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Basic Info

We've got 5 starting classes that every character can be.

Fighter, Archer, Theif, White Mage and Black Mage

Fighters specialise in melee combat, prefering to hit things with swords and the like.
Archers specialise in ranged combat, prefering to hit things with precison and accuracy.
Theives specialise in not being seen and sneaking around, delivering cripling blows from melee or ranged attacks.
White mages specialise in healing and defending others, dealing very little damage to enemies.
Black Mages specialise in damaging foes and defending themselves, never being able to heal themselves.

Now, after taking various levels in these classes, one will be able to mix them. For instance, a Black Mage who becomes an Archer will be able to become and Arcane Archer, one who can enchant their arrows with magic so they deal more damage.

Each class will have three trees to chose skills from. Basicaly, these trees will be Attacking, Defending and Helping manage SP, HP, special abilities, etc.

To obtain new levels, one has to post a certain amount of times. For instance, to get to level 2, one has to post with one character a total of 15 times. That's easy. It gets harder from there. To get to level 3, you need to post another 18 times, taking your post count up to 33. Level 4 is reached after another 21 posts, taking it up to 54. It's a pattern that I've worked out and it makes it worthwhile posting so your characters can obtain better skills.

Character Creation

Okay, now, character creation. Each class has two strong stats, one medium stat and one weak stat. One strong and the weak stats are set depending on class. You cannot change this. You can however, choose between the other two stats wether you want them strong or weak.

For instance, Bob the level 1 fighter has a strong stat of Strength (Str) and a weak stat of Intelligence (Int). He chooses to have Agility (Agi) as his other strong stat and Dexterity (Dex) as his medium stat.

Now, depending on your choice of strong and medium, depends on how many points you get in them. When you go up a level, you roll a d4 (4-sided dice) and add that to every stat. After that, you also add points to your stats, depending on if they are strong, medium or weak.

Strong +5
Medium +3
Weak +1

So, Bob the level 1 fighter has starting stats of Str 9, Agi 9, Dex 7 and Int 5.

Carla the level one white mage, might have stats of Int 9, Agi 9, Dex 7 and Str 5, because a mage's strong stat is Int and weak stat is Str.

How to fight and dealing damage

Initiative

Initiative is the first thing you do before you enter a battle. What you do is roll a d20 (20-sided dice) and add your Agi to it. Whoever has the highest score goes first, then in order going down. If two or more people have the same score, the person with the higher Agi goes first. If their Agi is the same and their rolls are the same, then roll another d20. Whoever has the higher roll goes first out of those people.

Okay, Bob the level 2 fighter with stats of str 15, agi 15, dex 13 and int 11 tries to hit Carla, the level 2 white mage with stats of int 18, agi 18, dex 16 and str 14

Bob takes the difference between his str and Carla's agi and adds it to a d20 roll. Carla rolls as well. Whoever gets the higher total wins. In this instance, Bob has -3 to hit Carla. Carla needs a 18+ to dodge the attack, where Bob needs to roll really high. Now, Carla tries to hit Bob with her staff. She gets -1 to hit.

Darian, the level 2 black mage casts a weak fireball at Bob. Darian's stats are int 17, dex 17, agi 15, str 13. He gets +6 opposed to Bob's int to hit him.

Eugine the archer with stats of dex 14, agi 14, str 12 and int 10 tries to shoot Bob (everyone hates Bob). He get's -1 to hit using his dex against Bob's Agi.

If the opposing roll is less than the attacking roll, with all modifiers added, then the attack hits, dealing the difference between the rolls after modifiers, example below. If a spellcaster is in the middle of casting a spell and takes damage, they loose the spell they were attempting to cast.


If the opposing roll equals the attacking roll, with all modifiers added, then the attack grazes the target, making them flinch. This effectivly can make spellcasters loose the spell they are casting and gives the target a -1 to hit next turn they attempt to hit, if attack is made next post.


Is an opposing roll is greater than the attacking roll, with all modifiers added, then the attack misses the target.


Battle test 2 is the best example of the fighting system so far, as it's even got an equal set.

Critical hits

A critical hit is when an attacking character rolls within their critical range when attacking, before modifiers. This then makes the attack a critical hit, dealing 1.5x damage (Rounded down). A characters chance of scoring a critical hit starts at 19-20 and can increase with certain skills.


A critical hit is the equivalant of hitting major arteries or hitting harder than normal. Critical hits can be scored on anything with anything, exceptions will be noted if it ever happens, probably for Zombies and the like.

Flinching

When the opposing roll equals the attack with all modifiers added, then the target recieves a flesh wound that makes them flinch. Flinching has two effects.

1) If the target is attempting to cast a spell, they loose concentration and have to start again. No SP is wasted when this occurs.

2) Next time the target attempts to attack, they get -1 to their roll to hit. This only occurs if the person attempts to attack in their next post.

Skills

Each level your character can gain a new skill, improving on abilities already gained or gaining new abilities.

At level 1, each character gains the first of each tree, regardless. At Second level, the character gains one more skill from any of the three trees they have access to.

Now, to make things more interesting, a character can't gain skills in a tree that is 2 or more 'points' behind the tree with the most points in it. For instance, a lvl3 fighter takes a third skill in the attacking tree. From then on, he cannot take more skills from the defence or management trees.

However, if he chooses a different skill, like defence for his third level, at level four he can still choose all trees.

If he chooses attack, then defence, then, at level 4 he chooses attack again, he cannot then start putting more points into the management tree, but he can put more points into the defence and attacking trees next level.

Class stats strength

Class - Strong - Weak

Fighter - Str - Int
Archer - Dex - Str
Thief - Agi - Int
White mage - Int - Str
Black mage - Int - Str

Now, the other two stats that aren't set, you get to choose between making strong and medium.

Every time you level up, you get the following for your stats

Strong 5+d4
Medium 3+d4
Weak 1+d4