Civilization Thre-- Four. (March 1, because.)

[Aegis J Hyena]

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Location 1: Seiru Desert
Pros:

1. Natural Earth Magic (+20% Sorcery EXP rate)
2. Comfortable climate (+10% Home and Family EXP)
3. very fertile rivers (High fish/food population)
4. No Rival Civilizations

Cons:

1. Low wildlife population
2. Wild Magic / Chaos Magic zones
3. Divinely Barren (-50% Spiritual EXP rate)
4. Infested with warlike Beastmen (Goat-headed Humans) + Minotaurs (not the docile kind, either)

Location 2: Erwendi Badlands

Pros:

1. None (Living here gives a +50% to the EXP pool gain and raises its cap by 50% due to your hardiness if you survive; +25% Personal EXP)

Cons:

1. Very Resource Poor (low to no supplies of wood, minerals, metals, water)
2. Necromantic Taint poisons the land
3. Multiple hostile humanoid tribes
4. Lich infested (at least four known, maybe more)

Location 3: Fragitani Hills

Pros:

1. Rich in Minerals and Small Game (+5% Home and Family, +5% Food and Water EXP)
2. Multiple Dungeons underground
3. Northern cliff edge a prime ambush point for ships mooring for the night by the whirlpool lagoon
4. Neutral Brass Dragon known to be in the area, can be swayed

Cons:

1. Multiple hostile humanoid tribes
2. One human kingdom (small)
3. Very Short growing/harvesting season
4. Hill Giant/Naga army incursions from the south (what, were you expecting Lizard Men?)

Location 4: Light Forest

Pros:

1. Divinely Rich (+20% Spiritual EXP)
2. Multiple Magical Creatures / Wildlife
3. Resource Rich (Wood, Animals, Quartz, Garnet, Gold)
4. No Rival Civilizations

Cons:

1. Magically Barren (-50% Sorcery EXP)
2. Watched by the Deities (lots of meddling)
3. Faerie-infested
4. Adventurer Infested (all levels)

Location 5: Shadowed Forest

Pros:

1. Resource Rich (wood, animals)
2. No Rival Civilizations
3. Magical Ambience (Strengthened IMEs)
4. Cannot be Mapped (village of 650 or less undetectable)

Cons:

1. Hostile Plant infestation, possible plant/insect society underground
2. Rampaging spontaneous Elementals
3. The Curse of the Pomegranate (Those who are born here cannot leave)
4. Potential Invasions by Underdark

Location 6: Purple Mountain

Pros:

1. Mineral Rich (Iron, Gold, Amethyst)
2. Very Defensive (+20% Home and Family, Village Defense)
3. Multiple Neutral Giant Hawk / Gryphon nests (tamable)
4. One known Planar Gate (leads to the Elemental Planes)

Cons:

1. Resource Poor (Water, Wood, Animals)
2. Supernaturally Weak (-15% Spiritual/Sorcery EXP)
3. Tectonically Active (Earthquakes)
4. Dwarves n' Drow under the Mountain

Location 7: Boggle Swamp (between mountains and grassland)

Pros:

1. Avoided by the southern civilizations
2. Multiple Dungeons
3. Mineral Rich (Bloodstone, Ruby, Emerald, Mithril, Crimson Jade)
4. Two Lost Civilization Ruins known

Cons:

1. Hostile Dwarves in North Mountains
2. Underdark Bastion (Creatures of the underground 50% stronger)
3. Magnetically Charged (metals weigh triple normal)
4. Wildlife Poor

Location 8: Bloodgrass Grasslands

Pros:

1. Fertile Land (+20% Home and Family EXP, Food and Water EXP)
2. Resource Rich (Wood, Farmland, Pure Water, Small Game)
3. Only place to find Bloodgrass (very valuable nutritious trade-good, wide use with alchemy)
4. Spiritually Strong (Second Sight enhanced 90%)

Cons:

1. Multiple Hostile Human and Humanoid Tribes
2. Two Human Kingdoms
3. Tectonically Active (Earthquakes, Fissures, Sinkholes)
4. Bloodgrass Souls (near-invulnerable spirits of the dead)

Location 9: Black Rockstone Plains

Pros:

1. Elementally Pure (+30% Village Defense and Warfare from using purest, strongest stone)
2. Necromantically Resistant (no Undead)
3. 1 in 50 births are natural Lycanthropes, weighted heavily towards rats but can be any animal
4. Geologically Active (lots of hot springs, fissures, uninhabited caverns)

Cons:

1. Wildlife and Resource (Wood mostly) Poor
2. Multiple Hostile Troglodyte tribes
3. Gnolls in the thousands. Will try to kill you on sight, no peace possible
4. Intense Wild Magic Zones (surface only; very rare but they're there)

Location 10: Alethri Forest

Pros:

1. Magic Rich (+30% Sorcery EXP)
2. Resource Rich (Multiple strong woods, naturally-enchanted woods)
3. 1 in 50 born is an Ecomancer, "asking" nature for spells
4. Purest Water on the continent, very alchemy-fertile, very enchantable

Cons:

1. ELVES. Twelve Elvish States.
2. Hostile Magical Wildlife (allied to the Elves)
3. Forsaken by Maglubiyet (-300% Spiritual EXP, no deity contact)
4. Three Dragons (allied to the elves)

Location 11: Flareferno Swamp

Pros:

1. Mineral Rich (Silver, Diamonds)
2. No Rival Civilizations
3. Only place on the continent where you find "Liquid Obsidian" (liquid stone that hardens when shaped)
4. Alliance with Fire-Immune Trolls

Cons:

1. Extremes of Temprature, especially at night (-20% Home and Family EXP)
2. Multiple Hostile Orc, Kobold, Hobgoblin Tribes, very aggressive
3. Tectonically Active (Firespouts, Earthquakes, Fire Storms)
4. Resource Poor (wood, water, wildlife)

Location 12: Jezzel Forest and Grasslands

Pros:

1. Resource Rich (Wood, Citrine, Aquamarine, Gold, Pure Water)
2. Multiple -Stega variations on the plans around the northern mountain
3. Wildlife and Game Rich
4. Temperate Climate (+10% Home and Family EXP)

Cons:

1. Multiple Rival Civilizations (Elves, Dwarves, Gnomes, Halflings)
2. Three Human Kingdoms
3. Destiny Fated (Free Will? What's that? More than 60% have their fate decided at birth)
4. Those who are born here have greatly reduced Constitutions (-3 to -5)

Location 13: Yugumuca Grasslands

Pros:

1. Extremely Fertile Lands (Double Population Growth)
2. Multiple Friendly tribes of other Humanoids
3. Weather Magic strengthened
4. Divine Empowerment (1 in 500 born is a Hallowed Paladin)

Cons:

1. Very powerful Hostile Human Kingdom stretching from end to end
2. Multiple Hostile Armies from outside the Grasslands trying to seize the land
3. Elementally Weak (-50% elemental effects)
4. Large amounts of carniverous Savannah Unicorns

Location 14: Goddaro Mountains

Pros:

1. Protected from Divination Magic (can't be Scryed, etc)
2. Friendly Mimiga civilization
3. Multiple Dungeons
4. Elementally Strong (specialties in elemental magic at 50% bonus)

Cons:

1. Several tribes of hostile Ramtaurs, Rhinotaurs
2. Dragon / Lizard Man / Yuan ti / Troglodyte Infested
3. Multiple Hostile Humanoid Tribes
4. Resource and Mineral Poor (wood, gemstones, wildlife)

Location 15: Citoxe Desert

Pros:

1. Access to Mutations; all PCs get 1 per 3 Personal Levels
2. Any oasis, whether natural or man made, has random traits/magic talents
3. Creatures born here are immune to Poison
4. Food grown here has "double shelf life"

Cons:

1. Very very very hot
2. Volcanic hotspot
3. Resource poor (wood, metal, wildlife)
4. Hostile animals tend to be bigger, stronger, smarter, possibly sentient

Location 16: Chitucal Plains

Pros:

1. Ignored by most of the continent at large
2. Extremely Fertile (+25% Population Growth per year)
3. Wildlife Rich
4. Abandoned Stronghold

Cons:

1. Multiple Hostile Humanoid Tribes
2. One tiny Human Kingdom
3. Spiritually Barren (-20% Spiritual EXP)
4. Extreme Wererat population (Hostile, no peace possible)

[SuperVaderMan]

I'm tempted to pick number 2 (the badlands) while saying "challenge accepted," but number 15 (Citoxe Desert) sound too interesting with its mutations and poison immunity pros.

[BadgeAddict]

are we allowed to go ahead and pick areas, or will this be rolled out for us?

[SeeAMoose]

I like 12, I'd say go there. It looks like there would be plenty of resources there and the topography is diverse enough to give us many options (and access to materials).

[Runsaround]

I like six, for a chance of gryphon riders.

[madmartin26]

I'm going to vote for 3, hoping that ambushing ships in the lagoon means i can steal the ships and become goblin pirates. Though 14 could be cool too, having a mountainous home base and with a hidden rocky harbor.

Yeah, i want to be the sailing goblins. So what?

[Arch Lich Burns]

Hmmm. At least 13 people interested. Maybe I should start on Friday just to get the ball rolling.

And location #2 is the hardest of them all to start in, Burns... heh. Those're badlands with no resources in them.

But it has a giant toilet! Why not use it as a resource?

[SeeAMoose]

I change my vote to 6, to hell with 12.

[Aegis J Hyena]

I'm going to vote for 3, hoping that ambushing ships in the lagoon means i can steal the ships and become goblin pirates. Though 14 could be cool too, having a mountainous home base and with a hidden rocky harbor.

Yeah, i want to be the sailing goblins. So what?

The last Civ had three ships you were currently using when the forums collapsed. Heh. I did make that point specifically for ambushing ships though, so if it's chosen once I get things started, there will be opportunities.

I'm just showing what's out there. No "votes" per se yet, although I may start on friday if I'm feeling up to it. However, my computer is sort of dying... shorted out the headset which makes my mouse go funny/nonresponsive (had to concede four games in a row elsewhere because of it) among other things. (anyone got a good free service where I can dump a 2-3 gig rar of my music/files backed up just in case? )

[madmartin26]

Oh, cool. I didn't really read much of Civ 3 because when i noticed it it was already pages and pages in, and i didn't have the time to look through it all(That's why i'm jumping on right at the beginning this time). Whatever happens, my PC is going to at least try to become a ships captain.

As for finest hours/daily actions(if you still want feedback). I think having some for each person makes everyone be more invested in what they do with them, using them to further their own ends(Personally, i prefer that, but some other people might not). Though if we do make it a community pool, i think we should have some system for stopping people from abusing them(maybe if enough people veto the use, it doesn't get used?)

[lozlo]

hmmm no votes To bad I woud love 15, mutations abound.
Woud like to not live in the forests because of the been there done that factor.
6 woud be cool to tough but i'd prefere 15. just my 2 cents

[I'mBob]

I vote for 15 as well.

[Alavar]

6 or 13.

[Aegis J Hyena]

Bumping with the decision to start on March 1. Blah. And stuff.