Kingdoms of Khoyee (MMO Tabletop RPG)

[OtomostheCrazy]

I'm making an Elfein laborer/beastmaster that uses a greatbow, but I have some questions. The first would be if there's any specifics on the background of Elfeins, and if there are any backstories to choose from that aren't custom made?

[dreamer]

I'm making an Elfein laborer/beastmaster that uses a greatbow, but I have some questions. The first would be if there's any specifics on the background of Elfeins, and if there are any backstories to choose from that aren't custom made?

@OtomostheCrazy

Some default backstories will be made but they are low on my to do list. I figure most of you will choose to make custom ones on the forums and it's more important to get maps, creatures, weapons, skills, etc done.

I don't have a lot of details on any of the races, they were a last minute idea to give people the option to have a non-human character, then I came up with some race traits to make it more than a cosmetic. If you guys want to come up with lore I'm totally up for it.

On the note of Elfein's though I picture them more like the Greek concept of elves that mixes with pixies and such where they are spirits of nature, made of plants and such, not elves like LotR kind of elves.

[OtomostheCrazy]

Name: Autumn

Age:

Appearance:

Picture

(NOTE: May be subject to change)

Race: Elfein

Height: 6'0"

Build: Skinny

Skin: Wood

Eyes: Green

Hair: Wood

Backstory: There was once a tree that grew from a skylight within a cave. It was a lonesome thing, growing as the only living thing aside from insects crawling around. If it was simply left alone, it would have eventually withered away. Of course, as many stories go, something happened. A person wandered into the cave and found the tree. A smithy that was looking for proper materials to hone their craft. The moment they found the tree, they had decided to visit often. It eventually became that person's favorite spot. Under its branches, they would design new things, read notes on their findings of the materials within the cave, and occasionally play an instrument or take a nap. For the first time ever, the tree was not alone. It began to feel comfort in the visitor's company.

Eventually, however, the visitor disappeared. They had simply stopped. The tree felt loneliness because of this. It was familiar, but new. Before, it knew nothing but loneliness, but now it could feel it for what it truly was. It hated the feeling. It longed for the visitor's company again. So much so that its will was heard by the forces beyond, and allowed a new form. The tree was no more, but in its place was a woman made of magic and wood. Wasting no time, she left the cave in search for the visitor...She found their corpse in a small shack. In that moment, she learned of despair.

In her sadness, she buried the visitor in her former spot, hoping that they would one day return as one of her own. She would dream of the day that would happen. The day where she would visit them, read to them, play to them, sleep on their branches. But that would take time. She would need to do something in her wait...

Primary Role: Laborer

Secondary Role: Beastmaster

Starting Weapon: Greatbow

Stats:

Statistics

Aura: 50

Health: 150

Strength: 3

Dex: 0

Intelligence: 3

Fortitude: 1

Stun Resist: 25/25

Pierce Resist: 1

[dreamer]

Name: Autumn

Age:

Appearance:

Picture

(NOTE: May be subject to change)

Race: Elfein

Height: 6'0"

Build: Skinny

Skin: Wood

Eyes: Green

Hair: Wood

Backstory: There was once a tree that grew from a skylight within a cave. It was a lonesome thing, growing as the only living thing aside from insects crawling around. If it was simply left alone, it would have eventually withered away. Of course, as many stories go, something happened. A person wandered into the cave and found the tree. A smithy that was looking for proper materials to hone their craft. The moment they found the tree, they had decided to visit often. It eventually became that person's favorite spot. Under its branches, they would design new things, read notes on their findings of the materials within the cave, and occasionally play an instrument or take a nap. For the first time ever, the tree was not alone. It began to feel comfort in the visitor's company.

Eventually, however, the visitor disappeared. They had simply stopped. The tree felt loneliness because of this. It was familiar, but new. Before, it knew nothing but loneliness, but now it could feel it for what it truly was. It hated the feeling. It longed for the visitor's company again. So much so that its will was heard by the forces beyond, and allowed a new form. The tree was no more, but in its place was a woman made of magic and wood. Wasting no time, she left the cave in search for the visitor...She found their corpse in a small shack. In that moment, she learned of despair.

In her sadness, she buried the visitor in her former spot, hoping that they would one day return as one of her own. She would dream of the day that would happen. The day where she would visit them, read to them, play to them, sleep on their branches. But that would take time. She would need to do something in her wait...

Primary Role: Laborer

Secondary Role: Beastmaster

Starting Weapon: Greatbow

Stats:

Statistics

Aura: 50

Health: 150

Strength: 3

Dex: 0

Intelligence: 3

Fortitude: 1

Stun Resist: 25/25

Pierce Resist: 1

@OtomostheCrazy

Awesome, I like the direction you went with the Elfein. Also finally after ten characters (from my three parties so far) someone didn't go Combatant as their secondary role. I'm very interested to see how that plays out. Depending on if any of you decide to build your own province I can see you being a very valuable asset to said province.

Adding Autumn to the party list :)

Edit #1: Added @Jerkchicken's character to the list. Forgot to do that after the corrections, my b.

Also if any of you are somewhat talented artist (I'm certainly not) I would appreciate some icons to use in the maps I'm making for you guys. Mainly for resources, so like a tree icon could be a few different colors to represent the different Tiers of Tree/Wood. I tried drawing some myself and they were awful XD

[OtomostheCrazy]

Is there a list of characters for each group?

[dreamer]

Is there a list of characters for each group?

@OtomostheCrazy

I'll be adding the other two parties to the forum next Saturday. We were playing the game old-fashioned pen and paper way and I didn't collect their character sheets before splitting up.

Edit #1: Added some resources to the op.

Resources

Hunting

Meat
Tiers I-V
Used primarily as a cooking ingredient

Hide
Tiers I-V
Used primarily for crafting armor

Horns
Tiers I-V
Used primarily for crafting weapons

Lumberjack

Wood
Tiers I-V
Used primarily in construction

Mining

Ore
Tiers I-V
Used primarily in crafting weapons and armor

Farming

Cotton
Tiers I-III
Used primarily in crafting light armor

Silk
Tiers IV-V
Used primarily in crafting light armor

Carrot
Tier I
Used primarily in cooking

Lettuce
Tier II
Used primarily in cooking
Pear
Tier II
Fruit used primarily in cooking

Corn
Tier III
Vegetable used primarily in cooking

Apple
Tier III
Fruit used primarily in cooking

Wheat
Tier III
Grain used primarily in cooking

[OtomostheCrazy]

...Wait, did anyone else try to become a gatherer or something? If not, then this might get a little difficult

[Jerkchicken]

resource gathering is for chumps

just kill things and take their stuff

[OtomostheCrazy]

I don't think I can make a building out of random bits and bobbles alone.

[dreamer]

...Wait, did anyone else try to become a gatherer or something? If not, then this might get a little difficult

@OtomostheCrazy

Everyone can earn experience in every role, just your primary and secondary is what you level up fastest. But you're right if you become an excellent carpenter you will depend upon either players or NPCs becoming excellent Lumberjacks.

resource gathering is for chumps

just kill things and take their stuff

@Jerkchicken

Spoken like a true warrior!

In other news, added some more information to Kingdom Building in regards to clearing regions and turning them into districts.

Clearing Land and Districts

A leader can choose to clear a region to establish a Province or to add Districts to an already established Province. Clearing land takes a large amount of resources, manpower, and time to complete but turns the region into a cluster of plots of land.

Clearing a Region
Clearing a region will completely remove that region from the game world and turn it into either a Province or a District of a Province. In order to clear land you will need to do the following...

• Designate a Region for clearing, the map name will be adjusted to Region X - Marked for Clearing.
• Pacify all Areas within the Region. An Area is considered pacified once a party of players or NPCs has defeated all foes in the Area. An area remains pacified for 1 day.
• Harvest all Resource Points in the Region. A Resource Point is a spot in which resources spawn daily.
• Keep all resources harvested and all regions pacified for 3 days in a row, if an entire day goes by without meeting this requirement the region will no longer be marked for clearing.

Clearing a Region means you will no longer be able to gather resources in that location and thus you must decide if plots of land to build upon are more valuable than the resources that would otherwise be found there.

Districts
Districts function much like a Province, the plots of land can be built upon in what way you see fit. Districts simply expand your Province beyond its prior boundaries. Districts will have their own needs that may vary from the rest of your Province. For example, you will need to build walls and station guards in a District as you had with your the rest of your Province. Districts can also be taxed individually so you can divide up the wealthy and working classes as you see fit, just remember that high taxes may lead to rebellion within your District.

Edit #1: Created a Discord channel for those of you who want to chat more frequently!

[Jerkchicken]

Are resource gatherers/crafters like omni-disciplinary for game play purposes or do you need to specialize in x thing?

[OtomostheCrazy]

@Jerkchicken The right resources give characters like mine the ability to build better things like Siege engines and towns.

[dreamer]

Are resource gatherers/crafters like omni-disciplinary for game play purposes or do you need to specialize in x thing?

@Jerkchicken

Early on when we're first getting started being more general in your skills might be best, like when a settlement is first established they don't really need rare resources they just need a bit of everything, but when you're dealing with the more late game kingdoms they might need someone who is a Tier V Blacksmith rather than a Tier III Carpenter/Blacksmith mix.

Edit #1: More resources added to the list and Meatloaf under cooking skills was changed to Lamb Chops to make sense with the farming animal being sheep.

More Resources

Sheep
Tier I
Can be regularly harvested for wool or butchered for Tier I meat

Pig
Tier II
Can be butchered for Tier II meat

Cow
Tier III
Can be regularly harvested for milk or butchered for Tier III meat

Cooking
Basic Ingredients
Tier I
Used primarily in cooking Tier I meals

Stew
Tier I
Heals half a party’s health

Vegetable Soup
Tier I
Increases a party’s mana by 25% for the next engagement

Lamb Chops
Tier I
Increases roll results for an individual by 1 for the rest of the day

Advanced Ingredients
Tier II
Used primarily in cooking Tier II meals

Three Course Meal
Tier II
Heals all of a party’s health

Fruit Salad
Tier II
Party has 10% aura regeneration for the next engagement

Roast
Tier II
Give an individual a free attack once per engagement for the rest of the day

Rare Ingredients
Tier III
Used primarily in cooking Tier III meals

Feast
Tier III
Recovers the party's health entirely and increases it by 50%, non-recoverable

Apple Pie
Tier III
Gives the party a deflective barrier that negates the damage of a single attack

Steak
Tier III
Gives an individual haste for the rest of the day

[Jerkchicken]

How many resource types are gonna be ? Because I wonder if given the low amount of people if everything could be feasibly touched upon to progress to a high enough level

[OtomostheCrazy]

You can still have skills in the thing, you just won't be able to get much experience from the action, from my understanding

[dreamer]

You can still have skills in the thing, you just won't be able to get much experience from the action, from my understanding

@OtomostheCrazy

That's right :D

How many resource types are gonna be ? Because I wonder if given the low amount of people if everything could be feasibly touched upon to progress to a high enough level

@Jerkchicken

I can't say exactly. It'll likely grow as the game goes on and I'll probably introduce NPCs, or ways to find NPcs, to make up for where players are lacking.

[Jerkchicken]

True, but I'm being conservative in how feasible it would be for someone unskilled to get around to covering a missing resource in the crafting areas, since we don't know a lot about the XP mechanics.

Like I assume there's a base number that scales in proportion to your tier and the type of activity which is then fed to the multiplier that's based if it's a primary or secondary role.

[dreamer]

True, but I'm being conservative in how feasible it would be for someone unskilled to get around to covering a missing resource in the crafting areas, since we don't know a lot about the XP mechanics.

Like I assume there's a base number that scales in proportion to your tier and the type of activity which is then fed to the multiplier that's based if it's a primary or secondary role.

@Jerkchicken

Everything would provide a set amount of exp. Like a Tier I creature and Tier I ore might both provide a similar amount of exp, so both help you with leveling up stat wise, but when it comes to Role exp you need to decide what activity you want to do be it combat, gathering, or what have you.

[Jerkchicken]

Makes sense but I'm also thinking of like the XP required to hit new tiers what not you know?

[dreamer]

Makes sense but I'm also thinking of like the XP required to hit new tiers what not you know?

@Jerkchicken

Currently everything has 100 xp requirement to lvl up and that doubles everytime you level. So 100>200>400>etc