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[Malek Deneith]

As you stand, discuss, and prepare your next move you suddenly feel a tingle through Maouns' telepathic bond. This tingle is immediatly followed by a savage roar - both of which added together give Michael just enough time to duck forward and to the left, into the nearest niche and barely avoiding collision with a creature running out of the darkness. Said creature, a humanoid, swings a battle axe at the space where Michael stood just seconds ago. Second later said humanoid notices his miss and straightens itself, looking for a new target. You notice the ugly, brutish features of it's face and body... as well as the horrible, repulsive smell.

Spoiler: Combat Data (click to show/hide)

Your enemy is a Trash Ogre (Size: Medium). It's currently standing about ten feet in front of second line of your planned marching order (i.e. in front of Jace and Sho Lee).
Michael is in the niche slightly behind the Ogre, also some ten feet away from him.
Oh and Jace, make me another paralyzation save (hyuck, hyuck, hyuck)

Spoiler: Tutorial (click to show/hide)

Welcome to your first combat maggots. Pray it won't be your last!

How does this work? Simple. Each of you states your actions and rolls the rolls, and then I process those, including movements for monsters and give you the results.

Or in more detail:

Melee:
Melee users need to declare whom they are attacking, and give me the following rolls:
- Attack roll (1d20 + strength bonus + specialization/talent/magic item bonuses if any)
- Damage roll in case you hit (your weapon's damage die for the appropiate monster size* + strength bonus + specialization/talent/magic item bonuses if any)
- Initiative roll (1d10 - dexterity reaction adjustment + weapon speed factor + other modifiers**)
If they have more than one attack in the round I'm going to need a set of three above rolls per attack.
Melee users can move and attack, but each 1/10th of movement rate (see later in movement) traveled takes 1 segment (so effectively gives a +1 penalty to initiative)

Ranged:
Ranged users work mostly as above but with following differences:
- Their attack roll uses dexterity missile bonus instead of strength to-hit bonus
- Their damage roll does not apply strength bonus to damage unless they use thrown weapons or have a specially constructed bow
- They don't roll initiative, instead they fire shots at pre-determined segments (more on segments in a bit)
What segments you ask? Well, it's based on rate of fire.
- ROF 1 (Sam's crossbow) shoots once, at Segment 1
- ROF 2 (Sam throwing daggers) shoots twice, at Segments 1 and 6, assuming he has two daggers ready.
If the ranged weapon user doesn't have their weapon ready, he can roll initiative (as above) to fire one shot. The modifier for drawing the weapon in sich case is +5 for ROF 1 weapon, and +4 for ROF 2 weapon.
You can shoot and move in the same round, but if you do you can move only half of your movement rate, fire at half your ROF and the shot at last possible segment (so moving while throwing daggers would mean one dagger thrown at Segment 6... moving with crossbow fireing would mean shot at segment 1 of next round since you'd be shooting at ROF of 1/2).

Magic:
Spells are always cast on the segment indicated by the spell description (assuming someone doesn't hit the mage before this happens disrupting their concentration). The only modifier applied is one for preparing the components if you didn't have them at hand before - this is usually 1d4 segments if the components are handy. In addition no action can be taken for 5 segments (or until end of the current round, whichever is lower) after casting the spell, and even if the spell ends fast enough for the mage to have a few segments to spare he can't cast another (exception - mage can cast up to two cantrips in one round).

Movement:
As mentioned in the melee section movement takes 1 segment 1/10th of movement rate. Your movement rate for melee is 10 feet times your movement rate (so regular unencumbered human could move 120 feet in a round at 12 feet per segment)

Fractional Multiple Attacks:
To explain those with an example - Michael with his 3/2 attacks would get 1 attack in first round, 2 attacks in second and so on (three attacks in two rounds, get it?). Sho Lee with his 5/4 open hand attacks would attack once for three rounds and then twice in fourth (assuming combat lasts that long)

Segments
Each round has ten segments. Your initiative roll for melee (or pre-defined initiative for missile combat and magic) tells you on which segment your action will take place (so lower is better, negative results take place on segment 1 but before other results). If you happen to have an initiative result of above 10 your action takes place in the next round at the stated initiative -10 and you can't declare new actions that round. So for example if someone with two attacks drew his weapon (+5) and rolled 1 and 10 on the dice, he'd make first attack on segment 6, and the second on segment 5 of following round.

Penetration
Remember that maximum roll on damage die allows to re-roll that die (One die. If you roll 2d4 for damage and they come up 1 and 4, only the second one gets rolled again) and add the result -1 to the total. And that re-rolled die can penetrate again (again added at -1). Crossbows penetrate at maximum and maximum -1 roll. If you roll something like 1d6-2 die, the re-roll is 1d6 not 1d6-2.

Honor
To those two of you with great honor - it gets added to *each* *single* die you roll. (i.e. a 2d4 weapon would turn into a 2d4+2 weapon :P)

Damage Cap
Also remember there is a cap on damage modifiers - the modifiers to damage (except ones from a magic weapon) can't exceed the maximum you can roll on the weapon dice (so 2d4 weapon would allow 2d4+8 max, 1d6-2 weapon would allows 1d6-2+4 max etc.). Penetration rolls don't increase this. On the other hand great honor bonus apparently does (so a 2d4 weapon used by a great honor person could deal 2d4+2+10 damage!).

* If your weapon has a die that has a penalty included in it, remember that the die roll must always result in minimum of 1. So a weapon with 1d6-1 damage, wielded by a characte with a +3 bonus to damage would deal not 1d6+2 (3-8) but 1d6-1+3 (4-8) damage
** The list of common initiative modifiers is listed in table 12C in Combat chapter. If want to do something not encompassed by the above explanations and modifiers from the table ask me OOC and I'll tell you what the speed of your actions is. For example if Michael would want to prepare his shield now I'd say he can still attack but at a +5 penalty to initiative ;)

[shark20061]

Out of nowhere, Sho Lee starts putting on a show!  He's throwing punches and kicks like crazy!

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Using Intimidating Display as first move of combat.

[raekuul]

Jace freezes in panic.

[S.K. Ren]

    Maoun lifts off of Emuleio's back, hovering near the ceiling; ready to unleash some magical goodness on the foul smelling creature. 

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I'm moving in and hovering up next to the ceiling within 5 ft of the Ogre. Whether he moves after that will adjust what my plans are.

[Motorheadbanger]

Michael gets in melee and attacks the ogre.

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1st attack:
Attack roll = 23
Damage roll = 4
Initiative roll = 9
2nd attack for the second round:
Attack roll = 23
Damage roll = 8
Initiative roll = 9 (it is ten minus mistaken movement mod)

[Matt_S]

Trouble!  "Take this, you dreck!"  Samuel quickly reaches into his backpack and readies his crossbow, firing off a bolt at the trash ogre.

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Initiative roll: 3
Attack roll: 16
Damage roll: 9 + Penetration: 7 (forgot the -1) + Penetration: 5 = 21
Crossbows penetrate on max and max-1 :o

[Malek Deneith]

Jace froze - the walls, the were moving, out to get him. Seeing no exit dropped on his knees, covering his head with his hands and started to moan quietly.
Sho Lee Wu started to go through routines his masters taught him with so much effort, causing the ogre to pause - more in confusion than actual fear.
Michael Songsteel started to move at the creature, aiming his attack at the right arm... when a loud 'twang' could be heard. He stumbled a step backwards, pushed by something. Looking downwards he saw a quarrel sticking out of his chest, the culprit standing on the other side of the ogre.
- Why? - you could hear him mumble in confusion before he drops into a crumpled heap on the floor. Only muted repeatings of the confused 'Why?' allowed you to know he's not dead... yet.

And all of this because, startled by Sho Lee's display ogre twitched just as Samuel took his shot. Just enough for the quarrel to miss him.

Spoiler: Segment by Segment (click to show/hide)

1:
- Jace cowers
- Sho Lee Wu puts up an Intimidating Display
- Maoun starts to move
- Michael moves forward
2:
- Maoun stops moving
3:
- Samuel Greenwood wastes Michael Songsteel with his crossbow for 20 damage (1 absorbed by armor)
- Michael Songsteel is incapacitated for 8 rounds
- Michael Songsteel is Confused for 1 turn (10 rounds) - obviously he can only lie and mumble in confusion for first 8 of these, but we'll roll for last two if it comes to this
- More to come
- Rendering first aid or applying magical healing will stop the above effects
4:
- n/a
5:
- n/a
6:
- n/a
7:
- n/a
8:
- n/a
9:
- Michael Songsteel would have attacked here but is incapacitated
10:
- n/a

Spoiler: Combat Data (click to show/hide)

Still fighting that Trah Ogre (M). Jace is cowering (-3/-15% to all rolls and can't take any actions), Michael is incapacitated (can't take no actions), Confused (as per spell but obviously can't take any actions yet), and a bout a feet behind the Ogre.

[S.K. Ren]

  Maoun rubbed his brow hard at the events that transpired. Dolt. Placing his hands out in front of him, he began to mumble something strange and arcane. Something about late homework and nosy classmates. As his thumbs touched, a wave of fire erupted towards the Trolls head.

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So... uh, "Spell!"
Burning Hands: Instantaneous/ 1 Segment
5' long, 120 degree arc.
1d3 +2/caster level(1+1 specialist) +1(Great Honor), so 1d3+5=8
1d3+1-1, Grievious Wound(1d3=2)
Total 10 fire damage, Troll can Save vs Spell-2(From Double Specialist) for 1/2 damage.

[raekuul]

Jace continues panicking. "We're all going to die and I'm not going to get to teach you all about Baa and..."

[shark20061]

Having done his pre-battle routine, Sho Lee moves up and tries to gives the trash ogre a hand (to its face), but instead he totally ruined his technique!  Disastrous!

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Open Hand
Initiative, Attack, and Damage Roll
(1d10-1=7, 1d20+2=3, 1d4+3=4) FUMBLE!!
(Initiative Roll was supposed to have a -1 mod, not +1, so its 7 not 9)

[Matt_S]

"Oh.. oh no!"  Sam hastily fires off another bolt...

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Attack roll: 8
Damage roll: 3

[Malek Deneith]

This time the bolt goes under the Ogre's arm and right in front of Sho Lee Wu's nose, making the monk loose his concentration - he kicks instead of punching and does so backwards instead of forwards, smacking Jace straight into the nose. In the meantime the Ogre, who also stepped forward as Sho Lee did, walking through Maoun's flame in the proecess, starts to to swing his ax...

Spoiler: Segment by Segment (click to show/hide)

1:
- Maoun burninates the Ogre for 10 fiery damage (save failed)
- Ogre moves towards Sho Lee Wu and takes a swing at him
- Jace continues to panic
- Michael Songsteel lies on the floor in pain and confusion
- Samuel Greenwood fires a bolt at the Ogre but misses
2:
- n/a
3:
- n/a
4:
- n/a
5:
- n/a
6:
- n/a
7:
- Sho Lee Wu punches/kicks Jace for 2 friendlyfire damage
8:
- n/a
9:
- n/a
10:
- Ogre's swing is *still* in the making

Spoiler: Combat Data (click to show/hide)

Still fighting that Trah Ogre (M). Jace is cowering (-3/-15% to all rolls and can't take any actions), Michael is incapacitated (can't take no actions), Confused (as per spell but obviously can't take any actions yet), and a bout a feet behind the Ogre.

[shark20061]

Sho Lee, angry from flubbing up the last attempt, gives the ogre what it deserves.

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Initiative, Attack, Damage Roll
(1d10-2=5, 1d20+2=22, 1d4+3=5) C-C-C-COMBO BRE... er... CRITICAL HIT!!!
(Messed up the initiative roll again, didn't move this time, so it should be -2, and not -1.  So 5, not 6.)

[Matt_S]

Sam stashes his crossbow away again, and draws his dagger before moving up to engage the ogre.  Sam gives a rather lame attempt at a stab...

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Initiative: 8, forgot honor bonus
Attack roll: 4, again forgot honor bonus
Damage roll: 4

This has been rather unproductive :/

[S.K. Ren]

    Thankfully the Ogre decides to ignore Maoun in favor of Jace. Taking this opportunity, Maoun soaked the creature in fire again, careful to not hit Jace in the process.

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Since I'm hovering, and I'm not sure how close we all are exactly, I'm making sure to specify that I'm doing my best to not include Jace in the attack, since no actual attack rolls are required.

"Spell!"
Burning Hands: Instantaneous/ 1 Segment
5' long, 120 degree arc.
1d3 +2/caster level(1+1 specialist) +1(Great Honor); 1d3+5=8; Again? Cool :D
1d3-1+1 Grievious Wound(1d3=2); Again...
Total 10 fire damage, Ogre can Save vs Spell-2 for 1/2 damage.