Luminari MUD

Another layer has been added to the Luminari combat system, fostering tactical decision making and planning while maintaining the fast-paced action that defines combat on Luminari. The Action Queue allows you to set up combat maneuvers to replace melee attacks, including attacks of opportunity and extra attacks granted by feats like Improved Trip.

What does this mean? Now you are able to plan ahead which combat maneuvers you execute in combat, allowing you the flexibility of stacking bonuses and penalties throughout your attack rotation.

For example, if you have the feat Improved Trip, you gain an extra attack after you successfully trip an opponent. Before this update, that extra attack was limited to a simple melee attack. Now, you can type trip, disarm and those attacks are queued up for execution on your next melee attack. When you then initiate combat (or when your next attack is automatically executed) that melee attack will be replaced by a trip attempt. If you are successful, your next attack will be the free attack granted by the Improved Trip feat. This attack will take the next maneuver off of the queue, executing a disarm attempt while the opponent is sitting, incurring a -4 penalty on their defense. If you fail, you can either clear the queue with the command ‘attackqueue clear’ or allow your disarm to go through anyway on your next melee attack.

All abilities or combat maneuvers that replace a melee attack may be queued on the attack queue and stacked in this way.

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– Ornir Elunari

In Luminari, between actions you were put into a ‘Wait-State’ where you could only perform a very limited set of commands, regardless of the reason you were in the wait state.

This is no more!

We would like to introduce Luminari’s action system, the next step in the implementation of the new Luminari combat system!

Luminari now uses a system similar to that of the d20 system on which many of its mechanics are based. Every character, PC or NPC, has a set of actions. As of this writing, this includes a Standard action and a Move action. These actions represent the amount of time required to perform certain tasks. At any time, you may use a standard action as a move action, and any commands that require a move action to be available have this requirement fulfilled by having a standard action available.

Commands that you enter require the use of a standard action, a move action, a full-round action (using BOTH the standard and move action) or do not use an action. Some activities (such as directional movement) only require that you have an action available – the activity does not consume that action.

In combat, in order to have the ability to use all of your attacks, you must have a full-round action available. If you only have a standard action available, your attacks are limited to the first phase of the combat round. If you only have a move action, or have no actions available, you do not attack until those actions become available again. All actions regenerate after one round, approximately 6 seconds.

Opening a door, standing up from a sitting position, fleeing from battle and drinking a potion all require a move action.

In the future, additional actions may be introduced.

Your available actions can be shown in your prompt, as a display: [sm] where s represents your standard action and m represents your move action. This option can be activated in prefedit – In the prompt menu, select ‘Show Actions’.

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The first step has been made in the implementation of the new Luminari combat system – Combat on Luminari is now event based.

What does this mean? Luminari no longer uses instantly executed combat rounds. Instead, each round is broken down into 3 phases. A character’s attacks are spread out among these phases in order:

Phase 1: Attack 1, 4, 7
Phase 2: Attack 2, 5, 8
Phase 3: Attack 3, 6, 9

No player character should have more than 9 attacks.

Each phase lasts 2 seconds. A combat round lasts 6 seconds. This is the first step in a number of changes to refine the combat system.

This change increases survivability – instead of a wall of attacks coming at you every 6 seconds, those attacks are spread out. You have more opportunity to react, flee, use special attacks or buff yourself or your allies.

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