(IR) 1st ooc-thread of the 5th IR (open)

[Thomas Hobbes]

Hmm. Confusion in color there may be, but I checked and Eluvan did not claim Yoemanry (it's not explicitly claimed; if he meant to but didn't, I contest! ). As for color, give me a moment to google...

According to some random website that apparently refers to some previous edition (Alas, this is the #1 google hit for "Tritherion"- anyone else have info on history, leaders, etc?) this is what priests of Tritherion wear:

dark blue or purple robes, with gold or silver trim
gold and red cassocks, emblazoned with the rune of pursuit

So. Colorwise, I'm sure something can be mined from there. Or perhaps Keoland has some defining color.

I've found lots of good stuff on Canonfire about Celene, Lendarl, and Elves in general. Not so much on Tritherion, but then, I get the sense he wasn't a major power before I chose him. Any other sources would be peachy.

Edit:

Their symbol is a lion, rampant, on a red shield. If, er, I recall what "rampant" means correctly. Red is probably already taken, though.

EDIT: To everyone- Canonfire is a great resource. Go to their website and do an advanced search for your country in the "Gazeteer" subsection. Lots of great info.

 

[Edena_of_Neith]

I know you're not claiming the Yeomancy, Thomas. I was merely commenting on the confusion with the colors.

IC, Eclavdra sends no reply to Ranzo's message. The drow are silent.

I'm putting in a claim for Geoff (or is it Sterich?) because that country is still held by drow giantish allies. An extremely minimal gain for my power, but more of my wine color splashed on the map.

 

[James Heard]

Sterich is already claimed by Eluvan as part of the League of Athyr I believe?

 

[Thomas Hobbes]

Sterich is, but she was thinking of Geoff, which is still overrun by giants. That is what you were talking about, right?

And actually, I am claiming the Yeomanry, if I may. It fits quite nicely. It's an odd faction I've got- Yeomanry, Celene, the Pale, and Lendarl. Plus partial control a bunch of places where the Church is. Interesting.

There seems to be no one person that will leap out as an uber-PC, except for perhaps the Bard/Evangelist who will be the current leader of the Church. And he will be pretty uber, but not in the Smiting way, like the wolf-god or Iuz. Very, very, very inspirational and diplomatic, perhaps. (Convert! Convert! Convert!) In any case, I have little to no idea how to use the epic rules, I'll not do anything further stats-wise unless someone points out something really appropriate (although he will pick up Legendary Commander and Epic Leadership, for the obvious reasons). Other important PCs will be Queen Yolande of Celene, and maybe the Freeholder of Yeomanry. Not big stats-wise, I expect, but worth noting as a roleplaying thing.

 

[William Ronald]

Some thoughts and information

First, I am sorry that this is so late in the day. I have been very busy.

I think someone should claim the Iron League. Bugbear, the Iron League could not help out Nyrond in the Greyhawk Wars as they were being invaded by the Scarlet Brotherhood -- and have broken free or stayed independent. They are a bit stronger than they might seem. So, someone should claim them. Perhaps they would be useful to a minor power. (We still will likely have people making claims I will address them by players and a few general things. Also, I have a few ideas to make sure that an Iron League player is not automatically gobbled up). Also, no one has claimed all of the Ulek states yet, the Lortmil Mountains, Veluna, Furyondy, Verbobonc, and Dyvers. Also, it is uncertain to me who has claimed Greyhawk, the Kron Hills, the Lorridges, the Gnarley Forest and the Welkwood.

I spent some time researching possible territories for people to claim. However, I will answer some of Melkor's questions first before making suggestions, most of which will be in sblock text. The current year, 20 years after the Greyhawk Wars, is 604 CY. (Give me some time, and I will figure out the year by various Greyhawk Calendars.) 600 years before this IR opensThe Great Kingdom stretched from the Solnor Ocean to the Yatils. I believe the Lortmils were their border with the Kingdom of Keoland, a major power at that time. There also were Baklunish states and some northern barbarian states. Iuz did not emerge as a power of any note until 479 CY when he inherited the estate of his "father", a minor noble north of Furyondy. So, Iuz is fairly young as demigods go.


Here are some new link. Edena, can you include them in the Megapost? Thanks in advance.

Greyhawk Journals

Greyhawk Mysterious Places (Note, I claim anything Baklunish in this


The following website has old Greyhawk products available as PDF downloads: SV Games

My next post will have some more ideas for specific players. And some thoughts on how to strengthen weaker factions.

 

[Creamsteak]

I am betting I could now put 10 times as much information in the post, compared to what currently exists, without lengthening the onscreen size of the post at all.
Unless the sblock text loads ENWorld as much as visible text, in which case I cannot, because I don't want to overload ENWorld.

Without getting technical:

1) It does use more resources when you Sblock the text. So little more that it is not noticeable without an extremely precise measurement. Think nano-seconds or something like that.

2) I don't think your long posts will have any effect on the server. We are bottlenecked by the processor, not the bandwidth. The processor has no problems most of the time, but gets slowed down at peak hours. Unless the IR suddenly becomes the most popular thing on EN World, your not doing anything to hurt the server.

 

[James Heard]

William, several web resources have mentioned an article by Skip Williams in some old Dragon about the 'rest' of Oerth. Do you, or does anyone, happen to know which issue that might be in?

 

[Zelda Themelin]

William, several web resources have mentioned an article by Skip Williams in some old Dragon about the 'rest' of Oerth. Do you, or does anyone, happen to know which issue that might be in?

I recall searching that one for William before 3rd IR started, but alas, I think I did not find it then.
Or mmh, maybe it was just particular map I was looking.
Anyway, if you know which particular issue that might be in, I can try to find it again.

 

[Bugbear]

2) I don't think your long posts will have any effect on the server. We are bottlenecked by the processor, not the bandwidth. The processor has no problems most of the time, but gets slowed down at peak hours. Unless the IR suddenly becomes the most popular thing on EN World, your not doing anything to hurt the server.

Keep in mind that yesterday the "IR crashes messegeboad" switch was switched to the on position during the board upgrade. Morrus allways does that, it's kinda a running gag.

 

[Creamsteak]

Keep in mind that yesterday the "IR crashes messegeboad" switch was switched to the on position during the board upgrade. Morrus allways does that, it's kinda a running gag.

I'll see if I can't get that fixed.