Decamper
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Background
The Qeng Xo Empire completed its conquest of the known world almost three hundred years ago. The first Imperial century saw a peace between nations never thought possible, and the trade of goods, people and ideas brought the three continents closer together than ever before. Peace begins to grate, though, when its held by the edge of a blade. This golden age ended after less than a century when a string of incompetent emperors lead to the decline of imperial legitimacy as governors and local leaders began to accrue their own power independent of the Empire. Peoples from across the three continents gathered around self-labeled kings and warlords promising independence and a return to the days of old when the only men they bent their knees to were of their own blood. They waited for any sign, some chance to break free and claim what they so eagerly sought, and the chance did indeed come to them. In the year 297 of the Imperial calendar, the capital city of the Qeng Xo Empire was destroyed by some unknown calamity, killing the Emperor, his council, much of the Empire’s central bureaucracy, and the elite core of the Imperial army. Nobles and peasants, nationalists and fanatics, priests and generals, rose up across the three continents, ready to claim this new uncertain world for their own.
Introduction
Hi, I’m Decamper. Some of you might know me from around here, NES, or running a game over on the Frontier. I’m still pretty new to all of this, much less running games, but some people seemed to like the last one, so I figure I’ll give another one a shot. The last game ran for 17 updates, so hopefully that means this one will have a good chance of not dying in a month.
The Game
As you might gather from the little blurb up there, The World Becomes Ours is a game will be set in a low/non magical fantasy world during the end of a transcontinental empire. The technology level is roughly comparable to OTL’s 13th century. While the Empire made use of hand cannons and larger siege cannons to great effect, the battlefield is still dominated by archers, crossbowmen, sword and pike infantry and lancers. Players will control factions that rise up amid the crumbling Empire, whether they be royal blood lines that had been lying in waiting, warlords eager to grab whatever they can by force, Imperial governors set on restoring the Empire or founding their own, religious leaders set on building their holy theocracies, or anything else you can think of (within reason). Magic does not exist in this world, but religion is as strong as ever.
For reference, the southern continent is roughly the size of Australia.
I need to give a shout out to SouthernKing, as much of the signup procedure I stole from Kashmir.
Sign up and Faction Building
To create a faction, fill out the below form as detailed or as barebones as you wish, as long as write something for each section. Also, you can make as many factions as you want (within reason)! When the game eventually starts, you will have priority for joining factions you made yourself, but you may join any open faction. The plan is to have the map completely filled when the game starts, either with factions you folk make, or I make myself. Do try to work with other players to make your factions/religions/peoples mesh, if not I may barge in and fix things to the best of my incompetent ability.
Country Name / Player
Colour: Choose the colour of your territory.
Government/Ruler: Basically whatever government you want, as long as it fits within the time period and setting (no communist wizards please). If you have a defined leader, put him/her here as well. Special: If you chose an Imperial governor, you will have access to better equipment and initial troops, but will have a mess of instability to deal with, as well as being hated by most NPCs.
Religion: Go crazy, whatever you want. As I said before, try to work with other players. Note: The Imperial Pantheon basically just absorbed all local gods, so if you don’t want to outline a religion, you’re faction will follow the generic Pantheon.
Values: What do your people value? Strength? Charity? Marmots?
Sample Names: Sample names for people in your country. At least 3 per gender, but more would be lovely.
History: Who are your people? What do they look like? Who is your leader? Did they join the Empire peacefully, or fight against it? Anything you want, as always, try to work with other players.
Claims and Capital City: What territory you claim as your main territory, and where your capital city is. The larger your initial territory is the worse initial stability you will have. If you can, please give me a map. I reserve the right to change your territory to match other players, have better borders, not be ridiculous, etc.
Neighbours: Not necessary, but would be a great help, and give you a bit of an advantage. Describe what the people and countries neighbouring your own are like. By default, neighbouring countries will be roughly modeled off of the nearest player faction in terms of religion, race and culture.
FAQ
Q. When will the real game start?
A. Dunno. Next week, hopefully. Whenever I get the rules hammered out, which will be displayed in the post below as I finalise them.
Q. What are the rules?
A. They will be put up in the below post as I finalise them. The economic rules will be fairly simple, based mostly upon some older NESes that I like the look of. Military rules may be a bit more complicated, as I hope to have a unit creation system somewhat similar to EQ's Capto Iugulum, though a bit simpler.
Q. The map sucks.
A. Not a question, but I agree! I don't do maps well, so this one is based off a civ5 map I liked, hence the wonky climates. Deal with it.
Q. How low fantasy?
A. No magic, no fantasy creatures, only humans.
Q. What kind of cultures can I make? Just Chinese?
A. Anything you want. The Empire was sort of Mongolian/Chinese, but anything and everything else is fine. Just try to work with other players near you.
Q. X is claiming over my territory!
A. Stop being children and work it out between you two, or I'll fix it however I like. Which likely won't be how either of you would like.
Q. I want to yell at you.
A. PMing always works, if a bit slow. I might be on iot chat from time to time. If you use skype, my handle is decampergame, but I might miss your message.
Q. When was X conquered by the Empire?
A. Here you go.
Background
The Qeng Xo Empire completed its conquest of the known world almost three hundred years ago. The first Imperial century saw a peace between nations never thought possible, and the trade of goods, people and ideas brought the three continents closer together than ever before. Peace begins to grate, though, when its held by the edge of a blade. This golden age ended after less than a century when a string of incompetent emperors lead to the decline of imperial legitimacy as governors and local leaders began to accrue their own power independent of the Empire. Peoples from across the three continents gathered around self-labeled kings and warlords promising independence and a return to the days of old when the only men they bent their knees to were of their own blood. They waited for any sign, some chance to break free and claim what they so eagerly sought, and the chance did indeed come to them. In the year 297 of the Imperial calendar, the capital city of the Qeng Xo Empire was destroyed by some unknown calamity, killing the Emperor, his council, much of the Empire’s central bureaucracy, and the elite core of the Imperial army. Nobles and peasants, nationalists and fanatics, priests and generals, rose up across the three continents, ready to claim this new uncertain world for their own.
Introduction
Hi, I’m Decamper. Some of you might know me from around here, NES, or running a game over on the Frontier. I’m still pretty new to all of this, much less running games, but some people seemed to like the last one, so I figure I’ll give another one a shot. The last game ran for 17 updates, so hopefully that means this one will have a good chance of not dying in a month.
The Game
As you might gather from the little blurb up there, The World Becomes Ours is a game will be set in a low/non magical fantasy world during the end of a transcontinental empire. The technology level is roughly comparable to OTL’s 13th century. While the Empire made use of hand cannons and larger siege cannons to great effect, the battlefield is still dominated by archers, crossbowmen, sword and pike infantry and lancers. Players will control factions that rise up amid the crumbling Empire, whether they be royal blood lines that had been lying in waiting, warlords eager to grab whatever they can by force, Imperial governors set on restoring the Empire or founding their own, religious leaders set on building their holy theocracies, or anything else you can think of (within reason). Magic does not exist in this world, but religion is as strong as ever.
Spoiler blank map :
Spoiler climate map :
For reference, the southern continent is roughly the size of Australia.
I need to give a shout out to SouthernKing, as much of the signup procedure I stole from Kashmir.
Sign up and Faction Building
To create a faction, fill out the below form as detailed or as barebones as you wish, as long as write something for each section. Also, you can make as many factions as you want (within reason)! When the game eventually starts, you will have priority for joining factions you made yourself, but you may join any open faction. The plan is to have the map completely filled when the game starts, either with factions you folk make, or I make myself. Do try to work with other players to make your factions/religions/peoples mesh, if not I may barge in and fix things to the best of my incompetent ability.
Country Name / Player
Colour: Choose the colour of your territory.
Government/Ruler: Basically whatever government you want, as long as it fits within the time period and setting (no communist wizards please). If you have a defined leader, put him/her here as well. Special: If you chose an Imperial governor, you will have access to better equipment and initial troops, but will have a mess of instability to deal with, as well as being hated by most NPCs.
Religion: Go crazy, whatever you want. As I said before, try to work with other players. Note: The Imperial Pantheon basically just absorbed all local gods, so if you don’t want to outline a religion, you’re faction will follow the generic Pantheon.
Values: What do your people value? Strength? Charity? Marmots?
Sample Names: Sample names for people in your country. At least 3 per gender, but more would be lovely.
History: Who are your people? What do they look like? Who is your leader? Did they join the Empire peacefully, or fight against it? Anything you want, as always, try to work with other players.
Claims and Capital City: What territory you claim as your main territory, and where your capital city is. The larger your initial territory is the worse initial stability you will have. If you can, please give me a map. I reserve the right to change your territory to match other players, have better borders, not be ridiculous, etc.
Neighbours: Not necessary, but would be a great help, and give you a bit of an advantage. Describe what the people and countries neighbouring your own are like. By default, neighbouring countries will be roughly modeled off of the nearest player faction in terms of religion, race and culture.
Spoiler example claims map :
FAQ
Q. When will the real game start?
A. Dunno. Next week, hopefully. Whenever I get the rules hammered out, which will be displayed in the post below as I finalise them.
Q. What are the rules?
A. They will be put up in the below post as I finalise them. The economic rules will be fairly simple, based mostly upon some older NESes that I like the look of. Military rules may be a bit more complicated, as I hope to have a unit creation system somewhat similar to EQ's Capto Iugulum, though a bit simpler.
Q. The map sucks.
A. Not a question, but I agree! I don't do maps well, so this one is based off a civ5 map I liked, hence the wonky climates. Deal with it.
Q. How low fantasy?
A. No magic, no fantasy creatures, only humans.
Q. What kind of cultures can I make? Just Chinese?
A. Anything you want. The Empire was sort of Mongolian/Chinese, but anything and everything else is fine. Just try to work with other players near you.
Q. X is claiming over my territory!
A. Stop being children and work it out between you two, or I'll fix it however I like. Which likely won't be how either of you would like.
Q. I want to yell at you.
A. PMing always works, if a bit slow. I might be on iot chat from time to time. If you use skype, my handle is decampergame, but I might miss your message.
Q. When was X conquered by the Empire?
A. Here you go.
Spoiler RULESwip :
