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Note that these game variants are experimental, and therefore, the systems might seem unbalanced, or doesn't cover every part of the original system.
 
Note that these game variants are experimental, and therefore, the systems might seem unbalanced, or doesn't cover every part of the original system.
  
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== Evolutionary Magick ==
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== Incantation Magic ==
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The '''[[Evolutionary Magick]]''' is a new, simplified magic system that changes the way spells are learnt, and their effect as they level up.  
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While making the system simpler, it also allows magic casters to easier get a larger variety of spells to use from.
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'''After playtesting the new magic system for two months, we have reached a conclusion: It is a great improvement. It makes magic more personalized, more epic and quirky in a good way. Magic becomes less "tinned" or "canned" and more evolutionary. It's a new level of magic system in an RPG. We will swap the legacy Amar magic system with the Incantation system.'''
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Currently the evolutionary magic system is being worked on, and is not finished.
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The '''[[Incantation Magic]]''' system is an alternative to the standard magick system and allows magic casters to have an arsenal of spells unique to the caster only.
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== New combat system ==
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'''After play testing the new combat system for two months, we have reached a conclusion. The proposed combat system is more realistic and in several ways better than the original Amar combat system. But it is too slow. It would work better for use in board games or gladiator type games which is more combat-centric and requires detailed and realistic combat play. For role-playing, it moves the attention more to detailing combat and away from the story building and epic scenes.'''
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A combat round is 2 seconds. A character will defend during the round and may find an opening to attack an opponent. There are many small jabs, pushes and parries during a round, but normally only a chance of launching a real attack. The difficulty rating for finding an opening to attack is 5. A character can look more agressively for an opening and reduce the DR for an opening by 1 per 2 lower combat skill. A character can decide to be more careful and gain 2 in combat skill per 1 higher in DR for finding an opening (with a maximum DR of 7 and 4 in increased skill). The increase or decrease in combat skills affect both attack and defense values.
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If two opponents get to attack in the same round, they roll for initiative to see who attacks first.
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A character will defend any number of times during a combat round with increasing difficulty (-3, -6, -9, etc to defense value). The character will decide which opponent get which penalty.
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All weapons have takes one round to draw. Drawing an arrow depends on the bow and the strength of the character. A bow with a strength requirement 3 lower than the character's strength will have a draw time of one round. A bow with a strength requirement higher than a character's Strength - 3 has a draw time of two rounds. A light crossbow has a draw time of 12 rounds while a medium crossbow has 18 rounds and the heavy crossbow has 24 rounds.
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A character can move fast or carefully during combat. Human sized characters can move 4 meters with considerable penalties or 2 meters careful movement. Smaller creatures such as Dwarves or Fearies will move 3 or 1.5 meters, while Ogres and half-giants will move 5 or 2.5 meters, Trolls have 6 or 3 meters while Giants can move up to 8 or 4 meters.
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=== Melee Adjustments ===
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On the melee adjustments table you will find adjustments for several situations.
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{| class="wikitable"
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|+Melee Adjustments
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|-
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|colspan="4" style="background-color: #a5c9af;" | ''Voluntary fighting modifications''
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|-style="background-color: #e7c290;"
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|''Off''    || ''Def''     || ''Move'' || ''Condition''
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|-
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|  +2     ||     +2     || x 1     || Fighting carefully gives +1 in DR for finding an opening for attacking (max +2 DR)
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|-
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|  -2     ||     -2     || x 1     || Fighting agressively gives -1 in DR for finding an opening for attacking
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|-
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|    0     ||     -3     || x 1     || Per extra defense during a combat round (defender decides which opponent get which penalty)
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|-
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|  -1     ||     0     || x 1     || Subtracting one from initiative
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|-
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|  -1     ||     0     || x 1     || Removing one Hit Location that you can hit
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|-
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|    0     ||     -1     || x 1     || Removing one Hit Location where you can be hit
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|-
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|colspan="4" style="background-color: #a5c9af;" | ''Motion penalties''
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|-style="background-color: #e7c290;"
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|''Off''    || ''Def''     || ''Move'' || ''Condition''
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|-
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|  -6     ||     -6     || x 2     || Run
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|-
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|  -3     ||     -3     || x 1     || Move
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|-
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|    X      ||     -6     || x 1     || Disengage
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|-
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|colspan="4" style="background-color: #a5c9af;" | ''Position penalties''
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|-style="background-color: #e7c290;"
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|''Off''    || ''Def''     || ''Move'' || ''Condition''
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|-
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|    0     ||     -2     || x 1     || Unable to move backwards
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|-
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|  -1     ||     -1     || x 1     || Fighting restricted to less than the weapon's required radius
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|-
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|  -3     ||     -3     || x 1     || Fighting restricted to less than half the weapon's required radius
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|-
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|  -3     ||     -3     || x 1/10 || Down on knee
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|-
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|  -5     ||     -5     || x 1/10 || Down on ground
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|-
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|  +1     ||     0     || x 1     || Fighting from higher ground (like in a stair)
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|-
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|  -2     ||     -2     || x 3/4 || Slippery ground
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|-
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|colspan="4" style="background-color: #a5c9af;" | ''Defender's condition penalties''
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|-style="background-color: #e7c290;"
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|''Off''    || ''Def''     || ''Move'' || ''Condition''
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|-
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|  -2     ||     -2     || x 3/4 || Half Action (down to 1/2 Body Points)
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|-
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|  -4     ||     -4     || x 1/2 || Quarter Action (down to 1/4 Body Points)
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|-
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|    X     ||     -5     || x 1     || Partially unaware     
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|-
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|  -3     ||     -3     ||  x 1/2 || Stunned
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|-
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|    X    ||     -10     || x 1     || Unaware
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|-
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|    X    ||     (-5)    || x 1     || Immobilized (defense is -5 regardless of skills)
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|-
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|colspan="4" style="background-color: #a5c9af;" | ''Lighting''
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|-style="background-color: #e7c290;"
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|''Off''    || ''Def''     || ''Move'' || ''Condition''
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|-
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|  -1     ||     -2     ||  x 3/4 || Twillight / torchlight 
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|-
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|  -2     ||     -4     || x 1/2 || Moonlight (full moon) 
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|-
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|  -3     ||     -6     || x 1/4 || Starlight
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|-
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|  -5     ||     -10     || x 1/8 || Darkness
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|-
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|colspan="4" style="background-color: #a5c9af;" | ''Weapon adjustments''
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|-style="background-color: #e7c290;"
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|''Off''    || ''Def''     || ''Move'' || ''Condition''
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|-
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|    0      ||     +1     ||  x 1     || Per full 5 in Dodge skill
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|-
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|  +1     ||     +1     ||  x 1     || Per full 5 in Unarmed skill
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|-
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|  +1     ||     +1     ||  x 1     || Using a secondary weapon
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|-
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|  -1     ||     -1     ||  x 1     || Strength 1 less than required to use weapon
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|-
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|  -3     ||     -3     ||  x 1     || Strength 2 less than required to use weapon
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|-
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|  -5     ||     -5     ||  x 1     || Strength 3 less than required to use weapon
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|-
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|  -3     ||     -3     ||  x 1     || Using weapon in the "off hand" (Strength requirement is +2)
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|-
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|  -1     ||     -1     ||  x 1     || Using a new weapon practically same type as a skilled weapon
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|-
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|  -3     ||     -3     ||  x 1     || Using a new weapon in same category as a skilled weapon
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|-
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|  -5     ||     -5     ||  x 1     || Using a new weapon in other category as a skilled weapon
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|}
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All effects are cumulative, but offensive or defensive can never go below -5 total.
  
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== Incantation Magick ==
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An "X" indicates that no attack is possible.
  
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Every living creature has Magical Aptitude (MA), but only a few have a significant amount - 1 or more in gaming terms. Those who have a significant MA can use that to affect a situation (add or subtract as much MA as you want or can to any skills roll) - but doing so requires a whole month to recover that MA.
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Artificial light sources all have a “radius.” Within this radius the penalties due to light conditions are as for torchlight. Up to 2 times this radius the light is equivalent to moonlight. Up to 4 times the radius the light is equivalent to starlight. A candle has a radius of 1 m, a torch has a radius of 5 m and a lantern has a radius of 7 m. The GM has to use his discretion if there are more than 1 light source.
  
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Someone with significant amount of MA can learn to focus it into what is commonly known as a Whomp - a sudden release of focused magical energy. A minimum of 1 MA is spent in releasing a basic Whomp - but more can be spent in one Whomp to enhance its effect. The Whomp will have a tiny personalized effect - like making you more awake, making others around you slightly nauseated, creating a soft wind, ripples in water or some such. The effect of the Whomp reflects the individual's personality. Such a focused release of MA requires only a good night's sleep to regain the magical energy. The Whomp has a DR of 0 and will not be so strong as to significantly affect self or others in gaming terms (cannot add or subtract any numbers to the target's attributes, skills or otherwise). A Whomp would normally take 1 round to cast, have a range of 3 meters or less, the effect lasting for 1 round while requiring active focus for that duration.
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=== Missile Adjustment ===
  
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From the Whomp, the person can start training personalized magic spells - a release of magical energy that has focused effects. The person can start adding a certain amount of MA to a basic Whomp and by that create a specific spell. One must add at least 3 MA to evolve the Whomp (or any spell) into a new spell. Example; A wannabe mage has a basic Whomp that makes people around her slightly nauseous for 1 round by releasing one MA and making the DR roll of 0. By adding 3 MA to the Whomp, she can make the nausea last for 2 rounds and actually give those around her -1 in status for that long (effects on target's attributes or skills normally are 1 per two added of MA). If she keeps up training that specific enhancement to her Whomp (2 rounds duration/-1 in status), she will eventually convert the beefed-up Whomp into a new spell with DR 3 (she calls it "Nausea"). That spell will only require 1 MA to cast, but now she will have the opportunity to add MA while casting that spell in order to enhance the effects of the spell.
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For special adjustments on throwing or shooting with missile weapons, see the missile adjustments table.
  
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There are a few rules when changing a spell by adding MA when it is cast or when forging a new spell with higher DR:
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{| class="wikitable"
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|+Missile Adjustments
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|colspan="4" style="background-color: #a5c9af;" | ''Basic DRs''
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|-style="background-color: #e7c290;"
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|''DR''    || ''Condition''
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| 5  || Close range (up to half normal range)
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| 10  || Normal range (from half to normal range)
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| 15  || Long range (from normal range to double normal range)
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|-
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| 20  || Very long range (from long range to double long range)
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|-
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| 25  || Max range (from very long range to max range)
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|-
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| -1  || Per size of target
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| +3  || Aiming at Hit Location other than body
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|-
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|colspan="4" style="background-color: #a5c9af;" | ''Motion adjustments''
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|-style="background-color: #e7c290;"
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|''Off''    || ''Condition''
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|-
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| -3  || Target is moving predictably (in a straight line)
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|-
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| -6  || Target is moving unpredictably (randomly)       
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|-
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| -6 & <br />-1/full 3 in Dodge  || Target is Dodging       
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|-
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| -5  || Attacker is riding a galloping horse
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|-
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| -3  || Target is in a melee, occasionally obstructed (a miss by 2-5 means another target was hit)
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|-
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| -6  || Target is in a melee, often obstructed (a miss by 2-5 means another target was hit)
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|-
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|colspan="4" style="background-color: #a5c9af;" | ''Crossbow support''
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|-style="background-color: #e7c290;"
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|''Off''    || ''Condition''
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|-
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| +1  || Kneeling with crossbow                         
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|-
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| +3  || Bracing crossbow                               
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|-
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|colspan="4" style="background-color: #a5c9af;" | ''Lighting''
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|-style="background-color: #e7c290;"
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|''Off''    || ''Condition''
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|-
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| -1  || Twillight / Torchlight                         
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|-
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| -3  || Moonlight (full moon)                           
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|-
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| -5  || Starlight                                       
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|-
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| -10 || Darkness                                       
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|-
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|colspan="4" style="background-color: #a5c9af;" | ''Small target size''
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|-style="background-color: #e7c290;"
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|''Off''    || ''Condition''
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|-
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| -7  || Target 5 cm diameter                           
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| -4  || Target 10 cm diameter                           
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| -2  || Target 15 cm diameter                           
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|}
  
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Adjustments are cummulative.
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<li>It requires 2 additional steps to reduce the casting time for a spell one level lower on the "time scale for spells".</li>
 
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<li>To reduce the casting time from 1 round to Instant requires 4 steps. Such a spell has an actual casting time of one second. Thus one can theoretically cast 6 spells during one combat round.</li>
 
  
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Additionally, when forging a new spell:
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== Evolutionary Magick ==
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'''Do note that this system is currently not being developed.'''
  
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<li> It must be sufficiently different from any other spell the caster has - at least 3 "steps" in any direction from any other spell. </li>
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The '''[[Evolutionary Magick]]''' is a new, simplified magic system that changes the way spells are learnt, and their effect as they level up.  
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<li>For every 5 in DR, a spell gets a casting time one level higher on the "time scale for spells".</li>
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While making the system simpler, it also allows magic casters to easier get a larger variety of spells to use from.  
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Currently the evolutionary magic system is being worked on, and is not finished.

Latest revision as of 13:26, 25 January 2020

Experimental Game Systems

This page has listed different experimental game systems that can be used in the Amar Role Playing Game. Note that these game variants are experimental, and therefore, the systems might seem unbalanced, or doesn't cover every part of the original system.

Incantation Magic

After playtesting the new magic system for two months, we have reached a conclusion: It is a great improvement. It makes magic more personalized, more epic and quirky in a good way. Magic becomes less "tinned" or "canned" and more evolutionary. It's a new level of magic system in an RPG. We will swap the legacy Amar magic system with the Incantation system.

The Incantation Magic system is an alternative to the standard magick system and allows magic casters to have an arsenal of spells unique to the caster only.

New combat system

After play testing the new combat system for two months, we have reached a conclusion. The proposed combat system is more realistic and in several ways better than the original Amar combat system. But it is too slow. It would work better for use in board games or gladiator type games which is more combat-centric and requires detailed and realistic combat play. For role-playing, it moves the attention more to detailing combat and away from the story building and epic scenes.

A combat round is 2 seconds. A character will defend during the round and may find an opening to attack an opponent. There are many small jabs, pushes and parries during a round, but normally only a chance of launching a real attack. The difficulty rating for finding an opening to attack is 5. A character can look more agressively for an opening and reduce the DR for an opening by 1 per 2 lower combat skill. A character can decide to be more careful and gain 2 in combat skill per 1 higher in DR for finding an opening (with a maximum DR of 7 and 4 in increased skill). The increase or decrease in combat skills affect both attack and defense values.

If two opponents get to attack in the same round, they roll for initiative to see who attacks first.

A character will defend any number of times during a combat round with increasing difficulty (-3, -6, -9, etc to defense value). The character will decide which opponent get which penalty.

All weapons have takes one round to draw. Drawing an arrow depends on the bow and the strength of the character. A bow with a strength requirement 3 lower than the character's strength will have a draw time of one round. A bow with a strength requirement higher than a character's Strength - 3 has a draw time of two rounds. A light crossbow has a draw time of 12 rounds while a medium crossbow has 18 rounds and the heavy crossbow has 24 rounds.

A character can move fast or carefully during combat. Human sized characters can move 4 meters with considerable penalties or 2 meters careful movement. Smaller creatures such as Dwarves or Fearies will move 3 or 1.5 meters, while Ogres and half-giants will move 5 or 2.5 meters, Trolls have 6 or 3 meters while Giants can move up to 8 or 4 meters.

Melee Adjustments

On the melee adjustments table you will find adjustments for several situations.

Melee Adjustments
Voluntary fighting modifications
Off Def Move Condition
+2 +2 x 1 Fighting carefully gives +1 in DR for finding an opening for attacking (max +2 DR)
-2 -2 x 1 Fighting agressively gives -1 in DR for finding an opening for attacking
0 -3 x 1 Per extra defense during a combat round (defender decides which opponent get which penalty)
-1 0 x 1 Subtracting one from initiative
-1 0 x 1 Removing one Hit Location that you can hit
0 -1 x 1 Removing one Hit Location where you can be hit
Motion penalties
Off Def Move Condition
-6 -6 x 2 Run
-3 -3 x 1 Move
X -6 x 1 Disengage
Position penalties
Off Def Move Condition
0 -2 x 1 Unable to move backwards
-1 -1 x 1 Fighting restricted to less than the weapon's required radius
-3 -3 x 1 Fighting restricted to less than half the weapon's required radius
-3 -3 x 1/10 Down on knee
-5 -5 x 1/10 Down on ground
+1 0 x 1 Fighting from higher ground (like in a stair)
-2 -2 x 3/4 Slippery ground
Defender's condition penalties
Off Def Move Condition
-2 -2 x 3/4 Half Action (down to 1/2 Body Points)
-4 -4 x 1/2 Quarter Action (down to 1/4 Body Points)
X -5 x 1 Partially unaware
-3 -3 x 1/2 Stunned
X -10 x 1 Unaware
X (-5) x 1 Immobilized (defense is -5 regardless of skills)
Lighting
Off Def Move Condition
-1 -2 x 3/4 Twillight / torchlight
-2 -4 x 1/2 Moonlight (full moon)
-3 -6 x 1/4 Starlight
-5 -10 x 1/8 Darkness
Weapon adjustments
Off Def Move Condition
0 +1 x 1 Per full 5 in Dodge skill
+1 +1 x 1 Per full 5 in Unarmed skill
+1 +1 x 1 Using a secondary weapon
-1 -1 x 1 Strength 1 less than required to use weapon
-3 -3 x 1 Strength 2 less than required to use weapon
-5 -5 x 1 Strength 3 less than required to use weapon
-3 -3 x 1 Using weapon in the "off hand" (Strength requirement is +2)
-1 -1 x 1 Using a new weapon practically same type as a skilled weapon
-3 -3 x 1 Using a new weapon in same category as a skilled weapon
-5 -5 x 1 Using a new weapon in other category as a skilled weapon

All effects are cumulative, but offensive or defensive can never go below -5 total.

An "X" indicates that no attack is possible.

Artificial light sources all have a “radius.” Within this radius the penalties due to light conditions are as for torchlight. Up to 2 times this radius the light is equivalent to moonlight. Up to 4 times the radius the light is equivalent to starlight. A candle has a radius of 1 m, a torch has a radius of 5 m and a lantern has a radius of 7 m. The GM has to use his discretion if there are more than 1 light source.

Missile Adjustment

For special adjustments on throwing or shooting with missile weapons, see the missile adjustments table.

Missile Adjustments
Basic DRs
DR Condition
5 Close range (up to half normal range)
10 Normal range (from half to normal range)
15 Long range (from normal range to double normal range)
20 Very long range (from long range to double long range)
25 Max range (from very long range to max range)
-1 Per size of target
+3 Aiming at Hit Location other than body
Motion adjustments
Off Condition
-3 Target is moving predictably (in a straight line)
-6 Target is moving unpredictably (randomly)
-6 &
-1/full 3 in Dodge		 Target is Dodging
-5 Attacker is riding a galloping horse
-3 Target is in a melee, occasionally obstructed (a miss by 2-5 means another target was hit)
-6 Target is in a melee, often obstructed (a miss by 2-5 means another target was hit)
Crossbow support
Off Condition
+1 Kneeling with crossbow
+3 Bracing crossbow
Lighting
Off Condition
-1 Twillight / Torchlight
-3 Moonlight (full moon)
-5 Starlight
-10 Darkness
Small target size
Off Condition
-7 Target 5 cm diameter
-4 Target 10 cm diameter
-2 Target 15 cm diameter

Adjustments are cummulative.

Evolutionary Magick

Do note that this system is currently not being developed.

The Evolutionary Magick is a new, simplified magic system that changes the way spells are learnt, and their effect as they level up. While making the system simpler, it also allows magic casters to easier get a larger variety of spells to use from. Currently the evolutionary magic system is being worked on, and is not finished.

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