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Title: Winterhaven Jousting Tournament - Rules (and explaining how you can participate)
Post by: Gis on December 21, 2010, 17:25:36

The time for the Winterhaven Jousting Tournament is getting closer and many of you are anxious to see what will happen and how it will happen. Therefore I decided to post the tournament rules I will be using. Also, if you want to have some influence over your Champions progression in the tournament, you can!! (you can make the die rolls instead of me, see the fourth part of the post).

But first: The Tournament Rules

Match Structure

The object of the competition is to unhorse your opponent if you manage to do this, you have won the match. If you have not managed to unhorse your opponent you get points based on the location of your hit.  You continue to take passes at each other until one person has unhorsed his opponent or managed to score 3 points in total. If the match is tied at 3-3 the first person to have a higher score then his opponent wins the match. Of in some freaky way both competitors are knocked of their horse, the person who scored more points in the previous passes is declared the winner. If this also results in a tie, the competitors have to get back on their horse and go at it until one has more points.

Of course unhorsing your opponent is a celebrated way to win a match so next to the victory you will also receive honor. However by hitting your opponent’s horse or his head you are risking injuring the horse or your fellow combatant and will result in losing some honor.

(For each pass each combatant rolls two six sided dice and adds the results, the result determines the hit)

(2) Hit Opponents Horse, 0 Points, -1 Honor
(3,4,5) Miss, 0 Points
(6,7,8) Hit Shield, 1 Point
(9) Hit Body, 2 Points
(10) Hit Head, 2 Points, -1 Honor
(11,12) Unhorse, Win, +1 Honor

Group System

The 32 competitors will be divided into 8 groups of 4. There will be 6 matches in each group after which the two competitors with the most victories will move to the single elimination rounds. If two or more competitors are tied for 2nd place the tie breakers will be as follows:

1)   Honor
2)   Point difference (points scores – points opponents scored)
3)   Result between the combatants

Knock Out Phase

There will be 4 rounds to the knock out phase; Round of 16, Quarter Finals, Semi Finals and Finals. People that competed in the same group are only able to face each other in the finals.

Your participation

You can participate by going to this website http://www.rpglibrary.org/software/securedice/index.php
There you will need to fill in the following:

1)   Where it says “Roll” you select “2” for the first drop down box and “6” for the second drop down box.
2)   Then go to “Roll this set of dice” and choose “50”
3)   For the “Send the signed results of this roll to yourself:” Fill in your own email address if you want to receive the rolls by email.
4)   At the “and the GM:” please fill in my email address which is gorraxpb@yahoo.com
5)   Finally at the “with this subject:” please put “Jousting – <playmofriends name>” (for instance: Jousting – Gis).
6)   Then click the “Roll the dice” button.

I will use these results to see in which group you will be participating as well as how your fights will go. They will not be used in this order though so the outcome will still be a surprise.

If you are willing to have some hand in the fate of your champion please do this before Monday the 27th of December 7.00 pm CET. If I have not received them I will generate rolls for you myself at that time!

The Future

I have tried to keep these rules simple and straight forward. I know others are planning on doing a similar tournament and there are many things we can add. Like experience points for battles won ranking systems….the sky is the limit. I just want to make sure this works before making it more complicated. For those interested in running something similar I am more then happy to discuss these matters and make it a whole league type kind of thing 

If you have any questions just shoot me an PM or email (make sure it’s marked “Jousting” somehow)

Title: Re: Winterhaven Jousting Tournament - Rules
Post by: tonguello on December 21, 2010, 19:12:30

DONE!

This is so exciting!!  :love:

Title: Re: Winterhaven Jousting Tournament - Rules
Post by: shirona33 on December 21, 2010, 21:36:25

 :hmm: Did I right? I hope I unterstand all right!  8}

Title: Re: Winterhaven Jousting Tournament - Rules
Post by: Wolf Knight on December 21, 2010, 21:42:06

Done here too  :knight:

Title: Re: Winterhaven Jousting Tournament - Rules
Post by: bonniebeth on December 21, 2010, 21:42:59

Done.  :hellol:

Title: Re: Winterhaven Jousting Tournament - Rules
Post by: Tiermann on December 21, 2010, 21:48:06

Done,
Gis you might want to make the thread title clear that we are doing the actual die rolling now

Title: Re: Winterhaven Jousting Tournament - Rules
Post by: el jefe on December 21, 2010, 22:09:59

Hey Gis, I like the rules, but I don't want to roll myself.  I'm perfectly fine with you doing it.  Thanks for all your hard work and GO Unicorn CHAMP!! :xmascheer:

Title: Re: Winterhaven Jousting Tournament - Rules
Post by: bonniebeth on December 21, 2010, 22:29:16

Quote from: Tiermann on December 21, 2010, 21:48:06

Done,
Gis you might want to make the thread title clear that we are doing the actual die rolling now

Yes, the first time I looked at this thread, I didn't read the whole thing and missed that we needed to go ahead and roll. It wasn't until others started answering that I caught on.   :-[

Title: Re: Winterhaven Jousting Tournament - Rules
Post by: skypurr on December 21, 2010, 23:11:05

Done!
Hope I've done it right.

Elaine (http://www.anchoredbygrace.com/smileys/mgqueen.gif)

Title: Re: Winterhaven Jousting Tournament - Rules
Post by: Skypurr Jr. on December 21, 2010, 23:20:46

 :knight: Done!  :knight:
 
 

  :knight: Skypurr Jr.  :knight:   

Title: Re: Winterhaven Jousting Tournament - Rules
Post by: el jefe on December 21, 2010, 23:57:19

OK, never mind about rolling for me, I just did it now and sent the results.  Good luck everyone and no hard feelings when Unicorn Knight is crowned champion.   :xmascheer: ;D

Title: Re: Winterhaven Jousting Tournament - Rules (and explaining how you can participate)
Post by: Gis on December 22, 2010, 01:21:05

Thanks for the tips people. Title and message slightly amended to make it more clear...(I hope)

I received the rolls from all 8 of you....thank you very much :-)

Title: Re: Winterhaven Jousting Tournament - Rules (and explaining how you can participate)
Post by: Clong on December 22, 2010, 03:33:41

done ;D

Title: Re: Winterhaven Jousting Tournament - Rules (and explaining how you can participate)
Post by: cowabounga on December 22, 2010, 11:53:02

Hi all!
I just rolled my dice too. Strangely enough, RPG library keeps on sending me other players' scores. I received four so far, must be some bug, I reckon.
@Gis: the rules seem clear enough to me. Introducing the honor factor is a good point, IMO.
Cheers,
Arnaud

Title: Re: Winterhaven Jousting Tournament - Rules (and explaining how you can participate)
Post by: Gis on December 22, 2010, 12:15:56

Sometimes I am quite stupid! I feel like that at this point but your post helped me remind!

I want to thank Martin Milner for coming up with this point system. I also want to thank  Martin Milner, Tiermann, Wolf Knight and WarriorOfToys, for being available for bouncing ideas of them and giving valueable input.

Also a BIG thank you for cowabounga for a lot of work he has done that will soon become apparent :-) (Yeah I like to be mysterious, sue me *wink*)

PS Arnaud, it's not an error in the RPG Library....please read the email I send you.

Title: Re: Winterhaven Jousting Tournament - Rules (and explaining how you can participate)
Post by: cowabounga on December 22, 2010, 14:03:30

Got it in one Gis! Thanks for the PM, I feel relieved now. I was wondering how many more of those I would get!
Cheers,
Arnaud.

Title: Re: Winterhaven Jousting Tournament - Rules (and explaining how you can participate)
Post by: Justindo on December 27, 2010, 00:57:52

Thanks for the information, Gis.  I'll just have you roll for me if you don't mind.  Thanks! :knight:

Title: Re: Winterhaven Jousting Tournament - Rules (and explaining how you can participate)
Post by: Ali Baba on December 27, 2010, 23:30:46

Great, done me rollin'!!!!!

Mail sais Ali Baba, but my hero is Aziz.

Thanks Gis!

Title: Re: Winterhaven Jousting Tournament - Rules (and explaining how you can participate)
Post by: racerx on December 28, 2010, 00:28:45

It's hard for me to be anywhere regularly...I'm okay with you rolling for me.

Title: Re: Winterhaven Jousting Tournament - Rules (and explaining how you can participate)
Post by: Ronastoo on December 29, 2010, 08:39:24

Ooops...  I didn't see that it was supposed to be done by Monday and now it's Wednesday and I just rolled.
So, if you already rolled for me, I'm okay with that.   :)

Title: Re: Winterhaven Jousting Tournament - Rules (and explaining how you can participate)
Post by: playmofire on December 29, 2010, 09:25:13

Yes, I was late rolling too, Gis.

Title: Re: Winterhaven Jousting Tournament - Rules (and explaining how you can participate)
Post by: grangel on January 14, 2011, 19:36:23

I follow your instructions but i have not received any email until now.Let me know if you received somthing or pm me to do it again.

Thanks for your wonderful job here!!

Title: Re: Winterhaven Jousting Tournament - Rules (and explaining how you can participate)
Post by: Donmobil on December 10, 2013, 15:39:24

Quote from: Gis on December 21, 2010, 17:25:36

The time for the Winterhaven Jousting Tournament The object of the competition is to unhorse your opponent if you manage to do this, you have won the match. (For each pass each combatant rolls two six sided dice and adds the results, the result determines the hit)

(2) Hit Opponents Horse, 0 Points, -1 Honor
(3,4,5) Miss, 0 Points
(6,7,8) Hit Shield, 1 Point
(9) Hit Body, 2 Points
(10) Hit Head, 2 Points, -1 Honor
(11,12) Unhorse, Win, +1 Honor

Group System

The 32 competitors will be divided into 8 groups of 4.Knock Out Phase

There will be 4 rounds to the knock out phase; Round of 16, Quarter Finals, Semi Finals and Finals. People that competed in the same group are only able to face each other in the finals.

You can participate by going to this website http://www.rpglibrary.org/software/securedice/index.php

Gls, I have looked over your Winterhaven Tournament rules and wondered at the joust results.  So, I rolled and got my 50 results, so now what do I do with them?

I think that I match up the die winners matching say 11's with 11's, 5's with 5's, etc..?

Then for each match - knight, I roll 2d6 and consult the results table.

Then make-up a paragraph explaining how each knight in the match did.  I keep this up until I have a winner.

I am really not sure how many match-ups I do for the elimination.  Note, in looking over the 2-page chart comparison, I have 14 of these knights and will get the new Jousting knight sets coming out.

You state you took 32 knights and put them in 8 sets of 4.  I call these matches A, B, C, D.  So does each knight fight in 'A', for example, fight all other knights?  The same with knights in B,C,D?

Getting the Jousts results I understand, it is the 8 sets of 4, I am confused about.

I really enjoyed the Winterhaven Tournament and will try this on my own to 'try my luck'.  I will use the knights I have using their pictures since most of my Knights are still packed away.  I await your comments.

-- Donmobil