Player Handbook

Firebot RPG was built to be as simple as possible on the front end since it is meant to be played through a chat interface. However, the backend is a deep system of different mechanics that we'll cover here for anyone wanting to dive deep into the game.

Equipment

Equipment Slots

All characters in the game have certain equipment slots they're able to equip items to. These slots are:

• Main Hand (main) - The main hand slot for weapons.
• Off Hand (off) - The off hand slot, for weapons or shields.
• Armor - The armor slot, which contains a full set of whatever armor you're wearing.
• Backpack - The backpack slot is a temporary slot. When you get loot, it will go to your backpack for you to review if you want to equip it. If you get another item, the previous item in the backpack will be discarded. It only holds one item.

Weapon Properties

All weapons in the game will have at least one weapon property on it. These have special effects in combat.

• Ammunition - This is a ranged weapon which must be reloaded to fire. It has penalties when used in melee combat, but most of the time has tremendous range.
• Finesse - This weapon will use only DEX for it's hit bonus and damage bonus.
• Heavy - This weapon will use only STR for it's hit bonus and damage bonus.
• Light - This weapon will ignore the innate chance to miss if it's used in the off hand.
• Reach - This weapon can be used at short distances in the approach phase. Reach weapons always have a range of 50.
• Thrown - This weapon is treated as a ranged weapon, but typically has short range. It ignores the usual ranged weapon penalties in melee.
• Two-handed - This weapon requires both hands to use.
• Versatile - This weapon will use your highest stat out of STR or DEX for it's hit bonus and damage bonus.

Armor Properties

All armor and shields will have armor properties.

• Heavy - 50% arcane failure chance, 30ft approach speed, 25% dex bonus to AC.
• Medium - 30% arcane failure chance, 40ft approach speed, 50% dex bonus to AC.
• Light - 0% arcane failure chance, 50ft approach speed, 75% dex bonus to AC.
  In addition, you can wear no armor. In this case you get: 0% arcane failure chance, 60ft approach speed, 100% dex bonus to AC.

Combat

Combat is done in two phases, a ranged phase and a melee phase.

Ranged Phase

In the ranged phase, we take into account thrown and ranged weapons. This phase happens before melee combat. If both combatants are using ammunition weapons, then this phase is a simple shootout to the death. Otherwise, the combatants will get closer to each other each turn, firing and throwing weapons, until they meet and enter melee combat.

Approaching

The initial distance between both characters is calculated by finding the longest range weapon in the combat between the two characters, and then selecting a random number between half that value and the max value.
The player with the shorter range weapon will then try to approach the other player, moving at a speed equal to what their armor allows each turn. If they have any ranged weapons, like thrown items, they will start throwing or shooting those items when they get in range.
Once the distance between the characters is zero, the combat shifts to melee.

Melee Phase

The melee phase uses both main hand and off hand items to attack the other player. This is done by rolling a d20 and adding any applicable bonuses based on weapons.

Off Hand Items

Off hand items can either be weapons or shields. Shields just give bonus defense. Weapons will be used to attack each turn, but have an innate 25% chance to miss unless it has the light weapon property.

Ranged Weapons

Ammunition weapons used in melee combat will always have a innate 25% chance to fumble the reload. This balances out the fact that these weapons generally hit several times before melee combat begins.

Enchantments

Enchantments are special effects on items that either increase the damage or defense. These do "elemental" damage in addition to the regular physical damage of the item. You can increase any or all of these up to a maximum of 100.

Enchantment Types

• Earth
• Wind
• Fire
• Water
• Light
• Darkness

Weapons

For weapons, every 10 points in an enchantment equals one extra damage of that type. An example for a dagger roll if you had 10 points in Fire would be, 1d4 + 1(fire).

Armor

For armor, every 10 points gives you 5% resistance to the damage type. So, at max level 100 you can resist 50% of the damage from an element type.

Reinforcement

You can take your gear to the blacksmith, if it is unlocked, to reinforce and improve your gear. Doing so will increase the quality of the item.

Weapons

For weapons, 1 reinforcement point will give an item +1 to hit and +1 damage.

Armor

For armor and shields, 1 reinforcement point will give it +1 armor class.