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So Boerd said
It's a story first and foremost. That's why I'm here, and why several others are as well. So disadvantageous events do not bother me.

Lol.

HazmatMedic said
Wow. Just kinda passed out in the sun there...Alf, Boerd, PM.Random events can be bad things - barbarians attack, bad harvest, floods, things like that - but they can also be good things - rare ores uncovered, bountiful harvest, the capture of a highly wanted criminal - and they test a leader's ability to control the country. But, as always, I am open to suggestions and ideas.I'll edit the list now. Anyone in the list can post IC whenever they want.

The problem with random events is that they rely on the one administrating them (in the case of this RP, that person being you) to know the ins and outs of the nation (s) that they're going to impact. For example, if you say that a random barbarian horde penetrates the yul's rain forest home, lays waste to some tree-top villages and then leaves with 2,000 slaves, I'd seriously question how this was done without the yul themselves first realizing that A) the barbarians were in the rain forest to begin with, B) how they weren't slaughtered by the abundance of either traps or armed persons laced throughout the yul's controlled areas or C) how the barbarians even knew they were there to begin with.

And, frankly, I don't see the point in them if this NRP isn't a stat-based/dice-based roleplay to begin with. If anything, they'll just get in the way of player-made plots and whatnot.

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Rare said
:o It would be cool for some random events would be natural disasters.

No.

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Sauron The Dark Lord said
How will random events be chosen?

Just to touch on this:

Random events generally never blow over well, because while they can be seen as realistic, it could easily be seen as a form of godmodding. They also come off as a feature more commonly seen in stat-based NRPs, which this NRP is not .

Cosmic Fury said
Alright, so letting everyone know that I'm still in the game.ASTA, Werhner, and I to assume that our mutual plotlines are still more or less intact?Also, I'll need to polish up my NS, but as you can tell so far, the military's mostly done -- it centers around a powerful navy as well as anti-siege defenses on land. The army proper is small and likely equipped mostly with arrows or other light weapons that are useful on the rough terrain found on certain regions of the Empire (especially the borders).

Yup.

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The issue with the shoulder-mounted ballista is that it has no counterpart to a real-world weapon (at least, none that I know of). Logically (and on a technical level), such a weapon could work, but once we have someone with what amounts to an ancient rocket launcher listed under their military section, what's stopping someone from coming into the roleplay with something larger, more potent and even more advanced than what the RP's setting would realistically contain? I see Haz's rules as a method in which to curb power creep, wankery and powerplaying, which is incredibly common in nation-based roleplays (and rapidly becomes evident when custom-made weapon and armor designs are implemented into the roleplay).

The only weapon that I know of that could fit with what you have in mind is the cheiroballistra, a light siege engine superior to the Roman scorpio. There is speculation that portable versions may have existed, but the weapon was relatively easy to operate by a small collection of men.

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GreivousKhan said
ASTA how long have you been on the internet?

Long enough to know sarcasm doesn't translate well over the internet.

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GreivousKhan said
That was kind of the point. :/

Wow, who knew.

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Khan, it really wasn't that serious.

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Hilarious.

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Alphakoka said
Five times faster than you are?

Lol.

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reidster338 said
I posted my incomplete but WIP Nation Sheet. Considering it is a city state, I realize the claim is somewhat large, but much of this land is uninhabited, and what is (like the port) are de-facto members of the city-state for obvious reasons like protection and economic stability. I also know the social structure can be slightly confusing, but just know that while wealth is seen as power, this is only the case because of the people. There is no official democracy, but the people have the means and the power to overtake the current aristocrats at any time. Think of an unofficial type of ochlocracy working in conjunction with an aristrocracy. Make sense, or should I restructure part of my NS?

Looks rather interesting, honestly. I didn't expect anyone to make an independent city state.

So Boerd said
Concede the point about speed, however circulation remains. The giraffe, while being two feet taller, has four legs and too much blood pooling in the lower legs is a constant concern, as is extreme lower leg blood pressure. The Lorenvolk are even more vertically oriented with a higher heart and almost as tall, and while weighing half as much as a giraffe, has two legs. Shouldn't keeping blood pressure down be a chief concern?

This can be solved by simply possessing a heart that has a mass greater than the norm---in example, that mammals normally have hearts that make up less than 1% of their body mass (the African lion's heart is between 0.45% to 0.57% of its body weight; for a human example, the heart typically weight between 9 and 12 ounces, with 12 ounces being just 4 ounces shy of a pound). Exceptions do exist in nature however, like how the African spotted hyena developed a heart that is nearly 1 entire percent of its total body mass.

It could be said that lorenvolk have hearts large enough and strong enough to pump their blood through their bodies, allowing them to maintain a healthy blood pressure that wouldn't result in them passing out, while their bodies may have been naturally optimized through evolution to handle their own natural needs for everyday function.

To be fair, I'm not disregarding the limitations of a bipedal form possessing that height and bulk, but in theory, it could work.

However, I don't make human subspecies or variations. I make beast races, the largest of which are quasi-bipedal.