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@ClocktowerEchos So like druidism can be like a religion of sorts, doesn't have to be magic. They could be beast-tamers and herbalists.
@ClocktowerEchos Probably something along the lines of nature magic by practicing druidism and the application of using it to commune with animals or befriend other creatures of the wilderness.
@ClocktowerEchos I'm already making my character, he's sort of like a druid of sorts.
Anyways, are we all a Goblin Boss?
Question, is there limit on the skill? Like we have each 7 points and each skill and their mastery cost 1 point more (ex Professional Miner cost 4 points while a skilled miner only cost 2)
@ClocktowerEchos I'm on board, I'm not super familiar with all the minutiae of DF but this concept sounds rather fun.
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- Desperate Refugees (Reasoning) It sounds like hard mode as opposed to the first option and I like difficulty.
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This RP is based upon the game Dwarf Fortress except instead of stumpy alcoholics, everyone is a tiny goblin for better or worse. I hope to recreate some of the tones of the game from its grand base building to its nonsensical silliness. There will be a system for things found from the game like resources, happiness, strange moods, etc but it will be controlled by the GM for adaptability purposes instead of adhering to strict rules. They're what we call "guidelines". While this RP is inspired by Dwarf Fortress, this is not an RP version of Dwarf Fortress as I have no intention of becoming the human version of several hundreds of thousands of lines of code.
Yes, the name is a reference to Boatmurdered.
IC posting is a little different than in some other RPs. This RP will use a turn system that is demarcated by GM posts. At the start of each turn, players will write an "action post", an IC post that details what exactly their goblins will be doing that turn. Posts will be about intent and attempt instead of result (ie "I go hunting" or "I work on a hut" vs "I hunted a deer" or "I built a hut"). Their sucess (or failure) will be determined in a GM post based upon the skills and number of goblins working on it. After the action post, players will be able to write IC posts to interact with each other or even the world without an action until the next GM post. You can only have one action post per turn.
Actions could include but are not limited too:
- Go hunting or gathering
- Cook food or brew drinks
- Grow and harvest plants
- Build something
- Patrol an area
- Gather or refine materials
- Craft trinkets, weapons or armor
- Write books
- Train a skill
It can be discuss OOC as to what action you want to take before posting.
NOTE: Some actions may take multiple turns such as building large buildings or going on expeditions.
Players will take control of a group of goblins called "gangs" who are specialized in one area such as hunting, building, crafting, fighting, preforming or whatever else as a Goblin Boss. The exact number will be random at the start of the IC don't expect too many at first. As more goblins come to the fort, you can recruit them into your own gang if you so wish. You can have your gang do something they aren't specialized in (IE a gang of hunters being used as ranged soldiers or a gang of builders being forced to help farm) but expect limited results in most cases unless their is a skill overlap.
There will also of course be GM-controlled NPCs who might form their own gangs and do their own thing on occasion. Depending on their temperament, they may only take orders from someone in a position of higher power or only work certain jobs while others are more flexible. The addition of Goblin nobles like those of DF is still pending.
Bosses will be able to add additional supplies to the initial starting stock (pending GM approval first of course).
Worldbuliding stuff to be added at a later date or once there's enough interest. For now know that there's humans, elves, dwarves, kobolds and orcs. This is a low fantasy world meaning that magic is pretty rare.
Starting Scenario: Desperate Refugees
- 2 day's worth of food for each goblin (in sacks)
- 2 day's worth of drink for each goblin (in barrels)
- 2 day's worth of animal food for each animal (in sacks)
- 1 heirloom artifact (last memory of the old tribe, this is something the entire group shares)
- 2 wheel barrows (to carry all this stuff)
- 1 set of Goblinite tools (hatchet, hammer, hoe, saw, shovel, pick, knife)
- 5 units of herbal medicine
Some clarification: the food and drink is just to give you guys some wiggle room as I plan for each turn to be 1 day more or less unless specified otherwise. Containers will be used to store these items in places so that they don't spoil/get eaten by vermin. Each goblin will consume 1 unit of food. The heirloom artifact could be anything as of right now. The wheel barrows are there to carry all this stuff and for some basic transportation. Goblinite is just melted down metal roughly on par or below iron (honestly its to help keep resources more simple since it can be made from any other metal by melting them down). Tools are used for jobs and each unit of medicine will cure 1 illness or be used in 1 operation unless its something special.
These number values aren't final, I suspect that the tools might change.
Regarding the Wastes: There are villages and traders out there who can help you transport your goods for you and help you turn a profit, like with the Silk Road. These will have to be discovered using actions.
Gotta admit, you guys are asking lots of questions about stuff I had never thought of. Starting to think I may have overestimated my capabilities.
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Yes, but the point is that once warfare was going on, many things would be quick to learn. Humans are good at problem-solving. Sure, such maneuvers can be difficult in execution, but they're still fairly obvious (all of them have been used since pre-history, we can't really say how hard it was for humans to learn them). It all is really dependent on other factors— like the efficiency of the command structures used.
Line formations were considered useful because of the limitations of technology at the time they were developed. When technology advanced and made them obsolete, they were abandoned in short order.
The US constitution has survived for 230 years. The dead sea scrolls for over 2,000 years. Not saying there are a ton of them laying around, but they'd be sorta like fossils. If by chance a room with some books in them was sealed off sufficiently from the elements, it's possible something survived. Again, should ask the GM about it.
They're very well treated 100 year old revolvers. Almost never fired, there weren't many situations like that that arose in the bunkers (not the ones that made it to the days of New Jericho, at least. Using lethal weaponry on people in such a small community is likely to stir up an awful lot of trouble). They're also highly corrosion-resistant, being made in a society advanced enough for the megacities the size of what we see on the map
Yes, I suppose most people are shanty-towns. But for guns to be put to their best use, they have to be made en-masse, their biggest advantage being you don't need to train for a decade and a half to use one competently. Also, you need the population to field large armies, which NJ doesn't have, being a shantytown.
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Yes, very important. I imagine a lot of it is self explanatory/ingrained into human nature, but some finer points will take some time to relearn. Interesting story potential. Logistics especially will be hard.
*I don't imagine ALL books/sources were lost, necessarily. There's probably some of that still sitting around, will have to verify with the GM though