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[Murgy]

Jaguar men for the Aztecs are an obvious, but good, choice. The problem is that they would be an extremely low tech civ and i don`t know whether one can force their swords to be made from obsidian. Still, one could make them into a civ which relies heavily on ambushes. One could also consider to have them consist of two races- The eagle and the jaguar men, which would make them quite versatile and would make them more dangerous.

I look forward to an Aztec counterpart particularly. There's some great opportunity here, particularly in terms of their ethics settings, seeing as how far ahead of their time they were when compared to the majority of Europe. Mandatory universal education, commoner land ownership rights, irrigation networks using canal systems, currency systems, the political landscapes and various hegemonies, and after all that, the persistence of human sacrifice.

In terms of in-game technology levels, I would highly recommend incorporating the Macuahuitl, Tepoztopilli, and Atlatl so as not to limit them to the relatively low power of unmodified obsidian weaponry, while keeping the dwarf craft-able obsidian tools from becoming over powered.

It will certainly be nice to have someone other than Elves populating jungle regions. 

[GreatWyrmGold]

Hm, maybe give them a unique "obsidian-bladed wood" metal to use, identical to obsidian except perhaps weight? Only problem is, dwarves could melt it down and make obsidian-bladed battleaxes, but we could pretend they're taking the obsidian and making it more axe-shaped.
Also, making jaguar-men bigger and stronger would help. Don't feel too constrained by the RL animals' sizes; as long as elephantmen are bigger than jaguarmen and jaguarmen are bigger than crabmen, you're A-OK in my book.

[Hugo_The_Dwarf]

Hm, maybe give them a unique "obsidian-bladed wood" metal to use, identical to obsidian except perhaps weight? Only problem is, dwarves could melt it down and make obsidian-bladed battleaxes, but we could pretend they're taking the obsidian and making it more axe-shaped.
Also, making jaguar-men bigger and stronger would help. Don't feel too constrained by the RL animals' sizes; as long as elephantmen are bigger than jaguarmen and jaguarmen are bigger than crabmen, you're A-OK in my book.

You could make the obsidian material a wood type? so it gets thrown in with other wooden weapons. Altho it would be made as wooden armor too :/

[GreatWyrmGold]

Also, it would be mixed in with all other wood types.You'd have oaken Tepoztopillis, does anyone want that?

[Hugo_The_Dwarf]

Also, it would be mixed in with all other wood types.You'd have oaken Tepoztopillis, does anyone want that?

Not if it isn't a natural tree. and just a WOOD material floating around in the ether.

[GreatWyrmGold]

Um, I meant in the civ's armory. Unless there's some way to get them to only use that wood, in which case jaguarmen beds and stuff would all have obsidian edges. Less issues if it's a special metal.

[Lordinquisitor]

I`m currently playing around with metals so i`m gonna give em some kind of Obsidian metal. I assume that ,if i want them to use it, i will have to create a custom reaction which only they can perform, right?

Still wondering whether i should group the eagle and jaguarmen together. Leaning towards no at the moment.

[GreatWyrmGold]

You've got the idea right.
As to lumping the two races together: Either way, although there's several other options for what eaglemen could be.

[Firehawk45]

Eagleman? Roman Empire. Their symbol was the eagle, would make perfect sense.

[Lordinquisitor]

Already thought of it, had already prepared the basic creature and entity and even found a latin language file but then stopped because trying to make a semi-realistic noble-position system for the roman republic isn`t as easy as it seems. Will finish them somenwhen, though.

[Firehawk45]

Just make dwarfen Nobles: Useless, decadent, lazy, corrupt.... Would be really near on the reality

[Pokon]

Eagleman? Roman Empire. Their symbol was the eagle, would make perfect sense.

But Rome was founded by a pair who was literaly raised by a wolf. Eaglemen could be part of that joint aztec civ.

[Lordinquisitor]

I decided to add a variant of eagle men to the "aztec" civ- And feathered serpent men, too.

The reason for that is that what we call the aztec empire actually consisted of three mighty city states- I thought it might be neat to introduce a race that`s kinda like a coalition of races.

This will also strengthen the civ, which would otherwise quite suffer from their lack of armor. (Just wooden shields and padded armor- Which will be made from leather for simplicities sake.)

The Jaguarmen will be strong, stealthy and quick. The eaglemen will be even faster and can fly and the serpent men would be quite slow but would be able to poison their enemies.

Their noble system will also be quite interesting; One group of animalpeople would be the de-facto leader (Thinking about the eagles, since the chief god of the aztecs was a humanoid with mockinbird features) but the others would have huge influence, too.

There will also be several, different, warrior societies. I wonder.. Will the [EXECUTION_SKILL] tag without the responsibility to perform executions force a noble to wear a certain type of weapon, or would it cause some oddness or crash? If it works each society could prefer a certain kind of weapon for increased flavor.

[Lordinquisitor]

Made a new metal and worked out the basics of the creature, entity and weapons- But they still use all metals. (I removed all metal creating reactions, mines and diggers, yet they still do..) Does someone know how one can force them to only use a specific metal?

[travellersside]

Remove [PERMITTED_JOB:FURNACE_OPERATOR], then grant them access to a reaction that makes the metal types that you want them to use. That should do it.