Custom Headbutt

A custom Headbutt is a type of custom CMAN messaging that changes the messaging when using CMAN HEADBUTT. Pre-written custom Headbutt messaging has been available at pay events. Fully custom Headbutt messaging is a delayed service when the player is writing their own. Custom Headbutt messaging is part of the Player Customization System and is managed via the CUSTOM verb.

Fully custom CMAN messaging must follow strict baseline rules in order to pass QC.

1. You cannot change the fundamental nature of the maneuver with a customization. A tackle is still a tackle, a sweep is still a sweep. Many maneuvers have additional messaging that is not customizable, such as something that might happen upon a maneuver roll failure, or after a success. What you provide for the customizable part of the maneuver must make sense with the rest of the messaging that it will be working with. Additionally, some combat maneuvers use armaments associated with specific body parts, so altering the fundamental nature of the maneuver's messaging to use other parts of the body would be outside the scope of a customization. (Example: CMAN TACKLE incorporates accessories or armor worn on the arms, so custom messaging describing a dropkick would not work, as that uses the attacker's feet.)
2. Combat maneuvers are physical actions taken, not magical. This is not spell messaging, this is not a fancy illusion, this is your character performing a physical action aided only by their own combat maneuver training. No props, no stage effects, no fire and brimstone, no sparklepony lens flares.

The customization covers the initial activation messaging, which is the single line before the SMR roll. This does not include the success or the failure, only the initial attempt.

You can customize the first person, second person (target), and third person (room) messaging for the maneuver activation messaging. These will all be conveying generally the same information to different points of view.

This messaging can include pronouns for the initiating actor and the target. It can be longer, more detailed, and/or more fanciful than the examples provided, but it should make sense for physical action in a combat setting. You should limit yourself to a single sentence to convey the manner in which you are attempting to headbutt your foe.

Examples of custom CMAN HEADBUTT include the following from options available at Rumor Woods:

Coiling your trapezius muscles, you feel your neck tense before springing into action and slamming your head down toward a giant rat!
Shrugging almost casually, you quickly snap your head foward in an attempt to headbutt a giant rat!
Rising on your tip toes, you cock back your head and slam it down towards a giant rat's!
Bellowing like an angry bull, you lower your head and charge straight at a giant rat!

Additional examples of pre-written custom Headbutt messaging can be viewed in the character customizations category.

See Also

• Custom CMAN messaging
• Player Customization System
• Character customizations