And once again, all rules are subject to change, and once I release the GM Script for DBC they can be changed (if you know what you're doing!).
Next, you must decide on a race. I haven't come up with any racial bonuses, rules, or other information yet, so you're free to choose whatever. A Dragon Ball universe might have Humans, Saiyans, Namekians, and so forth. Whatever you choose is subject to GM approval.
All characters (unless there's a special circumstance) start at Level (LVL) 2 with a Power Level (PL) of 200. Your Level has to do with statistics, To Hit rating, and your general PL. PL is basicaly an experience system, and upon reaching a certain PL, your LVL goes up. More on this later.
Now you finally get to put some points into your various stats. There are two types of stats: Abilities and Skills. Your Abilities are what make up your character, like how strong, fast, or psychically stable they are. These are represented in five different categories:
Speed
Endurance
Intellect
Psyche*
(SPD)
(END)
(INT)
(PSY)
- The higher it is, the easier you can dodge a physical attack.
- How much damage you can take before going unconcious/dying.
- Helps hitting with energy attacks as well as dodging them.
- Related to Psychic-powered attacks/buffs (not fully implemented... yet).
Next up, we got Skills. These are similiar to Abilities, but deal more with how much damage you do when you actually hit. There are four different skills:
Combo
Energy
Psychic*
- Determines how many strikes you make with a Combo.
- Determines how much damage you can do with Energy Blasts, and also how much EP they cost.
- Related to Psychic-powered attacks/buffs (not fully implemented... yet).
Now that you're done with all those, there are only two more derivitive stats you must deal with. Relax, you're almost done! They are Hit Points (HP) and Energy Points (EP). Your HP is always equal to your Endurance times 10. So if your END was 6, your HP would be 60. Your EP is always equal to your Intellect times 10, as well. So if your INT was 5, your EP would be 50. Simple, eh?
Congratulations, you're done with your character. The only other things you would need to make now would be the character's appearance and maybe a bit of background information. It's all up to you and your GM.
So you've created your character, and now you want to get their hands dirty in combat (with the blood of all who oppose them!).
Combat is divided into Rounds. Rounds are divided into Phases. Phases are divided into Actions.
There are four (4) Phases in a Round. A Phase generally lasts about one minute. In a single Phase, every character takes their Actions. All characters in combat get 1 to 4 Actions in a single combat Phase. It's totally random how many Actions you get. It's also totally random who goes first in a battle.
However, the battle will always go in an ABAB format. What that means is that you always take turns after one another, starting with the person who is randomly selected to go first. Once one person uses up all their actions, the other person continues using their actions in a row until they both have used all of their actions. Here's an example from how it looks in the chatroom:
Farmer attacks.
Katsuragi attacks.
Farmer attacks.
Katsuragi attacks.
Katsuragi attacks.
Katsuragi attacks.
After all the attacks have been made, a new phase is started with a new Action Order and a new set of Actions for each player.
The same concept is true for 3+ players. Here is how four players fighting in a battle would be played out (and there are no rules for 'teams' except for the simple one where you don't beat up your friends (purposely, anyway)):
Farmer attacks.
Fiero attacks.
Katsuragi attacks.
Vegetus attacks.
Fiero attacks.
Vegetus attacks.
Fiero attacks.
Vegetus attacks.
For three or more players, it's a good idea for the GM to keep a note of how many actions everyone has used so there's less confusion. With just eight players, there could be up to 32 actions in ONE phase. I don't know about you, but usually it's easier to keep track of the numbers on paper (or NotePad!) than in my head.
SINGLES - These are the the meat of any fighter's arsenal. They consist of anything from your uppercuts, leg sweeps, flying kicks, and to pinky jabs! Basically, a Single is a one-hit-wonder, a powerful and lethal attack. It's designed to do anything from low to high damage, but will occasionally miss.
Special Abilities - You can do more damage with a Single by adding numbers to it. If you do a Single+1, you will do one extra damage if you hit with it. The only drawback is for every 1 point you wish to add on, it subtracts 1 point from your To-Hit roll, which makes you less accurate with the Single. The same reverse is also true with negative Singles: You can do a Single-2 and do 2 less damage, and have 2 added onto your To-Hit roll. More about the To-Hit roll and accuracy later.
COMBOS -These are often used on Dragon Ball Z and are points of intense action as two characters exchange blow for blow. For the most part, Combos are when the characters punch or kick so fast that their arms or legs blur, but can be used for other instances. They will usually do low to medium damage, but will nearly always do damage, as little as it might be.
Special Abilities - None yet, but thinking about Multi Combos, and Counter Combos. I'll update if I get any good, tested rules worked out.
ENERGY ATTACKS - Oh, this is when the fun starts! Huge balls or beams of energy, thrown through the air at amazing speeds, their sole purpose to utterly destroy whatever they come in contact with. There are four different types of energy attacks that a character can do:
Small Blast
Medium Blast
Large Blast
Ultimate Blast
To use one of these, a portion of your character's Energy Points (EP) are used up. They each cost different EP, which depends on your Energy skill. They also do a lot more damage than your average kick or punch, naturally the better the attack the more damage.
Another thing they use up is your actions. A Small Blast takes 1 action, a Medium takes 2, Large takes 3, and Ultimates take 4. What this means is that instead of doing three Singles, or a Combo and two Singles, you can use a Large energy blast. If you don't have enough actions for a specific blast that phase, then you can't do it. (ex.You get 3 actions, so you can't do an Ultimate, which takes 4).
These actions do not need to be in order, but after your character uses an attack, if your opponent(s) have actions left, they go, and the ABAB format is kept the same. The only difference is your character has less actions in that phase than before.
POWER UPS - Power Ups are done almost exactly the same way as Energy Attacks. Obviously, instead of taking away energy, a Power Up gives you energy. Each level of Powering Up (Small, Medium, Large, and Ultimate) each take 1 more action than the previous.one.