Topic: Dwarf Fortress IRC game; (Read 24551 times)

penguinofhonor · « **Reply #75 on:** December 24, 2008, 02:26:08 am »

I really want to know what's been happening, if any of you are kind enough to tell me.

SombreChapaeu · « **Reply #76 on:** December 24, 2008, 02:05:06 pm »

Quote from: penguinofhonor on December 24, 2008, 02:26:08 am

I really want to know what's been happening, if any of you are kind enough to tell me.

there is a fight with a giant eagle, maraca goes hunting finds dead eagle and an egg... keeps the egg for a giant eagle mount.

Elisa went fey, a group went with her to get her tree including Maraca and Mulch, they attack some kobolds setting one on fire and hitting it with a ballista bolt, it lives and maraca captures it for a sacrifice to KeshanStodir. they come to some elves, mulch kidnaps an elf girl, ransoms her for animals, we get to a fort Maraca walks up elisa shoots a guard, the guards shoot maraca, then elisa shoots maraca, maraca gets in elisa is captured, Mulch attacks the fort with his guys. they free elisa due to fey, she and maraca go for the tree.

penguinofhonor · « **Reply #77 on:** December 24, 2008, 02:52:35 pm »

Whoa. That sounds epic.

MagicJuggler · « **Reply #78 on:** December 24, 2008, 03:10:52 pm »

Quote from: SombreChapaeu on December 24, 2008, 01:37:39 am

Maraca would like some character points soon, been like 5 sessions with noffing.

Sorry about that. When the artifact quest is done, everyone involved in it will get points. Additionally, there will be points for those that complete the quest to avenge Datan's death at the hands of the mob goons; finally, if the players wish, they can attempt to clear out the caves before the seal goes kaput.

Of the men that were wounded, I need to roll some 1st-aid checks for the squad medics, and then we can determine if the players really wish to invade either the Elf fortress, or the Kobold base. That said, Mulch is pretty much isolated from Maraca and Elisa due to Elisa going bonkers on him, and alerting the guards to Mulch's presence. But once this quest is finally over, it should be worth a good amount of points, perhaps 5 or 6 (which is quite a bit in GURPS terms)

Back at castleforged, I mentioned Datan dying as the result of mortal wounds including a crossbow bolt to the torso, and having his chest smashed in by a steel baseball bat. This was the result of a botched assassination attempt on Sibrek, that occurred while some Tucker Kobolds were attacking the base. 9 other Dwarfs died in the attack, with only one Kobold dying and another being captured. The captured Kobold revealed to the party (through really cute drawings, akin to those Gobbo made for Kobold Camp

) that the Kobolds were being drawn forth to Penguin's corpse so they could worship it as a god.

Still need to finish updating the logs of course. I'm 3 games behind and there's a lot of food and resource-crunching to calculate.

penguinofhonor · « **Reply #79 on:** December 25, 2008, 12:17:14 pm »

My old character is a kobold god?

Mulch Diggums · « **Reply #80 on:** December 25, 2008, 06:36:12 pm »

As much a god as cortes was to the Myans

Deon · « **Reply #81 on:** December 27, 2008, 06:05:44 pm »

Is there any chance to hop in? I'm not perfect in english so I may be sometimes slow but I want to play very much.

I want to be a Diggles Windspell, a wandering gnome who smokes stinking herbs (via pipe), thinks that the Wind speaks to him, is proficient in gemcutting/encrusting and his lifetime goal is to find a "perfect gem".

If there's any chance for me to become a part of a story:

Diggles Windspell
Proficient Gemcutter/Gem Setter
Novice Herbalist

Personality:
He is a fair worshipper of Wind.
Diggles Windspell likes Gems, magnifying glasses, goblets, jewelry, color green, winds and fairies for their babylike giggles. When possible, he prefers to consume giant rat roast, ale and to smoke a pipe.
He is very friendly. He is very cheerful. He is incredibly creative. He does not have a great aesthetic sensitivity. He is open-minded to new ideas. He finds rules confining. He is slow to trust others. He acts impulsively. He likes wandering outdoors and grumbles only mildly at inclement weather.

Items/clothing:
a rope reed green pointy hat [head]
a rope reed dark brown jacket with mountain goat leather stripes, with a lot of pockets [upper body]
a cow leather ragged belt [lower body]
an oaken smoking pipe (there's a special holder on the belt for it) [on belt]
a small hoary marmot leather pouch on the belt {a small red ruby, a small purple amethyst, an old coin, stinky herbs} [on belt]
green-and-white rope reed striped stockings [legs]
-cedar wooden shoes- [feet]
a dog leather bag {small tools to cut gems: a vice, a revolving lap, a magnifying glass, a tiny hammer and chisel} [on back]

Mulch Diggums · « **Reply #82 on:** December 27, 2008, 08:26:52 pm »

Haha..I love it. Maby you should rename stinky herbs to somthing else though, eh?

Deon · « **Reply #83 on:** December 28, 2008, 07:45:03 am »

The main idea that it's not tobacco and any self-consious pipe-smoker would never even try to smoke this sh*t.

I may come up with a herb name if it's necessary.
I've added the gnome's personality I'm going to follow..

Hastur · « **Reply #84 on:** December 28, 2008, 08:43:20 am »

If you need help with Gurps I can help translate your character into gurps. Im trying to get to play too its hard. How familiar are you with the system? Just say the word and I can write something up for you since you've helped me and all.

Deon · « **Reply #85 on:** December 28, 2008, 09:03:03 am »

Do you speak to me?
I'm unfamiliar with gurps but it should be easy to hop in since I tried various systems, from DnD, S.P.E.C.I.A.L and to homebrew lame oversimplified systems made for fast rp purposes

.

However since I have no books on GURPS I'd like to recieve a link to some general system documentation and some possible advices after I generate a character.

P.S. Who helped you and all?

MagicJuggler · « **Reply #86 on:** December 28, 2008, 01:57:57 pm »

The rules for GURPS Lite can be found here at http://e23.sjgames.com/item.html?id=SJG31-0004

The rules obviously pale before Book 1: Characters, but it has the core rules needed for making a character (dealing with stuff like how much basic attributes cost, skill tables, etc). We're building off 100 pts.

Hastur's character is almost done; a lot of his issues were related to play balance, or minimaxing. Just need to review some final stuff.

Hastur · « **Reply #87 on:** December 31, 2008, 12:04:36 am »

You helped me silly! (Deon) I wanted to know how to play fallout mod without without the custom graphics.

To Juggler: Ive sent you another guy, you said you didnt get the last one with the changes. I've been sending them to the Gmail, would you prefer I sent them as messages through this forum? Thats how I'd prefer it so its ok if you do.

To Deon: My possible advice is to not neglect fearlessness or combat skills because I did and it wasn't working out in my favor, and to get high skill levels for noncombat stuff since I haven't seen any circumstance bonuses being used in my short time around.

MagicJuggler · « **Reply #88 on:** December 31, 2008, 12:22:53 pm »

GURPS does things with the 8-hours work, 8 hours sleep, and 8-hours for what you will. Taking workaholic would take time away from What You Will, making for less quest time/slower XP gain.

Circumstance bonuses depend on stuff like quality of the workshop, time spent working, etc. In general, you can get at best a +2 bonus if you spend 6x the amount of time needed to do a task (meaning 12 hours for a work assignment). I actually have been nice and haven't really bookkeeped all the work penalties for having crappy workshops to work in...paved floors make a major difference after all. I also need to implement morale calculation based on happy/unhappy thoughts.

To Deon: The point is in general jacks of trades with minor specialization are what you're looking for. If you start the game with the ability to get a skill roll of 30-under (when skill 18 is legendary)...you've broken the system badly. I actually need to PM you that we can discuss the stats of the Gnome template, since having a Gnome PC is both cool and interesting.

MagicJuggler · « **Reply #89 on:** December 31, 2008, 05:36:52 pm »

DECEMBER 31 UPDATE:
Hello everyone. It's been a hectic past few weeks yet I believe I finally have been able to update things for better or for worse. We've had an entertaining set of adventures, and the game is speeding up in terms of raw combat awesomeness.

Current Roster

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Obituaries: The dead will be honored...or the butt of many jokes.

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Status Update: A recorded list of actions looks like this:

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Fortress Inventory and Locations:
Below is a partially completed list of everything located in the fortress. You'll notice a lot of tag notation in here; this is mainly because the information in there is to be manipulated through the DFGURPS program I'm writing. Depending on how much spare time I get, this project could get increasingly sophisticated. Assuming I end up creating an actual hexmap system for this badboy, I may end up building hex savefiles for everything.

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Character Creation Rules

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This game is being run using GURPS 4th edition. If you don't have 4th edition, GURPS Lite can be downloaded at http://www.sjgames.com/gurps/lite. You miss out on advantages, yet this will help you learn the system to a limited extent while a friendly team of gamers is out there to help you flesh out your character. If you have 3rd edition, there were point modifications so best to read Lite as well; fortunately most of the advantages from Compendium are still around, albeit with more modification.

You have 100 points with which to build a character; if you wish, you can spend 25 of those points to be a Dwarf or an Elf. Their templates are in the Template spoiler tag.
You can take up to 40 points in disadvantages, and 5 in quirks. Note that excessively damaging disadvantages or those viewed as counterproductive to the overall game (e.g. wanting to eat your teammates) may be vetoed, depending on the perceived severity.

One cannot take wealth/Status or Reputation as an advantage or disadvantage; these are kept track of independently of the character based solely on their actions. Characters start with the equivalent of $2000 dollars, with no employment and no cost of living. Wealth is solely for equipping your character...however, 400 of your dollars go into a "community chest" for buying group items like seeds, the party wagon, etc; for those coming into the fortress after the initial cleansing, it represents an initial citizenship fee that goes into the fortress treasury. Money roughly translates to 10$= a copper coin, 50$=a silver coin, and 100$= a gold coin.
Game is Tech-level 3+1 (e.g. Medieval technology with special advances in hydrotech); blackpowder has been discovered yet no practical applications have been discovered yet. Dwarf booze is highly explosive however, and can be used to comical effect. Dependong on player or NPC actions, the TL will eventually upgrade due to the never-ending arms race.

I am GM-overwriting some of the advantages. Most notably, Magery/Magic is not allowed at character creation although it may be learnable after the proper quests; if you want an exotic advantage or disadvantage, such as increased DR, contact me with a rationale for it. Alchemy and a modified version of the 25 pt version of Gadgeteering where you can quick-gadget technology but based on non-gadgeteering modifiers.

I am probably going to do some editing to the skills, to keep things streamlined and to mimic the skills in Dwarf Fortress we've come to know and love. I.e. I may eventually merge smallsword, shortsword, and longsword into "Sword User" and have specific benefits such as the parry benefit of smallsword buyable for a small number of points. This would allow some degree of flexibility in character customization. On the other hand, I might not do this because the ability to default skills to other skills helps represent the ability for skill overlap between multiple weapon types (i.e. if you know the smallsword, learning the shortsword should be correspondingly easier). The only consolidations I'm seriously considering are consolidating [Applied Mathematics, Mechanics, Machinist, and Engineering(Clockwork)]->Mechanics, and [Brawling, Wrestling, Karate, Judo, Sumo, Boxing]->(Unarmed!), with Unarmed being able to buy perks/advantages to represent its assorted abilities (i.e. Judo Throw is a technique that defaults as Unarmed-Blah, etc). The only one of those I'm REALLY interested in calvinballing is the Unarmed one just because it would allow more flexibility (I.e. degree of improvised weapons allowed vs. martial art defense bonuses vs. damage bonuses...fear the Fanged Kobold Monk with Chomp-Fu!).

I'm also interested in allowing Modifiers on Skills to represent unique items like a Helm of Superior Swordsmanship, or to represent Necromantic Spells like Steal Skill. This is partially because I disapprove of the tree-progression system in GURPS Magic and believe that for point-balance it would probably be best to buy spells as Powers with the Magical Modifier.

Templates:
I miscalculated the cost of Martial Trance (I.e. treating the corresponding disadvantage as its own disadvantage that only activates when the advantage is on, rather than a limitor to the advantage) and am going to see if I can balance Strange Mood with it in order to keep base point cost fair. Otherwise, I may end up giving extra points to the nondwarfs to compensate. Additionally, I may drop strength for the Elf and Kobold (i.e. St 8 for a Sm-2 creature is a generous amount especially since weight is derived from St), and balance it out with more stuff. If this is an issue, feel free to PM me.

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The World of Destruction

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The game will start off in a tavern in the outskirts of Mountainkeep, where everyone discusses their general plans for where to embark.

The main factions are as follows:
Banners of Ruling: The Dwarf Empire, consisting of numerous mountainkeeps, linked by underground river, and overland chariot patrol routes.
Altoasha: To the far northeast, Altoasha, the desert wonders, is a series of independent cities and roaming tribesmen. Their light cavalry is the envy of the civilized world.
Gobla-Khanate: Directly north to the Banners of Ruling is the Gobla-khanate, consisting of several villages under the command of several obsidian towers.
The New Empire: To the far west, this human kingdom used to own most the known world before it suffered a magic cataclysm. To this day, their heavy cavalry and mastery of Alchemical fire is put to use fighting the elves.
Laetheran Elves: To the southeast, this elf kingdom is a constant thorn against the Banners of Ruling. Their Unicorn Knights are legendary for their combat prowess, and their foot-archers feared by all. They generally can call upon the aid of fairies and pixies and other such creatures
Aquitania: Directly to the east of the Laetheran Kingdom, this human kingdom is currently subjugated to them. They fight with small numbers of mounted knights, and larger number of peasant levies.
Helvetica: A hill kingdom to the east of the Banners of Ruling, which relies on numerous rivers in order to trade with other nations. Their river galleys are among their deadliest weapons, their infantry trained to exacting professionalism.
Fimathama: The Elf kingdom directly to the north of The New Empire, they are noted for their berserk warriors and melee savagery, as well as their superior composite bows. They can call upon the aid of Satyrs and Centaurs, and the occasional Minotaur.
Emeseyece: An elf kingdom to the south of the New Empire, noted for its freezing temperatures and Elves savage even by Elven standards. They additionally have trained such creatures as Frostwolves and Yetis to assist them in protecting their homelands. Unlike other elves, these ones happily use what precious obsidian they can find from volcanic geysers.

UPDATE:
A thread cannot exceed 40000 characters in length, so I deleted this chapter here. I may move the story to a different site when I get the opportunity. Sorry.

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