Mundane Type

[Tsajara Dread]

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{Mundane type}
Type: Mundane

Description: Someone not made for greatness. While many individuals are destined to be a protagonist, gifted with cruel or radical powers from the powers that be, there are those who are not so gifted with Innate inherited power, but instead must work hard in order to make up for the unique abilities they lack.

Advantage: All Ranks: Gain 150% the non-Release technique slots (the limit for this character technique-wise is 30 instead of 20. This does NOT apply to the techniques gained from Training Tier, too). Can learn Higher level Techniques 1 class early (Class 4 at class 6). Additionally, any number of their techniques may be reserved.

Rank 1: Gain 100 extra training SP, this SP can bypass the Stat Cap.

Rank 2: Gain 200 extra training SP, this SP can bypass the Stat Cap.

Rank 3: Gain 400 extra training SP, this SP can bypass the Stat Cap.

Rank 4: Gain 600 extra training SP, this SP can bypass the Stat Cap.

Disadvantage: Unable to form Release-type weapons. Additionally, SP that would normally be gained through Class-up (Aside from the base Class 8 SP) becomes Training SP instead that can only be trained for once they reach that class, requiring them to work for SP that others get immediately from Classing up. Mundane types cannot gain Bonus SP from being in a Leadership Position.

For every 200 Cap-breaking SP spent, the Stat Cap of another Stat must be reduced by 50 (A Maximum of 150 for Rank 4 with all SP used to bypass Cap).

Race Restrictions: Available to All Races, Except Hollow.

Initial Weapons: No Starting Weapon.

An In-between for TMs and Kenpachis. Instead of slamming facefirst into obscene spiritual stats and risk of being made into a failure, vs being a mega stat monster with no spiritual talent at all. This will serve as just a general kinda Releaseless type. Extra techniques to make up for the lack of a release, and kinda themed after the more literal "Technique master" archetypes in animes, focusing on hard work.

Simple and flexible.

[Kitai Yoru]

Given the 'No release' niche that this fills, I can say I approve of this. The bonus Sp that can break cap is interesting, and given you can only hit 1,000 if you spend it all on one stat, I don't think this is game breaking either. I approve.

[Shizuka Sanamizu ✮]

I did some math in the background on this in staff chat but just so people can publicly see what I'm talking about (and obviously discuss with me if you wanna) here are my thoughts.

Beast-clan have a TON of SP already when they're maxed out so you're looking at 3300 SP without a leader position bonus and 3700 SP with it, which means you literally won't be able to use all of it. For that reason, I think this type needs to not be allowed in leadership positions. It creates an opportunity even outside of Beast-clan to have leftover SP but this was the most extreme example I could think of. So that's my first thing.

My second thing is that I think we need to restrict how many stats are allowed to bypass the cap so I have an idea for a middle ground here. For every Rank you take, you can bypass cap on that same amount of stats. So like, Rank 1 can bypass cap on one stat, Rank 2 can bypass it on two stats, etc.

Anyway, aside from that I don't really have any issues with it! We're still waiting on other weigh-ins though so just be patient a little while longer.

[Tsajara Dread]

I'll do you one better. It makes no sense to lock a particular type from a leadership position. so I'll simply state that Individuals of this type cannot gain Bonus SP from the leadership position. Allows them to still have the type, but without the thing that makes it an issue.

Additionally, I should be specific. Using this bonus SP does not remove the cap on a particular stat. ONLY the bonus sp can go beyond the cap.

At Rank 1, if you split that SP between four stats. you will have .....425 in four stats? 450 in two stats? 500 in one stat?
At rank 2, thats 600 in one stat, 500 in two stats, 450 in four stats?
I don't see the harm in splitting the very limited ammount of cap breaking sp given how little there is in low ranks. It functionally isn't giving anything since very small breaks of that cap don't functionally give anything outside of maybe sppr, and thats not a very big boon.

[Zeich Yajuu]

The problem with the numbers is more how it performs in the highest end situations. Removing leadership bonuses does help and improves it a bit since that's a high-end only benefit, but my concern is that it lets you be better than a lot of types at anything besides OS. Even with some types like Fractured, you beat out on OS by being able to sit at 1000 OS casually without any stat drawbacks or penalties. You tie with both Soldiers, up to R3 Brave, Fighter, Mystic R3, Spirited... etc. And then you can have higher speed than other casters, or better sensories than most other Types get as options, etc. No drawbacks aside from lack of Release isn't a huge drawback considering you can essentially mimic the abilities of a Release by spending a few tech slots to make customized abilities that might as well be a pseudo-Release.

I'm also not for you having a pseudo-TM baked in there - maybe more tech slots, but definitely not their ability to learn any technique at any time. That's meant to be limited to them and is balanced by having a limited ability to use the high-end techs and instead focus on a pool of lower-end techs.

Thoughts would be as such:
-Remove the ability to learn any tech at any time. You can keep additional tech slots, as that makes sense that you're focusing your efforts there.
-Include some manner of actual meaningful stat drawback or something that actually punishes for the ability to have such highly customizable stats. Kenpachi are only able to fight for a limited number of posts, other Types have a stat drawback that reflects their advantage, as some examples. But not just "you have to train Class SP and you don't get a Release," because I don't feel like those are reasonable drawbacks. A suggestion, but not one you're limited to, might be things like lowering an alternative cap as a form of chosen specialization.

Last thought: let's find a new name for this Type, because it feels anything but mundane. XD Being able to train to beyond superhuman levels (especially since human is 50) is definitely not mundane.

[Colt]

I will enter the subject of high-end of things as per your request. In the highest end of combat, that would be against Leaders. In such a situation, this type would have their highest stat cap at 1000, as they dont' get the associated leader bonus. However a Soldier V 1 (The only other relevent comparison I feel, as very other type has an additional stat boosted, and thus the "total ammount of SP among their stats which exceed 400" would be greater than Mundanes. I am including their Non-OS stat since you have indicated your point to be revolving around Mundane's ability to also buff other stats.
Back to our example. The Leader of this competing type Soldier would be able to use their leader bonus on the Stat of choice, bringing it to 500 prior to the multiplier of 150%. As such, their maximum would be 1250, not 1000 that Mundane has.

In regards to Learning any technique at any time, I can understand that as a drawback, and would like to posit an alternative of "Learn Techniques 1 class early" as again, the use of techniques is part of this Types gimmick.

While I have argued your point, I will concede that a fitting drawback would be reasonable. As such I have included the following drawback:
For every 200 Cap-breaking SP spent, reduce the Cap of 1 stat by 50. (this is because boosts are a higher percent than deductions. a 200 cap bonus is 50%, whereas a drop of 50 for a cap is 25%. And at the highest level, this is a total drop distribution of 75%, exceeding the drawback for Soldier V1, our most popular type and the hypothetical direct competitor for this type in our aforementioned stat layout comparison).

I am open to suggestions. Ideally, This Type would be named Technique Master, as that is the literal function of this type. However that is already taken, and I quite like Mundane.

[Shizuka Sanamizu ✮]

Just on the thought of "Mundane" as a name, there are other meanings too.


of this earthly world rather than a heavenly or spiritual one.
"the boundaries of the mundane world"
Similar: earthly, worldly, terrestrial, material, temporal, secular