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[Doomblade187]

So, I'm making a Rock God game based on LordBucket's suggestion game where you run a forum game. I'm trying to keep it not too complex, but it's hard. I have some very basic stuff so far, but want some feedback and new ideas. I'm thinking of using a d10/d20 for most combat rolls and using CIV 4-style unit bonuses (i.e. Axemen good against melee, Swordsmen good against ___, spearmen/pikemen good against cavalry, etc.). Any ideas?

Google Docs:

Unit and Building Stats: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AuVIx_dGFiP0dFFYXy1ueXhYZFJoWXU4UDdjdUw2MWc#gid=0
Summary Sheet: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AuVIx_dGFiP0dF82cDVCRm11RVRDbG5xWUc0ZjFMZEE#gid=0

(Location will give resource bonuses/penalties. For example, a mountain would be + stone and metal, and - food and wood, and so forth.)

[ExKirby]

You need to use "gud grammurz".

[ExKirby]

Hrm. I have the urge to make a Freeform Roleplay, but I can't think of a good idea. Help?

[10ebbor10]

Hrm. I have the urge to make a Freeform Roleplay, but I can't think of a good idea. Help?

Bay12 takes over a nuclear powerplant, Bay12 stranded on a uninhabited island(Complete with cannibalistic natives), Bay12 after an apocalypse of some sort, Bay12 during the First/Second world war,...

Anyway, completly unrelated idea.

Nations of ...

Spoiler: What is this? (click to show/hide)

Another likely not to be used game idea. Players control nations on a world where magic and technology both exists. Magic is linked in strength to the magical fields that are generated by sources from the ground below. Industry also requires resources, and disaster will wreack havoc

Spoiler: A typical region (click to show/hide)

All regions are more or less equal in size, and possess one or more distinctive features, there are also some stats related to regions.

Ownership: Which nation controls the land, and how happy/rebellious it is
Magical field strength: How strong the magical field is. Extensive use may cause depletion, which can be solved by using different techniques to reach the deeper fields and/or the source itself.
Resources and other natural phenomena: (Self explanatory)

Population: Needed to work the different industries
Agriculture: (Land used)/(Land useable) Agriculture provides food and such. The used land would increase when the population working it increases. The limit can be increased by redistributing land or new technologies
Industry:(Land used)/(Land useable). Provides income and gets things done. Industry also limits the amount of soldiers you can supply and aids in construction works. Consume a variety of resources.
Commerce:(Land used)/Land useable. Provides more income. However relies on supplies from industry or other places to sell things. This includes harbours and infrastructure, limiting the amount of trade and goods transport.
Defensive rating: How good the basic defenses here are

Buildings:
Includes a variety of things, including farms, mines, different types of industry. Buildings will be quite freeform.

Spoiler: Technology and magic (click to show/hide)

There will be 2 types of research. Normal research, processing along a tree made up by me and special projects(made up by the player). Technology and magic are two different trees, though both can be researched. Players started of with 4 levels of research(They have to buy level one too), which they can divide among the trees. Each tree(which is quite a bad word) has five research item per level. On each level there are 3 economical research projects and 2 military ones, of which 1 military and 1 economical project are defined by a focus. These can be selected by the player. Focus based research can be traded.

Tech: (examples)
Naval, Agriculture, Commerce, Ground , Sustainable, ...

Spoiler: Techs everyone has (click to show/hide)

Technology
-Surface mining (Allows surface mines. Low gains, Low costs, requires surface deposits)
-Sustenance farming (Lowest farming tech)
-Iron tools (Reveals iron ore)
-The wheel

Magic
Field detection

Spoiler: Tech tree (click to show/hide)

Level: 1
-Dedicated farming (Allows you to acces to basic farms, ranches and all that stuff)
-Home industry (Small scale industry)
-Basic militia (Allows militia to spring up for you to hire, militia squads will form when attacked)
-Focus: Economic
-Focus: Military

Level: 2
-Subsurface mining (Allows you to create deeper mines
-Architecture (Stone buildings, roads, walls, ports)
-Bronze tools and weapons (Better weaponry and armor. Reveals copper)
-Focus: Economic
-Focus: Military

Level: 3
- Advanced irrigation systems (Allows to use farm land more intensively, and unlocks more land)
- Manufactories (Allows mass employement, and larger trade institutes)
- Profesional armies (What it says on the tin)
- Focus: economic
- Focus: Military

Level: 4
- Universities (Better research)
- Steam power (Better mines, industries and others, at the cost of serious resource usage)
- Steel weaponry and tools (What it says on the tin)
- Focus: economic
- Focus: Military

Level 5 and others: (added later)

Spoiler: Magic (click to show/hide)

Level: 1
- Apprenticeship (Allows apprentice wizard units to spring up for you to hire. Apprentices will arise when your bases are attacked)
- Source scanning (Can look for magical sources)
- Basic protection spells
- Focus: Economic
- Focus: Military

Level: 2
-Magical cults/schools (Can build small scale schools and such. This allows you to train apprentices on demand)
-Magical food gathering (Luring wildlife into traps, food production
-War wizards (Allows you to use wizards as an attack force)
-Focus: Economic
-Focus: Military

Level: 3
- Domestic magic (Domestic uses of magic can increase efficiency in all sectors, but might drain the magical field )
- Magical construction (Allows you to actively use wizards units to aid in construction)
- Advanced healing magic (Faster regeneration of troops))
- Focus: economic
- Focus: Military

Level: 4
- Unseen Universities (Better research, cheaper apprentices. Allows the training of mediocre skilled wizards)
- Deep magical field tapping
- Summons/wildlife control
- Focus: economic
- Focus: Military
5 and other, added later.

Spoiler: Player actions (click to show/hide)

Players have 2 actions a turn. This number may be increased. Below are the things that don't require an action. Player can invest money into their actions to increase succes chances, but this isn't needed.

Construction: Up to one project per region, other can be done with actions
Military movements:
Recruitments:(Only when you have professionall armies./ magic shools/ magic universities)

I might add other stuff later.

[EveryZig]

Some questions about your nation game:
- When you say that the mana field might deplete, is that depletion of a finite quantity (like oil) or out-pacing the regrowth of a renewable quantity (like overfishing)?
- Can mana be stored or transported?
- If deep mana fields are literally deep underground, is it possible to access them using non-magical mining?

[10ebbor10]

Some questions about your nation game:
- When you say that the mana field might deplete, is that depletion of a finite quantity (like oil) or out-pacing the regrowth of a renewable quantity (like overfishing)?
- Can mana be stored or transported?
- If deep mana fields are literally deep underground, is it possible to access them using non-magical mining?

-I think they are best comparable with fresh water. Some regions have an ample supply, others little. There are sometimes large reserves, deep underground, constaining a large supply that refills very slowly. You could also have vast rapidly filling reserves, but those are rare. The ultimate sources of these are mana springs, hidden deep underground.

- For small scale use, in crystals and such, but players will eventually be capable(probably a project or tech) of moving mana wherether by storing it or create a large scale manaduct. Mana fields can also move on themselves. If you deplete a mana field in one region, mana will flow from the other. Note that mana field depletion will disrupt the natural magic field, leading to potential disasters.
Mana can also slowly crystallize, possible forming large solid underground reserves of magical ore.

-They are quite deep. Note that you don't really need to acces them physically, trained wizards can just use them, whitout directly accesing them. Having a mineshaft down there would increase manaflow, but for nonmagical societies this will form no problems. The mana springs are almost always hidden deep underground, and are the source of all mana.

[Doomblade187]

Hello everybody. It's Doom again with some more info on the Rock Gods game. Vanigo will probably notice several similarities to his game, but I just like some of the mechanics, so I went ahead and borrowed them- changing them a bit, of course. Anyways, I'm just posting up my two google docs to make sure that it's relatively balanced. I still have lots of mechanics to figure out, but this is a good start to work off of, I think.

Here's the links: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AuVIx_dGFiP0dFFYXy1ueXhYZFJoWXU4UDdjdUw2MWc#gid=0
and https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AuVIx_dGFiP0dF82cDVCRm11RVRDbG5xWUc0ZjFMZEE#gid=0

[Doomblade187]

People, please give me some feedback on the balance. I don't want to have terrible balance issues before I even start working.

[10ebbor10]

It looks complicated. That's all I can say. Most of the time I just get going and rebalance things midgame.

[ExKirby]

^ That is good idea.

[IronyOwl]

Yeah, I can't really tell what I'm looking at here.

[ExKirby]

I had a legendary good(?) idea. Reworking Fortune Street (Boom Street in UK) as a Forum Game. It's so crazy it might just work.

[10ebbor10]

Seems like a sort of monopoly-like game. Could be fun.

[Phantom]

Well, I certainly have no chance in GMing them, but I can at least suggest a few things.

Anyone remember the Countries at War games? Decent group, if a bit cluttered for GMs to do turns in a daily frame.

Other than that, Godhood. A once rather popular series of forum games. Not sure what happened to it anymore.

Why I'm saying this? Because, well, You Are X kinda lost their touch for me, and I don't really have any more time to participate in a tabletop RPG such as 3.5e DnD.

[Digital Hellhound]

Godhood is still going on, if not that strongly. The next game starts next month.