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Slayer Soulstice is played by four gaians, not including myself. Each player will control one character (Buffy, Willow, Xander or Giles) and I will be handling the monsters for you to fight. Basically, I take the role of ‘GM’ or Game Master like in tabletop Dungeons and Dragons. To attack an opponent roll one 20-sided die while stating what ability that character is trying to perform. (Please keep reading for a list of every character’s abilities!) The number you get determines the effectiveness of the ability. Please note that healing spells can miss and critically hit just like other abilities. The starting formula is as follows (but can change depending on the ability/encounter/gear):

1-4: Attack/spell will miss.
5-19: Attack/spell will hit normally.
20: Attack/spell will crit.

Keep in mind that with enemy monsters it's a little different. Monsters have a 100% chance to hit unless Willow has levitate up, then it's 95%. You can decrease this even more once Giles learns the 'Codex of Darkness' ability. Monsters also start out with the same critical hit chance as the gang (5%) but this will raise later on.

TURN ORDER: All players must take turns in the following order:

Willow
Buffy
Xander
Giles

At the end of your character’s post, you also need to tell us their current stats and any negative status condition that they’re under. This helps makes things so much easier for your other allies and for your GM!!!


Here are some example games you can check out to get an idea of how to play. These were test runs we did of the game, so usually someone is playing more than one character, and some of the stats/attacks have changed, but they should give you a general idea of the gameplay.

Fight 1: Submissive Vampire vs. Buffy/Xander/Giles/Willow
Fight 2: Submissive Vampires vs. Buffy/Willow/Xander/Giles
Fight 3: Dominant Vampire Vs. Buffy/Willow/Xander/Giles
BOSS FIGHT: Ubervamp vs. Buffy/Willow/Xander/Giles

Before a monster starts fighting, I will roll a 20-sided die to see who that monster attack.


1-2: Enemy will attack Xander (10% chance)
3-6: Enemy will attack Willow (20% chance, considered ‘base threat’ as Willow is the only one that doesn’t have a passive ability to increase or decrease the chance an enemy will attack her)
7-12: Enemy will attack Giles (30% chance)
13-20: Enemy will attack Buffy (40% chance)

After every successful encounter the party gets through, each character gets +5mp and +5sp (this does not raise the max hp/mp.) Also, before every boss fight, the party will be healed to max hp/mp/sp.



When your GM gives your party a battle, you'll see something like this:



Monsters are color-coded to tell you if they're Passive or Aggressive. Passive Monsters will be in Olive Font, Aggressive Monsters will be in Red font. Passive Monsters allow your party to hit them first, aggressive monsters get the first strike.

An enemy’s difficulty level is determined by 3 methods of criteria. The first method is ‘Damage difficulty’ and it represents roughly how much damage the enemy will inflict upon the party. The second criteria is ‘Defense difficulty’ which determines how much defense a monster has, ergo, how long it will take to defeat that monster. The last criteria is ‘Strategic’ and it’s a mixed grab bag that is based on the monster’s special attacks. A monster can not do much damage, and not have much health, but take a strange strategy to defeat that you’ll have to figure out yourself. This also helps to give your party a small clue to be prepared for anything.

I will always state the difficulty levels of every new monster your party encounters, but I will only do it once. The difficulty level will be listed in 3 categories from left to right: Attack Difficulty, Defense Difficulty and Strategic Difficulty.

More stars means a higher difficulty level in that branch. EXAMPLE: Difficulty: */*/*



Your character will lvl up after your team defeats a boss from the world. The amount you lvl up varies and is not that linear. For example completing the first World will earn you four levels, not just one. (Every world will have one thread each) Characters that are dead after a battle will still lvl up.

All bosses have a 25% chance to drop something really good for your own character. You can do a dungeon multiple times to try and get the item you want but you will not gain another level. If you get an item that you already have, you can also sell it for cash! (Please see the: The Magic Box for more information.)

1-5: Xander will get a special item
6-10: Willow will get a special item
11-15: Giles will get a special item
16-20: Buffy will get a special item

Willow is a main spellcaster but is also vulnerable to attacks if she’s hit. She is the most powerful offensive caster.

Instant attacks are attacks that do not waste a turn! You can use more than one Instant per turn, but you can only use the same instant in the same turn. Passive abilities are something that occurs automatically based on certain events, you don't have to "do" anything to activate them. Also, abilities in bold are the abilities Buffy starts out with! You must learn the other skills by playing the game and lvling up your character!


Meditation (Passive): Willow will automatically restore 3 MP at the beginning of every turn.

Blast: Inflicts 20 HP worth of non-elemental magic damage on one opponent. MP: 0



Levitate (Instant): Increases the party’s evasion, accuracy, and critical strike chance by 5%. Also makes them immune to certain attacks. The dice roll determines the length of the effect. Can be dispelled. MP: 5

1-4: Levitate will last for 1 turn. 5-14: Levitate will last for 2 turns. 15-19: Levitate will last for 4 turns. 20: Levitate will last forever unless dispelled.



Fireball: Inflicts 75 HP worth of Fire magic damage on one enemy and has a 15% chance of inflicting an additional 15 HP worth of Fire damage. (must roll a 18-20 for the damage bonus) MP: 15



Sun Spell: Inflicts 80 HP worth of Fire magic damage on a group of enemies. MP: 15



Rebirth: Revives one fallen ally. They'll come back with 50% of their max HP. 80% chance to work. 1-4: Rebirth will fail. 5-19: Rebirth will work. 20: Ally will come back fully healed! MP: 30



(LvL 5) Shadow Clone (Instant): If an enemy tries to attack Willow, she can conjure up a clone of herself that gives her a 50% chance not to be hit as the clone might take the blow instead. Can only be cast once every other turn. (1-10 Shadow Clone won't foll foe, 11-20 foe will be fooled.) MP: 5

Giles is a hybrid fighter that can tank, heal and inflict damage – but not as well as the “class” he’s trying to imitate. He also has extra goodies of his own, like the ability to heal magic points!

Instant attacks are attacks that do not waste a turn! You can use more than one Instant per turn, but you can only use the same instant in the same turn. Passive abilities are something that occurs automatically based on certain events, you don't have to "do" anything to activate them. Also, abilities in bold are the abilities Buffy starts out with! You must learn the other skills by playing the game and lvling up your character!


Who’s Your Daddy (Passive): Increases Giles’ ability to be attacked in the group.

Focused Mind (Passive): Giles will automatically restore 5 HP and 3 MP at the beginning of every turn.

Strangle: Inflicts 5 HP worth Physical damage on one enemy. Also has a 5% chance of instantly killing certain enemies. (Will kill the enemy if Giles rolls a 20.) MP: 0



Concentrate (Instant): The next ability Giles uses will always hit regardless of what you roll. Can only be used once every 3 turns. MP: 3



Magic Blast: Inflicts 60 HP worth of non-elemental magic damage on one foe. MP: 15



(LvL 5) Codex of Darkness: Inflicts 'Darkness' on one opponent, lowering the accuracy of their Physical and Ranged attacks by 15% for 3 turns, or until they (perhaps) dispel it. Also inflicts 15 HP worth of Unblockable damage. This ability always hits, cannot crit, and it requires no dice roll. MP: 5

All Physical attacks, Ranged attacks and most Magical attacks can be resisted by certain enemies. For example, if a monster is Resistant to Melee, he will shave off 20 HP worth of all melee damage directed at him. So for example Buffy's 'Beatdown' ability would be worthless against that monster.

Enemies can also absorb certain elemental magic (but not melee or ranged attacks) Enemies might also be completely immune to a certain type of attack or element.

Unblockable damage means just that, cannot be avoided in anyway whatsoever.

Weakness against a certain type of attack means that an enemy will suffer an additional 20 HP worth of damage if you use that element or attack. For example if an enemy is weak against Ranged attacks, Xander's Magnum Blast will do 70 HP damage instead of 50. You can pinpoint enemy weaknesses with Willow's ESP ability or just find out on your own.