Civilization 6: ENTRIES for 2nd Round CLOSED

[BadgeAddict]

what may explode in what for us, will also explode in water for our enemies....sure, you'll have to come up with a way to safely contain it, but then you'll be able to weaponize it...here is the biggest question, if we have access to it, do our enemies have access to it as well?

I kind of like claws also though...the ability both to dig and extra strong attacks versus our enemies...

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You may choose 4 "cost" of Tweaks
(-3) 9 - PRO (Gathers, Badge, Kide, Nikohl, NerdSavant, Dlover, Bahamut, quarg,kida)
(-1) 9 - Mundivore (Davecom, Dlover, Bahamut, D34d, JibJib, Madmartin,gathers, Nikohl, Kelten)
(-1) 6 - Claws (Alaen, SVM, NerdSavant, JibJib, NewOne, Badge)
(-1) 5 - Redstone (Alaen, Kida, NewOne, Kide, quarg)
(-2) 4 - Interracial+ (Chuck, Madmartin, SVM, Davecom)
(-1) 3 - Space (Kelten, D34d, Saru)
(-1) 3 - Toxic (JibJib, D34d, NewOne)
(-1) 2 - UnderDark Connections (Madmartin, Kelten)
(-1) 3 - Toxic (JibJib, D34d, NewOne)
(-1) 2 - Valley ( JibJib, D34d)
(-1) 1 - Carnivore (Kelten)
(-2) 1 - Celestial Event+ (Alaen)
(-1) 1 - Lava Layer (SVM)
(-1) 1 - Nightstalker (Davecom)
(-1) 1 - nomadic (Chuck)
(-1) 1 - Population- (Chuck)

[Dlover]

The tweak only says the world has it. Which means anybody can gain access to it. And weaponisation is what I'm worried about. I'm concerned that we won't work it out before others, and it will prove a great danger to our ships.

[BadgeAddict]

Okay, so, i agree with nixing redstone, we may be able to become more powerful, but so will our enemies....how do you feel about claws?

[Dlover]

I can't find any problems with claws. It seems like an overall positive, since we would likely board enemy ships to take their cargo, and close-range power would be important then. I wouldn't oppose it, but with only four tweaks I wouldn't vote for it myself, since I'm aiming for Pro, partially to fix the extra arms problem I contributed to and partially because it seems awesome, and I have a feeling food will be a problem for a seafaring civilisation. I think claws is a viable alternative to mundivore, though, and I'll vote for it if a good amount of people decide food won't be a problem.

[BadgeAddict]

You know, going Pro will enable us to roll 2x when attempting to find food....also, has any of you actually read the ogres racial power which we got...from how Aegis explained it, He will roll yes/no for one of the voting options and and will know before we vote (on one action) whether it succeeds or not.....again, finding food shouldn't be a problem.

i personally don't think food finding will be difficult, and if everyone agrees that mundivore is the right option, whats wrong with just eating the food we want to eat anyways... there are fish in the ocean, and we can create a method of turning saltwater into drinking water.

[Dlover]

Hmm, that is true, the benefit of Pro would help with getting food, even if we resort to fishing while at sea. The crew would probably start fishing a fair time before running out of supplies, so there's a good chance they could scrounge together something. It's a very good point... I don't know, I'm too tired to make proper decisions right now. Tomorrow I'll see what everyone thinks. And if votes are locked in that time... Well, if five or six people agree, I'll change from Mundivore to Claws.

[ChuckDaRighteous]

Yeah, I'm not for food tweaks. I don't think its necessary. Claws don't work against dragons or stronger metals. And I'd rather not go up against an opponent and find out our offense doesn't work. We've got high tech tweaks and pros so I don't think developing strong weapons will be an issue. Personally I'd try to push interracial+ but that won't work with pro since that would be 5 tweaks, and I don't think pro is going to lose. In that case I'd suggest underdark connections. I want a black-market dealer to sell our ill-gotten games to.

Changing my population- vote to underdark connections

[BadgeAddict]

Think of Claws as a good backup to real weapons...

aka - you're fighting and lose your weapons, but oh look, you still have claws...

Plus, mining should be a breeze with claws.

[Aegis J Hyena]

Alright, I'm going to close the votes at midnight tonight. now.

Personally, I l... oh wait, I didn't do a second round of voting, did I?

In that ca... *looks at vote* ... ... ... Hmmm. Nah. My votes wouldn't have an impact, Pro and Mundivore (right now with both 9) are way too far ahead of what I'd pick (Redstone, Toxic, Valley, Claws).

Now then, finalized tweaks!

Basic List

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Dungeon Maze: Dungeon Maze equals Safety BUT If enemies break to your Lair, they are immensely powerful.
Deviant Deity: Spiritual +8 Roll/-20% Difficulty, Sorcery +4 Roll/-10% Difficulty BUT The Deviant Deity Behaves in Weird Ways
Population+: Increased Starting Population 30% of Chledryians, Halfbreeds, Ogres BUT 30% population bonus is a Rogue Faction
Steampunk: Technology Difficulty -25%, Precious Metal Mine BUT Civilization Rival overwrites Tolerance (Tolerance timer 14 months before things Go To Hell)
Pirates: Start with 10 ships BUT "Something always bigger than you..."
Tolerant: First Contact never worse than Neutral BUT Current Racial Wars are fragile truces, there's a cult within, and rival religion preaching extermination
Dragon's Blood: Descendants of an Ancient Wyrm BUT Weak against Dragonslaying
One Life to Live: +2 Wounds to unarmed attacks, Heal 3 wounds a month BUT Cannot be Raised, no Necromancy, 1 in 5 Divine Casters can heal (need to research alternate heal spells at 90+)
Monster Zoo you bastards

THE GOOD

Superbly Healthy: +4 Wounds
Expert Casters: +1 Level for Spells
Improved Critical: Crit Success on 90+ instead of 95+ in Warfare
Big And Strong: Takes 1 less wound of damage 75% of the time
Big And Strong: Takes 1 less wound of damage 50% of the time.
Spiritually Stable: Divine/Shaman magic is 50% harder to dispel
Domestication Bonus: +10 bonus to domesticate big/difficult creatures/magical beasts
Extremely Robust: +3 Wounds, 20% chance to Shrug Off wounds
Steampunk Mastery: Knowledge of Guns, Technology
Technologically Talented: Technology difficulty reduced by 40%.
Divinely Stable: +10 bonus to Spiritual Actions
Skill At War: +6 to Warfare Actions
Nerves of Steel: Immunity to Fear/Morale Breaks
Socially Skilled: Social Rolls twice and uses better result
Skilled Healers: Regenerate 2/month 100%, 3/Month 25%, All Wounds 5%
Mystery Solvent: Something Interesting happens on a 60+ and a Mysterious Event on 70+
Mutation Resistant: 100% Ponies, other races 20%
Supreme Magical Skill: +25 bonus and -30% difficulty to Sorcery and Spiritual
Swordsmanship: +10 bonus to combat Actions and difficulty reduced by 10%
Spider Affinity: 10% of the entire starting population will own trainable Giant Spiders as pets.
Birds of a Feather: Start with Gryphon, Hippogryph, Owlbear allies/mounts
Paws of a Craftsman: +10 to all rolls involving construction of any kind
Healthy: +2 wounds
Sword and Board: -10% difficulty to Warfare rolls when using Sword and Shield
Smart: Research Difficulties -15.
Totemic Strength: Civilization gets powers from a particular animal
Extremely Robust: +5 Wounds, +3 to all Saving Throws
Healthy Population: 90% resistant to Disease, Sickness, Poison, and Necromancy.
Very Big And Very Strong: Take 1 less Wound of damage, 2 Wounds 25% of the time

THE BAD

Somewhat Cursed: Critical Failures are 50% more potent; Hazards 50% to be hostile despite doubles/triples).
Dumb As A Rock: Difficulty for Sorcery/Technology increases by 20%
Dumb As A Rock: Difficulty for Sorcery/Technology increases by 20%
Magic Poor: One caster per 100 members
Stubborn to New Ideas: Aspects advance at 1/3 speed
Not So Magical: Sorcery Difficulty +40%, learn spells at half the normal rate
Sheltered: Social Difficulty to "first contact" rolls Vs non-dwarves +30%, +10% to all other Social rolls
Tribe Before Outsider: Social Difficulty Vs Orcs +30%, +30% to all other Social rolls
Greedy: Big treasures heard about -must- be sought out
Magical Weakness: Weak against Mind-Affecting Spells, Necromancy and Enchantments
Socially Inept: Social results 20% worse than normal
Necrotic Weakness: Weakness to Poison, Demons, Devils, Undead, and Necromancy
Spiritually Open: Weakness to omens, celestial events, divine smites and dreams/nightmares
Wild Magic: 20% Wild Magic
Greater Magical Enemies: Attract large/giant magical monsters
Lloth's Vengance: Lloth could be a BIG problem against the Deviant Deity...
Spidertouched: 5% of entire population is Driders
Dislike of Groundwalkers: Social penalty of -10
Fast Metabolism: Requires 20% more food.
Anti-Technology: -25 to all Technology rolls
Hoarders: There may be faction infighting over rare/valuable treasures
Very Magic Poor: One caster per 250 members
The Black Spiral: Easily corrupted, especially if too much time spent in non-natural surroundings
Pack Before Outsider: Social Difficulty increases by 30% vs other creatures and 10% for other Garou.
Very Stubborn to New Ideas: Aspects advance at 1/4 speed

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SPECIES SPECIFIC (these aren't modifiable by Best of Both Worlds)

Shielded Shell (Chel): Damage Reduction 3 (approximately 1 Wound), 15% absorb Magic Missiles/Ranged Touches
Tied To The Earth (Ogre): +15 to Earth magic Actions, -20% Difficulty
Hallowed (Dwarf): Bonuses vs demons, undead, necromancy, and anything with an "Evil" tag
Natural Armor (Grippli): 5% to ignore 1 Wound
Toxic Skin (Grippli): 3 Wounds on touch, 1 Wound on Spit, 1 Wound one hour later
Smite Evil (Grippli): 3/Day by Tongue
Weather Control (Ponies): Control local weather with 30% accuracy within 500 yards (this scales by 2%/requires 15 Pegasi per Sorcery/Technology level)
Alchemy Expertise (Drow): +15 to any and all rolls concerning Alchemy
Physically Resistant (Simple Celled): Suffer only 1/5 normal damage from physicals
Amazingly Resilient (Simple Celled): Regenerate 5 wounds a month
Chemical Control (Simple Celled): Convert water to acid and back again if immersed in it.
Immense Strength (Formicid): Can carry eight times their own weight
Poison Acid Spit (Formicid): 4 wounds, regenerates after 24 hours, dissolves sedimentary stone quickly.
Earthen Specialists (Formicid): Earth-working rolls twice; use the better result
Four Arms (Formicid): Wield two 2H weapons, or multiple shields/weapons.
Spear Mastery (Skyborne): +6 to hit and damage, roughly equating to 2 or 3 Wounds
Gaia's Aura (Garou): Regenerate 2 wounds a month, immunity to Transmutation and Polymorph, very resistant to Necromancy.
Wings (Skyborne): Medium flight speed
Weak to Elements, Magic (Simple Celled): -5 to Saving Throws, triple damage
No Religion (Formicid, Simple Celled): Gods cannot influence/affect them
Magical Null (Formicid, Simple Celled): Can't cast spells
Slow to Move and Act (Simple Celled): 50% slower, and SAs/FHs take 60% longer to complete.
Delicacies to Lawful Races (Chel): Hunted for their Meat
Boneheaded (Ogre): 10%/5% to forget SA/FH if used; Trance increases at 1/2 speed
Aversion to Metal (Grippli): Using metal in actions = no AP or MP generated
Soul Purity (Ponies): Cannot be raised from the dead
Equipment Failure (Drow): Equipment and gear will rot immediately if exposed to daylight, this includes their Ship
Hivemind (Simple Celled): If "Group Brain" killed, Simple Celled die, Formicids lose cohesion
Extremely weak to Natural Poison, Fire, and Necromancy (Formicid): Saving throw always fails on all of these
Can't Move (Formicid): Immune to Movement-changing spells, including Hold Person, Hold Monster, Haste, Teleport, Blink, Paralysis... but NOT Petrification.
Very Frail (Skyborne): Take 3 extra wounds on a hit
Actively Hunted (Maeterra): Maeterra meat is incredibly nutritious and pelts are used for magic cloaks.
Weak to Silver and Arcane (Garou): suffer 2 additional wounds / +3 DC against it; Silver damage heals at 1 per 4 months
ColdBlooded (Chel, Grippli, Bullfrogs): Suffer in Environmental Extremes
Cannot wield Earth, Poor Water Magic (Skyborne)
Armor Piercing Beak (Skyborne)
Immunity to Acid (Simple Celled)
Horns are valuable (Drowotaur)
Wild Animal (Drowotaur, Bullfrog)
Lack of Hands (Ponies)
Alcoholic (Dwarf)
Cannot tolerate sunlight (Drow)
Frenzy (Garou)
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After rounding up all similar things in their respective good/bad columns, this is the result. Rather than average similar things, I decided to take the best (or worst) part of everything similar, a la Best of Both (or in this case all) Worlds. Some things stacked, some didn't and I just took the higher result (Especially in the case of Social penalties and stubborn to ideas).

Modified List, Pass #1

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THE GOOD

Fit as a Fiddle (+5 Wounds, +3 to All Saving Throws, take 1 less wound of damage, 2 wounds 25% of the time, 20% to ignore wounds outright, 90% resistant to Disease, Sickness, Poison, Necromancy.)
Battle Veteran (Crit Success on 90+ instead of 95+ in Warfare, Immunity to Fear/Morale Breaks, +16 to Warfare Actions, -10% Difficulty to Warfare, -20% if using Sword and Shield.)
Magical Nexus (+1 Level for Spells, Divine/Shaman magic is 50% harder to dispel, Research Difficulties drop by 15, +25 and +35 bonus and -30% difficulty to Sorcery and Spiritual.)
Technical Knowledge (Begin with knowledge of Guns, "Advanced" Technology, Technology Difficulty reduced by 40%, +10 to all rolls involving construction of any kind.)
Animal Husbandry (+10 bonus to domesticate big/difficult creatures/magical beasts, start with Gryphon, Hippogryph, Owlbear allies/mounts, 10% of the entire starting population will own trainable Giant Spiders as pets.)

Socially Skilled (Social Rolls twice and uses better result)
Skilled Healers (Regenerate 2/month 100%, 3/Month 25%, All Wounds 5%)
Mystery Solvent (Something Interesting happens on a 60+ and a Mysterious Event on 70+)
Mutation Resistant (100% Ponies, other races 20%)
Totemic Strength (Civilization gets powers from a particular animal)

THE BAD

Not very Intelligent (Difficulty for Sorcery/Technology increases by 40%/20%, -25 to all Technology rolls, one caster per 250 members, learn spells at half the normal rate.)
Socially Difficult (Social Difficulty +30%, -10 to all rolls, results 20% worse than normal.)
Magical Weaknesses (Weak to Mind-Affecting Spells, Necromancy and Enchantments, Poison, Demons, Devils, Undead, Omens, Celestial Events, Divine Smites and Dreams/Nightmares, 20% for spells to go Wild, attract large/giant magical monsters.)

Greedy (Big treasures heard about -must- be sought out)
Lloth's Vengance (Lloth could be a BIG problem against the Deviant Deity...)
Spidertouched (5% of entire population is Driders)
Fast Metabolism (Requires 20% more food)
Hoarders (There may be faction infighting over rare/valuable treasures)
The Black Spiral (Easily corrupted, especially if too much time spent in non-natural surroundings)
Somewhat Cursed (Critical Failures are 50% more potent; Hazards 50% to be hostile despite doubles/triples).
Very Stubborn to New Ideas (Aspects advance at 1/4 speed)
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After combining "The Good" and "The Bad" of similar things, this is the result. I realize a lot of it doesn't seem to make sense, especially where magic is concerned, but I added together everything similar and that's how it rounded out in my head.

Modified List, Pass #2

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Fit as a Fiddle (+5 Wounds, +3 to All Saving Throws, take 1 less wound of damage, 2 wounds 25% of the time, 20% to ignore wounds outright, 90% resistant to Disease, Sickness, Poison, Necromancy.)
Battle Veteran (Crit Success on 90+ instead of 95+ in Warfare, Immunity to Fear/Morale Breaks, +16 to Warfare Actions, -10% Difficulty to Warfare, -20% if using Sword and Shield.)
Magical Nexus (+1 Level for Spells, Divine/Shaman magic is 50% harder to dispel, Research Difficulties drop by 15, +25 bonus and +10% Difficulty to Sorcery, +35 and -30% Difficulty to Spiritual, one caster per 250 members, learn spells at half the normal rate.)
Magical Weaknesses (Weak to Mind-Affecting Spells, Enchantments, Demons, Devils, Undead, Omens, Celestial Events, Divine Smites and Dreams/Nightmares, 20% for spells to go Wild, attract large/giant magical monsters.)
Technical Knowledge (Begin with knowledge of Guns, "Advanced" Technology, Technology Difficulty reduced by 20%, +10 to all rolls involving construction of any kind, -25 to all Technology rolls)
Animal Husbandry (+10 bonus to domesticate big/difficult creatures/magical beasts, start with Gryphon, Hippogryph, Owlbear allies/mounts, 10% of the entire starting population will own trainable Giant Spiders as pets.)
Socially Difficult (Social Difficulty +30%, -10 to all rolls, results 20% worse than normal, Social rolls twice and uses better result)

Skilled Healers (Regenerate 2/month 100%, 3/Month 25%, All Wounds 5%)
Mystery Solvent (Something Interesting happens on a 60+ and a Mysterious Event on 70+)
Mutation Resistant (100% Ponies, other races 20%)
Totemic Strength (Civilization gets powers from a particular animal)

Greedy (Big treasures heard about -must- be sought out)
Lloth's Vengance (Lloth could be a BIG problem against the Deviant Deity...)
Spidertouched (5% of entire population is Driders)
Fast Metabolism (Requires 20% more food)
Hoarders (There may be faction infighting over rare/valuable treasures)
The Black Spiral (Easily corrupted, especially if too much time spent in non-natural surroundings)
Somewhat Cursed (Critical Failures are 50% more potent; Hazards 50% to be hostile despite doubles/triples).
Very Stubborn to New Ideas (Aspects advance at 1/4 speed)
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And after applying the Best of Both Worlds, we have this.

Modified List, Pass #3

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Fit as a Fiddle (+5 Wounds, +3 to All Saving Throws, take 1 less wound of damage, 2 wounds 35% of the time, 30% to ignore wounds outright, 100% resistant to Disease, Sickness, Poison, Necromancy.)
Battle Veteran (Crit Success on 81+ instead of 95+ in Warfare, Immunity to Fear/Morale Breaks, +18 to Warfare Actions, -20% Difficulty to Warfare, -30% if using Sword and Shield.)
Magical Nexus (+1 Level for Spells, Divine/Shaman magic is 60% harder to dispel, Research Difficulties drop by 16, +28 bonus and -20% Difficulty to Sorcery, +39 and -40% Difficulty to Spiritual, one caster per 175 members, learn spells at half the normal rate.)
Magical Weaknesses (Weak to Mind-Affecting Spells, Enchantments, Demons, Devils, Undead, Omens, Celestial Events, Divine Smites and Dreams/Nightmares, 14% for spells to go Wild Not reducing this to 0, sorry, attract large/giant magical monsters.)
Technical Knowledge (Begin with knowledge of Guns, "Advanced" Technology, Technology Difficulty reduced by 30%, +11 to all rolls involving construction of any kind, -17 to all Technology rolls not reducing THAT to 0 either)
Animal Husbandry (+11 bonus to domesticate big/difficult creatures/magical beasts, start with Gryphon, Hippogryph, Owlbear allies/mounts, 11% of the entire starting population will own trainable Giant Spiders as pets.)
Socially Unpredictable (-7 to all rolls, results 14% worse than normal, Social rolls twice and uses better result) Interesting how almost everything in the social columns was 30%, wiped out by Best of Both Worlds

Skilled Healers (Regenerate 2/month 100%, 3/Month 35%, All Wounds 15%)
Mystery Solvent (Something Interesting happens on a 54+ and a Mysterious Event on 63+) good gods I'm going to be kept on my toes
Mutation Resistant (100% Ponies, other races 30%)
Totemic Strength (Phoenix)

Greedy (Big treasures heard about -must- be sought out)
Lloth's Vengance (Lloth could be a BIG problem against the Deviant Deity...)
Spidertouched (5% of entire population is Driders)
Fast Metabolism (Requires 20% more food)
Hoarders (There may be faction infighting over rare/valuable treasures)
The Black Spiral (Easily corrupted, especially if too much time spent in non-natural surroundings)
Somewhat Cursed (Critical Failures are 20% more potent; Hazards 20% to be hostile despite doubles/triples)
Stubborn to New Ideas (Aspects advance at 1/2 speed)
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FINALLY, (whew!), your finalized List of Racials, with Tweak modifiers added (you didn't make my job easy with a dozen races picked!) is as follows, below. I really don't feel right with Difficulties dropping more than 35% in some cases, nor do I feel right to give Difficulties higher than 100% to compensate, so I capped it at 35%. If the bonus is normally higher than 35, it will increase by 5 every 2 years until the regular bonus it was supposed to have is reached. It just makes things too easy otherwise and it wouldn't be fun were there not an element of risk! Compensated for that by starting the Civilization with 50 Action Points and 25 Mastery Points, and got rid of Somewhat Cursed out of the Chelydrians.

Finalized List:

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Begin in an Abandoned Dungeon Maze
Increased Starting Population 30% of Chledryians, Halfbreeds, Ogres BUT 30% population bonus is a Rogue Faction
First Contact never worse than Neutral
Descendants of an Ancient Wyrm
Deal +2 Wounds to unarmed attacks, heal 3 wounds a month before Rest, stacks with Skilled Healers, increasing that skill
Monster Zoo you bastards
Mundivore: Eat anything
Pro: Roll twice, take better result, AP/MP generated from both rolls goes to the Action Pool
Begin with 3d2+1 Ships: 1+1+2+1 = 7 (1 Large, 2 Medium, 4 Small, not feeling comfortable enough giving you a full fleet of 10, though you'll have resources enough to make more)

Fit as a Fiddle (+5 Wounds, +3 to All Saving Throws, take 1 less wound of damage, 2 wounds 35% of the time, 30% to ignore wounds outright, 100% resistant to Disease, Sickness, Poison, Necromancy.)
Battle Veteran (Crit Success on 81+ instead of 95+ in Warfare, Immunity to Fear/Morale Breaks, +18 to Warfare Actions, -20% Difficulty to Warfare, -30% if using Sword and Shield.)
Magical Nexus (+1 Level for Spells, Divine/Shaman magic is 60% harder to dispel, Research Difficulties drop by 16, +32 bonus and -30% Difficulty to Sorcery, +35(47) and -35%(60%) Difficulty to Spiritual, one caster per 175 members, learn spells at half the normal rate.)
Magical Weaknesses (Weak to Mind-Affecting Spells, Enchantments, Demons, Devils, Undead, Omens, Celestial Events, Dragonslaying, Divine Smites and Dreams/Nightmares, 14% for spells to go Wild Not reducing this to 0, sorry, attract large/giant magical monsters.)
Technical Knowledge (Begin with knowledge of Guns, "Advanced" Technology, Technology Difficulty reduced by 35%(55%), +11 to all rolls involving construction of any kind, -17 to all Technology, start with a Precious Metal Mine rolls not reducing Anti Tech of the Maeterra 0 either)
Animal Husbandry (+11 bonus to domesticate big/difficult creatures/magical beasts, start with Gryphon, Hippogryph, Owlbear allies/mounts, 11% of the entire starting population will own trainable Giant Spiders as pets.)
Socially Unpredictable (-7 to all rolls, results 14% worse than normal, Social rolls twice and uses better result, stacks with Pro)

Skilled Healers (Regenerate 4/month 100%, 5/Month 35%, All Wounds 15%)
Mystery Solvent (Something Interesting happens on a 65+(54+) and a Mysterious Event on 65+(63+)) good gods I'm going to be kept on my toes
Mutation Resistant (100% Ponies, other races 30%)
Totemic Strength (Phoenix)

Cannot be Raised
Necromancy Forbidden
Only 1 in 5 Divine Casters can heal (need to research alternate heal spells at 90+)
Current Racial Wars are fragile truces; not guaranteed to stay that way
Cult of Extermination within the Civilization
Civilization Rival overwrites Tolerance (Tolerance will last about a year and a half); rival rolled randomly out of six civilizations around you; the result was Valkyries
Rival Religion (Valkyries) preaching Extermination
Deviant Deity has very Strange Ways
Greedy (Big treasures heard about -must- be sought out)
Lloth's Vengance (Lloth could be a BIG problem against the Deviant Deity...)
Spidertouched (5% of entire population is Driders!)
Mundivore + Fast Metabolism (Requires 170% more food)
Hoarders (There may be faction infighting over rare/valuable treasures)
The Black Spiral (Easily corrupted, especially if too much time spent in non-natural surroundings)
Stubborn to New Ideas (Aspects advance at 1/2 speed)

And there you have it. I'm going to work out the particulars of the storyline based on all this, and on July 6th 7th we'll kick off with the Prologue. Some of the bonuses you have may be tied to physical objects, and if those are wrecked then you lose the bonus (gotta give you -something- to do when you're not burning and pillaging...) Given the Rogue Faction, the Cult, and some other things, what I'm also going to do is just say it's a population of 70 per vote from earlier instead of specialized skills (you'll be able to specialize soon enough!) --- it makes it much easier on me to begin with!

[Alaen]

So to summarize: We are terrifying in combat, have advanced technology to further our advantage, we heal incredibly fast, and while we don't have a lot of casters they are very powerful.

I can live with that.

[GathersIngredients]

So, if we pick half-breeds, do we get the 35 of each parent race, too, plus the 70 half breeds, or ONLY the 70 half breeds?

And, AW, MAN! I had it all mapped out so nicely for my contingent of people.

Oh, and about the 5% driders: will they be drow-spider only or other races, too? (I want my Mino-Driders! )

@ Alaen: you forgot: we can (and WILL) eat EVERYTHING. (anyone ever played "tasty planet"? )

Oh, and @ Aegis: what was the last verdict on our breeding and maturing times & rates?

[Alaen]

Oh, and about the 5% driders: will they be drow-spider only or other races, too? (I want my Mino-Driders! )

Spidertouched affects all races, so there will be Mino-driders.

[kida]

You also forgot we are caught in a battle between gods plus we have a mini civil war with rouges and cults...

[Aegis J Hyena]

Oh, and @ Aegis: what was the last verdict on our breeding and maturing times & rates?

35 of each parent race, 70 half breeds. I averaged the breeding speed. It's about 2.3 years and 3 years to mature.

[NewOneAround]

318,5 Ogres
273 Chelydrians
140 Dwarves
140 Orcs
140 Simple Celled
140 Drow
105 Grippli
91 Bullfrogs (Minotaur-Gripply)
91 Droger (Drow-Oger)
91 X (Drow-Minotaur)
70 Maeterra
70 Formicid
70 Ponies
70 Sky born
70 Minotaurs
6 Garou
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1885,5 Pirates...
95,275 Driders...
207,405 Gigant Spiders
and a not specificed amount of Gryphons, Hippogrypgs and Owlbears.
and only frigging 10,774 Spellcaster...

[BadgeAddict]

here in the english system we use periods instead of commas....but i won't fault you for that.

[Jibjib]

The first thing I saw was 95,275 driders... tiny heart attack happened

[nikohl]

Five Garou, not six. A single Silver Pack.

[Kelten]

dose that mean we have drider-ponies as well? :o

[Davecom3]

And Spider-birds... Maybe even Spider-dragon-birds...

[D34dlock]

My Take:

Deal +2 Wounds to unarmed attacks, heal 3 wounds a month before Rest, stacks with Skilled Healers, increasing that skill
Skilled Healers (Regenerate 4/month 100%, 5/Month 35%, All Wounds 15%) So.. 7 wounds healed each month min. Good thing we get + 5 wounds from Fit as a Fiddle to help us take advantage of it

Fit as a Fiddle (+5 Wounds, +3 to All Saving Throws, take 1 less wound of damage, 2 wounds 35% of the time, 30% to ignore wounds outright, 100% resistant to Disease, Sickness, Poison, & Necromancy. Yet somehow weak to Undead. Seems OK. The take less wounds brings our "is wounded after a months rest" number to 9 wounds needed. 8 or less wounds is "tis but a scratch". Good thing because we are Pirates & will be getting into fights.

Battle Veteran (Crit Success on 81+ instead of 95+ in Warfare, Immunity to Fear/Morale Breaks, +18 to Warfare Actions, -20% Difficulty to Warfare, -30% if using Sword and Shield.) Will help mitigate our weakness to Mind-Affecting Spells, Demons, Devils, Undead, Omens, Dreams/Nightmares, & Celestial Events.

Magical Nexus (+1 Level for Spells, Divine/Shaman magic is 60% harder to dispel, Research Difficulties drop by 16, +32 bonus and -30% Difficulty to Sorcery, +35(47) and -35%(60%) Difficulty to Spiritual, one caster per 175 members, learn spells at half the normal rate.) Scaling DC boost to Shaman/Druid magic. Easier research & casting. Few but powerful casters & Pro will slightly overcome the slower research speed by roll 2 use best.

Magical Weaknesses (Weak to Mind-Affecting Spells, Enchantments, Demons, Devils, Undead, Omens, Celestial Events, Dragonslaying, Divine Smites and Dreams/Nightmares, 14% for spells to go Wild, & we attract large/giant magical monsters.) Ouch but we can get around this. At lest we get to roll twice on most stuff. On the other hand we attract large/giant magical monsters combines well with Animal Husbandry. "Release the Kraken" has a nice sound to it for Pirates. Best we get on to building the capturing equipment. & holding pens & farms to see to the feeding.. OK, so Leveling the Food & Drink aspect is not at all wasted on us.

Animal Husbandry (+11 bonus to domesticate big/difficult creatures/magical beasts, start with Gryphon, Hippogryph, Owlbear allies/mounts, 11% of the entire starting population will own trainable Giant Spiders as pets.) We start with flying mounts. With Steampunk it sounds like we have a carrier or could build one in short order. Alchemist fire & bombs combined with aerial scouting means we have lots of targets & can sink ships with a minimum of difficulty. Aerial scouting + Greedy is not a helpful combination.

Do we know what kind of Gryphons we start out with http://www.missmab.com/demonology.php . I'm joking. XP I'm guessing:
Gryphons like normal. Training Shifting the animal to helpful may be difficult or not. DC 25 to get an indifferent Gryphon to helpful. If +11 bonus to domesticate big/difficult creatures/magical beasts applies you still need a roll of 14 or better. would need a +4 to the check to take 10. Does this count as a social roll? That could make things harder or not. The +15 from Occupation will overwhelm the -7 penalty or +7 for skill will cancel it out. After that, 6 weeks of practice and a successful DC 20 Handle Animal check is sufficient for the beast to be comfortable with its burden, and due to their intelligence, trained griffons can be treated as knowing every trick listed in the Handle Animal skill description, possibly even responding to new, simple requests made in Common. All seem good but Bombard (DC 20) stands out from the crowd. Looks like Skill or better to train.
Owlbear: Owlbear Training (DC 23 for a juvenile creature; DC 30 for a fully grown adult)we must have someone that can make that check. 23 - 11 = 12 better than a 12 for juvenile seems reachable 30 - 11 = 19 not so much without Personal modifiers. By Occupation only to train. The list of alternate Owlbear types Siege Owlbear stands out as we have Orcs. Again normal is more likely.
Hippogryph: Hippogriff Horse with Eagles head & claws instead of front hooves. Easier to train than Gryphons. Guess this can be done at hobby level. They are a preferred meal of gryphons, wyverns, and young dragons. OK this seems like trouble waiting to happen. Then again they might be our version of sheep. We'll have to set a guard to keep them from getting munched by our people. Mundivore only means we can eat anything, but people like to eat that which is tasty. They are more valuable as mounts let's find a way to keep them as mounts.
11% of the entire starting population will own trainable Giant Spiders as pets.
We get Spider silk gear & spider poison. We also can explore the dungeons by walking on the ceiling away from most trap triggers. Chitin is available to us when spiders molt.

Socially Unpredictable (-7 to all rolls, results 14% worse than normal, Social rolls twice and uses better result, stacks with Pro) 4 rolls keep the best but it's at a penalty -7. The 4 rolls will level this 4 times as fast.

Technical Knowledge (Begin with knowledge of Guns, "Advanced" Technology, Technology Difficulty reduced by 35%(55%), +11 to all rolls involving construction of any kind, -17 to all Technology, start with a Precious Metal Mine rolls) We have Advanced Tech. Good thing because with a penalty that big it will be hard to Advance it. We didn't need real Nukes anyway Cries inside a little. No trading our Tech, & secret labs & workshops, might be a good idea as Teching out of our problems would be very hard. Lead lined rooms should be easy enough to build. The building bonus will help a lot. -17 + 11 means -6 to our build rolls. The good news is we know of Awesome things to build already. Guess quality takes time.

We can work with this.
The extra:
Totemic Strength (Phoenix), hilarious with Cannot be Raised
Skilled Healers (Regenerate 4/month 100%, 5/Month 35%, All Wounds 15%) Little if any downtime.
Mutation Resistant (100% Ponies, other races 30%) Should help keep us from our own stupidity
Mystery Solvent (Something Interesting happens on a 65+(54+) and a Mysterious Event on 65+(63+)) & since we roll everything twice with Pro.

The flaws:
Necromancy Forbidden, Would have only gotten us in trouble anyway.
Only 1 in 5 Divine Casters can heal (need to research alternate heal spells at 90+), + one caster per 175 members = 875 Pop needed to guarantee 1 Divine caster that can heal if we only have Divine casters. 1750 if we're 50/50.
Stubborn to New Ideas, (Aspects advance at 1/2 speed) Mostly canceled by Pro.
The Black Spiral (Easily corrupted, especially if too much time spent in non-natural surroundings), The open ocean is natural right? Scouting on Gryphons & Hippogriffs should get them away from unnatural structures like boats right?

Trouble with gods:
Lloth's Vengance (Lloth could be a BIG problem against the Deviant Deity...)
Spidertouched (5% of entire population is Driders!) More Spidersilk Gear
Cult of Extermination within the Civilization
Rival Religion (Valkyries) preaching Extermination
Civilization Rival overwrites Tolerance (Tolerance will last about a year and a half); rival rolled randomly out of six civilizations around you; the result was Valkyries
Current Racial Wars are fragile truces; not guaranteed to stay that way

[madmartin26]

Looks like i'm going to have to revamp my job selections, given we only get ten casters total...

That said, how are we splitting up the ships? Is it still valid for my pc to captain the Gyrfalcon with my complement of 70 drow and a group of 70 of another race(probably co-captaining or something like that with the other race)? I think that would be fun, but given that we only have 7 ships and 140 people would probably take a medium ship. Maybe it could only be the 70 of them and the Gyrfalcon could be a small ship? Or have the Gyrfalcon not be a starting ship and have my pc build it. Anyway, the point is i'm not sure how we're going to sort it out yet, so i think it's worth discussing.

Also, does knowledge of guns mean we get to have cannons on our ships?

i wonder how the pet spiders will work on ships. They'd probably make amazingly good rigging (along with the driders) and be good boarders, so that's a plus.

Also, i think the drider pony is cute, but that may just be me.

[D34dlock]

Looks like i'm going to have to revamp my job selections, given we only get ten casters total...

1 caster per ship seems harsh but we can work with that.

Also, does knowledge of guns mean we get to have cannons on our ships?

I think cannons on ships would be Steampunk.

i wonder how the pet spiders will work on ships. They'd probably make amazingly good rigging (along with the driders) and be good boarders, so that's a plus.

Tremor sense + wall walking + web is good.

Also, i think the drider pony is cute, but that may just be me.

Disturbingly so

[Quarg]

Your forgetting some ponies have wings...which means that we have a fairly robust airforce actually...

[Kelten]

1 in 70 of the rest have wings as well... we have dragon blood... thats another 27