Aranfan
Team Plasma Grunt
That sounds very complicated and a pain to track.
Ymaryn Successor Quest (Paths of Civ AU)
That sounds very complicated and a pain to track.
- Location
- Southampton, Great Britain
- Pronouns
- He/Him
Not really. Just add an Income stat or something below the Treasury stat and rather than have certain actions increase or decrease the Treasury stat, they increase or decrease the Income stat instead or in addition to changing the Treasury. The Income stat then provides a negative or positive change to our Treasury at regular intervals depending on whether the Income stat is currently positive or negative.
Edit: For example, have something like this:
And actions could look like this:
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[X] Plan Oshha
Working on technology list. This is mostly copied from the front page of PoC, but it should provide a starting point. I updated a few to reflect the current age.
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- Location
- Southampton, Great Britain
- Pronouns
- He/Him
I'm pretty sure we have to find out by trying it.
- Location
- Hell
It does not. We are at 2/10. Levy costs one and sending the army costs nothing.
We should be at 1/10 at worst, but likely at 3/10.
[X] Plan Prototype
Nope!
@Aranfan
One way to model taxation is that it sets the Treasury to a specific level, say 5/10. We can spend up to 5 units of Treasure in any turn out of out liquid wealth. If we invest in something big, like an army or navy, reduce the treasury set point. This models setting up a system and allocating resources to it.
It should be hard to raise Treasury. Only advances in technology or political structure should really increase this value (or conquest, of course). Most pre-modern nations struggled horrifically with debt and often went bankrupt multiple times. Land and resources was power; stockpiles of gold and silver were much more transient.
Nope!
@Aranfan
One way to model taxation is that it sets the Treasury to a specific level, say 5/10. We can spend up to 5 units of Treasure in any turn out of out liquid wealth. If we invest in something big, like an army or navy, reduce the treasury set point. This models setting up a system and allocating resources to it.
It should be hard to raise Treasury. Only advances in technology or political structure should really increase this value (or conquest, of course). Most pre-modern nations struggled horrifically with debt and often went bankrupt multiple times. Land and resources was power; stockpiles of gold and silver were much more transient.
Ymaryn Sign Language
Ymaryn Encyclopedia 11th Edition, Published in the Year 1800
Ymaryn Sign Language(YSL) - A natural language that is communicated through visual-hand moduality rather than through the spoken words. Where as Ymaryn uses the spoken words, the Ymaryn Sign Language uses combination of hand movement, facial expression, and body language.
Temples traditonally serve as asylum and hospice, as well as assistive living facilities for people with disabilities. In particular, the Scared Forest temple was home to an usually large concentration of people with hearing disabilities, which creates the perfect environment for the creation of a sign language. Prior to that, there were no known sign language, although there are mentions of individuals who uses sign to speak.
The language's only prior influence were the various home signs that deaf individuals were using to communicate with their families before coming to the temple. Over time, interactions had lead to new signs and the nucleation of a new language. The priesthood, rather than attempting to stamp it out, 'realized' that the community of deaf people have a gift. The priests documented and encouraged the evolution of the language. It also generated a distinct cultural identity within the Ymaryn empire that is simply referred to as the Deaf. They eventually formed their own enclaves within the cities of the Core and even farming communities.
After the Collapse, Deaf priests who would normally stayed at the Sacred Forest were sent out to Memory of Spirit and Txolla and beyond to assist with the reconstruction, eventually spreading the language across the Ymaryn Empire, creating regional dialects and new languages, as well system of writings.
It must be noted that there were several myth about the language. Contrary to popular belief, it is not the Deaf's version of the Ymaryn language, nor YSL is a universal language. Some may believed that YSL is not even a real language.
Because of the legacy of the collapse, in some parts of the empire, there are sometime more hearing speakers of the language than there are Deaf.
Ymaryn Sign Language(YSL) - A natural language that is communicated through visual-hand moduality rather than through the spoken words. Where as Ymaryn uses the spoken words, the Ymaryn Sign Language uses combination of hand movement, facial expression, and body language.
Temples traditonally serve as asylum and hospice, as well as assistive living facilities for people with disabilities. In particular, the Scared Forest temple was home to an usually large concentration of people with hearing disabilities, which creates the perfect environment for the creation of a sign language. Prior to that, there were no known sign language, although there are mentions of individuals who uses sign to speak.
The language's only prior influence were the various home signs that deaf individuals were using to communicate with their families before coming to the temple. Over time, interactions had lead to new signs and the nucleation of a new language. The priesthood, rather than attempting to stamp it out, 'realized' that the community of deaf people have a gift. The priests documented and encouraged the evolution of the language. It also generated a distinct cultural identity within the Ymaryn empire that is simply referred to as the Deaf. They eventually formed their own enclaves within the cities of the Core and even farming communities.
After the Collapse, Deaf priests who would normally stayed at the Sacred Forest were sent out to Memory of Spirit and Txolla and beyond to assist with the reconstruction, eventually spreading the language across the Ymaryn Empire, creating regional dialects and new languages, as well system of writings.
It must be noted that there were several myth about the language. Contrary to popular belief, it is not the Deaf's version of the Ymaryn language, nor YSL is a universal language. Some may believed that YSL is not even a real language.
Because of the legacy of the collapse, in some parts of the empire, there are sometime more hearing speakers of the language than there are Deaf.
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The whole idea behind my omake is based upon the priesthood believing that sometime people who are afflicted with spirits sometime have otherworldy gift. Thanks Yenyna btw. If you have long term population of people who cannot hear living together, you may get the formation of a new language. All the priests have to do is to encourage it. This is based on the historical reality of deaf people being denied their own language and people's misguided attempt to force oral education on deaf people.
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- Location
- I think somewhere. I might be nowhere though
[X] Plan Oshha
Hello
Hello
Doh! A tie again.
ThatGazzer
Minds Eye Bind
- Location
- PNW
- Pronouns
- They/Them
[X] Plan Prototype
for goodness sake
for goodness sake
- Location
- The Deep Blue Sea
Someone should totally correct me if I'm misunderstanding, but it sounds like the main difference is whether to double-Sacred Warding versus to double-Hathytta?
I also don't grok the difference between using Influence to use PSoN: Hellas versus using Authority to do so...? (E: With Authority are we guaranteeing a *baseline* success or are we guaranteeing the "best possible result"? The rules are kinda ambiguous.)
Prototype
- Authority: Personal Stewards of Nature, Hellas
- Influence: Lord's Loyalty War Mission, Hathytta
Oshha
- Authority: Touch the Cow, Do it Now: Txolla
- Influence: Personal Stewards of Nature, Hellas
I also don't grok the difference between using Influence to use PSoN: Hellas versus using Authority to do so...? (E: With Authority are we guaranteeing a *baseline* success or are we guaranteeing the "best possible result"? The rules are kinda ambiguous.)
Prototype
- Authority: Personal Stewards of Nature, Hellas
- Influence: Lord's Loyalty War Mission, Hathytta
Oshha
- Authority: Touch the Cow, Do it Now: Txolla
- Influence: Personal Stewards of Nature, Hellas
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It's cool narrative flourish.
Have a Deaf priest come to MoS and meet the priests. You can have a hearing son translate for him.
Using authority on that helps with internal consumption that we're revanchist and would save the face of the monarchy so we won't make fools of ourselves when we demand Trelli.
I guess with rewards maybe you could have a cap on how many bonuses can be applied in a single turn. Or maybe you could give tidbits of info that we otherwise wouldn't know as rewards.
Xantalos
Turtle-Speed Writing
Just declare it canon or incorporate details from it into an update without applying mechanical bonuses if you want to reward it without having the omake bonus spiral thing. Or just have a set rule that there can be no more than a +X applied to a roll from any amount of omake, and only X such bonus(es) per turn, and the omake has to be topic-specific... insert specifications here as needed.
- Location
- The Deep Blue Sea
Worth noting, marking an omake canonical will de-facto give us extra bits of intel without you having to do any extra work!
Ideas nucleating in my head:
"They sent us a bottom of barrel priest! He can't even hear!" cried one of the priest.
"Dad said that you are stupid fuck," the child said. "God made dad deaf, not dumb."
The priests stared at the parent and child gobsmacked by the sheer rudeness. More of what looked like wild gesturing followed.
"Dad want to let you know that he is the Great Hyme that you all bumfuck are looking for." The forty-some man gave the priests a dead glare. The priests, realizing who they had just insulted, turned white.
"Now, he want you all for language lessons tonight, so he doesn't have to speak to you through an obviously very smart child like me." The child preen. He was smacked in the face.
"Forgive my son, he think he can get away with snottiness when he thinks I am not looking," Hymes said in a very unfamiliar accent, almost not intelligible. Almost immediately, Hymes looked strained, as if it was unnatural for him. "Now, we have a lot of work to do."
The priests of Memory of Spirit, properly chastised, turned to the direction of the temple. "What had we gotten ourselves into?"
"They sent us a bottom of barrel priest! He can't even hear!" cried one of the priest.
"Dad said that you are stupid fuck," the child said. "God made dad deaf, not dumb."
The priests stared at the parent and child gobsmacked by the sheer rudeness. More of what looked like wild gesturing followed.
"Dad want to let you know that he is the Great Hyme that you all bumfuck are looking for." The forty-some man gave the priests a dead glare. The priests, realizing who they had just insulted, turned white.
"Now, he want you all for language lessons tonight, so he doesn't have to speak to you through an obviously very smart child like me." The child preen. He was smacked in the face.
"Forgive my son, he think he can get away with snottiness when he thinks I am not looking," Hymes said in a very unfamiliar accent, almost not intelligible. Almost immediately, Hymes looked strained, as if it was unnatural for him. "Now, we have a lot of work to do."
The priests of Memory of Spirit, properly chastised, turned to the direction of the temple. "What had we gotten ourselves into?"
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