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Using Forged in the Dark to Write Combat -- Documentation by @tacetnix!

This is going to be a doozy, but here’s how this one’s going to go. TL;DR: whether I’m using Lancers in the Dark (for LANCER RPG Roleplays) or Blades in the Dark (for pretty much everything else), the basics of the system will be described below.

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“The Black Bullet” A Gunslinger’s Revenge. Instant Action. This Bullet is handcrafted by Engineers and Blacksmiths. It requires (1) Hardened Fel Casing and (1) Saronite Core. When crafted, the bullet switches hands to a master Shaman. The shaman there charges the Saronite Core with the energy from a lava spell. The Saronite Core then becomes liquefied, harboring a life of only 30 days if the spell is done right. If the spell is defective, the Black Bullet will fall dormant and rendered less harmful. The bullet’s use is not intended to be used as a finishing move, but as a ticking time bomb. When the ensorcelled bullet hits a target, it explode inside the flesh; releasing the liquefied saronite core. If it hits a living being, the liquefied saronite enters the bloodstream and can cause Saronite poisoning. Poisoning can cause extreme vomiting, nausea, headaches, violent hallucinations, internal hemorrhaging, cardiac arrest, etc. The poisoning can be cleansed if treated IMMEDIATELY. However, symptoms may still persist.

Ticket Price of (1) Black Bullet: 5,000 gold.

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RP ranting under the cut. tl;dr version is that the way people RP armor, maces, guns, etc is way, way less interesting than what you could do with playing it out realistically.

Ok, you asked for it. Plate and mail armor are criminally underrated in RP and guns are ridiculously overrated, and this is particularly egregious when you consider that playing it our realistically would be so cool.

Your sword isn’t going to cut through mail plate, and it isn’t going to penetrate plate at all. You know what it can do, though? If it has a narrow/heavily tapered tip, it can stab between the rings.

Imagine getting into a fight, and the armored knight is slowly bleeding out from dozens of tiny wounds where maybe half an inch of steel got through their armor and padding.

One-handed maces don’t smash plate armor, either. Two-handed maces/hammers/halberds can, but it’s harder than you’d think, and doesn’t work as well on breastplates. You know what one-handed maces can do, though?

Smash joints, bash them too much to be able to fight back. Ring their helm to distract them and make it easier to bear them to the ground and turn it into a grapple, so you can stab your misericorde, or other rigid, narrow thrusting dagger into the mail armor on armpits and groin to do the same kind of death-by-a-thousand-stabs thing you can do with a sword, or go for a more difficult target and stab them in the face through their helm’s eyeslit.

Or just attack unarmored areas, given how many idiots (yours truly included on occasion) don’t wear a helm at all, or wear armor that doesn’t actually cover anything. If you attack in groups, it becomes impossible to even defend the head effectively once you surround them.

Arrows? Don’t pretend they just go right through armor - they don’t; even crossbows and longbows need to be at close range to reliably punch through mail, and can’t penetrate the thicker parts (breastplate and tassets/thigh plates) of well-made plate armor at all, but that’s the beauty of a fantasy setting: Wouldn’t it be fun to play Arcane Shot as an enchanted arrow that hits like a mace?

Long guns (rifles, shotguns firing slugs, etc) can penetrate breastplates at close distances (but not so much at mid-to-long distances), but pistols and shotguns firing regular shot (buckshot, etc) usually can’t. You know what they can punch through? Helms, joints, nail armor in general, that sort of thing.

This extends to more modern guns like revolvers, by the way. Jim Miller (1861-1908) wore a breastplate that allowed him survive being shot seven times in the chest by a revolver. Silk armor is also effective against bullets; trauma surgeon George E Goodfellow (1855-1910) reported that a folded silk handkerchief had been able to repel .45 caliber rounds at such close range that the muzzle flare singed his shirt. Silk was used to make a practical early ballistic vest by Jan Sczczepanik (1872-1829). These wouldn’t stop rifle rounds, but were reported to be virtually immune to pistols and shotgun shot (slugs would probably work though).

Can’t afford silk? Korean inventors Kim Gi-Doo and Gang Yoon found that 10 layers of cotton could stop bullets, too.

HOWEVER. Remember that penetration and impact force aren’t synonymous. Being shot could still cause major bruising or cracked ribs, damage organs like kidneys, etc. Anything you could do by punching someone, a gun would probably do regardless of what armor you’re wearing (though the padding under plate armor specifically would probably prevent organ damage or broken ribs if the bullet does penetrate the breastplate).

There’s so much you can do to make a fight interesting once you move beyond the assumption that armor either works or it doesn’t.

A dude in leather with a dagger is 100% fucked if he fights a dude in full plate, but if he got a bunch of his buddies, they could probably knock him down and kill him with knifes and hammers, as happened to the French at Agincourt when their horses were killed by arrows. Your revolver won’t do much against a guard if you hit them in the chest or thighs, but it’ll punch right through the mail protecting their groin and armpits, and even if they get lucky and their helmet isn’t dented enough to kill them anyway, that’s an extremely disorienting blow that could disable them long enough to tackle them to the ground and stab or shoot them in the face.

Don’t want to risk getting murdered before you get close enough to tackle him? Use a polearm with a hook to try to pull him to the ground (especially if he’s on a horse), or wedge a spear tip into a gap in his armor and push hard enough to knock him down, or coordinate the shove with your buddy, who smacks him in the back of the knees at the same time.

Or use a halberd or two-handed hammer to smash his helm (there’s records of kings having their brains spill out after a halberds went right through their helm). Or use the halberd or hammer to smack them hard enough somewhere other than the breastplate that the armor crumples so badly that they can’t use that part of their body anymore. Or hit them enough times in the chest that you dent the breastplate enough to make it hard to breathe. Or just fucking break their arm, why not?

On the other hand, armor-of-proof (ie, bulletproof) is both more expensive and heavier than regular plate armor - if your knight wants to specialize in fighting on foot, they might be more vulnerable to guns. If they’re more concerned about guns than swords and spears, they might choose to omit armor on their legs and upper arms, equipping themselves like a 17th century harqubusier.

That jacket, by the way, is called a buff coat - one of the very few confirmed versions of historical leather armor. It’s made of rawhide, is good against slashes (but not thrusts), and the most expensive examples combined fashion with function, and were worn by high nobility.

Or maybe you remembered the cotton coat from earlier, and wore it as a gambeson (padded jacket worn under armor). Now even if a pistol round gets through your breastplate, it stops before it can penetrate - though it’d cause much more blunt trauma than if the breastplate had repelled it. Compare: Injuries from being shot while wearing a modern bulletproof vest.

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You mentioned speaking to Lucifer about their RP combat system, and that they had a more in depth document than what was mentioned in the episode. Would you and them be willing to post the full rules here, or a link to them?

Hello, dear listener! I talked to Lucifer and found he hadn’t yet put the file on Google Drive, but has done so at your request, so feel free to feel special.https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vQjjifb_iCDCxwC0w2UZw8fngneYt__DXehkQNU7wJRe1Zstg7BuJiXTsd77ESPul1cwULpB6kakrQg/pubI’ll also paste the contents here for easier reblogging:

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So after participating in the Grindstone as Daire on Saturday and deciding to let Brinn knock some dust off as a fighter at last night’s Fight Club, I’ve realized that I get the fun task of figuring out what everyone’s fighting style is.

Daire’s was pretty easy... completely untrained in use of the sword, it shows in his wild swings. But he does know how to fight dirty at least and it works to his advantage sometimes. Viewers would say he has “spunk” and is a “scrappy” fighter. xD

Brinn on the other hand is more of a veteran fighter who had to learn much of how to fight during his years as a fugitive. He’s definitely will fight dirty when pushed to it (which doesn’t take much) and has to watch out for anger getting the best of him. On the fly last night, I decided that his way of fighting was a very wuxia, dim mak, jabbing at his opponent’s pressure points type of thing. So of course now I have to research it. XD I realized too that this is the style of (imo) the most terrifying fighter in Avatar, Ty Lee. It fits.

Side note: I DID NOT KNOW THAT STRIKING AT THE BASE OF THE THROAT STIMULATED THE GAG REFLEX.

Now I do. hehehe :3

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An Idea for FFXIV Mass Combat

With the upcoming RP event for the Black Gull Tavern on the horizon, I wanted to list out the idea for a battle system I had. Please be aware that this is just a quick rundown of the basic rules for the system. If you would like to join in the discussion or read more into the thought process behind each point please visit The Black Gull Tavern forums here. Feel free to send me any asks regarding the system with questions or constructive criticism.

1. The goal of this system is to utilize the /random command in FFXIV for RP battle scenes that is streamlined, allows player freedom, and does not result in extremely lengthy battles.

2. The person in charge of the scene will be responsible for typing out (preferably pre-typing) the attacks of the foe(s).

3. Players will be responsible for typing out their reaction to the attack, their counter attack, and the reaction of the foe(s’).

4. Posts while in combat will be limited to 3 entries

5. At the start of each new round of combat, every player will type /random

6. The average of all participants’ rolls will be averaged and stand as the group’s combat success

7. The opposing side will then utilize an number of /random commands equal to the number of players

8. These numbers will also be averaged and serve as the enemies’ combat success

9. If the player group’s average is greater than the enemies’ average, then they win the round. Conversely if the enemies’ average is greater than the players’, then the enemies win the round.

10. The success of each individual player is determined by the number of their roll, with greater numbers indicating greater success

11. If the result of a player’s /random is less than the average of the enemies, that player takes one point of damage

12. Players may choose to fulfill the role of a tank, a healer, or a damage-dealer.

13. Players normally have 3 hit points, however, players in the tank role have 5 hit points.

14. Damage-dealers score a critical hit on a /random of 900 or higher, allowing them an additional /random to add to the group’s total

15. If a character with a tank role receives a 700 or higher on their /random, they may swap their number rolled with any one group member’s of lesser value.

16. If a Healer receives a /random of 500 or higher, they may heal one point of damage for themselves or another player.

17. The player group wins the scene if they average a higher group score than the opposing side for a set number of rounds. They lose if they fail a set number of rounds before reaching victory. These numbers are set by the player running the scene.

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Ali's Guide to Roleplaying Combat

So you find yourself wondering how to make a fair fight when Roleplaying, right? It's difficult to make things fair when someone could potentially knock a character of much higher power on their ass without even realizing it. Your Roleplay partner probably didn't even realize what they were doing-or you didn't when you swiped their katana from them with your obviously superior reflexes.

In any case, it's easy to make mistakes when roleplaying combat, since no one really knows everything about how characters would match up in a fight! I wrote this guide to explain how to have a fair fight in paragraph format, so you too can duke it out without the drama.