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[ICBM pilot]

the first one
The last game was unfortunately abandoned so I decided to make a new one.
I am an awful writer so the game won't start until I get a better one. Just tell me if you want to be the writer or gm
I will be making changes as we go so if something feels overpowered or underpowered I will consider changing it.

Spoiler: character creation (click to show/hide)

If you feel like playing submit:

Playing Name (preferably something that would make good warcries)
Squad size (between 1 to 50 men for now, smaller = less morale issues)
Squad specialties (from the skill list; certain ones would be useless until later, but that'll be covered later, combat and horseback riding are givens).
Job for this Season! (i.e. go hunting for animals; keep it fairly open ended for now.)
You can have a separate job for each major/minor group.
You don't -have- to, mind.
Also, yes you can have all combat skills major/minor.

The size of the expected smaller groups (such as blacksmiths) will be a random number between 1 to 6, and the rest are kinda put anywhere else. So have something labor intensive to act as a people sink. :3

As well as any metagame tech you want to suggest.
Oh, and our starting location and any modifiers, yes you can have all of 'em. Keep in mind "is next to" is too far away to wall off.

(Keep 'em like this:)
Name:
Size:
Skill:
Job:

Anything unclear? lemme know, god knows I haven't covered everything.

This is a game about...village building. Yeah, let's go with that. It's about village building by you guys who invariably travel through time. Or something.

Basic Rules

A year is 4 seasons, each season is two parts (Early Spring, Late Spring)

Depending on situation turns take on smaller units of time.
Battles resolve instantly but usually "happen" in about a week, marching time notwithstanding.

Each player essentially runs a "guild". Party, guild, posse, skill, however you call it.
  Each guild has a "Major" specialization. This is what your guild is known BEST for (and get the biggest check bonus for). Having superbly high skill in Spears, for example, would cause the enemy on the battlefield to run in terror when your spearmen arrive on the field.
  Each guild has up to 4 "Minor" specializations. These increase slower but are kinda "we're branching out" type things. Not as well known but respectable enough.
  Minor specializations can be added or modified at any time, up to 4 total though. Caveat: Doing so loses all skill and influence the specialization has. There's some spillover from other specializations ("They're doing Spears now and since they do Axes so well they should do Spears just fine" type of mentality)
  All players can conduction actions outside their specialization (much like one of your guys goes out and gets some builders to make something: your guild has no builder preference but other people can get the job done).
  Actions outside the specialization receive no roll bonus.

The Skills are (and these are added as players come up with new ones, such as Combat Jet Flying if someone invents an F-16 or something)

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Combat - Implied for everyone (at 1).
Horse Riding - Implied for everyone (at 0).

Swords - skill with bladey weapons.
Spears - skill with stabby weapons.
Axes - skill with hackey weapons.
Archery - skill with shootey weapons.
Farming - gathering crop foodsy things.
Orchards - gathering tree foodsy things.
Gathering - gathering everything else foodsy.
Mining - dink, dink, dink.
Fishing - Of the spear variety (nets if by coast).
FurnaceOp - yep.
SmithWeapon - dude makes slashy.
SmithArmor - dude makes blocky.
Metalcraft - yes, yes I am. Makes trade goods/embroidery.
Weaving - spin spin spin.
Clothing - dude makes tunicky.
MakeSmallItem - Souvenirs and the like.
Builders - Make houses n'stuff.
Hunting - Skill at tracking and bringing down game quickly.

Writing - Specialized teachers/priests/whatever.
Wizardry - Make stuff go boom, or not to.

Bookmaking (Printing) - Makes spellbooks, normal books, paper, and so on.
Lumberjacks - Specifically cuts wood. Makes good levy axemen in a pinch.

Levy Anything - Emergency rally of non-combat forces. Desperation move, lots of casualties.
Lengthened as needed; suggest skills and the reasoning behind 'em, guys.

Metagaming
This is honestly what I want to see happen.
    This game's purpose is to run on technology as suggested by players.
    By default everything the game's civilization is supposed to have "exist". Thus anything a player suggests is implied to be "better" than the original, if only by a little.
    New technology must be explained in a way that makes sense: ("A sword that has a chainsaw blade powered by a jewel of Thunder Spell" is only acceptable if "Chainsaw blade" and "Jeweled Magic" both exist for the city")
    In a nutshell: make smaller pieces so the larger pieces won't have to be a long winded explanation.

Aiight.
The first 3 posts are reserved because
Post 1: Rule changes, updates, what have you.
Post 2: State of the Village, techs available, etc.
Post 3: Players and their unit compositions.

Add-ons because people are smarts.
1. This game obeys kinda real life logic, so certain Dwarf Fortress things would cause...issues. Not that it can't happen, just gonna need a little more care into it.
2. The NPCs in this game are stupid for the sake of letting players instead of me run the show.
3. The NPCs are stupid but not Sims-stuck-on-staircase stupid. They will carry out functions necessary to run the city but not to improve it.

Sign up quick sheet
_{The player name should be something that would make sense being shouted aloud as a part of "all hail -X!"}
Player Name:
Race:
Major Spec:
Minor Specs:
Orders for this turn: (something like "Fishermen Fish" is unnecessary. "Fishermen go make fishing boats" is necessary, since it is a nonstandard move)

Current State of the Village
Maps
  General Area

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

  Local Area

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Technology
Really bad (not necessarily a reflection of intellect)

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Combat Offense
   Mace -
   Sword -
   Spear -
   Axe -
   Archer -
   hammer -
   
Combat Defense
   Armor -
   Shield -
   
Other
   Farming -
   Fishing -
   Building -
   Magic -

Organization
What's that?

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Military Organization
none

Formations
none

Aware of
   -Nothing
Is Currently Using
   -Freestyle

Note that these two following sections simply detail the use of the animal and its name if necessary, as opposed to the usual DF level of detail.
Local Flora
?
Local Fauna

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

?

Other
?
   
Neighbors
? 
Demographic
   Race: Population (estimate to 50)
   Elves: 0
   Nekos: 0
   Humans: 0
   Avian: 0
   Half-Elf:0
   Goblin:0
   Total:0.

   So what are you guys?

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Human - Most common.
   Diplomacy++
   Adaptable learners
   Devious (morale changes harder)
   Accepting (less loyalty shift when humie is in charge).

Catfolk - (Anime style) - Neko
   Diplomacy+ (people + pointy ears)
   Mobility+ (evasiveness)
   Combat Effectiveness- (tail)
   Has watered down cat weaknesses

Goblins - More numerous but not as widespread.
   Diplomacy-
   Slow learners
   Savvy (prefers life over honor and crap like that)
   Fast breeder (requires a shaman and a building tho')

Elves - Tree huggers
   Dislikes technology
   Superb Magic
   Forest Mastery (Forest + Elf = Snap-finger-and-you-die-ninja)
   Eagle Eye (Earlier warning against threats)
   
Dwarves - Not as booze dependent
   Likes heavy tech (Rocket Propelled Hammer > iPod)
   Scuffle Master (better melee results)
   Party folk (morale generally goes up)
   Engineer (repairs, builds are done faster)
    Short (except for 2 story buildings)
   
Birdfolk - people with wings
   Diplomacy- (Have some bird physical traits, which is kinda scary)
   Flier (restricted to using light/very light armor)
   Combat Effectiveness-- (especially grounded/close quarters)
   Shock Value (shrieking dive bomb, and they know it)

Half-Elf - mixed breed of elves and whatever, defaults to Elven appearance
    Magical- (Have some of the magical aptitude usually reserved for elves)
    Diplomacy- (A little "Strange" to some members of their purer blood races)
    Linguists (Better success rates during noncombat events)
    Accepting (Unwilling to let others suffer as they have)
other?

Spoiler: team layout (click to show/hide)

 Specialization, Influence
 The first line is always the major specialization. (Skill exists but it's a behind-the-scenes check bonus)
 Influence is "how likely are you to bring NPCs to your cause for this task". It is improved by having accomplishments corresponding to the specialization (having a spearman that's a hero to the people would make the people more likely to join up as spearmen, essentially).
    While higher is better it's more of a frame of reference than an actual mechanics check.

[Rolepgeek]

Player Name: Raalup Geekbeard
Race: Dwarves!
Major Specialization: Building(this includes carpentry related to building, right?)
Minor Specializations:
Smithing
Digging/Mining
Brewing
Axing
Orders for first turn: Axes go chop trees down and split the logs into usable sizes. Brewers and smiths, go sift through rocks and shit in the river and elsewhere to find good ones to make tools with, and ones with metal in them. Builders and Diggers begin work on a warehouse with the tools you can get. A food warehouse, by the way; it needs to be safe from pests, temperature changes, and be cool/cold. Part of it in ground, probably.

Edit: Oh yes, and fifty of us, please.

[10ebbor10]

I'd volunteer, but I'm to busy with my other game. So sorry, not me.

[ICBM pilot]

We don't have any axes or food.

[Rolepgeek]

Not yet. And if we don't even have stone axes, what do we have? Did we bring anything with us?

[GreatWyrmGold]

I didn't really follow the first, but I've been thinking of trying to GM a city-building game for a while, so if someone could give me a run-down on what would be required I'd volunteer.

[Detoxicated]

I would be for an oasis in a desert, maybe a nile delta szenario

[cheesemcmuffin88]

Name: Greg the champion of Blag
Size: 20 humans and 30 goblin thralls
Skill:(in decreasing order of significance) Humans: Spears, Preaching, Fishing Goblins: Weaving, Fishing, Construction (Boat Building), Construction (Mud/Mud Bricks see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wattle_and_daub )
Memoirs of Greg the champion of Blag

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Well old Green beard went out in a big ol fire ball of righteous fury along with our new palls in North town. Once the battle was lost them heretics golems were massacring us made of metal man we didnt stand a chance, I high tailed it out of there with another group from our village Milgrid and his gobbos. Well me and Milgrid had a falling out he is dead and his people are thralls in service of the greater good of Blag now. We've settled down again Im getting all hands on deck to throw up a holy house for Blag made of Mud sure we will get a nicer one later.

Orders

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Make A house of Worship for Blag

[cheesemcmuffin88]

Also I could be a writer but I am often really busy so updates would at Best be every other day I also would need someone to handle the actual GMing bit.

[ICBM pilot]

Not yet. And if we don't even have stone axes, what do we have? Did we bring anything with us?

no

I didn't really follow the first, but I've been thinking of trying to GM a city-building game for a while, so if someone could give me a run-down on what would be required I'd volunteer.

Large amounts of guessing and maybe reading the first one.
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Name: Greg the champion of Blag
Size: 20 humans and 30 goblin thralls
Skill:(in decreasing order of significance) Humans: Spears, Preaching, Fishing Goblins: Weaving, Fishing, Construction (Boat Building), Construction (Mud/Mud Bricks see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wattle_and_daub )
Memoirs of Greg the champion of Blag

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Well old Green beard went out in a big ol fire ball of righteous fury along with our new palls in North town. Once the battle was lost them heretics golems were massacring us made of metal man we didnt stand a chance, I high tailed it out of there with another group from our village Milgrid and his gobbos. Well me and Milgrid had a falling out he is dead and his people are thralls in service of the greater good of Blag now. We've settled down again Im getting all hands on deck to throw up a holy house for Blag made of Mud sure we will get a nicer one later.

Orders

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Make A house of Worship for Blag

only one race please

[evilcherry]

I could GM for a bit if you ask me, but just stop me from developing mechanics.

I feel like that we can we are king (tm) it.

[ICBM pilot]

I could GM for a bit if you ask me, but just stop me from developing mechanics.

I feel like that we can we are king (tm) it.

I'm fine with you developing mechanics for it as long as it is close to the original, just pm if you aren't sure. Post a turn once you figure out the mechanics.

[3man75]

Name: Estaban Black/ Also commonly known as "El Capo"

Main profesion: Manager/organizers
Race: Humans
Minor: Charisma
Minor: Brewing
Minor: Gathering seeds
Minor: farming sugar
Minor: Hand to Hand fighters {When they hold practice sessions it'll be like MGS CQC/ MMA syled fighting. In a full blown out war handcuffs and claws are rumored to be used for maxium killing intent.}

Bio/backstory: In the island Mesma lived the small human village of Hava. The people generally always had enough to eat and loved for great hospitality. Even foreign diplomats and leaders came to visit the village. However a cultist faction that practices cannabalism swept like plague and threated them, so they took the first boat and crash landed here. They took what supplies they could {mostly empty barrels and sugar cane to grow later} and headed into the wilds only to find this new settlement. The leader or "El capo" as they call him is practically begging to join to start a new life.

[cheesemcmuffin88]

Oh come on we would have to address the issue of slavery at one point or another why not start with it and if you need me Ill write if some one else wants to GM and I could help ICBM since I intently followed a book and it has now spawned an short story Im writing.

[Rolepgeek]

I think the point is you get one race, the advantages and disadvantages of that race. You don't get to pick and choose so you get advantages from everyone.