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[Criptfeind]

Looks alright to me, although Early Reaping isn't clear if it gets better or worse as they go down in health. The example, ironically, has the only health point that leaves it vague. I'd assume better, but the wording seems to imply the more health they have the better the chance is.

I see what you mean about resistance, past a certain point it seems to basically give a double bonus, on the other hand that doesn't stack to well with dodge rolling. I guess it's good we're testing it out, so we geta see!

[Draignean]

So, a note about moving, since I managed to forget about that in the revised rules. 1 Frame, 1 square of movement. Movement is only allowed in cardinal directions, and only cardinal directions are adjacent. Disengaging from combat provokes a (light) attack of opportunity unless done using a defensive roll. If an attack was already incoming on the frame the disengage action was taken, a light is upgraded to a heavy, and an already heavy attack gets an instant stagger if it hits. The latter option requires 3 contiguous frames- 2 for the roll and 1 for the move.

For now, just declare a direction along with your movements.

To post actions, please, for my sanity, post your frame-by-frame in a set of five rows. Example:

1: Move North
2: Move East
3: Heavy Warm Up
4: Heavy Attack Against North Bandit
5: Heavy Cooldown

Now that that's out of the way, let's try you out with some simple enemies. Thuggish little bandits. Should be killed quite easily.

Spoiler: Enemies (click to show/hide)

Knife Bandit 1: 10/10 HP
Knife Bandit 2: 10/10 HP
Knife Bandit 3: 10/10 HP
Knife Bandit 4: 10/10 HP
Knife Bandit 5: 10/10 HP

Spoiler: Bandit Stats (click to show/hide)

Knife Bandit
HP: 10
Modifiers:
-1 Damage
+1 To hit
+2 Evasion
Weapons
Twin Daggers [L:1 H:3 D:2 Dam: 2-5]

Patterns:

Looks alright to me, although Early Reaping isn't clear if it gets better or worse as they go down in health. The example, ironically, has the only health point that leaves it vague. I'd assume better, but the wording seems to imply the more health they have the better the chance is.

I see what you mean about resistance, past a certain point it seems to basically give a double bonus, on the other hand that doesn't stack to well with dodge rolling. I guess it's good we're testing it out, so we geta see!

You're right. It should be (1-healthFraction)/2. Bah, you knew what I meant.

Yes, that is what I was seeing with IO's character as well. I'm thinking about capping it so that your resistance can't exceed your highest possible evasion roll. So you start getting diminishing returns when you pass a resistance of 8 unless you also have some evasion.

[Criptfeind]

1: Move North
2: Light attack warm up
3: Light attack closest bandit
4: Light attack warm up
5: Light attack closest bandit

Miles lightly stepped forward, his unfocused eyes vaguely roaming over the pack of thugs accosting them. His lipless grimace writhed as he tried to make an expression of distaste that now beyond his faces ability to emulate. "Them boys never did listen well." He muttered to himself.

Edit: Wait, I forgot that turns were simultaneous. Whoops. Edited in attacks. Hopefully, that works? I guess I'll find out, I got range 4 and they are eight away, so one frame and they are six, second frame and they are five, on the third frame they step into range but idk if that will count as them being in range. Maybe instead... Can I do multiple warmups without attacks?

Like:

1: Move North
2: Light attack warm up
3: Light attack warm up
4: Light attack closest bandit
5: Light attack closest bandit

[IronyOwl]

At the moment, just from looking at the builds, I think I'm going to have to nerf resistance by a bit. We'll see.

I see what you mean about resistance, past a certain point it seems to basically give a double bonus, on the other hand that doesn't stack to well with dodge rolling. I guess it's good we're testing it out, so we geta see!

Yes, that is what I was seeing with IO's character as well. I'm thinking about capping it so that your resistance can't exceed your highest possible evasion roll. So you start getting diminishing returns when you pass a resistance of 8 unless you also have some evasion.

I knew full res tank would be a good test. :3


1. North
2. North
3. North
4. Defensive Roll 1
5. Defensive Roll 2

Aaaaaaand we start things off weird: The tank shambles in front of an ally and then somersaults in place.

[Criptfeind]

I've seen dark souls lets plays. This seems perfectly normal. Actually, I guess it's a little bit weird that you walk there instead of tumble there.

[Draignean]

Edit: Wait, I forgot that turns were simultaneous. Whoops. Edited in attacks. Hopefully, that works? I guess I'll find out, I got range 4 and they are eight away, so one frame and they are six, second frame and they are five, on the third frame they step into range but idk if that will count as them being in range. Maybe instead... Can I do multiple warmups without attacks?

Like:

1: Move North
2: Light attack warm up
3: Light attack warm up
4: Light attack closest bandit
5: Light attack closest bandit

Yep, that's valid.

[IronyOwl]

I've seen dark souls lets plays. This seems perfectly normal. Actually, I guess it's a little bit weird that you walk there instead of tumble there.

And lo he came before me: A dark mountain made flesh, resolve made material, implacable doom tumbling darkly towards his ultimate destination...

I remember not the exact path of my flight, dive-rolling madly down the shattered halls of that fell place. I did not stop until I had rolled through the gates of Mournheim, where I prayed fervently that such a beast would not dare follow. Even now, among the markets and streets said to be safe- Ha!- I occasionally interrupt my casual tumbling towards some merchant or another to hurl myself sharply to the side, convinced some movement in the corner of my eyes was that dark juggernaut, somersaulting ponderously towards me...

Edit: Wait, I forgot that turns were simultaneous. Whoops. Edited in attacks. Hopefully, that works? I guess I'll find out, I got range 4 and they are eight away, so one frame and they are six, second frame and they are five, on the third frame they step into range but idk if that will count as them being in range. Maybe instead... Can I do multiple warmups without attacks?

Like:

1: Move North
2: Light attack warm up
3: Light attack warm up
4: Light attack closest bandit
5: Light attack closest bandit

Yep, that's valid.

Huh. It occurred to me with heavy attacks, but I think I'm just now realizing a lot of the stuff we do is basically a special wind-up/slouch-down boss attack.

[Draignean]

Edit: Wait, I forgot that turns were simultaneous. Whoops. Edited in attacks. Hopefully, that works? I guess I'll find out, I got range 4 and they are eight away, so one frame and they are six, second frame and they are five, on the third frame they step into range but idk if that will count as them being in range. Maybe instead... Can I do multiple warmups without attacks?

Like:

1: Move North
2: Light attack warm up
3: Light attack warm up
4: Light attack closest bandit
5: Light attack closest bandit

Yep, that's valid.

Huh. It occurred to me with heavy attacks, but I think I'm just now realizing a lot of the stuff we do is basically a special wind-up/slouch-down boss attack.

Yes, well, trying to simulate timing on a small scale inevitable feels like you're Godzilla in a rubber suit. Hopefully this will at least be playable.

[Draignean]

Alright, so lets see if this works. Billy Ocean can post actions for next round, but he's a melee guy and this is a distance fight so we're going to see a turn of autoing.

Frame one

Bandit 1-3 Move West
Bandit 4,5 Move South

Miles Moves North
Shor Moves North
Hau Moves East

Frame Two

Bandits 1-2 Moves West
Bandit 3 Moves South
Bandit 4 Moves West
Bandit 5 Moves South

Miles Begins Light Attack
Shor Moves North
Hau Moves North


Frame Three

Bandits 1-2 Moves West
Bandit 3 Moves West
Bandit 4 Moves South
Bandit 5 Moves West

Miles Begins Light Attack
Shor Moves North
Hau Moves North -Blocked-

Frame 4
Bandits 1-5 Attempt Knife Throw, 4-5 have no target

Miles Makes Light Attack against Bandit 3
Shor Dodge Rolls
Hau Winds up Light attack

1 Targets Hau
2-3 Targets Shor

Miles L Vs L
1d10+2 Vs 1d7,  5 Vs 2, Hit
Bandit 3 takes 9-2 = 7 Damage

Bandit 1 Vs Hau L Vs Lw
1d10+1 Vs 1d8+1 (2): 10 vs 4, Hit
Hau Takes 1 damage, loses 1 point of accuracy for being hit during wind-up.

Bandit 2,3 Vs Shor: L,L Vs Dodge
1d10+1, 1d10+1 vs 1d17+5, 1d17+5 (10) | 7, 11 Vs 8 (10), 15
Both Miss

Frame 5

Bandits -

Hau Light Attack Bandit 1
Shor Dodge Roll
Miles Light Attack Bandit 3

Hau L Vs Bandit -
1d10+1 Vs 1d7 | 8 Vs. 3 Hit
9 Damage

Miles L Vs Bandit -
1d10+2 vs 1d7 | 5 vs 7 | Miss


New Map...

Spoiler: Enemies (click to show/hide)

Knife Bandit 1: 1/10 HP
Knife Bandit 2: 10/10 HP
Knife Bandit 3: 3/10 HP
Knife Bandit 4: 10/10 HP
Knife Bandit 5: 10/10 HP

Spoiler: Bandit Stats (click to show/hide)

Knife Bandit
HP: 10
Modifiers:
-1 Damage
+1 To hit
+2 Evasion
Weapons
Twin Daggers [L:1 H:3 D:2 Dam: 2-5]

Patterns:
At Range
M->M->M->A->O (Dagger Throw)


Abilities
Throw Dagger Cooldown 5, Frames 1. Make a light attack with a range of 3.

Spoiler: Miles (click to show/hide)

Name: Miles Twice Dead
HP:  20
Archetype: Pistol Wraith
Assets:
Dead Again: If you take more than 25% of your remaining life in a single blow, re-roll the damage and take the lower value.
Agonies:
Death Echo: If you take more than 25% of your remaining life in a single blow, you become staggered.
Inventory:
St. Elmo's Pistols  [L:2 Ra:4 Dam: 8-10]
Hangmans Noose [EVA +4 -Pot: 2]
Charons bribe [Grants Ability: Early Reaping]
Train robbers dynamite [P:5 H:1 Ra:3 U:3/- Dam:15-30]

Potency: 0 (-2)
Precision: 2
Vigor: 0
Will: 0
Agility: 3

Soul:
Hexagram 63: Aftermath
Upper Trigram: Water
Lower Trigram: Fire

Modifiers:
-2 to Dealt Damage
+7 Evasion
+2 to hit

Abilities:
Dead Shot:  Cooldown 10, Frame cost 4. If the attacker is at least 2, and at most 6 tiles away, make single light attack. Attack gains +1 bonus damage per point the attack roll exceeds the defense roll. This can double the dealt damage, but no more. If this ability doubles the damage of the light attack, it is counted as a heavy attack for the purposes of inflicting stagger.
Blazing Doubleshot: Cooldown -, Framecost 5. Aligns weapon with fire and and makes two heavy attacks. This attack staggers you.
Early Reaping: Cooldown 2, Framecost 2. Select a single damaged target. That target has a %chance to die instantly equal to its current health fraction divided by two. (A unit at half health has a 25% chance to be killed instantly). If it fails, you take 1-6 damage.

Spoiler: Hau (click to show/hide)

Name: Hau Enduum
HP: 20
Archetype: Beasthearted Fighter
Assets:
Overwhelming Power: Every point of damage Hau deals has a 1% chance to stagger the target. This stagger is calculated at the end of the round.
Agonies:
Ancient Wounds: Light attacks received have a 10% chance to be upgraded to heavy attacks.

Statistics:
Potency-2 (3)
Precision-1
Vigor-0
Will-1
Agility- 1

Inventory:
Metal Claws  [L:2 H:3 D:2  Dam:3-7]
Fur Armor [E:3 R:1]
Butchery Dagger [L:1 H:3 Dam: 1-5]
Power Armlet [+1 Potency]

Soul:
Hexagram 34: Awesome Power
Upper Trigram: Thunder (Wood)
Lower Trigram: Heaven (Metal)

Modifiers 
+3 Damage
+1 To hit
+2 Resistance
+4 EVA

Abilities
Savage Flurry (From Claws): Cooldown 15, Frames 5. Make 5 consecutive light attacks.
Wrath of Heaven: Cooldown 3, Frames as Light attack. Make two light attacks, use the better of the two. Attack is typed as Metal.

Spoiler: Shor (click to show/hide)

Name: Shorn
HP: 20
Archetype: Writhing Wall
Assets:
Union of the Old Flesh: Every 3 points of damage gains a charged that can be applied to increase a stat by 1 for a round.
Agonies:
Unstable Form: Abilities have a 25% chance to fizzle and go on cooldown when used.

Inventory:
Writhing Gothic Plate [R:5 -Acc:2 -E:2]
Tower Shield of Eyes [D:4 H:1 Dam: 0-2]
Starmetal Sword [L:2 H:4 Dam: 5-12]
Amulet of Unspeakable Whispers [Grants ability: Insidious Doubt]

Statistics
Potency: 0
Precision: 0
Vigor: 0
Will: 5
Agility: 0

Soul:
Hexagram 8: Bonding
Upper Trigram: Water
Lower Trigram: Earth

Modifiers
Resistance: 10
1d2 Evasion
-2 to Hit

Abilities
Unspeakable Revelation: Cooldown 10, Frames 5. Swap resistance and Potency and make a single heavy attack.
Death Stare: Cooldown 3, Frames 1. Block action. Throw an attack roll on a successful block with the shield of eyes, if the target is struck their Will is reduced by the damage dealt. Reducing a target below 0 Will with this ability deals 1 point of damage.
Insidious Doubt Once per Encounter, Frames -. Curse a single target. That target gains a cumulative 5% chance to be staggered whenever they fail to hit you. Staggering an opponent in this manner resets the counter, as does a successful strike on their part. After three staggers, or if you stagger, the effect breaks.

[Criptfeind]

1: Light attack closest bandit
2: Light attack closest bandit
3: Light attack Cool down
4: Move North
5: Light attack Cool down.

Miles blazed away with his pistols, their sharp retort blasting though the air as bullets whiz though the air towards the knifey bandits.

[OceanSoul]

1:Defensive Roll 1-2
2:Rollin'..
3:Light Attack closest bandit
4:Move west
5:Cooldown.

[IronyOwl]

1. Heavy Attack North Bandit
2. Heavy Cooldown
3. Heavy Cooldown
4. Defend Active Block (Light)
5. Heavy Cooldown

[OceanSoul]

1. Heavy Attack North Bandit
2. Heavy Cooldown
3. Heavy Cooldown
4. Defend
5. Heavy Cooldown

Irony, maybe you should use an active light block instead.

[Criptfeind]

There's too many enemies to really make that decision I think, not to mention we don't know their melee pattern. Also his defense is so high that defending makes him immune to damage anyway so not really much issue eh?

[IronyOwl]

Actually, there's a good question: What happens if you get a free counter against an enemy you can't reach? Nothing?

I think I will switch to a light active block, if only to see how it plays out.