Doodle sheet: CERP 2.5 rules.

[Anubis]

This is me building up a set of rules from the same core assumptions as CERP... but doing it consistantly. I may end up using logical operators here, so it may be hard to read, so I'll try to summarize as I go.

Premices:
1IP = +5 HP = +5 EP = +1 DP = +1 LP permanantly.
1 action = 5 damage
+4 EP cost = +5 damage
Stat caps: 10 IP per rank (partial rank in CERP)
1IP = +1damage permananty.

All that should be familiar to CERPers. From here, we make a few basic assumptions that CERP also made.

+2 EP= +2 damage (derivitive of premice 3)
+1EP= +1 damage (derivitive of premice 3)
5 damage = "costs an extra DP to evade" (derivitave of premice 1- 5 HP= 1 DP)
1 LP = 1 action (premises 1 and 2)

...And now for the big step away...

1 turn = healing 1 IP of a stat, +1 IP of a stat per 4 EP spent.

There is an abuse there, but it's not particularly gamebreaking. For every 25 EP a user has left, they can spend it, dump it into healing 25 EP, AND heal 1 other IP.

This would not count as an attack, which makes a revision to Stun possible:

Stun (x): In addition to other effects, the target cannot attack until it spends (x) LP [+4 EP per (x)]

So if the target doesn't evade, doesn't have LP, and doesn't spend EP to speed up the process, it will take (x) turns to break free of stun.











Later concepts:

Equipment enhancements:
+5 damage for +4 EP to any attack is a single equipment slot. It has mor flexibility, in that it can affect any attack, but it takes an equipment slot.
-1 EP if the enhancement affects only a specific type or element. (so, by downgrading the effect, you could have +1 damage to Fire for 0EP)
-2 EP if the enhancement can only affect an attack that is BOTH a specific type and a specific element. (So, +2 damage to a fire spell for 0 EP, but it wouldn't affect either a flamethrower or a cold spell)
-3 EP if it only enhances one named attack. (so, +3 damage for 0 EP,or +5 damage for 1 EP... or +1DP to evade, or other status effects)

[Anubis]

Next rule tweak- 1/3 defence reduces the value of status effects by 1/3, instead of affecting duration or "all or nothing" dice rolls. Also, if hit by a new copy of a status already on you, the one with the higher value remains, whatever it's duration.

so, if you 2/3 dodge Burn 4, you get hit with Burn 1 for 3 rounds, not Burn 4 for 1 round. If you get hit again the next round and don't dodge, Burn 4 overwrites the Burn 1, but does not stack.

This makes calculation of some ststus effects a lot easier-

Burn 2 costs the same as 3 damage (half cost, but only usable 1/3 of the time, since it doesn't stack)
Wound 1 costs the same as 7.5 damage (assuming an averave game of 15 turns, it's worth 2x if done the first turn, but from that point it's useless the rest of the game)

"Cannot dodge this attack" is a special status, that cannot be applied to equipment. because it's more effective against peoplewith more DP, the EP cost for not being able to dodge it is based on the number of DP thetarget has remaining

+1DP to dodge would cost 4 EP, so because this automatically scales, It is bumped 50%, for 6 EP per DP the target has left.

Same goes for "The target cannot dodge next turn"- 6 EP per DP the target has left. Needless to say, it gets very expensive, very fast.


Defensivce Equipment

+5 defence per 4 EP, same as offence, but...
-3 EP if you are limited to defending against only one type or element
-6 EP (goint into +10 defence for 8 EP, -6) if you are defending against an attack that is BOTH of two chosen types/elements
- 9 EP if the defence only applys to one specific attack. This must be quested for.