Combat (Arden-Vul)

Surprise

Flight & Evasion

Initiative & Round Order

Speed Factor

Natural Weapons	Ranged	Melee	Magic / Abilities	Modifiers
Tiny: 0 Small / Medium: 3 Large: 6 Huge: 9 Gargantuan: 12	Dart : 2 Javelin: 4 Longbow: 8 (7 for composite) Shortbow: 7 (6 for composite) Sling: 6 Light Crossbow: 7 Heavy Crossbow: 10	Dagger: 2 Shortsword: 3 Club, staff, warhammer, handaxe: 4 Longsword Spear: 6 Battleaxe, flail, mace, pick: 7 Polearms: 9 Greatsword: 10	Spell / Scroll: casting time (full round goes last) Spell-like Ability: 3 Breath Weapon: 1 Potion: 4 Ring, Wand, Misc: 3 Rod: 1 Staff: 2	Hasted: -2 Slowed: -2 Higher Ground: -1 Set vs Charge: -2 Wading / Poor Footing: +2 Deep Wading: +4 Underwater: +6 (non-aquatic) Hindered: +3 (tangled, climbing, held)

• Natural Weapons
  • Tiny: 0
  • Small / Medium: 3
  • Large: 6
  • Huge: 9
  • Gargantuan: 12
• Weapons (reduce by weapon's enhancement bonus)
  • Ranged
    • Dart : 2
    • Javelin: 4
    • Longbow: 8 (7 for composite)
    • Shortbow: 7 (6 for composite)
    • Sling: 6
    • Light Crossbow: 7
    • Heavy Crossbow: 10
  • Melee
    • Dagger: 2
    • Shortsword: 3
    • Club, staff, warhammer, handaxe: 4
    • Longsword
    • Spear: 6
    • Battleaxe, flail, mace, pick: 7
    • Polearms: 9
    • Greatsword: 10
• Abilities / Magic
  • Spell / Scroll: casting time (full round goes last)
  • Spell-like Ability: 3
  • Breath Weapon: 1
  • Potion: 4
  • Ring, Wand, Misc: 3
  • Rod: 1
  • Staff: 2
• Modifiers
  • Hasted: -2
  • Slowed: -2
  • Higher Ground: -1
  • Set vs Charge: -2
  • Wading / Poor Footing: +2
  • Deep Wading: +4
  • Underwater: +6 (non-aquatic)
  • Hindered: +3 (tangled, climbing, held)

Actions

Casting Spells

Movement

• You can use movement freely between other actions during your side's turn (e.g. moving, attacking, and moving again).
• A combatant may have different movement types, sometimes with different Speeds (e.g. flying 60' and walking 30, walking 30' and swimming 30', etc).
  • They can switch between them during your movement, keeping track of total distance moved. When you swap types, subtract the total distance from that type's Speed. If it's 0 or less, you can't continue moving with that type.

• Difficult Terrain
  • Every foot of movement across difficult terrain costs multiple points of movement (usually +1x).
    • Particularly bad difficult terrain may have a higher cost, or even require a skill check as well, to make progress.
  • Examples: deep mud, uneven rubble, underbrush, shifting sand, cluttered furniture, slippery slime, etc.
    • A space with another creature in it, friendly or not, always counts as difficult terrain.

• Obstacles
  • Trees, statues, pillars, etc. Obstacles cannot be moved through (or may require a skill check, etc).
  • A combatant may choose to be an obstacle to another combatant's movement, or not. A space with another creature in it, friendly or not, always counts as difficult terrain.
    • You cannot halt in the same space as another character unless they are 2+ Sizes larger or smaller than you, or prone.

• Provoking & Shifting
  • Moving 5' within or out of (but not into) a combatant's threatened area provokes. Movement can provoke multiple times.
    • Forced movement and teleportation do not provoke.
  • You can convert 6' of normal movement into 1' of shifting, which does not provoke.
    • It may take multiple turns to actually move between 5' spaces).

• Prone
  • You can drop Prone as a free action any time you can move. Rising provokes and costs half your movement or 15', whichever is more.
  • You can move by crawling, with +1x movement cost. You cannot shift. You do not obstruct movement but do still count as difficult terrain.

• Squeezing
  • A creature can fit into a volume suitable for 1 Size smaller by squeezing.
  • When squeezing, movement costs +1x, and the creature is Exposed and have +D on attack, effect, and most other actions.

Attacks of Opportunity

Morale

Melee Combat

Ranged Combat

Circumstances