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[vkiNm]

The Game Thread
--The Setting--

Zootopia.

A place where anyone can be anything. Where mammals, both predator and prey live together in harmony. A shining beacon of Animal civilization and evolution from their ancestors. Divided into twelve districts, each specifically designed to accommodate the lifestyles of every type of animal imaginable. Simply put, it was the grandest city the world had ever seen.

Or, it was.

March 3rd, 2016.
A pandemic from an unknown source spreads from the Rainforest district, and sweeps through the rest of the districts. It spreads through the entire city and across the country. Turning the infected deadly ill, or aggressive to the point of atavistic savagery.

March 8th, 2016.
The Central Government collapses five days after the initial outbreak. Basic services fail and without access to food or water, the country quickly descends into chaos.

March 12th, 2016.
The city's nuclear power plants stop working after three days of working autonomously as its employees did not show up to work.

The world is plunged into darkness.

March 13th, 2016.
The Strategic Homeland Division (SHD), or "The Division" for short, is activated.

You are part of this group. A classified stay-behind force of self-supported tactical agents. Leading seemingly ordinary lives, you have been trained to operate independently of command when all else fails.

You are the final straw in keeping what remains of animal civilization together.
Save what remains, put the city back together.

Will you save the city? Save yourself, your friends and family? Or choose to have your own goal?
Do you have what it takes to achieve it? Or will you succumb to the many dangers that lurk behind every corner?

A high lethality Squad-based Survival/Base building management Zootopia X The Division game.




--The System--

Following up on my previous games, we are opting to balance the crunch. Where there’s just enough crunch for everyone to have fun customizing your characters and feel as they grow powerful, but not too much that there are many redundant stats and points where you won’t really care for anyway.

And here’s a Character sheet for anyone who is interested. [with extra explanations.][Please don’t include the things in brackets in your actual sheets.]

Name: [Full name of your character. Titles and Nickname applies here if they exist.]
Sex: [The Biological Gender of your character.]

Species: [What kind of Mammal is your Character? No primates or rats.]
[Also note that there are limitations. A Rhino will not make it through a small hole and will be an incredibly easy target to hit, and a Bunny rabbit will not be able to carry a great deal of supplies and loots. Or that Fully automatic heavy machine gun.]
Relations: [Any families? notable friends?]

Background: [What was your Character’s ordinary life before the activation? Mostly fluffs, but please keep it consistent with your starting skills. It will also provide what and who you know at the start. A Doctor would know more about medicine and the local hospital than a Police officer, for example.]

[ Every skills are classified as the following.]
[ VEasy Skills  2 points to buy, 1 to increase per level]
[ Easy Skills 4 points to buy, 2 to increase per level]
[ Average Skills 6 points to buy, 3 to increase per level
[ Hard Skills 8 points to buy, 4 to increase per level]
[ VHard Skills 10 points to buy, 5 to increase per level
[ You don’t need to have all the skills ever. If you have a high enough skills in Medical, for example. Then you’re more than likely to also know a thing or two about First-Aids. And maybe even a little bit of surgery or drug dosages.
 Having some skills in ‘building’ will means that you know your way around tools and can work on carpentry and the likes. Consult your GM if you’re uncertain about your skills!]

Skillpoint: 10 [Everyone starts with 10 points.]
-Small arms 3 [Every Agent are trained to use small arms at the very least. Easy skill]
-Athletic 1 [No fat, flabby agents here! you start with a free Athletic skill. This helps with running and not running out of breath. Average skill]
-VHard Skill [Choose a free VHard skill. This should be taken from your background and is likely what you’ve lived your life doing specifically. A doctor would have Medical for this.]
-Average Skill 1
-Easy skill 1 [These two should also be taken from your background. After you’ve chosen, you can spend your points in buying new skills or improving what you already have.]

[Now, Stats are a funny little thing. Your stats are in the range of your own species. So something like a Bunny Rabbit with a full 10 points in Strength will not be as strong as a Rhino with 1 point in Strength. But the Bunny will be much, much faster and a lot less likely to being hit, for example.

Statpoint: 5 [Everyone starts with 5 stat points to spread about. every stats takes 1 point to increase. 1 is the average of your species. 10 points is the absolute physical Max your species can get to without some supernatural intervention.]
Strength:       1
Dexterity:       1 [This is also Agility.]
Endurance:     1
Intelligence:    1
Charisma:       1


-Example Sheet-

Name: Officer Judy Hopps.
Sex: Female

Species: Bunny
Relations: Carrot-farming family, lots of siblings. Has a Fox friend.

Background: ZPD Police Officer.  [Extra fluffs will be appreciated.]

Skillpoint: 0
-Small arms 5
-Athletic 3
-Security 1 [VHard skill involving on bypassing and setting up security. Helps catching people and avoid being caught.]
-Armed Melee 1 [Free average skill. Police brutality ho!]
-First Aid 1 [Easy stand-in for medical. Could save a life, maybe.]

Statpoint:       0
Strength:        2
Dexterity:        4
Endurance:      2
Intelligence:     1
Charisma:        1

[This makes Judy a very fast and agile bunny with some muscle to show for it. Endurance helps keep her going. And is slightly more durable than the next bunny.]

[vkiNm]

Spoiler: Extra Reading 1 (click to show/hide)

Extra reading supplies.

--General information reminders--

-The skills are made and rated on the fly.
-You have what makes sense, and they do what make sense.
-The Stats of 1 is the average of your species. So even with no points, you are already as good as the next member of your species.
-But you're a trained Agent.
-so you're 5 points better than an average animal.
-You don't roll anything, I do all the rolling.
-You do earn more points afterwards, so you're just starting out somewhat better than the average and then it's only going up from there.


--Stats, Skills and how Dice-rolling works.--

Stats governs the wider things such as how much you can realistically carry, how long you can realistically run, how fast, etc etc.

Skills is what governs how good you do something and give bonuses to rolls.
A Bunny with Dexterity 1 may struggle crossing a single line of rope strung between two spots with no wind.
but one with, say, Dexterity 4, could do so with ease even with some wind, and do a badass backflip from a wall and onto a trashcan then up to a lamp post, or something like that.
Provided they have the Athletic or Parkour skills to back up the roll and beat the DC, of course.


--How Rolling works + Example.--

The player declare what they wishes to do.

Their actions will be assigned a Difficulty level to succeed.

Stats will determine if what they want to do is even possible at all.

If it is possible, then it will be determined how easy or hard the action is depending on the species and stats of the player.

Once assigned, they make a roll. It can be a D20 for common things or D100 for bigger, wider and tougher things.

Their skills provide passive bonus to said roll. Such as having 5 levels in Small-arms will make you roll a d20+5 against whatever the difficulty of the action is.


Standing still or in a good cover and leverage, shooting at an unmoving, unaware target will be an easy action with DC of maybe 10. So it's quite difficult to miss if you're skilled. Roll high enough and it'll be a critical.


Jumping out of a moving vehicle, back flipping off the wall and shooting at a target inside a moving vehicle that was chasing at you would require some combinations of stats and skills and may have a Difficulty of like, 25 - 30. Then another roll with Athletics to see that you're not landing on your face.

This would allow players to start becoming creative and do some really crazy things if they specialize. Or just really really good at doing things the normal way.

The Rules of cool are great, but like real life, it's just not as efficient. Efficient Sword Fighting are not dances and you don't make elaborate moves to entertain people, a good, accurate forward jab is enough to maim someone, after all.

This means that the system encourages players to try and arrange situations in their favors. Such as getting into good covers and high ground for a firefight or having extra equipment prepared for Medical processes.

Spoiler: Extra Reading 2 (click to show/hide)

--Resources and Base Management.--

It is possible for the players to establish a safehouse. And if they so wish, grow it into a proper base which can be the safe haven of the city's survivors. The base can then be upgraded and exapanded upon to provide passive income on resources, speed up healing, give bonus to some rolls or even provide NPC support depending on what the players invested in. Note that some upgrades require electricity to run. This can be obtained from solar panels or generators that run on units of fuel.

Resources are generalized. And while the supplies you get from going out scavenging will be detailed out, it will be converted to a general unit once it's been safely tucked away somewhere.

Several planks of wood could be 10 units of wood, for example.

Ammunition works similarly. You may get a detailed overview on what you've looted, but when it gets stored away, it gets converted into units of 'Munitions'.

 Every player can carry a certain amount of ammunition with them wherever they go. This can be refilled at safe-houses and bases by taking some out of the storage, or scavenge around if you're lucky. You don't track individual bullets or magazines, but in 'Munition' units.

You spend Munition units every time you use your weapons in an encounter, the GM will decide how much Munitions you've spent depending on how long the fight was, how many attacks you've made and with what weapon.

Obviously, a .45 pistol will eat up much less Munitions than an assault rifle or a rocket launcher would per attack.

If you run out of Munitions, it means that the next encounter you run into, you'll be going in without bullets to shoot. So be careful! stay stocked, or try not to shoot everything that moves, eh?



--Animals and you.--

Eventually you may end up taking in other animals to help run your base. These animals will need food and water or else they will become sick and die. Sick and wounded animals will require units of medicine to heal up, having others who have skills in medicine will help speed up recovery drastically, thus saving you precious medical supplies.

The players yourself also need food and water to survive. Even without a safe-house yet, each player will be able to carry with them units of food and water that will allow them to go on for several days at full ration capacity.

Watch out for the cold too! if you or the NPC animals is exposed to extreme heat or cold that their bodies can't handle for too long, they can die!


--Turns and Choices.--

There's only so much you can do in a day. And in order to keep things moving, the day are seperated into 4 parts.
2 parts day, 2 parts night. 1 of those is when you'll have to sleep. It is possible to force yourself awake, but that's not healthy and you will suffer penalties for not resting. But sometimes, you just can't afford to sleep.

Now, a single part per day is assumed to be 6 hours. Minor choices such as visiting people and talking to them are free. These 'parts' are only counted for when the players decided to explore a major location, like an entire block or streets to scavenge and such. During this time, they can encounter survivors, infected, looters and of course, loots.

After all 4 parts are spent, the day is over and units of food and water are ticked off. Don't worry if you run out of food and water, you won't die immediately. But you should probably try not to run out of the essentials.


And that's all for now, feel free to ask if you have any questions!

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Name: Alexander McCain
Sex: Male

Species: Red Panda
Relations: No family members that we know of. No surviving friends.

Background: He was a private eye. Old timey one at that. And good too. His personal life is all but a mystery to us all. Most of his business ended up in him being shot at. Repeatedly.

[ Every skills are classified as the following.]
[ VEasy Skills  2 points to buy, 1 to increase per level]
[ Easy Skills 4 points to buy, 2 to increase per level]
[ Average Skills 6 points to buy, 3 to increase per level
[ Hard Skills 8 points to buy, 4 to increase per level]
[ VHard Skills 10 points to buy, 5 to increase per level]

Skillpoint: 1
-Small arms 3 [Every Agent are trained to use small arms at the very least. Easy skill]
-Athletic 2 [No fat, flabby agents here! you start with a free Athletic skill. This helps with running and not running out of breath. Average skill]
-VHard Skill: Tailing 1 (Allows for him to track a target through a crowd, street, building, etc.)
-Average Skill: Stealth 1 (Assists in hiding and moving past enemies without being seen.)
-Average Skill: Marksmanship 1 (Essentially sniper-ing)
-Easy skill: Parkour 1 (rooftop running)


Statpoint: 0
Strength:        1
Dexterity:        3 [This is also Agility.]
Endurance:     1
Intelligence:    2
Charisma:       3

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Name: Benjamin Yetu
Sex: Male

Species: Grizzly Bear
Relations: Mother and three siblings, all civilians. Father unknown.

Background: A drill sergeant and career soldier in the Army before being recruited by the SHD. Feared by recruits for his intimidating appearance and ferocious roar.

Skillpoint: 0
-Small arms 3
-Heavy Lifting 2 [Stand-in for Athletics. Ben might not be the fastest guy but he can carry a lot of stuff for long periods of time.]
-Demolitions 1[VHard skill. Whether it's a sophisticated breaching charge or a homemade pipe-bomb, he knows how to use it and can possibly make it.]
-Unarmed Melee 2 [Free average skill. This bear knows krav magra, and you should fear him.]
-Heavy Weapons 3 [Easy skill. The use of weapons too large, awkward, or specialized for regular use. Examples include RPGs and machine guns.]

Statpoint:       0
Strength:        3
Dexterity:        2
Endurance:      3
Intelligence:     1
Charisma:        1

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Name: Lear Dubois
Sex: Male

Species: Goat
Relations: Mother, Homemaker. Father, Tax Attorney. Best Friend, Editor. Girlfriend, Firefighter.

Background: Lear is an ambitious writer who aspires to write the next Great Zootopian Novel. To make ends meet, he primarily writes columns and short stories for various publications. When not working, Lear is an active horticulturist.

Skillpoint: 0
-Small arms 4 [Easy]
-Athletic 1 [Average]
-Negotiation 1 [VHard]
-Research 1 [Average]
-Writing 2 [Easy]
-Gardening 2 [Easy]

Statpoint:       0
Strength:        2
Dexterity:        1
Endurance:      2
Intelligence:     3
Charisma:        2

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Name: SSgt Tenno
Sex: Male


Species: Rhinoceros
Relations: Wife and two kids. One brother, one sister.


Background: Grew up in a family with six siblings, was one of three to survive to adulthood. He was initially signed up for the line infantry, but due to overabundant infantry and not enough police, he was transferred into the Military Police and became a riot control specialist. He then noticed by the higher-ups, who had him undergo basic Division training and made him an agent.




Skillpoint: 0
-Small arms 3 (Free)
-Athletic 3 (Free) (+4 skillpoints for +2 level)
-Heavy Weapons 1 (Free vHard) (Before transferring into the Riot squad, he was the designated demoman of the squad)
-Demolition weapons 1 (Free Average) (See above)
-Armed Melee 2 (Free Easy) (Riot control. Shield and stun baton handling)
-Unarmed melee 1 (4) (He's a rhino. Go figure.)


Statpoint: 0
Strength:       3
Dexterity:       2
Endurance:     1
Intelligence:    1
Charisma:       2

[Sosoku234]

ABSOLUTELY!!!!!

[Sosoku234]

Character sheet will come within an hour.

[Sirus]

Only mammals? What about birds or reptiles?

[vkiNm]

Only mammals? What about birds or reptiles?

Birds and Reptiles are not Sentient, unfortunately.

[Sosoku234]

Meh. That's fine.

[IronyOwl]

That's racist.

Why no rats? I assume primates are out because they're too humanlike?

[Sosoku234]

I'd assume it's because rats are tiny and the guns they would have to hold are probably a lot bigger than they are. That, and they probably are way too small to hit.

[Sirus]

Sure, but there's plenty of other small mammals. Rabbits aren't exactly large themselves.

[Sosoku234]

Meh. Like I said about the difficulty to hit, rats would essentially be invincible due to the fact that you can't hit them. It would provide an unfair advantage to that particular player.

[vkiNm]

Meh. Like I said about the difficulty to hit, rats would essentially be invincible due to the fact that you can't hit them. It would provide an unfair advantage to that particular player.

That. And the fact that whatever weapons you have that you can hold by yourself would essentially be useless against anything other than other rats. Maybe a weasel if you hit it in the eye?

It severely limits a player's ability to play, and that will get boring for them really quickly.

[Sosoku234]

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Name: Alexander McCain
Sex: Male

Species: Red Panda
Relations: No family members that we know of. No surviving friends.

Background: He was a private eye. Old timey one at that. And good too. His personal life is all but a mystery to us all. Most of his business ended up in him being shot at. Repeatedly.

[ Every skills are classified as the following.]
[ VEasy Skills  2 points to buy, 1 to increase per level]
[ Easy Skills 4 points to buy, 2 to increase per level]
[ Average Skills 6 points to buy, 3 to increase per level
[ Hard Skills 8 points to buy, 4 to increase per level]
[ VHard Skills 10 points to buy, 5 to increase per level]

Skillpoint: 1
-Small arms 3 [Every Agent are trained to use small arms at the very least. Easy skill]
-Athletic 2 [No fat, flabby agents here! you start with a free Athletic skill. This helps with running and not running out of breath. Average skill]
-VHard Skill: Tailing 1 (Allows for him to track a target through a crowd, street, building, etc.)
-Average Skill: Stealth 1 (Assists in hiding and moving past enemies without being seen.)
-Average Skill: Marksmanship 1 (Essentially sniper-ing)
-Easy skill: Parkour 1 (rooftop running)


Statpoint: 0
Strength:        1
Dexterity:        3 [This is also Agility.]
Endurance:     1
Intelligence:    2
Charisma:       3

[vkiNm]

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Name: Alexander McCain
Sex: Male

Species: Red Panda
Relations: No family members that we know of. No surviving friends.

Background: He was a private eye. Old timey one at that. And good too. His personal life is all but a mystery to us all. Most of his business ended up in him being shot at. Repeatedly.

[ Every skills are classified as the following.]
[ VEasy Skills  2 points to buy, 1 to increase per level]
[ Easy Skills 4 points to buy, 2 to increase per level]
[ Average Skills 6 points to buy, 3 to increase per level
[ Hard Skills 8 points to buy, 4 to increase per level]
[ VHard Skills 10 points to buy, 5 to increase per level]

Skillpoint: 7
-Small arms 3 [Every Agent are trained to use small arms at the very least. Easy skill]
-Athletic 4 [No fat, flabby agents here! you start with a free Athletic skill. This helps with running and not running out of breath. Average skill]
-VHard Skill: Tailing 1 (Allows for him to track a target through a crowd, street, building, etc.)
-Average Skill: Stealth 1 (Assists in hiding and moving past enemies without being seen.)
Marksmanship 1 (Essentially sniper-ing)
-Easy skill: Parkour 1 (rooftop running)


Statpoint: 5
Strength:        1
Dexterity:        3 [This is also Agility.]
Endurance:     1
Intelligence:    2
Charisma:       3

Hmm.. not bad, but you've spent all of your Statpoints so that should be at a 0. and Athletics are an average skill, you've increased 3 levels of that and it's going to take 9 skillpoints. And should leave you with just 1 point.

[Sosoku234]

Thank you. I fixed it.