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[Spiderking50]

Islands currently have little on them. Most structures were destroyed when the main world split into 10x10 chunks. If it was standing, it isn't now. Trees, rocks, stuff that wouldn't be bothered by the biggest earthquake ever, are still mostly there. Anything Constructed likely isn't, or is incredibly damaged. There would be rivers, and maybe even a cave or two, but anything hollow or on supports was destroyed along with the rest of the world. This is post-apocalypse.

[~Neri]

How deep are those 10x10 chunks?

[Ozarck]

Kevak, you seem really dissatisfied with this game and its mechanics in general. Perhaps, if the creatures are spending their time just surviving, a little divinity can boost their survival rate enough that they have time and resources to do the other special things. Again, Exodus and - water from the rocks, defense from enemies, manna, quail, more water, cures from plagues ...

there are a lot of rationales behind why a world works the way it does. It's way to easy to ask all the "why is it this way?" questions and demand that everyone answer them to your satisfaction. It's even easy to ignore satisfactory answers and ask another question that could be easily answered by extending the logic of the previous answer just a little.

By the way, I haven't actually seen what I'd consider a "serious god game" on this forum. the closest I saw, the fourth aspect of divinity put dancing dicks into the timestream, and there was an argument about whether or not to remove them, because if we tried, we might very well infect the entirety of everything with dicks. Note, there was One planet, a myriad of dancing stars and black holes, and the timestream at that time.

[Mel_Vixen]

Ok made a god, island and Tribe here. Any objections? Uff and i see that "biggest earthquake ever" just now so i may need to change parts of teh island description.   

[Rolepgeek]

I wouldn't have you spend it on basics, except I need you to somehow spend it on defenses. And it seemed odd that you could build a shrine for free, but walls and weapons have costs. It was a tough situation to sorta work out, ya know?

So monsters are the things attacking, right?

Most non-magic weapons or defenses aren't gonna do shit to most of these monsters, is my guess. Especially once they actually start getting to be badass. Or if another God is sending something to attack.

I mean, I'm fine with this economy and I think Kevak would be too if it made sense. I'm not saying it doesn't; it could very well be that getting the undead motivated enough to do anything requires divine power. But I just think that a Palisade shouldn't cost Divinity. It also shouldn't do shit against a real threat, but since you said you wanted it to be more focused on storytelling, I would advise making us Guide our tribe more than Control them with Divinity.

[Spiderking50]

I wouldn't have you spend it on basics, except I need you to somehow spend it on defenses. And it seemed odd that you could build a shrine for free, but walls and weapons have costs. It was a tough situation to sorta work out, ya know?

So monsters are the things attacking, right?

Most non-magic weapons or defenses aren't gonna do shit to most of these monsters, is my guess. Especially once they actually start getting to be badass. Or if another God is sending something to attack.

I mean, I'm fine with this economy and I think Kevak would be too if it made sense. I'm not saying it doesn't; it could very well be that getting the undead motivated enough to do anything requires divine power. But I just think that a Palisade shouldn't cost Divinity. It also shouldn't do shit against a real threat, but since you said you wanted it to be more focused on storytelling, I would advise making us Guide our tribe more than Control them with Divinity.

I think that that is a very well thought out and articulated reason why I should make buildings free. I am convinced. Buildings are free. They do have to be built from scratch. However, unless they have some sort of divine backing, they're not going to do much. The monsters attacking you, happen to be the monster that kicked your monster's butt. Or the butt of the monster that kicked your monster's butt. As a result, it is the current king of badassery. A ballista may hurt, but unless its got a major weakness to wood, its not gonna kill it.

Can everyone agree on this system? Buildings are free, but divinity is really needed to set up something strong.

[Spiderking50]

Ok made a god, island and Tribe here. Any objections? Uff and i see that "biggest earthquake ever" just now so i may need to change parts of teh island description.

My objection is that your hyperlink doesn't work...

[~Neri]

That system works.

And did you ever make a template for monster creation? If so, Idunno where it is.

[Spiderking50]

Turn One Info

Monster entry goes like this:
You post that you want to enter. I PM you a set of options. You'll get three full creatures and 4 aspects. You'll then design a monster with the following format:

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Name:
Shape: (You pick this)
Heart:
Temper:
Skin:
Speed:
Strength:
Intelligence:
Special:
Shape:
Final description of the monster: (Should not be a laundry list of what kind of stats it has)/spoiler]


Each monster has stats for each of these which determine the HP (depends on shape), the offensive strength (stength), and defensive strength (skin) of a monster. The other aspects determine how it acts during the battle. Based on these, it rolls to attack. If an attacker beats the opponents defense, then the difference between the two is damage. If an opponent is faster it will go first. If its twice as fast, it will attack twice as often. Heart and temper can modify the rolls or base stats. Intelligence modifies the creature's chance to utilize areana aspects like pit traps or lava flows.

Here's an example:
[spoiler]Given monsters: goblin, Minotaur, deer.
Given aspects: orc strength, bear speed, dragon special, golem skin

Name: Xegnar the killer
Shape:Giant ant
Heart: Minotaur
Temper:Minotaur
Skin: Golem
Speed: Deer
Strength: Minotaur
Intelligence: Goblin
Special: Dragon

Xegnar is a terrifying giant ant. It's been corrupted by magic and has become strong and fast. Its red in color and you can see fire in its veins. Do not let its insectiod shape deceive you, it is cunning and merciless. It lives to spread strife in the name of Noj.

This all comes together to a stone skinned, fire breathing, very strong, swift Minotaur. (It takes the shape of the most often picked monster).

[Mel_Vixen]

Ok made a god, island and Tribe here. Any objections? Uff and i see that "biggest earthquake ever" just now so i may need to change parts of teh island description.

My objection is that your hyperlink doesn't work...

*headdesks* yeah its 4 in the morning and i clicked the wrong symbol ... fixed that now. Sorry.

[Salsacookies]

This will be my character. Expect a Game of Thrones-grade Asshole here.

[Spiderking50]

@ Heph: Oh man, its 9 here. You're gonna be posting at odd hours for me. Which is fine, I am on unless I'm at my job and even then sometimes.

The chunks should really be 10x10x10 with the last ten being in a general cone shape (Pointy at the bottom, wide at the top).
Like:

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

[Mel_Vixen]

heh atm i have more then enough time due to health reasons so i can post all day long. A few quick questions:

So free temple and buildings (given that we have the people and materials). What would it take to advance our civ in terms of tech, getting to new islands etc? Do we need divine inspirations to go from bows to crossbows, tents to houses etc.? Making entirely new discoveries?

10X10X10 miles with tapering and the lower edge ... thats a lot of volume. Does the Island-rock float normally, like if i cleave of a stone/brick from the island would it also float? 

Next up, wild monsters. How can we find them? Can we tame them? Eat them? Bait them?

[Rolepgeek]

I will point out that there should be more mundane threats that can be or should be taken care of via mundane means, and I believe that reason should be applied depending on the monster and threats and all as to whether it works. Of course, the balancing factor is that any time spent building a wall isn't spent, say, building a granary, or protection against flooding. Or farms.

Oh, it's 100 square miles? You originally said 10 square miles.

And yes, Heph, considering the amount of time it took with the amount of people alive and in ready contact with one another to achieve any of those discoveries in real life, you will need to spend Divinity for that.

[Spiderking50]

Its 10 square on top, but the volume is 100. So 10x10x10(tapered)

Rolepgeek has got it.