I'm back and forth on it. I actually wanna use a tournament where the characters fall into a format.

Element + Related Secondary Element + Weapon + Weapon Manipulation:

In other words, the theme I used for a good bit of the original resistance characters:

Trent: Earth/Metal/Staff: Can manipulate earth and metal, as well as the size and weight of the different staves he uses.

Jet: Wind/Smoke/Nunchaku: See Above

Levius: Water/Ice/Trident: See Above

Worren: Fire/Heat/Ninja Weapons: See Above

Derik: Electricity/Magnetism/Chains: See Above

There were others as well, I forget his name, but he manipulated plants and animals, and bladed tonfa.

For rookies, it'd be a good way to get involved and have a bit of practice, without shit getting all complicated with manipulating all kinds of other shit.

You develop your format for a fair tourney. We need another tourney in the rotation you develop it.

Isn't that pretty much what Rilla is doing with Allaria?

Yeah, a format template with more carefully considered stat limits would be good for a fair tourny. Something interesting would be a base human template, with average strength speed and agility, and then the option to min-max on those stats, followed by a low level power.

Almost like a battle between DnD characters.

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I was actually more interested in setting up a persistent Arena RP with a DnD style and the classic tavern. Where more human/med fantasy characters could fight it out and people could sign up to play monsters and stuff for groups to fight. I always thought it would be cool to go back to a lower tier more story driven narrative for a while, tone everything down as we're straying a little high for my personal tastes.

I'll probably never have time to do it though.

I am not for stats myself, but some like having a number. To each their own.

T1 isn't the best solution, but I also think that free form combat should be kept free form. Numbers just ruin the simple elegance. I think Skallagrim has some kind of rule set in his mind (or actually written and published that I just haven't found yet) that might fix this and might just need a little more peer review and testing before being able to be put out for the few of us who are actually here.

We're a small community though, so there are some unspoken rules which are pretty much just Arena etiquette; for instance, not being able to attack on the first post.

Numbers are used to described the surrounding world same as words. To me, they have the same right to exist in a combat roleplay as a comparative description: saying that you can punch down a concrete wall is same to me as saying that your punch carries half a million joules in it.

Sadly, that doesn't help newbies just popping in. I might've been mentored by Tearstone and Lyzan, but the later I forgot a bit of what I was taught as I never got to practice it.

For example, I'm researching number Hz and such to get an idea of Jacer's enhanced ability as well as keeping it above human but not some "super beast"using an animal's range that slightly less than say a bat. Which from many resources is a very good listener. XP