Battle System

[Dreamer]

Fighting in Battle

Since metagaming and powerplaying is more common during battle scenes, whether intentional or not, we have sought to make things both more regulated and more interesting. Our intention is to make it simple, and not to complicated to understand, and if you have played any sort of tabletop rpg, it shouldnt be too complicated. If you have not, and the system still confuses you, we would be glad to explain.

This system works off of a d20 attack dice, and a d4 damage dice.

So when you post a character, you post the action or attack you intend to carry out. Staff will moderate battles and calculate whether your attack has hit or not, and if so what the damage to your health is, and they will do the same for the opponent.

Different creatures have different numbers which you will have to reach to be able to hit them, as well as different amounts of health.

Attack Count, or AC is the required number to be able to hit another creature in combat (Basically Armor class in RPGs).

Cats who have trained in certain skills will have boosts to their attack rolls.

Boost list

Apprentices: +1 to roll number

Warriors: +2 to roll

Claw/Fang Warriors and Deputies: +3 to roll

Queens (when defending kits): +4 to roll


300 words to a post: +1 to roll

450 words to a post: +2 to roll

600 words to a post: +3 to roll

For every extra battle thread in which the character has participated beyond these requirements: +1 to roll


Health Count List

Kits: 5 HP (Health Points)

Apprentices: 10 HP

Warriors/Fully trained Ranks: 15 HP

Deputies/Leaders: 17 HP

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Martens/Minks/Polecats: 10

Weasels: 10 HP

Foxes: 20 HP

Badgers: 20 HP

Wolves: 25 HP

Beavers: 15 HP


If the health reaches zero, the creature is dead. If an NPC played by the admins reaches a 1/4 of their health they will flee, unless they are killed that round. Players are encouraged to flee when their health reaches 4, else they risk dying.

AC List

Kits/cubs/baby animals: 6

Martens/Minks/Polecats: 10

Apprentices: 11

Warriors: 13

Weasels: 12

Foxes: 13

Beavers: 12

Badgers: 13

Wolves: 15


If you get a natural 20 (roll a 20 on the dice) your character does double damage. If you roll a one, your character gets damage.

[Dreamer]

Mock battle

So as to explain the system, this is an example of a mock battle:

A fox has appeared on Pineclan's territory. An introductory post in the thread explains what its doing here.

Cats may either form a patrol (leader or deputy organize) or stumble upon it while going about their warrior duties.

First warrior, Nightpelt, posts a reply, signaling at the end that he is attacking the fox.

The warrior has first go because he surprised the fox, but should a predator randomly appear in a patrol or other thread, the predator will have the first attack.

Staff rolls the attack roll. Result 16, adds +2 for warrior, and +1 for Nightpelt's 360 word post. Final is 19. This passes the fox's check. Staff rolls damage dice: Result: 4 damage.

The fox takes the hit and is now at 16 HP.

The fox rolls for attack. Result 1. Critical fail! The fox takes extra 2 damage for messing up. (This is not likely to actually happen, surprisingly using my random online dice roller I got this result. That said, should your character role a 1, something similar will happen.)

Nightpelt's turn to reply again, and the player can use all the information from the last post to extend their post, and then signal if they wish to attack or withdraw.
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Should any other cats be added into the rotation, the predator will get an attack once every three posts. So two player posts for one NPC/Predator post.

Now in a fight between two player characters, the staff will post the result of each player's attack after their post. So that every other post is staff, that way ensuring that no one can decide the fight without staff intervention.