(12-14-2014, 02:43 PM)Cliodhna Eoghan Wrote: Count Erik and I under frozen flames buuuuut I've never been to grindstone so I'm not really clear how the fight in that setup works.... .____.
No worries. I can clarify here and put that explanation up top in the main spiel as well if needed.
Anyway, the Grindstone works on a "first to three" system. First of the two combatants to successfully "land" three blows is considered the victor and moves on to the next round.
How this is done is with the rolz.org dice roller. The two participants make a chat room and then roll their first 1D100, with the higher of the two getting to act first for winning initiative. I'll call them Lala and Hyur for ease of reference. We'll assume Lala rolled the higher percentile and thus won initiative.
Getting to go first, Lala emotes their attack, describing how they approach, how they attack, and so on. Then they roll a 1D100 attack roll in the chat room. Hyur then rolls a 1D100 afterward as a defense roll.
Should Lala get the higher roll of the two, their hit lands and they get a point (making it 1-0 in Lala's favor in this case). Should Hyur have the higher roll, the attack fails. In either situation, Hyur would then emote the aftermath of the attack (either taking the hit and returning in kind, or evading the attack and striking back). Now it's Hyur's turn to attack - emote and 1D100 attack roll and all - and Lala's turn to defend.
It goes back and forth like this until someone has gotten three points, and then they're considered the winner.
I'll put an example breakdown in this spoiler, omitting the emotes the players might be doing in-game to avoid this post being any longer than it already is:
As mentioned, this is basically all that's being seen in the rolz.org chat room. In FFXIV, these numbers will most likely not be seen at all (except maybe in party chat if both combatants are in a party, or through /tells) and onlookers will only see the /em actions the combatants show. Adds a nice level of both randomness and fairness to the fight.
In the spoilered example, Lala got to 3 points first, so they would win and move on to the next round. In Snowball Blitz, the victor gets to stay and continue their assault/defense while the loser has to run (or teleport!) back to Dragonhead and do a couple laps around the Aetheryte before they can fight again.
I hope that explains it. Let me know if it doesn't and I can try to tweak it up to be more understandable.
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