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Members Must Be 18+:
This is an 18+ community and we delve into mature and dark themes on occasion during the course of our roleplay. Minors are not permitted in this space.

Be Respectful and Kind:
We are all here to have fun and make friends so please treat everyone with respect and kindness.Members may be new to RP in general - please give them grace.

Be Proactive and Engage with Others:Engage with others' characters and content where you can and share your own.Be proactive and seek out roleplay and connections.

No Generative AI:Please note that we prohibit the use of AI, and under no circumstances should AI generated art, writing, imagery, or otherwise be posted in our server.

Lore Abiding:We are generally lore abiding with some room for occasional lore bend. No outright lore breaking please.

Communication And Consent Are KeyCommunicate with your roleplay partners - if there is an issue, please talk it out! And remember IC is not OOC! If you're feeling worried during or after a scene, please touch base with the other person.Consent is key - if you're not sure if a theme is too heavy or an action is going too far - ASK. No maiming of others' characters or worse should ever take place without prior consent of all involved in the scene. Do not make decisions on behalf of another character without the player's consent.

Do Not Metagame, Powerplay or Godmod
It's okay to have a certain direction in mind for your RP, but do not use meta knowledge to force the flow of the RP for a desired outcome to an extreme degree.Your character cannot be flawless, perfect, better than everyone else around them at everything, immensely stronger than the average player character, and in general cannot be designed to be superior to other characters. We believe roleplay is a collaborative hobby, and about the story, not about winning or losing, and certainly not about one-upping others.

No ERP In FC Spaces
While we will delve into mature and dark themes on occasion, this is ultimately a safe for work space and we do not condone ERP in our public FC spaces. There are plenty of other spaces for this.

Strength:
A measure of your character's physical strength and muscle power. Characters with a high Strength probably spent a lot of time in the gym in high school. Characters with low Strength probably got beat up by the characters with high Strength. Rolls against Strength are used when characters try to break doors down, bend the bars on their prison cell, and do other feats that require sheer muscle power.

Control:
Control measures one's familiarity with their aether, and their ability to wield spells safely, accurately, and proficiently. Characters with high Control can thread lightning through a needle's eye. Characters with low Control would turn themselves into a lightning rod. Rolls against Control are made when lighting a torch with a fireball over a distance, aetheric medical procedures that require a steady hand, and operating nouliths.

Agility:
Agility measures the speed of a character's reactions. More or less, Agility describes how quickly an impulse is received by the brain, is encoded into the appropriate message, travels through the Central Nervous System, and reaches the character's arm, which appropriately jerks out of the way right before an arrow hits it. Characters with high Agility are jugglers and acrobats. Characters with low Agility dance with two left feet. Rolls against Agility are made when your character dodges a poison dart trap or attempts to jerk his arm out of the jaws of a goobbue before it bites it off.

Luck:
Perhaps the most ambiguous statistic, Luck is everything and nothing. Characters with a high amount of Luck just tend to have things go their way, and characters with a low amount of Luck always seem to be standing under the scaffolding just when someone drops that brick. Luck rolls determine matters of chance; coin-flips, gambling, games of chance. It can also determine the times when Lady Luck smiles on you during dire straits. Luck also allows characters to reroll failures by the following thresholds:1-4: Zero Rerolls
5-7: One Reroll
8: Two Rerolls
9: Three Rerolls

Perception:
Perception is your character's awareness and "street-smarts," sometimes called instinct or a "sixth sense." Perceptive characters notice details instantly, like smells, sounds, and sights that don't fit a "normal" picture. Perceptive characters tend to be able to read another person's reactions, and can even tell when another person is lying. Highly perceptive characters are private investigators. Characters with low Perception walk about in their own little world. Rolls against Perception are used when there is a little detail the character has a chance of noticing, such as the glisten off the arrowhead of a hunter taking an aim at his or her head.

Endurance:
Endurance measures the body’s constitution and overall health. Characters with a high Endurance have great immune systems, good cardiovascular fitness, and can outrun and outswim others. Characters with high Endurance can swim across the English Channel. Characters with low Endurance can drown in the kiddie pool. Rolls against Endurance determine things like whether your character can hang on to that rope over a canyon, or can resist a deadly cloud of toxins. Endurance also determines character's HP by the following thresholds:1-2: One Hitpoint
3-4: Two Hitpoints
5-6: Three Hitpoints
7-8: Four Hitpoints
9: Five Hitpoints

Reserves:
As it says on the tin, Reserves are a measure of a character's aetheric potential and magical reserves. Characters with high Aether Reserves can draw deep into their font to increase the potency of their spells. Characters with low Reserves would struggle to conjure even a lighter flame without appropriate training. Rolls against Reserves determine the 'oomph' of a fireball, whether a magic barrier will hold fast, and resistance to effects which drain or hamper one's innate aether.

Rolling:
There are two kinds of rolls to make in the system; Low Rolls, High Rolls.Low Rolls are D10 rolls made against any given stat against the environment. To pass, you must roll at or LOWER than the stat you are rolling with. For example, Susune wants to make a jump across a ravine. She'll roll a d10 against her agility, which is 7. She must roll a 7 or below to pass.High Rolls are D10 rolls made against other players/NPCs. To pass, both of the parties roll against a stat, and the higher roll wins. A bonus is applied to the player who has the higher stat based on the difference between the two.For example, Valleris and Marielle have an arm-wrestling competition. Both of their strength stat is 5. Valleris rolls a 6, and Marielle rolls a 7. Neither receive a bonus to their roll because their strength is the same. Marielle wins the High Roll. Folly challenges Marielle next, and she has a strength stat of 7. This gives her a +2 bonus against Marielle. Marielle rolls a 5, and Folly rolls a 4. However, Folly wins with a total of 6 due to the difference in their strength.Sometimes, the DM will state a critical roll. These can be either high or low rolls, and they inform the party that success or failure will have higher stakes than usual.Rolls for specific actions may require a D20 Low Roll, with the passing requirement being the added sum of two stats. An example of this would be something like lockpicking, which would require a D20 roll combining Control and Perception. Feel free to make up any other combinations of your own!

Injuries:
Every player will have a HP stat based on their total endurance. HP reaching 0 will have an effect on the player based on the circumstances, ranging from anywhere between being knocked out to injuries that can impede other stats.Healing rolls can be made to restore a character's HP by 1. Pass or fail, some time must pass before the action can be performed again. Multiple healers can heal one character for more than 1 HP at the same time.

Combat:
Another aim of SCALPER is to keep combat more free-form, and to keep it from bogging down the overall flow of the session. I try to keep away from the traditional 'take turns hitting big guy' scenarios. That being said, a combat scenario will work as follows.The party will declare an action (attack, heal, etc.) alongside the stat they wish to use for the roll. This will be a Low Roll. The enemy will then declare an attack, and depending on the circumstances, I will declare the defensive roll as either a Low Roll or High Roll. Rinse and repeat until someone is sufficiently beaten. All damage is taken as 1 HP, unless declared otherwise.

Conditions:
Anything specific not covered by stats are highlighted here. This can be anything from classes that provide certain bonuses, impediments, or anything else too specific that the DM should be aware of. Get creative! Part of the fun is implementing the numbers and dice into your character’s abilities and personality. A DM will vet the conditions and provide feedback if anything needs to be balanced.

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