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[Zazmio]

Welcome to Gridhood: Aspects of the Divine!

This Gridhood is going to be similar to Supernerd's Gridhood: Bay12 edition.  However, there is one major difference -- Gods can now have an aspect, through which they can gain additional FP's!  I will bold any differences from Supernerd's Gridhood.  Players are advised to read the rules carefully.

Those of you not familar with Gridhood, I suggest you take a look at Supernerd's Gridhood to see how the game progresses.  Basically, you have civilization players, and you have god players.  Civilizations settle in a tile and have workers they can use to perform actions, such as foraging a tile, researching a technology, or praying to a god.  Gods can perform divine deeds such as creating land at a tile, creating weather, or zapping people; however, they are limited in what they can do by the amount of FP (Faith Points) they have, which is generated every turn in several different ways.

Note that in Gridhood, new rules get added as the game progresses, and players are advised to check here frequently.

Things do not happen until they appear in a turn update.  Thus, it is impossible for new civilizations to appear on the first turn, as there is no land.  For conflicting actions on the same turn, such as two gods creating land on the same tile, the first action posted takes precedence.  FP spent on actions that conflict with another is still used.

I will try to update this at least every 2 days, though it is always possible that I will get busy with something that causes a delay.

Some notes about inactivity:

Every player requires some book keeping, slowing down turn processing.  Even the gods; every turn has to be scanned through to see if their aspect gets triggered.  Inactive players increase GM work and turn processing time without contributing anything in return to the game.  Therefore, players who are inactive for 3 or more turns -- even gods -- will be removed.

You don't necessarily have to take any actions to avoid removal.  Simply posting to express interest in the game is sufficient.  If you are on vacation and can't do anything, but still want to play, post in the thread saying so.  I'll let players on vacation who still want to play stagnate for as long as they need.

Playing as a civilization

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To start playing, pick a tile to settle in.  The tile can't be occupied by another civilization, and must exist -- it can't be a blank tile.  Thus, no civilization can start on the first turn, as there are no land tiles created yet.

Then, pick a name, and pick a color that is not in use to highlight your name.  Highlighted names are important as they help me find your actions in the thread.  You may also pick a trait for your civilization.  The trait is one simple word describing what your civilization is good at.  For example, "Farmer" or "Warrior".  Your civ will get a small bonus related to your trait.

An example of civilization creation:

Name: Grognor Federation
Trait: Alcoholic
Starting Tile: C6

At start, you have 5 generic workers.  Each worker can perform, at most, one action a turn.  Multiple workers can be combined to perform one action, such as, "3 workers forage for food on B3".

You are allowed to take actions with your workers on your first turn.

Every turn, you must include your Civilization name, preferably highlighted in your color, before you list your actions.  All actions that take place in a tile must have the tile specified.  Thus, "1 worker forages for food" will not work, but "1 worker forages for food at A2" will.

An example turn:

Grognor Federation
1 worker prays to Blarg
2 workers research pottery
2 workers forage for food at F5

Some typical actions you can take are:

- Forage at a tile.  At the beginning, you can only forage for Food.  Other resources might become available, depending on what you have researched.  If no resource is specified, it is assumed to be Food.

- Research a technology.  All technologies require multiple "labors" to complete.  The amount needed depends on how advanced the tech you are trying to get is, and you will not be told in advance how hard it is.  If I deem a tech too advanced, I might give you research into a less advanced tech instead.  When a technology is completed, I will tell you what the effect is; it might not be what you expected!

- Pray to a god.  This will normally add 1 FP per worker to the God's FP pool.

- Attack a civ at a tile.  Consider carefully before you do this.  Most likely you will need to prepare yourself by researching technologies before you can expect a positive outcome doing this.

Civilizations can now hunt!  Workers must be armed with some kind of weapon to hunt.  Example order:  "1 worker hunts at A1 with 1 crude spear."  Hunting does not reduce efficiency of foraging taking place in the same tile.  Fishing can also be done at tiles with water, such as rivers, swamps, beaches, or mangrove forests.  Workers must have a spear or some kind of fishing tool.

Note that, with the technologies available to you at game start, you can only perform actions in your starting tile, and in tiles adjacent to your starting tile.

Some actions require "labor," which refers to the labor of one generic worker.  Thus, an action that requires 3 labor to perform should be worded as, "3 workers action at whatevertile."  For some actions that require lots of labor, such as building a farm, the required labor does not necessarily need to be spent all on the same turn; thus, a big project such as a farm, if it's been researched, could be built over several turns.

Civilizations have a stat called "Logisitics," which refers to the number of actions you can take a turn.  You can't take more actions in a turn than you have Logistics for.  If you attempt more actions than you have Logistics for, I will ignore the excess actions you listed.  Remember that multiple workers can be combined in one action.  At start, all civilizations have a 5 in Logistics.

Housing:
All civilizations start with the technology "Primitive Buildings" researched, which gives them the ability to create primitive houses in their settled tile.  Civilizations start with 10 primitive houses in their settled tile.  Civilizations must have enough housing in their settled tiles to house all their workers.  If they don't have enough, bad things will most likely happen.  There can't normally be more than 10 houses in a settled tile.

Food:
Food is a very important resource.  Civilizations start with 10 food.  At the end of every turn, one Food is consumed for every worker in your civilization.  If you don't have enough food to feed your workers, bad things will happen, among them starvation and the death of your workers.  3 Food can be spent to create one worker.  Newly created workers can't work on the turn they are created.

If a traumatic event happens on your settled tile -- for example, a god creates an active volcano there -- you might be given the option to relocate to a new tile.  Uprooting your civilization this way will have serious consequences.

Playing as a God

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To start playing as a god, pick a name and a color to highlight your name.  Then you must pick an Aspect.  Your Aspect must be one simple word.  Your Aspect is what gets your god excited!  It determines what bonus FP you get from events in the game, so choose carefully!  Aspects are described in more detail further on.

An example of god creation:

Name: Blarg
Aspect: Swampland

You start with 3 FP.  (FP are Faith Points.) You can spend this FP immediately, or save it if you want.

FP is spent on divine actions.  You can't normally go negative in FP, so attempting to spend more FP than you have will result in nothing happening.

Typical actions:
1 FP can be spent to create a basic land (or ocean) at an empty tile.  A basic land is pretty much any land that isn't very special, such as forest, plains, mountain, ocean, or desert.

3 FP can be spent to replace any existing land with a basic land.  Any land can (normally) be replaced this way.

5 FP can be spent on a special tile.  This can be created at any tile, empty or otherwise.  A special tile has special properties, such as very fertile land or very dangerous land or slightly magical land.  It can be just about anything within reason, but if it's too good, I might double the amount of FP required, or more.

Multiples of 5 FP can be spent to increase the power of a special tile.  This can be spent on adding to the power of an existing special tile, or for creating a new very powerful tile.  Basically, the more powerful the tile, the more FP you'll end up spending.

2 FP can be spent to temporarily alter the weather of one tile for one turn.  We're talking basic weather like rain here; more dangerous or magical weather will cost multiples of 2 FP, depending on its severity.

2 or 3 FP can be spent to Zap a civilization's workers.  If 2 is spent, a worker becomes wounded and must spend a turn recovering.  If 3 is spent, a worker is killed.  Alternate kinds of Zaps can be done, even beneficial Zaps, for 3 or more FP.  You will have to discover what you can do with it through experimentation; more powerful Zaps will cost multiples of 3 FP! Gods can't normally perform more than one Zap a turn, and gods can't specify which workers are affected; it's always random.

Healing Zaps:  A Healing Zap costs 2 FP.  Unlike other Zaps, you can specify which worker to heal.

Multiples of 2 FP can be spent to protect a tile, and any inhabitants of a tile.  For every 2 FP spent, 1 point of protection is placed on a tile.  Any gods who attempt to change the weather, the tile, or Zap it's inhabitants will first have to spend 1 FP per point of protection to destroy the protection.  However, gods can ignore their own protection, or can dispel their own protection, for free.

Artifacts:  It might be possible to gift divine artifacts to civilizations.  You will have experiment to find out!

Recovering FP:

Gods always gain 1 FP at the end of a turn.

Gods also gain 1 FP for every basic worker that prays to them in a turn.

Gods also gain FP if events happen in the game that are relevant to their Aspect.  For example, if your Aspect is Death, you will gain FP when workers die.  If your Aspect is Birth, you will gain FP when workers are created.  If your Aspect is War, you will gain FP when civilizations go to war.  The amount of FP gods get through their aspect will depend on how rare that event is.  For example, if workers are created more often than they are destroyed, a god of Birth might gain 1 FP when a worker is created, while a god of Death might gain 3 FP when a worker is killed.  The FP gained through an Aspect might vary from turn to turn, depending on how common the event has been in the game.

There is one caveat to FP gain through Aspects, though.  Gods will not gain FP through their Aspect from events caused by a god on the same turn they are caused.  In other words, a god who Zaps a worker to death will not cause the god of Death to gain FP, because the deaths happened on the same turn as the Zap.  Likewise, if a god creates an active volcano on a civ's settled tile that causes deaths on the turn it is created, the god of Death will not get FP from it.  However, if that volcano tile causes deaths on later turns, the god of Death will get FP.

Gods can now gift FP to other gods!

Gods can now do Divine Projects!  A Divine Project is a tile, artifact, or creature that probably has a high FP requirement.  Give the DP a unique name, describe it, and add at least 1 FP to the project.  Other gods can add FP to the project if they want, and FP can be added on the same turn that the project is created.  The project persists until it has the required FP to be created.  Nothing is created in the world until the DP gets the required FP.  You may ask the GM how much your project will cost, and the GM will give an approximate amount, if he's feeling generous!  Attempts at spamming pointless projects might have unfortunate consequences!

Artifacts and creatures can be created with FP!  The rules are similar to the creation of tiles.  You must specify the tile where they are created.

Creatures and artifacts explained in more detail.

Creatures:
For 1 FP, you can make a single, nondangerous, boring creature such as a donkey.
For 3 FP, you can make one dangerous but boring creature such as a tiger, or a herd of boring nondangerous critters like horses or harmless snakes.
For 5 FP, you can make a magical and/or very dangerous monster/creature/foe of some kind.  Example:  An Ogre or a Troll.  Or a pack of dangerous but otherwise nonspecial critters.  Example:  A pack of dire wolves.  Or a herd of nondangerous but kind of special critters, such as a herd of talking swamp zebras.
More powerful monsters will cost multiples of 5 FP.  Example:  A Fire Giant or a Demon would probably cost 10 FP.  Beezlebub, Lord of the Flies, would probably cost around 20 FP.

Artifacts:
5 FP minimum.  For 5 FP, you get a basic magic object, such as a magic sword.  Excalibur would probably cost 15 or so FP.  Or non-weapon/armor artifacts that alter workers, tiles, or the weather in limited ways.  Tech level is currently limited to early medieval era (no gunpowder).

Spoiler: The Bronze Age (click to show/hide)

Welcome to the Bronze Age!  The following are rules clarifications and changes specific to this age.

The setting is approximately 1000 years after the end of the Stone Age.  The gods have been dormant all these years.  The events of the stone age have become myths and legends.  Some doubt that they happened at all, and a few doubt the existence of even the gods.

All of the civilizations' workers from the stone age are gone.  The legendary workers of the stone age are of that age and are long gone.  Civilizations' techs have been changed some.  Many of the techs have been merged, changed into something similar, or are "stone age" versions of that tech.  "Stone age" techs are relics from the Stone Age; better, more modern versions of the tech are waiting to be researched.  Some buildings from the Stone Age remain, but are labeled "of the Stone Age."  Stone Age buildings are inferior.  It is recommended that you research better versions and upgrade them.

Artifacts from the Stone Age are now "lost".  They are still in the world somewhere, but must be found again.  Most have the same properties they had in the Stone Age, but it's possible that some might have been changed by the event that ended the Stone Age.

The map is now different.  Tiles now have an exploration level.  The exploration level runs from 0 to 100% and is noted in the lower left corner of the tile.  A tile's exploration level is raised by workers exploring the tile.  A civ's settled tile is always at least 50% explored.  The exploration level might be reduced after minor changes to the tile, and the exploration level is reset to 0% if a tile is completely changed.  The GM will use his judgement to determine if a change to a tile is a minor change or a complete change; a change of the terrain type, for example plains to mountains, will generally be considered a complete change.

Tiles must be explored to at least 50% in order to see what the tile does.  The properties and effects of a tile will still be there; it's just that the players won't be sure what effects there are until the tile is at least 50% explored.  Note that Amastay's Wrath at the end of the Stone Age might have changed what some of the tiles do, so looking at an old turn report will not necessarily tell you what that tile does.

Exploring tiles might also result in some kind of event happening to the exploring worker.  Being attacked by bandits is a possibility.  Another possibility is discovering a location in the tile.  Locations can be searched by a worker; they might contain lost artifacts, which might be guarded.  Searching at locations is often dangerous.

Locations
Locations are now a thing.  A location is something like a palace, a cave, or a grotto.  They can be revealed through exploration, and can also be created by the gods.  The rules for creating them are similar to those for the creation of artifacts; 5 FP minimum, FP cost increases with power.  The main difference between locations and artifacts is that locations can't usually move, and can contain creatures and artifacts.  Of course, when a god creates a location, they must specify what, if anything, it contains, and must pay FP for those things.  Like artifacts and creatures, locations are separate from the tile they are in, and might remain in the tile if the tile is changed.

Heroes
I couldn't really think of a good way to do heroes, so I decided to nix that idea.  There might be more legendary workers, though.

God Dormancy
I couldn't think of a way to do it that was interesting without adding needless complexity and making the gods wait for several turns.  At the start of the age, all gods are considered to be just waking up after 1000 years of sleep.  Feel free to roleplay that if you want.  All gods start the new age with 1 FP.

Modified Tile Costs
Changing the tiles is still allowed but it now costs more.  Changing to a basic land type now costs 5 FP.  Special tiles that used to cost 5 FP now cost 10 FP.  Special tiles now cost 5 more than they would have in the Stone Age.

Modifying the Climate
For 5 FP, you can change the climate of a tile without reducing the exploration percentage.  Plains can be changed to desert or swamp or tundra.  Forest can be changed to Jungle or Taiga.  Mountains can be changed to Snow-capped mountains or... arid mountains?  Any special properties of the tile stay the same when you do this.  Flat land must stay flat, hilly must stay hilly, mountainous must stay mountainous.

Weather
For 2 FP, you can make it rain on a tile for 1 turn.  This should increase the farming or harvesting yield in that tile for that turn.  It most likely won't impact hunting, fishing, or ranching.  Alternatively, for 2 FP you can make a drought on a tile for one turn, which will reduce farming and harvesting yield.

For 12 FP, you can make it rain or drought in a 3X3 square.  That's a savings of 6 FP!  All tiles must have the same weather when doing this.

Alternate weather can be done for 2X the cost or more, depending on the power level of the weather.

Hasty things
From now on, all tiles, artifacts, creatures, and locations appear at the end of the turn when created.  They appear after everything else has been done, such as food consumption.  Thus, none of these things can take any action such as moving or attacking on the turn they are created.  For tiles, the land is considered to be the previous land type until the end of the turn.  For example, civ A forages for food at a plains, and a god changes that plains to a desert on the same turn.  Civ A will still get food there as if it was a plains for that turn.  Another example:  Civ B is attacked one turn by a giant.  God C creates an artifact sword for Civ B on the same turn.  Civ B can't use that artifact when fighting the giant that turn because it doesn't appear until the end of the turn.

However, there is a way around this.  If you really, really want something to take effect at the beginning of the turn, you can specify that the tile, creature, artifact, or location is hasty.  This adds an additional 10 FP to the cost of the object.

[Zazmio]

Turn 0



The world is a formless void!


Technologies known by all:

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Primitive Buildings:  This allows primitive houses to be built.  Each primitive house houses one worker.  Primitive houses are made of mud and sticks and require no resources to make.  They require only 1 worker to make.  This tech also allows research into other primitive building types.

[Supernerd]

Totally going to start playing this. Just as soon as some tiles start existing.

[The_Two_Eternities]

For next turn:

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The People
start at E3

[dgr11897]

Farsky
I will PM you my Aspect, In fitting with it's name Never mind just going to post it, Titans. I actually hinted at this in my poem in gridhood tribal uprising, no one picked up on it
I create a river that goes through D4, E4, and E5

[Maximum Spin]

I am Nagas, God of Snakes!

Nags puts a swamp at I6 and saves the other two FP for now.

[Leodanny]

I’ll wait until next turn, but here’s a sheet.

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The Pirate potatoes
Start on D4

[Lenglon]

Mabel, god of Demihumans

Add a Forest at E3, a plains at D3, and a hill at C3

[Nirur Torir]

I'll be one of the unlikable gods pushing everyone to kill each other.

Malvol, god of Slaughter.

I'll put plains at H4 and H5, and swamps at I5.

[Zazmio]

I’ll wait until next turn, but here’s a sheet.

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The Pirate potatoes
Start on D4

Pick a trait.  Then resubmit.   

[Supernerd]

Wait what? I was under the impression that Civilizations could not start playing until land existed, and that nothing exists until the update actually happens. So it shouldn't be possible to get established at D4 yet?

[Maximum Spin]

Wait what? I was under the impression that Civilizations could not start playing until land existed, and that nothing exists until the update actually happens. So it shouldn't be possible to get established at D4 yet?

I’ll wait until next turn,

You know, for someone who antagonises everyone else for not reading...

[Supernerd]

I do not understand what Maximum Spin is talking about. I was referring to the GM's comment telling the person to pick a trait and resubmit. This seemed odd to me because I was under the impression that you couldn't submit a civilization application for a nonexistant tile, and the GM's words in that post appear to contradict that.

[Zazmio]

I do not understand what Maximum Spin is talking about. I was referring to the GM's comment telling the person to pick a trait and resubmit. This seemed odd to me because I was under the impression that you couldn't submit a civilization application for a nonexistant tile.

I'm not letting him claim a tile before the turn is done.  Relax.  I meant for him to resubmit after I finish doing the turn.  Which I am doing now.

[Zazmio]

Turn 1


Noteworthy Tiles:

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None

Godly actions of note:

Farsky, God of Titans arrives!  He gestures, and riverlands arise at D4, E4, and E5!

Nagas the Snake God arrives!  With a thought, I6 becomes a swamp!

Mabel, God of Demihumans arises!  She(?) creates forest at E3, plains at D3, and hills at C3!

Malvol, God of Slaughter arises!  With a malevolent thought, plains are created at H4 and H5, and swamp at I5!

Godly status:

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Farsky (Titans): 1 FP
Nagas (Snakes): 3 FP
Mabel (Demihumans): 1 FP
Malvol (Slaughter): 1 FP

Attention civilization players!  You may now settle a tile!  If you tried to settle before this turn report, you must resubmit!  You can't claim a tile beforehand!

Technologies known by all:

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Primitive Buildings:  This allows primitive houses to be built.  Each primitive house houses one worker.  Primitive houses are made of mud and sticks and require no resources to make.  They require only 1 worker to make.  This tech also allows research into other primitive building types.