7th ed Game rules and Posting Conventions

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7th ed Game rules and Posting Conventions

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Skill Rolls and Difficulty Levels
Your Keeper will tell you when you should attempt a skill roll and how difficult the task is.
A regular task requires a roll of equal to or less than your skill value on 1D100 (a regular success).
A difficult task requires a roll result equal to or less than half your skill value (a hard success).
A task approaching the limits of human capability requires a roll equal to or less than one-fifth of your skill value (an extreme success).
If you can justify it through your investigator’s actions, you can “Push” a failed skill roll. Pushing a roll allows you to roll the dice a second time. However, the stakes are raised. If you fail a second time the Keeper gets to inflict a dire consequence upon your character.
Example: You are trying to lever open the heavy stone door of a crypt. The Keeper decides this is very difficult and asks for a STR roll, specifying that a ‘hard success’ is required. You roll the dice but the result shows that you have failed, as you rolled above half your investigator’s STR. You ask if you can push the roll, stating that your character is using a spade to lever the door. The Keeper permits a second roll, but warns you that if you fail this roll not only will the door still be closed but ‘something‘ may hear you and could be coming for your blood!

Opposed Skill Rolls
If two investigators are opposing one another, or if an investigator is in a conflict with a significant non-player character (i.e. one for whom statistics are listed in the scenario), the Keeper may require an opposed roll. To resolve an opposed roll, both sides make a skill roll and compare their level of success. A Regular success beats a Fail, a Hard success beats a Regular success, an Extreme success beats a Hard success. In the case of a draw, the side with the higher skill value wins. If both skills are equal then have both sides roll 1D100, with the lower result winning.

As opposed to Bonus and Penalty dice in the core rules I shall be using the Advantage/Disvantage system favored by D&D.

For a task given an advantage the character rolls twice and uses the better of the two rolls. For rolls with a disadvantage the character rolls twice and uses the worst of the rolls (This is simply because the official system is a bit difficult to apply on the forum).

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Spending Luck
After the player has made a skill roll (using a skill or characteristic), Luck points may be spent to alter the result. The player can use Luck points to alter a roll on a 1-for-1 basis. The points spent are deducted from the investigator’s Luck score, which will reduce the chance of passing a future Luck roll.
Luck points may not be spent on Luck rolls, damage rolls, Sanity rolls, or rolls to determine the amount of Sanity points lost. A player may spend any amount of Luck points (up to their current Luck value) on a roll. A player may only spend Luck to alter one of their own dice rolls.

When a skill roll is failed, the player has the option to push the roll OR spend luck; Luck points may not be spent to alter the result of a pushed roll.
Criticals, fumbles, and _ rearm malfunctions always apply, and cannot be bought off with Luck points.
Also, no skill improvement check is earned if Luck points were used to alter the dice roll.
In play, an investigator’s Luck will fall through spends and rise through recovery (see below).

Recovering Luck points
Normally after each session of play, each player may make an improvement check for their Luck. This is rolled in the same way as for skill improvement. The player rolls 1D100 and if the roll is above their present Luck score they add 1D10 points to their Luck score. If the roll is equal to or less than the investigator’s present Luck score, no points are recovered. However since this is a one off scenario you are limited to the number of Luck points you began with.
Example: The Keeper rolls an Extreme success for a Dark Young to trample Harvey into the dust. Harvey fails to dodge with a roll of 35, far above his Dodge skill of 27. This is life or death, and so Harvey’s player spends 30 of Harvey’s Luck points to convert the failed Dodge roll to an Extreme success. Harvey avoids death by a hairsbreadth!
Harvey’s Luck is now down to 15 points, let’s hope Harvey doesn’t have to rely on his Luck any time soon
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Posting Conventions


These are quite simple, and follow those used elsewhere on this forum;
1. Post as often as you can (more is better) There is nothing that makes a game boring than having to wait ages for someone to post.
2. Please put your character’s name (once known) at the top of you posts. (Or use a suitable picture)
3. All names should be emboldened.
4. Anything you say should be coloured 'Blue' (or a suitable chosen colour)
5. Anything you think should be italicised and coloured 'Green' (Or use the suitable controls [ic-think])
6. OOC stuff should be coloured 'Red'. (Or use the suitable controls
OOC:   )
These conventions are in use elsewhere and seem to work.

Rate of post is important (for the above reason). Conflicts can slow it to a dead stop, therefore once any conflict begins the characters involved have twenty four hours to declare their actions, after this time limit I will NPC their character (possibly to their detriment). Likewise any player that has not posted for 7 days will find their character gone.
Whatever else CoC is a horror game, horror relies on atmosphere, and atmosphere has a very short shelf life. I will do my best to maintain atmosphere, but in the end it comes down to you the player.

Dice Rolls may be made via http://orokos.com/ or using the Forums own dice roller (I find ‘Orokos’ simpler, but that is just personal preference), but at the end of the day the choice of dice roller is up to you.  
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