WAR Specialty Event – Capture the Flag!

Rules, 2006

How to Score

Points will be scored in one of three ways: by killing an enemy, by capturing the enemy’s flag, and by finding one of several Special Treasures.

How to Win

The team with the most points at the end of the competition will win.

Choosing Sides

There are two ways in which teams for Capture the Flag are chosen: 

1. People may build their own teams.  Teams chosen in this way will be capped at 1,250 build points.  If you choose to be a member of an individual team, your team will be responsible for providing their own flag, whose pole must be at least four feet long and the flag itself must be at least two feet tall and three feet long.  Players using characters with Craftsmen skills may drop their craftsmen skills from their character in order to get below the build quota. For example: The team I wish to be a part of has 1,100 build, leaving them with 150 build.  I have 159 build and three craftsmen.  I can drop the three craftsmen to bring myself down to 150 build.  Craftsmen skills are the only skills that can be dropped.

2. The second method of team building is constructed teams.  Those who are not a member of an individual team will be on a Constructed Team.  At the beginning of check-in we will take a vote on captains.  The players will vote, and two captains will be chosen, one for the blue team and one for the red team.  Each captain will then be given a build point pool equal to ½ the total amount of build points at the event of those who are not on an individual team.  They will then go into a private room with the marshal in order to choose up sides.  The marshal will flip a coin, and the winner of the toss will choose first.  As each captain chooses a character, their build point pool will drop by the same amount as the character’s total build, until each side has an equal amount of total build points.  If there are any difficulties, the marshal will decide how best to rectify the situation.  This is for players who are not part of individual teams and those who are part of an individual team may not participate in this process.  Members of constructed teams will be permitted to respend build spent towards Craftsmen skills.  Members of the two Constructed Teams will also be given 600 production points as a team to spend as they see fit. 

Game Rules

Each player will be expected to play one of his or her existing characters.  Only new members will be allowed to start a new character. 

PLEASE NOTE: Players will not have the same make-up/costuming requirements as for a normal weekend event.  Players will be permitted to dress in the clothing of their choice and make-up/prosthetics are not required.

• Each team will have a home base.  The team’s flag must be kept within the team’s home base area in plain view.  It cannot be covered or hidden in any way.  The flag cannot be shattered, destroyed, or imprisoned in any way.
• There are no protective circles of power (including the level 9 spell) or wards of any kind allowed within the home base area.  Non-protective circles for the purposes of casting formal magic are allowed.
• Each team member will start with basic tags for all weapons and armor that they can use, and that they have approved phys reps for.  This will be limited to two of each type of weapon and no more than four total melee weapons.  In addition, up to four tags for ranged weapons will be given out, but the player must have proper reps for each.  A starting archer with a proper quiver phys rep will begin the game with two Quiver tags.  Only one armor tag shall be given out in this way per character, regardless of the phys reps provided.
• Characters with production skills will be able to produce two days’ worth of goods as if they had access to a guild workshop.  These will neither cost the character any components or coins.  In addition, characters with production capability will be useful during the event, as several chances to create bonus production will be made available during the course of play.
• Formalists will not need any scrolls or components to cast their spells, but will still need to be within a circle of power.  All formal casting must be performed in game.  While casting a formal magic spell, the formalist must have a copy of the formal rules as well as a single ten-sided die on their person.  All formals will be considered non-hostile, and will only take five minutes to cast.  The amount of components available to the formalist will be unlimited and no time will be added to formal castings - the component bag is only required for role-play purposes.  No coins will be required to be spent in the casting of any formal magic spells.
• The following formal spells cannot be cast during the competition: Spirit Forge, Dreamvision, Create High Horoscope, Whispering Wind, Create Permanent Circle of Power, Planar Gate, any of the Create Undead formal spells, as well as the Summoning formal spells. All existing items and spirit effects will be inactive for the competition, and any items and effects created at the competition will not last beyond the end of it.  
• Characters can be placed within an alteration or be transformed as per the normal rules for this.  All transformations will be active throughout the competition, but no extra favors will be granted for the purpose of this competition.  If a character is placed within an alteration or has a transformation upon him, the following amount of extra victory points will be added to a team that forces that character to resurrect while this effect is active:

Ø Minor Golem = 150 victory points

Ø Base Golem = 230 victory points

Ø Major Golem = 315 victory points

Ø Greater Golem = 400 victory points

Ø Master Golem = 530 victory points

Ø Greater Transformation = 60 victory points

Ø High Transformation = 120 victory points

Ø Master Transformation = 180 victory points

Ø (On all transforms add an additional +5 points per transform favor)

• If a character chooses to resurrect instead of accepting a formal that targets his spirit, his team will be penalized a number of points equal to his build point total.  If the character casting the formal that caused him to resurrect was from the other team, that team will also get points for a kill in addition to this penalty.
• Any character can identify any formal magic item by spending 60 seconds examining each item.
• Characters can only resurrect at the neutral marshal’s area, or the Dead Zone.  This area will be where the marshal can be found.  Each character that dies must wait here a minimum of 15 minutes.  The marshal will time this, and if the marshal is away from the dead zone for any reason, the resurrecting character will wait until the marshal returns before this time starts.  Characters that resurrect will return to their home base and come into game there as a three-counted action.
• Combat skills will be reset approximately every two hours as part of a Limited Reset (please see below).  This reset will not include formal magic levels, production skills, or any skill other than spells, critical attacks, back attacks, critical strikes, racial skills, and assassinates.  At 6:00 pm on Saturday evening there will be a Full Reset.  Battle Boards will be handed out for the competition, and every player will be responsible for keeping track of his own skills.  The resetting of skills and abilities must be handled in game, and will require a character to Meditate.  Characters that do not cast spells will not need a spell book to reset their skills.  Characters MUST reset as close to the reset time as possible (not before), and characters that are found to be purposely avoiding resetting in order to use up their old skills before they reset will not be allowed to reset until the next allotted time.  No skills or items will be reset until the Meditation is successfully completed.
• Only the following Cantrips can be cast, and a Cantrip Tome is NOT required:
  
  Armored to Magic
  Magic Deliverance
  Eldritch Bless
  Eldritch Shield
  Healing Pool/Defiling Pool
  Element's Fury
  Contingency
  
  Formal casters who are able to cast Cantrips are given LCO components equal to their level at the beginning of the event. You can burn other, unrestricted components if you see fit, but you will only receive an allotment of components at the beginning of the competition, and those will not reset with the normal skill reset.
• All items and effects created during the event will expire at the end of the event and cannot be used during events set within in the Tyrran campaign or any other campaign.  Teams will not be awarded points for killing its own members.

Tallying Points

• The marshal will be responsible for tallying points and logging them.  Each character will be given a colored life tag that will include his build point total.  As the character goes to resurrect he will give his tag over to the marshal who will file the used life tag away and will note the death in the event death log.
• Capturing the other team’s flag will require the successful team to get the flag back to their home base and to keep it there until the marshal can be brought to the scene.  Once the marshal is there and confirms that the flag has been captured, the flag will be taken out of game and returned to the original team’s home base by the marshal.
• Special Treasures will be planted throughout the camp by the marshal, and these will award special advantages to the team that finds them.  Every Special Treasure that is found that is not used during the course of the event will be worth points to the team that found them.  Special Treasure tags are held onto by the team that found them, but they are out of game and cannot be stolen or destroyed by the enemy.
• The following points will be awarded:

Ø Killing an Enemy Character: points equal to that character’s BP total

Ø Capturing the enemy flag: 1000 points

Ø Special Treasures: Variable cost between 50 and 200 points

Prizes

1. All players will receive a full 2.0 blanket for participating in the event.    
2. First Place: The First Place Team will receive 15 Levels of Unrestricted Formal Magic to spend as they wish.  Extends will count toward this total mount of levels.  They will also receive a magic item equal to ½ their level in formal magic levels, rounded up – extends count towards this item, as well. In addition they will receive 500 goblin stamps per team member.  They will also receive two draws per team member out of the Flag Bag, which is similar to a grab bag, except with some very unique and intriguing twists.
3. Second Place: The Second Place Team will receive LCO magic item(s) equal to fifteen levels of formal magic.  Extends will count toward this total amount of levels.  They will also receive a magic item equal to ½ their level in formal magic levels, rounded up – extends count towards this item, as well. In addition they will receive 250 goblins per person on the team and one draw per team member out of the Flag Bag.
4. Everyone not on the First or Second Place Teams will receive an LCO magic item with a total number of formal levels equal to ½ of their experience level rounded up in it.  Extends will count toward this total amount of levels.  In addition, they will also receive 100 goblins per person and 3 draws out of the regular event grab bag.

Rules Changes/Clarifications for the Capture the Flag Event

Ø All line of site effects (for example, the magical spell Web) will not act as line of site effects for the duration of this Event.  Instead they will have durations of 10 minutes.

Ø The Spell Imprison will not last for one hour, but thirty minutes.   

Ø Limited Reset: The times for the limited resets will be decided upon at the beginning of the Event and will depend on how many are in attendance.  More than likely, the limited reset times will take place in either three or four-hour increments, not two-hour increments as last years were.