The City of Azarakoth OOC

[spriter1]

because we need a GM post to say what happened. We can't write one ourselves else we would be bias.

Like if someone only won a roll by one, what's to stop them insta-killing the other? You're the GM, tell us what happened and and the outcome of it!

[hailey<3]

I would expect that you can not really perform an insta kill. This will not work like that. You have to get your opponent down in strength. So do it to a reasonable standard alright? I know I am the GM, I gave you your rolls and I would expect that you perform them reasonably. Is that understandable?

[hailey<3]

And it is not me being lazy. I will set out the rest of the rp but I will expect that the players do their own attacks and deem it right when their character will collapse. If that is ok. I am not yet again trying to be an arse or lazy but I need to rely on you all to make your fights right and fair and not kill each other with a one hit ko. With NPCs it can be agreed but not the PCs.

[spriter1]

Now not to be rude or anything, but then what's the point of having a GM in the first place?

[hailey<3]

I set the stage. I make the events happen. I am the world that you guys play in. All I am asking is that you are able to take control of your own actions, not to be rude but is it really that bloody difficult to do that? Look. You set up that dice rolling campaign. What the hell happened to that because that would have actually worked?

[hailey<3]

And like I say, I need to keep up to date with my own ideas for this and if I am buggering about with this too much where i am trying to sort out all the dice rolls which is a system that I really can't stand for in most lights but can tolerate. I need to keep a clear mind and i just can't drop my thoughts for how to advance the plot when I need to think oh I should roll for everyone and even when I do that, nothing happens because they all seem to be incapable of making their move. I trust you guys to use your right judgement and not to go into overkill mode or to instakill. That is all I am asking for....trust that you can fight if you got the system working for your dice rolling thing and if you have not and no one really gives a shit for it then i would like to know so that I can actually start rolling.

[KnightVanilla]

Okay before anyone starts talking shit to one another lets just assign the dice roller to be whoever is at an neutral point for that roll. Being that it neither benefits or hurts them to have the dice succeed or fail. That way everyone wins and spriter take it easy on Hailey she isn't active as often but she is a senior member of the forum and as a participant of her rp you signed in on her rules if you dont like the fact she won't do rolls you can always leave this rp. No one will blame you or have anything against you for doing so just means this rp isn't your cup of tea.

[KnightVanilla]

At the moment we dont need Hailey to do dices cause of the point of we're not running against npcs. As this is also an intro just to show off she is willing to trust us to govern the outcome of each fight on our own. She does have a place for a Gm Providing a world and more to fill on her own free time mind you. Besides she never had to do shit for us she wants to do this. And mind my language but bitching to someone who is giving you a free service is disrepctful

[MelissaB]

I agree generally a gm doesn't do rolling unless their is an npc. however everyone wants their character to win. and unless people can physically see you made that roll and didn't just put a number in they are going to at the least find it suspicious. and nor will they ever believe you rolled two or even 3 20s in a row which is as easy as roll 3 1s in a row. people just won't believe it because it's that unlikely regardless of how possible that is, on that account anyone who genuinely rolls three 1s is always going to be able to get away with it by picking a different number or reroll the dice. the gms on here do the rolling to avoid stuff like that generally.

Moving on if we are doing a rolling where severity of rolls and attacks is entirely up to us. we will all need to come up with a system. there isn't an attack order we go through so it can't be i rolled higher so I stop that person's actions. i'm thinking we each get two rolls, one each for defense and attack. Showing that we are all acting not waiting for people to act.

If your defense roll is higher you avoid damage by whatever means. if your attack roll is higher than their defense roll this is where my measured severity rolling idea comes in.

5 points or less and you do small cuts scrapes and bruises depending on attack used is how you identfy what type of small attack happened.
6-10 points medium. you're hurt it's not life threatening but a several more of these and you're going down.
11 or more i'm thinking this is you're struggling hard. you're in constant pain(or pleasure in case of lust magic).

That gives us three levels of severity to work up. lets assign them dam points for a table. remember this is just purely for us to have a reference of how to treat combat, if you disagree with this or i'm stepping on hailey's toes ignore it.

weak hit - 1/2 point. (this is you cut your arm on a thorn bush stuff it hurts but you can't killing anyone with these so i don't think they warrant a full point)
medium hit - 2 points (this is you got hit and it's rocked you, you have to spend time recovering from this it's like an uppercut or knee to the crotch. it fucking hurts but it takes a few to actually put someone down for good.)
heavy hit - 6 points this is I've broken your arm and you're two steps away from being dust that's the level i'm thinking about.

I'm thinking at starting level strength we have 18 hp. this stops any instant 100 to 0 from my dam table and the way rolling works, it's very difficult to get a heavy hit because they only need a ten in their defense roll for it to be impossible even if you roll a 20,


That is how i think we approach the rolling. as for who rolls we'll need to decide that before we continue. if everyone trusts eachother fine we do our own rolls. if not we've all got a nominate someone and Hailey doesn't want to do it so either someone in the rp does so or someone gets an outside friend to roll.


Thoughts?

[hailey<3]

I think that could be a system that works well. We need all to agree however. And all to post please.

[Dracoslicer]

I feel like that system would work well also, we could also use the dice roll campaign spriter set up (if it's still there/everyone wants to) so we can witness the other person's rolls, the problem however is the timing, cause we aren't always on at the same time, but that can get figured out later.

[MelissaB]

Figuring it out so everyone knows what's happening and how it'll work is what we're figuring out now. we don't want to run into another roadblock after just sorting out one mess.

So we should decide how we're doing it. if we vote for one of us too do the rolling we trust not to cheat, getting someone new and not actually in the rp to post roll results which means someone will have to take time out of their own stuff to help us but not actually be involved. or spriter's online 20roll site, which will also be slow because everyone will need to roll before anyone can post. especially while we are all in the arena. you don't know who i'll throw fireballs at. We can easily just defend ourselves from one person and attack someone else.

So we need to vote on what we're doing(good way of seeing who is still around for this) then we use that method. in the case of the first option there would be a side vote saying who we all trust.

[Dracoslicer]

If I remember, ToG didn't actually join IN the combat, so as a way he keeps up with what is going on (For now, not permanent) he could roll so he can also see what is happening and play a part in it, when the fights get to a more 1v1 setting we could instead have it to where someone not involved in the combat rolls for both sides, especially seeing as they have no idea what's going to happen next because they are not the GM.

[hailey<3]

That might not be a bad idea. I will message him.

[cliffracer]

Yep, that system works wonderfully. It'd be convenient if the GM did the rolling, but I'm fine if you guys think someone out of the RP should do it! Having a system like this should make things go a bit more smoothly either way, eh?

[Dracoslicer]

It would be convenient but if the GM doesn't want to roll we can't complain, after all she's taking time out of day to do this for us.

[That_One_Guy]

Alright, lads, here is how the rolls will go for the fights and everything onwards, they are with the use of d10s, making it easier to do and harder for you lot to crit one another.

Attacking:
1-3 means it's light damage, I'll determine the attack and it's effects but the most it'll do is 2 damage (or most of the time just 1)
4-6 is moderate damage (3-5 damage)
7-9 is heavy damage (6-8 damage)
and a 10 (meaning you've gotten a negative modifier, bringing you to zero in defense or lower) is critical damage which can take upwards to half your health or even down to near critical damage

Defending:
1-3 is bare defense, with 1-2 away being staggared and 3 being just barely blocking/dodging, but no stagger
4-6 is good defense, allowing you to continue fighting on your feet with no repercussions.
7-9 is great defense, allowing you to parry the blow either away from you or at someone else that isn't your attack
10 is a perfect defense, allowing you to throw the attack back at them for twice the damage, turning the attacking and defending over one another so that they are defending and you're attacking. (And then I roll to see if they get out of the way)

[hailey<3]

Have we seriously stopped again? What the hell is up?

[MelissaB]

we're waiting on KnightVanilla

[cliffracer]

Nnnyup! Just waitin' right now!