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Each of you just minding your business doing spirit things on your home plane, when you felt a wrenching tug and woke to find yourself in a large plain room, stretching nearly a hundred feet in each direction. The floor is dirt and the walls are large blocks of stone. You realize you are not alone as other creatures shift into existence around you with colored flashes of light.

With a swirl of dark grey energy, a baboon appears. A flash of purple resolves itself into a lemure, a mound of flesh with gaping mouth and flailing arms. Blue light flickers as a cackling hyena appears. A crackle of red energy reveals an orange and white cat. Green energy seeps up from the ground, resolving into the form of a deer. Teal energy pulses as a grey cat appears. Yellow energy flares brightly before fading and leaving behind a rat. BATTLE ROYALE ARENA!

Each of you feels imbued with a purpose... to kill the other creatures in the arena and survive as long as possible.

I rolled d20s for initiative and added your DEX mods. Placement on the map was random by rolling for X,Y coordinates. Squares are 5ft each, for this game I'll say that moving diagonal does not take a penalty, it's 5ft of your movement to move to any adjacent square. LAYF, you're up first!
.[tabs: LAYF ]Current Form: Baboon
Challenge Rating Points = 0/8 = CR = 0

[tabs: Dlover]Current Form: Lemure
Challenge Rating Points = 0/8 = CR = 0

[tabs: Burns ]Current Form: Hyena
Challenge Rating Points = 0/8 = CR = 0

[tabs: Theis2]Current Form: Kitty
Challenge Rating Points = 0/8 = CR = 0

[tabs:Lurks ]Current Form: Deer
Challenge Rating Points = 0/8 = CR = 0

[tabs:Thinks ]Current Form: Kitty
Challenge Rating Points = 0/8 = CR = 0

[tabs: Badge]Current Form: Rat
Challenge Rating Points = 0/8 = CR = 0[/tabs]

Being the aggressive animal he is, the Baboon rushes towards the Kitty (Thinks) moving as far west(left) as he can without dashing.

The Baboon is the first to act, striding towards the grey Kitty.

((You had enough movement to reach the kitty, you may take your action.))

Ah. was not sure

The baboon bites at the kitty:
Attack roll, Bite: 1D20+1 = [19]+1 = 20
Damage roll, Bite: 1D4-1 = [3]-1 = 2

With a snarl, the baboon sinks its teeth into the kitty, and with a shake of its head, the kitty goes limp before puffing into teal smoke and disappearing.

BATTLE ROYALE ARENA!

Lurks the Deer, you're up!
.[tabs: LAYF ]Current Form: Baboon
Challenge Rating Points = 0/8 = CR = 0

[tabs: Dlover]Current Form: Lemure
Challenge Rating Points = 0/8 = CR = 0

[tabs: Burns ]Current Form: Hyena
Challenge Rating Points = 0/8 = CR = 0

[tabs: Theis2]Current Form: Kitty
Challenge Rating Points = 0/8 = CR = 0

[tabs:Lurks ]Current Form: Deer
Challenge Rating Points = 0/8 = CR = 0

[tabs:Thinks ]Current Form: DEAD
Challenge Rating Points = 1/8 = CR = 1/8

[tabs: Badge]Current Form: Rat
Challenge Rating Points = 0/8 = CR = 0[/tabs]

Since this is an official game now, shall it be moved into the general area?

I'm still treating this first go as a trial run... if things are horribly unbalanced, it might need more tweaking before I open it up further.

Cats don't pack a lot of HP, so yeah... she died quick. Rounds will get progressively longer as you guys level up.

LAYF wrote:

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Sorry thinks... That went fast :/

Hah! No worries

The deer goes for the rat.
attack: 1D20+2 = [2]+2 = 4

Dodgy little fellow, isn't he?

The Rat squeaks in defiance.

The deer heads for the rat, bending down to take a bite at it, but the wily rodent dodges the teeth, squeaking angrily.

BATTLE ROYALE ARENA!

Dlover the mound of devil flesh is up!
.[tabs: LAYF ]Current Form: Baboon
Challenge Rating Points = 0/8 = CR = 0

[tabs: Dlover]Current Form: Lemure
Challenge Rating Points = 0/8 = CR = 0

[tabs: Burns ]Current Form: Hyena
Challenge Rating Points = 0/8 = CR = 0

[tabs: Theis2]Current Form: Kitty
Challenge Rating Points = 0/8 = CR = 0

[tabs:Lurks ]Current Form: Deer
Challenge Rating Points = 0/8 = CR = 0

[tabs:Thinks ]Current Form: DEAD
Challenge Rating Points = 1/8 = CR = 1/8

[tabs: Badge]Current Form: Rat
Challenge Rating Points = 0/8 = CR = 0[/tabs]

The lemure, being a slow, stupid mound of flesh, sludges its way west as far as it can.

"Hahahaah! Heeheehee! Hee haw hee!" The hyena bites into the remaining kitty.
Bite: 1D20 = [7] = 7
1D6 = [2] = 2

You're one tile short of reaching the kitty, Burns.

So during your turn, you have an action that you can use to do one of the following.

• Attack
• Cast a spell
• Dash
• Disengage
• Dodge
• Help
• Hide
• Ready
• Search
• Use an object

Of those, only the following are likely to be useful in the battle arena scenario:

• Attack - straight forward, roll a d20, apply modifiers, and compare to target AC
• Cast a spell - eventually some of you may have creatures with some amount of spellcasting ability, but not applicable here
• Dash - use your action to travel distance equal to your movement again in the turn, essentially allowing a double move
• Disengage - carefully back away from an enemy you are in melee with, prevents them from getting to make an opportunity attack
• Dodge - avoiding attacks, you impose disadvantage (attacker rolls twice, takes the lower) on attacks made against you for the next turn
• Hide - not much place to hide here, but under the right conditions you can attempt to hide from others
• Ready - you may ready an action with a specific trigger. This action typically includes readying an attack to be dealt to whoever steps into range, readying yourself to run away, cast a spell, etc. It just has to be specific and triggerable.

So... the lemure could move double its movement by taking the dash action, or take the Dodge action to avoid incoming attacks, or ready movement or an attack.

Dlover wrote:You're one tile short of reaching the kitty, Burns.

Indeed, you can't quite make it there.

I'll be using my action to ready an attack after moving west 3 tiles, then.

Okay if I can't get to the kitty then I will take a dodge action.

The fleshy mound shlumpfs its way in the general direction of the remaining kitty.

The cackling hyena runs towards the kitty as well, pulling up short and sniffing cautiously.

BATTLE ROYALE ARENA!

Badge the rat, you're up.
.[tabs: LAYF ]Current Form: Baboon
Challenge Rating Points = 0/8 = CR = 0

[tabs: Dlover]Current Form: Lemure
Challenge Rating Points = 0/8 = CR = 0

[tabs: Burns ]Current Form: Hyena
Challenge Rating Points = 0/8 = CR = 0

[tabs: Theis2]Current Form: Kitty
Challenge Rating Points = 0/8 = CR = 0

[tabs:Lurks ]Current Form: Deer
Challenge Rating Points = 0/8 = CR = 0

[tabs:Thinks ]Current Form: DEAD
Challenge Rating Points = 1/8 = CR = 1/8

[tabs: Badge]Current Form: Rat
Challenge Rating Points = 0/8 = CR = 0[/tabs]

Despite it's lust for battle and blood, the rat has other things in mind. It turns on the deer and runs straight toward it, dodging through it's legs and then onto a leg and begins to climb until it reaches the back of the deer. Here, stop it's mighty woodsy steed, it digs it's claws in and holds on for deer life.


(Now, personally...if this is an "unacceptable action" then I shouldn't be allowed to do it and I can do something else. If on the other hand I can, then I will and I think that another action should be added in to the ones you gave called "OTHER".)

The rat attempts to clamber aboard the deer.

Rat needs to make an Athletics check (1d20-4) to try to succeed, while Deer can make an Athletics check (1d20+0) or Acrobatics check (1d20+3) to avoid being a cervid jungle gym.

Deer Climbing: 1D20-4 = [3]-4 = -1

I think I failed so hard that I may have died.

Well, you didn't die, but you did run right into the deer's leg, the impact knocking you on your ass.

(Theis the Kitty is up!)

BATTLE ROYALE ARENA!
.[tabs: LAYF ]Current Form: Baboon
Challenge Rating Points = 0/8 = CR = 0

[tabs: Dlover]Current Form: Lemure
Challenge Rating Points = 0/8 = CR = 0

[tabs: Burns ]Current Form: Hyena
Challenge Rating Points = 0/8 = CR = 0

[tabs: Theis2]Current Form: Kitty
Challenge Rating Points = 0/8 = CR = 0

[tabs:Lurks ]Current Form: Deer
Challenge Rating Points = 0/8 = CR = 0

[tabs:Thinks ]Current Form: DEAD
Challenge Rating Points = 1/8 = CR = 1/8

[tabs: Badge]Current Form: Rat
Challenge Rating Points = 0/8 = CR = 0[/tabs]

Run for the Lemure, Theis! It shall guard the kitty! Probably! Possibly. At the very least it'll probably ignore the non-threatening kitty for the time being! ... Wait, is it actually possible to hold off on triggering the readied attack? Okay, running for the Lemure may not be the best idea after all. Don't run for the Lemure! I'd rather save my attack for a threat!

35 ft right and 80 ft up in wild panic, moving around the others