Arena muhahahahaha

[Abishai]

I spent a few hours last night and a few minutes this morning working on a set of guidelines for constructing charecters to do battle against each other, fairly. So far I have four races and four classes to choose from. Races include: elf, dwarf, human, and half-orc. Classes include: mage, cleric, fighter, and monk.

I put some thought into it and decided it would be cool to not only be able to pit charecters against each other, but be rewarded for doing so. So, the more battles you fight, the stronger your charecter can become. Along a kind of rigid guideline of course. I borrowed from so many different games it's not even funny. But I think I like the end idea. What do you guys think?

Here's what I have so far:

The stats are

Strength which influences chances to hit with brawl and most melee attacks. It also influences damage.

Dexterity inlfuences chances to hit with martial arts and ranged weapons, it also influences dodging attacks.

Constitution influences the number of hitpoints a charecter has, as well as the level of poison resistance.

Wisdom influences a spells chance to hit, as well as giving resistance to elemental spells

Intelligence influences a spells damage

Willpower influences defense against mind spells

A begining charecter will have 20 points to be divided up between the six traits. No trait may be higher than six at this time.

A player can then select the charecters race.

Human is default with no changes to stats.

Elf adds one to dexterity, one to wisdom, and subtracts two from constitution

Dwarf addos one to constitution, one to willpower, and subtracts two from dexterity

Half-orc adds two to strength, subtracts one from intelligence and one from dexterity

Class can then be chosen. Choose from mage, cleric, fighter,and monk.

Mages begin play with 4 HP in addition to the number of points in Constitution score. They have two levels of elemental magic that they may place, as well as two skill levels (discussed later)

Clerics begin play with 6 HP in addition to the number of points in Constitution score. They have one level of magic either in Holy or bane, they have three levels of skill.

Fighters begin play with 10 HP in addition to the number of points in Constitution score. They have five points to place in skills.

Monks begin play with 6 HP in addition to the number of points in Constitution. They have one point to place in either Mind or Body as well as three skill points.

Mage magic consists of the four elements: Air, fire, earth, and water. While begining levels are WEAK the higher levels are impressive.

Air
1. raise fog (self explanatory)
2. arms of air (can manipulate objects kind of like telekineses)
3. lightning bolt.
4. harden air (immobolize/constrict opponent)
5. lightning storm (self explanatory I think)

Fire
1. smoke screen (self explanatory)
2. fiery blade (enchant a blade with fire temporarily)
3. fire ball (self explanatory)
4. jet of fire (shoot a stream of fire that you can direct)
5. Immolation (create a devastating wake of fire centered on your opponent

Earth
1. dust storm (self explanatory)
2. tremor (cause the earth to tremble slightly knocking opponent down-they have to spend an attack getting back up)
3. hands of earth (hands rise from the ground grabbing opponent's ankles immobolizing them
4. riven earth (the earth splits throwing dirt, rocks, and your opponent into the air)
5. earthquake (self explanatory)

Water
1. concealing rain (self explanatory)
2. quick freeze (a freezing attack that quickly freezes, and then quickly thaws)
3. ice ball (self explanatory)
4. glacial spike (ice spike rises from the ground)
5. Blizzard (self explanatory)

Cleric have Holy or Bane:

Holy
1. heal five HP
2. heal 10 HP
3. heal 25 HP
4. heal all
5. blessed aura (damage all within 30')

Bane
1. summon undead
2. create undead
3. control undead
4. rot (cause a quick atcting rotting disease to be inflicted on your opponent-lowering one physical stat
5. maim (lower all opponents physical stats)

Monks have Mind and Body to choose from

Mind
1. mental barrier (provides extra armor)
2. reflect attacks (works against not only melee and ranged attacks but also against magical attacks)
3. hit drains willpower
4. order (give an order to your opponent that must be obeyed-resisted by willpower-cannot use commads such as kill your self or die)
5. mental slave (resisted by willpower-any command may be issued)

Body
1. increase constitution by spellcraft (explained later) level
2. increase dexterity by spellcraft level
3. increase strength by spellcraft level
4. increase all physical attributes by spellcraft level
5. increase all physical attributes by spellscraft +2

Skills, I only put fighting skills down. . . .

brawl (hand to hand combat less disciplined then martial arts)

dodge (self explanatory)

martial arts (disciplined hand to hand fighting style with incredible power-costs twice as many skill points as brawl)

melee (attacking with hand-held weapons)

ranged weapons (throwing weapons/bows/crossbows)

spellcraft (this skill as well as Wisdom score reflect how high of a level you can achieve in any magic spell users must have at least one level to use any spells-to use level two spells requires two levels of this skill. . . .)

[Cobra5]

That's not a bad idea. It could become an ongoing thing, characters chalenging eachother, and we can all make contribuitions as it goes on, too.

Also, we could use the system, then replace the races, classes, and skills, then put into each RPG that we already have running- the RPG itself would remain the same, but when/if characters want to fight eachother, they could use the system to determin the outcome.

I like it ;D

[copyKatt]

oh geez, hes just like you will... didint you make something like this a zillion times over? but never really got around to perfecting it? or something like this.

but it sounds like a cool idea ;D. something statbased. weve never really sat down and made something like this work before.

[Cobra5]

Yeah, a quadrillion times. But I generally don't like to introduce my ideas unless I fell they're near perfect...

Somethig which, thankfully, has changed since then ;D

[Coral]

StatRPG revived.

[Cobra5]

Well, StatRPG used a grid, and had 30 classes Yes, there is such a thing as over-ambition, aperently

Cass said she was going to revive that, but never did.

Well, hey, if anyone wants to use any of that as a base/insperation/anything, I can bring the original thread back (its archived on the Tech Board, which you guys can't see), or I can post it here.

[copyKatt]

meh, but that was frikin complecated. with equiptment and levels and zillions of classes and stuff.

[Tassatul]

I have a question: what are you using for chance to hit and amount of damage and that kinda stuff, like a die roller? Just curious. And your stats sound a bit like Morrowind ;D

[Cobra5]

copyKatt said:

meh, but that was frikin complecated. with equiptment and levels and zillions of classes and stuff.

Its what I do. I mean, you can memorize d20, right? I have the whole thing memorized, even after about a year or more being inactive...

[Abishai]

I used a bit of Shadowrun for the stats, but borrowed from d20, world of darkness and a bunch of other games as well. As far as the chance to hit I decided to make things simple. After all you wouldn't want to have to wait for a damn die roller in an arena. Stats can be conbined dexterity and dodge to avoid an attack for instance 3 dex and 3 dodge = 6 total this would go against either strength and melee or strength and brawl or dex and range weapons or dex and martial arts.

So Monk charecter with 2 points of martial arts and 5 dex attacks fighter (archer) with 5 dex and 3 dodge, fighter dodges out of the way.

I also wrote out a few other things. I wrote out a weapons list which I'll post later. I also have an armor list, once again I'll post later. I have martial arts manuevers though. A reason to spend the extra points for martial arts above melee or brawl.

At level two and each additional skill point beyond you can choose one of these:

Thousand Fists: 1 extra HP of damage with unarmed attack per point in martial art

Wind Strike: Throw opponent tremendous distances/with tremendous power

Chi Strike: Immobolize opponent

Dragon Kick: Added damage and extra force (kick back through a tree or wall perhaps)

I also added the option of merits and flaws the points for these should be interchanged with each other.

Merits
Magic resistant 2pt: gives one point of resistance against all magic

Quick shot 2pt: gives an extra ranged attack per turn

2 weapon fighting 2pt: gives an extra attack with off hand

Ambidextrous 1pt: fight equally well with either hand

Toughness 2pt: add two to constitution for figuring out HP

Acute vision 1pt: self explanatory

Acute smell 1pt: self explanatory

Acute hearing 1pt: self explanatory

Flaws
Hard of hearing -1

Bad sight -2

One eye -2

Deaf -4

Blind -6

Lame -3

One arm -3

Magic succeptibility -3



As far as damage goes that will go along with the weapon section. I'm thinking weapon damage + strength = total damage. For level two spells that inflict damage I'm thinking intellegence rating. From there spells will increase to intelligence + (spell level squared) - spell level

If a player keeps intelligence at six it works out to:

Level 2 6HP
Level 3 12HP
Level 4 18HP
Level 5 26HP

Does that seem fair?

[Abishai]

I'm thinking our beloved admin could hand out gold and/or exp for arena battles. Exp will be used not to raise levels per se but to raise individual charecteristics of a charecter. Strength, magic rating, skills ect. . . . That way charecters can evolve the way you want them to.

[Cobra5]

Hmm... I may be able to arange something where it appears in your profile...

I'll look into it.

[Abishai]

I'm thinking people that play could simply add their stats to the signature portion of their profile. It wouldn't be too hard. Put something like

str 4 dodge 2
dex 4 melee 4
con 4
int 4
wis 4 20/20 HP
wil 4 15 Exp

You could assign the points and the players could add them to their stats

[copyKatt]

sigs stay the same no matter what. you cant just change your signature for one thread or post or anything. you mess with it in your profile, and it applies to all of your posts, so that wont work.

unless your talking about having our stats for this rpg posted around with us wherever we go... not sure how i feel about that one.

everyone could just have a separate post for their stats. like keeping all the 'profiles' on page one or something.

[Coral]

The great thing about this is you can modify it for many situations.

The stats are

Strength which influences chances to hit with brawl and most melee attacks. It also influences damage.

Dexterity inlfuences chances to hit with martial arts and ranged weapons, it also influences dodging attacks.

Constitution influences the number of hitpoints a charecter has, as well as the level of poison resistance.

Wisdom influences the success rate of lockpicking and mechanical work

Intelligence influences mechanical work and lockpicking

Willpower influences stamina

A begining charecter will have 20 points to be divided up between the six traits. No trait may be higher than six at this time.

A player can then select the charecters race.

Black is default with no changes to stats.

Asian adds one to dexterity, one to wisdom, and subtracts two from constitution

European adds one to constitution, one to willpower, and subtracts two from dexterity

Mixed lets the player add 2 more points to his stats.

Class can then be chosen. Choose from mage, cleric, fighter,and monk.

Medics begin play with 6 HP in addition to the number of points in Constitution score. They have one level of experience in either torture or health.

Close-Combat begin play with 10 HP in addition to the number of points in Constitution score. They have five points to place in skills.

Gunners begin play with 6 HP in addition to the number of points in Constitution. They have four skill points

Mage magic consists of the four elements: Air, fire, earth, and water. While begining levels are WEAK the higher levels are impressive.

Cleric have Holy or Bane:

Health
1. heal five HP
2. heal 10 HP
3. heal 25 HP
4. heal all
5. Stimpacks (increase stats by 100%)

Bane
1. damage 5 hp
2. damage 10 hp
3. damage 25 hp
4. Drugs (decrease target's stats by 50%)
5. Surgeon's skills (Disable the target)

Skills, I only put fighting skills down. . . .

brawl (hand to hand combat less disciplined then martial arts)

dodge (self explanatory)

martial arts (disciplined hand to hand fighting style with incredible power-costs twice as many skill points as brawl)

melee (attacking with hand-held weapons)

firearms (throwing weapons/bows/crossbows)

lockpicking (pick locks)

improvisation (allows you to make objects for whatever with whatever)