Campaign Creations

Greetings, steel-hearted soul. You've just stepped into the rawest, loudest, and toughest battleground of all time: THE BATTLE ARENA! Are you ready to put yourself through the grandest, the hardest, and the most dangerous challenge you have ever faced? If not, too bad! We'll grind you up like ground beef! Hahahahaaa... But if you can survive this monstrosity of gluttonous conflict, you will have the superb, distinguished honor of being proclaimed THE GRAND CHAMPION OF THE BATTLE ARENA!

ARE YOU READY TO TEST YOUR METTLE? THEN GET YOUR BUTT ON OVER AND SIGN UP!!!

(If you actually read the whole intro, bully for you. If not, you missed a ton of adjectives.)

Battle Arena is a forum-based game of dice-based combat. Using Build Points (BP), you construct a Battlesuit for yourself to fight with, complete with Hit Points (HP) and weaponry. When complete, you get thrown into a free-for-all conflict in the Arena. Attacks are based on a two six-sided dice system (see CONSTRUCTING YOUR BATTLESUIT), and any damage incurred is subtracted from your HP. When your total HP reaches zero or lower, you're dead and eliminated from the quest to become the Grand Champion. The winner, obviously, is the last man standing.
For the purpose of building your battlesuit, you are assigned a total of 80 BP. You can you use BP to either buy HP (1 HP = 1 BP) or buy weapons to arm your battlesuit (the amount of BP needed depends on the weapon). You can even give your battlesuit a name to be used in the Battle Arena. When it's done, it will be listed alongside the other victims- erm, contestants in the Combatants Post.

Weapons work based on a two six-sided dice system, in which a weapon is assigned a number or set of numbers called the Damage Range (DR). Whenever a dice roll results in a number being rolled that is equal to the weapon's DR, the weapon fires and does the damage specified. This process is repeated with every weapon a battlesuit is armed with. You can also assign priority to a weapon during creation, so that certain weapons fire before others.

EXAMPLE:: Battlesuit 1 attacks Battlesuit 2. Battlesuit 1 is armed with a Flamethrower (DR 3-11, Priority 1) and a Slug Cannon (DR 6-8, Priority 2). The first dice roll for Battlesuit 1 is a 5. That number is equal to a number between 3 and 11, so the Flamethrower does 1 Damage to Battlesuit 2 (See WEAPONS for statistics). The second dice roll for Battlesuit 1 is a 10. That number is not between 6 and 8, so the Slug Cannon misses Battlesuit 2 and consequently does no damage.
Combat happens through PMs and dice rolls. Players will submit a PM to the gamemaster (me) designating who they want to attack. As soon as I receive a PM, I roll a pair of two-sided dice to see how the attack turns out, and then I post the result on the thread.

NOTE: IF I HAVE A BUNCH OF PMs AND ONE OF THEM KILLS A TARGET, THE TARGET STILL GETS TO COMPLETE HIS/HER ACTION BEFORE DYING.
And now...
AUGER
Drill those enemies into oblivion!
DR: 2-11
DMG: 1
BP COST: 11

FLAMETHROWER
Heat up the competition!
DR: 3-11
DMG: 1
BP COST: 10

SLUG CANNON
A huge lump of metal fired at high velocity can give anyone a headache!
DR: 6-8
DMG: 3
BP COST: 11

SHOTGUN
A scattering of bullets and a hailstorm of pain!
DR: 2-3, 5-6, 8-9, 11-12
DMG: 2
BP COST: 12

LASER BLADES
Literally cutting-edge technology!
DR: 2-4, 10-12
DMG: 4
BP COST: 13

ASSAULT RIFLE
Shoot 'em up like the Chief!
DR: 3, 5-6, 8-9, 11
DMG: 3
BP COST: 14
SPECIAL: This weapon fires twice per attack

DUMBFIRE MISSILE
It may not be smart, but it sure packs a punch!
DR: 8-12
DMG: 5
BP COST: 15

MINIGUN
5,000 bullets equals one second of pure misery!
DR: 2, 4, 6, 10-11
DMG: 3
BP COST: 20
SPECIAL: This weapon fires three times per attack

NEUTRON BLASTER
If it hits, your opponent is DEAD.
DR: 12
DMG: 80
BP COST: 30

HEAT-SEEKING MISSILE
Better put out the cigarette in your helmet...
DR: 3-12
DMG: 10
BP COST: 40
SPECIAL: This weapon only fires once per two attacks


...that's all for now. If this game is any success at all, I may do another one and include more weaponry options.

Remember, if you're confused about anything, PM me and I'll explain it.

One more thing, to everyone: When you're done building your battlesuit, PM it to me so I can list it later.

#1: Good catch. I was originally going to do a range mechanic, but abandoned it because it was too complex. Didn't fix the stats completely, apparently...

#2: Yes, it is an FFA. In the "How to Play" section, there's a part that reads, "When complete, you get thrown into a free-for-all conflict in the Arena."

Edit: Fixed the Auger so it's now at 11 BP instead of 10 BP.

Given that only one person has signed up for this to date, I'm probably going to close this down come the deadline. However, I did start up a Mafia game that anyone's free to join. Sorry to Krazy, but no one else seemed to be biting on this.

Edit: Since Lav won't let me run 2 games at once, I'm going to officially shut down this one so Mafia: Vengeance 1930 can get a shot. Here's to hoping for a larger audience.