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Dumbest concept that came to me. I wanna make playable sports in Pathfinder. Why make it just a skill check? A game of Sportsball can be minutes long, full of tactics and strategies. Why not make it an encounter?
I have 2 sports to start off.
Relevant Stats: The Hoop is a target with AC 9 (10, -5 Dex, +4 size modifier) it is suspended 10 feet in the air.
Missing the hoop causes the ball to bounce it's range increment away from the hoop. Roll 1d6 to determine direction, on a 1, the ball falls directly in the space below it, 2-6 go in a straight line from the net in the corresponding space.
When the ball hits the hoop, it falls directly down to the ground.
DC 20 Athletics check to Dunk for a medium creature.
A medium sized Basketball is an improvised thrown weapon with range increment of 10 ft. It deals no damage
Basketball courts are 95 ft long and 50 wide.
Passing involves making a ranged attack against the recipient's touch AC. If there are any creatures between you and the target, they provide cover. If you miss due to this cover (within the target's normal touch AC and the total provided by the cover), the creature covering can catch the ball as a reaction. On any other miss, roll as per splash weapon miss rules. The ball bounces from that square and continues from there one additional range increment in a straight line. And creature in that line can catch it as a reaction.
Rules: The goal of the game is to have the most points by the end.
Points are earned by hitting the hoop with the ball. Hits from more than 30 ft away score 3 points, all other hits score 2 points unless otherwise stated.
Any time the ball lands outside of the play area, the opposing team chooses a player to gain the ball. That player stands outside of the play area. All players roll a new initiative, and the game resumes on the controlling player's turn. The game timer is paused until the ball re-enters play.
Attacks and combat maneuvers against targets must succeed on a Stealth or Sleight of Hand check (where appropriate) versus the Referee's Passive Perception (Perception score+10), otherwise the target of the attack/maneuver recieves 2 free throws.
Free throws are made from 30ft of the Hoop, and score 1 point on a hit. Other players may not intefere during free throws. The timer in paused until the result of the second throw is concluded.
Relevant Stats: The play area is 160ft wide by 360ft long.
A medium sized Football is a simple thrown weapon with a range increment of 20 feet.
Passing involves making a ranged attack against the recipient's touch AC. If there are any creatures between you and the target, they provide cover. If you miss due to this cover (within the target's normal touch AC and the total provided by the cover), the creature covering can catch the ball as a reaction. On any other miss, roll as per splash weapon miss rules. On a natural one, roll splash miss as normal, but the result is a Fumble, see rules for more details.
Kicking the ball is a special attack. Make a melee attack against the ball's AC 7 (10, -5 Dex, +2 Size). For every point by which this AC is beaten the ball is kicked 10ft in a straight line.
(That's as far as I got. Football is a pinch complicated to me rules-wise. Too many players but I wanted to get the core concepts up.)
What other sportsballs do you think might be fun for an encounter? Maybe even a league on the PF table? It's a dumb concept, but let's roll with it!
I saw someone convert Blood Bowl to PF once. It was pretty clunky compared to the original but it could be done.
I think I can think of a sport or two for adventurers to try...
I also honestly don't like that football has that touch AC thing simply because assumedly the recipient would try to purposely catch the ball.
Also a rather uninspired idea. I know that Spheres of Might has training weapons, so maybe stuff like fencing or kendo could be in there. I could see elves making sword fighting a national passtime XD
Soccer is pretty played all across the world, going back a very long time. It would seem to fit in any fantasy realm, at least in my way of thinking.
And kudos for paraphrasing the old Bugs Bunny cartoon bit about the elephant playing baseball.
I think I can think of a sport or two for adventurers to try...
I also honestly don't like that football has that touch AC thing simply because assumedly the recipient would try to purposely catch the ball.
Oh certainly. It was the easiest mechanic to base it on though, as using cover for intercepting passes was better than new reactions and mechanics for it. An unguarded player could definitely choose to be flat footed (making their AC 10) but would of course not be as prepared to react or dodge an oncoming orcish linebacker.
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fixed that for you, football is the sport played across the world, hand egg ball is that sport played in the usaFootball is pretty played all across the world, going back a very long time. It would seem to fit in any fantasy realm, at least in my way of thinking.
And kudos for paraphrasing the old Bugs Bunny cartoon bit about the elephant playing baseball.
This made me smile.
I had archery competitions and jousting available recreationally in my homebrew campaign. I don't see why you couldn't find a way to incorporate PvP or team based encounters, or even sportsball leagues.
I also distracted someone with kids playing hackey sack, and had the player roll acrobatics every time it came his way, when he finally failed and had to bend down to pick up the hackey sack, one of the little punk kids picked his pocket. Don't know if that counts as sportsball, but it was treated like an encounter with role playing and skill checks.
You can raise the stakes and have them stumble across a tribe playing a game they have never seen, with a human head...
