I know that some of the past contests I've tried to run have fizzled, but this one is different, as it requires less overall management from me.
DROD RPG is a great thing for those scripters among us, and for those of us who like fighting with known outcomes. But a true Stalwart must be ready for anything. A true Stalwart must prepare for the unexpected.
This contest pits you, a rookie Stalwart, into an arena against other rookie Stalwarts. But each will have come from a different battalion where they were trained in the art of...Stalwarting.
Now, everybody knows that Stalwarts start with 500 health, 10 attack, and 10 defense. But since your troop knows that you are heading into the arena, they have allowed you to have 100 points of training.
One point of training can improve your Stalwarts in the following manner:
1. Gain 10 points of health.
2. Gain 1 attack.
3. Gain 1 defense.
Ten points of training can net your Stalwart
1. Bravery. (Hit your opponent first, if they do not also have Bravery.)
2. Skill. (Deflect the blow from the opponent, with a 1/6th probability of success.)
3. Courage. (Gain 1/10th of the health you deplete from your opponent with 1/2 probability of success per strike.)
Edit: You may only purchase one of each of these. You may not buy 2 courages, or 3 skills. They do not stack. I suppose you actually could buy more than one, but that would not be very efficient on your part.
End edit.
Each player will choose how to distribute his or her 100 points, and notify the Arena Master privately (PM me.) At the same time, you will notify the Arena Master of the order in which you would like to face your opponents.
That is to say, you will be creating a list of the other Stalwarts in this battle, with the first being the Stalwart you would most like to face. These lists will be made public once the battles have been set. (To choose the battles, in each round, the lowest summed fight will be fought--if there are two Stalwarts who wish to face each other most in the first round, they will fight. Those fighters will then be eliminated from the match-making, and the same procedure of smallest sum will be applied until the last. I realize this is not an efficient algorithm for choosing the matches, but it is the algorithm I will use.)
During each battle, the two rookie Stalwarts will fight each other. A stalwart who has Bravery will strike first against a Stalwart who does not have Bravery. If both have Bravery (or if both do not), the Stalwart with the lowest health will strike first. If there is a tie for health, the Stalwart who submitted their choices to the Arena Master first will strike first. For the other two skills, I will be rolling dice and flipping coins like mad.
All battles will be conducted in a similar style to fighting monsters in RPG. One Stalwart strikes, then the other. If two Stalwarts are unable to harm each other via attacking, they will resort to verbal threats, and the Stalwart with the higher willpower (health) will be the victor. If they are still tied after this check, the most valiant Stalwart who fought but lost will take the place of these lame-O Stalwarts who couldn't find the nerve to stab each other. The lame Stalwarts are then treated as losers.
After each round, the winner of each battle will gain half of each of the health, attack, and defense of the loser added onto their base stats, rounding up (not retaining any halvsies). Skills are non-transferable. Each round is a fresh round--the fighters heal their wounds to their new full base, and gain their attack and defense appropriately. The results of battles will be made public, and the winners will submit new lists of fighters they wish to face. These results include the gains to the base, but not the base themselves.
Stalwarts are boastful--they can also say whatever they choose about their base stats in public before the matches are submitted.
The lone remaining Stalwart will be declared the winner, and receive 10 points.
The second-place finisher will not be declared the winner, but will still gain 5 points.
There will be a round between the Stalwarts defeated in the semifinals, worth 3 points.
Tl:dr; Distribute your points and make a list of who you want to fight.
8 Stalwarts to start, 16 for awesomeness. Entry notification due by
Local Time:07-25-2009 at 10:00 PM, which is in
negative 768 weeks, 5 days. If we don't have enough participants by then, the deadline will be extended until 8 are submitted. First come first serve. If we're close to 16, we may wait a bit.
Good luck!
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[Last edited by zex20913 at 07-22-2009 02:34 PM]
