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1. Name your group (optional) and its leader (not optional)
1a. Create a background for your group.
1b. Explain why your leader  is such.
2. Choose traits.
3. Choose what skills you have.

Easy!
I will then generate an island for you and we'll go from there.

Pretty much everything is a d10 roll.

Roll	Result
1-	Epic Failure
2-4	Failure
5-6	Marginal Failure
7-8	Marginal Success
9-12	Success
13+	Epic Success

Bear in mind that this does NOT account for skill!

Common Modifiers:
SKILL
Unskilled: -1
Dabbling: +0
Novice:+1
Competent: +2
Good: +3
Great: +4
Master: +5

Talented: +1
Incompetent: -2
Aided Successfully: +2

People:
6 men
6 women
3 children

Supplies:
30 food
10 wood
2 basalt OR 1 obsidian

Tools:
1 average canoe
1 basalt chisel
1 basalt adze
5 shell knives
1 obsidian knife

There are two kinds of traits you can take: Perks and Losses. Perks give you some bonus and cost "Trait Points;" Losses take away some opportunity or something and grant you additional Trait Points. You have 10 Trait Points to spend, plus of course however many you get from Losses.

PERKS:
More People: You have additional members of your group. Costs 5 points for an adult and 2 points for a child.
Livestock: You have a domestic animal. A chicken costs 1 point, a dog costs 2 trait points, and a pig costs 3 trait points. Chickens lay eggs, dogs can help hunt, and pigs help gather but eat some of the food. Pigs and chickens are also tasty.
Pick: A basalt pick costs 3 points.
Canoe: An average canoe costs 10 points. A small one costs 5, and a large canoe (with outriggers) costs 15. "Upgrading" your starting canoe
Adze: An extra basalt adze costs 2 points.
Wood: 5 units of wood cost 1 point. 2 units can be gotten for 0.5 points.
Stone: 1 unit of basalt costs 1 point; 1 unit of obsidian costs 2 points.
Food: 10 units of food cost 1 point.
Skill: A member of your group is skilled in some skill other than the default starting skills. This is worth 1 point for Novice-level skill, 2 additional points for Competent-level skill, and 3 additional points for Good-level skill. You can augment a default skill with this perk.
Talent: One of your group members is talented at a skill. Pick a skill for the person to be Talented at. This perk costs 2.5 points.

LOSSES:
Population: A "small band" has 4 men, 4 women, and 2 children, and is worth -10 points.. A "family" has either 2 men and 1 woman or vise versa, plus two children, and is worth -15 points. This can be stacked with additional people--e.g, a family with a dozen extra children.
Canoe: A small canoe replacing the normal one is worth -2 points. A complete LACK of a canoe is worth -5 points.
Tools: Dropping the adze or the chisel, or two of the knives, is worth -1 point each. Dropping only one knife is worth -0.5 points.
Resources: Not having any stone is worth -1 point. Having less wood is worth -1 point per 5 wood. Less food is worth -1 point per -10 food.
Incompetence: One person in your group is bad at a certain skill or skills. Incompetence is worth -1 point, or -2 points if every adult in your group is incompetent with that skill. Incompetence is worth half as much for a skill marked with an asterisk.

Your people are your most important resource--use them wisely!

SKILLS
Everyone starts with skills. Adults start with three, children with one.
Adult males automatically start with Fighting and Heavy Labor, and also can get one of Archery, Fishing, or Hunting.
Adult females automatically start with Gathering and Weaving, and can also get one of Carving, Medicine, or Pottery.
Children may have any one of the listed skills for their gender, but see below.

CHILDREN
You probably have some children with you. Children aren't normal citizens. They are weaker and frailer, meaning they'll more likely die if sent on dangerous tasks, and have a -1 to all rolls. Alternatively, you can have an adult teach the children, but this may not help much.
Children can also play, which has a chance of giving you neat stuff that the children find!

Archery*
Carving
Dodging
Farming
Fighting
Fishing*
Gathering
Heavy Labor*
Hunting*
Medicine
Navigation**
Stoneworking*
Weaving
*Incompetence with this skill is worth only half as much.
**You may NOT be incompetent with this skill--or, rather, you won't get any points for it. Talents and skill with this skill cost half as many points.

The first need most people will have is water. Thankfully, every island has a spring or a few, so as long as you don't head out on long expeditions which take days to reach a distant isle, we won't worry about it.

Secondarily, you need to worry about food. You probably start with 2 days' worth of food; 1 unit of food feeds one person for one day. There are several ways to get food:
--You can gather eggs of poultry if you have any. This is completely safe and certain, but low-yield.
--Gathering fruit or roots is a bit less certain, but still pretty safe and has a good yield.
--Fishing is also safe, and fairly certain, but either requires a lot of capital (ie a canoe) or has fairly low yield, depending on if you're fishing on the ocean or in reefs or rivers.
--Gathering shellfish is safe and pretty certain, and gets you some shells, but has a lower yield than fruit.
--Farming is certain and has a good yield, but requires plenty of work (see Projects, below) and takes a while to yield food.
--Hunting has the potential for great yields, but is highly uncertain and dangerous.
After 3 days of hunger, people start taking penalties to all rolls, specifically -1 for each two days of hunger. Once they have been without food for 15 days, they starve to death.
Food rots or is eaten by vermin in this climate; you lose 10% of your stored food reserves at the end of each turn.

Safety can be important, but don't worry too much about it until you anger another group or a bunch of native predators.

Finally, housing is important. If you go too long without sufficient housing--especially in foul weather--your people will start to get unhappy and perhaps rebel. See Projects, below, for more info. Children count as 2/3 of a person.

Resources are essential to craft and build stuff.

There are two common types of resources, wood and stone (mostly obsidian or basalt). Either can be gathered; however, this doesn't yield much. You're better off cutting wood (which requires an axe or, ideally, an adze) or mining rock (with a pick). Rocks are a resource; they are little rocks, while stone represents larger boulders. Grasses and reeds are needed for weaving, making clothes, stringing bows, and many other things. Thankfully, they're easy to procure in large quantities.
You can also gather clay, which is mostly useful for pottery but can be formed into some crude buildings. Rarely, one finds deposits of copper or other metals, which can be shaped into metal objects.
Various creatures also leave resources when butchered. These resources notably include shell (mainly obtained by gathering shellfish) and various colors of feathers.
Food is also, technically, a resource.

A "tool" is defined as any object which has a quality and is mobile. Tools include not just adzes, picks, knives, and chisels, but also canoes, looms, bows, arrows, spears, and the like.

Qualities range from Crude/Damaged (-2) to Excellent (+2) in the following order:
Crude/Damaged
Poor
Average
Good
Excellent

The following is a list of all tolls I think will be notable for the present:

Adze: The tool most islanders use while cutting wood. Also a decent improvised weapon.
Arrow: Useful if you want a bow to function.
Axe: A good weapon. Also useable for cutting wood, but due to the tribe's training and the axe's extra weight it gets a -1 penalty to do so.
Bow: An excellent weapon, and ideal for hunters.
Chisel: Used for shaping rock. Can be made out of stone, or rock and stick.
Knife: Good for carving stuff. Can be made from shell or stone.
Pick: Used for mining. Also a decent improvised weapon.
Point: A sharpened rock. Useful for making spears, chisels, arrows, etc.
Spear: Useful as a weapon when desperate.

Crafting new tools is going to be a vital part of survival.
The degree of success determines the quality of the product.
The following list is NOT all possible crafting recipies, just the ones I've added so far.

Item Created	Reagents	Tools (if any)	Skill	Per Day	Other
Adze	5 shell, 1 wood	Stone knife	Carving	1	Slightly lower quality
Adze	1 Stone, 1 Wood	Knife, Chisel	Stoneworking	1	-
Arrow	Point, 0.5 wood, 0.1 feather	Knife	Carving	10	-
Axe	1 Stone, 1 Wood	Knife, Chisel	Stoneworking	1	-
Bow	2 wood, 2 Grass/Reed	Knife	Carving	1	-
Chisel	Point, 0.5 Wood	Knife	Carving	2	Slightly lower-quality than a fully stone chisel
Chisel	0.25 Stone	Chisel	Stoneworking	2	-
Knife	Rock, 0.5 Wood	Rock	Stoneworking	4	-
Knife	1 shell, 0.5 wood	Knife (stone)	Carving	5	-
Rope (~10 feet)	20 Grass/Reeds	2 Wood	Weaving	1	-
Pick	1 stone, 1 wood	Chisel, Knife	Stoneworking	1	-
Shovel	1 wood, 3 shell	Stone Knife	Carving	2	-
Shovel	1 wood, 1 stone	Knife, Chisel	Stoneworking	1	Slightly higher quality
Spear	2 wood, 1 point	Knife	Carving	1	-

Projects are time- and usually resource-consuming projects which are usually pretty useful. You can work on projects piecemeal, and probably will have to.

Canoes:
A small dugout canoe takes 7 wood and 2 man/days to make. Only one worker can work on it at a time, and he needs an adze.
An average canoe (a large dugout) needs 12 wood and 4 man/days. Two workers can work on it, and each needs an adze.
A large, outriggered canoe requires 20 wood and 10 man/days. Up to four workers, each with an adze, can work on it.
A war canoe requires 20 each of wood and shell, plus two spears and 50 feet of rope, PLUS 13 man/days of work. Up to four workers can work on it at once. It has a pair of harpoons for offense and a shell-coated hull to protect from fire and sharks.

Garden: A garden requires 5 man/days of clearing vegetation or providing nutrients for the soil to make; if not worked on, planted, or maintained, vegetation will encroach on it, undoing one man/day of effort per day. A garden takes one day to plant, and on these unnatural islands a crop will grow to maturity within a couple weeks (4d6 days). Upon harvest, taking two man/days, the garden has a 50% chance of being reuseable instantly.

Hut: A hut requires 7 wood, 10 Grass/Reed, and seven man/days of work. Up to four can work on it at once. Two people live in it comfortably, or five if they squeeze.

Large Hut: Not so much a hut as a small, wooden house, made from 15 wood and 30 grasses/reeds. 3 wood and 1 rope are also needed to construct, but are not consumed. It takes 18 man/days or labor to set up a large hut, and ig houses four (or ten less comfortably).

Small Burrow: Requires a sandy or loose-soiled hill and 5 wood for supports, as well as knowledge of how to make one. It takes ten man/days of work to set one up and houses two comfortably or four less-comfortably. All burrows allow someone to work at double speed if they have a shovel.

Burrow: Again, requires a good hill and knowledge of how to make burrows. It takes 25 man/days and 15 wood to set up, but houses six comfortably or 12 less so.

Large Burrow: Same. 80 man/days and 50 wood, but houses 20 comfortably or 50 uncomfortably.

Well: A well requires one stone, and each of the up to two workers needs a shovel. It takes three man/days to dig. Wells make getting water easier.

Chicken Coops: An average chicken coop takes one man/day and either 5 wood or 2 stone to build, and houses 15 chickens. Cooped chickens (or other animals, with luck) produce 50% more eggs.

Canoes are a vital part of your islanders' life. From travel to fishing, every island should have a couple.

A small dugout canoe can hold two people. Efficient fishing requires only one person to be there, and he takes a -1 penalty due to the small amount of space available.

An average canoe (a larger dugout) can hold 5 people. Two can fish in it, or three if they take a -1 penalty.

A large canoe can hold 10 passengers. Four fishers can fish without penalty; six take a -1 penalty each; and 8 each take a -2 penalty.

A war canoe holds as much as a large canoe, but fishing attempts have an additional -1. However, a war canoe is good for someone hunting whales or other large sea animals.