Build a city?

[Haphazzard]

"On the water" as much as a house is "On the lake."  The buildings are grounded, it's just next to the water.  I'd love a floating city, but expanding it would be quite difficult I believe.

[Neubert]

Ah, alright. I just need more skills in "Speak Language (English)" then :)

And yes, I think it is a good idea to start with something simple at first.

[Haphazzard]

My initial thought was what you siad (plain with woods and perhaps mountains), but then I heard "imports and exports" and my mind jumped to ports.  I'll get Stargate on this too if we need more people.  He'll love the port town idea.

[Neubert]

Sure, anyone and everyone are welcome. In fact, the more the merrier :).

[Neubert]

Actually, we could try our hand at 4th edition if you all want. I don't know how many of you will be buying the books and updating your campaign settings to that however?
We do have some information about the races and classes already so I think we could make it work.

Anyhow, discuss - I'll head to bed. :)

[Elemental_Elf]

4th doesn't come out until June, plus none of us will be truly familiar with it until around July/August, IMO. I'd say keep it 3.5 and we can update the city to 4E after that.

As for geography, I like the idea of a wood nearby... Maybe the city is founded near/around a small lake. That lake can have a little creek leading away, into the woods and the world beyond.

[Wensleydale]

I think I'm going to advocate the Vladivostok Port Town idea, in 3.5. Whoever posts the first post can decide on the real beginnings of the place.

[Elemental_Elf]

I'm up for Port City Vladivostok or a Lake Town... Anything near a large body of water, really.

[Neubert]

Just bumping to see if we can get a few more ideas on the table. :)

[LordVreeg]

NEU,
I'm looking down the road to some posts with everything that could happen in a few months in a middle sized town, or even a small one.  I also know that due to mine own 'factionally-based' ideas that I will probably have diferent goals in mind than others might.
Given that, can a poster have the choice of posting different info on the town based on the same time as the last post (but not going back in time) or posting the new month.

Also...we're going to need to decide on a Kalehndir.

[Neubert]

I will suggest we post in 1 month intervals (if that feels too slow in the beginning, we can start at something higher).
In regards to your question though: Whether we can go back and add to others chronicles really depends on what all of us want. There are no right or wrong way to do this. The problem with going back and "changing" (or adding to) posts are that the growth of the town is slowed if people spend their time doing that.

A chronicle usually consists of accepted proposals that the writer thinks are appropriate to bring into the town at that time, and smaller events that is more or less filler material.
The goal of the chronicles are to show the highlights of what happened in the last month, which means that many NPC's will not be represented in a month.
If something haven't been added in a chronicle, it is easiest to just add it to the next month. If it is very important that it happens that exact month (due to seasons or similar), I think the best option is to write a post, asking the person doing the chronicle to edit it. I haven't seen it becoming a problem in the other threads however.
And if it is something like sowing the crops (the best example I can give at the moment, this might not even be mentioned in a chronicle), then it can also be explained away in the next chronicle, that the winter lasted longer than usual etc. You get the picture.


What is a Kalehndir?

[LordVreeg]

don't want to go back and edit, I just want the option of writing a post for the current month or advancing to the next month.
As to the Kalehndir...think phonetically.

[Neubert]

Alright, I thought as much (guess I have to get used to the crazy slang used here :P). I would suggest a normal year of 12 months (3 months per season), but don't let me talk you into it - discuss!

LV - Can I ask why you want the option, or could you provide me with a simple example? I think I can reply better with an example of yours :)

[Elemental_Elf]

I propose the following for the calendar:

12 Days Per Week
2 Weeks per Month
16 Months Per Year

There should also be 4 intercalary days, one for each of the Solstices/Equinoxes that occur. With that, each year would have a total of 388 days. I'd also suggest that the New Year begin on the Spring Equinox.

Anyways, that's what I was thinking.

[LordVreeg]

I love it.