A little update

Sup, another update. New faction shops for Platinum Playhouse, Cadets, and Helter Skelter have opened up. Feel free to take a look at them. They've each got some good stuff to try. Also just as Cadets have Combat Roles, Psyche-Terrorists now have Job Roles. Hope you look these new changes.

Sup. With our membership taking a hit, the site's been feeling a little empty as of late. I believe it is time for a long overdue advertising campaign. Starting now to September 4th, you may receive VC for participating in our new advertising event. Everyone gets to spread our advertisement to other roleplaying forums. Be sure to post our ad on their First Link boards or their equivalent and check if someone already posted there. If someone did recently, then don't post again or you'll risk pissing off the people there. There are some sites that don't accept Forumotion sites. Don't be discouraged, it happens. Just move on to another site to advertise at.

Each member on our site get 5,000 VC for advertising in 10 sites. You will not get extra if you go more than 10. If you manage to introduce and get a friend to join our site, you are eligible to extra 7,000 VC if that friend sticks around the site for three months. Remember to Preview your advertising post on other sites to make sure the code is working. If you need help, feel free to ask.

Be sure to submit your advertised sites in the Campaign Roster and receive your reward!

Happy hunting!

It's been a while since this board was used, but I believe it's better to use the actual forum updates thread to notify of on-site events rather than post them exclusively on Discord, so we'll be rolling this way from now on!


Continuing the Personas in Space: A Summer Night's Skirmish (Summer 2020) raid event, the second raid has been announced! And it's a delusion dreamt up by a defeated puppet. This man appeared in the previous New Arcana plot: Endymion, as one of the agents of madness and chaos. Say hello to...


Defeat this man who ought to be forgotten once and for all and claim the Parasitic Persona Plug for your own! The sign up thread is available here: https://newarcana.forumotion.com/t8424-the-second-dream-sign-ups

A new Dream has begun, this one dreamt up by a pair of rivals forever destined to clash in their Dead End of a world. A lone swordswoman fights to protect the order in the city, while the prophesized hero holds the keys to everyone's happiness, but at which cost? Both of them vie for your support.


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The Third Dream is a special raid, in the sense that there will be two sign ups active for it; one for the Maitreya Raid and another for the Jinguu Tenno Raid. These Personas once served the inheritors of Chaos and Law and are replaying their never-to-be battle for all eternity. However, a unique opportunity has revealed itself to the two: people falling into the Dreamplane. Now both Maitreya and Jinguu seek support to finally put an end to the other's existence and their own suffering.

By choosing to support Maitreya, players will pair up with him as their Tension Support against the Jinguu Tenno Raid. By choosing to support Jinguu Tenno, players will be supported by her in the raid against Maitreya. Both Raids cannot happen simultaneously, as there are only one Maitreya and one Jinguu Tenno. The Persona you assist will pledge to become your aid in the future and its data will be added to the Plug Shop as a powerful new Plug.

Now then, prepare, because the sign ups are approaching...

The Tension Support and Player Tension Support systems have been overhauled and detailed! Check out the link below to access the new Tension Support Guide:

https://newarcana.forumotion.com/t8456-tension-support-update-guide#95821

Shooting down one bird at a time, the Battle Guide has been updated with details on how Buffs and Debuffs work, as well as clarification of Ailment duration! We will from now be distinguishing Stackable from Non-Stackable Buffs and Debuffs so be sure to check the changes out over at the following link if you're interested and wish to abuse this new system: https://newarcana.forumotion.com/t3496-battle-guide-and-rules-updated#36352

If there are any confusing elements don't be afraid to bring them up either over Discord!

A fourth dream approaches, a recollection against a historic foe, who has returned once more! Can you face off against the infamous fallen angel, the Demon Lord Lucifer?


This fourth dream will be a battle of attrition. As the king of all demons, Lucifer is sure to bring his army, but worry not. Joining you will be a summoner with some allies of his own. Make use of a variety of demons, with powers that may come of great help!

The summoner from another world will assists you as a Tension Support. Through him, you may wield one of several demons at a time. Defeating Lucifer will unlock his plug data in the shop.

From now on, Missions and Requests in Personas in Space (PiS) will start being deleted after 14 days have passed without any active Mission or Request and without any players signed up for any Missions or Requests. They'll be deleted one every 3 days in the order of their release.

This rule is effective immediately but the deletion will only start in 14 days from now.

On December 6, the following thread was posted: https://newarcana.forumotion.com/t8488-season-greetings-closed
While its mysterious nature may have left many questions unanswered at first, the time for the reveal has finally come upon us. The above thread was the opening post for an event.

Event Information:

New Event Persona Plug:

New Material:

With the change of scenery and storyline, a lot of the mechanics from Endymion are getting removed, either due to Sparse use, or unpopularity.

First off, the Social Stat system. It was not a good fit for New Arcana. While I can appreciate Philemon's desire to stay true to the games, it caused some rather glaring problems in Roleplay. By limiting character interactions and cool moments with an arbitrary stat requirement I feel removed some of the magic from the site, and I believe that the freedom to play your character how you want is ESSENTIAL to the future health and success of New Arcana. As such, the Social Stat System has been removed.

Another cool, in the RPG's feature that made its way to New Arcana was Endymion's Day and Night Cycle. While it made structuring the overall canon timeline a LOT easier, it came at the cost of a disconnecting and awful feeling story-pacing, which lead to a few inRP days taking several months to finish, and made Rank 9 and 10 Social Links possible after just a few in game days, which only exacerbated this disconnect. Due to this system's propensity to Slow down story progression to a screeching halt, it has also been removed for the future health of New Arcana.

Lastly, the Activities section, as far as I am aware (Like fishing and so on), was rarely, if ever used, and while the concept is neat and all, adding minigames to the site, the upkeep it demands distracts from Story progression, and it was also tied to the broken Social Stat System, which didn't help any. As a result, these activities have been removed as well, due to lack of relevance.

I hope that with these changes, New Arcana and it's players will move towards a better and brighter future. Please do sound off with feedback if you feel its warranted. Keeping up this dialogue is important, and I want New Arcana to be the best Roleplaying forum it can be.

Cheers, and I'll hopefully see you in the Desolace. Thank you for understanding.

- Jerry

Hey, you lot! Another day, another update!

Seeing as we're essentially rebooting this site from scratch, I figured it would be nice to have some help with managing the site, as well as the Discord. And to keep things fair, I'm opening up Staff Applications. I need 1 of the following:

Site Moderator

Discord Moderator

Keep in mind both of these are separate. I ask for commitment, patience, and of course keeping it professional, as much as possible. Be fair.

Site Moderator Form:

Discord Moderator Form:

Application submission is open for a week, and everything's sent to me via private messages on New Arcana.

Alrighty then! It's been a week, and I've reviewed the Staff Applications.

For Discord Mod: Safirone, or as you know her as today, Retuo, is taking on the role as a Discord Moderator. Turn to either her or me if anyone or anything on the discord side of things is bothering you.

Forum Moderator, after a bit of concideration, given that we don't have a Whole ton of members at the moment, I've chosen Deshi as our Forum Mod. Granted, she won't be doing a lot of grading on the Sheet-side of things, but both her and Yoshio are helping me with Social Link Grading, and Deshi's going to help a bit with the Plot-stuff.


I might post more of these in the future, but for now, this is what I am sticking with.

Both Yoshio and Deshi/Snow are now Forum Moderators as of today.

Ay ay ay. Guess what? It's time for some more tweaks and Revamps to attain Class Balance, as WELL as a few Changes to some Arcana. If you have one of these arcana, you're free to swap the buff they provide. First, lets tackle the Class Abilities of the two Primary Protagonist and Antagonist Player Classes, the Persona User and the Nyarlathotep Child.

Balancing Act: PU and NC

Persona Users and Nyarlathotep Children both have potent, but extremely limiting Class Abilities that used to serve as a limiter back when Persona Users had different stat growths. Since that has now changed, they no longer need such heavy restrictions on how often their big nuke can be used... but that doesn't mean its use will be free either. Same goes for the Nyarlathotep Child. Having your Stats set to 1 is essentially a death sentence (Seeing as it does include your HP and SP in that), so the Nyarlathotep Child is getting a buff too (As it was the heavy restriction placed to compensate for the absurd leap in power that the Mutation Provided.)

So for both these Classes, We're introducing a new Mechanic: Energy. Energy is a resource which you build up by performing certain actions. Ending your turn automatically gains you 1 energy. Once you have 5 Energy, you can cast your Fusion Skill/Tainted Soul. Persona Users can gain additional energy by saving allies from damage (Once per turn cycle). As a Nyarlathotep Child, Knocking Down enemies earns you energy as well, in addition to the energy you gain at the end of your turn (once per cycle, not active while your Tainted Soul Is.)

The Turn after your Special Ability is used, your Persona is exhausted, which means you have to rely on either Umbral Skills, Soul Skills or your items and weapons, Until your Persona recovers, which it does once you reach 3 energy. After that, you can use your Persona again. A Character can have a maximum Energy of 5. Casting a Class Ability (Fusion Skill or Tainted Soul) costs 5 Energy.

This Energy Limit gets boosted to 8 once your persona evolves to its second form.

Miracle Skills are NOT Class-abilities, so they do NOT follow this system, and CAN still Disable your persona for the rest of the thread, if the effect is deemed strong enough to require such a cost.

So here's the Code for the new Class Ability for both:

Tainted Soul: (The Ultimate fusion between you and your Tainted Persona. When using this, your Persona fuses within your soul, corrupting it and transforming you into a higher being temporarily. Once this is done, you take on a more otherworldy appearance thanks to being possessed by your Tainted Persona, but your stats are all doubled. This form lasts for three turns, and once it is over you revert back to your original form, and cannot use your Persona for the following turn, as it recovers. Once you've used this form once, you have to muster up 5 Energy to use it again. Energy is recovered at the End of your Turn, or by knocking enemies down (Through Weakness or Critical Hit. Once per turn cycle.) While Tainted Soul is Active you cannot gain energy. It costs 5 energy to activate Tainted Soul beyond your first time in any given thread. You start any given mission or Dungeon Run with 5 Energy.)

Code:

[b]Tainted Soul:[/b] (The Ultimate fusion between you and your Tainted Persona. When using this, your Persona fuses within your soul, corrupting it and transforming you into a higher being temporarily. Once this is done, you take on a more otherworldy appearance thanks to being possessed by your Tainted Persona, but your stats are all doubled. This form lasts for three turns, and once it is over you revert back to your original form, and cannot use your Persona for the following turn, as it recovers. Once you've used this form once, you have to muster up 5 Energy to use it again. Energy is recovered at the End of your Turn, or by knocking enemies down (Through Weakness or Critical Hit. Once per turn cycle.) While Tainted Soul is Active you cannot gain energy. It costs 5 energy to activate Tainted Soul beyond your first time in any given thread. You start any given mission or Dungeon Run with 5 Energy.)

Fusion Attack: (The Ultimate attack between you and your Persona. When using this, your Persona gifts you with the capability of performing a powerful attack. Once you do this, your persona has to spend a turn to recover. After your first use in a thread, you have to Spend 5 Energy to use it again. Persona Users Regain Energy at the end of each turn, AND by taking damage for someone else, but only ONCE per turn cycle. The attack does Tier 3 amount of damage, with extra effects added on top which normal skills don't have. Get Creative, as while a Fusion Skill is restricted by Tier 3 damage, it can have some rather out there effects. If you're an Anti-Shadow Suppression Weapon this technique is replaced by your Orgia Mode. For more details on Orgia Mode, refer to the Spoiler below)

Code:

[b]Fusion Attack:[/b] (The Ultimate attack between you and your Persona. When using this, your Persona gifts you with the capability of performing a powerful attack. Once you do this, your persona has to spend a turn to recover. After your first use in a thread, you have to Spend 5 Energy to use it again. Persona Users Regain Energy at the end of each turn, AND by taking damage for someone else, but only ONCE per turn cycle. The attack does Tier 3 amount of damage, with extra effects added on top which normal skills don't have. Get Creative, as while a Fusion Skill is restricted by Tier 3 damage, it can have some rather out there effects. If you're an Anti-Shadow Suppression Weapon this technique is replaced by your Orgia Mode. For more details on Orgia Mode, refer to the Spoiler below)

Orgia Mode:

Arcana Balancing:

Some of the Arcanas on the Board are getting slight adjustments too, ensuring they still have a place for everyone. Lets start with Aeon.

Aeon right now is perhaps a bit of an underperformer, as it currently only boosts gun damage, and right now it's not intended to be a build around, unless you make use of the Gun Skills. As such, Aeon is getting a minor buff. As an Aeon user, you can now either choose between a 15% boost to Gun Damage, or a 15% buff to Dexterity Attacks.

Justice and Death are also getting some new tools to work with, seeing as they don't have a secondary boost. I don't want people to be pigeonheld to a very specific playstyle just because the Arcana fits the character, and as such, Personas of the Justice Arcana can now:

                  - Either Choose between a 15% boost to Light Skills, or a 15% boost to Lightning Skills.

Death on the other hand, gets the following buff:

                  - Either Choose between a 15% boost to Dark Skills, or a 15% boost to Slash Skills.

Magician is also getting a buff, as again, you're kinda pigeonheld into a Fire-based DPS Persona with it at present, and I'd like that changed.:

                  - Either Choose between a 15% boost to Fire or 15% boost to Maximum SP.

Another Arcana that I choose to buff is Hermit, giving it another choice. Given that it is sort of a debuff-y Arcana to begin with, I went with the following buff:

                  - Either Choose between a 15% boost to Ailment Skills, or a 15% boost to Debuffs (like Rakunda, Tarunda and so forth)

Star is also getting a buff. And this one's a bit... out there, but I think it's time for this boost to come in:

                  - Personas of the Star Arcana can either gain a 15% boost to Ice or to Stat-based Almighty Skills (So no Spirit or Life Drain). Almighty Skills are available to every class once you reach the Second Stage.

Last in line for buffs, say Hi to Jester! They're getting a new possible Boost to what they can roll:

                  - Jesters can now also roll for the Judgement Arcana. When Jesters Roll Judgement, They get to pick 3 Skills on their Skillset that get a 15% buff to whatever they are doing (Be sure to note this down in the Character Spoiler so you don't forget after you Roll Judgement as Jester).

With that being said, there are TWO arcanas which I feel are a bit too strong at the moment, and both are getting a slight adjustment (This is also an indirect Nerf to Jester, hence why it got the Judgement Roll to compensate)

Hanged Man:

                  - Reduced Endurance gain from 15% to both PEnd and MEnd down to 10% for both.

Devil:

                  - Either Choose between a 15% boost to Buffs or a 15% boost to Debuffs. You can no longer double-dip into this. This has been a long time coming, and I think its time to reign in Devil's overall power just a tad. This nerf seems fair enough to me, and opens up team synergy, and more choices when making a Devil Character, instead of automatically picking Rakunda + Matarukaja when Possible, and just call it a build.

And that's it for the balance patch. All these changes are effective immediately, and keep an eye out for the changes as they appear on the site. Happy Hunting.

~ Jerry

Hello all, once again! Jerry's here with another, quick site update. Don't worry! It's not quite as extensive as the last one!

Summer is JUST around the corner, and I figured now would be as good of a time as EVER!!!!

To introduce you to the Summer Event! The Crossroads of Time!

Starting on June 1st, The Crossroads of Time is an opportunity for characters new and old to interact, and bring the summer spirit around to all. This is more of a casual thing, and has no bearing on the plot. However, there's rewards in it for you. The Event lasts until September 1st. Every time you finish a thread within the "Crossroads of Time" area with a character, you have a chance at winning a currency called Price Tickets. The thread has to be at least 2 pages long, with each page after the second one granting an additional chance at price tickets.

Price Tickets can be used to buy items for your characters in the Event store (Which Opens up on June 1st, along with the event start). Most of these are gear and consumables themed after common summer things. Doesn't matter which character you play with. Just make sure you let your partner know who you're playing as.

If you need to dig through the Archives to find someone's character, for information, you can find them here: Archives

Look in there, though I'm sure the veterans can supply the necessary info if they act as a Legacy Character they've played in the Past.

All that happens in this event is entirely non-canon, and is mostly there for a fun time, having characters that normally would never interact with eachother meet like this is quite enjoyable.

See you on the 1st.

- Jerry

Hello, hello all. Here is a friendly update from our new plot moderator Sosina who runs the current site plot: Semibreve: Song Lost in Order. This update is in regards to the strength and weakness section on the character apps:

"Combat affecting strengths/weaknesses are out totally. The strengths/weaknesses section are being changed into a section for RP info about what your character is good at/not so good at and will have no affect in combat; however, we do have something that will replace this in a way for those that still wanna have some small boost. Though these are not needed as you shouldn't absolutely need these little boosts anymore (though I do understand wanting to focus a little). There will be an extra equipment slot for "figures". These figures can be found in dungeons, gotten as rewards for successful negotiations, and some might become purchasable in the shops. They will have some effects you're use to seeing in the Strength/weaknesses from days of old such as Double Dex, Double gun. etc, etc. The Staff is still working on the list so no questions as to what they figures are all capable of please. What I CAN tell you is these figures can be traded between players when found so if you don't like your figure or it's bonus will help someone else better then you can hand it over. Also only one figure is equipable at a time." - Sosina

Information on figures will be released once all the details on this is settled.

The corrected character app can be found here: https://newarcana.forumotion.com/t8512-semibreve-base-character-sheet#98145.

Thank you for your patience guys!