Stats and Skills

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Stats

Stat Legend Description
Strength (S) Strength determines the physical ability to wield armor and weapons, and pass strength checks. It serves as raw damage for hand to hand contests.

Vitality (V) Vitality determines the total number of wounds that a character can withstand and the ability to withstand attacks, poisons, illnesses, and other disabling effects.

Agility (A) Agility determines speed and the ability to execute manuevers. Speed can be categorized into three separate stats (see Attack Speed, Move Speed & Cast Speed).

Stamina (SM) This stat is derived from a strength and vitality computation to form a measured stamina for the character that is expended with every move at a flat rate of 1 per action. It can only be recovered via sleeping, stamina potions, or at a rate of 5 per turn of rest.

Charisma (CH) Charisma is used to determine whether or not a character can convince another character of something they're saying.

Statecraft (ST) This stat is factored into the ability to rule land capably. It is used in conjunction with several other stats such as diplomacy, charisma, tactics, and knowledge, for many different aspects of running a state.

Tactics (T) Tactics is the stat that is used for deriving military success or failure in conjunction with the forces one employs, and the terrain advantages and disadvantages. The tactics stat is a modifier and can be the difference between grasping victory, or being crushed.

Diplomacy (D) Much like the tactics stat, the diplomacy stat determines the success or failure of a negotiation. It can be used directly in conjunction with the charisma stat. Diplomacy is used when there is a discussion between two states/factions. The higher the diplomacy stat, the more favorable the outcome is for the faction.

Power (P) The power stat is a direct representation of the power level of a sorcerer/magic user. It is a percentage modifier on both MP and magic damage. It can also be used to determine a successful resist roll, or determining which spell is more powerful if two collide/are in conflict.

Energy (En) Determines the amount of MP a character has at their disposal for casting spells and using magical skills.

Knowledge (K) This is used to determine how knowledgeable a character is about certain subjects of study.

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Skills

All registered player characters can have skills that will further raise their survivability and usefulness in general. For each level gained, the character receives 3 skills. These skills are custom, made by the player, and must be submitted for approval. The details of the skill may be edited before approval for balancing purposes, and the administration reserves the right to further edit skills for such purposes after they've been approved. As an alternative you can choose a pre-made skill so long as you have the required knowledges for it from the list in this thread.

There are 20 levels in total, thereby the maximum number of skills a character can have is 60.

Each skill must be based off of Knowledge that a character already possesses, a racial trait, or an already existing skill of the player character. Such as Weapon Blocking I, or Swords I.

Skills should almost always be active unless they meet the criteria to be passive.

Passive Requirements:
-The skill requires a roll to execute and that chance for success is 15% or lower.
Or
-The skill executes once a game month.
Or
-The skill is based off of an approved knowledge and requires constant MP expenditure.

The same works for spells.

Please think your skills and spells through, once they've been approved they can not be discarded and your character is stuck with them.

Use the proper form for your Skill/Spell submission, which can be found here: Request Forms

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Levels

Upon ranking up (from level 0 to 1 for example, all the way up to level 20) a character can choose one of the knowledges they currently have to upgrade to the next level or they can choose a new one.

-The knowledge can not be one their class can not learn.
-The knowledge can not be a hidden/secret knowledge.

A character also receives a Stat Bonus, and an increased Stat Cap.

SPOILER: Click to show

Potential Knight (Level 0, Start)
Posts: 0
Stat Bonus: 0
Stat Cap: 10

New Knight (Level 1)
Posts: 10
Stat Bonus: 3
New Knowledges: 1
Stat Cap: 15

Junior Knight (Level 2) --Players may gain a Custom Title--
Posts: 50
Stat Bonus: 6
New Knowledges: 1
Stat Cap: 20

Veteran Knight (Level 3)
Posts: 100
Stat Bonus: 9
New Knowledges: 1
Stat Cap: 25

Senior Knight (Level 4)
Posts: 150
Stat Bonus: 12
New Knowledges: 3
Stat Cap: 30

Bronze Knight (Level 5)
Posts: 200
Stat Bonus: 15
New Knowledges: 3
Cap: 35

Silver Knight (Level 6)
Posts: 300
Stat Bonus: 18
New Knowledges: 3
Cap: 40

Gold Knight (Level 7)
Posts: 400
Stat Bonus: 21
New Knowledges: 5
Cap: 45

Ruby Knight (Level 8)
Posts: 500
Stat Bonus: 24
New Knowledges: 5
Cap: 50

Sapphire Knight (Level 9)
Posts: 600
Stat Bonus: 27
New Knowledges: 5
Cap: 55

Emerald Knight (Level 10)
Posts: 700
Stat Bonus: 30
New Knowledges: 5
Cap: 60

Bronze Master Knight (Level 11)
Posts: 850
Stat Bonus: 33
New Knowledges: 5
Cap: 65

Silver Master Knight (Level 12)
Posts: 1000
Stat Bonus: 36
New Knowledges: 5
Cap: 70

Gold Master Knight (Level 13)
Posts: 1150
Stat Bonus: 39
New Knowledges: 5
Cap: 75

Platinum Master Knight (Level 14)
Posts: 1300
Stat Bonus: 42
New Knowledges: 5
Cap: 80

Ruby Master Knight (Level 15)
Posts: 1450
Stat Bonus: 45
New Knowledges: 5
Cap: 85

Sapphire Master Knight (Level 16)
Posts: 1650
Stat Bonus: 48
New Knowledges: 5
Cap: 90

Emerald Master Knight (Level 17)
Posts: 1850
Stat Bonus: 51
New Knowledges: 5
Cap: 95

Ascended Master Knight (Level 18)
Posts: 2050
Stat Bonus: 54
New Knowledges: 5
Cap: 100

Celestial Master Knight (Level 19)
Posts: 2250
Stat Bonus: 57
New Knowledges: 10
Cap: 100

Final Master Knight (Level 20)
Posts: 2450
Stat Bonus: 60
New Knowledges: 10
Cap: 100

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Fear

The fear system is only in play in certain situations. Typically monsters that are Undead or monster-class enemies aligned with the Dark Gods will have a Fear Rating. It is important to note although not all monsters have a Fear Rating, almost everything has a Fear Resist Pool.

The Fear Resist Pool is based off of three stats. Strength, Power, and Knowledge. Strength because it is a good measure for fighters and the not magically inclined of combat strength. Power is a good measure for those that are magically inclined for combat strength. Knowledge because a sound mind can sometimes be the knife's edge between being stalwart or cowardly.

Calculating your FRP (Fear Resist Pool) is not hard. It is a simple average between Strength, Power, and Knowledge.

(S+P+K)/3= Fear Resist Pool

The Fear Resist Pool functions as a pool of points that are reserved by enemies with a Fear Rating. When your character encounters an enemy with a fear rating, that fear rating is deducted from your character's FRP and held until any of the following conditions occur:

• Your Character is Incapacitated
• The Monster Dies or is Incapacitated
• You Return To Town/Safe Place
• You Return to a Home Thread.

If one of those conditions occur the points reserved by the Fear Rating return to your character.

When multiple player characters are present the total fear rating of all monsters present is evenly distributed among the player characters and their combat NPCs. Strength in numbers prevails most times. Relying upon group members psychologically can be beneficial after all.

In the case that your FRP drops to 0 or lower, your character gains a phobia of the creature that caused the FRP to drop to those levels. The character is immediately immobilized by fear and suffers a panic attack. A HARD knowledge check is required to be passed before the character can move normally again. To erase a phobia the character has to kill ten times the number of enemies that caused the drop in FRP. Coming into further contact with those enemies will cause the character to lose FRP at 1.5x the normal Fear Rating for that monster.

Examples:

A.

A skeleton with a fear rating of 2 is stumbled upon by a fresh player character who has a FRP of 10. 2 of his FRP is reserved by the skeleton, so he hasn't suffered too harshly from the encounter and can continue to act normally. They now have 8/10 FRP remaining. Once the skeleton has been destroyed the FRP returns to 10.


B.

Two fresh characters enter the same dungeon and encounter the same skeletons. However, because of their numbers neither of them gain a phobia or suffer any ill effects from their encounters because the points were spread out.

C.

Player 1 has significantly higher stats than player 2. The fear points are still spread evenly. Player 2 will gain a phobia before player 1 because player 2's FRP is lower. Once player 2 is out of FRP all of the remaining fear points will fall upon player 1 until they are out of FRP.

D

A Brawler for the old Gods has a fear rating of 6. If your character has a phobia of Cultists, the Brawler has a fear rating of 9 against your character.

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Checks and Rolls

For the new person, checks and rolls can be a little confusing.

A check or roll is when your character is trying to accomplish something outside of the ordinary of talking, walking, and taking actions. This could be climbing, singing, or riding a horse. The moderator will ask you to roll a dice if it is necessary for what you are attempting to accomplish.

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If you don't know how best to use a knowledge you have, look for examples, check this guide or the FAQ. If the answer isn't among those sources, ask a moderator.

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A lot of the things in the system depend upon various dice rolls. The dice rolls are there to ensure fairness. There are a few things to keep in mind while thinking about rolls to determine if you actually need to roll.

A check is a roll that is used to determine if your character accomplishes a set task. A strength check for example would be lifting an object that is very heavy, or kicking in a locked door.

The die on the site are set as d100s and most rolls will be on a scale of 1 - 100. In the case of checks, your character must roll at the threshold or under it in order to succeed. Some knowledges allow you to re-roll a failure, or roll multiple dice and pick the best one. In combat you are limited to the number of actions at your disposal, normally that is three actions.

Some rolls will have a flat pass fail determination, others will have varying degrees of success. Let us look at the scenario below:

Your character Leaps across at chasm, but you failed the roll by less than ten. The threshold was fifty, you rolled a fifty five. Technically this is a failure, but the severity of the failure can be adjusted in narrative. Your character makes it across the chasm but the ledge collapses under them and they're hanging off the edge by their fingers.

For an example of a flat pass-fail roll let us look at the example below:

Your character is attempting to light a campfire. The success threshold is fifty, you roll a fifty one. In this scenario you were close to success but it wasn't enough to get the fire going.

One could argue that there are varying degrees of success to everything. Unless there is a set rule regarding a failed roll in conjunction with a particular knowledge you may treat the majority of your rolls on a 'varying degrees' basis.

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Difficulty Adjustments

Difficulty varies from one situation to another. You will have to use your judgement in most cases to determine what difficulty you should be rolling with. Your character and the situation should be used as a basis for determining difficulty. For example, a large, beefy man with lots of Stat points in strength will have an easier time kicking in a door than a weak, noodle armed and legged child. This massive person will have a harder time hiding or sneaking. There are five standard difficulties and two non-standard difficulties.

Standard difficulties:
-Simple (it is like breathing to your character) [+30 to threshold]
-Easy (it is like walking on an even and we'll paved city street to your character) [+15 to threshold]
-Normal (Not a thing they do all the time, but not something they are unfamiliar with) [No adjustment to threshold]
-Hard (Like lighting a campfire in the rain) [-15 to threshold]
-Difficult (Like climbing a sheer cliff while exhausted, Kicking in a locked steel door) [-30 to threshold]

Non-standard difficulties:
*Only moderators can apply this, and only in events, missions, or quests*
-Fated, +50 to threshold.
-Ill-fated, -50 to threshold.

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How to calculate the threshold

Threshold starts with the Stat and ends with difficulty. The formula should go: (Applicable stats) + (Applicable knowledge bonuses) - (Applicable difficulty)

Each knowledge level save for Combat knowledge, like Swords I, or technique/mastery knowledges, follow the same pattern:

Level I: +5
Level II: +10
Level III: +15
Level M: +20

Each knowledge or class has a Stat that it relates best to. See the Schools of Knowledge thread for that information.

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In combat, the moderator does all the rolling unless your character is involved in a non-combat check, like reading a tome of knowledge, or lock-picking.

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In regards to skills/spells, if the dice roll requires anything other than a d100 a moderator is required to roll it. If it is a combat skill/spell the moderator is required to roll it.

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Inevitable Failure

There will be a point where you will roll a die and you will fail your roll. In combat the consequences are handled for you by the moderator. Outside of combat you must address the failure in your narrative before you roll again, you may still roll multiple times in a single post so long as the failure has been addressed, and that failure isn't an interaction between characters. Some failures on some rolls have built in penalties. Others have special penalties depending on the situation.

Cases:

Leadership:
-Each successive failure will cause your troops, serfs/citizens, and NPC followers to lose faith in your ability to lead. This is expressed in an army by a 10% reduction in effectiveness. If they entirely lose faith in you, they leave you (10 straight failures.)
-Countering this effect: a successful roll will counteract their effectiveness losses by 10% until their modifier is +0%.

Lying:
-A failure here means the lie can easily be detected. Your character has lied poorly. The opposing character (the one being lied to) rolls to detect the lie, if they succeed or their roll is better than yours, they detect the lie. They may or may not confront your character at that point, but they will know you lied.

Accounting:
-Failures on accounting rolls do the opposite of their intended effect. Generally this means a failure will cost you more money on the transaction. This is expressed as as percentage added onto whatever the transactions charges were in the other party's favor.

Any magic outside of combat or crafting:
-Provided the knowledge combo is correct and the roll fails by less than 50 nothing happens. If it fails by more than 50 the magic backfires.
-If the knowledges are wrong nothing happens and the mage can't use any magic for a turn as their wellspring energy is too tangled to function.