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Back when dinosaurs ruled the Earth, I got started with writing online on the Spore forums. Man, those were the days. We're talking like 12 years ago 2010-ish!

I've been here on and off for almost as long, and have GM'd a bunch of different things to varying success.

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@LokiLeo789

@CycloneCan I ask what rolls are crunch and which are just for flavor for clarification?

@TheArhive Thanks for your work in the map thus far


The important ones are: population, territory size, technology, domestic stability, urbanization, and military size.

It's largely a question of degree, e.g. even the "flavor" ones like military reputation might be important if you roll that other nations fear your nation. But that they consider your military to be "devious" or "barbaric" or "craven" is mostly flavor.

The biggest flavor ones are probably government type, government's source of income, military reputation, military focus, and resources. I'm a lot more flexible on changing those categories.
Yeah, you've got some pretty unique rolls there. I can imagine that there might be a bunch of really big clans in the city and some sort of ruling council made of the different chieftains/patriarchs/elders.
@Taeryn

@Taeryn

Our map has lots of space and I doubt everyone with rolls/expressed interest will actually join. So don't worry, it's (probably) not as crowded as you'd think.

I'll cook up rolls for you when I get a minute
@Vec

I dunno, what should go in a page like that? Maybe an infobox on the right for basic info, a section for noteable individuals, one for physiology, etc.

Really it doesn't have to be anything fancy, I just hate having to start by staring at a blank page and typing a text wall and then trying to organize said wall
As far as scale goes it's meant to be a full continent. I don't really know what could be done to make it look bigger on a map, but maybe Arhive could figure something out.
Speaking of wiki pages, I'm not sure exactly how templates work but they seem useful. If there was a template for creatures (or sapient, if we switch to calling them that as was discussed) and mortals it'd streamline a lot.
@Willy Vereb

Yeah, the Arhive guy I mentioned above made our map.

We did the map and broken down on the province map our main continent has enough space. I'd rather not have too much extra.

I would actually allow some minor holdings in the New World at the beginning (keep in mind they'd be early colonies for the continent was newly discovered) and I think we're going to get a second map just for the New World at some point.

Edit: typing on a phone is hard
@Willy Vereb

I'm already somewhat adverse to changing the map after everyone has seen it and several have staked their claims. We're pretty invested in it now.

Perhaps you should direct any objections to @TheArhive who has worked on the map. I believe he actually said this was a rough draft of the terrain and that he'd add rivers and generally improve it.

Edit: anybody else want to weigh in?
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