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None at all. Just humans doing human stuff.

Some fantastical creatures, but just humans.

Fantastical creatures, wizards, the whole nine yards.

[Maldevious]

Welcome to TRIBES 2, where eight groups of ancient people will battle for supremacy, take territory, trade amongst each other, establish cultures, and hopefully entertain us along the way.

Rules are below.

First eight players will be accepted. This is my first game on the forums, but I've run my share of games before.

This thread is inspired by this one here, which I was sad to see end relatively early. I will be taking the general ideas from there, putting in a few of my own, and running with it.

Spoiler: Rules (click to show/hide)

At first, the rules will be very general, and I plan to get more specific as the game goes on. To begin with, each player will create a tribe (consisting of 100 men, 100 women, 75 children and 25 elders). When creating a tribe, think of the major areas of life when describing it: how food is obtained, how it fights, any crafts or past-times, transportation, where you live, etc. However, remember that the tribe has to start off relatively ancient (i.e. you can't say that your tribe relies on industrial agriculture and uses an armored phalanx as its main military style... maybe eventually, but not to begin with).

After the first year, 1/10th of your children will become adults every year (i.e. 30 children = 3 new adults, 20 children = 2 new adults). This will round down (29 children = 2 adults).

Adults will become elders at the rate of 1 per 50. (i.e. 100 men and 100 women will result in 2 men and 2 women becoming elders per year). Similarly, elders will die at a rate of 1 per 50 (40 elders means one will die, 60 means 2, and so on).

Once all the tribes are created, I will draw up a map of some sort, just to have a visual reference.

Every turn, the player is in charge of setting up to four major goals for the tribe for the year (each turn is one year). I will be rolling a D6 to see how well each goal turns out, with the following scale:

1 = -5 population
2 = -3 population
3 = -1 population
4 = No change in population
5 = +3 population AND/OR Some benefit (resource, technology)
6 = +5 population AND/OR Major benefit (+1 roll bonus)
7+ = +5 population AND/OR Mega benefit (+2 roll bonus)

Battles will have a roll for each side, with the results modified by military strength. If you only set one goal, that goal has a +3 modifier. Two goals, one goal gets +2 and one goal gets +1 (either specify which one is the main goal, or I'll just assign based on my intuition). Three goals, each goal gets +1. Four goals get no modifier.

The only other rule to begin with is this: once the game gets going, I will be posting every Friday. If you don't post prior to then, expect poor outcomes for your tribe. If you miss two weeks in a row, your tribe will have a VERY unfortunate accident, to the benefit of the other tribes, and your spot will be opened for another player. If everyone posts prior to Friday, I will attempt to post ahead of time, but I make no promises.

When posting your tribe's goals, please put your tribe's name at the top of the post. If you need to do anything sneaky, feel free to PM me. Otherwise, either use spoilers or just post it, whatever you feel comfortable with.

Again, rules will develop as the game goes along. I look forward to playing. Additional rule suggestions will be considered.

The players:
1. Barbarossa the Seal God - Gerjborn
2. 100Killer9 - Ko'ormol
3. evilcherry - Frikahn
4. Lidhuin - Cyprinus
5. Jopax - Sakhalin
6. JetSquirrel - Xio'Vi
7. Faden - Hesperida
8. Acanthus117 - Taer Nymadis

Spoiler: Map (click to show/hide)

The numbers correspond to the players as follows:

1. Barbarossa the Seal God - Gerjborn
2. 100Killer9 - Ko'ormol
3. evilcherry - Frikahn
4. Lidhuin - Cyprinus
5. Haika - Na'ilah
6. JetSquirrel - Xio'Vi
7. Faden - Hesperida
8. Acanthus117 - Taer Nymadis

As far as a key goes, the yellow is desert, blue is water, light green is forest, patterned light green is grassland, grey is highlands/mountains, and dark green is jungle.

Waiting list:
1. tombthedwarf
2.
3.
4.

[Faden]

Reserving a spot, I'm in.

[Keita]

I'll take a spot, I'll start fleshing out some ideas now.

[evilcherry]

Reserve.

Standard Q: How deviated from the Human race can our tribe be?

[Lidhuin]

I'll join, since the other game died. Can I use my tribe from there?

[Acanthus117]

Joining!

[Heron TSG]

Re-zarved.

[Maldevious]

evilcherry - Good question. All the tribes will be basic humans. No major deviations (tails, claws, night vision, etc.) are allowed. However, if your tribe is shorter or taller, stronger or more beautiful than the average, that is allowed (within reason). It is worth saying that this is not a fantasy world, so no mages, psionics, or fantastical creatures will be included (unless I get overwhelming responses in the other direction).

Lidhuin - If you'd like to, feel free to use your tribe from the other game. Just make sure to re-post them in this thread.

Two spots still open. I'll be keeping a waiting list of up to 4 players, as well. The first turn will depend on how quickly everyone gets a tribe and first year's goals posted.

[Jetsquirrel]

reserve a spot for meh 2~!

[Keita]

Actualy I'd like to back out, I've not much time and whoever takes my spot will probably be a more frequant poster than me.

Will be watching this though.

[Maldevious]

Okay, will do. Now two spots open.

[Haika]

Guess I'll go ahead and sign up here. Seems like these die quickly.

Lemme know what all you need from me to start. I might suggest fewer peoples than you seem to have planned, as it can be a whole lot of work...

*hobbles off to work on his own Tribe/civ game*

[Maldevious]

Haika - Glad to have you on board. I hear what you're saying, so I'm trying to keep it easy on myself by only guaranteeing one update per week. I think that will give me enough time to work everything out, and I assume most players would rather have one guaranteed update per week for a longer period rather than several quick updates and then a dead thread due to GM burnout.

As far as the tribe goes, just a general description will do to start. The people's characteristics, where the tribe lives, the tribe's temperament, how food is obtained, past-times, any deities, and so on. As the game goes on, each tribe will develop more personality based on the success or failure of goals, natural disasters, war, crime, etc.

[Acanthus117]

Okey, will have tribe up in around 8 hours. dead tired.

[Haika]

I was thinking maybe a tribe of desert types. Capitol city at an oasis, but most food production would be from exotic animal control, giant scorpions, desert snake farms, vulture coops, sandworms. Depending on how exotic and fanciful you would allow wildlife. Mineral resources would come from a group of caves underneath a badlands rocky area near the outskirts of the civ to the north or something. With the main town set up as a trade route and resting place for people crossing the desert for whatever reason.

As to temperment, I'd say they are shrewed merchants, and love to haggle, so can be a little irritating to diplomatic types. They prefer to trade with people within reason, as long as they are making a profit. War campaigns would more likely involve buying mercenaries than drafting the population.

oh, and I imagine them as being highly religious, worshiping a sun diety of some sort.