Fate/Bloodbath

Game Master acecipher

Its not that bad, I've played it before, once you know what it all means its ez to figure out

Present.

I have a few questions about the system, I remember you mentioning we can only command our Servants but not fully control them, are these simply our orders to them? Whether they do them or not entirely depends on their loyalty, independent action, mad enhancement, etc?

Are we allowed to make our own *a sections? Since I noticed you didn't add any defensive orders like guard evade disengage or counter.

Is there a limit to skills and phantasms per bout? I'm assuming both cost the Master mana so spamming it wouldn't be a good idea, but some classes rely on spells like Caster, would they have mana reduction costs?

How would Servant's passive skills play into this? Like Instinct or Eye of Mind, would that come before the fight? Such as you PM'ing the player or simply the Servant mentioning it to the Master in a post before his set of attacks what attacks would be best? Or will the Servant do the best course of action even if it goes against the Master's commands?

Finally what if the Master and Servant are separated or busy and unable to give commands? Would the Servant be less effective being on auto-pilot?

Sorry for the tons of questions. And I'll be making my post soon.

To answer some of your questions Amelia:

The "a section" is actually not a strictly speaking "commands" section, it is in fact the choices in a rather complex (ive seen the set up) rock paper scissors system, which you use for both offense and defense

(note all the following examples are from the previous game and may not hold up or have been changed)

for example, Rush will always lose against invitation as when someone rushes into a trap they will get caught

however, Invitation always loses to feign, and rush will always win against feign

sometimes this matches arent straight forward "A beats B" if two people choose rush, then they would both roll initiative, and the winner of the roll gets the hit (this is also why when you attack you roll initiative, use versus and power)

sometimes this can be changed by what you put in sections b and c, but for the most part when considering two equal opponents the a section doesnt change and its very vital

so no, for that section you can't make up your own commands

But when you auto win versus their attack you are "countering", when neither of you hit you are "dodging" (or parrying) when you both hit you are "engaging" etc etc it is for this reason that you don't have complete control of your servant, rather you are giving them an idea of what you want them to do and they will do a fitting attack which interacts with the other servant's attack

I don't know if this is still true, but in the last game the number of skills you could use per bout was entirely based on your mana (ie mana is the only dictating factor)

For the passives its usualy best to remind the GM that you have them :P even if in theory they should "always be active" everyone is likely to forget

Auto-pilot can be risky, namely because if your servant is in trouble you have no way to help them, usually they will be as efficient in auto-pilot (I've seen some Servants control a whole room full of servants on their own, though they had independent action) but their support network wont be their so yeah not recommended unless necessary for a plan. If you have to I would suggest pre-made battle plans and contingencies for your Servant.

and as always questions are always welcome :) I'm more then willing to help you, I'm a good friend of the GM, I know a lot of the info about the game, and I'm not as busy as he usually is so feel free to PM me with questions (I also have more immediate access to him to ask him stuff)

@.Damian: yes you can do ether but some people like having abbreviations so I gave a set to unify the chaos

and go ahead and post since everyone else seems to be lost. the important part has past

@Amelia Abendroth Martelli:
Most of what is above is correct, however I have changed some of the Auto win stuff specifically so Damian can't cheat. I will not be telling you what auto wins what so you can't cheat by looking at another players battle statistics.
Guarding would be Engage, Invite, or Strike while Dodge would be Zoning, Feign, or Invite (but again this are also ways to hit like Damian said above)

The only restriction on Skills and Phantasms is your Servant's Mana reserve they will mostly start using less and less expensive spells and skills as there Mana gets lower

Mad Enhancer limits the skills a servant can use. Independent Action allows the servant to change its mind about using or not using skills and Phantasms. this means your servant will use skills when it is most opportune, but also means you have no control and thus can't plan as well

Passives are all reflected in the results and damage. for example if your servant has Intuition, and they lose in a round they will sustain less of an injure than if they did not have the skill, like turning a fatal wound into a grazing cut.

Me? I would never cheat lol (not that I realy could with the "noncombat" servant xD )

oh dang I almost missed the line where you said "go ahead and post" lol

So sorry about the lack of posts recently, school's been keeping me occupied and will continue to do so for the next two weeks, I'll try to find time to reply but I'm catching up with both topics.

That format looks... really confusing I agree but the simplified forums Damian posted helps out a bit! I'll study it a bit more once I have time, I'm terribly sorry again!

So sorry about the lack of posts recently, school's been keeping me occupied and will continue to do so for the next two weeks, I'll try to find time to reply but I'm catching up with both topics.

That format looks... really confusing I agree but the simplified forums Damian posted helps out a bit! I'll study it a bit more once I have time, I'm terribly sorry again!

It's alright. I'm just glad to hear from you again.

To the other people yet to respond. Even if you can't post, It's nice to get a discussion post of just 'high' or something so we know we aren't abandoned.

trying to get aliases listed

Everyone knows this character is in town, but not where. He is from a relatively powerful family that has been on the incline in power for a while now. (NPC)

Moved back to Fuyuki after graduating from school after the events of Fate/Zero. He now runs a small shop the deals in the trade and procuring of unique items. It is a favorite shop of magus from all over Japan. If you ask him he will tell you stories of his King in all of his glory.
And if you are lucky you may even get to meet his King in his shop

A Von Eizenbern Homunculus that has been missing for the last 4 years
Sister of Rose and Iris Von Eizenbern Iris died in the previous war.
(only Eizenbern family know this information)

A girl no one knows. She appears to be in highschool and is attending Yurei Academy. No one knows where exactly Yurei Academy is but everyone knows how to get there.
(not all of these NPCs will be important or even appear at all, I'm just getting them in the system)

look up her profile on fate Wiki

Head of the church and overseer of the Holy Grail wars. He is Kirie's sister in law's son, but changed his last name from Ortensia to Kotomine the same time Caren changed hers. He had great respect for Kirie before Kirie's "fall from glory."

current head of the Ryudo temple

Works as a detective for the police. She is from a formerly high class magic family that has been decreasing in power in recent years.

Woah thats alot of people :O

Sent a PM (days ago). Just waiting for a response.

yeah. Just got it. Homework and Job Friday and the early part of today

nin-nin-nin...

nin-nin-nin...

nin-ninja

Cries. First dead end and it's only day one, I need to be more careful with this stuff sobs. Sorry about my amateur skills on not noticing what to do but I was just... WAIT WHAT. When I saw the most recent post (should have trusted my gut feeling =3= )

Welp time to go back and be more aggressive, which I ultimately first thought that would provoke battle and be bad, but that turned a complete 180 on me.

Cries. First dead end and it's only day one, I need to be more careful with this stuff sobs. Sorry about my amateur skills on not noticing what to do but I was just... WAIT WHAT. When I saw the most recent post (should have trusted my gut feeling =3= )

Welp time to go back and be more aggressive, which I ultimately first thought that would provoke battle and be bad, but that turned a complete 180 on me.

Just like the VN hugh =3

Everyone should read the example just for the hoot of it and the Taiga dojo so If you ever get a DEAD END you can usually just undo your most recent post. or you may chose to go back to any save before that, which isn't followed by [SAVE CLEARED]

Its crazy that we r still on day 1 lololol

Its crazy that we r still on day 1 lololol

Forget that. It's not even LUNCHTIME yet, for most of us. I have now had multiple multi-week discussions and done some serious investigative work before freaking 10 AM.

lol

.............

Hi.

*goes camping until Tuesday*

Well hey there, future version of Cipher.

For anyone wondering, I'm working on a post. Need to message with Watcher a bit first.

Alright I'm back from camping.

Sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo.

I have contacted all of the players who don't seem to have fallen off of the face of the earth to come back and play; I'm giving them a little bit. Otherwise I'm also trying to bring in new players to take them over, or also start making characters of their own. So yeah.

Hopefully this works >.>

For what it's worth I have not received a reply. And it would be nice if I could make it to lunch of the FIRST DAY without breaking character completely to avoid anymore of these overly-long conversations. But that trigger is looking miiiighty friendly....

Okay. So people are coming back. This is good. ^__^

dododo, lets get this party rolling!!! (my Characters at 2PM already)

I know :/ Sadly time is differential and such. Soooo yeah.

Be patient. Otherwise I could distract you with other things until then.

*rises from the dead* Hello yall, good to see you've all been busy since last we spoke.

sorry for the wait, I had sh** tone of work to do X(

that should have taken care of everyone who was waiting for me.

I'd appreciate it if everyone can post something once a week to let people know they are still playing but busy. So we don't start looking for a replacement for you while you're studying for finals. We'll give you warning, and this is optional, but yeah we like to keep our players playing.

Yep. And new recruiting!

Anyways I have a message for you. If you have the patience then you can listen to the whole thing!

We gotta get out
Go Far Away

Gotta Get Out
Go Far Away

This applies to three of you. But in a special way. And not in one that is obvious. I'd love to see you try though. :3

Uhm, not sure if you meant to do this; but both of those phrases lead to the same Album.

Yep I did. Note that they're the same phrase!

Also LOL CHEEEEAAATIIIIIIING....

Eh?! *blinks* Cheating? Did I do something wrong?

No. Hehe. I can't say much, since I'm just teasing, and it rapidly gets into stuff that I can't/shouldn't say.

he's talking about some of the characters in game. Some people are cheating in the war.

Oh? You mean like how Mr. Harlow has both Ruler and Assassin?

HAHAHAHAHAHAHA. Actually no.

Why?

Because SPOILERS.

Well yeah. It... gets complicated. But so long as you're all competent enough, all shall be revealed in due time! I think.... >.>

you know its technically not illegal to have more than one servant. you can have up to seven. Its just not usually smart without two masters because you divide your Mana by the number of servants.

We seem to have broken out of the habit of time stamping out posts >.> (We as in you guys cause I'm still doing it ^_^ ) If we could get back in the habit of doing that I'd very much appreciate it.-

I'll be doing that soon enough, hopefully my next post. Haven't done so because I'm still in the same time stamp.

So, um...I'm back now.

Hi.

Welcome back, old magus guy.

Darth Vader:Nooooooo!!! DX

In all seriousness though, welcome back. Still planning to blast the ever living crud out of me and beserker? :3

For your sound effect needs.

I lost all of my notes, so I'm not entirely sure what my plan was for that fight. It seems to be something to do with harassing you until you run out of mana, though. Rest assured that I'll not be fighting until I get more information, however, unless someone presses me.

Oh internet youuuu! :3

I am perfectly okay with this, though I'd prefer that to be changed to either indefinite or 'while Etrius is handicapped or otherwise distracted' personally. :P