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[Kogan Loloklam]

I figure I'll start a forum roleplaying thingie. So here's my commitment. I'll be generating maps down to the village level using HexMapper. I'll also post turn summaries at least once a week. If a situation warrants quicker posts, then I'll do that.

I have a few ideas of a base system, but I'll be fleshing out the game mechanics as things go. We'll see how that works for me.

Anyway, feel free to join at any time. Give a quick blurb about your character. Check out the example if you don't know what to do.

Spoiler: Sample Character (click to show/hide)

Gonan the Larkarian
Gonan's tribe was peacefully absorbed by a larger tribe because they had too much food than they knew what to do with. Gonan was just a faceless member of the masses, and is barely recognizable in the tribe of 10. He is good at knitting doilies, which is a fairly useless skill to have in a tribe struggling with daily life. As such, he has a high constitution from being beaten on constantly.
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The below section I generate, but it can show how backstory can affect things.
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Gonan the Larkarian (Kogan Loloklam)
Tribe: Larkariania
Role: Whipping Boy
Skills/Traits:
Expert Doily Knitting
High Constitution
Easily Ignored
Equipment:
Clothing
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You are a member of a tribe filling a role in the tribe. The tribe doesn't have to be the same tribe as everyone else, and the role can be anything from chieftain to, well any other role that a tribe would need. The technology will be Pre-colombian America. No steel or guns, but go ahead and be inventive in wood, bone, or stone. If you think I will think it's iffy, show research documenting pre-colombia America existence.
If you are also establishing a tribe for you to be in, please describe the tribe. Here's an example below.

Spoiler: Tribe Example (click to show/hide)

Larkariania
The Larkariania tribe is situated in a small river valley, about 20' across. It goes from a waterfall with unclimbable cliffs for about 70' to a sheer dropoff of over 200 feet. The valley is very densely populated, with three tribes in it. The Larkariania are the primary tribe in the valley with 10 people. There is also the Snubian tribe with 2 people, and the Vicious Cliff tribe with 1 person. The Larkarian tribe is allied to the Snubian tribe, and enemies with the Vicious Cliff Tribe. The Larkariania Chieftain is determined by who can hold the whipping boy the longest over a member of the Vicious Cliff tribe without dropping him. This is a point of contention with the Vicious Cliff tribe, and likely responsible for the lasting conflict. The current Larkarianian Chieftain is Sir Dropsalot of Waterfall.
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The below section I generate, but it can show how backstory can affect things.
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Larkariania
Chieftain: Sir Dropsalot of Waterfall
Allies:
Snubia
Enemies:
Vicious Cliff
Population:
10
Traits:
None
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Vicious Cliff
Chieftain: Flathead
Allies:
None
Enemies:
Larkariania
Snubia
Population:
1
Traits:
Agressive
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Snubia
Chieftain: Snubbed
Allies:
Larkariania
Enemies:
Vicious Cliff
Population:
2
Traits:
None
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Spoiler: Map Example (click to show/hide)

This is the map for the example tribe of Larkariania. I really feel sorry for them Snubians. 11 4-foot hexes for 2 people, that little section is the thickest density area in the valley. That's what they get for letting them Larkarianians walk all over them though!

On a serious note, that valley is way overpopulated and has just about no resources, so they wouldn't last long anyway. This is probably why they couldn't cobble together a simple hut. 1400 square feet is smaller than some houses, after all. So yea, this is a joke, not a real tribe. I just needed to throw together something to show how it would look, not make something that is a real tribe. If I were to make something real, It'd have to be classified, as it would then become a potential NPC tribe. Not saying I did make several tribes like that... Just look away. Nothing to see here...

Spoiler: Details about Traits (click to show/hide)

Here is a list of the traits and what they mean.
Somewhat/Normally/Very Aggressive
This individual or group is hotheaded and quick to anger, and tend to attack rather than defend. Defensive and cautious based actions take a penalty, Attacking and aggression based actions gain a bonus.
Nomadic Animal Husbandry
This individual or group is able to generate a population increase in owned herds while moving from place to place.
Hardy
This individual or group has a greater tolerance to climate variations. Penalties for changing climates greatly reduced, and time for acclimatization reduced.
Good/High/Great (Attribute)
Increased base on the attribute. It may still be low, but it's likely to be higher.
Agile
Increased base dexterity. It may still be low, but it's likely to be higher.
Quick
Faster Movement speed.
Above Average/Good/Expert (Skill)
Increased base skill level. It may still be low and have low caps, but it's likely to be higher.
High Maternal Mortality
Increased chance for females with this trait to die in Childbirth.
Matriarchal
This group operates with females having a lead role, which is different from the norm.
Uncanny Animal Affinity: (Animal)
Dealing with animals of type (animal) is much easier, and an outsider might be forgiven for thinking that someone like this can actually communicate with the animal. Increases the chance of an animal of the right type to do what the person wants.
Disease Resistant
Doubles constitution when dealing with resisting and overcoming illness.

[Kogan Loloklam]

Characters

Spoiler: El-effichen Tribe (click to show/hide)

Micelus (micelus)
Tribe: El-effichen | Role: Trader/Herder | Age: 22
Skills/Traits:
Good Haggling
El-effichen Traits
Equipment:
Clothing (Wool)
Whip (Sheepgut)
Staff
Average Quality Bone-tipped Spear
Rope (Wool)
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Ahra (Ahra)
Tribe: El-effichen | Role: Herder/Guard | Age: 20
Skills/Traits:
Good Strength
El-effichen Traits
Equipment:
Bone-Reinforced Hide Clothing
Bow and 30 Arrows
Bone Skinning Knife
Average Quality Bone-tipped Spear
Stone Bone-Carving Tool
Miscellaneous Small Bones
Poor Quality Bone Amulet
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Nix (NRDL)
Tribe: El-effichen | Role: Hunter | Age: 20
Skills/Traits:
Aggressive
Quick
El-effichen Traits
Equipment:
Bone-Reinforced Hide Clothing
Well-made spear
Religious Object Spear
Stone Knife
Large Hide Bag
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Azkul (Azkul )
Tribe: El-effichen | Role: Herder| Age: 18
Skills/Traits:
Good Intellegence
Disease Resistant
El-effichen Traits
Equipment:
Bone-Reinforced Wool Clothing
Bone Knife
Average Quality Bone-tipped Spear
Staff
Fur Cloak
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Tak'am (Tack)
Tribe: El-effichen | Role: Shaman| Age: 36
Skills/Traits:
Good Medicine Man
El-effichen Traits
Equipment:
Wool Clothing
Clay Ceremonial Mask
Average Quality Totem Staff
Average Quality Bone-tipped Spear
Ritualistic Items
Medicinal Herbs

Spoiler: Gokanloa Tribe (click to show/hide)

Fire (Firelordsky)
Tribe: Gokanloa | Role: Farmer/Fisherman | Age: 19
Skills/Traits:
Gokanloa Traits
Equipment:
Flax Clothing
Stone Farming Tools
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Noka (Noodlerex)
Tribe: Gokanloa | Role: Shaman | Age: 22
Skills/Traits:
Gokanloa Traits
Equipment:
Flax Clothing
Mystic Staff
Medicinal Herbs
Otter Dung

Spoiler: Other Tribes (click to show/hide)

Mafun Mokoli-Dahn (Yoink)
Tribe: Mokoli | Role: Tribal Leader | Age: 15
Skills/Traits:
Agile
Expert Basket Weaving
Equipment:
Hide Clothing
Spear
Hide Shield
Bone Club
Basket Helmet
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Lalia (Taricus)
Tribe: Kovan, Sabant Village | Role: Second Wife | Age: 19
Skills/Traits:
Increased Fertility
Equipment:
Flax Clothing

Spoiler: Deceased (click to show/hide)

Arv (Taricus)
Tribe: Almache | Death: Unnamed Mokoli Clubman in Autumn of Year 0 | Age at death: 24

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TRIBES

Spoiler: Player Tribes (click to show/hide)

El-effhichen
Chieftain: Alim idg Eyyek
Allies:
El-kekein
Meqq-Al
Enemies:
Utia
Most Kodana City States
Traits:
Nomadic Animal Husbandry
Hardy
High Maternal Mortality
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Gokanloa
Chieftain: Kaneonuskatew
Allies:
None
Enemies:
None
Traits:
Uncanny Animal Affinity: Sea Otter
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The Mokoli
Chieftain: Mafun Mokoli-Dahn
Allies:
None
Enemies:
Kovan
Almache
Traits:
High Constitution
Agile
Very Aggressive

Spoiler: NPC Tribes (click to show/hide)

El-kekein
Population: Around 50
This tribe is part of a nomadic clan that has very loose ties with the El-effhichen and the Meqq-Al.
Meqq-Al
Population: Around 100
This tribe is part of a nomadic clan that has very loose ties with the El-effhichen and the El-kekein.
Kovan
Population: Over 6000
This is a large federation of 27 villages near the outskirts of a Jungle.
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Clans:
Daluche
They are not very well united and are mainly foragers. The exception would be the Kovan, whom have a large empire for their region. They have a strong Matriarchal leaning.
Mokab
This is a broad group of people who are generally hairier than normal. They tend to do a lot of hunting and fishing. They generally are close to the sea or bodies of water. The Mokoli and Gokanloa are both part of this greater group.
"El Clan"
This is a large group of nomads who once had a much more stable organization prior to falling apart. They tend to have a meeting every summer where several of the tribes come together. They don't all make it every summer, and some tribes are refused entry to such meetups altogether. They generally do not exhibit tribal warfare amongst themselves, but there are exceptions. They tend to be an open society, welcoming strangers pretty readily, though this sometimes backfires as strangers are sometimes hostile.
Kodana
This is a large organization of city states that occupy the land between the Daluche and the Plains of the El clan. There is very little organization, although there is something resembling crude roads connecting different city states. They tend to have slaves, although they mostly enslave people of a genetic background different than their own.

MAPS

Spoiler: Map near Kovan (click to show/hide)

[Haika]

Interesting. I'll reserve a spot here and fill it out later once we get more people joining. I'm also assuming there will be some sort of mechanics to the game? I don't really plan to min/max, but it is always good to know what things will help more than others.

[Taricus]

I'm interested. I'll get to writing up my character soon though.

[Kogan Loloklam]

Interesting. I'll reserve a spot here and fill it out later once we get more people joining. I'm also assuming there will be some sort of mechanics to the game?

Yea, there will be some mechanics. I imagine I'll use D&D's 6 primary stats with a conflict resolution system similar to Warhammer so it's easier to deal with mass combat. I'm pretty sure I'll be using D20s because it gives me more percentages to work with while still keeping it somewhat manageable (5% for each number rather than 16.6% per each number.)
I'll provide the system I got to direct requests for it when I got it established. I won't provide it in general because I want to be able to keep adjusting it as time goes. I'll edit the first post with some comment about it when I've got it established. Right now it's all theoretical and subject to lots of change. Besides, we've got to have a slew of traits and stuff to modify base attributes or it won't be any fun, and I'll only add them and weapons as they come up.

Speaking of weapons and the system... maybe I'll organize Maptool based battles, since I'll have the data to generate that when the bugs are worked out. But I'll hold off on that until there is battles with multiple people involved and I'm confident in the mechanics. Abstracting the battles gives a better flow, especially since everyone can be there for sure then

I added an example map, just because. It gives an idea of the quality of maps that will be provided. I should probably get a membership somewhere so I can update and revise maps. We'll see how things go. The tool I found allows me to go down to some serious detail regionally, and out to a far distance globally, so it should be fun. (HexMapper) That means I already got the continents roughed out. Well, outlined. It'll be awhile before they become anything except an outline. Some exploration and development and stuff. But, if you wanna build the Inca Empire, the tools to make the maps exist, so yea.

[Ahra]

count me in.

[Haika]

Sounds good. I've got some ideas for tribes and the like.

You mentioned technology, however, are we to use only a historical basis for our tribes? I'm assuming fictional is good from your examples but the full on boundries have me curious.

Human only? Meaning nothing like magic or magical races(dragonkin, elves, dwarves and the like), or abnormal races(merfolk, annoying furries, insect people, aliens)?

Don't want to work out a big expansive tribe, and yet later find out I'm way beyond the standards.

[kaian-a-coel]

also in.
1-2 people cannot be called tribes, as they are barely groups. i start calling "tribes" groups of 15+ peoples, but you're the GM.

I support the non-humans tribes idea. Maybe all tribes should be the same thing, but non-human.

[Kogan Loloklam]

For races, I am allowing fictional creations in the homo genus. So yea, you can have something that looks and acts like elves and dwarves. Merfolk, furries, and insect people are out though.

Technology, it's Pre-Colombian Americas. Think of the Americas in 1491. Stone and bone tools for the most part. Some limited Metallurgy, but very limited use as weapons (Individuals could have a copper axe, for example, but entire tribes wouldn't, unless you could provide an example of it being used large scale historically in that timeframe)
A lot of technologies are completly out because they didn't exist. Guns, for example, came over the ocean. I don't think America had any Gunpowder in that time, but if you can provide proof they did, I'll allow gunpowder.

For tribal size, don't put yourself in control off the bat from something that is a federation or empire. Also don't put yourself in charge of a city with more than 5000 souls. You can make what you are in charge of PART of a large tribe, but try to avoid making anything with more territory than 8000 square miles or more than 1 Tenochtitlan. There is room for multiple Inca/Rome/Mongol/Chinas, but there is an absolute limit on how much space there is in the world. So yea...



And yes, the examples are rediculous. I thought the names or the fact they got the space of a house gave that away, but I guess they didn't. If anyone creates a tribe that small, they will NOT be listed on the tribes group. Unless they control territory like mad. If 10 people control 20000 square miles, I'm not gonna say they aren't a tribe. I'd be too afraid of them.

[kaian-a-coel]

Merfolk, furries, and insect people are out though.

Aaaaw... 

And yes, the examples are rediculous. I thought the names or the fact they got the space of a house gave that away, but I guess they didn't. If anyone creates a tribe that small, they will NOT be listed on the tribes group. Unless they control territory like mad. If 10 people control 20000 square miles, I'm not gonna say they aren't a tribe. I'd be too afraid of them.

Me too.

I understand that tribes shouldnt get too big.
Personnaly, I call tribe anything between 15 and some-hundreds peoples, with primitive tools. So ok for 1000-or-so limit.

[micelus]

I'm in. is it ok if my "tribe" are more of a group of wanderers who exchange goods with other tribes/nations/whatever to survive?

Anyway...

Tribe: El-effichen.

The nomadic tribe of the El-effichen wanders the world travelling from place to place trading with the peoples of the world. Once, generations ago, the tribe of El-effhichen was part of a clan, a clan of several tribes who swore fealty to a great chief, but those days are over. They cross harsh deserts, glaring tundras, deep waters, and the occasional tunnel to trade and survive. They are made up of around 32 people with a herd of goats, cattle, and sheep following them. They have also successfully tamed a species of crows to act as animals of hunt, scouting, and recreation.

The El-effichen maintain ties to their old clanmates, but only two of them are considered allies. The El-kekein and the Meqq-Al. This alliance is for the most part symbolic since they rarely meet.
 


Patriarch (Chieftain): Alim idg Eyyek
Allies:
El-kekein
Meqq-Al
Enemies:
None
Population: 32
Traits:
Nomadic
Herders
Traders
Hardy

Character

Tribe: El-effichen
Role: Trader/Herder.
Skills/Traits
Mercantile
Animal-bonded
Friend with Patriarch's family
Equipment:
Clothing
Whip (not sure if this would be allowed)
Crook
rope (not sure if this would be allowed)
Aiqun, a crow.

[Kogan Loloklam]

Well, micelus, I assume your guy is gonna be called "Micelus".
Anyway... The RNG really hates you. Just thought you should know.
You are in the Southern Hemisphere. It is Spring there.

Spoiler: El-Effichen (click to show/hide)

The El-effichen have fallen on hard times. The last few years have seen many children born to them, but also major losses from complications due to child birth. This is probably due to their nomadic lifestyle. They have also lost most of their warriors a year ago in a raid that occurred in more tropical lands. Their flocks are doing poorly, and only number 452 sheep and 68 goats. With only two adults in the tribe to watch over the herd and the young kids (Alim idg Eyyek and Micelus), things are quite unmanageable all around.

The El-Effichen have:
No Territory
Sheep Herd of 452
Goat Herd of 68
Preserved food for 1 season for the tribe

Your personal holdings (Separate from the Tribal holdings) are:
36 Sheep
5 Goats

Your tribe has gained a Trait:
High Maternal Mortality

Micelus: Your chief requests you continue to help raise the children and tend to the tribal flock.
He further informs you that he intends to try to give some of the children to the Meqq-Al or El-kekein when you meet up in the trade camp in the summer.

[Ahra]

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Character

Tribe: El-effichen
Role: Herder/guard(warrior, protector of herd or other fitting word)
Skills/Traits
Archer
bone carving (passtime)
strong
Equipment:
leather clothing
Bow and arrows
bone skinning knife
bones

[micelus]

(hmm...El-effichen seems popular for some reason...That or people are too lazy to make their own tribes and mine still sucks )

nvm. I guess you were just using mine as a template.

I don't really mind being in the same tribe...It was just the individual thing...

Anyway, time for my action.

Micelus will bring the children with him and teach them how to raise sheep and goats (what they eat, their uses, how to "harvest" them, etc.). Also count how many are adolescent. Count how many males and females we have.

While teaching them, also care for the livestock.

When all the above actions are finished, talk to the Patriarch to determine where we go next and what our plans are.

[NRDL]

Tribe: El-effichen
Character: Nix
Role: Hunter
Skills: Spear usage, tracking
lean and mean,
Equipment: Tough spear, Rock knife, deer hide bag.

Is this ok?