Imperial Style

[Hedgehog]

Name: Imperial
Type: Style
Weapon: Drive Blade
Description: To employ a Drive Blade, a trained user must engage its engine before swinging. The act of pulling the Drive Blade into position and revving up the motor takes time, and usually ensures that barring special circumstances, the user's primed attack launches at the start of their next turn. When swung, the motor generates tremendous centrifugal force, brutally chopping through what's in the blade's way through sheer impact (Assault Drive). When engaged with a cartridge, the blade can be charged with energy (Flame/Freeze/Shock Drive), further increasing the damage of this terrifying weapon. As a drawback, the Drive Blade's motor generates tremendous waste heat, and after every such attack, must allow the blade to cool down between swings. The heat buildup is considerably worse if using a specialty cartridge with the attack. Some users are masters of taking advantage of the overheated blade to improve their own damage output (Drive Mastery).

The gun-like cartridge mechanism allows the drive blade several options - it can be used with the motor for Drive attacks (Flame/Freeze/Shock Drive, Accel Drive), and it can be used without it to generate special attacks (Sharp Edge) or act as a heat sink (Heat Sink) and bring the blade's temperature within safe levels to be used again (Cool Edge). Rare rounds can be used to prep the blade to do additional damage (Charge Edge). The engine can also be optimized for repeated used (Ignition) and overclocked from Ignition state for incredible widespread damage (Overdrive).

Choose Agility, Endurance, or Strength Advantage for Level Scaling. Agility suits those who prefer to balance the strong Attack power with the ability to avoid taking hits, and Endurance or Strength Suits those who prefer to put all faith into the raw attack power, typically preferring to tank hits rather than avoid them.

Level 0 - Access to Techniques (achieved by gaining this Style)
Level 1 - Reduces cool down by 1 Turns (Unlocked with Agi, End or Str of 1)
Level 2 - Reduces cool down by 2 Turns (Unlocked with Agi, End or Str of 2)
Level 3 - Reduces cool down by 3 Turns (Unlocked with Agi, End or Str of 3)

Secret Techniques
Level 0 & Level 1 Techniques
Name: Sharp Edge
Rank: E
Type: Drive Blade
Description: Quick and heavy slash that also reduces cool down time by one post.

Name: Impulse Edge
Rank: D
Type: Drive Blade
Description: Quick and heavy slash that also recovers E rank Mana.

Name: Assault Drive
Rank: C
Type: Drive Blade
Description: Slow but powerful and heavy slash towards one enemy, and the user's posture is weakened for the post this technique is used. After this technique has been used, it has a cooldown of five posts.

Name: Heat Sink
Rank: D
Type: Drive Blade, Buff
Description: Reduces cooldown of Dive Blade techniques by three turns. This is not used as a preventative measure, it is used to assist in rapidly cooling an overheated blade.

Level 2 Techniques
Name: Cool Edge
Rank: D
Type: Drive Blade
Description: Sideways melee slash into one enemy, reducing cooldown of Dive Blade techniques by two turns, and can immediately follow Sharp Edge or Impulse Edge.

Name: Charge Edge
Rank: D
Type: Drive Blade
Description: Heavy slash down from above towards one enemy with a charging run and increases the damage of techniques by one rank. This technique can immediately follow Sharp Edge, Cool Edge, or Impulse Edge

Name: Flame Drive
Rank: B
Type: Drive Blade, Fire
Description: Slow but powerful flame-imbued slash to one enemy, able to bust through brick/stone and warp iron, and the user's posture is weakened for the post this technique is used. After this technique has been used, it has a cooldown of six posts.

Name: Freeze Drive
Rank: B
Type: Drive Blade, Snow
Description: Slow but powerful ice/snow-imbued slash to one enemy, able to bust through brick/stone and warp iron, and the user's posture is weakened for the post this technique is used. After this technique has been used, it has a cooldown of six posts.

Name: Shock Drive
Rank: B
Type: Drive Blade, Lightning
Description: Slow but powerful lightning-imbued slash to one enemy, able to bust through brick/stone and warp iron, and the user's posture is weakened for the post this technique is used. After this technique has been used, it has a cooldown of six posts.

Level 3 Techniques
Name: Ignition
Rank: B
Type: Drive Blade, Buff
Description: Ignition, despite it's nomenclature, instantly brings the Drive Blade to a chill should four cooldown techniques have been used and then prevents the next two techniques from having cooldowns. After the second effect of Ignition ends, the requirement to activate this technique is reset back to zero, meaning the technique cannot be used to endlessly utilize techniques over and over again.

Name: Overdrive
Rank: A
Type: Drive Blade, Untyped
Description: A technique without Ignition discharging a ranged non-elemental attack to all enemies within 25 feet, and the user's posture is weakened for the post this technique is used.

Name: Accel Drive
Rank: S
Type: Drive Blade
Description: Slow but powerful non-elemental cleaving slash to enemy, able to slightly bend steel and cut through lesser materials. The user's posture is weakened for the post this technique is used. After this technique has been used, it has a cooldown of nine posts.

(Primed attacks are "used" on the following turn)

[Nobody]

ok, this is a long app so let's take it one things at a time.

"go last in a round" Is this altering the post order in a rp thread?

[Hedgehog]

Something like that. The initial turn is used to prime an attack, and at the end of the others turns (including the more agile enemies) the primed attack resolves.

[Alexian]

#1: Powers don't have cooldowns, they only have mana costs and durations in term of those effects.

#2: If it's a primed attack it would activate on your next post.

Once you've replied to these two problems and made changes, I'll get into the individual techniques, but the style itself will be fine once you finish changes.

[Hedgehog]

These aren't powers, they are techniques and use no Mana (at least thats what I thought it was). The weapon is purely mechanical. The second concern has been addressed.

[Alexian]

My bad, also going to nitpick a bit. Also replace all the cuts with slash or cleave, plx.

The Style: Say that revving the drive blade takes a half action not that it makes you go last. Otherwise absolutely fine.

#1: Good

#2: Good

#3: Lowers armor by one rank, also make the cooldown five posts

#4: This should have a cooldown of 3-4 posts.

#5: Should be worded slightly differently, "can immediately follow Sharp Edge or Impulse Edge' sounds better

#6: Increases technique damage* and same as #5.

#7: flame-imbued melee slash*

#8: same as above

#9: same as above

#10: Ignition should be completely reworded, I don't understand it.

#11: To all enemies within a range, like 15ft.

#12: untyped = non-elemental plx

Finishing notes: Instead of saying they are powerful you should add more details such as Slow cleaving slash that can cut through brick and stone.

[Hedgehog]

Edits (with your assistance) have been mad. Thank you.

[Alexian]

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