#obj/handlers/nroff.c
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Name
",7,5,"combat - General help on the combat system
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Description
",3,5,5,"The combat system is how you go about killing things. You and all other living things have rules built into you to determine the outcome of fights. You can initiate combat by either typing 'kill <thing>' or by casting an offensive spell at the thing. You can kill monsters or other players.
When you are in combat, you will automatically get an attack every 2 seconds which is how often your heartbeat happens. If for some reason, the monsters hit you, but you do not hit back, try typing 'restart' which is the command to restart your heartbeat. Occasionally things go wrong and this will happen but it isn't a common occurance so please tell a lord if you find a way of making it happen.
During combat, you can cast spells at the rate of 1 per heartbeat. You may find some spells that can be cast instantaneously and don't happen on the heartbeat, but these spells will usually not be damage spells and there will be no real problem in casting lots of them at once. For a list of the spells you know, type 'spells' and to use them type 'cast spell target'.
Some guilds will also give players combat commands that do damage similar to that of the spells of magic using guilds. A fighters guild might give thump and headbutt commands, while a thieves guild would probably have backstab.
All players have spell points even if they don't cast spells. If they do cast spells, spell points will be used in the process. If you are a fighter, using the combat commands like thump and headbut will use your spell points. The name is meaningless. You could consider the combat commands to the be fighters form of spell. Fighters do of course have the dissappear spell where they can make any amount of food dissappear almost instantaneously.
The object of a combat of course is to be alive at the end of it, standing over the corpse of the person you were fighting. The less desirable outcome is being made to have a brief chat to Death. These things happen and you will be bound to die sooner or later. Lifes tough. ",})
nroffed_file_name "/doc/create/combat"
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