Another bunch of questions!

1. So, there's PvP. But will players be able to cooperate on certain missions? Say that Elfwood Company just lost all their melee fighters, and Dwarfhills Company has a horrible track record fighting bandits in the woods. There's a contract available for someone to deal with bandits in the woods. Can Elfwood Company supply the archers and mages for the fight while Dwarfhills Company gets their dwarves to fight in the front lines, and the two of them split the reward? Can mercenary companies go investigate dungeons together?

2. Can we negotiate on contract terms with our employers, or is that what Silver Tongue is meant to represent?

3. Should players tell you what they're looking to make before the roleplay starts so you can think about feats you might make?

4. Will there be different kinds of magic? I.E. Druidic magic to do things like entangle enemies or summon treants, pyromancy to blow bad guys up dead-like, etc?

5. Will there be stranger, hidden benefits to doing certain contracts or making certain factions like you or clearing certain dungeons? I.E. might you rescue a powerful priestess from a Lich's castle, or might archers be cheaper for you to hire in the Elfwood because the Elf King loves you so much, or might a necromancy related feat be available to you after you help necromancers kill the knights that are pursuing them? Demons be available for recruitment after you earn the admiration of certain bad guys? Your troops gain a Werewolf feat after you lose and retreat from a battle with some werewolves?

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Also, I'd like to go ahead and just explain what sort of group I'm looking to try making. I've given them some thought.

I want to play a goblin warband that has good relations with goblins, REALLY bad relations with orcs, and possibly good relations with human bandits or with a druidic sect (or both). The idea is they're the remnants of a tribe of goblins that was destroyed by orcs, and only the combatants really remain. They do jobs for other goblin tribes, for bandits, and potentially for shady circles of mages, all because that's what their options are limited to right now.

As for a name, I've been thinking about calling them the Nightlurk Warband.

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One more thing... If you want something better than MS Paint, there IS a free option that's turned out to be pretty good for me.

So, look into the program called Paint . Net (putting spaces so you don't get a bad link). It's a free program that works pretty well for mapmaking. You can make separate layers for terrain, for political colors, for cities and names... Etc. I highly recommend it over MS Paint, though it does take some practice to get used to.

This is an example of what I was able to do with the program. NOTE: I did not draw the map itself, but just colored in the area my nation in a roleplay claimed. You'll notice there's a certain degree of transparency for the yellow as it sits over the map itself, so you can make out the parts of the terrain which are jungly, etc.

[img]http://i.imgur.com/VwsoAqq.png[/img]

If you want to take a peek at the program, I think www.getpaint.net is the place to go.