Cyclone

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Another suggestion, can we change tungsten to adamantine?
Basically it has nearly the same properties as tungsten (albeit literally diamond-hard) but in our world it's called Adamantine. Otherwise it's roughly as rare as real life tungsten and perhaps we'll see them in composite shells in later war cannon munitions.
There'd be another material called Adamantium which is a type of adamantine alloy created by dwarves. It's dense and hard but also has some more elasticity thus it's more enduring overall.
Dwarves guard the secret to the proper creation of this alloy and technically each clan has their own variation on Adamantium (with various minor differences).

What do you think?

@Willy Vereb

Meh. I think that I'm the only one that explicitly has a lot of dwarves (They are probably something like 15-25% of the population) and I was considering something similar as a unique material, but decided that like in the last RP my nation won't have any unique materials.

Last game Tin was already a superpower because of its absurd size, and this game the Commonwealth is both big and diverse. Its comparatively huge dwarven and gnomish population are like a unique resource, since they have made the place lead the way in terms of technological development for heavy industry, ground vehicles, and to a lesser extent chemicals.

And yeah, to refute the inevitable counterpoint that this wouldn't be a "unique material" to just me, nobody else seems to have that many dwarves. And also, since this is a rare and expensive metal, I'd assume that the Commonwealth with its habit of building gigantic vehicles and war machines (and tons of dwarves to work the adamantine) would be using the metal far more than anybody else.

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<Snipped quote by Cyclone>Troll's aren't even mammals while Orcs are so why is it impossible for there to be Half-Orcs but not impossible for Half-Trolls ?

@Gig

I had forgotten that detail from your sheet, so I retract that statement. It'd be impossible for either to cross breed if we're going for any amount of realism.

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@Cyclone

Well, if we're going to take the scientific as opposed to the scientific approach, no species should then be able to interbreed.

@ZB1996

If the species in question is really close to human (like with dwarves) it's reasonable. Half trolls push it, and half-orc or something would just be ridiculous.

Yeah, frankly I think we should just handwave it and make it possible for most species.

Why? Because it creates a potential story element.

@Isotope

Half breeds have always been something that have irked me in fantasy, so I'm probably going to remain opposed to this regardless. Why not just have ethnic tension within your species (I'm doing that with two main ethnic groups for the humans in Moravia) or something like sexism (also in the Commonwealth, and something that will probably lead to a diplomatic faux pas or ten with the nations that have female leaders)?

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@Willy Vereb

Half elves make no sense at all, at least if elves are still supposedly descended form birds rather than primates like in the last RP. Especially with the different muscular and bone structures, and whatever causes them to live so long.

The only reason I am considering making half dwarves a possibility is because humans managed to breed with neanderthals and my dwarves aren't too physiologically different from humans.

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On a different note what are everyone's thoughts on races?
I beleive we never wrote a profile on dwarves and gnomes, for example.
And even above that, are all the various races can interbreed with each other?
I mean can half-dwarves, half-trolls, half-gnomes and such exist?
I am pretty sure fairy halfbreeds are impossible, both on the genetical or even the physical level.

@Willy Vereb

I have gnomes and dwarves and will write about them. Gnomes definitely can't interbreed, but maybe dwarves could. I'm undecided.

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@Willy Vereb Yllendthyr bigger than all of Europe? Yeah, let's ignore that scale that you saw.

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My sheet is horibly incomplete and as it happens, I don't think I'll have internet access at all this weekend to work on it.

Don't wait for me; I'm just warning that I won't join in immediately.

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@Kangutso

But Mar is currently with the dwarves as a prisoner/guest/treasure/object of curiosity, right? He could conceivably have been sent to this southern outpost for some reason. Maybe for the local geomancers to study? *shrug*

If you don't want to wait very long, I'm sure we could think of a way for you to show up right in the middle of this battle without it making no sense.

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My nation was formally a colony of Yllendthyr it is mentioned multiple times in my sheet :/ That was why I originally went for Usea until we where told to go for smaller claims.

@Gig

Not a colonial nation in the traditional sense so much as a former vassal. Fairyland doesn't count =P

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So? It strikes me as odd that we have zero nations that were former colonies.

Louis Dabout also has a nation looking lonely over there.

@Araby264 but by no means feel pressured to go over to that continent; I'm just making a suggestion.