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Pink Moon Stick at 16:09, 19 August 2016

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Pink Moon Stick: collapsing dodge, brace, counter, accept, and cover into reactions

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collapsing dodge, brace, counter, accept, and cover into reactions

Raising Heart: Clearer explanation of reactions.

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Clearer explanation of reactions.

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When a character is attacked in Battle Fantasia (as listed in the defender’s +queue), they have a variety of coded reactions available to them: dodging, bracing, counterattacking, or accepting the attack. Additionally, they can have someone else use +cover to transfer the attack to themselves (and then react normally). Each of these reactions have advantages and disadvantages; they also have a variety of abilities and flags that benefit or penalize them.

All reactions have a variety of levels of success, mitigating more or less potential incoming damage from the attack in question. They can succeed critically, mitigating all damage and thus causing the incoming attack to be unsuccessful, denying the attacker their successful attack morale bonus. They can also fail completely, mitigating no damage whatsoever. If a reaction does anything less than critically succeed, any debuffing Flags on the attack have a possibility of working.

'''[[Dodge]]''' -- ''Greater risk, greater reward, and notably not binary in its outcome.''

'''[[Brace]]''' -- ''Reliable damage mitigation, but rarely spectacular.''

'''[[Counter]]''' -- ''The potential to prevent or even do damage, but at the cost of mana.''

'''[[Accept]]''' -- ''No attempt to avoid full damage from the attack; mostly used to accept help from allies.''

'''[[Cover]]''' -- ''Attempt to ensure an ally’s safety at the expense of your own.''

Reaction Penalties (as seen in +status) accrue whenever a Dodge, Brace or Counter reaction is used successfully. Each point of Reaction Penalty provides a stacking decrease in a given reaction’s effectiveness, up to a fairly extreme value of Reaction Penalty 5. Using any other reaction will decrease all other reactions by 1. Reaction Penalties reset to 0 at the beginning of a fight.

{{Quotation|Sailor Moon is targeted by a monster’s Gnashing Teeth. She dodges out of the way, and then has Dodge Penalty 1, Brace Penalty 0, and Counter Penalty 0. Following that, the monster tries to beat her with its Possessed Tire Iron. Sailor Moon counters with her Moon Tiara, and then has Dodge Penalty 0, Brace Penalty 0, Counter Penalty 1. If Sailor Moon had tried to dodge, she would have had a reduced chance of success. On the other hand, since her Moon Tiara is rather pitiful, it might have been worth the risk!}}

For more information, please see: [[Morale]], [[Battle]]

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 If Sailor Moon had tried to Dodge, she would have had a reduced chance of success, and increased her Dodge penalty to 2.  Given how pitiful her Moon Tiara attack is, however, it might have been worth the risk!}}
 ==Dodge==
 ''Greater risk, greater reward, and notably not binary in its outcome.''

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 Reactions do not simply succeed or fail; they have several levels of partial success that mitigate different-sized portions of the incoming damage.  Reactions can also fail completely, mitigating no damage whatsoever.  The best result of a reaction is a critical success, which causes the incoming attack to fail completely.  Not only does this prevent all damage, it also denies the attacker the extra morale they would have gained from hitting you.  Critical reactions also prevent any flags on the attack from triggering, thus potentially protecting you from debuffs, [[Morale|taunts]] and quips, and [[Items In Combat|item grabs]].  Partial successes, on the other hand, do not affect the chance of flags triggering.
-'''[[Dodge]]''' -- ''Greater risk, greater reward, and notably not binary in its outcome.''
+'''[[Reactions#Dodge|Dodge]]''' -- ''Greater risk, greater reward, and notably not binary in its outcome.''
-'''[[Brace]]''' -- ''Reliable damage mitigation, but rarely spectacular.''
+'''[[Reactions#Brace|Brace]]''' -- ''Reliable damage mitigation, but rarely spectacular.''
-'''[[Counter]]''' -- ''The potential to prevent or even do damage, but at the cost of mana.''
+'''[[Reactions#Counter|Counter]]''' -- ''The potential to prevent or even do damage, but at the cost of mana.''
-'''[[Accept]]''' -- ''Permits the attack to deal full damage; mostly used to accept help from allies' zero-damage attacks.''
+::'''[[BEAMWAR]]''' -- ''Finisher vs. Finisher counters, with attacks dramatically straining against each other until one blasts through the other.''
-'''[[Cover]]''' -- ''Attempts to ensure an ally’s safety at the expense of your own.''
+'''[[Reactions#Accept|Accept]]''' -- ''Permits the attack to deal full damage; mostly used to accept help from allies' zero-damage attacks.''
 Reaction Penalties (as seen in +status) accrue whenever a Dodge, Brace or Counter reaction is used successfully.  Each point of Reaction Penalty provides a stacking decrease in a given reaction’s effectiveness, up to the extreme value of Reaction Penalty 5.  Using any reaction will decrease all ''other'' reactions by 1.  Reaction Penalties reset to 0 when a character uses +heal/full at the beginning of a fight.
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 If Sailor Moon had tried to Dodge, she would have had a reduced chance of success, and increased her Dodge penalty to 2.  Given how pitiful her Moon Tiara attack is, however, it might have been worth the risk!}}
-For more information, please see: [[Morale]], [[Battle]]
+For more information, please see: [[Battle]]
 [[Category:Combat System]]

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-When a character is attacked in Battle Fantasia (as listed in the defender’s +queue), they have a variety of coded reactions available to them: dodging, bracing, counterattacking, or accepting the attack.  Additionally, they can have someone else use +cover to transfer the attack to themselves (and then react normally).  Each of these reactions have advantages and disadvantages; they also have a variety of abilities and flags that benefit or penalize them.
+When a character is attacked in Battle Fantasia, their player can use the +queue command to examine the incoming attack.  Once they have seen what's coming their way, a player can respond with a variety of coded reactions: dodging, bracing, counterattacking, or simply accepting the attack.  Additionally, other characters can use +cover to transfer the attack to themselves (at which point the coverer uses a reaction instead).  Each of these reactions have advantages and disadvantages, and can be boosted or penalized by various [[Abilities|abilities]] and [[Attack Flags|flags]].
-All reactions have a variety of levels of success, mitigating more or less potential incoming damage from the attack in question.  They can succeed critically, mitigating all damage and thus causing the incoming attack to be unsuccessful, denying the attacker their successful attack morale bonus.  They can also fail completely, mitigating no damage whatsoever.  If a reaction does anything less than critically succeed, any debuffing Flags on the attack have a possibility of working.
+Reactions do not simply succeed or fail; they have several levels of partial success that mitigate different-sized portions of the incoming damage.  Reactions can also fail completely, mitigating no damage whatsoever.  The best result of a reaction is a critical success, which causes the incoming attack to fail completely.  Not only does this prevent all damage, it also denies the attacker the extra morale they would have gained from hitting you.  Critical reactions also prevent any flags on the attack from triggering, thus potentially protecting you from debuffs, [[Morale|taunts]] and quips, and [[Items In Combat|item grabs]].  Partial successes, on the other hand, do not affect the chance of flags triggering.
 '''[[Dodge]]''' -- ''Greater risk, greater reward, and notably not binary in its outcome.''
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 '''[[Counter]]''' -- ''The potential to prevent or even do damage, but at the cost of mana.''
-'''[[Accept]]''' -- ''No attempt to avoid full damage from the attack; mostly used to accept help from allies.''
+'''[[Accept]]''' -- ''Permits the attack to deal full damage; mostly used to accept help from allies' zero-damage attacks.''
-'''[[Cover]]''' -- ''Attempt to ensure an ally’s safety at the expense of your own.''
+'''[[Cover]]''' -- ''Attempts to ensure an ally’s safety at the expense of your own.''
-Reaction Penalties (as seen in +status) accrue whenever a Dodge, Brace or Counter reaction is used successfully.  Each point of Reaction Penalty provides a stacking decrease in a given reaction’s effectiveness, up to a fairly extreme value of Reaction Penalty 5.  Using any other reaction will decrease all other reactions by 1.  Reaction Penalties reset to 0 at the beginning of a fight.
+Reaction Penalties (as seen in +status) accrue whenever a Dodge, Brace or Counter reaction is used successfully.  Each point of Reaction Penalty provides a stacking decrease in a given reaction’s effectiveness, up to the extreme value of Reaction Penalty 5.  Using any reaction will decrease all ''other'' reactions by 1.  Reaction Penalties reset to 0 when a character uses +heal/full at the beginning of a fight.
-{{Quotation|Sailor Moon is targeted by a monster’s Gnashing Teeth.  She dodges out of the way, and then has Dodge Penalty 1, Brace Penalty 0, and Counter Penalty 0.  Following that, the monster tries to beat her with its Possessed Tire Iron.  Sailor Moon counters with her Moon Tiara, and then has Dodge Penalty 0, Brace Penalty 0, Counter Penalty 1.  If Sailor Moon had tried to dodge, she would have had a reduced chance of success.  On the other hand, since her Moon Tiara is rather pitiful, it might have been worth the risk!}}
+{{Quotation|Sailor Moon is targeted by a monster’s Gnashing Teeth.  She Dodges out of the way, resulting in the following reaction penalties:

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