The Aniga Project

[Hibou]

Aye, that's where mine is starting. Well, either in a river valley or on the coast. On my map there's a portion in the southwest where it's very heavily littered with rivers, and I think that's where they'll start.

[Captain Obvious]

Sounds like a plan. I'm gonna have a few races of varying levels of developement on my continent (ala neanderthals and the human guys). The most advanced will be an amphibious race (maybe my Ullor races from my homebrew CS). The others are still undecided.

What size continents are youy guys planning and at what longitude? (is that the word for the north south lines on a globe?) what i mean is where will you be relative to the equator?

Also, some things that affect everyone:
-how many moons? [i vote 2 but that also would mess with the tidess a lot. i don't know if we want to have to deal with that]
-are we using a standard clock? i.e. 24 hour day. roughly 12 of night and of day [i vote yes to keep it simple]
-are we using a standard calendar? i.e. 365 days and 4 roughly even months? [i'd be fine with this, but obviously each society would develope a different way of tracking the seasons and days]

can anybody think of other things that affect everyone?

[Senkennomei]

Mkay, I'm going to have only one race, and that is going to be the aquatic race known as Dakus. I have several images of them up already, if anyone wants to see them. They are capable of surviving on land like lungfish, but prefer not to.

Their home "continent" is going to be more like a sandbar of coral, and it sinks with the tide. It will be long and narrow, most likely C-shaped.

I think everything Supa said sounds reasonable, but I am for 1 moon since my race is aquatic.

[Captain Obvious]

Here's the rough map for my continent.
 [spoiler] [/spoiler]
Obviously it will get much prettier later.

It lies across the equator and is about africa length (as shown by the latitude lines).

Just realised i didn't show where the start points would be so here goes.
- the Ullor (or ullor-like) people will begin near the base of the big peninsula in the savannah area south of the desert.
- living on the island in the rocky areas south of the volcanic area are a race of small lizard like guys (possibly kobold-like). they sometimes live on the slopes of the mountain (maybe for religious reasons? Volcano god? you betcha!). they have herd of animal and crops down in the temperate areas eventually.
- living to the south-east of the big inland lake are a races either like the Arans from my CS, or something based of of a forest animal (i don't want a yuan-ti copy, or another reptilian race - already have one - but maybe some mamalian race or something based of of big humanoid vampire bats).

Prettier versions of the map will be posted as i make them

[Hibou]

What size continents are youy guys planning and at what longitude? (is that the word for the north south lines on a globe?) what i mean is where will you be relative to the equator?

I'm going to go with a continent (actually three smaller pieces collectively considered one) roughly the size of Asia, but probably with a North America-meets-Mediterranean climate and the like. As you'll soon be able to see from the map, it'll reach far enough north to just barely brush the colder regions. It will reach near if not to the Equator.

how many moons? [i vote 2 but that also would mess with the tidess a lot. i don't know if we want to have to deal with that]

More than one would be cool. I don't think it'd be that hard to make up some cycle of how the tides work based on the moons' relations to the planet. Even if we wanted tides like the real world's, we could always throw in one or more extra moons and claim that they are either too far away or too small to have any real effect on the tidal cycles.

-are we using a standard clock? i.e. 24 hour day. roughly 12 of night and of day [i vote yes to keep it simple]

Sounds good to me.

-are we using a standard calendar? i.e. 365 days and 4 roughly even months? [i'd be fine with this, but obviously each society would develope a different way of tracking the seasons and days]

I vote for a multiple of 10. 300? 400? 500?

Also, we should probably make a decision on how long before the current time in the world the last ice age occured.

[Hibou]

[spoiler=Unnamed Map]

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There's my map of my continent thing. It was generated using iG Tools' Worldmaker and then modified by myself. The different colors represent different terrains which I will explain shortly. The grid is mostly ignorable, though from the left black line to the right one it's about 1400 miles, giving a decent idea of the distance.

Green = Mix/variation of terrain
Dark Green = coastal forest, generally a little warmer or cooler than their surroundings depending on location
Bright Green = Deciduous forest or temperate-warm land, warmer winters
Brown = Desert

This is a very general map and things like forests, highlands, and small patches of different terrain in an area dominated by one type aren't shown. I'd also like to note that my deserts are going to be American-type deserts, not sandy dune deserts. As much as I'd love to pull a Middle Eastern thing in this setting, I'm going to try something different. :)

[Hibou]

What does everyone think about how we should go about naming available resources, plant life, level of supernatural-ness, and natural creatures for our continents?

[Hibou]

Bump.

[Captain Obvious]

wasn't quite sure what you were meaning on yoyur last set of questions.
Do you mean should we have the same names for stuff on each continent?
Or what stuff should there be on each continent?
Or whether we should make a template for the submissions?
Or something else?

[Hibou]

Oh, pardon my confusing-ness. I'll clear that up :)

We should probably come up with a template for specific groups of information. One for available resources (maybe include types of plant life and other 'natural' qualities as well), one for the creatures that inhabit the continents (though Outsiders, Undead, and Constructs, possibly others, should definitely be left out of the lists, even if one of the largest cities somehow develops into a necropolis of rotting, thinking mobile corpses), etc.

There should definitely be a limit to the number of different creatures that inhabit the continent (it's ok to share some common ones, and this limit will probably be very high once you realize all possible variations), and the food chain should be explainable. As for resources, it'd be a good idea to try and keep a limit on the number of available ones to keep things unique, but we'd have to do a fair bit of research in order to keep things possible.

A list of resources should probably include what can be used to make weapons and useful equipment (not just combat- and adventuring-wise), and any other things that are traded such as spices and seasonings.

Any comments?

[Epic Meepo]

You do realize that "the aniga project" looks very much like "the angina project" at a glance, right?  As in, someone reading the current name of this thread might mistakenly associate it with an unpleasant medical condition.

[fw190a8]

I'd very much like to get involved if I may. My idea was for a desert continent stuck right on the equator of this world, allowing for some extremes in terms of the PC race or races that have developed in this place, as well as the kinds of beasts that might be present. Attached (I hope) is a Campaign Cartographer 2 map. The varying shades of brown are supposed to be increasingly tall hills or mountains and the green stuff at the top is jungle. I'd like to add more jungle really but the counter-intuative design of CC2 makes a simple task like drawing a line seem like an agonizing, slow death. Comments and criticisms welcome!

[spoiler=Map][/spoiler]

[Numinous]

I'm sorry guys, but I think i'm gonna pull out of this.  I really don't have that much time right now, and Godswalk is going to require more attention soon...  Plus, you started losing me at resources. :P  Anyway, my schtick is fanatasy, and I guess this might be a tad too realistic for my tastes.  I'll be sure to look it over when something is made for this though.

[Ishmayl-Retired]

Guys, just so you know, the fractal world map generator is working fine.. .at least, the good one is ;)

http://www.bin.sh/gaming/tools/world.cgi

[Hibou]

You do realize that "the aniga project" looks very much like "the angina project" at a glance, right? As in, someone reading the current name of this thread might mistakenly associate it with an unpleasant medical condition.

Well, it could be renamed again. It should definitely have something unique for a title, however.

I'd very much like to get involved if I may. My idea was for a desert continent stuck right on the equator of this world, allowing for some extremes in terms of the PC race or races that have developed in this place, as well as the kinds of beasts that might be present. Attached (I hope) is a Campaign Cartographer 2 map. The varying shades of brown are supposed to be increasingly tall hills or mountains and the green stuff at the top is jungle. I'd like to add more jungle really but the counter-intuative design of CC2 makes a simple task like drawing a line seem like an agonizing, slow death. Comments and criticisms welcome!

I like the map. I don't see why you couldn't come aboard. An extra continent and developer never hurt anyone, I'm sure :).

I'm sorry guys, but I think i'm gonna pull out of this. I really don't have that much time right now, and Godswalk is going to require more attention soon... Plus, you started losing me at resources. Anyway, my schtick is fanatasy, and I guess this might be a tad too realistic for my tastes. I'll be sure to look it over when something is made for this though.

:( Don't be afraid to poke your head back in if you change your mind.

Guys, just so you know, the fractal world map generator is working fine.. .at least, the good one is.

Beautiful. I'm cool with my map, but others may want to use it. Thanks for teh link :)