Weapon Scores and How to Report them

So, you’ve made a character and you’ve been given a weapon score… Whats a weapon score and how do I get some?

What is Weapon Score?

In the roleplay, there is a good deal of combat to be had. Everything from drunken brawls to full scale battles can occur, and all the characters all possess varying degrees of skill. While a small group of players who all know each other could figure out where their characters stand in relation to each other, with the sheer amount of players and characters in the roleplay we have we need a system to differentiate between one another. So, we have a basic system for this.

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So what sort of Roleplays are considered good for improving weapon score?

A good deal of it is common sense, for example a bar brawl or two might see to improving someone at about weapon score two or three, but a blademaster isn’t exactly going to learn anything new from it. But, here are some suggested ideas for roleplays based around the different tier.

Tier One: Bar brawls, a fist fight with a good friend, a teacher starting to instruct you from scratch, just learning how to handle a weapon, in the case of some weapons like bows or spears using them in hunting, tourneys.

Tier Two: Learning different sword forms, military training of some sort or taking up a profession which requires alot of fighting (thiefcatching, hunter of the horn, mercanery etc), tourneys, picking up some instruction from a teacher or someone just showing you a few tricks, battles.

Tier Three: Instruction from a blademaster, battles, using your weapon score against people of your own ability or a group of people below your ability (this does not mean killing fifty people singlehandedly), carrying out dangerous roleplays where your weapon score is vital to success.

Tier Four: Performing very dangerous roleplays, battles, instruction from grand masters.

It should also be noted that teaching other people or helping them with roleplays where they can advance their weapon score also counts towards your own advancement.

Gray’s Rule

A very specific Freelander rule and one that is named after a very old member from around 2001-2. He used to play a giant of a character and wielded a massive sword which he used to simply cleave his way through combat. He fought quite frequently and was quite the berserker and would get himself into all sorts of situations where he would fight against all sorts of odds. Sometimes he would win.

Sometimes.

Other times, including the moment where his character was killed, he would be clobbered or left short of dead for his trouble. He threw his characters into all sorts of situations expecting to win, yet if he was ever alerted to the fact that he couldn’t then he would be willing to take the realistic consequences of having taken that course of action. So, in his honour (because its a rare person who is willing to take it on the chin), we name this rule after him.

If a Freelander character is doing something wildly improbable… For example, attacking twenty armed soldiers unless there are very good reasons for why they should win (the twenty soldiers are wounded and ill, or a wall is collapsed on them first, etc), Freelander admins reserve the right to enforce the realistic consequences of your actions. In this case, your character would be stabbed repeatedly, or perhaps if you’re very lucky the character will just be beaten within an inch of their life and have to spend months with a wisdom healing where they may or may not regain full use of their limbs. As a player you’re trusted to do the right thing, but if you do not then the right thing can and most likely will be enforced.

So if you do something unrealistic, either do it incredibly well or be prepared for your character to face the consequences.

How to Post WS Updates

1 - ONLY ONE (1) THREAD PER CHARACTER - If you start a second thread it will be deleted. You are now officially warned.

2 - BOTH Email (freecastle [at] Gmail.com) and Post the following :

[b]Handle:[/b] 
[b]Character:[/b]
[b]Current WS:[/b]
[b]Update WS to: [/b]
[b]Links:[/b]
[b]Reasons:[/b]