Fight Club. Beneath [url=http://www.roleplayerguild.com/topics/86431-tnt-the-nameless-tavern/ooc]The Nameless Tavern[/Url] lies a hidden cellar, no... arena. It's a place where you can truly come alive, where a moment can be captured and embraced, worries and stress are beaten away and freedom is almost a real thing. The smell of sweat, testosterone and dried blood hangs in the air, the floor is littered with scuff marks and stains from previous fights not so long ago. The residual excitement and energy clings to the walls as the cheers and roar of the crowd can almost still be heard echoing around. This, this is a good place. Many conflicts resolved and comraderies formed upon the hard wooden floors. So step on in and change your life. [hider=Combat scaling system] 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. D C B A S Letters = combat skill D- Never fought before and don't like to. C- Had a few scraps but no training B- A practiced fighter A- Ninja level, (you could be batman) S- Live breath think nothing but fighting, complete discipline and control. Numbers = Physical ability (str/speed/endurance) 1. School kid or unhealthy adult 2. Healthy adult 3. Trained athlete, 4. Absolute peak of physical fitness leaning towards supernatural advantage. 5. God damn superman Because physical attributes aren't always balanced in a character you might find yourself a (5) on Str, a (3) on End and (1) on Dex. So you have a character that is incredibly strong, can take a hit like a boxer but is as slow as a cripple. (Probably due to those raging steroid induced muscles) simply add the numbers together 5,3,1= 9 and dived by 3 for your ending total. So due to his weaknesses he balanced out to a 3. [hider=rounding] Score 1 Str, End, Dex Total = 3, 4 Score 2 Str, End, Dex Total = 5, 6, Score 3 Str, End, Dex Total = 7, 8, 9, Score 4 Str, End, Dex Total = 10, 11, 12, Score 5 Str, End, Dex Total = 13, 14, 15 [/hider] Due to his aggression he has defiantly been In fights before but with all that str he has had little use for training so I rated him an overall C3. His opponent is a young woman (2) str, (1) end and (3) dex = a 2 on physicality but has had ninja like training so will be sitting on an A, We now have an A2 vs a C3. A pretty even match that would swing slightly in the females favour. (A being two points above C and the 3 only one above 2. You might think the big guy with his endurance and str would eventually land that crippling strike but a Ninja level of training against a slow novice is in paradise to deliver throat strikes, blinding strikes, burst eardrums, joint manipulation and generally keep them unbalanced. But now it's all up to the RP'ers as nothing below a 3 point margin should guarantee success. Magic in battles Keeping your combat ability separate from your magic, do the same again except physicality now represents the Str or potential of your ability, how hard it is to resist. End how much you have or how long you can use/hold it. Dex the speed in which you can use it or the time it takes to take effect. Training D to S represents your knowledge and diversity in your unnatural ability or power. Ie; a hulk like character with an D will change when attacked or angry and attack straight on. Where a A or S might be able to not only control the change but slam the ground so it collapses under his opponent or do that sonic clap thing. Now the A2 ninja female has a magic ability of B1 as she has just started dabbling in occult research. Mr muscles the C3 brute has a wild ability of D3 level. Uncontrolled but fairly powerful. [/hider] [hider=Rules] "Welcome to Fight Club. The first rule of Fight Club is: you can talk about Fight Club. The second rule of Fight Club is: you MUST talk about Fight Club! Third rule of Fight Club: someone yells "stop!", goes limp, taps out, the fight is over. Fourth rule: only two guys to a fight. Fifth rule: one fight at a time, fellas. Sixth rule: No shirts, no shoes. Seventh rule: fights will go on as long as they have to. And the eighth and final rule: if this is your first time at Fight Club, you have to fight! [hider=and the real RP rules are] Pending but curtesy is important.[/hider] [/hider] [hider=quotes to use] "Listen up, maggots! You are not special. You are not a beautiful or unique snowflake. You're the same decaying organic matter as everything else. On a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero. So fuck off with your egotistic bardic melodies and ink dyed threads, I say never be complete, I say stop being perfect, I say let... lets evolve, let the chips fall where they may. It's only after we've completely lost everything that we're truly free to do anything. This is your life and it's ending one minute at a time. Fuck damnation, man! Fuck redemption! We are God's unwanted children? So be it! First you have to give up, first you have to *know*... not fear... *know*... that someday you're gonna die. [/hider] So basically this will be a fight club thread for characters that want to scuff it out. Still a bit to sort but this is my starter and interest checker. Ideas welcome!