Must read this Topic. RULES

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Contents

1. Posting Rules
2. Character Creation
3. Races
4. Stats
5. Houses
6. Battles
7. Blocking and Dodging
8. Distraction
9. Close Combat

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10. Damage
11. Dying
12. Basic Styles
13. Advanced Styles
14. Weapon Styles
15. Transformation and Arcane Styles
16. Training

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General rules for Forum...

1. No spaming or flaming unless the topic is directly for that...

2. No abusive language...

3. No Godmodding, metagaming or anything of that nature...

4. Adult topics must be mark with Red colour in the Topic.

5. Dont bring grudges to the game. If you don't like a person that's playing the game make sure that your character has a reason for not liking them... Write up a history in the history topic...

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New Character's must post in this form...

Name:
Age: Can be unknown
Race:
Fighting style: Look at the race section for which style type your intitled to.
Description:
Special features: Thes may not be oked by the admin.
History: Basic, if you want a more indepth history create a post in the history section.

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There are four races for now...
Half-breeds can be unlocked through RPing...

Human: The basic type of character, Begins with 2 Basic styles.

Outcast: Physically the same as Humans these are men or women who have turned away from the true goal of martial arts. 1 basic style to begin with, gains a weapon style automatically when becoming a Journeyman.

Angel: Winged Human's there are also elemental variety of these that can be gained through RP. 1 basic Style, 1 magic Style.

Demon: Demons can have whichever physical traits that they want (Admin have final say about what is ok and what is not) they are humanoid. 1 basic style, and one Transformation style.

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Your stats will be rolled by an admin and you will be assigned a house when your character is Created...

Strength: The Damage you do is a direct result of this...

Speed: The amount of actions you can do is determined by this. Also when giving chase in an RP situation Speed is a factor.

Battle Sense: Your avoiding and blocking is effected by this.

Stealth: Ninja's and other characters that have mastered the arts of the shadows rely on stealth. But this also allows the character to see those attempting stealth.

Arcane: This is related to the art of magic or demon spells or anything like that. Includes damage and speed of casting. ANd of course MP.

Stamina: This determines HP and endurance.

Martial Skill: This determines the level of mastery that you have over each Style.

Growth potential: this number is always between 2 and 8. Determines how many styles can be learnt. Also this can be raised passed 8 through RPing...

Stats for each Rank.

Student: 0 - 50
Journeyman: 50 - 150
Pilgrim: 150 - 250
Master 250 - 350
God: 350 +

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When you create a character the admin will decide which House you are aligned to. This doesn't mean your stuck in that house, unless your pure Angel or pure Demon. The first poster's of each race will become leaders of their respective Houses.

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Rules for battle are simple. For each 10 a character has in speed, that character can perform another action in battle. At the beginning of each post you must state Which style you are in, and any modifiers that the style gives you. The dice Rolls will be included in a section exclusive for those who are mods. All spells, attacks, item use or other actions take a set number of actions, generally one unless stated elsewhere. It takes on action to change stances. This includes, drawing a weapon if it's a weapon style...

HP is calculated as Stamina X 50
Mp is calculated as Arcane X 50

Actions are limited by Rank:
Student - no maximum
Journeyman - 15 maximum
Pilgrim - 20 maximum
Master - 35 maximum
God - 40 maximum

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When you are posting a round for a battle you can give a certain amount of your actions for Dodging, countering or Blocking, this is what affects each of these actions.

Countering

The Roll for countering is simple. Here is and example:
Jin
Speed 145
Battle Sense 165
Total 310

Yoh
Speed 130
Battle Sense 150
Total 280

So when a Mod is rolling for your countering the take your total in this case 310, and minus the attackers total 280. This leaves 30 so a roll must be below 30 to be succesfully countered.

Dodging/Blocking
Your speed in relation to your opponents speed is what makes the difference between blocking and dodging. If your speed is less than your opponents by 10 or more then you can only block.

90 Less Battle Sense: You can Dodge/blocking an attack. If roll 1-100, 5 or lower; success

80 Less Battle Sense: You can Dodge/blocking an attack. If roll 1-100, 10 or lower; success

70 Less Battle Sense: You can Dodge/blocking an attack. If roll 1-100, 15 or lower; success

60 Less Battle Sense: You can Dodge/blocking an attack. If roll 1-100, 20 or lower; success

50 Less Battle Sense: You can Dodge/blocking an attack. If roll 1-100, 25 or lower; success

40 Less Battle Sense: You can Dodge/blocking an attack. If roll 1-100, 30 or lower; success

30 Less Battle Sense: You can Dodge/blocking an attack. If roll 1-100, 35 or lower; success

20 Less Battle Sense: You can Dodge/blocking an attack. If roll 1-100, 40 or lower; success

10 Less Battle Sense: You can Dodge/blocking an attack. If roll 1-100, 45 or lower; success

0 More Battle Sense: You can Dodge/blocking an attack. If roll 1-100, 50 or lower; success

10 More Battle Sense: You can Dodge/blocking an attack. If roll 1-100, 55 or lower; success

20 More Battle Sense: You can Dodge/blocking an attack. If roll 1-100, 60 or lower; success

30 More Battle Sense: You can Dodge/blocking an attack. If roll 1-100, 65 or lower; success

40 More Battle Sense: You can Dodge/blocking an attack. If roll 1-100, 70 or lower; success

50 More Battle Sense: You can Dodge/blocking an attack. If roll 1-100, 75 or lower; success

60 More Battle Sense: You can Dodge/blocking an attack. If roll 1-100, 80 or lower; success

70 More Battle Sense: You can Dodge/blocking an attack. If roll 1-100, 85 or lower; success

80 More Battle Sense: You can Dodge/blocking an attack. If roll 1-100, 90 or lower; success

90 More Battle Sense: You can Dodge/blocking an attack. If roll 1-100, 95 or lower; success

You take a standard 20 damage for each block not counting for style modifications.

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In battle it is possible to be distracted by something that happens... When something happens that could distract an opponent the Mod will roll a d100. It is up to the Mod the level of Distraction... These are some basic models for rolling...

When you have been distracted you have half as much chance to avoid or counter as normal and your chance of hitting is -10%...

Weak distraction: under 15 on a d100
Examples are any conversation, any sounds of wildlife etc...
If your battle sense is over 100 this has no effect...

Medium distraction: under 25 on a d100
Any explosion, throwing of objects, attack by another character etc...
If you Battle Sense is over 175 this has no effect...

Excellent Distraction: Under 40 on a d100
Tree's falling, stampedes, Damage being done to a property that the character's in etc...
If you have battle sense over 300 this has no effect.

Unavoidable Distraction
This is impossible to escape... Even battle hardened veteran's are shaken by these things.
Sneak attacks using stealth, Death of a companion, Hostage taken by opponent etc...

Demons are immune to distraction...

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Certain fighting styles use elbow's, knee's, headbutt's or grapples. For these to work the attacker must be in close combat range. If their attack takes them into that range it is up to the mod to decide if the close combat attack hits.

But if one miss out of a chain then none of the others can hit. They also have a negative to hit roll -10%... But remember they also do more damage...