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== Basics ==
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Dungeonslayers is a simple Pen-and-Paper Roll-play-game like Dungeons and Dragons
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that is designed to have "simple" rules and thus be easily playable by beginners.
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A simple overview can be found here:
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http://www.dungeonslayers.net/regeln/
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A more detailed quick-start-guide can be found here:
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http://dungeonslayers.net/download/DS4FirstSlay.pdf
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The complete rules can be downloaded here:
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http://dungeonslayers.net/download/Dungeonslayers4.pdf
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(all links currently only in german)
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JSDSH is designed to be a helper for the gamemaster, some kind of "referee" and the player of all characters
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that happen to appear during adventures. This means that JSDSH does not intend to be a fully playable RPG,
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and doesn't implement every feature (although the list of wished features is quite long), and thus the
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gamemaster still has to keep track of a lot of "things", like the order that characters or
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non-player-characters act during fights.
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== Tests and Attributes ==
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"Tests" are the most crucial element in Dungeonslayers. Every action that is not trivial,
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like sneaking into a room, needs a test to find out whether a character manages to to it.
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In Dungeonslayers, all tests are evaluated using a D20 (a 20-sided Dice), against some testing
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value. This value is specified by attributes, properties and other measures a character holds,
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which ones depending on the action tried to accomplish.
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The Attributes should be self-explaining:
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- Body
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- Agility
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- Spirit
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Additional to this, there are so called properties:
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- Strength
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- Hardness (how much does a character bear?)
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- Movement (how well can a char. control his body?)
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- Skill (for everything that requires finesse)
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- Mind (knowledge and ability to solve puzzles)
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- Aura (everything magical)
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There are some values derived from those by formulas:
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- life
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- defense
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- initiative (sets the order for actions)
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- walk (distance a character may walk during one round)
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- melee (short-distance attack value)
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- shoot (long distance)
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- chant (spells that just have an effect)
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- shoot_chant (for spells like fireballs that need to be aimed)
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Other modifiers include:
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- fixed spell bonuses
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- armor and weapon bonuses
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- magical bonus (temporary or persistent)
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- …
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For example, sneaking might be tested against (agility + movement).
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A simple test (test value < 20) is succesfull, if the player rolls a number smaller than the test value.
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Often, the thrown value is used for effects of the test, like damage or lifepoints healed.
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A value of 1 is a so called ever-success and leads to the test being succesful with the highest value possible
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for a succesfull test (i.e. if the tested value is 12, and the player throws a 1, he is succesful with a result
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of 12).
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if the test-value gets larger than 20, the tests are rolled for blocks of twenty each, where only the first one
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may lead to a failure of the test. /* This behaviour is not yet implemented */
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(Example: a character has an attack-value of 46 (20+20+6). Thus, he may throw the dice 3 times:
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- the first one may lead to a failure of the test ONLY BY A 20, a 1 leads to a result of 46.
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- the second simply gets added.
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- the third value gets added only if its smaller than 6.)
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JSDSH currently only supports simple tests, and no ever-success. Some values may be modified by clicking onto a
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character, the menu shows on the right.
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== Attacks ==
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If a (non-player-)character C1 decides to attack another character C2, the follwing happens:
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C1 does a test for attacks, corresponding to the weapon he chooses (sword => melee, bow => shoot, …)
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The test-result (if succesfull) is the attack value
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If the attack is defendible, C2 tests for defense, if succesfull, the attack value gets reduced by the result.
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If this is larger than 0, the life-points of C2 get reduced by this value.
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Otherwise, the life-points get reduced by the attack value.
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The value for a shoot might be modified by obstacles or other characters in the shoot range, usually the needed
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value gets lowered by 2 per obstacle
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Modifiers in JSDSH ar accessable by clicking on a character. They appear on the right of the game-field.
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By right-clicking on another character, the currently selected character attacks it with the type of attack
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selected.
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== Walking ==
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A character may only walk his value in "walking" during one round, and attack once. This may happen in any
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order, but not splitted.
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JSDSH only shows the distance to the startpoint in direct line. Note, that the startpoint gets reseted every
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time a new player is selected.
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