Strange Rodent

Catalyst: The Trading Card Game (Reboot)

@Dynamo Frokane

So I only get to use a card once a campaign or once a fight?

Age of Rebirth: The Rising Tide [Post-Apocolyptic NRP | Always open]

Okay, my idea so far. Very rough, and heavily WIP. Honestly just posting this so it's still here tomorrow and not deleted as a draft.

The Free United Nations (TFUN)

Nation Name: The Free United Nations (TFUN)

Flag/Banner(s): None, yet.

Political Environment and Government Type: I'm going to put this in hider dot point things to organise my thoughts a little more.

Warlords

Warlords act as rulers over their individual cities. They are bound by The Free Uniting Pact (TFUP) to enforce very few laws in their city. By custom, if a Warlord is killed, their killer takes rule. This is unlikely if the Warlord is well liked, which they'd better be for fear of assassination. If a Warlord is not killed and dies of sickness or age, the first person to assume the mark of power for that city becomes the new Warlord (this can be a throne, a staff, a crown, shit like that). This usually has a ritual before it, involving competition with other candidates, but there's nothing apart from stigma to stop someone forgoing this ritual.

Anarchy Management

So basically justice is fit to be served by any five people not involved in the perceived wrongdoing. If these five people disagree they will have to make the vote unanimous in any way they see fit (debate, murder, threat) Justice is complicated. The large majority of the people follow a loose moral code, generally something along the lines of "Everything is appropriate at different times.". Apart from this strange cultural habit, there is no formal justice system.

Jajeme

This is the only city protected from the inside by TFUP. If anyone within TFUN attacks Jajeme, they will face the wrath of all the other cities. The Warlord of Jajeme doesn't follow normal rules either. The Warlord has several students he has chosen, usually about 5. These students take it in turns to run certain aspects of the city so the Warlord can evaluate them. When the Warlord dies any way the students appeal to the Warlords of the other capitals, who must make a unanimous vote on a student (again, by any means.). The Warlord of Jajeme ensures the safety of TFUN as a whole, and enforces the rules put in place by TFUP.

The Free United Pact

The rules enforced by TFUP are as follows:

• It is our responsibility to punish any Warlord who neglects his responsibilities.
• It is our responsibility to defend Jajeme.
• It is our responsibility to forget conflict if Jajeme asks, until Jajeme sees fit to resume the conflict.
• It is our responsibility to defend cities of TFUN from outside forces.
• It is a Warlord's responsibility to only control one capital at once.
• It is a citizen's responsibility to dethrone an unworthy Warlord.

Location On Map:

Excuse the shitty MS paint thing

Demographics (Religious and Racial):
TFUN is a melting pot of different ethnicities. This is a breakdown only of the most common:

• East African (28%)
• Arabic (22%)
• Eastern European (15%)
• Central African (12%)
• West Asian (14%)
• Other (9%)

TFUN follow a strange religion where all gods are accepted as true and real. No god is able to contradict another god because its teachings only apply to the followers of that god.
Demographics (Other)

Culture:

Important States and Cities:

Jajeme

The capital of TFUN, and founded as the free uniting pact was formed. A city large enough to be a state itself. Centerpoint of all other TFUN cities

Sevre

The most inland and out of touch city of TFUN. Fairly undiverse, but they became wealthy with the discovery of large amounts of metals in the craters surrounding what was The Great Rift Valley.

Eljawhera

The gateway to the east, Eljawhera is a very diverse city. The center of trade with the east, if trade is occurring. Anything that wants to get to TFUN's core by sea has to get past Eljawhera and Jajanhart.

Jajanhart

A formidable military force with a decent navy. Jajanhart is a chaotic city that erupts quickly, and with force. Usually trades salt and seafood, as it is perched between the Red Sea and the Indian Ocean.

Seme

(Pronounced SH-ehm) Is a largely agricultural city due to the minerals found in the soil. However, as the main defense against the Mare Nostrum it still holds an army comparable in size to Jajanhart. Center of trade for eastern and southern Europe.

History:

It's 1:00 here. I will edit this with a finish tomorrow.

Other:

Catalyst: The Trading Card Game (Reboot)

@Dynamo Frokane

Basically when you rest at a Bonfire (the checkpoints... kinda) you can attune a spell. Each spell can be cast only a certain number of times. After you cast it that many times you have to rest at a Bonfire again to renew the charges.

The comparison is that the cards are like the spells, and in one fight you may use any given card a certain number of times before it runs out of 'charges'.

Catalyst: The Trading Card Game (Reboot)

@Dynamo Frokane

Oh, cool. So the cards are more similar to abilities your characters have? The numbers of said cards are more like charges of spells in Dark Souls 1 & 2?

Age of Rebirth: The Rising Tide [Post-Apocolyptic NRP | Always open]

I'll get started then. Thoughts on an anarchist collective ruling around the Horn of Africa/Arabian Plate?

Catalyst: The Trading Card Game (Reboot)

This looks interesting, but the rules of the card game seem rather vague. Are there turns? If so, how are they structured? Is there an attack phase, draw phase, etc... How many cards can be drawn/played per turn? Or is this more of a freeform card combat like season 1 of Yu-Gi-Oh where pretty much any kind of shenanigans could happen?

Players have set life percentages, but none of the cards deal set damage percentages. How much is "a lot" or "a little" damage? Also, how is it confirmed that damage is dealt? Is there a chance for players to react, like in Magic: The Gathering, or is it like Hearthstone where you just gotta sit and take it?

Since card combat seems to be a major part of this, I'd like to know exactly how it works before I commit with a character.

@Raging Fenrir

I'd like to know this as well, but am still ready to commit either way.

Age of Rebirth: The Rising Tide [Post-Apocolyptic NRP | Always open]

Are you still accepting entries? I find this insanely interesting.

Catalyst: The Trading Card Game (Reboot)

Sick. Rad. Awesome. Tubular?... That sounds fucking horrendous. Forget I said it.

Catalyst: The Trading Card Game (Reboot)

@Dynamo Frokane

Couldn't find anything too close to how I envisioned him, but the edit should be close enough. Right after I figure out how to upload an image.

EDIT: I figured it out. Shitty and inaccurate image uploaded

Pate Yves

Name: Pate Yves
Influence: 3
Height: Around 5'9"
Weight: 35 kg
Age: Young.
Species: Human
Appearance: Scary lanky, almost skin and bones. He wears coarse woven, baggy pants; Worn button up boots, buttoned only to the ankles, unless taking off in a ship of some kind. Then they're buttoned all the way up to prevent blood from pooling in the legs; A ragged vest made of some kind of tanned leather?; and a mask resembling a smiling face, only the smile is how you'd expect a corpse to smile, and the eyes are deep black pools, seemingly deeper than the Void itself.

Occupation: Former 'courier'. Dealing in extreme and delicate goods. That didn't pay enough, so he started doing 'street' racing to make extra. Eventually his ship was destroyed. As a consequence he was fired from his courier job and could no longer race. He was begging for a good while, until he managed to stow away multiple times in a row to get off the planet.
Interests: Ships/Planes/Vessels, Tasty data, interplanetary trade, neurology, and money.
Personality: A think on the fly kinda guy. Likes to mimic the personalities of others to see what results he gets. Dislikes those who follow without question. At core though, he is a reciprocal person. If you're kind to him, he's kind to you. If you shoot him, he will plot revenge.

Abilities/talents:

Vessels(2): Due to his extensive flight experience he has acquired many tricks. Saving fuel, using planetary gravity, necessary weight, vehicle repairs and optmisation, etc.

Software manipulation(2): He pursued programming as a hobby for a while, just because he enjoyed doing it.

Neurology and people reading(2): Again, pure interest birthed this. He is able to read other's emotions and mimic their personalities on a basic level.

Items:

Modular ship improvements(4): Using his knowledge of Vessels and Programming he was able to devise a device that could easily plug into almost any ship to augment it's qualities by redirecting power, drawing latent energy from space, and even accepting blood sacrifices to overdrive certain systems. Usually this will be used to temporarily increase a ship's thruster capacity at the cost of weaponry etc., but sometimes Pate lets blood into it to significantly overdrive all systems. It features a system that holographically shows the ship's systems, current fuel, wasted or latent power, co-ordinates, registered crew members, and various other systems. He got 2 of these built by a well-recognised engineer while he was still 'couriering' and got his boss to pay for them under work expenses. The bastard.

Utility rifle(2): Although he can't fight very well, it serves a decent factor for intimidation. As a utility rifle it accepts many mods and can handle a lot of abuse, but isn't especially special in any other way. He usually carries 3 mags max.

Fucked up mask(1?): A mask that serves to conceal his face and distort his voice. Doesn't serve any special needs aside from intimidation and identification within the 'street' racing scene.

Other notable things about Pate: He can't fight to save his life (eh? eh?). Usually he'd be more than happy to hide or find the nearest getaway solution.