Milarqui
Deity
This is my newest attempt to mod a NES. Hopefully, I'll have more time and it will more successful than my previous attempts.
Without further ado, this is...
This NES is a Fresh-Start NES. For those that are not in the know, a Fresh-Start NES involves creating your nation pretty much from the foundations. Well, you are actually building its foundations, for you are going to start with just your capital city and some terrains near it (admittedly, it is going to be relatively large). As time passes, your territory will grow, and you will eventually meet other nations, with which you will be able to hold diplomatic contact, trade and perhaps more.
Stats
If you have ever played some other classical Nation/Stat-based NESes, you will know that your nation will have stats, upon which your ability to make things and work on projects will rely upon. It is usually something along EP (Economic Points), Army/Navy Units, Stability, etcetera, etcetera.
This NES is quite unlike a classical NES, because stats here will work VERY differently.
Each nation will have 8 basic Stats: Economy, Culture, Influence, Technology, Army, Navy, Air Force and Magic. Each of these stats will then have a set of sub-stats, which will be defined by each of you players.
The Stats will then have 2 numbers attached to it
Actions & Orders
Every turn, you will be able to spend all of your Dice Pool in improving your stats. The Dice Pool is not used up, though: when a sub-stat gains a dice, it can only be lost through enemy action, time and random events. The success of the action, of course, will depend on the Success Rate associated with the corresponding Stat. Of course, this expense must have some reasoning behind it: you cannot hope to build up your army by investing the Dice Pool for Roads, but if you use what you have in Iron Mines, then it is possible to do so.
About Orders, well, these are easy: you have to tell me which dice you want to spend on each thing.
Stories
In some NESes, stories can get you a little something sometimes. In others, stories are fundamental for you. Here, I will take a middle approach: all stories will gain rewards.
Of course, the size of these rewards will depend on the length of the story and how good I felt it was (yeah, subjective, but, well, it is not easy to be objective), although if you write it well, I'll give you points.
For most stories, the rewards will be a temporary boost to the Success Rate of one of the Stats or extra dice added to the action described in the story. For example, if your story is about your soldiers getting ready for a battle with an enemy that threatens your nation, then you might get a slightly higher chance of success or more possibilities of winning. However, if it is about the markets in the capital, then you can get those for the development of a market system or even for the creation of an economic system based on the coin instead of barter.
However, for really good stories, there will be extra dice directly added to a sub-stat. If you write about the training your mages undergo with good detail? Then your mages can get, at least, 1 dice to a sub-stat about Training, under the Stat Magic.
When you are beginning...
When you begin, I will need the following data:
Orders
This is a set of orders based on the stats I published on the New NESes thread:
If you ever want to make a project of a special kind (like the mentioned Proyecto Pájaro in the stats) you have to do it by phases, by first creating the base from which you get everything else. In my case, I first developed my iron industry and my runic magic, then Magical Iron to create iron able to absorb magic and use it for anything, and finally the Project itself, which was to create the first flying machine, using magic to power up everything.
Without further ado, this is...
MilarNES IV: Dawn of Ages
This NES is a Fresh-Start NES. For those that are not in the know, a Fresh-Start NES involves creating your nation pretty much from the foundations. Well, you are actually building its foundations, for you are going to start with just your capital city and some terrains near it (admittedly, it is going to be relatively large). As time passes, your territory will grow, and you will eventually meet other nations, with which you will be able to hold diplomatic contact, trade and perhaps more.
Stats
If you have ever played some other classical Nation/Stat-based NESes, you will know that your nation will have stats, upon which your ability to make things and work on projects will rely upon. It is usually something along EP (Economic Points), Army/Navy Units, Stability, etcetera, etcetera.
This NES is quite unlike a classical NES, because stats here will work VERY differently.
Each nation will have 8 basic Stats: Economy, Culture, Influence, Technology, Army, Navy, Air Force and Magic. Each of these stats will then have a set of sub-stats, which will be defined by each of you players.
- Economy: those that are related to the obtaining and movement of goods through your nation.
- Culture: those things that impulse your nation's culture. Religion is included here.
- Influence: related to the things within your nation that can have influence in the policies of your nation. For example, a Council, an organization that sends ambassadors to foreign tribes and nations or other similar things.
- Technology: anything that relates to the advancement of your knowledge, tools and weapons.
- Army: your land units. They will be useful in expanding your hold over terrain, and attacking and defending from enemy land units.
- Navy: your sea units. Crossing the seas will be impossible if you don't invest in this.
- Air Force: your air units. While, initially, they will be of no importance, they will later be useful as transports or powerful support from above for land and sea units.
- Magic: any units that use magic go here. Of course, depending on how your people use magic, then maybe some of these units belong to other place. It also includes any investigative work you do with magic.
The Stats will then have 2 numbers attached to it
- The Dice Pool. This will be divided between the different sub-stats (for example, if Economy has a Dice Pool of 12, it could be divided in 5 for Mines, 3 for Trade Routes and 5 for Roads) and are the basis for all the actions. When you decide to do something (for example, you want to expand the size of the Mines) you allocate a number of dice to said action (in our example, you could allocate up to 5 dice from the Mines, plus any others from other stats) and, depending on the numbers obtained, you gain new dice in that sub-stat. A sub-stat's maximum is 10.
- The Success Rate. This is expressed in terms of a percentage, and determines the possibility of an action being successful. For example, in the previous example, if Economy were to have a 60% Success Rate, then 6 out of each 10 times you will succeed.
Actions & Orders
Every turn, you will be able to spend all of your Dice Pool in improving your stats. The Dice Pool is not used up, though: when a sub-stat gains a dice, it can only be lost through enemy action, time and random events. The success of the action, of course, will depend on the Success Rate associated with the corresponding Stat. Of course, this expense must have some reasoning behind it: you cannot hope to build up your army by investing the Dice Pool for Roads, but if you use what you have in Iron Mines, then it is possible to do so.
About Orders, well, these are easy: you have to tell me which dice you want to spend on each thing.
Stories
In some NESes, stories can get you a little something sometimes. In others, stories are fundamental for you. Here, I will take a middle approach: all stories will gain rewards.
Of course, the size of these rewards will depend on the length of the story and how good I felt it was (yeah, subjective, but, well, it is not easy to be objective), although if you write it well, I'll give you points.
For most stories, the rewards will be a temporary boost to the Success Rate of one of the Stats or extra dice added to the action described in the story. For example, if your story is about your soldiers getting ready for a battle with an enemy that threatens your nation, then you might get a slightly higher chance of success or more possibilities of winning. However, if it is about the markets in the capital, then you can get those for the development of a market system or even for the creation of an economic system based on the coin instead of barter.
However, for really good stories, there will be extra dice directly added to a sub-stat. If you write about the training your mages undergo with good detail? Then your mages can get, at least, 1 dice to a sub-stat about Training, under the Stat Magic.
When you are beginning...
When you begin, I will need the following data:
- Nation Name: how your nation will call itself. If you add the name of the people (e.g. the people from Liverpool are called Liverpudlians or Liverpoolers), then you make it easier for me.
- Race: name and an explanation of what your people are. Make sure that you can play as something you are willing to be. For example, if you play as a bunch of guys that hate to cut off trees, make sure that you actually follow on those rules or suffer.
- Starting place: well, if I didn't know this, then it would be difficult for me to place you somewhere, right?
- Color: this helps distinguish your nation from others. If you give me the RGB code for your color, great. If not, I'll try to get the most similar color to what you want.
- Stat Allocation: you begin with 28 dice and a total 400% Success Rate. The 28 dice must be given to each stat in "packs" of decreasing size (from 7 to 0), with Air Force getting 0 dice by principle: you can create your initial sub-stats at the same time (but, please, make sure it is something that fits with the current technological level, which at the beginning is the Stone Age). As for the Success Rate, each of the 8 stats has a Success Rate between 30% and 70%.
- Background: this one is optional, but helps me work on updates about you.
- Magic: a short explanation of how your magic works and is structured. If it depends on rituals, uses runes, depends on special charms, everybody is able to use it or only a few... The best you explain it, the best for you (and the more diverse, the more you can get away with
).
Orders
This is a set of orders based on the stats I published on the New NESes thread:
Spoiler :
. If you ever want to make a project of a special kind (like the mentioned Proyecto Pájaro in the stats) you have to do it by phases, by first creating the base from which you get everything else. In my case, I first developed my iron industry and my runic magic, then Magical Iron to create iron able to absorb magic and use it for anything, and finally the Project itself, which was to create the first flying machine, using magic to power up everything.
) can channel it, and teach others to channel it. Magic is accomplished through rituals, which gain in power according to the number of casters. Summoning demons is a fairly common trick, particularly for stronger mages. Summoned demons, along with regular ol' pointy-stick-equipped men, also forms the bulk of armies. Even the Hectomages fight with weaponry (though magic-imbued), because rituals are not suited to battle conditions.
