2.
• Rank 4: Decrease Strength, Reiatsu Strength, or Spiritual Pressure by 50%. Healing Expertise is forever locked at 0. Cannot take the Calm Mind Skill nor increase Strength of Will above 2.

Race Restrictions: Available to all Races

Initial Weapons: Can start with two, though this is optional. A Shinigami of this Type can develop two different Shikai with different abilities that merge together in Bankai, while a Bount can start with two Dolls instead of one and end with a total of four Dolls. No new Release technique slots are gained, so techniques are spread thinner among more weapons. Bonus weapon is limited to Shinigami and Bount

[Ranth]

I am procrastinating, so I shall give my thoughts.

As a novelty, I give this full marks.

Novelty aside however, from a mechanics perspective I fear that the result of a type like this would be far too inconsistent to be fun, much less viable. Due to the sheer randomness of such a type, it would be all but impossible to build a release around it unless you let them have a release or power set that allowed them to punish their opponents in a similarly random way (e.g. stat linking and splitting or making it so that your techniques only win if they would normally lose a stat clash).

Completely unmitigated randomness such as what we'd achieve through the currently proposed system would mean that the combination of potentially boosted stats would have a very good chance of not synergising with one another, much less with whatever stats their release powers worked off. One might end up with the perfect combination, granted, but the odds of a far less favorable outcome are far, far higher on a consistent basis.

Further to this, a character of this type would never be able to hold a position of authority- which would mean they'd likely never be able to exceed rank 2 for most races where holding a position such as Espada/ VC/ Captain/ Manager is directly tied to not only strength, but also leadership ability and consistency (plus they'd just get challenged repeatedly and the odds of them getting the right rolls to win the fight would not be in their favor across multiple challenges).

So ultimately I think that the current iteration of this type is simply too random. I'm not sure how an approach for 'controlled randomness' could be made on the forum without requiring the person to create a thread dedicated to rolling for their stats ad nauseam and even then, the staff would have to take a crash course on statistics in order to properly balance the random elements to make it viable enough to be fun in the long term without making it too OP either.

To conclude, we have several other types that cause a person to be crazy/ change personalities under various circumstances and we have several types that require some sort of disability. From a flavor perspective, this doesn't add anything new other than to make the instances/ nature of the characters 'brand of crazy' completely out of the RPers control.