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Unsure of what to do, rob checks the delivery crate to see if there are any extra medical supplies.

I was thinking about putting together a simple (few mechanics and numbers) exploration game. The general theme is that you come the equivalent of pre-imperial Europe (but instead of Eurpoe a fictional land and with magic), and the equivalent of the New World has been discovered. As such you have joined a crew of explorers to venture to the new world, explore, study the wild life, study the magic, and generally search for treasure and adventure. The game will be enhanced with pictures from various artists (mostly gathered via pintrest). This game (at this point) has no predestined plot. I will narrate as we go and the players will decide their adventure. If you have any interest post a character sheet bellow.


None of the images used by this game are/will be created by me and all rights and credit belongs to their respective authors.

The city state of Frosthilt declares its official color to be cyan. Its flag and _{in game diplomatic text} will be this color.


After a long hard winter the city of Frosthilt remains about 50,000 strong. The ingenuity of dwarves, the drive of humans, the cunning of elves, the strength of redguard, and the combat prowess of orcs all working together is enough to keep the city alive during the frozen winter. This unison of the races is only achievable in such a hard frozen land as this. In this land infighting surely means doom for all involved, a fact that none forget. Even a few mutants call this city of the damned their home. Marrow has been meaning to discuss with and inspect these anomalies, but had little time to do so over the winter. With spring here, he puts it on his to-do list. However, more pressing matters are at hand. Life is returning to the ice flats and they must begin stockpiling for the next winter. They still have some supplies in storehouses, yet there is no sense in passing on the rush of food that accompanies spring.To this end:

Marrow directs fishermen to begin placing nets in the river and catching fish.

Marrow directs hunters to begin hunting their game of choice whether it be on the ice flats or across the river in the eastern hills or the western plains. They do not stray into the lands occupied by other city states.

The people of Frosthilt are among the best hunters and fishers in the world. They are among the best because they are among the most motivated. These many meats will sustain the people of Frosthilt through the winter. As such they will be smoked and cured in one of the several large Frosthilt smokehouses.

While the hunters stalk the wild lands, Marrow turns to the dwarves who compose a large section of the population. Their need for alcohol creates an added difficulty for them, yet it has never been a major issue in the past. However, he makes sure that his best brewers, and a few herbalists of various races, begin collecting plants for the brewing of alcohol and general consumption. The majority of the dwarves are set about a project of construction. They had already constructed a minor hillocks beneath Frosthilt, which provided the stone for the thick walls that surround the city. Now they had requested to add a mushroom farm similar to the ones built in the mountain halls of their ancestors. Marrow agreed to this as it would bring in another source of food, however, only a few hundred dwarves are devoted to this task. A great many of the remaining miners are sent on an expedition to the hills. There they will mine for the metals there, which are much richer and more plentiful than that found beneath the ice flats. They are accompanied by miners of other races and most of the army.

Send a mining expedition to the hills to gather ore. It shall be accompanied by a large portion of the army.

Begin the construction of a mushroom farm.

With the many brave men and women of Frosthilt travelling out onto the ice or even across the river, Marrow was satisfied with the rush of work his people had undertaken. Food and alcohol are necessary needs that must be addressed, as well as their need for ore. The wild unsettled lands near to the ice-plains would provide them with resources that they could not gain on the ice itself.

Marrow then begins to learn about the mutants who he has opened his gates to, as well as those that exist out in the world.

You could do it that you take the average. So if everyone does well then its great, but if one person fucks up and then two do great, they can balance it. And the bonus for collective action should be speed or minor bonuses. That way there is an incentive, but its still risky.

Spiderking:
Uhm yes...if thats not okay we can change it. I just went with the basic fact that the players don't come from big major families but from small dynasties and have to work their way up through the imperial hierarchy. Add to that, that i wasn't sure if all your characters want to be navy people or just the one, i thought that i give you better connections within the navy and as such a way to move up quicker in navy ranks.

Yeah I just didnt know if I was cut during the clensing and am trying to get back in or if I'm in trying move up. Any explination of my position is fine, I just needed to know abut where I am.

Are Shuddercaps trees or harvest-able plants?

Can the Nailfish be harvested as fish for cooking?  That would be neat.

They are trees. Very tall skinny ones if I remember correctly. I think they can become the tallest tree in the world. However, they have small caps.

One common charaesteristics of these little creatures, is that they have a tendency to nibble of people's fingernails and toenails. Just let it be fluff-text.

I think I can give them a weak bite like bees and other vermin that causes mild toe pain.

May as well help bump. More people could join after the game has started. It shouldn't make a huge difference if they miss one turn or so.

So I was in the navy but was fired during the coup? Is that my backstory?