Rob's New Forum Game: RESULTS 2 & 3

I hope everyone enjoyed their weekend, with out any further delay lets look over the answers and see what they mean for our game.

1: Xenotia vs Novogal

People were all over with this one, but it looks like they main way Novogal is going to have peace with Xenotia is by giving them offerings. Considering the 2nd most popular vote was all out conflict between them... this might not be going as well as they would hope.

2: Towarno's Bread and butter

An even tie between selling weapons and telling any bronze work besides weapons. As a result Towarno will export any and all bronze work, but the sale of weapons are heavily regulated by the government. Only certain vendors / smiths are allowed to sell to outsiders.

3: Hoinland's bling

The People have spoken! 3 out of 4 people wanted Hoinland to set up a large open market so it just became the main trade hub in the mainland.

4: Chaelor's state

2-3-3-4 Holy crap this was one was close. As it is, the two provinces are openly hostile towards each other, and none can agree upon who's fault it really is.

5:

This rather speaks for itself... not only will Chaelor be the main target for Grey Sea Sailors, but also Novogal and Xenotia will be the least visited by the islands.

6: Sandbox Vs Railroad

Average: 3 More or less what I expected, but there were more people who wanted to lean towards railroad over sandbox. We'll try to keep things well balanced.

7: Scope: Wide or Narrow

People wanted a wider based story by 2-1, characters will not be restricted to any one location.

8: Conflict resolution

By those players, no rules, just storytelling...those players need to put on their big boy/girl undies and solve it.		3	33%
By the player who has the more relevant skills should determine the outcome.		1	11%
By the DM acting as judge and deciding based on both roleplay and skills.		3	33%
By a die roll, relevant abilities give some bonus (most like a tabletop game)		1	11%
Other		1	11%

Makes sense, if people have a disagreement with what is going on, (and this really might only come up in physical combat) they will first sort it amongst themselves, if they are unable to come up with a solution ("I hit him" "No I dodged" "No you didn't!") a mod will act as tiebreaker. No surprise there but I wanted to put the options up.

9: Dat Cap

Now, if they didn't help with this part it is too late.		0	0%
20ish Players should be enough		2	22%
40ish Players should be enough		1	11%
We should not cap it, the more the merrier.		6	67%

Twice as many people thought we shouldn't have a cap then should so we'll go with that for now, if myself and my mods start to feel overwhelmed we'll look for other options before setting a cap.

The next, AND FINAL set of questions will be out tonight or tomorrow. Time to ask, "do you have a little faith?"

Rob's Forum Game 3

I think we will have almost enough information for our background... there will be updates later to fill in any holes we have. I know people are excited about starting so I'm going to start releasing these questions every day or two without closing the previous. We have a good idea of the setting but how does everyone want the game to be run?

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Rob's New Forum Game: 2

So we know the countries now, but how do they get along? Answer any you like, skip ones you want to.

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Rob's New Forum Game: 1 RESULTS!

The results are in!

Based on the collective responses (and in the case of poor region 5 the lack there of) we now have a map and brief description of each of the regions. The islands were by far the most popular of the regions, accounting for over a third of the total votes.

People were fairly split on the amount of resources their country has, but the clear winner of what resource was "life" with wheat lumber and Herd Animals all taking the top. Due to the near lack of iron, this is going to be more about bronze age technology for the most part. Given where that iron is... it might turn into something a bit more...interesting.

You'll probably notice that few countries got "hard working." Well there is a reason for that...

Almost everyone picked it! I'm a firm believer in if something describes everyone it describes no one. I only gave it to a few that picked it, and only it, or otherwise needed an extra trait.

We are off to a great start thus far and later this week I'll be posting the next volley of questions. Also just because you helped make a region is not going to mean your character must be from there. If another region is shaping into something that looks more interesting, go ahead and jump ship!

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Now without further delay: the Results!

Towarno

Most Plentiful Resource:
Copper

Common Traits:
Disciplined
Cutthroat

Info:
The people of Towarno do what is necessary to survive their harsh homeland and have little time for what they consider weakness. Crime is harshly punished. The saying goes “There are not prisons in Towarno.” Criminals who are fit are sentence as time as slaves, serving hard labor for what often ends up being the rest of their life. The unfit ones are quickly put to the ax.

Towarno is also known for their bronze smiting. Everything from artistic plates and statues to brutally effective spear tips and arrow heads are made there.

The land itself is dry, mostly barren desert, most of the people live right at the base of the mountains, where the only fresh water source of any note is located.

Hoinland

Most Plentiful Resource
Lumber
Herd Animals
Wheat

Common Traits:
Hard Working
Civilized
Curious

Hoinland is a vast land filled with lush green fields. Their vegetation grows so well it is rumored that Hoinland water contains magical properties, and such is sought after by superstitious (and gullible) people from around the land. Consisting mostly of farmers and herders, they are ruled over by a senate of elected officials. Their infrastructural is the most advance in the land. Public roads, libraries and schools dot the land. They were the first to invent paper, not surprising considering their rich forests and intense industrious nature.

Politics in Hoinland are an intense, but usually bloodless affair. The tangled web of bureaucracy leaves people from other countries with migraines if they ever try to follow it. Still it is said that any farmer with a good enough vision and loud enough voice can rise in the political circle. Most land owners frequent town meetings at the least.

Novogal

Capital: Novogal

Most Plentiful Resources:
Wheat
Heard Animals

Common Traits
Arrogant
Religious
Greedy
Curious

Info:
Novogal is a smallish nation centered around the capital city of the same name. Novogal's fortune comes from it's trade on the river and the nearby furtile farmland. Most of the rest of the world follow Novogal's religious teachings, giving them a great amount of respect and political power in the world. They have, at least in their neighbor's opinion, a tendency to laud over the fact that they are the “blessed people.” Still when this trait can be overlooked (wither the person actually has it or not) they tend to make friends easily. The capital city is full of cathedrals built on ruins from an ancient empire. Most of the old ways are forgotten, but there has been whispers as of late that herald a return to the “old ways.”

Xenotia

Captial: Tovera

Most Plentiful Resources:
Wheat
Lumber

Common Traits
Warlike
Disciplined
Civilized

Info:
The Xenotians are like a year-round sleeping bear. They have the most well trained, disciplined army, but they never seem to do anything with it-- at least from the outside looking in. They seem more interested in farming rather than fighting, but no one wants to risk finding out if that statement is exactly true or not. Internally, they stand as sentinels against those who would take their fertile land. Externally, not many would consider them 'friends', but they universally respected for their discipline.

When a child turns eight, he or she is trained intensely in the art of combat and warfare. Even if a child lacks physical prowess they learn military strategies and how to perform other duties that would benefit an army. Upon their completion of their grueling four year training period, they are given their “Onima,” a name for their new self, their warrior self. They use their original name in their day to day life, but in battle they only refer to themselves as this. They are trained to consider their Onima to be a separate entity from themselves, oftentimes resulting in it becoming a completely separated personality.

Chaelor [KAY-lor]

Capital: Oreskus

Most Plentiful Resources:
Wheat
Lumber
Silver

Common Traits:
Civilized
Religious
Greedy

Info
The Bay of Chaelor sports the most prosperous seaports in the whole peninsula. It is a center for trade, learning, and spirituality. The first temple to the great sea god Pressus was built in Chaelor's capitol, Oreskus, on the bay's northern tip.

Chaelor is divided into four provinces, divided by the main rivers. To the south, the province of Jechuse [je-KOO-say], known mainly for its rich soil, excellent for farming. In the center is the province of Oreska, home to Chaelor's capitol city. Oreska province's verdant forests helped it become the industrious shipbuilding empire it is today. To the east lies the province of Trescho [tres-ko]. Trescho's northern half , nestled between the northern and eastern rivers, is a verdant rainforest, giving way to rolling plains and sandy beaches to the south.

To the north is the province of Rilliam. While until recently it is known as just simple farmland, there has been residual silver deposits discovered. Since then there has been a boom effect on the towns along the great river that divides the country and along the mountain while the silver slows from. The capital was quick to raise the taxes in Rilliam, leading many of it's people to cry out for independence.

The Grey Sea Achipelago

Capital: Runia

Most Plentiful Resources (rumored)
Emeralds
Sapphires
Diamonds
Gold
Lumber

Common Traits
Arrogant
Cutthroat
Disciplined

Info
The islands south of the mainland are filled with rumors and legend. The northern most island, Runia is the only one that is commonly believed to be inhabited. Traders can often find the best merchandise around. Completely outside of Runia's control however are the pirates the raid those merchant ships. The Runia government is of course very sorry for those victims and does everything it can to protect it's sea... but as the saying goes “there are no refunds on Runia Island.
Local legend is that on the island of Youkali to the south, there are seductive sirens who will bed ship captains for a fortnight and fill their hulls with gold. The legends are however very unclear as to which island that is suppose to be in the long chain... as the others are said to be inhabited by everything from ugly fish people to cannibalistic tribes. The souls of those murdered and eaten haunt the islands and will sink them if they approach the wrong one..

The southern most island, Khom-Ma is a black and jagged eyesore that juts out of the water like an ugly mole on porcelain skin. When questioned by visitors from the mainland, the Archipelago people claim that Khon-Ma was cursed by the gods eons ago. Legend tells of an advanced and decadent culture that defiled the land and spoiled the oceans around the harbor of Dmar-Mo. The earth and ocean cried out to the gods for vengeance. A terrible plague spread throughout the island, killing every man, woman, and child on Khon-Ma. Runia take criminals convicted of capital offenses to the shallow waters near Dmar-Mo and strand them on the cursed island. It is unknown if these convicts are killed by the plague or if some manner of crude civilization has sprung up in the ruins; either way, nobody sentenced to Khon-Ma has been known to escape the island.

Rob's New Forum Game: 1

Thank you for expressing interest in our upcoming forum game. Our upcoming forum game, not just mine. This is going to be something we build together starting right now!

Before we can even make characters, we need to make the world they are from. Attached was a picture of the basic world map we will be using, divided into rough ideas of which nation will be where.

First things first, decide where your character is from, and what that place is like.

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