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Post by hengest on Jul 24, 2021 21:21:11 GMT -5
Population serviced1d6 | 1 | 500 - 2000 | | 2 | 2001 - 5000 | | 3 | 5001 - 10000 | | 4 | 10001 - 20000 | | 5 | 20001 - 30000 | | 6 | 30001 - 100000 |
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Do sender and recipient have to be of the same race?
1d2 Addressing system (how to mark package for recipient)| 1 | micro-geas on postal worker ("Find this person.") | | 2 | improvised description ("the barracks by the pond a ways north of the stables) | | 3 | strange coordinates based on landmarks | | 4 | talking birds with 2d6 INT in human matters |
1d3 | 1 | vanishing magical rune | | 2 | postage stamps but fRPG-style | | 3 | no postage, service paid for when items sent |
1d4 | 1 | personal correspondence, various | | 2 | courtship | | 3 | military applications | | 4 | extended family relations |
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Post by mao on Jul 26, 2021 5:37:18 GMT -5
Once again, you have posted something I never would have.Kudos.
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Post by The Perilous Dreamer on Jul 26, 2021 10:02:45 GMT -5
Great idea, I don't think I have ever seen a post office in an rpg. You can add in message sending with pigeons or something like them for small short messages.
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Post by hengest on Jul 26, 2021 10:03:36 GMT -5
Once again, you have posted something I never would have.Kudos. I need to actually generate one of these and see where it goes. |
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Post by hengest on Jul 26, 2021 10:05:43 GMT -5
Great idea, I don't think I have ever seen a post office in an rpg. You can add in message sending with pigeons or something like them for small short messages. Yeah, I was thinking I'd generate a couple ans see where the results go, that is definitely an option. "Singing telegram" also an option for unlettered societies. |
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Post by mao on Jul 27, 2021 5:51:53 GMT -5
Great idea, I don't think I have ever seen a post office in an rpg. You can add in message sending with pigeons or something like them for small short messages. Yeah, I was thinking I'd generate a couple ans see where the results go, that is definitely an option. "Singing telegram" also @theperilousdreameran option for unlettered societies. Cosider this stolen!! Exalt!! TPD I had a PO in Mysantia |
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Post by hengest on Jul 27, 2021 10:18:03 GMT -5
Yeah, I was thinking I'd generate a couple ans see where the results go, that is definitely an option. "Singing telegram" also @theperilousdreameran option for unlettered societies. Cosider this stolen!! Exalt!! TPD I had a PO in Mysantia Steal away, I'm still working on my first one. |
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Post by hengest on Jul 27, 2021 15:48:16 GMT -5
Randomized results below, post-result choices in second set of (). 1d6 - 1 (pop. 500-2000) (~1600) 1d6 - 4 (4 intelligent races) (human, elf, unicorn, manikin (new race, some details here)) 1d2 - 2 (No, do not have to be same race.) 1d4 - 3 (strange coordinates based on landmarks) 1d3 - 2 (postage stamps) 1d4 - 3 (military applications) (coordinated efforts of allied groups from the races listed above, skirmish warfare against poorly understood invader tribes from the south) *** Approximately ten years of skirmish warfare lie behind us at this point. This expanse of time has caused the need for a message delivery service and an increase in literacy. Humans and elves have the easiest time writing messages. Unicorns due to their lack of manual dexterity need to use a spell-like ability to write. They find it somewhat annoying and are known for receiving messages more than they send them. Manikins can write but few have the skill to write at such a size that the other races can easily read their writing, as they are about 1/12 the size of a human. So an average manikin may be between 5 and 6 inches tall. Their artistic designs, however, are appreciated by the other races as tiny miniatures and it is they who produce most of the designs for stamps. Stamps are not exactly a consumer product as we know them. The races attempt to keep communications under control because of the phenomenon of later messages overtaking earlier ones and confusing the recipient. Stamps allow semi-central control of the number of messages sent and, since each race has its own design (mostly created by manikins), the origin is known to the recipient without explicit statement in the message. Specific senders may make tiny alterations to the stamps to identify themselves individually, but not all do this. Manikins are the most obviously magical of the four races involved. Like elves, they excel in the arts, but adult manikins tend to consider these skills almost trivial. Those in early adolescence produce most of the art and music that other races can appreciate. Adults are inclined to using their great innate magic in apparently trackable but (practically) rather obscure ways, perhaps performed in concert. They consider showy personal magic (fireball, lightning, teleportation) to be embarrassing but will sometimes use it an in emergency, usually disappearing afterwards to avoid attention. Unicorns are generally displeased by the spread of humanoids and the reduction of their forest and grassland range. They take part in the alliance because they deem these races to be generally more reliable and less destructive than the newcomers. Telepathy, teleportation, and "sending" magic are unknown to humans and elves. Postal messages often communicate basic matters such as intent to hold a certain area, offers or requests for supplies, or reports of enemy movements. Personal matters are rarely discussed. What is of interest about the postal service is that the carriers from the different races interact regularly and have, to some degree, their own sub-culture centered on the meeting places where messages are handed off. Human carriers tend to be relatively open-hearted, elf carriers less condescending than most elves, unicorns less melancholy than they are known to be. It tends to be adolescent manikins who carry messages. Some are wild magicians and some are already more reserved, or reserved at home and more open in public. |
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Post by The Perilous Dreamer on Jul 28, 2021 9:52:09 GMT -5
Wow, you devised a post office system and then created a game setting starting from the post office. That is fanzine worthy to demonstrate one way to create a setting. Seconded hengest |
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Post by hengest on Jul 28, 2021 10:00:08 GMT -5
Wow, you devised a post office system and then created a game setting starting from the post office. That is fanzine worthy to demonstrate one way to create a setting. Seconded hengest Thanks, and it all came from a trivial desire to make tables to generate fantasy postal services. |
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Post by The Perilous Dreamer on Jul 28, 2021 10:04:55 GMT -5
Wow, you devised a post office system and then created a game setting starting from the post office. That is fanzine worthy to demonstrate one way to create a setting. Seconded hengest Thanks, and it all came from a trivial desire to make tables to generate fantasy postal services. That seconded was by mao using his mod powers for his forum area to edit my post instead of just posting.  Not really trivial, but creative. I think Rob would have really enjoyed a lot of what is being done if he were still reading the forum. |
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Post by mao on Jul 28, 2021 10:07:01 GMT -5
Thanks, and it all came from a trivial desire to make tables to generate fantasy postal services. That seconded was by mao using his mod powers for his forum area to edit my post instead of just posting. Not really trivial, but creative. I think Rob would have really enjoyed a lot of what is being done if he were still reading the forum. Oops! |
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Post by hengest on Jul 28, 2021 10:08:19 GMT -5
Thanks, and it all came from a trivial desire to make tables to generate fantasy postal services. That seconded was by mao using his mod powers for his forum area to edit my post instead of just posting. Not really trivial, but creative. I think Rob would have really enjoyed a lot of what is being done if he were still reading the forum. Maybe we can "comp" him a copy of the (free) fanzine! It's funny, the spells for the manikins were my favorite part of all that, they were to give the manikins something to do, the manikins were to fill out the number of races to the number I rolled, the rolls were to test the tables, the tables were just to make post office tablea I guess because I like receiving mail. It all came from nowhere. |
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Post by The Perilous Dreamer on Jul 28, 2021 10:18:03 GMT -5
That seconded was by mao using his mod powers for his forum area to edit my post instead of just posting. Not really trivial, but creative. I think Rob would have really enjoyed a lot of what is being done if he were still reading the forum. Maybe we can "comp" him a copy of the (free) fanzine! It's funny, the spells for the manikins were my favorite part of all that, they were to give the manikins something to do, the manikins were to fill out the number of races to the number I rolled, the rolls were to test the tables, the tables were just to make post office tablea I guess because I like receiving mail. It all came from nowhere.That is the way it often works with good ideas. |
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Post by The Perilous Dreamer on Jul 28, 2021 10:45:40 GMT -5
That seconded was by mao using his mod powers for his forum area to edit my post instead of just posting. Not really trivial, but creative. I think Rob would have really enjoyed a lot of what is being done if he were still reading the forum. Maybe we can "comp" him a copy of the (free) fanzine! It's funny, the spells for the manikins were my favorite part of all that, they were to give the manikins something to do, the manikins were to fill out the number of races to the number I rolled, the rolls were to test the tables, the tables were just to make post office tablea I guess because I like receiving mail. It all came from nowhere. Oh, yeah, I would definitely send Rob a copy. |
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Post by hengest on Jul 28, 2021 22:51:42 GMT -5
Wow, you devised a post office system and then created a game setting starting from the post office. That is fanzine worthy to demonstrate one way to create a setting. Seconded hengest So you think this is the core of a setting, that's good to hear. I feel like all my projects kind of stall at this stage, but maybe that's good. No need to overdefine everything. If I game it or anyone games it, it can be filled out as necessary then. Plus I still have plans for a couple links between projects. |
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Post by The Perilous Dreamer on Jul 28, 2021 23:15:27 GMT -5
Wow, you devised a post office system and then created a game setting starting from the post office. That is fanzine worthy to demonstrate one way to create a setting. Seconded hengest So you think this is the core of a setting, that's good to hear. I feel like all my projects kind of stall at this stage, but maybe that's good. No need to overdefine everything. If I game it or anyone games it, it can be filled out as necessary then. Plus I still have plans for a couple links between projects. I always feel like a setting can be one or two or three paragraphs and that is enough. More is not always more, sometimes less is more. In my opinion that is especially true in setting design. |
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Post by mao on Jul 30, 2021 6:40:03 GMT -5
So you think this is the core of a setting, that's good to hear. I feel like all my projects kind of stall at this stage, but maybe that's good. No need to overdefine everything. If I game it or anyone games it, it can be filled out as necessary then. Plus I still have plans for a couple links between projects. I always feel like a setting can be one or two or three paragraphs and that is enough. More is not always more, sometimes less is more. In my opinion that is especially true in setting design. Does this mean you like my One Threads Worlds? hengest I like this for generating towns, it would work so well. If you slightly refocused it would be fantastic! |
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Post by hengest on Jul 30, 2021 7:02:28 GMT -5
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Post by The Perilous Dreamer on Jul 30, 2021 10:35:37 GMT -5
I always feel like a setting can be one or two or three paragraphs and that is enough. More is not always more, sometimes less is more. In my opinion that is especially true in setting design. Does this mean you like my One Threads Worlds? hengest I like this for generating towns, it would work so well. If you slightly refocused it would be fantastic! I like the topic of One Thread Worlds and I like a lot of the worlds, I have not read through them recently so I will not commit to saying I like all of them without re-reading them.  Do you mean him refocusing from settings to towns? You could riff off of what he did and do that yourself. |
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Post by mao on Jul 30, 2021 10:47:48 GMT -5
If he doesn't want to I will take this and run.
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Post by hengest on Jul 30, 2021 11:31:15 GMT -5
If he doesn't want to I will take this and run. You do that, I'll do the temple generator I was planning. |
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Post by mao on Jul 30, 2021 11:48:45 GMT -5
If he doesn't want to I will take this and run. You do that, I'll do the temple generator I was planning. I am also going to do one for dungeons First, I am not going to populate dungeons any more |
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Post by The Perilous Dreamer on Jan 24, 2022 14:45:45 GMT -5
You do that, I'll do the temple generator I was planning. I am also going to do one for dungeons First, I am not going to populate dungeons any more I missed this post before, what do you mean not going to populate dungeons any more? Or do you mean just use the generator in game? |
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