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Merlin: /* Incantation Magic */

2020-01-25T13:26:34Z

Incantation Magic

Merlin: /* Evolutionary Magick */

2019-10-01T17:22:34Z

Evolutionary Magick

Isene: /* Incantation Magic */

2019-10-01T16:44:34Z

Incantation Magic

Isene: /* New combat system */

2019-10-01T16:44:19Z

New combat system

Isene at 16:43, 1 October 2019

2019-10-01T16:43:46Z

Isene at 16:43, 1 October 2019

2019-10-01T16:43:17Z

Isene: /* New combat system */

2019-10-01T16:41:05Z

New combat system

Isene: /* New combat system */

2019-08-22T08:18:23Z

New combat system

Isene: /* New combat system */

2019-08-20T11:28:03Z

New combat system

Isene at 19:22, 18 August 2019

2019-08-18T19:22:54Z

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 == Incantation Magic ==
-'''After play testing the new magic system for two months, we have reached a conclusion: It is a great improvement. It makes magic more personalized, more epic and quirky in a good way. Magic becomes less "tinned" or "canned" and more evolutionary. It's a new level of magic system in an RPG. We will swap the legacy Amar magic system with the Incantation system.'''
+'''After playtesting the new magic system for two months, we have reached a conclusion: It is a great improvement. It makes magic more personalized, more epic and quirky in a good way. Magic becomes less "tinned" or "canned" and more evolutionary. It's a new level of magic system in an RPG. We will swap the legacy Amar magic system with the Incantation system.'''
 The '''[[Incantation Magic]]''' system is an alternative to the standard magick system and allows magic casters to have an arsenal of spells unique to the caster only.

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 == Evolutionary Magick ==
 The '''[[Evolutionary Magick]]''' is a new, simplified magic system that changes the way spells are learnt, and their effect as they level up.
 While making the system simpler, it also allows magic casters to easier get a larger variety of spells to use from.
 Currently the evolutionary magic system is being worked on, and is not finished.

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 == Incantation Magic ==
-'''After play testing the new magic systems, we have reached a conclusion: It is a great improvement. It makes magic more personalized, more epic and quirky in a good way. Magic becomes less "tinned" or "canned" and more evolutionary. It's a new level of magic system in an RPG. We will swap the legacy Amar magic system with the Incantation system.'''
+'''After play testing the new magic system for two months, we have reached a conclusion: It is a great improvement. It makes magic more personalized, more epic and quirky in a good way. Magic becomes less "tinned" or "canned" and more evolutionary. It's a new level of magic system in an RPG. We will swap the legacy Amar magic system with the Incantation system.'''
 The '''[[Incantation Magic]]''' system is an alternative to the standard magick system and allows magic casters to have an arsenal of spells unique to the caster only.

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 == New combat system ==
-'''After play testing the new combat, we have reached a conclusion. The proposed combat system is more realistic and in several ways better than the original Amar combat system. But it is too slow. It would work better for use in board games or gladiator type games which is more combat-centric and requires detailed and realistic combat play. For role-playing, it moves the attention more to detailing combat and away from the story building and epic scenes.'''
+'''After play testing the new combat system for two months, we have reached a conclusion. The proposed combat system is more realistic and in several ways better than the original Amar combat system. But it is too slow. It would work better for use in board games or gladiator type games which is more combat-centric and requires detailed and realistic combat play. For role-playing, it moves the attention more to detailing combat and away from the story building and epic scenes.'''
 A combat round is 2 seconds. A character will defend during the round and may find an opening to attack an opponent. There are many small jabs, pushes and parries during a round, but normally only a chance of launching a real attack. The difficulty rating for finding an opening to attack is 5. A character can look more agressively for an opening and reduce the DR for an opening by 1 per 2 lower combat skill. A character can decide to be more careful and gain 2 in combat skill per 1 higher in DR for finding an opening (with a maximum DR of 7 and 4 in increased skill). The increase or decrease in combat skills affect both attack and defense values.

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 This page has listed different experimental game systems that can be used in the Amar Role Playing Game.
 Note that these game variants are experimental, and therefore, the systems might seem unbalanced, or doesn't cover every part of the original system.
 == New combat system ==
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 Adjustments are cummulative.
 == Evolutionary Magick ==

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	== Incantation Magic ==		== Incantation Magic ==
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		+	'''After play testing the new magic systems, we have reached a conclusion: It is a great improvement. It makes magic more personalized, more epic and quirky in a good way. Magic becomes less "tinned" or "canned" and more evolutionary. It's a new level of magic system in an RPG. We will swap the legacy Amar magic system with the Incantation system.'''
		+
	The '''[[Incantation Magic]]''' system is an alternative to the standard magick system and allows magic casters to have an arsenal of spells unique to the caster only.		The '''[[Incantation Magic]]''' system is an alternative to the standard magick system and allows magic casters to have an arsenal of spells unique to the caster only.

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	== New combat system ==		== New combat system ==
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		+	'''After play testing the new combat, we have reached a conclusion. The proposed combat system is more realistic and in several ways better than the original Amar combat system. But it is too slow. It would work better for use in board games or gladiator type games which is more combat-centric and requires detailed and realistic combat play. For role-playing, it moves the attention more to detailing combat and away from the story building and epic scenes.'''

	A combat round is 2 seconds. A character will defend during the round and may find an opening to attack an opponent. There are many small jabs, pushes and parries during a round, but normally only a chance of launching a real attack. The difficulty rating for finding an opening to attack is 5. A character can look more agressively for an opening and reduce the DR for an opening by 1 per 2 lower combat skill. A character can decide to be more careful and gain 2 in combat skill per 1 higher in DR for finding an opening (with a maximum DR of 7 and 4 in increased skill). The increase or decrease in combat skills affect both attack and defense values.		A combat round is 2 seconds. A character will defend during the round and may find an opening to attack an opponent. There are many small jabs, pushes and parries during a round, but normally only a chance of launching a real attack. The difficulty rating for finding an opening to attack is 5. A character can look more agressively for an opening and reduce the DR for an opening by 1 per 2 lower combat skill. A character can decide to be more careful and gain 2 in combat skill per 1 higher in DR for finding an opening (with a maximum DR of 7 and 4 in increased skill). The increase or decrease in combat skills affect both attack and defense values.

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 |''Off''    || ''Def''	    || ''Move''	|| ''Condition''
 |-
 |    0	    ||	    -2	    ||	x 1	    || Unable to move backwards
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 |   -3	    ||	    -3	    ||	x 1	    || Fighting restricted to less than half the weapon's required radius
 |-
 |   -3	    ||	    -3	    ||	x 1/10	|| Down on knee
 |-
 |   -5	    ||	    -5	    ||	x 1/10	|| Down on ground
 |-
 |   +1	    ||	     0	    ||	x 1	    || Fighting from higher ground (like in a stair)
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 |   -4	    ||	    -4	    ||	x 1/2	|| Quarter Action (down to 1/4 Body Points)
 |-
-|    0	    ||	    -5	    ||	x 1	    || Partially unaware
+|    X	    ||	    -5	    ||	x 1	    || Partially unaware
 |-
 |   -3	    ||	    -3	    ||  x 1/2	|| Stunned
 |-
-|   X	    ||	    -10	    ||	x 1	    || Unaware
+|    X     ||	    -10	    ||	x 1	    || Unaware
 |-
-|   X	    ||	    (-5)    ||	x 1	    || Immobilized (defense is -5 regardless of skills)
+|    X     ||	    (-5)    ||	x 1	    || Immobilized (defense is -5 regardless of skills)
 |-
 |colspan="4" style="background-color: #a5c9af;" | ''Lighting''

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 If two opponents get to attack in the same round, they roll for initiative to see who attacks first.
 All weapons have takes one round to draw. Drawing an arrow depends on the bow and the strength of the character. A bow with a strength requirement 3 lower than the character's strength will have a draw time of one round. A bow with a strength requirement higher than a character's Strength - 3 has a draw time of two rounds. A light crossbow has a draw time of 12 rounds while a medium crossbow has 18 rounds and the heavy crossbow has 24 rounds.
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 |   -2	    ||	    -2	    ||	x 1	    || Fighting agressively gives -1 in DR for finding an opening for attacking
 |-
-|   -1	    ||	    +0	    ||	x 1	    || Subtract one from initiative
+|    0 	    ||	    -3	    ||	x 1	    || Per extra defense during a combat round (defender decides which opponent get which penalty)
 |-
-|   -1	    ||	    +0	    ||	x 1	    || Remove one Hit Location that you can hit
+|   -1	    ||	     0	    ||	x 1	    || Subtracting one from initiative
 |-
-|   +0	    ||	    -1	    ||	x 1	    || Remove one Hit Location where you can be hit
+|   -1	    ||	     0	    ||	x 1	    || Removing one Hit Location that you can hit
 |-
-|   -1	    ||	    -1	    ||	x 1	    || Fighting restricted to less than the weapon's required radius
+|    0	    ||	    -1	    ||	x 1	    || Removing one Hit Location where you can be hit
 |-
 |colspan="4" style="background-color: #a5c9af;" | ''Motion penalties''
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 |   -3	    ||	    -3	    ||	x 1	    || Move
 |-
-|   X	    ||	    -6	    ||	x 1	    || Disengage
+|    X      ||	    -6	    ||	x 1	    || Disengage
 |-
 |colspan="4" style="background-color: #a5c9af;" | ''Position penalties''
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 |''Off''    || ''Def''	    || ''Move''	|| ''Condition''
 |-
-|   +0	    ||	    -1	    ||	x 1	    || Defending against opponent to the left or right
+|    0	    ||	    -1	    ||	x 1	    || Defending against opponent to the left or right
 |-
-|   +0	    ||	    -4	    ||	x 1	    || Defending against opponent from behind left or right
+|    0	    ||	    -4	    ||	x 1	    || Defending against opponent from behind left or right
 |-
-|   +0	    ||	    -7	    ||	x 1	    || Defending against opponent directly from behind
+|    0	    ||	    -7	    ||	x 1	    || Defending against opponent directly from behind
 |-
-|   +0	    ||	    -2	    ||	x 1	    || Unable to move backwards
+|    0	    ||	    -2	    ||	x 1	    || Unable to move backwards
 |-
 |   -3	    ||	    -3	    ||	x 1/10	|| Down on knee
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 |   -5	    ||	    -5	    ||	x 1/10	|| Down on ground
 |-
-|   +1	    ||	    +0	    ||	x 1	    || Fighting from higher ground (like in a stair)
+|   +1	    ||	     0	    ||	x 1	    || Fighting from higher ground (like in a stair)
 |-
 |   -2	    ||	    -2	    ||	x 3/4	|| Slippery ground
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 |   -4	    ||	    -4	    ||	x 1/2	|| Quarter Action (down to 1/4 Body Points)
 |-
-|   +0	    ||	    -5	    ||	x 1	    || Partially unaware
+|    0	    ||	    -5	    ||	x 1	    || Partially unaware
 |-
 |   -3	    ||	    -3	    ||  x 1/2	|| Stunned
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 |''Off''    || ''Def''	    || ''Move''	|| ''Condition''
 |-
-|   0	    ||	    +1	    ||  x 1	    || Per full 5 in Dodge skill
+|    0      ||	    +1	    ||  x 1	    || Per full 5 in Dodge skill
 |-
 |   +1	    ||	    +1	    ||  x 1	    || Per full 5 in Unarmed skill
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 Adjustments are cummulative.
 == Incantation Magic ==