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This is a practice thread for learning the ropes for Lady_Theia and myself. It would be appreciated that anyone else please not interfere, unless perhaps your username is lady_skuld because then you're the resident guru who'd know better than us.

At any rate, first up is a character, as it's hard to beat stuff up otherwise. I'm going to take the Gina character from Skuld and myself's practice run for the sake of expediting the process and because we're really only going over the basics at this time.

The character profile is as follows:



Some things to point out is that strength tends to deal with melee attacks, dexterity with ranged attacks, and wisdom with special attacks. Constitution deals with defensive power.

The additional strength indicates a higher proficiency with melee attacks, although at this point it's marginal, and other attacks are still quite worthwhile.

What's the "1d4" type stuff? That's the number and type of dice to use when rolling dice to determine damage and various other things. 1d4 means one four-sided die. 2d10 would be two ten-sided dice. For rolling to hit an opponent, we'll be using 1d20, or one twenty-sided die.

Ah, that's true, she did do that... Though you'll notice it's essentially the same thing, only with some bonuses that aren't really doing much yet. We can use that table if you like, though. Just give it a name or something, I guess.

Either way I don't think it's going to make a real big difference in showing how combat works.

Alright. I'll start off, then.




You awaken from a long slumber, squinting in a sudden light that's cast over you. Rubble is strewn about you, the remains of some kind of ancient crypt. Nearby, a frightened and lost soldier backs up and mutters, "Oh no, not again!" before readying his taser. It seems you have a fight on your hands.



((Once again, for the sake of expediency, we'll just use Wilhelm. As a human NPC, we really needn't worry much about such things as class or size bonuses anyhow. He's just a punching bag, ultimately. Enemy stats also aren't typically revealed, but for practice purposes we'll do it here.


Now, at this point, you can choose to attack him, which I suppose would be a good course of action. Feel free to use either a melee (punches, kicks, etc.), ranged (thrown), or special (fire breath, etc.) attack, and roll a single 20-sided die.

((Okay, you rolled 14, and then you have a bonus of +2 for 16 total. This trumps Wilhelm's fortitude of 11, so your attack connects! Now roll 1d4, or one four-sided die, to determine damage smile ))

((Exactly! You rolled a 2, and Wilhelm has 0 toughness, so he takes the full damage. He now has 8 of ten hitpoints left. Now it's his turn to attack.))

Wilhelm staggers backwards from the blow, and wipes his bloodied lip. Taking out his taser, he fires.

((Now, he gets a bonus of +1 which is added to his roll of 12 to make 13. This means the attack connects, since it's higher than your reflex of 11, and now we roll for the damage that you take.))

((Okay, so that brings my hp down to 19. So Melee goes aginst Fortitude, Ranged goes aginst Reflex, and Special goes aginst will, but when it comes to dealing damage, it's all in the toughness...))

Reina was orriganally planing on going back to sleep, but now she was fully awoke. She closed the distance, readying another fist to swing at him...

The hit cleanly landed on his chest.

((Wait, I thought it was die roll (for damage) + Melee damage... So, shouldn't he be at 2 hp right now?