Sports Announcements and Updates

• The Math: Accuracy of the blatcher versus Evasion of the target. On a success, the target takes damage (Current Speed x 35) and is KOB. If the blatcher passes a strength roll of 30, then the target takes double fall damage (Current Speed x 50).

- Gouge
All racers who pass by a Bowtruckle infested tree unit will have to roll and exceed an Evasion roll of 15 to escape its eyes gouging attack. This attack causes blindness (works like Obscuro; 0 (zero) evasion and 0 (zero) accuracy) and bleeding when the roll fails. Bleeding can be nullified with the Ferula and Episkey charms. Blindness can be nullified with the Episkey charm. Bleeding damage is the same as thorns: (Broom Speed / 100) x Max Health. Those with blindvision are immune to the blindness, but can still experience bleeding.

• [Year 1] Werewolf Transformation, Gaunt or Wolf Form - N/A
• [Year 1] Werewolf Form: Bite and Rend - N/A
• [Year 3] Enhanced Human Track: Tracking - The werewolf can track its prey. At the start of a race, the team captain will owl the moderator the name of the opponent that the werewolf has chosen to track. When tracked, the werewolf has an accuracy increase of +2 against the opponent they have listed. If the werewolf wishes to change their tracked opponent, they may use an action to change their target, and this information will be relayed through owl by the team captain.
• [Year 3] Enhanced Human track: Heightened Sense of Smell - You are able to see through a metamorph's mimic appearance or the target of a transformation.
  Note: This can be used as a counter against users of the polyjuice potion, metamorphmagi that appear to be someone else, and charms that can be used to change one's appearance. The werewolf is also immune to 's Grace and Wolf's Grace.
• [Year 3] Out of Phase Lycanthrope track: Out of Phase Lycanthrope - The racer may transform into their gaunt or wolf form once per game. The racer will not be able to use magic or any of their non-werewolf abilities. Due to how freaky this is for other players, all other players, including allies, will receive +1 critical failure chance, unless they possess the fearless ability.
  • The Gaunt Form will also have -1 accuracy due to their large claws.
  • The Wolf Form will only be able to move half the normal movement speed, and this is further halved if they take an action (it's basically a doggo on a skateboard ok!).
  
  [Year 3] Out of Phase Lycanthrope track: Felled Beast - If the werewolf has transformed and their HP reaches 0, they revert to their human form and have 1 HP, allowing them to continue the race.
• [Year 5] Embracing the Wolf Pack track: Wolf's Cry - N/A
• [Year 5] Embracing the Wolf Pack track: Moonspeak - If there are two or more werewolves on the same team, and they have transformed, they may gain advantage on one obstacle (owled by the captain after the round when the transformation took place).
• [Year 5] Humanity Held track: Wolf's Grace - As a human, a werewolf's predatory abilities become stronger. Opponents are more noticeable to a werewolf, and they find it easier to prepare for the upcoming danger. Werewolves have a +2 evasion against environmental attackers. Players with this ability also have a 10% chance for their attack actions (blatches, spells, potions, etc) against opponents to go unnoticed by them; this is countered by the Sixth Sense ability or another werewolf with Wolf's Grace/Heightened Sense of Smell. If combined with ’s Grace, then werewolves can counter an opponent’s Sixth Sense.
• [Year 5] Humanity Held track: Transformative Resilience - Players have an advantage against any transfiguration spells targeted at them.
  Included spells:
  
  Reducio

  - Bullarum Immortalem
  - Incendio
  - Fumos
  - Obscuro
  - Incendio Duo
  - Ferula
  - Nec Divinos Crepitus
  - Nebulus
  - Aguamenti
  - Aqua Eructo
  - Bat Bogey Hex
• [Year 7] Intimidation Track: Intimidation - Intimidation affects everyone on track, regardless of range. When in effect, there is a -1 accuracy and a +1 critical failure chance for all those on track (friend or foe). If transformed, this is doubled. But this does not stack if there is more than one werewolf: max -1 acc and +1 crit if any intimidating werewolf is present. Max -2 acc and +2 crit if any intimidating werewolf has transformed. Note: This is countered with the Fearless ability.
• [Year 7] Member of the Pack track: Member of the Pack - For every other werewolf present in the race, the player may gain +1 to any stat. These cannot stack per stat; only one point can be added per stat. This must be announced at the beginning of the race in the player's first post.

Firebolt

Description: The greatest broom available on the market : unmatched in terms of speed as well as maneuverability.
Prerequisite: This is a twink broom, meaning that you have means of earning more money or someone with disposable income has likely given this to you if you are before your 7th year.
Stats: +4 to a single stat of choice. Must be declared at the start of the game.
Speed: Top Speed is 5 7. However, when you reach a speed of 6, there is a 10% chance that you will auto-miss (with anything requiring an accuracy roll), and 10% you will be auto-hit (with anything requiring a dodge roll). At a speed of 7, there is a 20% chance of auto-miss, auto-hit, and fall from the broom that will be rolled in movement moderation after passing each obstacle.
Ability:

Advantageous Maneuvers: The racer gets advantage rolls for obstacles that require Accuracy check to pass. This means the racer will have two rolls. The highest result will be used. This can be used once every three rounds.

Healing Sage - Paired with Rapid Reviver, it allows you to use the Rapid Reviver ability twice in two different rounds.

Paragon of Health - Two allies of players with this ability (which must be defined at the start of the thread/upon entry) gain +10% temporary health points calculated from their stamina. This cannot stack or be healed. If a benched player has this ability, it does not take effect until the player is on the field. Paired with Rapid Reviver, it allows you to save two allies in the same round.

Rapid Reviver - If a user has this and is on save duty, they can save anyone who falls. If the person falling has negative health, this person brings their teammate back to 1hp when they save them. The rapid reviver effect cannot affect the same saved person twice by the same saving person; however, the same saved person can be revived via a different user using the rapid reviver ability. For example, say persons A, B, and C are all on the same team. If person B is falling at negative health, but in an earlier round person A already used their Rapid Reviver ability to bring person B back from negative health, person A cannot use their Rapid Reviver ability on person B again even if they are on save duty. However, if person C also has Rapid Reviver, they can be placed on save duty, save person B, and bring person B back into play because person C was not the one to use this ability on person B earlier. TLDR: the same person can be saved multiple times, but must be saved by a different rescuer each time. This ability can be paired with Paragon of Health and Healing Sage.

METAMORPHMAGUS

• [Year 3] Mimic Appearance. - The Metamorphmagi ability to mimic the appearance of others can be used to make a user look like an opponent another player currently in the match, whether ally or opponent, to fool the opposite team. The player being mimicked must be on the pitch in the match itself; this cannot extend to benched players, referees, or anyone else not actively playing. In such a situation, changing the appearance takes a full action and if the roll to see if a user is fooled (must be rolled for all allies and foes). For those that are fooled, attempts to target or interact with a transformed metamorphi have a chance of targeting the intended target or the metamorphmagi.

PART-VEELA SCREAM

• [Year 3] Scream. - Can use their Scream but it would be considered a [DEBUFF FOUL] and they would be suffering a detention after.
  
  Their scream can be disorienting (-1 accuracy and -1 evasion), requiring a full action to perform but does not require a wand. This can stack indefinitely and persist until the end of the encounter. This scream can target a single user or it can target up to five users (as an AOE attack). The roll to resist this effect is ACC vs WIS, reflecting that this is sensory disruption rather than something that can be physically dodged.
  
  Alternatively, this spell can be used to temporarily deafen an opponent. So rather than cause the player to become disoriented, they would become deafened with a Wisdom debuff of -2 for a single target or -1 for multiple targets, unable to hear for the next 5 rounds.

Quidditch Mechanics
2. Debuff Fouls - takes place at the start of the round and affects all actions performed. If more than one debuff foul occurs in the same round, an initiative roll determines which one resolves first.

Calculations
Some actions require averaging stats or applying a multiplier which may result in a decimal; in these cases, the value is rounded to the nearest whole number. A decimal below .5 rounds down, and .5 or higher rounds up (so 9.4 becomes 9, while 9.5 becomes 10).

Stats cannot fall below 0. If any effect would lower a stat to a negative number, whether from an opponent's debuff or a move that lowers one stat to boost another, the stat is treated as 0 instead. (This applies to stats only, health can still go negative.)

Firebolt/Tinderblast/Oakshaft 79

In the role of Beater, if an ALLY dodges a bludger during the round, there is a 20% chance that you catch that bludger with your bat and you send it at a RANDOM enemy target.

Note: For the rules lawyers out there: you are not considered your own ally. This does not trigger if the Beater themselves is on a penalty lap.

Bludger Intercept: [BEATER]
A move where the beater attempts to intercept a bludger hit by an opposing beater and hit it towards a random opponent. When using this action, one opposing beater must be selected. If the selected beater does not hit a bludger this round, then this action is voided. A beater can take this move against each opposing beater once per game.

• The Math: [Accuracy Stat]
  Beater accuracy + 7 vs selected opposing Beater's accuracy to see if the beater is intercepted. Upon success, the beater hits the bludger to a random opponent. This is an accuracy roll (for the attacking character) against an opponent's evasion. The damage done would be 50 x the strength score. If hit, the random target takes the damage, and if their health is 0 or less, the user is knocked from the broom. The broom ability Ricochet does not take effect on this hit. Upon failure, the bludger continues on its predetermined route.
• Additional Information: A beater can intercept a beater who is targeting them, since both actions resolve simultaneously. If the beater a player is bludger intercepting is doing a Dopplebeater Defence, then the +7 accuracy would become +4 accuracy.

Save: [SEEKER] [CHASER] [KEEPER] [BEATER]
This is where the player focuses their attention on saving a falling ally.

• Additional Information: When saved, a player's health is considered to be whatever their health was when they were knocked off the broom at the moment the player performing Save catches them. If a player had 300 health but was somehow knocked off their broom and saved, they get to keep their 300 health. This cannot be used on someone who has fallen below 0 health and failed their stamina check, or who was brought to 175% or more of their total health pool in damage, unless the person performing save has the ability Rapid Reviver. In which case, the user is brought back to 1 health being caught.

Dual-Wielding: [BEATER]
This is where one Beater throws their bat to their partner to go off and do something non-Beater-related, allowing the Beater with two bats to defend against two Bludgers at once perform two bat-based actions at once.

• The Math: [Strength Stat]
  Allows a Beater to do two Bludger-related actions bat-based actions at once (e.g. Backbeat and Bludger, Bludger and Bludger, Backbeat and Defend, Defend and Defend, Big Whack and Bludger, etc.). However, there is a -4 to accuracy, evasion, and strength while a Beater is dual-wielding, and the other Beater on the field cannot perform a Beater-exclusive action any Beater-exclusive action that requires a bat.
• Additional Information: If a Beater dual-wields a damaging foul and a bludger action in the same round, each one is resolved in its own respective order of operations step rather than together. If a Beater performs a damaging foul twice while dual-wielding, a separate cheat roll is rolled for each swing, meaning they could end up serving two rounds' worth of penalty laps.

Dopplebeater Defense: (2 Player Move) [BEATER]
Both Beaters hit a bludger at the same time for extra power, resulting in a bludger attack of greater accuracy and severity.

• The Math: [Accuracy][Strength]
  This is mathematically similar to Bludgering an opponent, except the Accuracy is averaged between the users using this move, and the strength of the two users is added together. They also gain advantage on the accuracy roll. Any abilities used by or against the beaters will be rolled for separately. If one beater auto-fails the attack, it will be rolled as a single bludger attack. If the broom ability Ricochet is used with this move, damage of the ricochet will be cut by 25%. Additionally, a bludger hit done with Ricochet will have its accuracy rolled at disadvantage. With this move, if both Beaters have ricochet, there will only be one ricochet target. If only one Beater has ricochet, the ricochet will be rolled using only their stats.
• Additional Information: If two players perform Dopplebeater Defence and only one of them is affected by Terrible Presence (-10% damage reduction), the damage reduction is halved to -5%.

Quaffle Grab & Pass: [SEEKER] [CHASER] [KEEPER]
This is where the player attempts to gain control of the Quaffle. If the player gets the Quaffle, the player will pass the Quaffle to a teammate. That teammate will automatically attempt to score. There are five attempts to grab the Quaffle in a single round.

• The Math: [Accuracy Stat]
  This is a contested Accuracy roll between every user that attempts to grab a Quaffle. The highest accuracy roll with accuracy stat would gain control of the quaffle. The user that gains control of the quaffle would automatically attempt to score. This is a contested accuracy roll between the player attempting to score and the Keeper if the Keeper is defending the rings/blocking.
• Additional Information: If a player gets multiple successful grabs in the same round, the recipients don't have to be the same teammate each time, but this needs to be specified in the action. The recipient of a pass must be doing the "Quaffle Grab & Score" move or the "Finbourgh Flick" move or the "Quaffle Grab & Slice" move or the "Quaffle Grab & Trick Score" move or the "Chelmondiston Charge" move.

Cheer: [SECOND STRING]
This is where a second string player cheers on a certain member of their team. This can stack twice per in-play teammate per round.

1. Additional Information: Upon critical failing this roll, the Cheer effect is redirected to an opponent of the second-string player. Upon critical succeeding this roll, the Cheer effect is doubled for the round. If the player being cheered is sharing a broom with another player, a single Cheer is voided; both players sharing the broom must be cheered separately for the effect to apply.

Boo: [SECOND STRING]
This is where a second string player boos a certain member of the opposing team. This can stack twice per in-play opponent per round.

1. Additional Information: Upon critical failing this roll, the Boo effect is redirected to a teammate of the second-string player. Upon critical succeeding this roll, the Boo effect is doubled for the round. If the player being booed is sharing a broom with another player, a single Boo is voided; both players sharing the broom must be booed separately for the effect to apply.