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Garagas follows and gazes in delighted awe at the fanciness of the Augustus residence. "Will Lord Augustus be joining us soon?" he asks the red-garbed man.

[[OOC: The Scab Armor doesn't seem be mechanically correct for what you're describing. Might I suggest to instead use (studded) leather armor as a base and give it a +5 bonus. (Might want to use +x as as the base item. I'm not a homebrew expert by any means either, but just thinking here.]]

 [[OCC: good idea, I will. Is the scorcher ok?]]

 

"What do you mean?" He replies. "You have yet to prove yourself worthy of his presence before you can formally meet him. In the meantime,where would you like to go? And before you ask what Amenities we have, think about what you would like to do, and I'm sure we have it. You have 24 hours of leisure before the practice war."

 Lazaren hears this, and asks, "Is there anywhere I could practice combat? And might there be a library? And, sorry, but one more question: What is the practice war, and how will it work?" 

"Glad I'm not the only one surprised by a practice war requirement." mutter Garagas quietly to himself. He too awaits the man's reply.

[[OOC: Scorcher also seems to have some issues too. Instead of 5d10+DEX it's 3d6+(Dex&PB?). Though from one time that I tried to homebrew a 2d6 shortsword to represent Hunter's Mark on a ranger, I'm not sure how to effectively change the damage dice on a weapon.]]

"We have combat training houses, and multiple vast library's. The Practice war is a yearly (Earth year) event that all the houses send there new Lancers to for a friendly contest, and to see what qualities the new Lancers possess. Mind you, with all this tension around the families, it won't be very friendly."

[[OOC: How about this: No one is going to be using a scorcher for the moment, so when we do use one, we just roll the d20 with whatever bonus to hit you have and roll damage normally as well. We don't necessarily need the weapon to be spot on in your character sheet. Is that ok?]]

*Btw this is my 1000 post, yay!*

[[OOC: New rule: If you manage to get advantage on an attack from surprise of stealth, you can choose to attack normally or you can attempt to press your weapon against the back of your enemies head. For this to work your enemy has to be humanoid. Your weapon has to be a sword, dagger or gun. Make a Slight of hand check against your enemies acrobatics check. If you get the lowest then your enemy moves out of the way and you lose your surprise round. If you get highest you succeed.  If you succeed and wish to shoot/cut them after this, make another slight of hand check contested by their Acrobatics check. If you win the contest you hit with a crit. if you lose they escape and you lose your surprise round. The same thing happens if you enemy tries to move away.  How does that sound? tell me if you don't understand any of it.]]

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[[OOC: New rule: If you manage to get advantage on an attack from surprise of stealth, you can choose to attack normally or you can attempt to press your weapon against the back of your enemies head. For this to work your enemy has to be humanoid. Your weapon has to be a sword, dagger or gun. Make a Slight of hand check against your enemies acrobatics check. If you get the lowest then your enemy moves out of the way and you lose your surprise round. If you get highest you succeed.  If you succeed and wish to shoot/cut them after this, make another slight of hand check contested by their Acrobatics check. If you win the contest you hit with a crit. if you lose they escape and you lose your surprise round. The same thing happens if you enemy tries to move away.  How does that sound? tell me if you don't understand any of it.]]

 [[OOC: I think I get it, but I'm trying to see it playing out in my head. Like, wondering how effective it is]] 

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[[OOC: New rule: If you manage to get advantage on an attack from surprise of stealth, you can choose to attack normally or you can attempt to press your weapon against the back of your enemies head. For this to work your enemy has to be humanoid. Your weapon has to be a sword, dagger or gun. Make a Slight of hand check against your enemies acrobatics check. If you get the lowest then your enemy moves out of the way and you lose your surprise round. If you get highest you succeed.  If you succeed and wish to shoot/cut them after this, make another slight of hand check contested by their Acrobatics check. If you win the contest you hit with a crit. if you lose they escape and you lose your surprise round. The same thing happens if you enemy tries to move away.  How does that sound? tell me if you don't understand any of it.]]

 [[OOC: I think I get it, but I'm trying to see it playing out in my head. Like, wondering how effective it is]] 

 [[OOC: I couldn't really think of any other way to do it. I thought Slight of hand and acrobatics worked the best. Vitus will probably know what to do]]

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[[OOC: New rule: If you manage to get advantage on an attack from surprise of stealth, you can choose to attack normally or you can attempt to press your weapon against the back of your enemies head. For this to work your enemy has to be humanoid. Your weapon has to be a sword, dagger or gun. Make a Slight of hand check against your enemies acrobatics check. If you get the lowest then your enemy moves out of the way and you lose your surprise round. If you get highest you succeed.  If you succeed and wish to shoot/cut them after this, make another slight of hand check contested by their Acrobatics check. If you win the contest you hit with a crit. if you lose they escape and you lose your surprise round. The same thing happens if you enemy tries to move away.  How does that sound? tell me if you don't understand any of it.]]

 [[OOC: I think I get it, but I'm trying to see it playing out in my head. Like, wondering how effective it is]] 

 [[OOC: I couldn't really think of any other way to do it. I thought Slight of hand and acrobatics worked the best. Vitus will probably know what to do]]

 [[OOC: Hah, yeah, probably]] 

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"We have combat training houses, and multiple vast library's. The Practice war is a yearly (Earth year) event that all the houses send there new Lancers to for a friendly contest, and to see what qualities the new Lancers possess. Mind you, with all this tension around the families, it won't be very friendly."

 

[[OOC: How about this: No one is going to be using a scorcher for the moment, so when we do use one, we just roll the d20 with whatever bonus to hit you have and roll damage normally as well. We don't necessarily need the weapon to be spot on in your character sheet. Is that ok?]]

*Btw this is my 1000 post, yay!*

"Sounds like a plan!" Lazaren says to the man. "We won't die during the practice war, will we?" 

[[OOC: Also, congrats on 1,000!]] 

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"Sounds like a plan!" Lazaren says to the man. "We won't die during the practice war, will we?" 

[[OOC: Also, congrats on 1,000!]] 

 "Not unless you are foolish, or you anger a Bellona, dominus."

[[OOC: Thanks!]]

"I'll try my best, then." he replies, grinning. 

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"I'll try my best, then." he replies, grinning. 

 "Good idea, dominus. Where would you like to go? You now have," He looks at a screen on his arm, "23 hours and 51 minutes until you board you ship for the war."

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"I'll try my best, then." he replies, grinning. 

 "Good idea, dominus. Where would you like to go? You now have," He looks at a screen on his arm, "23 hours and 51 minutes until you board you ship for the war."

 "One of those combat training houses sounds nice. And eventually, my quarters, please, but not just yet." 

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"I'll try my best, then." he replies, grinning. 

 "Good idea, dominus. Where would you like to go? You now have," He looks at a screen on his arm, "23 hours and 51 minutes until you board you ship for the war."

 "One of those combat training houses sounds nice. And eventually, my quarters, please, but not just yet." 

 "Of course."  The man in red and 5 other soldiers lead you down a few halls to a surprisingly near gym. The lead soldier pulls a sword of the rack to your left for himself, and then, making sure to have a cloth over his hand so he doesn't touch it, he brings over a Razor and hands it to you.  The Razor is a weapon of beauty,  with a shining silver blade and a gold hilt. it feels as light as a feather. The blade changes depending on your environment, going short and broad in small spaces and long and thin in large ones.  But the blade seems to be blunted.

"Would you take me on in a duel, dominus?"

*This Razor does no damage, but normal ones do a ludicrous 10d10 damage. This is to make things more realistic, as irl one good hit from a sword could easily kill some one. Crits with Razors kill with one hit, no death saves. Only certain spells can save you from a Razor crit. Tip: Don't get hit by one of these.*

[[OOC: I will try not to add any more homebrew rules now lol.]]

[[OOC: With the new homebrew, as I'm understanding it, it's essentially choosing between having a surprise round. Or you can make two rolls against the opponent's Acrobatics with Sleight of Hand to guarantee a critical hit. Whereas not taking this option would just be a normal roll, correct?

Doesn't seem unbalance on first thoughts. There's two times for potential failure. So it seems like a situational thing to decide, given the normal non-contested surprise would still have its innate 5% chance of a crit.]]

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"I'll try my best, then." he replies, grinning. 

 "Good idea, dominus. Where would you like to go? You now have," He looks at a screen on his arm, "23 hours and 51 minutes until you board you ship for the war."

 "One of those combat training houses sounds nice. And eventually, my quarters, please, but not just yet." 

 "Of course."  The man in red and 5 other soldiers lead you down a few halls to a surprisingly near gym. The lead soldier pulls a sword of the rack to your left for himself, and then, making sure to have a cloth over his hand so he doesn't touch it, he brings over a Razor and hands it to you.  The Razor is a weapon of beauty,  with a shining silver blade and a gold hilt. it feels as light as a feather. The blade changes depending on your environment, going short and broad in small spaces and long and thin in large ones.  But the blade seems to be blunted.

"Would you take me on in a duel, dominus?"

*This Razor does no damage, but normal ones do a ludicrous 10d10 damage. This is to make things more realistic, as irl one good hit from a sword could easily kill some one. Crits with Razors kill with one hit, no death saves. Only certain spells can save you from a Razor crit. Tip: Don't get hit by one of these.*

 *super cool, thanks!* 

"Thank you for the offer... I think I will!" Lazaren says, taking the Razor and getting into a dueling position. (using your homebrew dueling rules? And what's the Razor stats?) 

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[[OOC: With the new homebrew, as I'm understanding it, it's essentially choosing between having a surprise round. Or you can make two rolls against the opponent's Acrobatics with Sleight of Hand to guarantee a critical hit. Whereas not taking this option would just be a normal roll, correct?

Doesn't seem unbalance on first thoughts. There's two times for potential failure. So it seems like a situational thing to decide, given the normal non-contested surprise would still have its innate 5% chance of a crit.]]

 [[OOC: I think it's fair, as it will be rather hard to sneak up on people that are within your movement range. If it becomes overpowered then I will just increase NPC and monster passive perception.]]

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"I'll try my best, then." he replies, grinning. 

 "Good idea, dominus. Where would you like to go? You now have," He looks at a screen on his arm, "23 hours and 51 minutes until you board you ship for the war."

 "One of those combat training houses sounds nice. And eventually, my quarters, please, but not just yet." 

 "Of course."  The man in red and 5 other soldiers lead you down a few halls to a surprisingly near gym. The lead soldier pulls a sword of the rack to your left for himself, and then, making sure to have a cloth over his hand so he doesn't touch it, he brings over a Razor and hands it to you.  The Razor is a weapon of beauty,  with a shining silver blade and a gold hilt. it feels as light as a feather. The blade changes depending on your environment, going short and broad in small spaces and long and thin in large ones.  But the blade seems to be blunted.

"Would you take me on in a duel, dominus?"

*This Razor does no damage, but normal ones do a ludicrous 10d10 damage. This is to make things more realistic, as irl one good hit from a sword could easily kill some one. Crits with Razors kill with one hit, no death saves. Only certain spells can save you from a Razor crit. Tip: Don't get hit by one of these.*

 *super cool, thanks!* 

"Thank you for the offer... I think I will!" Lazaren says, taking the Razor and getting into a dueling position. (using your homebrew dueling rules? And what's the Razor stats?) 

 [[Yes, homebrew dueling please, and Dex or Str+PB to hit with the Razor.]]

No initiative, as it's just the two of you you can just take turns. The Soldier is feeling slightly overconfident, and strikes first. With a swing of his long sword, aiming for your legs, he misses as you jump over the top of his blade.

[[OOC: So you don't see the to hit modifiers of your enemies, I'm rolling to hit irl. Btw I did the math and Yondor your duel armor class is 24]]

Edit: Feel free to attack back when you're ready.