Combat Guide

Halcyon utilizes a custom RPR system for our player versus player combat based around the Dungeons and Dragons 5e systems. This guide will serve to explain many of those systems to those unfamiliar and serve as a point of reference. Many of the restrictions are hard-coded into the RPR system itself and require little input from the user to function correctly.

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Ability Scores

Each character has six different ability scores that points can be assigned to. They are:

Strength - measuring physical power.
Dexterity - measuring agility.
Constitution - measuring endurance.
Intelligence - measuring reasoning and memory.
Wisdom - measuring perception and insight.
Charisma - measuring force of personality.

Hit Points

All players start with 25 hit points. Each point into the Constitution Attribute grants 6 additional hit points. This is added onto the hit points you receive for your class.

Skills

There are a total of 19 different skills, all of which have a base attribute. Your skill increases by 1 for each attribute point matching the appropriate skill. Skill values can only be increased in this way, by proficiencies earned through races and classes, or through acquired items.

Chosen Attributes

During character creation, you may select two ability scores to increase by 1. These may not be stacked onto the same ability. Once you reach level 12, you may increase a single attribute by 1.

Character Level

Players begin at level 8 and may advance through various means. When first setting up your character sheet, you will have 8 skill points available to spend in RPR. Place these into your character level skill or you will not be assigned the correct abilities.

Point Buy

Each character has 13 points to spend on improving their ability scores. Each ability score starts at -1. Points may only be added until any one score reaches 2.

Attack Actions

When you choose to take the attack action on your turn, you may make a number of basic attacks as determined by your class and subclass. This is displayed on your character's stat sheet as "Attack Actions".

If you are wielding a weapon in each hand, you may use a Bonus Action to make another weapon attack after making your allotted basic attacks.

Spells and Cantrips, unless stated otherwise, each take up your entire Attack Action. You may not make additional attacks even if you have remaining Attack Actions after casting a spell, or cantrip, unless you have a class feature that allows it.

Bonus Action

Every character has one bonus action to use on their turn. This may be used on any class or racial ability, or spell that states it requires one bonus action.

Reactions

A reaction is used outside of your turn. This can range from abilities provoked from opponents making attacks on yourself, allies, spell conditions, or from moving away from a player and provoking attack of opportunity.

Other Turn Actions

On your turn you may choose to the do the following instead of making any attacks, or casting any spells that make use of your action or using any other full round action:

Interacting with an object. (Opening a door is your action, locking the door is a second action.)

Swapping a single weapon or equipment piece. (Drawing a sword and shield for example is two actions.

Initiative & Pre-Buffing / Pre-Drawing

When you roll initiative to begin combat, you may immediately either draw your weapons (including shields) or cast a singular self-target buff on yourself. Self target buffs do not include cases where your equipment is the target, for things like weapon buffs, and does not include potion use of any kind regardless of the effect.

Movement Action

On your turn, you may move a number of tiles equal to your "Movement Speed (Tiles)" stat. When you begin moving, you'll need to toggle the track movement option on the left side of the RPR menu. You may move before, between, or after taking any other actions. For example, you may make an attack, move, then make your second. Moving out of someone's "threatened tile" allows them to provoke an attack of opportunity. A threatened tile is the entire area around a character that they can reach with a basic attack. A character who has a weapon with a 2 tile reach can trigger an attack of opportunity at a greater distance around them.

Additionally, if you have a class feature or ability that grants you a flying speed, you may move an additional amount of tiles equal to the bonus. In the case of flying, you may move vertically with ease; however, when you end your turn, you drift harmlessly to the ground to the nearest tile. You may hover for flavor, but you must be no more than 1 tile above the ground.

If you wish to climb an object, such as a wall, during your movement, you do so at half speed. For example, climbing 1 tile costs 2 tiles of movement. Features that allow you climb walls or grant a climb speed allow you to move up vertical surfaces at a normal 1:1 speed.

Regardless of if your class or a buff provides features to dash, or any ability that counts as a dash you may only do so once per turn.

Asleep

The creature is incapacitated, can't move or speak, and are unaware of their surroundings. The creature also falls prone.

Blinded

Creature has -2 to attack and spell bonus while they are blinded.

Charmed

A charmed creature regards the charmer as a friendly, and it will not attack the charmer unless it is provoked. If the charmed creature is attacked by the charmer, or their allies, the charm is broken.

Disarmed

The creature's weapon has been disarmed, they must spend an action to pick it up, or switch weapons.

Exhaustion

Exhaustion works depending on it's current stacks, as follows:

-2 All saves

-4 All saves, -2 AB & SB

-6 All saves, -2 AB & SB, -1 Movement

-8 All saves, -4 AB & SB, -2 Movement

-10 All saves, -6 AB & SB, No movement. Wounded.

Frightened

The frightened creature cannot willingly move closer to the source of their fear, and receive -2 to attack and spell bonus.

Incapacitated

An incapacitated creature cannot take any actions or reactions on their turn.

Invisible

Creature cannot be targeted whilst they are invisible, but a creature can attack where they were. If the invisible creature didn't move, they're still at risk of being attacked.

Knocked Prone

A prone creature can move at half speed, or can use half movement to stand up. They suffer -2 AC while prone.

Poisoned

A poisoned creature receives -2 to attack and spell bonus.

Polymorphed

The polymorphed creature can still move, but cannot take any actions or reactions outside of movement.

Restrained

Restrained creatures cannot move, but can still take actions.

Silenced

A creature cannot do anything that requires a verbal action/component.

Slowed

Reduces movement speed by half, -2 AC and -2 Dexterity Saving Throws

Stunned

A stunned creature is considered incapacitated, and cannot take any actions or reactions on their turn.

Wounded

Lasts for 72 hours or can be healed prior to that by a 3rd level healing spell or having surgery performed. Healing this status reduces it to Recovering (Light) for 8 hours. Acquired upon the loss of any PvP that ends with you at 0 hit points.

You receive the following debuffs:

-30 HP

-5 Attack & Spell Bonus

Severely Wounded

Permanent. Cured by a 4th level healing spell or having surgery performed. Healing this status reduces it to Recovering (Moderate) for 16 hours then Recovering (Light) for 8 hours. Surgery reduces this to the Wounded status. Acquired upon ending PvP with 0 hit points with the Wounded status already applied to your character. Or as a consequence applied following a non-skirmish PvP encounter.

You receive the following debuffs:

-40 HP

-10 Attack & Spell Bonus

-2 Movement Speed

Death's Door

Permanent. Cured by a 5th level healing spell. This is only inflicted in the prior stages to a Character Kill (CK) attempt, as a consequence to the failure of a particularly potent magical ritual, or as part of a DM event. Death saving throws will need to be rolled per the DM's discretion if appropriate healing is not administered quickly enough.

You receive the following debuffs:

-200 HP

-10 Attack & Spell Bonus

-Cannot perform actions, bonus actions, reactions, or movement

Recovering (Light)

Lasts for 8 hours.

You receive the following debuffs:

-10 HP

-1 Saving Throws

-1 Proficiency Bonus

Recovering (Moderate)

Lasts for 16 hours.

You receive the following debuffs:

-15 HP

-2 Saving Throws

-2 Proficiency Bonus

Recovering (Heavy)

Lasts for 48 hours.

You receive the following debuffs:

-80 HP

-8 Saving Throws

-4 Proficiency Bonus

-2 Movement Speed

Maimed

Permanent. Cured through a magical Regeneration Ritual. Acquired upon being imposed the Maim PvP consequence as part of a second PvP encounter or more.

You receive the following debuffs:

Arm: -4 Sleight of Hand, Loss of Off Hand.

Eye: -2 Proficiency Bonus, -4 Perception, +2 Intimidation.

Leg: -2 Movement Speed, -4 Athletics, -4 Acrobatics.

Tongue: Silenced.

Bloodless

Lasts for 72 hours.

Cured through a magical Greater Restoration Ritual. Acquired upon having blood removed as a PvP consequence.

You receive the following debuffs:

-1 Strength, Dexterity, Constitution, Intelligence, Wisdom, and Charisma.

-1 Saving Throws

-10 HP

Cursed

Permanent. Cured through a magical Remove Curse or Greater Restoration Ritual. Acquired as a PvP consequences.

You receive the following debuffs:

-2 Proficiency Bonus

-2 Saving Throws

One Secondary Effect from the curse table.

AoE Spells

Area of Effect spells can be angled and point targeted to the ground, however all friendlies within' 1 tile of a target inside of an AoE must also be targeted. If you are within' 1 tile of the enemy you are targeting, this includes yourself unless you are using a cone or single-line AoE spell.

This can be circumvented by the Careful Spell metamagic, and Sculpt Spells feature from Evocation wizard.

What is an Attack?

An attack is anything that targets AC. Martial attacks from weapons such as short swords, great swords, longbows and some spells like guiding bolt and inflict wounds go against AC and are Attacks.

If it targets a save it is not an attack. This includes spells like Blight, class abilities like Warping Implosion and anything else that does not go against AC is NOT an attack.

Restraints

When a creature is restrained its movement changes to 0. This means that a climbing creature or flying creature no longer have climb or fly speed. If the creature is climbing, they immediately fall and if a creature that normally can fly falls, they take fall damage while restrained.

Teleports do not remove restraints and they move with the creature.

Healing Downed Individuals

If you are knocked to 0 in combat, and are not friendly sparring you must exit combat to receive your wounded status. If you are healed while down and the combat is still going, you may NOT return to combat. You will remain incapacitated until combat is over.

Initiative Ties

If you tie with another character on Initiative roll, whichever of the two of you has a higher DEX modifier will go first. If you have the same DEX modifier, roll a /d20 between the both of you. Whomstever then gets the highest roll, will go first.

Jumping

When needing to cross gaps in PvP a player can jump at half movement speed.

Lighting

A 1 tile radius around a light source (Such as a torch, candle, or illuminated object such as a weapon affected by Rite of Dawn) is considered bright light.

The area one tile beyond that is considered to be dim light during day time. During night it is considered darkness.

Day is any time between 06:00 and 17:59 in game time.
Night is any time between 18:00 and 05:59 in game time.

During PvP, for the purpose of determining lighting rules the time is locked to the moment of the PvP declaration. For example if you declare PvP at 05:50 in game time that instance is locked to Night lighting rules.

Additionally, being inside of buildings during the day is considered dim lighting. Being near a light source adjusts this accordingly.

For the purpose of determining shadows for class abilities. You may use the shadows of objects around the world. Players, NPCs, and other moveable objects do not leave shadows for use by these abilities. When an area is within darkness it is also considered a shadow.