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Combat & Movement

A complete guide to multi-genre combat in the d20 scale

Mounted and Vehicular Combat

Mounted and Vehicular Combat

Controlling a Mount, Vehicle or Craft Each round that a creature or player is mounted or driving they may use their Motion and One Free Hand to control the mount, craft or vehicle. If they cannot or do not then the craft, vehicle or mount continues in the same direction

Vehicles

Vehicles

Combat that occurs between two or more large vessels usually requires the use of the following vehicular combat section. Scales Battles and logistics operate at different scales. Personal transportation and spacecraft have vastly different speeds, sizes and required operating space. In order to account for these various speeds and sizes,

Damage Types

Weapons, spells and abilities will all deal various damage types and equipment and armors will also offer resistance to some of these damage types. Some damage types will be more common in certain campaigns. Damage types are affected by Vulnerabilities and Resistances and alter the types of wounds that are

Stealth

Ambushing Creatures can successfully ambush others by meeting certain conditions. They must not be visible to the creatures they wish to ambush, creatures behind cover are still partially visible. They must not make any movements, if they do they need to to roll a Stealth Skill Roll. Creatures that meet

Falling and Landing

Falling and Landing

Last Grasp Creatures forced off any ledge may use their Reaction to attempt to catch themselves from falling. Creatures must succeed on a DC 10 Dexterity Saving throw to avoid the fall. If they do succeed they are instead knocked prone. If they fail they fall as normal. If the

Resting and Sleeping

Resting Resting allows creatures to regain Resource Points and to recover from strenuous activity. Resting requires at least one hour. Every hour spent resting replenishes 1 point in each Attribute Resource Pool. Creatures can regain HP while resting but cannot recover from wounds. Hit points regenerate at a rate of

Wounds

Wounds are dealt to living creatures that take significant amounts of damage from a single attack. Wound Threshold A creature is considered to be wounded when they receive damage of a single type from a single attack, spell, ability or hazard equal to 1 third or more of their total