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Hello friends!

The first question that you might be asking yourself, should you find yourself, in this board is 'What the heck is a scenario?'

While there are major site events every few months that the Events Team run, scenarios are a level below that. The intent for this system is to enable people who are not part of the Events Team to DM threads and set up cool things like missions and set pieces for their own personal plots.

Okay, so it's a step below events. How does it work?

You post up a completed template, including who is going to be part of that scenario and an overview of what you want to do. The template can be found at the bottom of this post.

What are the rewards?

If there are four or more people in the thread, as per the experience rules there will be a 10% bonus to all involved.

If the storyteller completes a thread with three or more PCs that do not belong to the storyteller, they will receive a 150% bonus to their XP total at the end of the thread. This bonus does not stack with anything else.

General Guidelines:

1. Do not harass anyone to run scenarios for you. The DM pool is anyone willing to do it, and being a jerk is a great way to ensure that nobody is willing to do it.

2. If it effects the site plot or has drastic implications for the entire site, it generally won't get approved. Lifting up Haven Academy into the sky, for example, is not a thing that can happen. Focus on what you want to accomplish, and find a way to get there that seems reasonable. Staff are willing to work with you to hash out an idea that's close, but really out of the window things like the floating school can't be worked with. Scenarios are not meant to be site-wide changes, they're meant to be a step below that and hold changes and perhaps even legitimate danger for a small group of characters and consequences/repercussions should generally be kept to those characters and smaller scale.

3. Solo scenarios are allowed, but it all must be done in one post. The maximum experience gained in these solo scenarios is 10. This is an active discouragement of people writing with themselves. This is a forum play by post site, and the expectation is that you are here to roleplay with other people.

4. Per the July Update Huntsmen missions are now available for anyone to run with a condition. That condition is that a faculty member or a Sophomore Tier (2350 combat XP) student must be available in order to act as 'team leader' for every mission that is not E-ranked or lower and immediately beside the City of Mistral. Sending kids on suicidal runs is not a thing that Haven condones, so we're not doing it.

5. As an addition to the last point, per the midterm only students who passed the midterms can go on Huntsman missions without a faculty member present. The far-reaching clause is revoked, and any team consisting of trainees who passed the midterm are eligible for E-rank or below Huntsman missions throughout Mistral. D rank requires a Sophomore Tier character or a faculty member.

6. Difficulty is done by tier. Going by the chart here basically the intent is to get a clearer indication of danger level for particular PCs. Each tier can also have a - or a + symbol afterwards, with the former indicating the difficulty is on the low end and a + indicating that it is on the high end. Freshman-, for example, could be loosely defined as a scenario designed for characters with between 725-1200 total XP. Characters an entire tier above the difficulty level generally receive partial or no extra rewards for completing a scenario, and character two tiers above never gain extra experience or EP from completing a scenario that far below their power level. Scenarios above Freshman+ can be ran with staff approval.


Template

[b]Name:[/b] The name of the Scenario. The thread title should be the name as well as an [OPEN] tag if the scenario has open signups or [CLOSED] tag if you have a predetermined list of people you want to be part of the group.

[b]Scenario Rank:[/b] Freshman+ is the highest allowed at this time.

[b]Scenario Genre (Optional):[/b]

[b]Death Enabled:[/b] Yes/No

[b]Number of Characters Supported:[/b] How many characters can sign up for this Scenario?

[b]Scenario Overview:[/b] Give a description of the scenario here. It doesn't need to be lengthy, just a brief overview of what types of things it will contain. If you want some super special surprise, just note that in the overview and talk with the staffer reviewing it privately if you are worried about it effecting the acceptance of the scenario. This is your advertisement to get people to join, so it's up to you to sell your scenario as something worth signing up for and posting in.

[b]Members:[/b] A list of people participating in your Scenario that you are expected to update.

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Challenge Rating List

This is mainly for storytellers and others who wish to run mini-events and scenarios, and lists what rating a particular Grimm causes a scenario to be. There is no particular order within the tiers.

Rank F

Creep

Nevermore Chick

Lancers

Ursa Minor

Small and Large Beowolves

Ravagers

Rank E

Boarbatusk

Ursa Major

Sabyr

Rank D

Queen Lancer

Death Stalker

'Normal' Nevermore

Beowolf Alpha

Manticore

Rank C

King Taijitu

Giant Nevermore

Sea Feilong

Rank B

Beringel

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The following table outlines the hit chance against an enemy when comparing an ACCURACY SKILL (MARTIAL ARTS/MARKSMANSHIP) against AGILITY when resolved by a TEN SIDED DICE ROLL(1d10) done PUBLICLY ON DISCORD:

Note: Attacking with an ACCURACY skill 3 ranks higher than the defending AGILITY skill will result in a 100% chance to hit. Similarly, defending with an AGILITY skill 3 ranks higher than an ACCURACY skill will always result in a 0% chance to hit.

DISCLAIMER: This chart is extremely experimental and is thus only included in the Scenario Board for storytellers to playtest. Anyone who sends you this chart in a non-DMed thread can be safely ignored unless both participants agree to its use for playtesting purposes. Combat moderators can overrule these rolls, as well, mostly to prevent cases where a dice roll condemns a character to die or be horrifically maimed in a wildly inappropriate context.

Additional note: The Clock Rule states that while multiple attacks can be done in a post, each must use the damage value of a different ability and must have an accuracy use that makes sense. The accuracy skill can be the same for multiple attacks, but each instance of damage must be its own separate skill.

For instance, you can use your telekinesis semblance to attack with your telekinesis accuracy for an attack that uses your semblance damage once and your weapon damage a second time. You can also attack using your fire manipulation semblance using the attack and accuracy from that skill once and once with your rifle weapon using weapon damage and marksmanship for the second attack. Multiple attacks are allowed but require heavy experience investment, in other words. This rule applies to Grimm as well.

Edit 05/30/20: Those who have agility now have the option to spend their entire post dodging, which allows them to roll 2d10 rather than 1d10 and take the better result.

Edit 5/30/20 EXPERIMENTAL: It is noted that agility by itself is not sufficient, but that buffing agility in a way that also benefits those who double dipped both agility and durability is detrimental to game health. The compromise is that if your character has agility but not durability, the enemy attacks with a roll of 1d10-1 rather than 1d10. The number rolled can never be lower than a 1. This is an experimental change to be ran over the next few months, and is very subject to change as time goes on.

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The optional Genre descriptor for scenarios was implemented in December 2019. This feature is implemented due to the recognition that people's styles and expectations when going into scenarios are wildly different and it helps people find which ones are genres they want to play more. Some DMs have preferred styles, but newer members may not know those preferred styles in advance and this gives them a forewarning especially in Death Enabled events. These genres include but are not limited to:

Realism, which does not mean that things are supposed to be close to the real world. This is a world with giant nightmare monsters who want to murder humanity and superpowers. It is literary realism, which basically is going to be defined as actions having consequences that can absolutely include negative ones that are permanent. It is taking the fantasy premise and applying logic to the setting and making sure that a ten story drop to look super heroic results in you going flat on the pavement. Shounen logic will likely get you killed in any death enabled event with this tag. This type represents high personal danger to the PCs, with death/injury/etc. of characters without the consent of the roleplayer usually being enabled.

Drama/Thriller as defined here is going to focus on characters who are in danger that deal with emotional/moral/psychological issues as a main obstacle as a group with the main source of tension being the unpredictability of others in the scenario and the capacity for any one of them to bring doom to the group. The enemy in this type of scenario is likely to be either not physically there or too powerful for the characters to win anywhere close to a fair fight against. A town surrounded by a thousand Grimm and the struggle to stay alive and not attract the horde before help arrives would be an example. Usually paired with realism. This type of narrative usually scales in difficulty with the characters involved, who can choose to get everyone killed or captured very easily in most scenarios.

Mystery/Puzzle as defined here is going to be focused on the solving of a crime or another form of uncovering secrets. Clues are expected to be provided, but combat will either be low to non-existent. Characters are expected to use their wits to solve an issue before any change can be made to the situation. A common condition for this type of scenario is that the initial hurdle needs to be cleared or the characters involved just miss the clues entirely and have no idea they missed an adventure.

Shounen as defined here are action/adventure focused scenarios. Underdogs who defy the odds to win in soft power systems are usually the focus, and in this type of scenario the point is for the characters to feel like protagonists and do unique things that only they can do. Some level of plot armor exists where it doesn't in most other styles, because the premise is generally a protagonist-focused narrative that rewards the hard work of those protagonists with being able to solve conflicts in the story. High action with low personal danger to the PCs are hallmarks of this as defined here.

Slice of Life as defined here represent mundane experiences that have zero danger to the PCs involved and generally have stakes that are only social in nature. There is often no coherent plot or conflict to these types of scenarios, and just represent a portion of the character's lives that for one reason or another is highlighted with a thread. A school dance is an example of this type of scenario where there is no physical danger but there could be significant social ramifications if characters made an ass of themselves while there.