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Kicked their Ass!

Argued with Them!

Ignored them!

Passively followed them to our DOOM

[EuchreJack]

Ok, I'm starting my Let's Play of King of Dragon Pass.  You can put the knife down, Blaze.

For those who don't know, I was recently gifted this game by Blaze in exchange for doing a Let's Play of it.

So, the goals of this LP are both to save my humble tribe and yours truly.  Course, I can still keep living even if my tribe goes kerplunk...

I've already decided unilaterally almost all the settings, but I have three choices for you, the readers and fellow tribesfolk!  And I'm totally not just soliciting reader input as a way to delay actually starting this LP!

1) How did our ancestors treat dragons?  Followed them like fools, Ignored them, Argued with them, Tried to kick their asses like fools

2) Earliest Famous Event.  Most events boost leader stats.  Since most skill tests compare to the leaders in our ring, assume that if you vote to boost leaders in something, it basically means we'll do better in those areas of the game.  Or we can support more crafters, which makes it easier to support more shrines and get the permanent blessings of more Dieties, which is also awesome.

Battle of Extinguished Field: leaders are above average in Combat
Hundred-Day Hunt: leaders are above average in Animals, Combat, and Plants
Jested's Settlement: leaders are above average in Bargaining.
Procession of the Animals: leaders are above average in Animals.
Barntar Harnessing the Oxen: leaders are above average in Plants.
Ernalda Visits the Hidden Place: leaders are above average in Magic.
Lhankor Mhy Learns to Use the Marking Bone: leaders are above average in Custom.
The First Pot: we can support more crafters than usual.
The Clan-making Dance: leaders are above average in Leadership.

Custom is basically the legal system of our people.  Oxen are wealth, so Animals is also good.  Everything else is more-or-less self explanatory, but feel free to ask questions.

3) Short or Long game.  Just as it sounds.  Short game means we need to form a tribe, rule it for 10 years, and perform three heroquests.  Long game means forming a tribe, a long-winded series of adventures and seven heroquests.  I'm only confident that I can finish the short game, but I'm certainly willing to try the long game if people want.  Losing is a completion also.   

Summary of the game: Short version, without offending our tribesfolk, we're a bunch of barbarians trying to form a civilization from the ashes of the past.  It's not offensive because the game manual also describes the human inhabitants of Dragon Pass as being barbarians.  Oh, and we worship the God of Lightning, which is pretty awesome.
These LPs better showcase the awesome that is this game: here & here

And here is an empire we should seek to exceed:

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From The Show off your Empires Thread

[Mephansteras]

1) Ignored them
2) Ernalda Visits the Hidden Place
3) Long

[Duuvian]

1: Argued with them.

2: The first pot.

3: Long game

[IronyOwl]

1) Argued with them (I have no idea what this does!)
2) Jested's Settlement (meaning EJ convincing Blaze to put the knives in someone else away)
3) Long (we can always quit halfway)

[EuchreJack]

Yay ninja followers!  Poll added on the dragon issue (I find polls on 7+ items rarely work out, and I'm not doing the long game for the anonymous masses).

I should probably point out that actually following the dragons is suppose to help in the long quest, but anyone who's gone through character creation would be leery of it...

[Karlito]

1)Argued with them
2)Hundred Day Hunt
3)Short

[Sheb]

ptw

[Cicero]

1) Followed them
2) The First Pot
3) Short game

[C0nfusedHaberdasher]

1) Ignored the dragons
2) Marking Bone
3) Long game

[EuchreJack]

Well, three way tie for Dragons, and I'd like a little more input on the Earliest Event (although I'm fine with First Pot).

I'll probably start this in a couple days, when things settle a bit.  And I have time, that too...

[Broken]

1: Ignored them.
2: Battle
3: Long.

[Teneb]

1)Ignored
2)Hundred Day Hunt
3)Long

[EuchreJack]

Pot and Hunt are tied.  Tiebreaker anyone?

Oh, and did everyone that posted a dragon preference also vote in the poll?  If not, vote in the poll so all the votes are in one place.

[Mephansteras]

Pot and Hunt are tied.  Tiebreaker anyone?

Oh, and did everyone that posted a dragon preference also vote in the poll?  If not, vote in the poll so all the votes are in one place.

Sure, switch my vote to Pot

[EuchreJack]

Alright, game start incoming shortly!

It Begins!

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However, we refer to her as "Blaze", and fear her mighty temper.


Strange, many of our clan seem to confuse the vessel with the plants that they like to harvest, and thus celebrate this as the discovery of our most potent medicinal herb...


Yeah, I'm not bothering with slavery, although that might be the more Dwarfy thing to do...
Forget the moral high ground, I'm just lazy.
Plus, as you'll see, we really could use the extra farmers.


Oh, lots of nice choices on possibly enemies MUST KILL ELVES!!!!


Nothing lasts forever...


Ironically, you lot are too unpredictable to go with anything but Balanced.  This game does tend to temper even the most bloodthirsty souls, and infuriate the most peaceful.


You just have to trust me, Healing is vital for any clan!


Stability...for now.


I hate you all as much as our clan evidently hates the dragons...
(How I resolved the tie between Hostile and Peaceful was simple: The first vote in the poll for Peaceful was mine, so I just ignored my own vote, leaving Hostile as the winner.)

Still...


Bet you're all glad you picked Hostile, at least for now...


For the Orlanthi, civil war is worse than cowardice.   


I agonized over this one, but as my more-advanced games have shown, we can certainly grow into a large plot, and certain events can either destroy or split our lands.  Plus, the only real way to expand our tula is through conquest, and that is perhaps the hardest conflict imaginable in this game.  I tend to favor growing the clan, so we'll grown a lot more than this choice suggests.


As requested, we're in this for the Long game, and I chose what I believe to be a fitting name.  Note that I didn't even bother asking the community which difficulty level to go with: I've been around LPs long enough to know that Hardest is Mandatory.


Awh, our pretty Tula!  This screen pops up once a year, and in following years it will tell us how we're doing.


We need to allocate magic.  Since I'm stopping here, I'm soliciting opinions.  Since we've just started, our reputation is neutral between King (what we want to become) and Stickpicker (those people who would be better off as members or slaves of true Orlanthi tribes).

Enjoy all the pretty faces of our current tribal counsel, because that's the first thing we're changing once I allocate magic!
Remember, if you have an opinion on magic allocation, let me know.  I don't expect the next update till tomorrow, and that will probably be "Meet our nobles", where we set our starting ring.

How I plan to run this LP: This game has A LOT of decisions to be made, thus consultation on every one would be impossible if we want to finish this ever.  On the other hand, most decisions either need to made regularly (like allocating magic), or create an ongoing situation (you'll get the hang of this after seeing a couple events, and can see one now with the poor expected harvest).  So, community input on the overall situation can always be implemented.  If the community wants an action, even if I did the opposite, the game will more likely than not give an opportunity to make that action or similar action that the community wants.

It's hard to understand, but perhaps those who've played this game can comment as well.