Ghosts of Savannah – HUD Setup Instructions

Follow these steps to set up your HUD and get ready for roleplay.

Step 1 – Get Your HUD

At the Landing Zone, click the icon labeled “HUD”

 This will deliver your Savannah HUD.

Step 2 – Attach the HUD

Find the HUD in your inventory and attach it to your screen.

 You should now see it visible on your viewer.

Step 3 – Access Setup Files

On the HUD, press the Envelope button (last row).

This will send you a folder called:

•  “GoS Titler & Stats Config”

Inside the folder:

• GoS Titler

• GoS Titler Info Notecard

• PLAYER_CONFIG Notecard

Step 4 – Fill Out Your Stats

Open the PLAYER_CONFIG notecard and enter your character’s stats:

Abilities:

• Will

• Vigor

• Presence

• Cunning

Stat values can be found here:

• • • ->Player Stats - Spread sheet <-

Step 6 – Load Your Config into the HUD

Drag and drop a copy of the PLAYER_CONFIG notecard into your HUD.

The HUD will read the notecard and apply your stats automatically.

You’re Ready!

Your HUD is now fully configured and ready for play.

If something isn’t working:

• Double check your notecard entries

• Make sure you dropped the correct notecard into the HUD

• Try detaching and reattaching the HUD

• Reach out via an ST Request if needed

IMPORTANT! Please read it carefully.

Abilities and Skills

Each character has a set of abilities that are particular to them and are distributed by the player when they created the character. 

Novices start with 7 points to distribute, Intermediate with 9 points, and Experts with 12. 

Each race has 2 extra points on one or more abilities (you can read more about this on the Apply page for each race).

The abilities are: Will, Vigor, Presence and Cunning.

These abilities can be improved by doing RP tasks that you can work on with your Race mentors so that your character can eventually level up. This path is individual for each character and can be discussed with the mentors or with Dae and Leah.

Apart from the abilities, each race type has particular skills they can do (you can read more about this on the Apply page for each race). 

Each skill is divided in 3 types of tasks that will have a different outcome depending on the level of your character. Any character can try to do any level of task, but the chances of a novice succeeding a challenging tasks are very low, and the outcome of that success won't match the one that an expert would have had. Also, failure would bring harsher consequences. We included this option because some reckless and impulsive characters might want to go BIG, no matter the consequences and they actually be lucky enough to be successful!

The HUD is used to assure that the success or failure of a character doing the different skills and tasks is fair to everyone involved.

When you are using your skills, you add the appropriate ability to your roll:

• • WILL – magical/spiritual strength, mental resilience

    • Any magic a Witch does has to add their WILL

    • Roll against an object situation who has a spell/ward

  • VIGOR – physical strength, endurance

    • Anything that requires strength and endurance

    • Resist poisons and diseases  (magic or physical)

  • PRESENCE – social influence, charisma, intimidation

    • Presence is always rolled against another player or group in social interactions

  • CUNNING – intelligence, reflexes, perception, and dexterity

    • Anything related to agility and dexterity

    • Anything related to problem solving and intellect

SKILL ROLLs

• Novice: Simple task: Over 5 // Difficult task: Over 13 // Challenging task: Over 20

• Intermediate: Simple task: Over 4 // Difficult task: Over 10 // Challenging task: Over 17

• Advanced: Simple task: Over 3 // Difficult task: Over 8 // Challenging task: Over 13

Enhancement/Decrease

Players might have items (or enhancements placed on them) that enhance or decrease their abilities, such as a trinket or a ward placed by another player. Each button, on the HUD used for this has the option to add or subtract this to the final roll. 

• These items are created ONLY by Witches and Freemasons. 

• Items created by Strix's Blood Alchemy skill can only be used by Strix, and would act as enhancement or decrease.

Effects:

• If a Novice uses a skill/ability the effect is +/- 1 on the roll of the receiver

• If an Intermediate uses a skill/ability the effect is +/- 2 on the roll of the receiver

• If an Expert uses a skill/ability the effect is +/- 3 on the roll of the receiver

Health

Each character has two types of Health. Some skills and enhancements/deductions affect one or the other. You can't have more health points that your maximum PH or MH. This number is established but your ability points.

• • Physical Health: Your character’s stamina, bodily endurance, and resistance to physical harm (based on your Vigor ability).
    Formula: PH = Vigor × 3 + Level + any race add 

  • Mental Health Your character’s mental resilience, sanity, and ability to resist psychic or supernatural stress (based on your Will ability).
    Formula: MH = Will × 3 + Level + any race add    

Approved Weapons 

IMPORTANT: within the city these must be concealed or police will arrest you. Unconcealed weapons will call attention to the  holder

Types:

• • • Projectile: 

      • • Modern weapons: Hand guns, rifles, shotguns, machine guns, explosives 

        • Classical weapons: Bows, crossbows, sling, Shuriken, boomerang, Blowgun, rock

    • Melee: 

      • • Common & Improvised Blunt Weapons: Mace, clubs, baseball bats, sticks, police batons, tire irons, crowbars, pipes, rock, street sign, chair, table, bottle

        • Martial Arts:  bow staff, tonfa, nunchaku, brass knuckles.

        • Household/Industrial: tools (hammers, wrenches), Ax, Sledgehammers, fire pokers, rolling pins, shovels, broom handles

        • Edged/Bladed: Swords: Katana, Broadsword, Rapier, Saber, Dagger, Bowie Knife, Kukri, Axe, Tomahawk, Battle Axe, Fire Axe, Spear

    • Body: claws (shifters), fangs (vampires), martial arts, wrestling, fists, fingernails, feet

Descriptions of the HUD buttons

Task & Defense: Use this button for defense or a roll without using skills. 

Skill: Use this button when using one of your skills in a task.

Flip a Coin: Simple heads or tails.

PH & MH (Physical and Mental Health): Use this button to deduct/add to your character's Physical & Mental Health. It will reflect on the floating text on your hud.

GoS Website: Open the GoS website.

Pvp w/weapon: Use this button when you are using a weapon against another player 

Game info: Gives you a notecard with links to information on the website (races, abilities, skills).

Reset Health: This button resets your PH & MH values

Player Info: Write in local the character information saved on the HUD (only visible to you)

Emote: Click it to change your name for emoting. Use channel /5 to roleplay

Titler deliver: Click it to get the Titler tag. Read below for info on how to set it up.

Hud redeliver: Click to get a new HUD from the server.

How to Set up the Titler

1. 1. Attach the GoS Titler included in the folder so that the text shows on top of your head.

   2. To configure it, type: /44 menu in local chat.

   3. You will see a blue popup where you can input the text you want to show.

   4. In the next popup you can select the color of the floating text:

   5. You can enter the percentage RGB ("1,1,1" or "<1,1,1>"), numerical RGB ("255,255,255" or "<255,255,255>"), or hexadecimal ("#FFFFFF"). 

How to use the HUD in your roleplay