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[AussieGuy]

hey Guys,

There is a fun game on the dnd forums called (wait for it...) Build a city

The thread can be found here http://forums.gleemax.com/showthread.php?t=837285

Setting

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General Fantasy
Mixed races
New world colonisation
Early gunpowder weapons

Rules

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Each poster (that wishes to) may post a Chronicle. An account of the activities and the going's on of the town and it's members. A "Chronicle"  covers a 1 month and period but they may be longer under some circumstances. You may make anything occur that you wish but please obey the following guidelines before chronicling:
1) No artifacts. Artifacts are unbelievably rare in the universe. Most adventurers will go their entire careers without ever seeing one.
EXAMPLE-RIGHT: Bob buys a periapt of wisdom from the mage
EXAMPLE-WRONG- Bob kills the evil mage and pries the Sword of Kas from his dead hands

2) Major events (zombie invasions, dragon razings, disintegration of major characters) should be proposed, rather than enacted. You would post a "proposition" at the end of your post if you wanted to do something huge with a rough outline of what you wanted to happen. The NEXT poster would then be able to decide if they thought your major even was truly warranted. Thusly for any event to occur it would have to be seconded, which would hopefully severely reduce (if not eliminate) the need to debate canon.
EXAMPLE-RIGHT: "Proposition" I think it would be interesting for Bobville to be raided by a squad of Hobgoblins
EXAMPLE-WRONG: Bobville is raided by Hobgoblins and dozens die in the ensuing melee. Also, everyone is now a Vampire.

3) Any poster may preceed the body of his post with the word "STOP". This means that he has taken serious issue with some event posted in the last chronicle. Further posts should not be made directly chronicling the town's events until the issue has been decided as either canon or non-canon. Without my posting an event can be considered "decided" if three consecutive posts are made in agreement as to whether or not the event is canon excluding the original poster of the event.
EXAMPLE-RIGHT:
Poster 1: Everyone is now a Vampire
Poster 2: STOP. That is ridiculous
Poster 3: I agree. The vampire thing is stupid as hell.
Poster 4: I agree. And thats three of us so it's out. Next person can chronicle without it.

EXAMPLE-WRONG:
Poster 1: Everyone is now a Vampire
Poster 2: STOP. That is Ridiculous.
Poster 1 again: VAMPIRES ROCK IT's CANON!
Poster 1 again: It's Canon!
Poster 1 again: It's Canon!
Poster 1 again: OK. Now that everyone's a Vampire........

On Characters

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There is 3 types of character in this world: Heros, Special and Commoners.
 
Hero: Heros are the strongest of all people. They are the kings, the leaders and the adventurers. There should be only one of these per 50 people living in the town and they should will be proposed before going into town.
 
Special: Special characters are the people who are a better than commoners but not as good as heros. they are: Entertainers, Guards, priests etc. They basicly have a better role in town. You can have more of these but no too much (say 5 for every 50)
 
Commoner: Commoners are the bulk of the population. they are: farmers, sheperds, labourers, etc. The rest of the population will be these people. They come in familes of 4 unless decided on something else.

The Town

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Population: 55 ( 24 Farmers, 7 Labourers, 8 miners, 4 brewers, 4 hunters, 4 trappers, Toady, Ill Doubleone, Egar Ishlum, Itiwix)
Families: 13 ( 6 Farmers, 2 Labourers, 2 miners, 1 brewers, 1 hunter, 1 trapper)

Heroes:
Leader (Toady)
Special:
Architect (Ill Doubleone)
Metalworker (Egar Ishlum)
Cleric (Itiwix)

Buildings:
12 Shacks
Town Hall
Dry Docks
Granary/Warehouse (wooden) (More than full enough)
Forge & Smelter.
Field w/ seeds
Trap Fence
Construction area (Temple)

Trade resources:
Metal tools (12 (1/family)) (Value: To natives: 8 To old world: 3)
Iron (11)
Iron Ore (17)
Microcline! (1)
Barrels of Rum (7)
Meat (19)
Fur (10)
Leather (9)
Architectural plans (1)

Weapons: 4 muskets, 8 swords

Vessels: 1 small boat

 

[Psyco Jelly]

Sounds great. It'd be cool if we could somehow tie this in with my Lords of Creation, since it's not out of place.

I'd rather go with general fantasy than DF, BTW.

[AussieGuy]

Yeah, DF would be hard because of the complexilty in the game.

I don't know how we can fit it with lord of creation although it isn't a bad idea.

[NUKE9.13]

I like this idea. Provided it doesn't require a healthy dosage of D&D rule knowledge (looking at you, lords of creation), I would certainly contribute.

[Poltifar]

I say go with General Fantasy. Also, if it is joined with LoC3, only join it vaguely, like in some parallel multiverse, so as not to overcomplicate things. So not all actions that happen in LoC would happen in this game, but there would be the same gods, the same general cosmology, continents, geographical features, etc.

[Digital Hellhound]

General Fantasy, with elements of steampunk. Or if nobody want's that, just GF.

[EuchreJack]

Just an idea, but maybe instead of only one person posting the chronicle of the city, you might have 3-5 people post what happens from their viewpoint.

Or, maybe even build up from one poster to five as the city expands.  Essentially, each person would discuss a specific aspect of the city.

[AussieGuy]

Okay, it shall be Genral fantasy with a bit of loc.

Just an idea, but maybe instead of only one person posting the chronicle of the city, you might have 3-5 people post what happens from their viewpoint.

Or, maybe even build up from one poster to five as the city expands.  Essentially, each person would discuss a specific aspect of the city.

This idea is Intresting. I'm guessing we could do it but not for the first year (just to get things going at a good pace)

NEXT POLL
What will the main race of the city be?
Human (my choice)
Dwarf
Elf (not!)
Other

[Poltifar]

I choose Other: No main race, with as much diversity as possible. So maybe 20% human, 20% elf, 20% dwarf, 20% goblin/orc, 20% other.

I know such a city is logically unimaginable, but we could say it was founded in some extra-ordinary situation which ended up with alot of different races living together. Ofcourse, so many different races would cause alot of racial, religious, political, etc. problems and differences, leading to lots of strife.

[NUKE9.13]

I choose Other: No main race, with as much diversity as possible. So maybe 20% human, 20% elf, 20% dwarf, 20% goblin/orc, 20% other.

I know such a city is logically unimaginable, but we could say it was founded in some extra-ordinary situation which ended up with alot of different races living together. Ofcourse, so many different races would cause alot of racial, religious, political, etc. problems and differences, leading to lots of strife.

New world discovery. Everyone wants some of the pie, so they all flock to it's ports, one of which is ours. Seeing as many of them are fleeing persecution themselves, they can go without race wars for long enough for the town to build up a little. Also allows for plenty of piracy, random monsters, barbarians, random events, weird plagues, ridiculous wealth, ect. that are hard to explain in a civilised continent.
We can start with a few shacks on a beach by a natural harbour, living off the lush forests and plentiful wildlife. As time goes on the forests can make way for farmland and the wild beasts for domesticated animals.   
I say do it.

[Aqizzar]

Picture Planescape meets Gangs of New York.  It should be like that.  A violent, fractious, degenerating melting pot of race and creed, steam and magic, alive and dead.

On that note, I've always wanted to see a fantasy city with an Undead Quarter.  I think sapient, rational corpses walking around, engaging in ordinary society is a fascinating concept with many dramatic implications.

[WorkerDrone]

Its been done before. The undead thing that is.

[Aqizzar]

I know.  So what?  That doesn't make it any less cool.  Which one are you referring to?

[Zako]

Personally, I want a dwarven MEGA METROPOLIS!!! Huge caverns found or made underground, a hollow mountain fortress or a monument to dwarven ability!

Still, I would like some other races in there for good measure. Nothing wrong with a few humans, elves, half-elves, gnomes and so on.

[NUKE9.13]

Nothing wrong with elves

The words WHAT YOU TALKING ABOUT spring to mind.