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Yeah, that would be great. It's easy to think up systems, but a player may do something that wasn't expected or even have ideas that could help. We'll have to get random people to test them out too.

Thank you so much for your response!
Well, what I envisioned for the (partial) automation would be that the database would keep track of a person's skill level/ability between fights, not the fights themselves. It's easy to set up a password system where only the GM would be able to change certain things. I could see this being most useful in games where the players "buy" abilities with points given to them by the GM. Also, if there are many different levels or classes that a GM must keep track of, the database could help keep track of that.

I agree, it would be better with the passward system. 3nodding

Setting up the password is easy. It's deciding what features you would want in the database that's hard. xd

Name:

PfP Dice System: A Post for Post Battle System.

Description:

The PfP Dice System is a system that works off of the previous post. One player rolls his/her dice and posts what she will be doing (much like in a regualr RP) and post down her stats at the end of the post. The next player would take the dice rolled and post according to the dice roll, resolving whether the attack was successful and how much damage has been done. Once that has been done, he/she would post regularly like in a RP then post his/her stats down at the end of the post. You just need to remember to choose the "Roll Dice" action before submitting every post involved in the scene. The system would repeat itself until one player has fled or has been defeated.

The PfP Dice System works so that you would only have to roll two dice, one for attack vs. miss, and the second for damage done. Only a simple formula is to be done to figure out whether you've hit or not, and how much damage you done. The Stats are shown here:

Attack Vs. Agility: If you Attack is equal to or higher than your opponents Agility, you hit. If it's lower, you've missed.

Power vs. Defense: The amount of Power minus Defense is how much damage you've done to your opponent.

Now, if your thinking that if your attack is lower than you agility, it would always be considered a miss, and vise versa. A simple formula deals with this, Dice Mods! Example:

First Dice: This dice is your attack mod. For the formula may look complicated to people that aren't great with math. But it IS really simple. Your Att, is divided by 3 rounded down and is multiplied by your dice roll.
[[Att/3 x Dice Roll = Att Mod]]

Second Dice: This dice is your power mod. Same type formula for Att, except divide by 2!
[[Power/2 x Dice Roll = Power Mod]]

With the new modded Attack and Power Mod, this is how you determine whether if it's a successful hit, and how much damage is done.

This is just the core system and more is shown at my guild PfP Dice Wars: The Ultimate Battle Guild

Strengths:

exclaim Simple to learn to basics and use.
exclaim Adaptable to many fight scenes, but not all.
exclaim The battle system is unique! (I've searched many hours and couldn't find one like it.)

evil May take some time to become an advanced user for in depth RP's

Name of Creator:

The Plot Master and dun-dun-duun

Note: The guild is still under construction.

Well that's the beauty of the system, being able to jump in and out of it when ever you may need. It is very useful in an arena type of guild/rp, but my main goal with this system is being able to use it when ever you choose. I've shorten and downsized it from a spinoff from the d20 stats, down to seven essential stats. I also downsized the rules from pages, to paragraphs just for some person who doesn't like to read can just skim through it and still understand it. XD YAY!!

What I also didn't mention here, and put up on my guild was the way weapons and skills are used with the PfP Dice System. They work with it almost perfectly. Meaning you can take almost anytype of weapon, from sword to ballistics and apply them to your action. Anytype of skill and apply them to the setting, or maybe even cause more damage, and effect your opponents skill. This can even be done with weapons. Let me show you.

Each Item has it's modifier (if needed) to it's appropriate stat. Weapons would add to Att and/or Power, while armour would add to Def, Agility, and or Speed or possible any mixture of the stats. And each item of have a number of effects on it (if needed). With this setting, you can create virturally any type of item you need

Example:

Steel b*****d Sword d6 - <--meaning this is the type of dice you roll when you attack for Hit/miss and power.
Type: Weapon
Modifiers: +6 Power/-1 Att
Effects: None

or possibly

Fire Blaze Plate Mail
Type: Armour
Modifiers: +20 Def/+10 Agility
Effect 1: Immune to Fire Based Attacks
Effect 2: Explode! 200 Damage to your opponent - Kills wearer - Attack: 50

Skills would also fall under the same system.

Now, to get a system useful in every possible RP, is going to need alot of thinking. First off, any stats would half to be very basic, or taken out completely. Getting rid of god-modding and auto-hitting would involve dice, but which way would you use them to keep the stronger player winning? Right now, what I can think of is a character that has a certain dice welded to him/her/it and a healthbar/hp counter. But if you want, I can take the next few hours constructing my guild and discussiing possible solutions.

spreadsheets are awesome for working out the math of stuff, plus in openoffice you can sortof easily copy/paste them into a database, then with a great deal of difficulty save that into a mysqlable format.

some example work of mine:
http://the1joebob.no-ip.org/b/src/1188545689253.ods.unknown
http://the1joebob.no-ip.org/b/src/1181012451078.ods.unknown
just remove the .unknown and open it in openoffice calc. the first one was designed to eventually move into a database, I gave up on that... the second one is figuring out the math of it, if I recall the projection goes out a hundred runs, and I hadn't quite worked out the math