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[Istrian]

Battle of the Gods - Source

Hello, this is the OOC (out-of-character) thread for the new installment of the Battle of the Gods.

Now you are going to ask me "What is the Battle of the Gods ?". My answer to that is complicated but I will make it short. BotG is a game involving RP. Each player plays as a deity of his choice and has a race of his choice. The gods have just decided to play a game in a world especially created for the purpose. The goal of the game ? Each has his own.

First and foremost, this is an RP game where you play as a god controlling and influencing his civilization throughout the Game.

Alright, this is short and complicated. The long version can be found by reading about the previous BotGs on their respective threads. I provide a link only to BotG 2 because IMHO it was the best of them all.

http://www.bay12games.com/forum/index.php?topic=19241.0

The rules are simple, simpler than in previous editions of the game :

1) To enter the game you must provide a description of your deity and race. You can be as specific or non-specific as you wish. Once we have enough races I will make the map, you will choose your starting locations and I will announce the beginning of the game.

2) The game is played in turns. Each turn ends either after 24 hours or when all players have posted their actions for the turn, whichever comes first. The last player to post may announce turn change.

3) Each turn you post the actions of your civ and your deity. This is an RP game so the point is not to post a list of your actions for the turn. Describe them.
When your action involve changing something on the map (moving units, terraforming or whatever), add the new map to your post.
With each of your posts you also have to provide the status of your armies and cities.
You may not change your post once someone has posted after you. You may however post additional descriptions after he did.

4) You have cities and you have armies. Each turn you get a "token" which you can use to grow one of your cities by one size. The maximum size of a city is 5. The size represents a lot of things. Population, wealth, prosperity... It may be that you described your city as a lone monastery of monks. Though if they are size 5, they are damn good monks.
Each turn, each of your cities can produce an army. Making an army decreases the size of your city by 1. Putting it back into the city will make it grow by 1. Armies can be used for a lot of things, but the main purposes are combat and new cities.
Scouts and lone travellers are not armies. You must provide their status however.
To make a new city, move your army where you want to have a new city and make it a city.

5) Movement speed. An army can move two tiles every turn. No exceptions.

6) Combat and actions that involve more than one player are solved in a simple way. The players may discuss the outcome of the "battle" and try to reach an agreement. If they fail, they ask me to decide.
My decisions are based on a simple principle : I roll a d100, then use the result to decide how the "battle" ended. The close to 50, the closer to a draw. That's all. That's simple.

7) Divine intervention and secret plans. You are a god. You can do things in the mortal realm. You can do things in the room of the gods. As long as it's not overpowered it should be okay. If it is overpowered it is not okay.
You are playing deities. There is no such thing as a secret plan. If someone is building something somewhere, the someone has to explain it. Don't ask if you can send me PMs with your secret plans : you can't. You are playing gods.
The same goes for spying or whatever. Though remember, there is the god and there is the god's civilization. Don't mix up both.

8 ) If you think a player has done something that breaks the game (such as bringing in an invulnerable warrior), ask me to take a look into it. If I decide it is indeed overpowered, I will remove the "thing" from the game, or alter it in a way that will not make it overpowered anymore. This process is called "nerfbatting".

9) Nothing is immortal, nothing is invulnerable. The playground is the mortal realm and the room of the gods. And nothing else. The first to try to destroy the moon will get death by a thousand hammerings.

10) I am a referee, not a GM. I do not provide random events. I do not provide plots. I only do things when players ask me to. And I do it only to enforce rules. The game is done by the players.

11) Have fun. Don't stop others from having fun.

This game is long and it requires time. If you cannot afford to spare an hour every day to write something about your civ and talk to other players, don't join. Too many BotGs have died because of inactivity. The game should last many months, so make sure you have that much time.

If you don't have the time but still want the fun, make yourself an adventurer and explore the world.

Now you may post your civs and deities and heroes. Feel free to comment on the rules or suggest things or ask questions. I probably forgot things. The game will begin with at least 5 civs.

[Armok]

A new BotG already?

My reaction is as usual: I really, really want to play, but dont have the time to do it properly, and so am devastated. 

Suggestion: Might it be considered to use something other than the raw forums? I have always thought Google Wave would be perfect for BotG, and if the number required is not to great I might even give out some invites to make it happen.

[Mel_Vixen]

  as exspected. Ok I have work now but i can free a hour per day for Botg.

Since we all want to play i think we stay at the forums and do not rely on a closed Beta of an obscure 3rd party service (Thought i have the avaibable servers here somewhere for a private Wave-setup.) As usally Forum and Irc-channel will be sufficient for me.

I am going to find some inspiration for now .

Questions:

How are the battles handled? Do we have the Sphere Model again?

[Istrian]

Players can communicate as they wish, though keeping everyone up to date (by summarizing in the thread) would be very welcome.

As described in the rules, battles are resolved in a simple way. Either the players can reach an agreement, or they cannot. If they can, then good.
If they can't, they ask me, I roll dice and tell the outcome.

You can specify spheres for your deity if you wish, though people play omnipotent deities. Considering that, spheres would just give an idea of your usual way to intervene within the world, but it is not the only one.

[mission0]

Of course I'm in, I'll use my previous race since I didn't get to flesh them out to much in my failed round.

Symbol:
City: R
Armies: r

Spoiler: Civ (click to show/hide)

God:
Name:Rizarr
Description:

A being who appears often in the guise of a chimera. With different parts of many animals he fits in with his mismatches followers perfectly. He has been described to having the wings of a dragon, the head of a fox, the body of a eagle, the legs of a cat, and one arm like that of a rabbits, and the other like a wolves.

Your Race:
There are two races within my Civ

The Liwab:

Quick and nimble and look similar to rabbits. They stand at about a meter and a half tall. From head to foot they are covered in fur. The older the Rabbit the darker the fur,ranging from white when they are first born then growing darker until they are jet black. The Liwab are by far the longest living of their civ, some are so old that even their eyes have turned black. The Liwab are physically incapable instead delving into Magic to help out.

The Geru:

A wolf looking race and a much more civilized form of their animal counterpart, the Geru are intimate with and dependent on The Rabbits. The Geru stand around 3 meters tall and act as the warriors of the Civilization utilizing their sharp teeth and claws to fight rather than weapons they attack their opponent with wild abandon. They also forgo traditional armor in favor of the freedom of movement that bare skin provides. The only weapon they may use are stone claws they may grip in their hand to extend past their normal ones. The Geru normally do not live long, the oldest are about 30-40 years old and live only with the help with the Liwab. These "ancient" Geru normally act as the leaders of the army.

Your Civ:
Name: The Ruleen

A flagrant society to say the least. The Liwab and Geru live together and often sleep together in Dens burrowed into the ground. It is rare to find a Liwab or a Geru sleeping on their own, and only couples are able to get their own hovel to themselves if they so choose.

While couples between the Liwab and Geru are not unheard of it is often frowned upon. Especially since a Geru child inside a Liwab mother's womb will often kill the mother upon delivery because of the larger Geru, and a Liwab child's uncontrolled magics will make a Geru mother terribly ill often resulting in death.

Neither race partakes in wearing clothing under normal circumstances since their fur covers the majority of their body. However on diplomatic missions simple clothes are normally worn. These clothes are not courtly in the least, just something to adorn the modesty that other civilizations may feel are a must.

Dens and other areas are often made of hollowed out trees that are either grown/enhanced magically or found naturally. This being the woods are the place of choice for the Ruleen to live. However they have been seen living and swamps as well if no other option is available.

Without a guide and without seeing the Ruleen an inattentive passerby may walk through the village without noticing what they have just missed.

The Ruleen believe fervently in Rizaar. When first settling an area a shrine to Rizaar is always the first tree to be grown and hollowed out. These shrine are never large but can fit at least 20 people in at once and more than one can be found in larger villages. The shrines are designed for individual worship since Ruleen's prefer the personal closeness of Rizaar to a massed congregation. Not to say that their are not priests but the priests rarely instruct others on how to worship Rizaar, preferring to merely help those see Rizaar and to trust in Rizaar to show them the rest of the way.

The Geru make up the bulk of the army as the infantry, the Liwab can be seen in the army as well but often as healers or battlemages. Formations are unheard of in the army, guerrilla tactics are more often used with smaller patrols than large armies put together for a single purpose.

The Geru and Liwab use their natural speed as a hit and run tactic trying to deal a large amount of damage in minimal time with minimal losses.

Your Heroes:
Shikra:

The current leader of the Ruleen. She is a female Liwab who had just been elected to her position. Still being young and inexperienced she is often rash in her decisions, which she makes up with in a clear sense of logic and justice.

She has taken a special interest in Rone for his unique abilities, and can often be seen talking to him.

Rone:
He the successful offspring of a Geru and Liwab match up. His mother and father have both died though. His mother died shortly after his birth even with healers trying all they could to save her. His father died during the birth since he had insisted he be in the same room as his match and the magics released by Rone and his mother combined was to much for him to handle.

He was adopted by a Liwab couple who were sympathetic to his situation. They taught him how to control his magic... to a point since Rone's magic wasn't the same as the others. Instead it was slightly erratic often pulsing without warning. This has ended up in more than one Runeel being scalded or stunned, luckily he still had enough control to limit the amount of power passing out of him.

These erratic outbursts of magic made others weary of him and lead to an isolated childhood for Rone. Even so he has developed a cheery outlook on life that may or may not hide a deeper sadness

Magic:
The Liwab are those who specialize in Magic among the Ruleen. Most are healers who mend the wounded are prolong the life of the Geru. A few are called upon as BattleMages whom fight along side the Geru using the nature around the enemy against them.

As a Liwab ages however their ability to summon magic decreases to where it is nearly impossible to summon them at all. Those who have aged to this point though still help out by training those of the younger generations in the arts of magic.

[Emperor_Jonathan]

I asked Istrian if I could have have 2 adventurers and a civ, and he said that I could, but only if the other players don't mind.

So is anyone against it? I'll be reusing the Suin and the Adventurers from the previous failed BotG.

[mission0]

Heh, as long as things don't go out of hand I don't mind.

and as long as you can juggle three different rps at once.

[Strife26]

Strife will participate with the zefies. As per usual.

More stuff when I'm not running entirely on caffeine and have to get a major physical in four bloody hours.

[Emperor_Jonathan]

City: T
Armies: t
Adventurers: t

The Suin

Spoiler: Deity (click to show/hide)

Name: Velen
Spheres: Industry, progress.
He views his race as tools, as pawn for his plans and games.

Spoiler: Race (click to show/hide)

The Suin are small, about 0.8m tall with bowed legs and long arms drooping to their feet. They are strong, hard workers and zealous for the approval, acceptance and happiness for Velen. Doing all that they can to please him. Their skin is a sickly-green colour and is rough all over. They breed very quickly, with litters of 2 or 3 being common, but litters of 4 are not rare. They are muscular but not very big, they are fast on foot.  Their Gestation period is three weeks and the children reach maturity in three months. Their individual body builds rarely deviate, they're slim but sometimes a Suin gets a gene that makes them very large and bulky, also stronger. However this usually comes with a decrease to intelligence, with a mentality of small proportions. They are a violent race who sometimes attack an ally for no reason.

Spoiler: Civ (click to show/hide)

In early civilisations of the Suins, in the tribes and villages the strongest command. They beat the opposition to their rule and power. As the village and civilization grows eventually just being strong is not enough to control the Suin. The smarter Suin take over. In the smaller settlements the Suin live relatively peacefully, making their way through life. As the settlement grows larger foundries and industry spout up, raping the countryside as the slums start to cover the ground. The small elite live in wealth and decadence while the plebs and commoners fall into a life of crime and violence, cities are barely held together by the city guard.

Although religion is important it doesn't override any other task, they believe that Suin is directing their race towards perfection, in his eyes. They don't really have a greater goal other than to do the bidding of their leaders, they follow their leader zealously, however not to a fool hardy end. Their society is lead by head magician, who are usually the smartest of the people, the head magician is the king or lord, they command five other magicians who are his advisors and who control most of what goes on. The five magicians usually specialize in one area each which are, war; forging; agriculture; building and religion.

The War magician commands two generals directly, they may or may not be magicians, one general for defense and one for attack, they organise the recruiting and training of soldiers, as well as the battles.
Under the Forging magician is the lead forger he directs for what to be forged whether it be crafts weapons or building materials.
The agriculture magician directly commands the head hunting and head farming Suin, who direct all the others under them.
The building magician directly commands the lead architect, who isn't a very good architect ((will get to it later)), the lead architect directs all the construction.
The Religion magician is basically the Suin form of pope, he directly commands five cardinals, the Religion magician also doubles as diplomat ot foreigners.
Of course this would only happen in a city or metropolis, in hamlets and so forth they are commanded by the strongest in the village.

The Suin build great forges guzzling up massive amounts of wood, most of their buildings are ramshackle and most Suin live in poverty. They build great walls of stone reinforced with iron around their major cities. They use iron swords, bows, pikes and shields. Their best form of armor is plate with leather under it, however it is very ineffective plate and they do not have the finesse required to produce chain mail. So most soldiers either use leather or plate and leather. They have great siege machines made from wood and metal, mostly battering rams, ladders and catapults.

Spoiler: Magic (click to show/hide)

Magic is very rare, but very powerful when they learn how to do it. About 1 in 100 are born with the capacity for magic, when they are found they are taken to the head magician and taught the ways of magician. The magicians are leaders of the society, they solely have destructive magic, giant fireballs, inducing earth quakes, thunderstorms and the like. Magician that are able to do such things are very rare, perhaps happening only on the whims of Velen. Thus the leaders of the Suin likely are impostors in regards to their magical ability.

Checking with Istrian for my city description and adventurer description.

[Navian]

Race: The humans.

Description:

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

The humans are bipedal, up-right walking creatures with opposable thumbs. They are mostly hairless, but sport many interesting styles for the hair on their heads, which is usually black, brown, or blonde in colour. Due to their unusual racial history they are quite adaptable, able to survive in deserts, on remote, in the arctic or even the jungle with relative ease, using tools, clothing, and shelter they make themselves.

Humans tend to form tight communities where every member is given some specified roles, and often they mate for life. Their visual acuity and dexterous hands make them exceptionally good bowmen, craftsmen, and artists with the proper training, although most lack any special talent. Although good runners, they are not well-suited for hard labour under most conditions and prefer to rely on their machines or other races to assist with more difficult tasks.

Deity:

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Gaiane, a motherly and caring deity, for the most part, although at times during her tantrums she can seem almost cruel. The best and worst of her are what made the humans what they are today. Her goal is to endure all hardships through any necessary sacrifice, and it is very rare that she will ever bend her will out of pity.

[EagleV]

Ah, finally

The Mitharim

Symbols: M, m

Spoiler: Deity (click to show/hide)

Atril, god of logic and crafting

A benevolent god, always trying to protect his people, and looking with a smile on their sorrowless and naive lifestyle. He helps his people only if they need it, preferring to watch how they deal with problems, and sometimes their creativity amazes even him.

Spoiler: Race (click to show/hide)

The Mitharim are small, humanoid creatures, standing about a meter tall, and quite active despite their non-athletic build.

They are interested in anything mechanical, and have discovered the use of steam lately. The contraptions created in the mechanics' quarter range from genious to downright stupid, and everything inbetween, but all are made with a centuries-old skill passed on since the beginning of time.

The optimism of the Mitharim is legendary, and almost unbreakable. They will lie only very rarely, and thoughts of betrayal or bullying simply don't enter their simple minds. However, when something terrible happens, like a sudden death of a very close relative, a wave of bad feelings overwhelm them, and they do not easily recover. Such depressed Mitharim are shunned, and even though everyone feels the same compassion to them, they will not approach them - they fear to get infected. Sometimes, when the pain in an individual is unbearable, Atril will end their life. When such a depressed Mitharim dies, the hair that went black during the disease will become blond again, a sign that the deceased has regained his happiness in the afterlife.

On the world that is their home, they have one 'big city', Leria, housing several thousand Mitharim, mostly traders and crafters. Every guild has his headquarters there as well. Furthermore, there are a few minor cities and villages dotted around, bringing the total to ten thousand odd Mitharim.

The city is ruled by a council of 13, being the 12 guild masters and a president chosen by the people.

However, the city that Atril places on the game board is an outpost, a mining camp if you wish. A few hundred of his people traveled far from the city, in order to find new, exciting things and statisfy their curiosity. Little did they know they entered the playfield of the gods on the fourth day of their travel, and that the tent camp they set up is closely watched by Atril himself.

Within a few hours now, Atril would uncover for them a cave, the walls of which are red from the iron hidden in the stone. And as Atril knew them, they would stay, and start building. They would thank him for the metal deposits they had found, and for the meadows a little downhill. And once they had settled down, the game could begin.

Spoiler: Hero (click to show/hide)

Ildrad, expedition leader, skilled in logistics and mechanics. Like al Mitharim, Ildrad is always curious about what lies beyond the next hill. However, unlike most others, he has the ability to lead his people there.

[mission0]

A new BotG already?

My reaction is as usual: I really, really want to play, but dont have the time to do it properly, and so am devastated. 

Suggestion: Might it be considered to use something other than the raw forums? I have always thought Google Wave would be perfect for BotG, and if the number required is not to great I might even give out some invites to make it happen.

Google wave does sound interesting, however I'm not sure how it would work. Unless we did sessions together all at one time, creating our turns in the chat and saving it there until the next session. Would be a large step up from our usual forum posts, but it also opens up some interesting opportunities.

[Armok]

A new BotG already?

My reaction is as usual: I really, really want to play, but dont have the time to do it properly, and so am devastated. 

Suggestion: Might it be considered to use something other than the raw forums? I have always thought Google Wave would be perfect for BotG, and if the number required is not to great I might even give out some invites to make it happen.

Google wave does sound interesting, however I'm not sure how it would work. Unless we did sessions together all at one time, creating our turns in the chat and saving it there until the next session. Would be a large step up from our usual forum posts, but it also opens up some interesting opportunities.

Why would we have to do it at the same time? I think you might be underestimating wave in some way, or more likely I'm misunderstanding something.
But yea, wave would be awesome, to bad noone else seem to want it.

[mission0]

A new BotG already?

My reaction is as usual: I really, really want to play, but dont have the time to do it properly, and so am devastated. 

Suggestion: Might it be considered to use something other than the raw forums? I have always thought Google Wave would be perfect for BotG, and if the number required is not to great I might even give out some invites to make it happen.

Google wave does sound interesting, however I'm not sure how it would work. Unless we did sessions together all at one time, creating our turns in the chat and saving it there until the next session. Would be a large step up from our usual forum posts, but it also opens up some interesting opportunities.

Why would we have to do it at the same time? I think you might be underestimating wave in some way, or more likely I'm misunderstanding something.
But yea, wave would be awesome, to bad noone else seem to want it.

Perhaps I am, I'm not to familiar with it. I'm basically comparing it somewhat to Ventrilo, or teamspeak. One sec let me see what the almight wikipedia says about this.

Edit: Ok scratch my ignorant speakings of above. If what I'm reading of google wave, I would agree that it would be a great tool to use in a game of botg.

In other words I would like to second Armoks idea ^_^

[Emperor_Jonathan]

We don't need to fix what ain't broke.