My Turf. (Open to anyone!)

Yo-yo-yo Trey!

So essentially to use the combat system you're going to be working with two things. Dice codes and damage. This is how you're going to impose damage on your opponent. A standard tribute has 40 damage points total. They start out with 0. If the damage on that tribute exceeds or matches 40, then they are dead.

You can attack with any number of weapons. These weapons include your standard knives, swords, bow and arrow, axe, and spears. But you also attack unarmed, with blunts, thrown objects, and throw knives.

You'll find all of your options here. To make an attack you just have to copy and paste the dice code from that handy dandy table and put it in your post. After you publish a post, you cannot change the damage afflicted with that dice roll, even if you attempt to reroll. It is stuck there forever.

So if I wanted to attack with just my fists, I would use an unarmed code which is [dice=200 +5000] without the spaces.

Okay let me attack you.
[dice=200+5000]
[result would go here --> Bruised Left Forearm, 2 damage]

so once I'm done with this post I have to find the result, right? Well that's easy enough! To do that you need to look to the left of your screen at the little boxes beneath the cbox. Find the box that says Attack Damage Lookup, and then type in the numbers. Press the [Check] box and your damage will pop up. This is what you inflicted to the opponent!

Once you've mastered this, you can go onto fire combat, training stations, and other things. But I suppose we should just have a standard one weapon against one weapon fight. Choose wisely. (:

Ouch! That hurt! I'm glad you figured out how to find the damage system though. You can also go here and that should function the same way. Of course, I'm not sure if it will work for you. If you ever catch Aya (an admin), you could ask her for help, she's a whiz at tech stuff. ^^

Anyway, next I will show you fire damage, since most of the tributes in the games use it. In order to do a fire attack you must have the following items:

A jar of tar - you cannot light any weapons on fire without this! Tar costs real site money whilst your in the games, so if you need any, you'll either have to get lucky and get it during the bloodbath (or take it from a tribute that you kill who has some), or you'll have to ask people to sponsor you. Tar starts at $2000 and goes up from there. Tar is only good for one use (i.e. lighting a knife on fire one time), unless you have projectile weapons such as arrows for bows and arrows and throwing knives. You can light up to six of those on fire with one use of tar. This is helpful because even if one is extinguished, you have five more chances to have a fire attack!

Either:
1 Match - You need this to light your tar on fire. Otherwise, you can coat your weapon in tar all you want but its not going to do anything. Alternatively you could have a Flint, which you can use as many times as you want!
Firemaking - You can also opt to take the firemaking station. This allows you to skip using matches or a flint and just use tar to light your weapon on fire. Handy, huh? Unfortunately you can only have three stations during the games, and maybe one exemption if you're lucky and the gamemaker approves it. Most people take stealth, first aid, and either firemaking or plants. Personally I took Stealth/First Aid/Blades and exempted Firemaking. But we can talk about training stations later!

Okay, since this is a just for fun fight, we don't have to worry about any of that. You can use whatever weapon you want, and you can light it on fire as many times as you want, since you have infinite wealth in the just for fun universe!

The dice code for fire damage is [dice =50] without the spaces.

Let me use it now to demonstrate. I'm going to light a sword on fire.

[Meghan lights a sword on fire]
[dice=200+1000]
[Shallow Cut on Left Calf, 3.5 damage]

Fire damage:
[dice=50]
[extinguished - this means I'd either have to have a new jar of tar or I'd be unable to fire attack again. since this is a jff, we'll let it slide. ^^]

Okay so now that I have my roll, I'm going to have to look up what the damage gave me. Luckily there's a chart for that, which you can find right here. The number on the white box where your dice code was tells you what your damage number is. Go to that page and look at the corresponding chart. It will tell you what you did. So for example, your attack could be a 23, which is a mild burn. That gives the opponent 2 additional damage points. Ouch!

Finally, and this is very important, when using fire attacks in the games, you have to remember to light your weapon in your introductory post. Otherwise it will not count. If Beatrice had thrown her shoe at somebody with a blunt projectile code for her first attack, and then proceeded to light her dagger on fire in her next attack, it wouldn't count for her. How will you light a weapon on fire in the middle of a battle? You're fighting for your life, you do not have time for such things. Look at Hope Woodards from the current games. Emery set her on fire while she was trying to relight her sword. You don't want it to happen to you! (of course, Emery got an instakill with a roll of 50, but the point stands).

Also, remember to post your fire code underneath your weapon code. Otherwise, again, it will not count. You can't hit somebody with fire before you hit them with your weapon, unless you are some sort of weird pyromanic, but that's a different universe and doesn't count here!

Anyway, I hope that helped. I'll edit in my attack results above and you can see what I did to you. Feel free to respond with your own fire attack, and obviously you can use a bow and arrow if you want. Remember, if you use fire you can use it on six arrows!

Now you're getting it! Just remember that if somebody rolls an extinguish, that means they don't do any damage against you!

Let me attack you again. This time I'm going to light a severed head on fire and throw it at you using a blunt projectile code. This is what I like to call a creative weapon. Gamemakers often encourage tributes to attack with creative items rather than their weapons. You could attack somebody with a foot, a leg, an arm, or even a head. I've seen people attack with pliers before! Usually you need to private message the gamemaker in charge to see if what you want to do is okay, but typically they approve those sorts of weapons. ^^

[lights head on fire]
[dice=200+8000]
[Gash/Bruised Left Hand, 3.0 damage]

[dice=50]
[extinguished, 0.0 damage]

My total damage: 10.5/40.0