This PnP will get most of my attention, but I'll also continue to lead the Dark Revolution until it's finished.
Rules:
Roleplaying
1. Each player may only have one character. Your characters can act independently from each other, but if you go wandering around alone, you may quickly find yourself in trouble. Only the first 5 players to sign up will be able to play. Sorry, but judging from my experience with previous PnPs, I just can't handle more than that well, and having too many players also makes it a lot harder to balance battles.
2. There are a lot of different races. Throughout the game, the most common race you'll encounter will be common humans, but for your own character, you can come up with pretty much anything - elves, dwarves, gnomes, orcs, trolls, half breeds of any kind, etc... Just come up with something that you know you'll like to play as. Of course, if you just want to be a normal human, that's perfectly fine, too.
3. Please try to contribute to the story when playing; this is an RPG, after all. Make your character act logically. Make it interesting. Make it have an own personality, its own reasons to fight and its own story. You are even welcome to have bonds between your characters, like being a brother/sister of someone else, good childhood friends, or even rivals. If you want to integrate something into your story that would require my assistance (like an NPC rival), feel free to send me a PM about it; I'll gladly help. ^^
4. Please write anything your character says in "". I also recommend giving your character a personal talking color; note that you can get any color you desire by specifying a hex value instead of an actual color. #E5B530, for example (the format is #RRGGBB), should give a yellowish/golden color to your text.
5. Since you will be having quite some code in each of your posts, I recommend copying that code by clicking "quote" at your last own post. Just remember to update any changed values and remove the "[quote]"-tags afterwards.
6. If you want to say anything out of character in the game thread, use olive as a color please. If all you want to do is to say something out of character, please do it in this thread, not in the game thread.
7. Whenever I post I'll add a status table that indicates the most important stats of your characters, like the current HP of each character and enemy (if there are any). It'll also show the current time of day, the current weather and how much gold you currently have.
Character Stats
8. Every character's main stats are HP (Health Points), XP (Experience Points) and AP (Ability Points). I think most people here should be familiar with what HP and XP do. XP are gained for pretty much everything you do, such as helping other people, disarming a trap, picking a door's lock, defeating a monster, etc. AP, on the other hand, are used to learn new skills and abilities that your character can use. Also, you can increase your max. HP for 15 AP per point.
9. Players may define the skills/abilities they learn themselves, but I decide how many AP they actually cost to learn. In the case of active skills, you must also define a limit to how often you can use them. This limit can only be replenished by taking a rest (or taking special abilities for this purpose). The less limiting this limit is, the higher the AP cost will be. Note that you'll always have to specify the Atk, Hit and Crt of any skill or spell (or just Hit if it's not something that deals damage); you cannot make them dependant on your stats. Also, when trying to distinguish between skills and spells, generally keep in mind that I'll assume skills that do damage to target the enemy DEF, while spells will target RES. As such, please make sure to distinguish skills and spells from each other somehow.
10. Advancing to the next level always takes 100 XP. After a level up your XP are reset to 0, though any leftover XP will be kept (e. g. reaching 108 XP would leave you with 8 XP after the level up). Gaining a level will grant you 100 additional AP and allow you to distribute 2 additional points on your main stats.
11. Gold may be found at various places or obtained after winning a battle. Any gold piece aquired can be spent by any party member, even if your party is currently split up (screw logic). Your party starts with 100 gold.
12. You may carry up to 7 items in your inventory; no items can be stacked unless I myself put a number next to them. Any equipment you're currently wearing should not be hidden. Worn bags or quivers (in their own slot) may increase the amount of items you can carry.
13. There are more stats than just HP to consider if you want to be successful.
STR: Physical strength. Adds damage to your regular attacks.
SKL: Skill. Each point of SKL adds 3 points to your Hit rate and 1 point to your Crt rate.
AGI: Agility. Each point of AGI adds 3 points to your Avd rating and 1 point to your CEv.
LUK: Luck. Each point of LUK adds 2 points to your CEv and 1 point to both your Hit and Avd values.
DEF: Defense. The ability to withstand physical damage. Each point of DEF effectively reduces any physical damage you take by one point. However, damage cannot be nullified completely. Critical hits, however, will deal at least 1 point of damage even if a normal hit wouldn't harm you at all.
RES: Resistance. The ability to resist magical damage. Works the same way as DEF does, just for magical damage.
...this results in various sub-stats:
Atk: [STR + Weapon Mt] The basic amount of physical damage you're capable of dealing with a normal attack.
Hit: [SKL x3 + LUK + Weapon Hit] Your basic chance to hit with a normal attack.
Crt: [SKL + Weapon Crt] Your basic chance to score a critical hit. A critical hit triples the amount of damage you deal with that attack.
Avd: [AGI x3 + LUK + Armour Avd] Your chance to avoid an attack, no matter whether it's physical or magical. To put it simply, your Avd is subtracted from the Hit rate of anything that tries to attack you.
Def: [DEF + Armour Def] Your total DEF, including boni from equipment.
Res: [RES + Armour Res] Your total RES, including boni from equipment.
CEv: [LUK x2 + AGI] Critical Evasion. This stat is subtracted from the Crt rate of anything that tries to attack you.
14. Distribute your starting stats wisely. You start out with 450 AP and a minimum of 10 HP.
You can also distribute 35 points between your POW, SKL, AGI, etc.; however, while those stats may be 0, none of them may exceed 10 at the beginning. After that, you can distribute another 2 points each time you level up, but no stat may ever exceed [(Your current level / 2) +10] (rounded down). When you distribute those points after a level up, make sure to tell me which stats you raise.
Combat
15. If a character's HP drop to 0, he/she faints. Unconscious characters can't act anymore until they get some rest. Regular healing spells/items used on an unconscious character won't have any effect. Your characters cannot die in combat unless the whole party is defeated.
16. In combat, you may do one attack and one simple action or just two simple actions per turn. Anything that is not just talking counts as a simple action (e.g. using an item from your inventory, changing your row, etc.). After having done your actions, wait for my next post, unless all you want to do is to make your character say something.
17. You can choose between two possible positions for battles - front or cover. The front can be attacked by anything, but can also attack with anything itself. Covered characters can only be hit by ranged attacks, certain skills/spells and attacks that hit multiple characters - however, this only applies if there is at least one character standing at the front. If no-one at the front is left, melee attacks will be able to hit covered characters as well, so beware. Also note that if you're attacked from behind, your front and cover will be reversed.
18. If it looks like you're about to lose a battle, you might want to try to escape instead of waiting until you're defeated. Usually, your chance to successfully escape a battle is [50 + (every party member's LUK)]%, though there may be circumstances that may guarantee a successful escape or completely prevent it. However, if you escape, any party members not capable of moving (e. g. because of being unconscious) will be left behind (carrying them would slow you down too much). Usually, this means that they'll be captured.
19. Be creative. There are many ways to defeat your enemies, and not all of them necessarily involve defeating them yourself or even reducing their HP to 0 at all.
20. In a battle, whenever a turn passes in which a player hasn't posted (and the other players haven't chosen what that character should do either), his character will simply attack the first enemy on the list with a simple normal attack if he can hit an enemy from where he's standing.
If you don't want that to happen, simply add a "Script" tag in your charater's profile (in the spoiler) that tells me what your character should do in which situation. This can be as detailed as you want; if you want, you can even make a whole universal strategy to be used when you're absent, and I will make your character act accordingly to it (unless something happens which isn't covered in your script, in which case your character will resort to doing either normal attacks or nothing).
(Example: "Attack enemy with least HP when in front row. If HP drop to 25% or less, retreat to Cover and cast Fireball as long as possible or HP rise above 50% again. If Fireball can no longer be used, equip a ranged weapon and attack the enemy with the least HP from cover row.")
21. If you don't want to wait for the other players to post in a battle, you can just post a bolded End Turn in the game thread. You can then also control the characters that haven't posted yet, if you want to. If you don't tell me what they should do, they'll simply act accordingly to their script.
Misc.
22. If your character for some reason has no weapon (equipped), add one named "Unarmed" (or something similar) that has 0 Atk, 80 Hit and 0 Crt.
23. Here's a list of various, more common status ailments that you might get a taste of:
Poison: Every time you act while poisoned, you take 10% of your max. HP of damage. If you get poisoned again while being poisoned, it becomes Lethal Poison.
Lethal Poison: Every time you act while poisoned, you take 20% of your max. HP of damage. If you get poisoned again while being lethally poisoned, there's a 10% (normal poison) or 20% (lethal poison) chance that your character instantly faints (0 HP). Otherwise, nothing special happens.
Doomed: Just being in this status doesn't do anything; however, once the turn count for this status runs out, your character instantly faints (0 HP). Can be removed without the fatal effect if you disrupt the focus of whoever inflicted the status ailment to you before the turn count runs out. Sometimes this is only possible by killing that enemy.
Paralyzed: Lowers your Avd to 0. You cannot do anything at all (not even move) while being in this status. Will automatically be removed after a few turns.
Dazzled: Your base Hit rate is halved for the duration of this status ailment. This also applies to skills/spells. Will automatically be removed after a few turns.
Solidifying (feet): Lowers your Avd to 0. You can't move your feet, seeing how they're turning to stone, but as long as it wouldn't require you to move your feet, you can still attack and use skills/spells regularly. Turns into "Solidifying (body)" after a few turns if it isn't cured.
Solidifying (body): Lowers your Avd to 0. You can't move anything but your head anymore, seeing how your body is turning to stone, but as long as just saying/chanting something is sufficient to invoke them, you can still use spells. Attacks aimed at you only deal half as much damage as usual while in this status. Turns into "Petrified" after a few turns if it isn't cured.
Petrified: You have turned to stone. You can't move or do anything else, not even talk, though you're still conscious and can see what is going on in front of you. Attacks won't do any damage to you while in this status, and unless cured by someone else, you'll remain in this status forever; this also means that if your entire party gets petrified, your adventure is over.
24. Spells can also be put on empty scrolls for other characters to use. However, a self-made spell scroll will have a chance of malfunctioning. The formula for the malfunctioning chance is [50 - (Lv x5)]%, but it cannot go below 10% even if you're higher than Lv8.
Also, the chance of malfunctioning is fixed to a scroll from the point a spell was put on it, even if you only actually use it after having reached a higher level.
If a scroll malfunctions, there's an equal chance for each of these things to happen:
- Nothing may happen at all.
- The spell may be randomly redirected to a different target than chosen by the user.
- The effect of the spell may be inverted (meaning that damaging spells will heal the target, healing spells will damage it etc.).
25. When using ranged weapons, the stats of both the weapon itself and the ammo are added together for calculation purposes. However, if a different type of ammo is used than the weapon was designed for (e. g. swords with bows, bolts with bows, arrows with crossbows, etc.), it will be treated as if it had 0 Hit (its Atk and Crt will be considered regularly).
Each post should have the character's status table on top, looking similar to the example below (though you're very welcome to apply your own style). You may also add a hidden avatar and other fancy stuff if you want, but that's no requirement.
Clonks, Level 1 Class (Front)
HP: 25/25
XP: 0
AP: 225
12 Atk | 107 Hit | 09 Crt
09 Def | 06 Res | 28 Avd | 16 CEv
Weapon: Epic Weapon (4 Atk, 90 Hit, 5 Crt)
Armor: Epic Armor (2 Def, 1 Res, 5 Avd)
Spoiler: Inventory & Status
- Item
Skills:
- Skill [3/3]: Description. [0 AP]
Spells:
- Spell [4/4]: Description. [0 AP]
Abilities:
- Ability: Description. [0 AP]
Stats:
POW: 8
SKL: 4
AGI: 6
LUK: 5
DEF: 7
RES: 5
Story: Insert your character's story and backgrounds here.
Appearance: Describe your character's appearance here as detailed as possible. If you have a picture of your character, it also goes here.
Script:
- If own HP less than 50%: Heal myself
- If there are 3 or more enemies: Use multitarget spell
- etc...
Story:
Renegard, in the year 743. The whole country is in turmoil, for King Opher, the wise leader of this prosperous country, has fallen ill, along with most of his relatives. It's a strange disease that the world hasn't seen ever before; anyone befallen by this illness falls into a deep coma. Even the most recognized and famous doctors and healers haven't been able to determine what this illness is, let alone how to cure it. They all said, however, that if this illness might be lethal if it isn't cured soon.
Seeing how the king isn't able to reign over his country right now, his advisor Boartz has taken his place in the meanwhile, but unlike the king himself, Boartz only seems to be concerned about gold and might and ignores the concerns of the people. However, all of a sudden, Boartz decides to mobilize Renegard's military. He announces that the council of the elders might have found a cure for the illness that has befallen the royal family, but it's something so incredibly rare and legendary that some doubt it really exists: the feather of a phoenix. Apparently, the military is looking for a phoenix to take the feather from in this moment. However, with the military being busy searching for the feather and advisor Boartz tyrannizing the people, chaos reigns Renegard. If this continues, Renegard will soon vanish from the maps...
Have fun.