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[AbstractTraitorHero]

So my sheets fine?

[Nirur Torir]

Yep, you're fine.

[crazyabe]

Spoiler: Character Sheet! (click to show/hide)

Name Lograns Plooganth Reganthenat IV
Race Illithid
Physical Description THIS
Mental Description He is Antisocial, And has a tendency towards being OCD.
Backstory He was kicked out of his homeland and Now seeks to build a new one for himself.
Skills
ELEMENTAL:EARTH[Skilled]
NECROMANCY[Skilled]
GOLEMANCY[Skilled]
Minions
Convicts:16
Solders:5
Blacksmith:1
Mason:1
"Equipment"
Food:50

[Criptfeind]

By the way, about metamagics? I have a whole mess of questions that I'm just going to dump here. Do they have different levels the same as other skills and are purchased the same way (only with the thing that you get two for the price of one) or some other way? Also if they do have different levels can we get some idea of how powerful they are at different levels? There is mention that low level+metamagic is weaker then higher level, but how far does that go? Like does a expert fire mages magic burn hotter then a skilled fire mage with master strength metamagic? Also is that the case in all categories? The increased in power seems obvious when thinking about strength metamagic and scale metamagic, but what about safety? Is a master class mage safer then a expert (with nether of them having metamagic?)

[RAM]

Ooooooh, riiight, you add value of the skill level to the value of all the previous skill levels in order to determine the cost. So novice costs 3 and competent costs 6...
And metamagic is just a skill, like all the others, and being a master of metamagic would be kind of freaky...

If we are not buying luggage yet, do we not need to save up for luggage?

[Nirur Torir]

By the way, about metamagics? I have a whole mess of questions that I'm just going to dump here. Do they have different levels the same as other skills and are purchased the same way (only with the thing that you get two for the price of one) or some other way?

They act the same as any other skill, and are bought the same way.

Also if they do have different levels can we get some idea of how powerful they are at different levels?

Your spells will be slightly less than twice as effective in the given areas if you have X level spell and X level metamagic. I haven't figured out the strength difference for different levels.

There is mention that low level+metamagic is weaker then higher level, but how far does that go? Like does a expert fire mages magic burn hotter then a skilled fire mage with master strength metamagic? Also is that the case in all categories? The increased in power seems obvious when thinking about strength metamagic and scale metamagic, but what about safety? Is a master class mage safer then a expert (with nether of them having metamagic?)

A master pyromancer will be able to cast the basic fireball spell better than a skilled pyromancer, in all relevant categories. The master will be safer with weaker spells, but will have the same failure rate at top-level spells. The master would see proportionately less safety from a dabbling safety metamagic than the skilled would, for their top-level spells.

If we are not buying luggage yet, do we not need to save up for luggage?

If you want to buy luggage, yes.

[RAM]

So metamagic is weaker for its cost, but can give a master somewhere else to improve, multiply its value by buffing multiple different disciplines, and can allow several wizards to combine their powers to summon Captain Deathworld...

[Criptfeind]

Cool. Cool. I think I'll take Mastery of... Huh. What's a good term for plant magic? Nature magic and Druidism both imply both plants and animals. But things like Chloromancy or plant magic sound a bit lame... Hum... Well, anyway, I'm going to take mastery of that I guess. 13 is a lot of points. It'd certainly go towards a lot of followers, but eh.

Also I noticed you mentioned sugguestions for the death world were possible. I can't think of anything interesting, so I'm just going to repeat my sugguestion I made for IronyOwls game! If that's permissible at least, I figure since it wasn't (at least fully) used for his game it'd be okay to repeat and to be honest I do like that world. Although I suppose there might be an issue of being too close if some of the features do make it in... Hah hah! I guess the process of mixing the world from suggestions should make for a suitably interesting alloy anyway.

Spoiler: The Death World (click to show/hide)

 The world in question is Pyranus. A world of slightly larger then average size. It's 4 suns have insured that it's always daytime and lead rise to an abundance of plant life that's covered the surface of the whole world in a single massive rain forest. Gigantic continent sized trees form the most important aspect of the ecosystem, literally supporting all other living creatures and plantlife on and in their miles high trunks and branches. At the very top of the branches the leaves form a tough outer layer to protect against the blazing sun and frequent megastorms that sweep across the surface. This tough layer undulates across a majority of the planet, only broken by the occasional out jutting branch or break in the leaves that leads down to one of the seas on the lower level.

Directly under that layer in the filtered sunlight lays the jungle proper. Massive branches that range from the size of other worlds trees to cities rise up from below. Growing on, in, and around these branches a dazzling array of life grows, crawls, flies, and hops. Great wooden bowls harder then steel jut upward to hold collected water creating massive seas that stretch further then the eye can see, filled with all sorta of strange and wonderful fish. Gigantic parasitic vines create massive highways between branches on which herds of ungulates move between leafy fields. Massive flowers burst open to release clouds of spores, collected by shining red bees to take back to their bulging hives. An uncountable number of species, both harmful and helpful, fair and foul, live in this world below the canopy. This is the area where the expedition would house itself and build it's city. The founders already imaging a dazzling town suspended miles in the air, hanging off the sides of trees and lashed together with study rope like vines with the consistency of steel. The town will have to deal with the more dangerous animals if they are to survive, but if they do the rewards will be rich indeed. Rare and valuable organics of all types can be found and harvested here, ether for local use or export.

Below the upper layer the light slowly dims, filtered out by mile after mile of endless foliage, and here in the dim eternal twilight is where the great branches come and start to merge downward until there is more continent tree then open area is the trunkmaze. A endless progression of cracks and crevasses that stretches across the whole of the world. Here the trunks of the branches have lived for uncounted millennium and their wood has slowly changed over time, still alive, it straddles the line between plant and mineral, rock hard it can mined with a pickaxe or other stone breaking tooling, and running though it great streaks of mineralwoods collected over thousands of years that can be processed like metal if the are found by an enterprising treeminer. In even rarer clusters the lifebloods of the trees themselves have collected and slowly compressed, creating shinning treegems of a dazzling array of color and clarity. This layer can be of great use, both for practical applications and the creation of great mineral wealth, but beware! For down in the dim light the animals grow larger and stranger. Serpents the size of buildings slither among the cracks, and stranger and more dangerous creatures still. The terrain itself is not as friendly ether, as the trees themselves sometimes shake and settle in quakes that rarely reach the upper boughs, and great gusts of poison wind sometimes blow up from the dark crevasse below.

As the trunkmaze goes ever further downward the cracks grow more and more frequent, but slowly gain in size. Eventually if one keeps traveling downward they reach the dark crevasses. Cracks open up between the trunks of the continent trees, dozens of miles wide in places. A stygian abyss where the light from the quadruple suns finally totally fails. Not much is now about this area, as the darkness is the least of a travels worries in this place. A foul miasma wafts upward, poisonous and acidic fumes leak from the depths. And truly gigantic and cyclopean creatures seem to inhabit this pit, monsters of grand power and terror who are rarely seen, and rarely survived when they are. Still, this place does not hold zero attractions, down here in the depths the magic of the world pulses stronger then anywhere else in the world, and strange and magical plants and substances grow furtively. Brave explorers can harvest these treasures, and if they survive to tell the tale they are greatly enriched by their finds. Still it takes an iron nerve to search on the edges of the depths, and only the most foolish try to go deeper into the abyss, where they inevitably never return from.

Some scholars conjecture beneath even the great abysses there must be root structures for the trees, and possibly even an earth. However, their existence, and what else could possibly be down there is as of yet simply conjuncture.

[AbstractTraitorHero]

Oh my this is the exact same world as ironyowls crossover is  confirmed +1 though my character knowing miya already makes it set in the same universe.

[Criptfeind]

Oh my this is the exact same world as ironyowls crossover is  confirmed +1

Hopefully not. Luckily we already have turtle land in contention though.

[AbstractTraitorHero]

I imagine We would land somewhere very different.

[Detoxicated]

I say the death world should be as its name states. A place where the dead rise and bones and meat is open. A living organism, this world feeds and feeds upon its inhabitants.

[Happerry]

Character Creation still open? If so, have my own submission.

Name: George
Race: Just a normal boring human.
Physical Description: A normal boring human wearing wizard robes and a wizard's hat.
Mental Description: A boring mind that enjoys reading books far more then manual labor or combat. Ok, it's also a lazy mind.
Backstory: A normal wizard who, once upon a time, got bored and pranked a few people. Sadly, one of those people was high ranking, and assigned George to a deathworld colony for revenge.
Skills: Skilled Summoner, Novice Healing Magic, Novice Summoner's Metamagic (Stability/Safety), Novice Air Mage, Novice Enchanter

16 Laborers, 8 Soldiers, 4 Craftsmen (Blacksmith, Herbalist, Carpenter, Mason), 2 Leaders, 100 Food Units

[Nirur Torir]

Character creation is still open. I'll aim to start sometime this weekend.

Cool. Cool. I think I'll take Mastery of... Huh. What's a good term for plant magic?

Floramancy? Not to be confused with the true man's art of floralmancy.

Oh my this is the exact same world as ironyowls crossover is  confirmed +1 though my character knowing miya already makes it set in the same universe.

Hmm.

[RAM]

Lets imagine for a moment, that there was a civilisation, a civilisation of insects, and there were two or more societies within this civilisation. And then, let us suppose that these societies found that they did not agree on everything, and perhaps sought different solutions for the betterment of their world. Let us further suppose, that one society thought to better their world by creating microscopic self-replicating harvesters, and another sought to better their world by creating insect/stone-elemental/missile hybrids that could last forever and were conditioned to cooperate and obey orders, but were quite entirely too insane to understand the concept of orders. And perhaps, just possibly, other groups also found ways to better their world...

So, lets us imagine that the harvesters converted all matter to a depth of half a kilometre and then exhausted all available energy reserves, and then, over time, were(mostly) reduced to sand. And lets also imagine that the hybrids found that they were not entirely comfortable with those events and left, and now the planet has some lovely rings around it, bit of which may get curious from time to time and pay a visit, and maybe even the entirety of the rings might get curious if ever anything REALLY interesting happened.

So endless sand, with water (and the occasional viable but inert(for now) grey goo) in the lower reaches. There would be resources under the sand, but the deeper you go the more likely you are to encounter some sort of extremely hostile secret military-style science-gone-mad project sealed in some sort of difficult-to-process or deeper-then-the-goo-reached container. And occasionally a monster falls from the sky, unless you fail to control your emissions, in which case the sky falls and it is made of monsters...

Or perhaps the worlds could be combined?