[Spoilers] Commodore bakes a double entenada.

[Commodore]

Ask me anything, yo.

Going full farmer's gambit?

I have a warrior and a scout.

[RefSteel]

Whoa, wait, you've got a Scout still? Has he discovered anything interesting lately?

Also, you said to ask you anything, right? How often does your tabletop RPG group get together? Are you the GM?

[Commodore]

Whoa, wait, you've got a Scout still?  Has he discovered anything interesting lately?

He hasn't, but my warriors have finished the loop. the scout is watching Plako's city.

WHAT I KNOW OF THE WORLD:

Also, you said to ask you anything, right?  How often does your tabletop RPG group get together?  Are you the GM?

Depends on which group! I'm fortunate to be in several, most with the Mrs. Commodore while the Commodorlina and Commodot hang out nda roll our dice for us.
-Every other week on Sunday night, I have a Roll20 campaign that I run for, set in Erebus in during the Age of Ice actually.
-Every other week Sunday afternoon, we're in a Starfinder game run by a friend of ours, Brick knows the guy too. Pretty fun, I'm going to totally run a Starcraft game using that ruleset soon.
-Occasionally (like twice every three months) I play in a friend's 5th Edition West Marches game.
-Once a month after bedtime I'm running some friends who are expecting their third kids through 1452: Saving Sujeira's Soul.
-Plus the odd one-shot/playtest as time permits.

[RefSteel]

Thanks for the updated map - I love the labels!

Also, RPGs sound like a ton of fun! Setting stuff in the FfH2 Age of Ice sounds intriguing. Are you loosely basing it on the BtS "Age of Ice" Scenario, or doing just your own thing in the setting? (I wrote a whole 8-part "Sarcodes Cycle" just about the Age of Ice elves, only very loosely based on existing lore, some of which Qgqqqqq put into the EitB civilopedia, so I can see a whole range of possibilities for the latter...)

[Commodore]

Thanks for the updated map - I love the labels!

Also, RPGs sound like a ton of fun!  Setting stuff in the FfH2 Age of Ice sounds intriguing.  Are you loosely basing it on the BtS "Age of Ice" Scenario, or doing just your own thing in the setting?  (I wrote a whole 8-part "Sarcodes Cycle" just about the Age of Ice elves, only very loosely based on existing lore, some of which Qgqqqqq put into the EitB civilopedia, so I can see a whole range of possibilities for the latter...)

Just embracing the setting. I was inspired by an old Dungeon Map:

The Rift is one of very few places still civilized, protected from Mulcarn's winter by the volcanoes and old druidic enchantments. The party is pretty awesome:
-My wife is Tre'gok, a half-orc fighter from a little splinter tribe that has a folk reverence for Brigit the Bright
-He follows Caimich, an inquisitor of Brigit (?) who belongs to a Bannor splinter set.
-They travel with Ethia, Lanun sorceress, and Seckor, local witch wizard, in it initially for gold.
-The party was later joined by Ebb, a goblin looking for his sister caught by Dovello slavers and sold to Rift dwarves.
That's the initial setup. Through a series of adventures they've roamed far and wide; generally doing good with a few mistakes (they slew the crazed Elohim monk who guarded the Tomb of the Seven Crying Gods (one goddess, Bhall, weeps no more and her face is blackened):

They are aware of numerous threats to the Rift now:
-Cultists of Bhall have let in orcs and seek to turn the king to her worship...
-An opened gate to the Tomb of Sucellus let loose a dark unfettered nature spirit who corrupts the land and attacks civilization...
-And finally, Winter's Army comes. Frostlings, frost giants, shadows, Illian adepts...the army marches over the glaciers to the Rift, and their heralds already sow discord...
...so there's a lot going on. The party is right now level 5 and in Crossing, trying to find allies and muddle through some way to save their new home. But there are enthusiastic fire-worshipers looking to the orc for wisdom, a shadowy necromancer marking targets in frosty runes, and farmers are breaking plows in the ground where strange grey moss is suddenly growing.

There's going to be a lot of intrigue to go. It's a giant sandbox, the only constraints are a few impending dooms.

[Commodore]

I'm mega behind; just three cities, no granaries, three workers. I wiffed the start pretty hardcore.

[Commodore]

Snap poll:

Course of Empire
or
Voyage of Life

[Thoth]

Snap poll:

Course of Empire
or
Voyage of Life

Course of Empire.




(Note that I have no idea what either is but CofE sounds way cooler)

[BRickAstley]

View from Mount Holyoke, Northampton, Massachusetts, after a Thunderstorm

[Commodore]

Never mind.

Native American warrior, wounded, looks way too much like a scout.

Nasty thing is that I had literally one thing I could whip.

I hope the scout dies. Slow death either way. At least I can take comfort in the attack being stupid? Only helps TBS, crippling me who should be his natural ally. Still nobody to blame but myself, newbies gonna newbie and I was retarded to not look closer at the presumed scout.

Ignominious end for my Civilization 4 career, but I should be competing if this is the level of goof I'm capable of.