Shounen System Playtest: Introduction Arc

[OverWilliam]

Well considering Naruto characters' (and anime characters in general) ability to not remember being close to death so long as it's more than a few episodes ago, let's just say that I'm knocked unconscious and I'll wake up in a minute (after battle).

[Carinthium]

Oda focused his anger, eyeing the nearest enemy.

"You got the guts to take me one on one?"

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[AlterForm]

Oda focused his anger, eyeing the nearest enemy.

"You got the guts to take me one on one?"

(Challenge)

"You want it kid? Arright, come'n get it!"

Flashing his smile and the kunai from his pocket, the ninja focuses his attention upon Oda, to the exclusion of everything else on the battlefield.

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Ninja in S10 accepts Oda's challenge.

Updated Map

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Will: Does anyone have abilities that key off of tracking will? If you do I'll calc where everyone's at, but otherwise I don't see much point.

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[Collin152]

Darting away from the cloud of Chakra, Haruki rushes towards Oda to solicit his aid with the other shinobi.

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Move to R7.
Use Kunai on Ninja in R9.
Accuracy: (1d10+4)[9]
Evasion: (1d10+3)[6]

[Carinthium]

Oda has Determinator, giving him +2 will per turn instead of +1.

Challenge takes up Oda's turn, but he and his opponent gain +2 willpower (though they have to keep fighting each other only- if the challenge is "broken", whoever broke it loses 4 willpower plus the +2 from the challenge)

So, technically, I believe the enemy ninja gets to attack.

[AlterForm]

The enemies keep fighting...

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R9 moves to R8, and attacks Haruki. S10 attacks Oda. The cloud moves its center to P9, its pieces to Q7/O7/O8, attacking Haruki once and beefing itself up again.

Against Haruki
Attack - (1d10+3)[4] (250 physical)
Evade - (1d10+5)[15]

Cloud Against Haruki
Attack - (1d10+5)[12] (360 spiritual)
Evade - (1d10+5)[14]

Against Oda
Attack - (1d10+3)[12] (250 physical)
Evade - (1d10+2)[11]

[Carinthium]

(Note: Oda's only been hit twice, right? Also, my Agility is 3. What caused the penalty)

Oda looked at his foe. He was actually slightly amused- this guy though he could take him on.

He moved his leg around to strike his foe in the back...

[AlterForm]

(Note: Oda's only been hit twice, right? Also, my Agility is 3. What caused the penalty)

Oda looked at his foe. He was actually slightly amused- this guy though he could take him on.

He moved his leg around to strike his foe in the back...

Not sure what happened here...I'm guessing something came up and you just didn't get around to finishing your post? Also, I just took your Evade straight off the sheet I have in the first post; might just be a slight math error.

Oda attacks the ninja he challenged with a back kick.
Acc - (1d10+4)[12] (340 Physical)
Eva - (1d10+3)[10]

[ZebulonCrispi]

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Sorry if I'm butting in or anything. I'm one of the creators of the system, so I'm watching this pretty closely.

Regarding swarms, I think we're probably going to straight-up axe them next release. They don't really do anything that Minions/Lesser Minions don't, thematically.

[AlterForm]

Collin, go ahead and take your turn if you want. I misplaced (somehow) the files I was using for the map.

However, since you guys still have to chew through 2600+ HP on a monster that won't exist in the next revision anyways, I think we should just skip ahead. Any objections?

[Carinthium]

I think we should do the fight- see if we can handle it.

[OverWilliam]

You can't.

[Collin152]

Gunna have to agree.
One more shot and I'm down for the count.
I say we've botched this combat, let;s move on.
Possibly with the updated system.

[Carinthium]

O.K. Didn't realise.

[AlterForm]

Sorry I'm taking so long to move us along again; school's just started up and I'm still trying to get back into the groove. I'll definitely be able to get us going once the weekend hits, so hang tight until then at least.

[Carinthium]

Is this ready to move yet?

[AlterForm]

Is this ready to move yet?

Tada...

After a short hallway, you burst into a large meeting that looks like it could easily hold a couple dozen people.

However, at the moment, there are only 3.

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Hookay, initiative please.

enemies - (1d10+5)[11]

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Rearrange yourselves within a square of the door if you'd like.

All enemies have an EVA of 3.

Sorry about taking so long to get this up.

[Carinthium]

Initiative: 1 + 3 (4)

Oda stands at the door, in contempt of his enemies.

[OverWilliam]

Initiative:

(1d10+8)[11]

[AlterForm]

Haruki initiative - (1d10+8)[14]

[AlterForm]

Initiative Order:
Haruki
Hissori
Enemies
Oda

Gonna give Collin another 12 hours to respond to the PM I sent him...

[AlterForm]

Haruki springs into action, pegging the far right ninja with a well-placed kunai.

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Haruki moves to G5, then uses Kunai against the ninja at D9.
Acc - (1d10+6)[7]
Eva - (1d10+3)[5]

[Carinthium]

I'm still interested, but this seems practically dead.

[AlterForm]

I'm still interested, but this seems practically dead.

*sigh*

Yeah. I'm thinking this just won't work over PbP.

However, we could try doing it over a Virtual Tabletop (I have the maps all set up already in MapTool, we'd just have to set up properties and/or macros.)

Judging by the speed of combat, we could probably playtest a couple encounters in a few hours at most, once we (ie, no offense, you guys) get past the learning curve of adjusting to a VTT.

[AlterForm]

*bump*

Reposted to OOC Thread.