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[Iituem]

Question, would it be possible to have a subspecies trait? Like, a portion of your population has a different set of traits, or is that just the client race? I ask because my idea involves what is basically my "ruling caste" to be notably physically different from the rest of their species.

Also, what sort of magic would Heliomancy fall under?

Client race stat would be your friend there.  Heliomancy... probablu Elementalism.

[Jilladilla]

Yeah, you have to buy client race traits from your main points pool.

Eh? Client's use up your main pool too (barring the obligatory -1 needed to get a client in the first place)? Huh. Here I thought they got a separate Pool, it just had to add up to +0...?

[Roboson]

Can we get a bit more information on the Bravery trait? I'm wondering what sort of effect that has game wise.

[10ebbor10]

Brave gives you more morale. Morale influences when your units run away from the battlefield.

[Iituem]

Yeah, you have to buy client race traits from your main points pool.

Eh? Client's use up your main pool too (barring the obligatory -1 needed to get a client in the first place)? Huh. Here I thought they got a separate Pool, it just had to add up to +0...?

The -1 gives you a client race full stop.  You then pick the traits for that race, spending points from the same pool as you spent on your hero and main race.

Brave gives you more morale. Morale influences when your units run away from the battlefield.

Yup.  Brave units can take more damage before they turn tail; in an even fight it's the edge that makes the difference.  If in an even fight both sides hit 50% of their forces lost and 70% rout on one side while only 20% rout on the other, the surviving 30% will be wrecked by the suddenly numerically superior 80%.

[Tiruin]

Tiny question (since this is important)

Client Race:   (-1 Point)  Your people long since subjugated another race, integrating them into their society.  [You start with a population of a second race.  You need to buy their points separately.]

Please clarify what this means, because my starting draft had this as a core concept, but I removed it because I thought it meant 'the points for this race will come from your race point pool'.

Also does this add to the starting population #'s?

Yeah, you have to buy client race traits from your main points pool.  It replaces a percentage of your total population with the client race.

Now that I've thought about it, could I ask MORE clarity here?
As in, if we can build a certain race to specific mechanics, how will other general details (eg Manpower and otherwise, like picking only one race for warfare while the other is the rural or such folks) work out? Can we pick and diversify so the niches go where niches need be, and the non-niches go to where they need be? Or is this client race more a support/niche focus, to simplify and help your computational background instead? (eg Beasts of burden)
Because the initial draft for me was...robots, actually posting it below for clarity.

Spoiler: Given that I picked a leader with Mundane and nothing else (click to show/hide)

Human Racial Traits [Major Race]:
Leader: Mundane (+4)
Bloodlines (-2; Power Source)
Prodigious Strength (-2)
Brave (-2)
*Rangers (-2)
Stalkers (-1)
Client Race (-1)
Faithful (-1)
Terrain Adaptation: **Mountain Terracing (-2)
Ponderous (+2)

Mekhane Racial Traits [Client Race]:
Leader: Administrator (-1)

Green Thumb (-2)
Hungry (+2)
Cowardly (+1)
Ponderous (+2)
Short Lives (+1)
Frail (+1)

And with the +3 points, equals 0 in total.

Changes:
Humans added Faithful alongside Client Race, moved Hungry to Mekhane; Most detrimental traits are in the Mekhane.

The Mekhane were one of the first races the humans came in contact with, back through the portals while they were honing their collective magics; initially thought to be spirits in possession of objects and devices, these sentient creatures take the form of humanoid embodiments of the land, wind, and seas, inasmuch as humanity is on par with--they signify concepts such as the yokai, anino, fomorian, or other cultural terms used to describe supernatural or natural but differing forces and beings, but also are a different notion altogether; they are humanoid in appearance but their outer and general visible covering is that of common resources, from wood to iron in appearance, although a deeper examination would note that this is only 'skin deep'. They are a non-verbal race, adept in gestures and artforms, shadowplay, and body language. Esoteric and exotic, to those races who have not spent time familiarizing themselves without a common medium of communication, they have what many would call a strange affinity with the lands, able to commit to growth where there was only sand and dirt, and produce water from where there was only rock. They have been noted to be lithovores, omnivores, and particularly able to ingest many types of material, however, and despite their astuteness with non-verbal communication, beneath their material skin, lies a complex web-like, gel-like, hollowed interior.

So I am deeply curious as to how this works out in both military, and industrial/general resource matters.

Also I'm unsure if we should re-pick the same negative traits if we want to share stuff, because it occurred to me that when you say client race, that also means 'hey part of your civilization has access to this, and doesn't have access to this' (eg Ponderous).

Also if the Client Race has a Leader, will that trait apply to all other leaders? I'm suspecting that for the client race, there are many limitations that will occur (unless...picking client race means "make another race but shared point pool").

Also with the Humans being Faithful, in that addendum up there (initial draft), I'd be adding a God of Order or...Prosperity, and stuff. o_o
I'm unsure where the theme would fall under but it'd be PM'd.

Unless...I am mistaken in that CLient Race, other than the -1 to point pool, means that if you'd like your player civilization to have the same characteristics--both positive AND negative must be equal, meaning that one can diversify despite these circumstances (meaning: You should copy negative traits to both major/client race, for it to fully apply, if it is an exclusive trait)?

Edoot: I see people picking Vulnerability {X}?
May I pick up Vulnerability {to Necromancy} if that is possible? Makes it easier for people to squish me but I'm doing it for the fun and RP, if the Hyoomins get picked.

[Talion]

Well here is one idea, unleash the zombie ants.

Spoiler: Sheet (click to show/hide)

Nation Name: Deathbloom Concord

Starting Government Form: Magocracy

Leader Name: Sazad Deathbloom

Leader Traits: Necromancy (-2), Bloodlines (-2)

Leader Biography: It is said the first necromancer was a Deathbloom. Sazad represents an unbroken line of necromancers that stretches back many generations. He is known foremost for his questing into the realms of the dead. Speaking to the spirits of past necromancers allowed him to foresee the coming of the great comet, that signaled doom for his world. Likewise, it is through a modification of the portals he used to visit the dead lands that he found the way to this new refuge. Thus he formed the Deathbloom Concord of all those Ghuls willing to abandon their home nests to make the journey. Sadly the toll upon the Ghul's Armourian servants was great, but the new queen survived the trip and is ready to begin birthing the next generation and in time there is hope of recovery.

Race Name: Ghuls

Racial Traits: Client Race (-1), Academies (-1), Intellectual (-2), Frail (+1), Cowardly (-1)

Race Description: The Ghuls started out as a group of human necromancers. Over time they have grown frail and craven in the course of hiding within Armourian nests. They have pale skin and white hair, many have red eyes, but blue eyes are also common.

Client Race Name: Armourians

Client Racial Traits: Fast Breeders (-2), Prodigious Strength (-2), Short Lives (+1), Cack-Handed (+1), Dull (+1), Ponderous (+2), Doomed (+2)

Client Race Description: A large insectile race reminiscent of ants. Much of their strength springs from their natural armour and powerful jaws.

Nation Description: The Ghuls were once a group comprised solely of necromancers, who raised the corpses of dead Armourians for protection and war. In time their need for more bodies led them to conquer the Armourians by use of the appropriate pheromones to occupy their nests in safety. This symbiotic relationship grew over time, until to this day when a new queen sets out to find a new place to live, a young necromancer and a collection of settlers goes with them.

Name of your capital: Hive Deathbloom

Name of the region surrounding your capital: The Earthworks

[frostgiant]

Ooh, I like. Necromancy Would have been my first choice if my muse hadn't decided on Wolfos. Depending on were I start I still Kinda want to go necromancy.

I very much like them.

[Tiruin]

Ooh, I like. Necromancy Would have been my first choice if my muse hadn't decided on Wolfos. Depending on were I start I still Kinda want to go necromancy.

I very much like them.

I'm feeling like you're the 3rd sheet who would like Necromancy.

See this is why we had to do the portal and bad things happened.

Friendly joking aside, I really wonder how deep Iiteum's pockets of lore go. There's a lot unmentioned both in the OP and Manual, so that means he must have it in his secret GM bookies/notepad++!

[Iituem]

Simple explanations; long train and typing on my phone.

The martial traits such as Brave, Fleet and Flier affect raised units.  So long as you have some of a race with these benefits in a territory, you can raise units of their type in that territory.

Races with territory based stats, e.g. Green/Red Thumb, Industrious, Dull, can be set to prefer to be rural or urban.

I haven't put in segregation mechanics to drive races out of your territories ir into others , but if there is a want for it I will.

Heroes are shared and apart from cosmetics independent of the race system.

I added a Vulnerability to Terenos' race app as part of a special request, it wasn't really meant to be given out en masse because I have something planned there.  But essentially it's a 1 point malus that gives all your units +25% damage from a given source. Plus or minus other changes.  I have to change parts of certain things to balance these, so they're kind of a pain to put in and thr reason they weren't in the main trait list.

[Tiruin]

Simple explanations; long train and typing on my phone.

The martial traits such as Brave, Fleet and Flier affect raised units.  So long as you have some of a race with these benefits in a territory, you can raise units of their type in that territory.

Races with territory based stats, e.g. Green/Red Thumb, Industrious, Dull, can be set to prefer to be rural or urban.

I haven't put in segregation mechanics to drive races out of your territories ir into others , but if there is a want for it I will.

Heroes are shared and apart from cosmetics independent of the race system.

Gonna shove all that in my sheet there. I'm copying that Vulnerability thingy with its point value from others.

[NUKE9.13]

Client Racial Traits: [...] Doomed (+2)

I doubt you can take Doomed for your client race and not have it apply to both races.

Also, congrats on being the first person to post a sheet featuring both a starting lore and a power source!

PS, assuming I get in, I will be available to make items for your heroes at discounted rates! 33% off the normal gold cost, 10% off the Mithril and Mana costs! Yes, you can save £167 on a tier-one item by having me make it for you. Such value!

[Nirur Torir]

So I do have a bonus In offense and if you consider killing guys before they attack a good defense, I have that too. With Increased travel speed I feel confident In my Ability to Run circles around Large armies and Hit places with fewer defenses, After all, an army has a movement equal to its slowest unit.
This means that only Fliers and Calvary Can catch up with me if I really try to evade. and if cav Catch up with me when I get to Put My entire army Vs a grouped of cav. I feel quite confident about that. Ya, you have Fliers, but if I spawn near you the first thing I'm going to do is rush Elementalism. Send you up Like a turkey dinner.

All other things being equal, my ponderous farmer boom civ would dominate yours at nearly any point in the game. You don't have the manpower to do much early on, and you have very little urban pop. You could take 500 spearmen on a holdfast, probably, but your army will be crippled by the attempt, and you won't have time to use the new slaves for much.

[Criptfeind]

I love how we don't know how combat works, we don't know what the world will look like, we don't know what higher tier buildings and tech looks like, we don't know what interactions or magic will be possible, the games not even started and players have not been picked. And even so people are posturing and threatening each other already.

We're really back in a proper @War game. 

[10ebbor10]

Also, congrats on being the first person to post a sheet featuring both a starting lore and a power source!

I have it to, if I get around to adding the results of my super secret communications to my sheet.

I love how we don't know how combat works, we don't know what the world will look like, we don't know what higher tier buildings and tech looks like, we don't know what interactions or magic will be possible. And even so people are posturing and threatening each other already.

We're really back in a proper @War game. 

Pretty certain it's the mechanics from Hive race.