Journey to the West Rules

[Nagatsu]

Basics of Combat:

In Combat there are four types:

[glow=red,2,300]Long-Range:[/glow] A weapon is fired or thrown at a distant target. An opponent may only defend against this kind of attack and may only attack back if they are currently using a Long-Range Weapon.

[glow=red,2,300]Medium-Range:[/glow] This weapon is a usually Long Spear or Staff that is is thrust at an opponent from a short distance away. Units that can only conduct Close Quarter combat only does half the damage they would normally do.

[glow=red,2,300]Close Quarter:[/glow] This is an in your face type of combat where combatant are toe to toe with the target. All character may attack at this range with their base strength or close quarter weapon.

[glow=red,2,300]Magical/Jutsu:[/glow] A mystical attack that can only be be defended against if the target has a high speed that the caster.

How you do damage

All damage in JTW considers the following:

Physical: Whenever a charact attacks their strength and any weapon they are using are added together then the defender character's endurance is deduced from this total. If the Endurance is high than the attacker's strength the attack only does 1 damage. ( This applies to Hand to Hand combat or not fired or thrown weapons ) When an attack is waged the character with the highest speed attacks first also if a character speed is half the speed of the other character damage is halved. If this speed is three times greater than the other character the attack is considered failed and a random error of judgement occurs ( basically a goof up like falling over or injuring self or another character than intend target )

Magical Attacks are based on the Seven elements ( Earth, Fire, Wind, Lightning, Water, Holy, Darkness and Metal ) Each magical spell is weak against another or strong versus. When attack is strong against another element attack its damage is doubled or when weaker it is cut in half. Also when a spell or jutsu is cast and a supportiing Element is also casted at the same time both attacks are doubled and weaknesses are not applied and they deal normal damage.

Earth:
Weak against Wind and Holy but strong against Water and Fire
Supported by: Metal and Darkness

Fire:
Weak against Water and Earth but strong against Metal and Darkness
Supported by: Light and Wind

Water:
Weak against Earth and Lightning but strong against Metal and Fire
Supported by: Darkness and Wind

Wind:
Weak against Fire and Darkness but strong against Earth and Water
Supported by: Light and Metal

Darkness:
Weak against Holy and Lightning but strong against Wind and Water
Supported by: Earth and Metal

Holy:
Weak against Darkness and Earth strong against Metal and Water
Suppoted by: Fire and Lightning

If two casters are attacking one another with supporting elements the attacks are both negated.

Ailments on the battle field:

Poisened: During every post this charcter loses 1 Hp

Paralyzed: This character actions in combat are cut in half.

Viral Infected: This character is pained wracked and every two posts loses 2 Hp and 1 MP and actions in combat are reduced to 1/3.

Blind: This charcter speed's is cut in half and cannot choose the action of defend.

Berserk: This character strength is doubled and all damage done to them is halved.

Silenced: this character cannot use abilities, spells or jutsu.

Petrified: This character cannot conducted any actions in battle and their endurance is tripled. Also speed is considered 0 when it comes to attacks connecting.

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Conducting Battle in JTW:

Each "pane" of every battle consist of a post done by every player in which they can make one of the five actions:

Attack
Cast Spell/Jutsu
Move/Run/Charge/Defend
Talk/Taunt
Use Item/Trade

Attack:
Basically this is self explanitory this action make the character in the position they are standing.

Cast Spell/Jutsu:
Cast a spell or jutsu

Move/Run/Charge/Defend:
This action control the movement of characters in their enviroment during a battle a must action if a close combat character. Also the Defend puts the character in defense for one action and blocks incoming attacks.

Talk/Taunt:
Basically talking...nuff said this can be conducted in the following fashions
Italics: Whispered talking
Bold: Order ( usually used by the GM character )
[glow=red,2,300]Glow[/glow]: This is used when covering story or illustrating a scene or battle sequence.
ALL IN CAPS: This is when a character is shouting aloud something
[shadow=red,left,300]Shadow[/shadow]: When damage is being calculated recorded later in the character's post when keeping ( must be constantly updated by the poster of that character )

Use Item/Trade
This action is used to exchange or use items in combat between characters. Also targets for item use must be next to each other in order to do this with another player.

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Pulling of a combination attack:

In order to use a combo attack you first need to have both characters in the same battle and both players must still be alive.

Both players must fulfill the requirements of fulfilling the attack (ex. L-Spiral Crush both player must be next to each other ) Also when conducting a combination attack they must also both decide to use the move ( watch other players that posted before you to pull off combo attack )

What if a Combination Attack is a spell or jutsu?

In this case all character involved in the spell or jutsu combination attack must declare after casting the proper spell ( mp is stil used ). This can be done like so

cast spell (Combination attack being conducted with x character where x is the character being combo with )

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[glow=red,2,300]When a Character dies in the Party[/glow]

When a Character is overcome by enemies and dies the following actions are now aviable

Pillage: Basically you search their corpse and take any items that your character is compatible with.

Bury: This action takes 5 actions to perform but basically gives a +5 to reputation ( more on this when the time comes )

Resurrect: This action can only happen in between battles and his a group decision ( In a form of a poll) If everyone is in favor the character comes back to life ( this act may only occurif a charcter can resurect another player.

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[glow=red,2,300]What is Reputation?[/glow]

Reputation is a status effect that mainly effect what happens whe you interact with NPC or the GM character's the higher the number the more likely the will be willing to help you. Also at certain parts of the game if you reputation is very low your will be attacked by boutry hunters.

[glow=red,2,300]How do I earned Reputation?[/glow]

There will be certain decisions or battles that if you choose a favorable outcome can decide what path the storyline will take ( there are over 20 different endings to this RPG ) The higher your Reputation the better the ending of the RPG.

[glow=red,2,300]I got a title what does it mean?[/glow]

It is a title given to your by the masses and when NPC talk to your they will use this instead of your name. Also these can be negative ( depending on your current reputation ) or postive ( as a pet name )