I'm failing to understand something

Posted: Wed Apr 13, 2011 11:14 am

I had a replacement roll up that I filled out and sent in. I recieved it back and although that replacement is going right back to the DA I did notice something on his overview. According to terrablood he should have came back "is a RELATIVELY SLOW and INACTIVE fighter" right after his stats. But his sheet has no statement after his stats and has him as "is INCREDIBLY QUICK and ELUSIVE on his feet at the bottom of the sheet where the statement for defense is. Does this indicate some kind of bonus? Or am I just misunderstanding it? As I understood it. Mode would be what was under the starting skills when entered into terrablood and the statement down at the bottom was from the warriors parry and defense combo. Can someone set me straight? Question

Posted: Wed Apr 13, 2011 11:33 am

Owsly wrote:

I had a replacement roll up that I filled out and sent in. I recieved it back and although that replacement is going right back to the DA I did notice something on his overview. According to terrablood he should have came back "is a RELATIVELY SLOW and INACTIVE fighter" right after his stats. But his sheet has no statement after his stats and has him as "is INCREDIBLY QUICK and ELUSIVE on his feet at the bottom of the sheet where the statement for defense is. Does this indicate some kind of bonus? Or am I just misunderstanding it? As I understood it. Mode would be what was under the starting skills when entered into terrablood and the statement down at the bottom was from the warriors parry and defense combo. Can someone set me straight? Question

Bonused in INI and/or RIP

ArchMaster Poster Joined: Apr 15, 2004 Posts: 2958

The RELATIVELY SLOW and INACTIVE statement is an indication of his combined Ini base + Rip base. At the chart below:

http://www.terrablood.com/dm/Activity.htm

You can see that if he gets no statement instead of RELATIVELY SLOW and INACTIVE, he is bonused in Ini and/or Rip. You can tell by at least how much by viewing the chart. For instance, if he was supposed to roll up with 6 Ini and 5 Rip, you can see that he is at least +1 between those two categories and is as much as +4. If he was supposed to start with 4 Ini and 4 Rip, you can determine that he is anywhere from +4 to +8 between the two skills.

The other statement, is INCREDIBLY QUICK and ELUSIVE on his feet is an indication of his Defense base, specifically that his Defense base is 7 or greater.

http://www.terrablood.com/dm/Quickness.htm

These two statements have no relation to each other.

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Owsly wrote:

I had a replacement roll up that I filled out and sent in. I recieved it back and although that replacement is going right back to the DA I did notice something on his overview. According to terrablood he should have came back "is a RELATIVELY SLOW and INACTIVE fighter" right after his stats. But his sheet has no statement after his stats and has him as "is INCREDIBLY QUICK and ELUSIVE on his feet at the bottom of the sheet where the statement for defense is. Does this indicate some kind of bonus? Or am I just misunderstanding it? As I understood it. Mode would be what was under the starting skills when entered into terrablood and the statement down at the bottom was from the warriors parry and defense combo. Can someone set me straight? Question

Hey Owlsy,

Just to kind of add on to what both GentleBen and OAB have said, there are 2 different statements which CAN say Very Quick, Incredibly Quick, et. al. One, as was said above, is based upon your Initiative+Riposte. The other, the one you're talking about, is an elusivity statement. I'm not sure anyone knows precisely what it's based on (I've heard all kinds of things, from DFT+SPD, then they roll on a chart, to Defense+Wit and they roll on a chart), but it's VERY important to know even if you use the EXACT SAME STATS AND STYLE twice, it is extremely unlikely both warriors will come out the same. There's lots of random stuff which occurs AFTER you turn in the sheet, and the elusivity is just one part of it, So, when looking at the character generators on Terrablood.com, use them as GUIDELINES!!!, and not as a hard and fast rule as to what you'll see when you get your char. back.

Good Luck and enjoy!
Seeya in the Pits!

The_Chief

Posted: Mon Apr 18, 2011 6:37 am

Thanks for all of the answers. I knew there was something too the statements that I was missing but I wasn't sure what. I knew the INI + RIP one but the other one is a part of the game I think I'm missing the understanding on. I have this strange feeling there is one key componenet I am missing here that will help me understand how to run each warrior based on his RU Sheet when it comes back. Perhaps it's the "Elusive" statement that I'm failing to comprehend to full understanding. Worst thing is I feel it's something simple. Laughing

I do only use terrablood as a guide and I know that terrablood is only a mode roleup. I learned that hard lesson long ago Shocked