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[Kashyyk]

Donkey Trains are good!

Name: Kash McCogshyyk
Job:Planter

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Assesx3         ☼20
Clothesx2       ☼10
Quarrels(10)x55 ☼1
Crossbow       ☼35
Food (5)x100      ☼1
Booze (5)x50      ☼1

Money Remaining:☼130
Personal Ration Level: Meager
Personal Booze Ration: No
Caravan Speed: Strenuous

[Haika]

hmm, my count puts you at signup number 8 there Kashyyk. Though it's totally up to Leo if he will allow you in.

I vote yes and close signups after, as having a planter along for the ride dosen't sound like a bad idea at all.

[Kashyyk]

Does it?

Damn. If Leo wants to keep to 7, I don't mind though. Consider me an addition if one of the players manage to kill themselves.

[LeoLeonardoIII]

I'll let Kashyyk in and set it at 8. Updating the player list now.

Originally the reason why they traveled the Oregon Trail was that there wasn't a sea route. If you went as far as possible into the Gulf of Mexico you'd still have to walk across and north to Oregon. So yes, the Phallic Peninsula is a far more hazardous route. And not just because of the roving Tentacle Demons! It's all swamp and infested with Giant Carp!

I'll look at fishing again. I meant it to be kind of dangerous - though hunting currently carries no danger at all it does use a resource. Since there isn't a class or equipment for fishing, changing it now wouldn't make anyone want to change their characters. I think I meant it as a last-ditch survival method if you ran out of quarrels.

Note however that this hasn't been playtested, so it may turn out to be "easy mode". We'll see.

EDIT:
Rooster your money totalled 900, but Mechanics get only 800. So I set you at 129 remaining instead of 229. Also, time taken doesn't matter but timing does - when you leave determines what the weather will be like in the mountains when you cross them, etc.

EDIT2:
Myroc you also overestimated by 100, so I just reduced your money remaining to 350 instead of 450.

EDIT3:
Pillow_Killer you underestimated by 120. Added that to your money remaining.

[LeoLeonardoIII]

All right folks! You all gather in front of the Hard-Working Man Saloon and City Hall in the outpost town of Independence Rock. You're about to head out on your journey to the frontier!

As you're hitching up your wagons, and feeding and rubbing down your asses, you realize there's a pretentious-looking man walking around looking very pleased at the spectacle. He introduces himself as Tylui Mingusgasol, with great self-importance, and it looks like he's going with you.

But he doesn't have any equipment. Just a lot of money.

So what do you guys want to do? It sounds like he expects you to go shopping for him or something.

[Rooster]

Hmm. We miscalculated.
No self-respecting dwarf knows maths 

Tylui? Dunno We should let him buy his equipment, or he can do the extreme mode of tagging along.

On foot.

[LeoLeonardoIII]

With *gasp!* no booze.

It seems pretty obvious he wanted filling meals, a wagon to ride in, asses to pull it, and plenty of booze. If he doesn't respond today someone else can buy his equipment for him using his money.

[Haika]

Lousy, lazy better than thou bas-

I mean he needs to get with it already and buy some junk. I suggest his own wagon, because he sure ain't loafin around on mine.

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Meanwhile, the fishing issue is easily fixed with a fishing dwarf profession choice, a fishing pole, and points for fish seperate from plants or meat.

I was also wondering what sort of chances of breaking do these tools have(you'll note I chose 2 crossbows, just in case).

Other ideas for equipment to be added maybe for next game: Hired hands(crafting, caravan guards, etc[needs food and booze]), dogs(hunting+war+normal)/cats, weapons for fighting off creatures and 'natives'(I seem to remember guns being used against ruffian or indian raids)
All of these would be included in a point amount or deficit(guards should take away some points, in exchange for the safer journey)

[mainiac]

Spotting Tylui all alone, with no one to take care of him and his riches, Ukat leaps to his side.

"'ello guvnah!  Looking for someone to 'elp out on the journey?  I'd be more'n 'appy to lend a hand.  Done ya shopping yet have ya?  I could help gettin' all ya need for the passage."

Spoiler:  My recommendations for luxury passage (click to show/hide)

900 food
900 booze
3 Tough wagons
10 asses
A Crossbow
200 quarrels
10 mechanisms
50 pieces of furniture
395 dwarfbucks remaining

[LeoLeonardoIII]

Meanwhile, the fishing issue is easily fixed with a fishing dwarf profession choice, a fishing pole, and points for fish seperate from plants or meat.

I was also wondering what sort of chances of breaking do these tools have(you'll note I chose 2 crossbows, just in case).

Other ideas for equipment to be added maybe for next game: Hired hands(crafting, caravan guards, etc[needs food and booze]), dogs(hunting+war+normal)/cats, weapons for fighting off creatures and 'natives'(I seem to remember guns being used against ruffian or indian raids)
All of these would be included in a point amount or deficit(guards should take away some points, in exchange for the safer journey)

1: I think I'll just change the "In Soviet Russia" chance for fishing from 2 in 6 to 1 in 6 for carp and gar. I didn't want a fishing tool because DF doesn't use one.

1A: Food is the same whether the food is meat you killed, fish you caught, food you bought in the beginning, or wild fruit you find.

2: Tools do not break. But it's possible to lose equipment in an unsuccessful fording or floating on a river, and kobolds might steal things as a special event. These are the two that come straight from Oregon Trail, but there may be other surprises lurking about ...

3: I wanted to keep it as simple as possible. Just the Oregon Trail stuff plus some Dwarfy flavor. I'd like the rules to cater to a beginner. But good ideas.
Although I'd stay away from anyone being a fighting sort of person. The Hunter is the most militant I'd go.

EDIT: Those suggestions look good to me, except you went over slightly. ☼335 left. I PM'd Tylui. I'll give him until tonight before just saying he accepts the recommendation. Based on his roleplaying in his IN post it sounds like what he'd do anyway.

And it also looks like everyone but him voted Strenuous Poor noble.

[mainiac]

I'm changing my vote to steady.  Might as well suck up to the noble so I can kill him and steal all his stuff get all his stuff when he dies in a freak accident.

[Kashyyk]

Leo:

I realise I've taken up a lot more caravan space than I expected. I'll have as many Asses as possible please.

[LeoLeonardoIII]

Leo:

I realise I've taken up a lot more caravan space than I expected. I'll have as many Asses as possible please.

You want 3 more asses? That would still leave you with 6 asses and thus only 600 capacity and 1300 weight, putting you 700 over. I didn't go back and check, I was busy updating everyone else's stuff.

Or do you want to swap out some goods to lighten the weight and afford more asses?

[Myroc]

Shouldn't my Wagon Space Taken be 2482? The opening post says people count towards weight too.

Your wagon can hold 2000 items. A person, mechanism, or piece of furniture counts as 20 items. An ass not pulling a wagon can be loaded up with 100 items but it counts as pulling a wagon and might become exhausted. Money doesn’t count as an item.

[LeoLeonardoIII]

You don't get a health hit from walking unless the speed is Grueling, and even then it's 1 in 6 per day. I should have made that more explicit, but what applies to an ass applies to a dwarf except that a dwarf can't carry things or pull a wagon.

I added the weight of the clothes you would be wearing and equipment you'd carry to the wagon, but I didn't add your body weight. That note is there for people who want to work while the caravan moves (bone carver for example) or when the caravan moves at Grueling. Or if they just want to ride, like Tylui.

I didn't want to screw you over twice, basically, yet I needed to screw you once on the 3-5 items your dwarf should be carrying, otherwise I'd be tracking two inventories per player.

EDIT:

Right, so I'm saying Tylui was convinced to take Ukat's suggested loadout from the Crazy Ass General Store and Distillery at Independence Rock and his status is changed. Right now we've got a problem with Kash's ass train not being able to take all his junk. Even if he secures extra asses it just won't all fit in there at once.

Tylui has enough spare wagon space to carry his stuff temporarily. Do we want to continue and see if it works itself out (whether by him eating it all along the way or him trading for more asses later on)? Or wait for him to come by and make a decision?