Quidditch Rules and Information

[The New Ages]

From the Lexicon (brackets indicate corrections or additions implied elsewhere):

Quidditch is big at Hogwarts. Each House fields a team, which includes the seven players and often one or two reserve players as well. The teams have a team captain who not only plays but also acts as coach. The captain leads practices, devises strategies, and sees to the induction of new players into the team. Quidditch tryouts are typically during the second week of the school year, although the exact day and time are up to the captain to determine. The Quidditch season at Hogwarts starts in October, with the first games early in November. Team practices are scheduled by individual captains (they "book the field" to reserve it for their own team to practice.) Most teams practice almost every day, after school or in the evenings.

The matches themselves are well attended by almost everyone in the school. The raised stands can hold hundreds of fans, and it would seem that the matches are sometimes attended by Quidditch fans from the surrounding area as well.

The team which accumulates the most points over the course of the school year is awarded the Quidditch Cup, a great honor. Special awards are given to the best players as well.

Each year, the various House teams play each other once. This results in six games of Quidditch:

• Gryffindor v. Slytherin … The first match of the year, normally held in November
  
• Hufflepuff v. Ravenclaw … Held at the end of November
  
• Ravenclaw v. Slytherin … January
  
• Gryffindor v. Hufflepuff … Normally held shortly after St. Valentine's Day
  
• Hufflepuff v. Slytherin … Early May
  
• Gryffindor v. Ravenclaw … The last match of the season, held in late May, usually before final exams

On the normal schedule shown above, the games are grouped into three pairs, such that for each pair of games, all four teams play, with no team playing two matches back-to-back without a break. The Christmas break falls between [Ravenclaw's] first two matches, and the Easter break falls between [Hufflepuff’s] last two.

Quidditch is always played in a series. Unless you're playing a pickup game, every Quidditch match is part of a larger series of matches, and accumulated points are what count toward ultimate victory. The Quidditch Cup at Hogwarts [as well as the World Cup and any other league championship] goes to the team with the most total points, not the one who has won the most matches.

Quidditch on TNA will be played in a combination of RP posting and dice throws.

There are seven players on each team:
One Seeker
One Keeper
Two Beaters
Three Chasers

One player may act as team captain and is in charge of keeping the roster accurate and informing the referee of the final team roster before the start of each game. In order to have a full team, any and all NPC players will be played by the team captain who may chose to ask pre-designated team mates to play an NPC if needed.

ALL PLAYERS:
Each player will roll a die at the beginning of his or her RP post. Points will be awarded based on each player’s roll and tallied by the referee. Each post will also include RP content, describing the player’s thoughts and actions. Because a player does not know the outcome of their roll until it has been posted, a player may go back and edit RP content to match the dice outcome. It is nearly impossible to edit the outcome of the dice roll, a characteristic of the program. Anyone found tampering with the program or cheating the game will cause their team to lose all points awarded for the match and an automatic win will be awarded to the opponent.

All players are allowed a maximum of 15 dice rolls (per player) per game.  Any rolls made after a player's allotted rolls will not be counted towards the team's score.  In the interest of saving time, players may roll twice per player per post if they need.  Players are allowed to ask other team mates to "adopt" some of their rolls (up to 7), also giving permission to that team mate to god mode their actions during that time.  All adoptions need to  be approved by the team captain and noted on the final team roster submitted to the referee before the game (see below).

All game posts must follow the TNA RP guidelines for length and content. Any RP post found to be in violation may be deleted and no points will be awarded for that post.  All players  are encouraged to continue posting after their allotted 15 rolls have been completed.

At the beginning of each RP post, all players may roll dice for their own position as well as any NPCs or adoptions they may be playing.  To generate your die roll, you will need to use the [*dice=X*] code where X= the number of sides and the * are removed.

CHASERS:
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At the beginning of each RP post, Chasers will roll a 10 sided die. If the outcome is an EVEN NUMBER, the Chasers have scored for their team. Ten points will be awarded to their team.

KEEPERS:
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At the beginning of each RP post, Keepers will roll a 6 sided die. If the outcome is an EVEN NUMBER, the Keeper has made a block. Ten points will be awarded to their team.

BEATERS:
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At the beginning of each RP post, Beaters will roll a 4 sided die. If the outcome is a 2 or 4, the Beater has made a block. Ten points will be awarded to their team.

SEEKERS:
[ roll=1-150]
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At the beginning of each RP post, Seekers will roll a 150 sided die. If the outcome is a multiple of 10, the Seeker has caught the snitch and the game is over. 150 points will be awarded to the team.

Seekers ARE NOT allowed to roll for the snitch until 24 hours after the Start of Game post (which is usually 24-48 hours after the thread is started). Seekers are still able to post as often as they want, but MAY NOT roll until the time has elapsed.

Seekers MAY NOT post in an ABAB fashion. That is, they will need to have AT LEAST TWO POSTS between their own and the next post (one which may or may not be the other seeker's post).

These rules are put into effect in order to promote more teamwork during the game

CAPTAINS:
Captains must report a final team roster to the referee within 24 hours of the game starting. The roster must include players and their positions and include any "adoptions" that will be taking place.   The roster is considered final for that game once the balls are released by the referee. Any unfilled positions may be played by an NPC player and must be noted on the roster, including who (if other than the captain) will be playing them. At the beginning of each RP post, all players may roll dice for their own position as well as any NPCs or adoptions they may be playing. 



Please refer all questions to the Global Moderators.

[The New Ages]

Additional/New Quidditch Rules

• Games will be posted on Thursday afternoons/evenings, with the ball then being released approximately 24-hours later, on Friday. The snitch will be available 24-hours later, on Saturday.
  
  
• Games will begin a minimum of two weeks apart to avoid members feeling overplayed/stretched, and to allow a Real Life break from Quidditch, for everyone.
  
  
• Admin will be penalizing posts that are under 100 IC words. Ten points will be deducted and any points earned in the roll will not be counted for each post found to be too under this minimum word count.
  
  
• All members are expected to read and react, to the best of their ability, to previous posts made in the game. Off topic and OOC posting (including references to so-and-so's writer) will not be counted toward the 100 word minimum requirement and may be subject to penalty. While players may use actions and names to show they're attempting to make a play with or against another, it is ultimately up to the player being used as the subject to decide the outcome.
  
  Another thing we'd like to see, try to make your posts match up with your roll. There's a reason you can go back and modify your posts. We know it is rather difficult, but we're hoping for more quality from future games if we can write post better.
  
  
• There will be a one hour time out called after every five pages of the thread. The thread will be locked by Admin as close to the top of page six as we can get it. This one hour break is for members to take an actual Real Life break (eat, shower, bathroom break, homework, whatever you need to do).
  
  
• In the event of a game that never seems to end (agreed upon by the referee and both captains) a tiebreaker roll will be used in place of catching the snitch.  The referee will roll a 150 sided die, both seekers will roll the same and the seeker that comes closest to the referee's roll will get credit for catching the snitch.

[The New Ages]

We know getting hit by a bludger is easy to RP, we know it'll happen, but we also feel restrictions need to be made to this. In the Harry Potter books, it was stated that no one had died from a bludger hit at Hogwarts and the worst that had been seen were broken jaws.

Because all of you are students, and therefore Hogwarts Staff is responsible for you, you wouldn't be getting nearly as beat up as what has been portrayed this past year in the Quidditch Games. Also, if you were not good enough to avoid being hit by bludgers a good majority of the time, you wouldn't be placed on the teams (we'd have NPCs who were more willing/eager/better).

Bludger "hits" when Beaters roll a 2 or 4 do not necessarily mean someone needs to take that "hit". It could mean the bludger is hit into your path, causing someone to have to go off-course, drop the Quaffle, leave the trail for the snitch. As well, if you are a Beater, you are the least likely person to be hit by a bludger because you are trained in that position to see the bludger and hit it away from yourself (the reason you've been given a bat as part of your standard equipment).

What we're asking for is an improvement on our House Quidditch Teams. Everyone has been guilty of falling into the roll of getting beat up, and we're not pointing fingers, we just want this to be thought of more realistically. Just as on a high school baseball team, you would not make the cut onto the team if you couldn't run, hit, catch the ball, throw the ball, etc. Or as a Volleyball team, if you couldn't serve, set, jump, crouch, etc you would be on the bleachers watching the game and not playing in it.

Think of Quidditch as a more ideal high school sport, you would have to put in the training, work with your team, think like a team, and while mistakes will be made you still need to prove that you were placed on the team for a good reason, not because you were a last resort (despite what other players may think of why you're on the team). And yes, some not so great players are sometimes put on teams, but that is usually because someone can see their value and reason for being and know that that person can make the required improvements to be there.

What we want is a more realistic role play out of players when playing the game. We know it's tedious, we know it's difficult, but it can be done in a hundred words or more. If a chaser posts and misses the goal, use the fact that a beater just hit a bludger to your advantage and say you were pushed off-course. Seekers, dive for the snitch and lose it in the beginning of the game because a bludger was hit at you to make sure you didn't get it. Use your guys' amazing imaginations and put it all to good use. I'm sure we're bound to see great posts because all of you can make it happen!

If you're on the team, explain through your posts why you think you got on it. Explain the rumors you've heard why you're being kept around if your performing poorly because of the luck of the draw when it comes to rolling. Explain the extra practices you've been having to improve your game.

We know with the dice roll it's difficult to really know how you're going to be performing, but it makes it all the more interesting when you take a strange turn for seemingly no reason.

[The New Ages]

Reminders and Updates

1. If there is a problem concerning scheduling (or the game itself), you need to tell me AND your captain ASAP. With enough time, accommodations may be possible.

2. If you honestly feel that you are unable to give time to the game, please tell your captain ASAP that you can’t play. This gives your captain time to find a replacement, or give your spot to an NPC. The rosters are final as soon as the balls are released and if you are unable to play, your captain can not replace your spot at that point.

3. If you play multiple characters, you are expected to post EQUITABLY for every single one of them. Captains are usually aware of which writers play which characters and can feel sabotaged if you do not post equitably. An ABCABC type pattern is requested.

4. I am aware that the current system for Quidditch has its issues and I’m planning on revamping the game for NEXT season. If you have any suggestions, please let me know with a PM (though, fair warning, while setting up the game play, many things have been taken into consideration, so while I will consider all suggestions, I can’t use every one).   If you have any suggestions on how to improve the game for NEXT season, please let me know.


This game is meant to be fun!    Please help us keep it that way! If you have any comments, questions, or concerns, let me know so we can work it out.



Updates to the rules: (October 2017)

*  Limit dice rolls to 15 per player (max of 150 points earned per player (including seeker if snitch is caught, 1050 points per team possible)

*  Dice rolls can be doubled up in posts, 2 per post, per player

*  Players can "adopt" rolls out (max 7 rolls out of 15) to another player of their choosing (captain excluded, see #4)

*  Captains will still be in charge of NPCs, but can "adopt" them out to other players. Captains may not give away their own rolls.

*  All adopted out rolls must be established and submitted to the referee with the final roster prior to the start of the game.

*  Keepers will roll a six sided dice where a 2, 4 or 6 counts towards the score

*  Players are encouraged to continue playing after reaching their 15 roll max

*  Players are encouraged to post beyond the 100 word minimum