ABS12: Favorable, unfavorable, defense, damage, nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, definitions

All the changes from this page will be added to the master game page at A Basic System 12 (ABS12).

The first thing I need to do is add a mechanic for situations that are favorable or unfavorable.

Situations: Favorable and Unfavorable
There will be certain periods of times that because of environmental, tactical, strategical, setting, psychological, social, emotional, or other reasons actions will be done more easily or difficult. These reasons could be weather, lighting, slope of a hill, a distraction, slippery surface, being under a fearful state, fighting in water, fighting behind an object, or almost anything.

If more than one condition both favorable and unfavorable exists in a situation the total for favorable must be weighed against the total unfavorable.  This comparison will determine whether or not the conditions cancel each other out or leaves the character with a more favorable or unfavorable total situation. Therefore, situations can be balanced having no modifier, favorable, or unfavorable. Balanced situations roll normal with 1d12 for the action.

If they are not balanced, the character will be in a favorable or unfavorable situation and will roll two dice.

Favorable: the higher of 2d12
If situations and influences are determined favorable, then to show that advantage the character rolls two dice instead of just one. The higher of the two rolls is picked for the result, and the lower roll is ignored.

Unfavorable: the lower of 2d12
If situations and influences are determined unfavorable, then to show that disadvantage the character rolls two dice instead of just one. The lower of the two rolls is picked for the result, and the higher roll is ignored.

Also, an explanatory section needs to be added in the character section describing defense and damage.

PL Defense
PL Defense is the amount of protection that natural or worn armor provides to a character.

PL Damage
PL Damage is the character's amount of  primary melee damage done if they hit the opponent during melee combat.

For certain sections I added language that describes the elements as nouns, definitions, verbs, adverbs, and adjectives. I do so to help sculpt the system into a story writing system if possible

Descriptions are nouns. Descriptions are definitions in that they define what a character can do (skills: verbs) and how a character does it (PL bonus: adverb or adjective). It represents overall skill and expertise.
Skills are verbs.
Power Level and Description Level are adverbs and adjectives.


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A Basic System 12 (ABS12) Part 2: Basic rules: skills, unskilled, combat, and power actions

The ABS12 needs some rules. Although I provided mechanical structure, I need to add process or procedure to those mechanics. These rules are written much like the first set of mechanics. No evaluation nor judgement will be made until they are tested. For now, they are just raw untested formulas and ideas.

They will be added to the current overall page.
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Skills 

Characters and opponents need to perform tasks or actions in a game. These skilled actions can either be something not covered by skills learned, covered by skills learned, combat action, or spell used.

Unskilled action

1d12 + PL
For actions not covered by definitions, use the PL only to modify rolls. This means that your experience of living and advancing helps you with everything, but that you do not receive an expertise bonus.

Skilled action

1d12 + PL + Definition Level
For actions covered by definitions, use the Pl and the Definition Level to modify rolls. This means that in addition to your experience of living and advancing you also receive expertise bonus for learning more about those types of actions.

Combat action - to hit

Offensive roll 1d12 + PL + Definition Level + PL Damage
Defensive roll 1d12 + PL + Definition Level + PL Defense
Whichever total is highest, wins. Ties we will say goes to the defensive person.

Combat action - damage

Defender PL Life - Weapon PL Damage
If the Offensive attacker exceeds the defensive defender, then the defender is damaged. Reduce the PL Life temporarily by the weapon PL Damage amount. If the PL Life is reduced to zero, the defender is dead.

Power action

Power roll 1d12 + PL + Definition Level
We will just say that the only requirement is to be able to see the target to launch a fireball or heal a player. The difficulty for range of spells will be in 10 feet increments beginning with Very Easy (roll 3 or higher0 up to 10 feet from the caster. For a fireball, the defender may make a defensive roll.


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