A collab would be nice. Up to you, however. Send me a PM if you're interested.

EDIT: oh fuck yeah should mention you @clocktowerechos

Also, anyone want to have a member of their race be part of the little adventurer party I'm planning? They don't even have to be Hallowed too! :D

It's up to you if any halflings are adventuring on your isle. I have no strong opinion one way or the other, but it's a possibility because Ardonia trades with your land.

A collab would be nice. Up to you, however. Send me a PM if you're interested.

EDIT: oh fuck yeah should mention you @clocktowerechos

Alright, I'll send you a PM about it soon once I decide to actually get some sleep in my system

Also, notifications do not work if they are edited in, fyi.

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It's up to you if any halflings are adventuring on your isle. I have no strong opinion one way or the other, but it's a possibility because Ardonia trades with your land.

-Resists urge to make a hobbit siegward of catarina-

in all honesty, that might actually be a decent course of action given some of the similarities between your haflings and mr onionhat

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Post as you please but don't flood the IC with short 3-paragraph blurbs and try to give people reasonable amounts of time to respond.

I.E.: this is a freeform RP. There's no STRICT rules on posting, but generally just use common sense.

Feel free to post.

I getchyea! And yes, I could use some yew, due to the fact that we do have a shortage of trees on our small island.

@RisenDead:

I do have a couple things to talk about concerning your nation.

In the PM conversation I should've made it clearer that I still needed time to look your sheet over (I was tired last night), so I'm not upset that you posted in the characters tab. There are some changes you need to make, though.

Make them and you're accepted as far as I'm concerned.

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Stories and Legends about Dwarves are true, they like shiney things, and so do Gnomes to some extent. As a result the Mining activities of Khor Kaldhur are extensive and vary in take from common iron and copper ores, to gold and gems, right up to the Sun Crystals. These precious items are used to purchase what the citizens cannot produce themselves.

The Kingdom produces all its own weapons, armour, firearms, machinery, and more. Nearly everything it requires for raw materials can be found within its own borders, though the slow expansion of the population may force the Kingdom to look for more territory.

Spend a little time discussing trade, IMO. Very few nations of the world have NO trade with outside realms, or have ALL the raw materials or produce ALL the goods they need. You need something from trade. Figure out what it is, and figure out what your nation offers in return.

(For example: your skyships use bamboo. Where do you GET that bamboo? It certainly wouldn't come from Fantasy Scandinavia. Does your nation produce enough food? Are there artisan goods someone else makes that would make a good luxury?)

On skyships: as we discussed, I'm okay with allowing them before they're using magic to fuel their energies.

A note, though: those things look REALLY flimsy. Maybe it's just me, but I get the feeling that a few proper well placed cannons facing skyward or a wyvern rider chucking bombs or dudes shooting fiery arrows or a dragon shooting lightning would all be very nasty to the skyship. IMO, take that into consideration, and think about ways to best utilize the usefulness of having a flying wooden fortress overhead of your enemies. If @Willy Vereb is okay with it, I'd go so far as to suggest you have some sort of gnomish/dwarven paratroopers.

Onto the military as a whole: if the flamethrower's tank explodes when shot, he's potentially even MORE dangerous to have around underground. Consider this: a large enough explosion could cause a cave-in. Nobody likes cave-ins. You might want to think about ways they protect their explosive fuel.

Part of me wants to complain about you literally using Warhammer Fantasy units down to the letter of their name for your nation's elite units. Part of me realizes we have a nation that borrows incredibly heavily from Dark Souls already, though, so I'll just ask you consider changing the name and feel free to keep the style/fluff.

A note on guns:

When thinking about your nation's power ask this question: "Can a 15th century nation/army handle this?"

Given that, you brought up the word "Rifles" in your nation's tech. Let me stop you there. You can use blunderbusses, arquebuses, and muskets. You can have grenadiers. You can't use rifles. Rifles are a weapon well beyond 15th century tech. They're the weapons that turn guys with guns into marksmen.

If you want marksmen with similar style tech, use crossbows.

"I'll be back."

@RisenDead I'd rather you NOT post stuff in the Characters tab until I've given you approval. I haven't gotten a chance to look your sheet over in full yet.

You have the stuff copied into a PM with me, yes? So, for now, remove the stuff in the Characters tab. You're not accepted yet and I'd rather see an approved sheet there than an unfinished one.

You can edit it back in after we've talked it over. I've got to drive again in a few minutes so I'll be vanishing for a while (30 min). When I'm done I'll talk to you again.

*Obliterates all trace of previous Char sheets* Blank slate it is.

Part of me wants to complain about you literally using Warhammer Fantasy units down to the letter of their name for your nation's elite units. Part of me realizes we have a nation that borrows incredibly heavily from Dark Souls already, though, so I'll just ask you consider changing the name and feel free to keep the style/fluff.

Sorry 'bout that >//<

But I'm pretty sure that DS doesn't have magical toast tho :3

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Also, everyone keeps wanting Short's wood, I have good wood too people! >:T

EDIT: That sounded waaaaayyyy more sexual than I intended. Shite >_>

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Sorry 'bout that >//<

But I'm pretty sure that DS doesn't have magical toast tho :3

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Also, everyone keeps wanting Short's wood, I have good wood too people! >:T

EDIT: That sounded waaaaayyyy more sexual than I intended. Shite >_>

It DOES sound sexual. Noice.

And it's fine! You BORROWED from Dark Souls, but it's your own creation that you've made. I mean, I was inspired by Arthurian literature and by Hobbits. There's nothing wrong with taking inspiration from a source if you make something unique with it.

Would anybody like to have been the Rome to my Britain in our setting's antiquity, and as a result, propelled me into the feudal age over a few centuries? My new 'theme' borrows from Celtic/Welsh history and culture.
Nowadays, I'll have been all caught up technologically, with some institutional and societal feel from your 'Rome.'

I'm #6, for reference.

Would anybody like to have been the Rome to my Britain in our setting's antiquity, as a result, propelled me into the feudal age over a few centuries? My new 'theme' borrows from Celtic/Welsh history and culture.
Nowadays, I'll have been all caught up technologically, with some institutional and societal feel from your 'Rome.'

I'm #6, for reference.

The Arcturian Empire = a Rome, inspiring my nation which = a sort of Britain, which could perhaps have helped inspired yours at around the same time?

@ClocktowerEchosYour 'strait of monsters' also coincides with my guys histories since they traversed the seas from the north and their ships had giant claw and tentacle marks on their hulls, having braved dangerous waters. This is getting interesting

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The Arcturian Empire = a Rome, inspiring my nation which = a sort of Britain, which could perhaps have helped inspired yours at around the same time?

I like that route; could the Empire have tried to settle in my nation during its height and abandoned it after the fall, leaving a kind of Romano-British-equivalent culture in my territory? The war with Zhodul, coupled with the dragon incident and the infighting may have contributed to it pulling out of #6.

@AristoCant help you there, but I think our people would be fast friends.

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I like that route; could the Empire have tried to settle in my nation during its height and abandoned it after the fall, leaving a kind of Romano-British-equivalent culture in my territory? The war with Zhodul, coupled with the dragon incident and the infighting may have contributed to it pulling out of #6.

That works perfectly for me. I'll let you decide what the state of our current relations is, but Ardonia is no longer an empire or a binge-conquering land.

But you could be especially Celtic if you wanted. If Arcturia is Rome, then Ardonia is Romano-British, and your nation can be Romano-British or whatever it is you want.

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That works perfectly for me. I'll let you decide what the state of our current relations is, but Ardonia is no longer an empire or a binge-conquering land.

But you could be especially Celtic if you wanted. If Arcturia is Rome, then Ardonia is Romano-British, and your nation can be Romano-British or whatever it is you want.

Excellent; I'll get to work on revising my history. I think that given the course of Arcturia's influence and history within our lands, my people would see themselves as a distinct culture, but having close ties to your society, in a sort of fraternal way.

@POOHEAD189Holy shit, this might be leading somewhere pretty awesome.

Admittingly I originally meant for the monsters to be something created by someone within Mrystrost, but I can definitely find a work around like having the guy actually just making more/deadlier monster upgrades for the original creatures in the Strait.

I also noticed that your people came from a land ruled by "giant beings of untold power" and it gave me an idea: What if Isles of Nal'thaggrasil is actually the Isle of Slivyst which Myrstrost is built on? It almost all would line up as I've also mentioned giants in my NS and that the people of Myrstrost actually prayed to the giants at one point before usurping them and stuff?

This is actually getting me so hyped/excited. I'll comb through your NS to see if there's any way I can fit some more stuff from your ancient people into Mrystrost. It'd fit the Dark Souls-idea I'm going for in a way.