• Each character has their own dice values for "Hits", "Dodges", and "Luck".
• Modifers (see next tab) from size, age, and trade levels can impact these values.
• Fights are considered official as soon as fight stats are posted (Round, Challenge Type, etc), even if no fighting has started and must follow the fight Rules (see tab).
• The dice are strictly an OOC tool used to determine the winner of the fight. They do not have any impact on how your post is written.



Please see our supplementary guide on writing fight posts here, and take a look at an example fight here.

You may have fights with pre-planned outcomes that do not use the dice system, but Staff will not intervene in these scenarios and it will impact what trade experience, petals, and awards can be claimed.

• Always try and remember to tag your fight partner!
• The different challenge types and associated rounds can be found in Fight Types.
• There are three separate rolls with 20-sided dice per post, per round of the fight. One each for Hits, Dodges, and Luck.
• Hits: How many hits your character lands. 11 and higher is successful.
• Dodges: How many attacks your character dodges. 11 and higher is successful.
• Luck: If you roll a 15 and higher, you receive an extra hit.

• Dice will not be updated mid-fight. Please ensure your dice are correct before you enter into a fight.
• This means pending dice updates or updates requested after a fight has started cannot be used for fight rolls.
• A character's IC timeline should be used as a guide for applying wounded rolls and other dice penalties. You can read more about Wounded Rolls here.

At the end of the fight, post in Fight Updates and Staff will tally the results and announce the winner.

• Fights are tallied by subtracting your dodges from your opponent's hits and vice-versa!


EXAMPLE




Bob:


Round 1
Hits: 10 4 11 15
Dodges: 3 12
Luck: 6 2 7 11 5

Round 2
Hits: 19 13 14 3
Dodges: 4 7
Luck: 16 8 1 12 9

Round 3
Hits: 7 10 16 6
Dodges: 12 20
Luck: 14 18 5 3 11




Bob's Total: Hits: 6, Dodges: 3, Luck: 2

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Sally:


Round 1
Hits: 12 9
Dodges: 3 11 16
Luck: 11 10 1 4 6

Round 2
Hits: 19 10
Dodges: 10 12 14
Luck: 9 5 14 13 2

Round 3
Hits: 15 2
Dodges: 13 10 3
Luck: 4 16 3 9 8




Sally's Total: Hits: 3, Dodges: 5, Luck: 1

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Bob's successful hits would be (6 Hits + 2 Luck - 5 Dodges from Sally) = 3

Sally's successful hits would be (3 Hits + 1 Luck - 3 Dodges from Bob) = 1

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Since Bob has more successful hits, he wins the fight!



• To be official, the Staff-tallied results must be posted to the thread.
• For any fights that do not incur a wounded roll (spars, dominance, claims/thefts, rank challenges), you are free continue the thread before the results are posted, if you wish.
• However, no petals or trade experience can be collected and usergroups cannot be changed until the official results have been posted and your character has exited.
• Any fights that incur a wounded roll (pride/band challenges, maims, and death matches) must wait for the official results before the thread can continue.
• Other characters are free to post but they cannot acknowledge the results until either both challengers have posted or 3 OOC days have passed.
• Death Matches have a few more limitations, so please be sure to read them carefully.

The purpose of the Fight Club is to help Sr. Staff with tallying fights and reducing limbo.

If you need help with general questions about the fight system, please reach out directly to Staff via the fight Ticket System in Discord.

• Hits: 5d20
• Dodges: 5d20
• Luck: 5d20

These amounts can change depending on your character’s age, size, any trade modifiers they might have, and whether or not they're a creature (see below for creature dice and modifiers).

• If your character levels up their trade or ages up, you can request an update to their dice in Trade & Dice Updates.



It is your responsibility to keep your character's dice up-to-date.



• You can see what modifiers your character should have in their profile under the "Stats" tab.



Dice Modifiers

The base dice for all characters are 5 hits, 5 dodges, and 5 luck. The modifiers, below, are personalized to show how a character's dice are impacted by their size, age, and trades. These modifiers reflect the character's official dice and do not include wounded rolls.

Age Modifiers: -1, -1 (11-13 years)

Size Modifiers: +1, -1 (Large)

Master Modifiers:+1 Dodge (Paladin Level 1), +1 Dodge (Paladin Level 4)

Sub-Master Modifiers: +1 Hit (Ranger Level 1)

Age and Size

The numbers you see will either be subtracted from or added to the base dice up above.

• Larger characters are slow but heavy hitters, whereas smaller characters carry more speed but less power.
• Younger characters need to grow into their experience and elder characters' strength wanes as they age.

Age	Hit	Dodge
1 – 4 months	-5	-5
5 – 11 months	-3	-3
1 – 2 years	-2	-2
2 – 4 years	-1	-1
5 – 10 years	0	0
11 – 13 years	-1	-1
14 years to death	-2	-2




Size	Hit	Dodge
Colossal	+2	-2
Large	+1	-1
Medium	0	0
Small	-1	+1
X-Small & Dwarfism	-2	+2

Creatures

• The numbers you see will either be subtracted from or added to the base dice at the top of this page.
• The creatures listed are just where they might commonly fall. Your creature's actual dice are based solely on their weight.
• eg. If you have a 101lb wolf, they will lose only 2 from each of their hit and dodge dice, instead of 3.

Weight Class (lb)	Hit	Dodge	Common Creatures
0 - 99	-3	-3	Most birds, Wolves
100 - 299	-2	-2	Leopards, Cheetahs, Hyenas
300 - 550	-1	-1	Bengal & Siberian Tigers
551 - 1000	0	0	Zebras, Bongos
1001+	+1	+1	Rhinos & Elephants




Age	Hit	Dodge
Under 1 year	-2	-2
1 - 2 years	-1	-1
2 years and up	0	0




Trades

Leveling up your character’s trades will help give them advantages in fights. Like the size and age modifiers explained above, these perks will increase the number of dice in their fights rolls.



Dice Reductions

There are a few additional ways dice may be reduced, both officially and unofficially.
• If your character receives a wounded roll, their hit and dodge dice will be temporarily reduced. You can read more about wounded rolls here.
• Resurrected characters receive a permanent deduction to their hit and dodge dice. You can read more about resurrection here.
• Members can unofficially reduce their character's dice in fights and hunts, at their discretion, to account for any physical hindrances and disabilities.
• This will not be reflected in the official dice that are found in a character’s profile.
• You may only reduce dice, not add additional dice.

NOT MEETING THE WORD COUNT: All fight posts must meet the 100 word count minimum. There are no exceptions to this.

RUNNING OUT THE TIMER: Not posting within the allotted fight timer window (72 hours) will result in a default. If both parties agree to waive the timer, that is permitted except for in the case of pride challenges.

• In the case of multi-lion fights and fights that affect another character, ALL parties—including the character being stolen, claimed, etc—must agree to waive the timer, otherwise, the time limits must be adhered to.

DICE EDITING: No changes to the dice are allowed to be made after they have rolled. Changing the dice in any way will result in a default. If you make a mistake with the coding (or forget it entirely) and the dice do not roll, you may edit to fix that issue but you can not change the dice in any other way.

NOT TAKING DAMAGE Damage is required to be taken in all fight posts, but realistic counters are permitted.

POWERPLAY OR GODMODDING While it is a dice-controlled system and the dice will determine the winner, we expect all members to be considerate and put some effort into making well-rounded fight posts. You still must use attempt words (try, attempt, aim, etc.) for every attack and re-position your character makes. You also need to allow your opponent to ultimately choose the location and severity of the damage they receive.

• Major PP/GM: Only egregious PM/GM will be reviewed by the Fight Club. This does not include small or moderate examples of over-movement, confusion about lefts and rights, or uncertainties about positioning or attacks, and so forth. Extreme instances include god-like behaviour, extreme lack of realism, controlling someone else's character, etc. In these circumstances, the fight will instantly default and the PP/GMing character will lose.
• You are expected to either (A) discuss and work it out with your roleplay partner, (B) work with the information you're given the best that you can to formulate a reply, or (C) ask the Fight Club for help in responding.
• As long as you are doing your best and not exploiting the system, there should be little stress in regards to worrying about a full default. Focus on doing the post, meeting the minimum requirements, and letting the dice do the work.
• If someone makes a post that seems confusing or you’re unsure how to respond, please reach out to them for clarification. If you need additional help, you can reach out to the Fight Club for guidance on how to respond.

The Fight Club and Sr. Staff team have the final say on any disqualifications or suspected instances of powerplaying or godmodding. Each situation is assessed on a case-by-case basis.

Basic Guidelines:

As will be explained on this page, characters can continue fighting in a thread until they:

• Lose a fight, or
• Have the sum of their hit and dodge dice reduced to less than 4.

Reducing Dice as Per the Fatigue System:

• Hit and dodge are reduced by a sum of 2 for every subsequent fight in the same thread that reaches at least round 2. See below for examples on what this looks like.
• If either your character’s hit or dodge are reduced to 0 but they are still above the 4 dice threshold (ie their hit is 0, but their dodge is 6), you still need to reduce their remaining dice for a sum of 2 for each subsequent fight.
• In that example, their next fight would use 0d20 for hits and 4d20 for dodges.
• Luck dice are excluded from the fatigue system and do not reduce.

• If a fight defaults, is escaped from, or is forfeited before round 2, fatigue dice will not apply to either party. Please see more about forfeiting below.
• However, in the case of a default, it will be considered a loss and they will be unable to engage in any other fights.

Staff cannot always monitor these types of threads and situations. If you see someone breaking the fight rules and you are a part of the fight, please bring it to Sr. Staff immediately.

If your character wins in a pride challenge, maim, or death match, they can only be in another fight if they are the ones who initiate it. In other words, winning one of these types of fights means that they cannot be attacked again in that thread, and that it is your choice to have them fight more or not.

• This does NOT apply in the context of a raid or war. In raids and wars, this stipulation is reduced to only cover death matches, meaning that maims and pride challenges are free-game and do not come with additional protection. You can read more about wars here.

• If, at any time, the sum of your character’s hit + dodge dice reach less than 4, regardless of how many fights they have been in during the thread, they will be considered 'out' and cannot engage in any more official fights.
• If this happens to your character, you may play out the results as you wish, so long as they do not engage in more official fights. They can pass out, run away, hang on the outskirts of the thread, etc.

If your character loses a judged fight, they are barred from engaging in any more official fights within that thread.

• Once a character has lost a fight, they cannot attack or be attacked again in that thread through the use of the official fight system.
You may do a fight "unofficially" without the use of stats for IC-reasons, but you will not be able to earn fight-based trade exp, awards, petals, etc from the fight.

The only exception is for characters who have the associated Paladin or Barbarian trade perks.

If your character forfeits a fight, the round they forfeited in dictates whether or not it is considered a loss and if they can continue fighting within that thread.

• If your character forfeits/stands down from a fight before posting their round 2 stats:
• In a single character fight, the fight will be considered void and they will be able to fight/be challenged again in that thread.
• In a multi-character fight, they will drop from the fight and it will continue with the next in line. The dropped character can engage in another fight.
• They will NOT incur fatigue dice.
• If your character forfeits/stands down from a fight after posting their round 2 stats:
  • In a single character fight, the fight will be considered a loss and they will be unable to fight/be challenged again in that thread through use of the official fight system.
  • In a multi-lion fight, they will drop from the fight and it will continue with the next in line. It will be considered a loss for that character only and they will be unable to fight/be challenged again in that thread through use of the official fight system.
  • The Paladin or Barbarian trade perk can still be used in this scenario and fatigue dice MUST be used in the subsequent fight.

• To attempt to escape a fight, insert [roll=1d10] at the bottom of your post.
• If you are a Lvl 3 Sleuth, a Lvl 2 Pathfinder, or a Lvl 2 Erudite, insert [roll=2d10].

You need to roll an 8 or above to successfully escape.



• Lvl 3 Beatniks can auto-escape one non-wounding fight once per 2 OOC months and do not need to roll. You will need to post your cooldown after use here.
• Master and Sub-Master Assassins, Beatniks, and Sleuths with the chosen perk can auto-escape any fight (excluding Death Matches) once every 3 OOC months and do not need to roll. Again, you will need to post your cooldown after use.
• When making an escape attempt, you forfeit your hit and dodge rolls for that round. If you are rolling for an escape, do not roll hits or dodges.
• Be sure to take damage and realistically attempt to escape the fight.
• The character(s) attempting to stop the escape will continue posting their fight stats each round until either the escape is successful or the fight has completed (all rounds posted).
• The outcome of the fight is then up to the winner (e.g. if it's a maim, they may follow through with the maim).
• After posting, the dice will dictate whether or not you have escaped, and your opponent will reply accordingly.
• If you fail to escape with the first attempt, you may attempt two more times per thread, for a total of 3 escape attempts per thread.
• This applies to all fights EXCEPT Death Matches. You can read more about those here.
• A successful escape can also mean an exit from the thread, but keep in mind, if your character does escape, others may track them down and attempt to challenge them again in subsequent threads. It does not guarantee safety.

Attempting to escape a fight will also nullify your character’s ability to hide within a thread, including the use of any hiding trade perks.

• Example: If your character is hidden in a thread and there is a subsequent theft challenge for them, attempting to escape the fight will void their hidden status.

Characters can try to spy or hide in public threads, but it's not a guaranteed success. In other words, without specific trade perks, they always have a chance to be found by others in the thread.

Hiding: The only time you are guaranteed to remain hidden is if your character is a Lvl 5 Sleuth or if another character has attempted to find you, and failed.

Lvl 3 Assassins and Pathfinders have a 50% guarantee of remaining hidden in any given non-Private thread. To do this:
• Start by posting in the thread that you want to hide in, and insert the appropriate roll at the bottom of your post.
• Assassins will post [roll=assassinhide].
• Pathfinders will post [roll=lvl3pathfinder].
• If successful, you cannot be discovered by others in the thread.
• If unsuccessful, you can be discovered by others if you choose to remain in the thread and keep hiding.

The foil to all the above is a Master Assassin who has a 50% chance of finding a successfully hidden character. You can see more about their roll here.

Being Discovered: Characters who are trying to locate someone in hiding need to make a post trying to find the hidden character and insert [roll=1d10] at the bottom of their post.

• Master Rangers with the chosen perk will insert [roll=2d10] at the bottom of their post.

ROLLING A 1-5:
The other character is successfully hidden in the thread and cannot be discovered by anyone except a Master Assassin.



• No other characters can attempt to find someone that has already been deemed successfully hidden by a dice roll.



ROLLING A 6 OR HIGHER:
Your character has successfully found the hidden character, and can react accordingly in their next post.



• If your character is a Lvl 2 Sleuth, they have another chance at remaining hidden.
• In their next post, include the appropriate dice roll found here. If successful, they cannot be discovered. If failed, they will be considered discovered.
• If your character was hidden and got discovered, you can attempt to escape the thread using the escape dice, explained above, or you can choose to face the other character.