Jyhad 4

What is Jyhad

Jyhad is a core set of rules designed to facilitate, encourage, and reward competition among the player base within the world of Within Shadows Reach.
Jyhad is an RP focused system; however the goal of this revision is to also facilitate ease of use for beginners by allowing more cut and paste actions without limiting the creativity of the players.

Introduction

There are many levels to this game…

  1. First you need to learn
    1. The core rules presented by the Laws
    2. The house rules that override those rules
    3. The Camarilla positions, prestation, and status so that you can interact IC
  2. Second you need to learn
    1. How to submit downtimes
    2. How to spend XP
    3. How feeding works.
  3. Third you will want to learn
    1. How Influences work
    2. How Districts/Turf work
  4. Fourth you may want to learn
    1. How Gangs and Maffia’s work
    2. How Businesses work

#1 is a matter of reading the LAWs, our House Rules, and other Cannon books such as the clan books.
The focus of this packet is #2. New players are encouraged to read this before moving on to #3 and #4. Those are considered optional, and trying to take it all in at once can be overwhelming.

Terminology:

WSR: Within Shadows Reach (wsr) is the name of this chronicle.
Downtime Period (DP): The time between games. WSR runs every other Saturday, so a Downtime Period is 2 weeks.
Action: Everything you do is considered an Action.
Action Points (AP): You get a number of Action Points that you can spend every Downtime Period on Actions. Unspent Action Points are wasted and do not carry over to the following Downtime Period.