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Forum Games and Roleplaying / Re: Lordship: A Suggestion Game

« on: February 16, 2013, 08:37:52 am »

Quote from: 10ebbor10 on February 16, 2013, 08:34:12 am

Quote from: Origami_Psycho on February 16, 2013, 08:03:53 am
Make it look... vikingly.
Why?

Because if it stands out, we may start a trend of sorts, which could get us some prestige.
Also, vikings were pretty awesome.

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Forum Games and Roleplaying / Re: You're a Hive Queen.

« on: February 16, 2013, 08:30:34 am »

After much deliberation you decide to settle the plains, despite the fact that it will provide poorer farming land than the flood plains, you just don't want to drown when the river floods.
An initial survey of the lands reveals that the vegetation is mostly composed of a tough grass, known to be nutritious, if a little tasteless. Most of the other vegetation is made of scattered copses of trees of an unknown variety. Your initial survery also reveals a moderate number of moderate sized quadropods (think bison), and a somewhat smaller number of packs of meidum sized territorial predators. During your survey three of your workers are ambushed, and all are killed by them, and were unable to kill any of the predators.

A short survey of the badlands reveals that there is very little vegetation, and the ground is mostly a sun baked clay, with large stone mesas, some of which are riddled with caves, and numerous fissures. You immediately pull out your workers when you start seeing some really scary shit living in there. You'll have to start posting patrols of warriors in order to ensure that nothing follows you out of there.

Now, do you just need to decide to start in one of the copses of trees, the open plains, or are you crazy/stupid enough to start for the badlands, hoping to find an unclaimed cave?
---Require actions---
-Decide where in the plains to start
-Decide what to do about the predators
-Decide what types of bug you want to lay
-(optional) You still don't have a name
-Something else?

Spoiler: Holdings (click to show/hide)

Spoiler: Surroundings (click to show/hide)

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Forum Games and Roleplaying / Re: Lordship: A Suggestion Game

« on: February 16, 2013, 08:03:53 am »

Make it look... vikingly.

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Forum Games and Roleplaying / Re: You're a Hive Queen.

« on: February 15, 2013, 10:50:59 pm »

Quote from: GreatWyrmGold on February 15, 2013, 10:48:30 pm

Don't forget those [/spoiler] tags, Psycho.

Plains, towards the north.

Thanks

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Forum Games and Roleplaying / Re: Lordship: A Suggestion Game

« on: February 15, 2013, 10:18:59 pm »

Quote from: tryrar on February 15, 2013, 10:15:42 pm

Alright, so For reference, we have:

1)strengthen our defenses by increasing patrols and use the new volunteers by splitting them half archers half melee. Also, get started on actual iron weapons(including copper/iron spearheads and arrowheads) and train our new recruits on those. As well, have our rangers try to track that horseman, and have our steward see where the horses came from. Also, have a secure stockade/small jail built out of wood so that we can secure our prisoner/witness where nobody can get to him and silence him

1a)As an aside, I personally vote on training our melee troops as skirmishers using handaxes and spears for hit-and-fade tactics(we don't really have enough militia troops for much in the way of frontal attacks)

2)Assign the most reliable of our troops as our personal guard(make it an official title even!) and assign them to be our bodyguards 24/7

3)Get an appropriate gift to the duke made, something like a silver brooch or bracelet or something of that nature

4)Have conference with our friendly lords when they get here(a given really). Explain what happened and our suspicions, though stress that what evidence we have, while certainly points in the count's direction, isn't solid proof he's behind the assassination attempt

5)Get started stockpiling brick, stone, and wood to prepare for building our manor

Did I miss anything?

I don't think so. And +1 to melee troops, since archers aren't all that good for patrol within a city, seeing as how we could hit our citizens.

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Forum Games and Roleplaying / Re: You're a Hive Queen.

« on: February 15, 2013, 10:13:53 pm »

Oh yeah, I forgot to mention this, They are burrowers, and are quite good at it. They can only go as low as the water table, though, and at this stage of their technological development don't really have very good surface structures.

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General Discussion / Re: Need help sigging a url.

« on: February 15, 2013, 09:58:03 pm »

Quote from: Fenrir on February 15, 2013, 09:55:44 pm

Code: [Select]
[url=http://example.com]Link text.[/url]
A BBCode reference. I don’t know which work on Bay12 and which don’t.

Thanks.

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General Discussion / Need help sigging a url.

« on: February 15, 2013, 09:54:20 pm »

Hey bay12. Could anyone tell me how you can put a link into your sig without having it display as a url?

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Forum Games and Roleplaying / Re: You're a Hive Queen.

« on: February 15, 2013, 09:48:04 pm »

Spoiler: Bestiary (click to show/hide)

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Forum Games and Roleplaying / You're a Hive Queen.

« on: February 15, 2013, 09:47:11 pm »

You are a newly hatched queen of a species of intelligent insectoid creatures. Your liege-lady has sent you off to distant unsettled lands to lay claim to the land and resources there, and to defend it against incursion by the forces of other tribes of queens. You were sent with 20 workers, 5 warriors, and 1 drone (who is under the thrall of your liege lady), as well as some basic impliments for farming and clearing land, and your warriors are armed with spears and clubs. In addition to these provisions you have 3 months of food.

When you arrive at the area you are to settle you are presented with three possibilities for settlement. The first has a river running through a flood plains, with sparse trees and some rocky outcroppings. The second is densely forested, with a small bog. The third is a plains, with few trees and a rocky badlands off to the north.

---Actions needed---
-Decide location of settlement.
-(Optional) Give yourself a name.

Spoiler: Holdings (click to show/hide)

Spoiler: Notes on physiology (click to show/hide)

Queens: At reaching the age of maturity they are generally 3 meters in height, and 12 meters in length. They have 14 limbs, eight of which are legs, and 6 serving as arms, the top two pairs ending in six digits, while the bottom two have large and powerful pincers. They have functional wings. Capable of psychically controlling all of the subspecies that are tied to her, whether birthed by her or gifted to her by another Queen. Can lay five eggs/day, which have a two month gestation period, except for Queens, which have a 1 year gestation period. Can choose which subspecies the egg will hatch. Limited genetic control over the produced 'children'. Very smart, very strong, with strong exoskeleton. Hermaphroditic. Perfectly independent. Powerful mandibles.

Workers: The basic bug you'll lay, standing about 1.5 meters in height, and about 4 meters long. Have 4 arms ending in hands, 4 legs. Good tunnelers. Moderately strong exoskeleton. No functional wings. Moderate intelligence, esp. when it comes to farming/building, but low independence. Unusually strong for their size, but still make poor soldiers. Poor binocular vision(still much better than a humans), but can detect movement very easily. Moderately strong mandibles.

Warriors: The main (and only) combat bug. Stands 2.25 meters in height, and are 5 in length. 4 arms, two with hands, and two with pincers, and four legs. Very tough exoskeleton, and primitive endoskeleton. No functional wings, and good binocular vision, able to detect light from UV to infrared. Very strong. All major organs have secondaries, with the heart, lungs, and brain having tertiaries. Low intelligence, almost entirely focused on combat, but with moderate independence. Powerful mandibles.

Drones: Used as diplomats, overseers and occasionally managers of important sites. Same height and length as workers. two arms, four legs. Functional wings. Very smart, and very independent, but cannot betray the Queen. Limited control over workers and warriors. Weak mandibles.

Spoiler: Technology (click to show/hide)

So this is my first forum game, feel free to criticize it, provide me with some pointers, and general suggestions. Especially that last one, since the game will not advance without suggestions as to what's to happen. Expect dice to be rolled.

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