These are the basic rules that everyone should know and follow.

Basic Effects

All combat and role play interactions can result in acquiring or losing of some of the effects that are explicitly listed below.

Special rules may stipulate that an effect can be invoked by shouting a keyword.

Damage

When taking Damage a character loses some Health.

• Attacks deal 1 or 2 Damage depending on the character's Armor of the attacked spot.

Injury

Keyword: "Injury!"

Injury to a limb makes the limb unusable, and when the torso is injured the character loses all remaining Health and gains effects of Agony and Pain.

• Attacks also cause Injury, unless the the attacked spot is adequately armored.

COMBAT RULES

Equipment

Armor

Light armor

• Gambeson: Textile armor made of stacked layers of strong fabric sewn together, with or without metal rivets.

• Leather armor: Armor made of hard leather or layers of soft leather at least 2 mm thick, measured when pressed.

• Others: Any armor with appropriate appearance made of lightweight material such as aluminum, plastic, EVA foam etc.

Mail

• Chain Mail: Armor made of linked together steel rings, with or without riveting.

Heavy armor

• Brigandine: Armor consisting of steel plates upon a textile or leather padding.

• Plate Armor: Armor made of a steel sheet with a thickness of about 1 mm.

Weapons

Light weapons

• One-handed weapons: sword, axe, mace, war hammer.

• Hand-and-a-half weapons: bastard sword.

• Long weapons: spear, naginata, light halberd, quarterstaff.

• Throwing weapons: throwing knives, throwing axes, shurikens.

Arrows

• Any arrows shot from a bow or crossbow.

Heavy weapons

• Two-handed weapons that are used with only two hands: two-handed axe, two-handed hammer, two-handed mace, heavy two-handed sword, massive halberd.

• Magic Staves: Can only be used as a weapon with a spell that activates them.

• Arrows fired from a siege weapon: ballista, scorpion. These arrows must look different and more massive than bow arrows.

• Projectiles of "firearms" that load significantly slower than a bow. These projectiles should look different from arrows.

Shields

• Any shield that can be held in the hand and is not part of the character's armor.
  A character cannot carry more than one shield.

Safety

All weapons must be made in a safe way so that even in the event of a strong blow against an unarmored player, they cannot cause injury more serious than bruising.

All throwing weapons must not have hard and sharp edges, so that injury to the eye or other soft tissues is not possible.

All arrows must not have a metal head and instead they need to have a soft-tipped head that is larger than a human eye socket.

All armor and shields must not have sharp edges or spikes that can injure a player by cutting their skin.

Attacks

Clean hit

Hits and shots are counted only if they represent a clean hit with a realistic area of impact.

• If an attack only brushes against the garment or barely scratches the skin of the person, it has no effect.

Forbidden attacks

An attack on the head is prohibited and it does not cause damage or injury, regardless of whether the opponent wears a helmet or not.

Attack in the groin is prohibited and it does not cause damage or injury.

Blind attack (attacking without seeing the enemy) is prohibited.

• The attacked player has the right to recognize and choose to role play a prohibited attack as if it was a valid attack.

Defenses

Example

The character Elve wears a gambeson that covers his arms and torso, and a steel plate that covers his torso.

• If he is hit with a sword in his arm (gambeson), his armor will protect him and he will take 2 Damage but no Injury.

• However, if he is shot in the arm (gambeson), the arrow will pierce through the single armor and he will take 2 Damage and the arm will be Injured.

• If he is hit with a sword or arrow in the chest (gambeson + steel), his armor will protect him from Injury and he will take reduced damage of 1.

• If he is hit in the chest with a two-handed war hammer (Heavy weapon), his armor will protect him from Injury, but he will still have to take 2 Damage.

• If his unprotected throat is cut with a knife or a sword, he will lose all of his Health because it represents a torso Injury.

ROLE PLAY INTERACTIONS

Duel Rules

In a role-played duel or in a simulated hand-to-hand combat, surface hits that are not a "clean hit" and hand touches that represent hand-to-hand attacks are valid hits. They cause damage only to an unprotected part of the body and deal 1 Damage (but do not inflict an Injury).

Searching

A dead character or a captive can be searched for game objects. In this case the searching character role plays actions of searching and asks the searched character for explicit types of objects (money, herbs, ingredients, magic items, documents, etc.) - for each object type separately. The player whose character is searched must hand over only those types of things for which he was explicitly asked.

Personal belongings, personal equipment, and sources of metagame information cannot be taken with searching.

Scrolls that symbolize an already "mastered" skill also cannot be taken.

Capture

A character who is helpless due to Pain, Knockout or similar effects, can be taken prisoner by role played tying of his arms and/or legs.

A rope or another suitable material must be used, but that must be done in a way that allows the player to free themselves if an offgame necessity arises.

Tying up a character's arms or legs disables them in the same way as an Injury does, with one exception: if the captured character acquires a cutting weapon, they can role play cutting themselves free from the ropes.

After 20 min in captivity, the player may decide that their character died or managed to commit suicide. In this case they should role play the Death of their character.

GAME OBJECTS

Personal and Game items

Personal belongings and personal equipment

As "personal" are considered any items that belong to a player and are not marked or put into play as a game object. 

Personal belongings and equipment may not be used without the consent of their owner under any game or non-game pretext.

Taking of personal items in the context of the game is allowed only when disarming a captured character - and in this case only their game weapons can be taken and placed away from their reach, and still somewhere nearby.

Game objects

These are objects marked with a symbol that shows they are in game, or unambiguously described by the organizer of the game as game objects - magical ingredients, artifacts, in-game money etc.

Such items may be used by all players in accordance with the rules of the game, while taking due care not to destroy or lose them. When the game is over, these items should be returned to their owner (which is usually the game organizer).

Removing game objects from play

Special rules may provide that a game object is removed from play - when it is exhausted or destroyed in the game world. 

In this case, the object is placed in a place marked as "Out of play" or "Offgame", or kept by the player separately from in-game objects, and it is not used for its intended purpose.

Offgame objects cannot be brought into play unless special rules provide for this.

Keeping game objects between games

Unless otherwise specified in the rules of a particular game, game objects are not transferred from game to game - except for Scrolls, which are kept between games of the same series.

Scroll

Scrolls that contain a "recipe" for performing an action in the game can be introduced or produced in-game. The actions described in them can be performed only by a character who has "mastered" the skill of the Scroll.

When a player acquires a Scroll, they can decide that their character will "master" the Skill incorporated in the Scroll. To do this, a character must have a main Skill that allows to master associated scroll skills.

• For example, only a character with Alchemy can learn alchemy recipes.

Once "mastered", a scroll is removed from the game and can no longer be given to another character.

Herbs

Herbs are disposable play objects, prepared in advance by the organizer or by a player in the form of artificial flowers with a description and symbol for the respective Herb attached to it.

An herb that is not "planted" in a special basket, but is in a character, in a box or just on the ground, can be taken by any player.

A planted herb can only be collected by a character with the skill Herbalism and only within the time interval indicated above the place where the herb grows.

Ingredients

Ingredients are single use game objects that are prepared by the organizer and marked with a label with their name.

There is no stand-alone use for them - they are only used for completing quests or for the crafting of other game objects.

After being expended for crafting a game object, ingredients are spent and should be removed from the game in a discreet way.

Potions

Potions are single use game objects prepared in advance by the organizer or by a player as labelled bottles.

• They can be crafted and put into play through certain Skills which require the use of Herbs and sometimes Ingredients.

The name and effects of the potion must be described on its label (before or after crafting it).

Each character can benefit once from the effects of the potion - either voluntarily or by being forced or tricked into drinking it.

• In the latter case, the player who has given the potion needs to discreetly explain the effect of the player whose character drank the elixir.

The bottles with "consumed" potions are removed from the game and returned to their owner as soon as possible.

Magic Items

Magic items are reusable gaming items that are prepared by the organizer or a player and labeled with their name and effects.

• They can be crafted and put into play through certain Skills which require the use of Ingredients and sometimes Potions.

The name and effects of the item must be described on its label (before or after crafting it).

Each character can benefit from the effects of an item they have with them.

Mechanism

Object with this symbol can only be used by a character who has the skill Mechanics.

If the symbol is placed on a chest lid or door, it means that the skill is required to open them.

Unmovable Object

This object cannot be local from its place, unless special rules provide otherwise.

Mystical Object

This object can only be used by a character who has the skill Mysticism.