FOH v2.0

Uncomplete beta version, last update 17.VI.2003

Have you ever imagined becoming hero, chaimpion of law or to become dark one, evil creature wanting just gold and nothing else. What would it be like being famous for slaining dragon and saving kingdoms, or on the other hand being feared because of rumours about dosesns innocet klilled by the way. Would you like wisiting busy towns and cities, ancient shrines of long forgotten gods, deep dungeons full of creatures so terrible and unimaginable that you have to experience it yourself. Is your dream to become someone in fantasy world, where magic is real and gods are known to be overseeing you?

Because it is certainly impossible in real life, was created way to enable you to experince this. A RPGs, Role Playing Games, can give you this. You just have to have imagination and will to try.

Here you are, you have just made first step.

In ancient times, Fate created heroes, their Fate was to fight, become powerfull, or to die. It is you Fate.

Fate of The Heroes

Preface

This is my attempt to create a RPG rules which could be used for both pen-and-paper game (so they should be easy enough to remember and fun to play) and for possible computer games (so they are rich and detailed)

Indeed not much will be original, becaose I played lot's of games with very different rulesets, and each gave it's piece to theese rules, I tried combine combinable and left out proprietary nonsense.

Here is listing of games which I played, enojoyed and decided to use.

• Mordor - the depths of Dejenol
• Fallout I, II
• Galdur's Gate
• Betrayal at Krondor
• ADOM
• Diablo
• Arcanum
• Dungeon Master
• Exile

TOC

1. FOH v2.0
   1. Preface
2. TOC
3. Beginig
   1. About Characters
      1. Player Character (PC)
   2. Character atributes
      1. Stats (Basic Ones)
         1. Strength
         2. Agility
         3. Constitution
         4. Wisdom
         5. Inteligence
         6. Magic
         7. Charisma
         8. Preception
         9. Luck
      2. Stats: race and class tables
      3. Stats: Values table
      4. Stats: Examples of creating
      5. Derived stats
         1. HP
         2. MANA
         3. STAMINA
         4. AC
         5. To-Hit
         6. Damage
         7. AP
      6. Resistancies
         1. Fire
         2. Cold
         3. Acid
         4. Electrical
         5. Poison
         6. Disease
         7. Mind
         8. Magic
         9. Damage
      7. Skills
      8. Genders
         1. Male
         2. Female
         3. Stats/Sex relations
4. Dices
   1. Pictures
   2. Explanation
5. Author and about
6. End

Begining

About Characters

Player Character (PC)

Each player has his "PC" (A player character), His virtual personality in the Games world. This persnolality is finctional, desinged by player which chooses Gender, Race, Class, etc... for PC, he guides PC in this world and decides for him (or her).

In order to be able to own PC, you have to know how is it described. We use "Scores" - a numerical values which estimate PC's ablilities.

Character atributes

Stats (Basic Ones)

Stats are basic characterisation of PC. They determine raw physical and psychical abilites. They are:

Table 1. - Stat groups
	Physical	Psychical	Joined
Power	Strength	Wisdom	Charisma
Skill	Agility	Inteligence	Preception
Endurance	Constitution	Magic	Luck

Now lets look what each of these Stats determines: Str, Agi, Con, Wis, Int, Mag, Cha, Pre, Luc

Stats: race, class and sex tables

Stats have varying values. They range from 5 to 25, and there are three factors which determine minimum and maximum value of each stat, they are:

• Race. Each race has two Stats maked as "typical" and two as "atypical".
• Class. Classes have marked three stats as "important" and three as "unimportant".
• Sex. Also sexes (Male/Female) influence it. Each sex has two typical and atypical stats.

Typical and important stats raise maximum by 2 and minimum by 3, atypical and unimportant are doind it vice versa.

Minimum can't be below 1, so zero and negative values are substacted from maximum to create minimum of 1. Maximum should never happen to be lower than minimum, but if it is then it is raised to min+1. Also important or typical stats have bonus +1 after stat roll (and -1 to unimportant or atypical ...).

Remember: If you roll higer value than max or lower than min, you have to reroll value. This occurs just during character generation.

Stats: Values table

Values used in theese rules are highly abstract, unimanigable. So there are descriptions which will help you to undesrtand then more easily.

Stats: Examples of creating

If you are still confused, lets look at this example

I decided to create PC who is Female Orcish Priest (LOL!).

Because I'm too lazy, I used my "FOH Stat Generator" program to count result. Look here:

Derived stats

Because basic stats describe well PCs average status, there is lack of "momentary" stats describing for example health or resitancies. We call them derived because they depend on stats. You can - for exaplme - be only as healtly as your contitution allows and so on.

First, there are two basic status stats: Hit Points (shortened as HP) and Mana.

Here follows tables with bonuses for HP and MANA:

Here is example, I chose Male Dwarf Mage :

Also, you must gain at least 1 point in HP each level and you can never loose mana (you must gain at least 0 Mana).

Besides HP and MANA are here many more derived stats, they are:

Resistancies

Resistancies are abilities to resist ( :-) ) certain attacks or things. They are percentages from 0% to 100%, 0% means no resitance, 100% is imunity

Table 12. - Resistancies
Resitance	Description	How it helps	Stat bonus
Fire	Fire resitance aplies to all fire damage, even to dragons fire breath. Fire Element resistance.	Damage is lowered by % of resistance
Cold	Cold resitance lowers damage done by ice attacks. Water Element resistance.
Acid	Resists acids and all chemicals which are trying to destroy body. Earth Element resistance.
Electrical	Resits electricity of all kinds. Air Element resistance.
Poison	Poisons will be less deadly and will go away faster. This resitance aplies to both normal and magical poisons.	Damage is lowered by % of resistance Each time poison/disease attacks there is resistance% chance that it will go away. Also, you gain resitancies to poison and disease by being affected by that.	+Con%
Disease	Diseases are all illnesses.		+Con%
Mind	Ability to block mental attacks, attempts to hypnotize or controll you by magical or mentant powers.	There is % chance Attack will fail	+Wis% + (10-(Skill or Spell level))/2% skill/spell level is one of attacker has
Magic	Natural resitance to magical attacks and spells of all kinds. Also resitance to magical radiation.	There is % chance spell will fail; if attacking spell does element damage(fire, cold ...) coresponding resitance is used instead, the same for poisons or mind magic.	+Mag%
Damage	Resitance to physical attacks. The only resistance which is not is percents, but is in HPs which are substracted from damage (note - you cannot end with negative damage! T must be at least 0.	Value of resitance is substracted from damge dice.	-(Con-10)/5%

Skills

Skills of character describe what he can do, and how good he is in that

You gain your skills in many ways, some are practitioned by all characters, some depend on his class, gender and race, some can be selected.

But even if you don't know the skill, you can try to practise it on skill level 0, but you can't train in it.

Skill value ranges from 1 to 10, every time you level up you can assign some points to skill, but no more than 2 points per level.

When starting, you start with 1 point in all skills, but if your skills come from several sources, you get bonnus for every source (for example: hobbit thief will start with 2 points in stealth, because he is both trained in it as thies and has natural talent for it as hobbit)

Skills Families:

• Weapon
• Combat
• Thieving
• Mage realms
• Priest realms
• Magic
• Common adventuring
• Personal
• Class skills

Weapon Skills

Weapon skills enagle your character to use various weapons. Each point in weapon skills gives +10% TO-HIT. Skills 5, 5, 7 points gives aditional +1 Damage, 8 and 9 gives +2 damage and 10 gives +3 damage. Each point gives +1% chance of critical hit.

• Small Sword (Knife, Dagger, Short Sword ...)
• Sword (Bastard Sword, Katana, Long Sword ...)
• Axes (Hand Axe, War Axe ...)
• Polearm (Spear, Haldbert, Pitchfork ...)
• Blunt Weapons (War Hammer, Morning star, Club ...)
• Throwing (Sling and Stones, Stones, Boomenrang ... )
• Archery (Bow and Arrows, Crossbow and bolts)
• Martial Arts (Fists, Kicks)

Genders

Gender is your basic choice, in wold of FOH are males and females equal. Woman can become mighty fighter, but there are still prejusctices and female mage is being often considered like something odd and dangerous.

Choose as you want, you don't have to be the same as in real life :)

Here are folowing tables for stats and secondary stats:

Dices

Pictures of common dices

Dices
Image	Value	Geometry	Note
	1D4	Tetrahedron Triangle faces	Also used as 1D3 or 1D2.
	1D6	Cube Square faces	Most common dice on the world
	1D8	Octahedron Triangle faces
	1D10	Dekahedron Iregular faces	0 is taken as 10. Ten sided dice is impossible to shape from regular geometric shapes, so faces don't fit well, but dice is as balacned as any other.
	1D12	Dodekahedron Pentagon faces
	1D20	20 triangle faces
	1D100	just like 1D10	To get precise number roll 1D100 and 1D10 and add result (1d100 gives 20, 1d10 says 8, result is 28 ...)

Understanding 2D8-2

Notation of how dices as written can be very confusing when you are new to RPGs. And since dices are used to describe most of damage and other formulas it is esential to know how to read then.

While random generators in computers can generate numbers from any range, in real world you can never have dice with 7 or 5 sides. To get these you have to combine dices and use bonus.

Reading dice: dice notation is in folowing format: {a}D{b}+{c}. Where a means how many dices you roll, b gives number of sides and c is bonus which is added or substracted from roll. So:.

• 1D4 - roll one four-sided dice
• 2D6 - roll two six-sided dices (don't roll one dice and then multiply it by two. when you multiply it you will newver get 3,5,7... as result.)
• 1D8+2 - roll eight-sided dice and add to result 2
• 3D4-3 - roll three four-sided dices and then substract 3 from result

1D2 and 1D3 are also used. 1D2 is coin (head is 1, backside is 2). 1D3 is 1D4 where when you get 4 you roll again to get 1 to 3 number. Other types of dices can be simulated by similar method:1D11 is 1D12 where 12 is ignored, 1D18 is 1D20 where 19 and 20 are ignored ...

When you get complicated dice you may want to know what is range of values it generates. it is simple: formula is this: aDb+c has minimum a+c and maximum (a*b)+c. Example:

• 1D4 - 1 to 4
• 2D6 - 2 to 12
• 1D8+2 - 3 to 10
• 3D4-3 - 0 to 9

To reverse this action (to get dice from range of values) is rather complicated algoritm. I'll try to explain it:

1. you have two values, min and max
2. get bonus, it is (max-min)+1
3. substract bonus from max and min to get maxB and Minb.
4. maxB/minB gives you sides of dice (sD).
5. if sD is illegal (it is 5,7,9,... or real number (8.5, 3.5 ...) ) substract one from bonus and go to step 3.
6. you have sD, minB is number of dices, bonus is bonus.
7. so: (sD)D(minB)+(bonus) is your dice

Author and about

Created by Petr "Zweistein" Prokop in 2002. My website is here: http://sweb.cz/grima.worm. Early versions of Foh were created from 1998 and there were five of then, all left in early state of work. They are still aviable on demand. There was even attempt to write CRPG game based upon one set of rules, I'm quite proud of that (nice 2D gfx, even animation, and best of all - working teleports and pickable items ;) )

Why I created such thing? Well, I like playing RPGs and every set of rules has something I like and something I hate. So I decided to create my own rules which will be designed from scratch. I didn't just modify existing rules, because

1. They are copyrighted
2. It is harder to edit them than to create something new
3. I enjoy working on THIS :)

Help? Help is sure apreciated! If you have and idea, If you found something that you consider bug or typo or bad english, If you feel like telling me "Good job!", drop me a mail. (And if you hate this, forget it ever existed and do not send me flames, nor tell everyone how stupid this is; I like constructive criticism.)

Btw: I also created HTML and CSS used in this document, so design and formating bugs can be directed to me too.

Missing Fonts: I'm using nice font here in this document, it is called monotype corsiva, if it is missing on your system, download it as install it, you won't regret it ...

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