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a first step of a Rough Draft for combat lines so that it can be simplified later.


melee weapons and techniques have a range of one line, pretty simple and straight forward. accuracy will have a 100% base line if no dodging or blocking happens.

Dodging starts at 50% or 5/10, [5] being one's Dodge Rate at its base. Whenever one attempts to evade an attack, a 10 sided dice needs to be rolled and should the number obtained be between 1 and the Dodge Rate of the character, it is a successful dodge and the character does not lose any HP.
Costs 1 SP to attempt to evade whether it is successful or not.

Blocking an attack cuts damage received by 25%, roll a 10D, using Dodge Rate + 2 to determine the success. Failure will be the equivalent of receiving a full clean hit while still having used the 0.5 SP for the attempt to block.

ranged weapons can be preferred for accuracy or range and will be effected by the distance.
Most range weapons will have a range of two or three lines, each line adds a point to the targets dodge rate ((5/10 is a base dodge rate, one line difference would take it to 6/10, two lines would take it to 7/10)). The accuracy of the weapon/person can take off points to the dodge rate.

So if someone is using a Rifle DITE the accuracy will be +2 with a range of 3, if they are in lane 2 and aim at someone on the front line the target will have 4/10 chance to dodge, anything from 5 to 10 will count as a hit.

Combat may be subject to distance and blockades, each 10 yard (1 line) gap will add to the dodge rate. Blockades may be regular walls forcing ranged fighters to get closer or keep melee fighters from getting closer and give the person lying in wait a chance to strike first. Some character skills may allow them to become blockades when standing beside other characters reducing accuracy on both sides by one.

Ballistic Kei is normally ranged attacks or AOE. Unless otherwise buffed ballistic Kei loses accuracy or power with range of each line. AOE gains that back but costs more and is subject to effects as well. 1X2 attacks will lose two accuracy and power if the front character blocks the attack but 2X1 attacks will retain it across the front line

Line Switching: sometimes you will have a team and need to use tactics to outfox enemies so that you can get either more damage or switch out people who are injured. This costs .5 stamina to change lines but only an advancing character can get an attack and only if using ballistic Kei or a melee weapon. characters change lines or advance one line at a time unless they use tempered Kei to accelerate their movements at 2MP=+1 line, tempered kei could also be used to counter the first strike granted by blockades but attempts to go around enemies or get ahead can get you flanked dealing +2 damage and +1 to the accuracy of the one who turned around to strike the rusher in the back if they are willing to present the same chance to someone else.

Nen-i operators are basically the weakest in stamina, HP and damage output but their MP and buff skills are both very high and they only lose accuracy over three lines instead of one and are not subject to most accuracy reducing blockades.

a combat line will normally be three characters wide, characters who pass this average will move into left/right flanks which may be subject to counter flank movements, some areas like corridors and bridges may not have flanks or will have only two character wide sections.

Aight, I'm not reading all that unless there's some form of subtitles/bold letters lol.

I'm a little confused about the whole combat line system, could you explain that a bit more?

I think I understand it a bit better now. It's a wonderful idea if we can implement it properly.

I noticed you mentioned dodge rate and accuracy. Did you want a roll for each of these? How are you planning on using accuracy?