Rule Book - Fables of Fenorra

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points you can use or “wear” at one time. Your base Wear Point total depends on your class. Wear Bonuses You can add Wear Points to your base by purchasing the skill wear extra armor or by wearing good costuming. Wear Extra Armor: The skill wear extra armor adds 5 wear points per purchase to your characters wear point total up to a maximum of 40 points. Costume Bonus: Any player will be awarded five wear points simply for being fully in costume with their entire visible costume fully fitting with the in game atmosphere. A marshal must be consulted to see if your costume warrants the bonus. You should do this at every chapter you go to as some chapters have different criteria to make this decision. When costume armor is damaged, you are not considered naked, it’s just your clothing is a bit shuffled and ripped up. The maximum Wear total a player can have is 40 (45 with good costuming), no effect can augment this bonus higher by any means. Armor points granted by the spell “Shield” are considered Armor but do not count toward your Wear Point total. Physical Armor The Physical Armor Types are Leather, Chain Mail, and Plate. The table on this page shows the value of each Armor Type for each Body Location. Each location is worth one point for leather, two points for chain, and three points for plate except the chest and back which are worth three times as much since they cover a larger area. A suit of armor it may be rejected at any point on grounds of safety for such things including, but not limited to; protrusions, sharp edges, and unsafe materials. -Characters may select the armor type to use at each separate body location, making it easier for players to create their own personalized armor. Each location is considered covered in armor if at least three quarters of the entire area is covered. Locations with overlapping armor types count as the higher type. -A Suit of Armor is evaluated by adding the armor point value for each body location covered. -Armor does not have to be real to count for armor points, so long as it looks real. -The tag for armor allows a character to gain protection from a phys-rep rated up to the value on the tag. To claim the entire value of an armor tag the player must wear a phys-rep which has been evaluated by a marshal to be worth at least the value of the tag, you cannot wear 20 points of coverage, have a 30 point tag and claim 30 points of armor in game. Leather: Leather is any material, natural or synthetic, that looks like leather. Chain Mail: Chain Mail is made of material of interlocking links whose holes are small enough not to easily catch a finger. Plate: Is armor made of rigid material that does not easily deform, or of material that accurately recreates the look of plate, either medieval or fantasy. Plate is made up or large pieces of metal or metal looking material. Refitting Physical Armor When a suit of armor takes damage it can be refitted to its full value. Refitting in this way can only be done by the armor’s wearer, and requires that the person spend an uninterrupted minute during which he can use no other game skills, cannot walk around, or be struck in any way. You may choose to interrupt yourself at any time. During the refitting the character will adjust (i.e. tighten straps, reposition plates) his armor so that it offers the best protection possible. If the character is struck by any packet or weapon, the refit is interrupted for no effect and must be begun again. Weapons Weapon Combat Safety is always the primary concern in weapon construction. Unfortunately, even the safest weapon could cause injury if improperly used. Therefore, in addition to safe weapon construction guidelines, practice in the use of the weapon is needed to ensure that all players enjoy the game as much as possible. Below are additional restrictions on specific weapons Latex Weapons: may never be used for thrusting, stabbing or poking. Blunt Weapons: If a blunt weapon does not have a “head” on it, it will inflict one less point of damage than normal. Blunt weapons may not be used for thrusting, and are required to have a padded thrusting tip for safety reasons. Bows: You can use the bow in combat for blocking, but you may not attack with it. Once it blocks an attack, the bowstring is considered cut or unstrung by combat. The PC cannot fire arrows from it until he restrings the Bow (see below). For safety reasons, no taut bowstrings are allowed though a loose one may be used to sling the bow for carrying. Restringing involves at least 3 seconds of role-play. No physical representations for extra bow strings are needed. To Fire, the Bow must be held in front of the archer at arm’s length and must be aimed at the target when the packet is thrown. The archer must take the packet out of the quiver, touch the packet to the hand holding the bow, then throw. The packet must be 101
thrown in the normal flight path of an arrow fired from the bow. It cannot be thrown overhead or around corners. It cannot be “flicked.” The damage call must be completed before throwing the packet. The hand throwing the arrow (yellow packet) is the hand that concerns Proficiencies. Master Proficiencies carry over to archery. All Vorpal Poisons, Enchanted Blade, Silver Aura and Elemental Blade spells work normally. Vorpal tags are to be taped to the bow, not the packet. Damage Aura or Magic Aura upon a bow confers the ability for the archer to throw packets for the weapon type “magic.” All weapons that fall under the skill Archery will have the weapon type of each missile altered if the weapon itself is targeted by a magical aura of any type. This includes a Damage Aura, Elemental Aura, and/or Magic Aura, and means that each individual missile does not need to be targeted by the formal magic spell in order to create the desired effect. Bows that are un-shatterable still need to be restrung after blocking. Real bows and arrows are not permitted. Spears One handed spears can only be used to perform thrusting attacks and can never be thrown. A character hit by any part of a spear other than the 8 inch head takes no damage. Two handed weapons: Two handed weapons must be used with both hands at all times. If you lose the use of one arm (as from a Wither Limb effect), then you cannot wield the weapon at all. If the weapon is approved using a stronger inner material than PVC piping then the weapon should have double padding by having a layer of pipe insulation covered by open cell foam. Weapon Safety Checks Before every NERO event, all weapons must be approved at check-in by the weapons marshal. Since the requirements for the construction of weapons are fairly strict, it is not unusual for a weapon to be disqualified at check-in. Even a weapon which qualified at a previous event may be disqualified (Weapons do wear out). NERO reserves the right to fail any weapon that is deemed unsafe or hazardous. Any experimental weapon using unusual materials can fail safety check at any time. Bring a couple of standard weapons with you as a backup in case yours fails inspection. Often the deficiency can be corrected with the addition of a little open cell foam or tape, so it is good to bring these extra supplies with you in case your weapon is not allowed so you can fix it. If you are having trouble with weapon construction, then bring what you have so far to a NERO event, and you can show it to the marshals who will give you a hand when they can. The old saying “practice makes perfect” is especially true with both weapon making and use. Weapon Tags Every weapon must have two tags. The first is the Weapon Safety Tag. This tag proves that your weapon has gone through safety check and is approved to be used for that event this tag will be affixed to the weapon. The second tag is the Weapon Tag. This is the tag that shows that the weapon is in-game. When you purchase a weapon from a weaponsmith or from logistics, you will be buying this tag to keep on you. A player may only carry as many tags as he/she has physical representations. Some weapons can be strengthened to withstand two or more Destroy or Shatter spells. When you have this done to your weapon, you will be given a new tag to reflect the changes. Weapons can also be silvered which can be very useful when fighting certain monsters, as with strengthening, you will receive a new tag. Weapon Construction Weapon combat is a large part of the NERO game. Because of NERO’s reliance on weapons, proper weapon construction is necessary to insure safe yet semi-realistic combat. The guidelines in this section cover making a boffer weapon and choosing a latex or other manufactured weapon for play in the NERO game. Pre-made weapons There are a number of manufactured weapons that fall into the NERO guidelines for safety. If you purchase a pre-made weapon, it is your responsibility to determine the type of construction that was used. You must know what type of core the weapon has and what type of foam was used. Latex weapons are not required to have a thrusting tip, and may never be used for thrusting, stabbing or poking. Latex and boffer swords are available for sale and many can be used for NERO combat resolution. A current list of approved vendors and styles can be found online at www.nerolarp.com Make Your own You may also choose to make your own boffer or latex foam weapons. Making a weapon can range from very simple to very hard depending on the materials you choose and the design of your weapon. The following sections walk through the construction of a very simple weapon, but also provide information about some advanced materials you can try later on. It is highly recommended that you build a simple weapon for you first attempt. There are a number of weapons that fit within a medieval fantasy setting that are not mentioned here. NERO allows creativity in developing new weapons but all must be approved before use. Experimental weapon types must conform to the basic standards of safety. You should check with the marshals before and during construction so that you do not end up 102
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A NERO® 9 th Edition Variant Campa
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Welcome to Fenorra “Two peridot
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The World of Fenorra 3
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skills. Some of these are usable co
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Points, lighter armor and relativel
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of herself to outsiders so not much
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through the night, all undead have
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Race Armor Type Advantages Disadvan
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Dryads are known throughout the who
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Legends used to tell of werewolves.
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Phaunos have been seen frolicking t
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Treefolk are the as much a part of
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Paths to Walk If a character choose
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Now his pyramid is ready for the ne
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Stealth Skills F H R M S T Prerequi
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Skill Descriptions Acid Spittle: Th
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threshold or a damage cap. Before u
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Florentine: This skill allows the c
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Master Crystomancy: Once purchased
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this skill. You may not pretend to
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“sell back” any skills that are
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English so the victim will know wha
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Target Specific Some effect like Wi
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Spell Descriptions The information
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