(THIS FACTION HAS BEEN DISBANDED AND MERGED WITH THE BARONIES)
This is a thread for: Faction Wars!
here is the general layout for factions. Each rank should have its own names for these things but this is just the placeholder name until you fill that in.
footsoldier (any amount of footsoldier) (CR 3-less)
Every single faction follows this same format, although each one of their ranks has a different name, they are equivalent and function the same.
Some basic rules:
1:Roleplay, roleplay, roleplay! We want you to do it, it makes everything more fun, we will be doing it! Have strategy conversations in character and stuff! It makes the game much more fun.
2:PG-13 everyone! Listen, this is mostly a game where you will wage war and brutally destroy your enemies. But nothing above what you would see in a PG-13 marvel movie.
3:Romance is allowed, although I doubt it’ll come up. But if it does, no inappropriate stuff!
4:In your first post in whatever thread you see this message first, write a compliment to Archfey. Who definitely isn’t writing this. I promise.
5:Don’t get too competitive or angry. And don’t bring any drama into these threads, leave it outside, we don’t wanna deal with it here.
6:Ignore rule 4, actually write, “Bippity Boppity Boom!” Which is my signature spell. Again, definitely not Archfey writing this.
7: Just… don’t be a mean person. Don’t insult or argue or say how someone’s idea is utterly stupid and should burn in the pits of the underworld because that’s not nice :>
8: Please, don’t make overly jokey characters. Some of the factions are a bit silly, but this is still a serious game. Funny characters are allowed, just don’t play as an obvious meme character. I mean, I have a gunslinger fighter named Goldi Flintlocks but she’s still pretty serious. This is a serious game about war!
Any player in the Unit can count as the Unit’s commander, who decides what the Unit does. Otherwise, whoever bought the army or currently has ownership over the army controls it, with one unit in the army acting as the commander. If there is a higher ranking character of the same faction in that unit, they get priority to become the units commander, unless it already has one.
For every Farmer that a faction has, they produce ten (resource unique to each faction) at a certain time each day. This time is the same for each and every faction, which for simplicity is 12:00 A.M. Pacific Standard Time. This resource is what is used for the faction to build troops, which will count towards the units of the Faction, as in their armies for mass combat. Each faction has six different troops they can recruit using their special resource, each costing a different amount. What creature they are depends on the faction.
Troop type one: creature CR 1/2 or less, cost 1 resource (example: Lemure)
troop type two: creature CR 1 or less, cost 3 resource (Example: Imp)
troop type three:creature CR 2 or less, cost 5 resource (example: Spined Devil)
troop type four: Creature CR 3 or less, cost 10 resource. (Example: Bearded Devil)
troop type five: Creature CR 8 or less, cost 50 resource (example: Chain Devil)
troop type six: Creature CR 25 or less, cost 500 resource (example: Pit fiend)
these troops are recruited in increments of ten. For example, buying one Troop type one in this scenario would give you ten Lemures. However, for troop type six, it is instead recruited one at a time. So you would only get One Pit fiend, for example.
for combat, abilities that take a specific amount of time to recharge take that amount of time in real life. (Example: a one day use ability would recharge at the same time it was used the next day)
For smaller scale combat not including armies, you simply use regular combat rules for D&D.
Knight rankings and above can buy troops without the permission of the leader of the faction. Whoever bought the troops controls the factions as long as they are within the same region. A higher ranking character in the same region can confiscate the troops from a character (as long as there is reason in roleplay, the leader can veto any of these attempts if there isn’t a pretty good roleplay reason. don’t do it if you just want their troops for no reason, ask them to come with you or ask for them) as long as they are a member of the same faction (known spies don’t count) and a character can gift troops to another character of any ranking, granting ownership and control to them.
Promotion:
a player can be promoted to a higher rank in their faction if 1: there is an available spot for them, and 2: they would reasonably be promoted for roleplay reasons. A general can promote any player up to a knight, and only a leader can anoint generals. A player cannot be promoted twice within 5 days, and they cannot be promoted until after at least three days of being in the faction.
If the leader of a faction dies permanently, the general that has been the general the longest becomes the new faction leader. If you are promoted you have two options when you are promoted when it comes to your character: Make a new character or your new character gains upgrades or becomes more powerful to fit. Unless you really want to, we usually suggest doing the latter.
character creation:
Your character represents your rank in the guild, and follows the CR guidelines for your rank. Try to have your character fit with the theme of the faction, although less so if it is a spy. If your character dies and is not brought back through in game magic within a real life day, they are dead permanently and you lose your rank in the guild, so be careful! When this happens, you are demoted to the lowest guild rank.
Rules for spies!
1. If someone wants to be a spy for a faction, they PM a general (or leader. If the generals are pm'ed it's their job to alert the leader(s).), as asking in the main thread wouldn't work for obvious reasons. The general or leader would then decide which faction to send the spy into.
2. The spy asks to join the faction they were sent to.
3. The spy rises up in the ranks, and gains access to more and more information. (there will be PM meetings for different levels of ranking- Foot Soldier+, Knight+, and General and Leader only. The higher level the meeting, the bigger the information will likely be.) The spy has a PM thread with a general or the leader (or both) of their true faction where they share information they learn.
4. If the spy does a good job remaining undercover, then they keep feeding information to their true faction. However, if a general or higher thinks they're a spy, they can execute that spy and they'll perish.
5. Also, double agents are allowed, maybe even triple. Cause why not.
Alliances Rules!
Alliances can be formed between factions and individual people. For example, An alliance between faction A and faction B could form, And they agree to not attack each other and to send troops to help each other on the battlefield. Or, a general from faction A could ally with Faction C, sending out their personal troops to help them on the battlefield. Or two generals of rival factions teaming up together to storm the fortress of another faction. An alliance between factions cannot contain more than half of the factions in the game.
Regions!
Each faction, as you know, has its own thread. That thread serves both as a recruitment thread for new members as well as a thread for the region that faction controls (again, we suggest roleplay as much as you can! Your faction can have like side projects besides war and cool roleplay opportunities!) in the region there are three main bases for that faction: two small ones that take place on the region thread, and a large, main base that takes place in a separate PM. The two small bases can be raided if there are no troops that anyone in the faction used to drive off the threat. If a base is raided, a fight occurs around the base, involving any creature in the base as well as any army units occupying the base. If the defenders lose the fight, their base is taken by the opposing force and must be taken back. The main base can be breached only in one of two ways: if both of the smaller bases are controlled by the same or allied forces, the main base is able to be attacked directly. Other option is that a spy or invited force attacks within the base. This usually is not the best idea unless you have a loooooot of troops under your command. A fight within the main base works practically the same as described for the smaller bases, but the players invading the base are invited to the main base PM and they play out the fight there. If this happens, once their characters and armies leave the base, they must leave the PM as well. When your character leaves a region, main base, or dungeon thread, you must make a post publically announcing it as well as if and how many troops they are taking with them. A base in a region is also used as a faction’s special resource storage, allowing factions to store resources. Any resource the faction makes above this limit is wasted and destroyed. The smaller bases can contain 500 resource, and the Main base controls 2500. To access these and recruit troops, a character must simply be in the same region and their faction must control the base.
Destroying Factions!
A faction persists on through trials and tests, and is quite hard to destroy. It is possible however, and doing so is likely a main goal for most factions against their enemies. For a faction to be destroyed, several conditions must be met:
The base no longer controls All three of their home region bases (controls meaning they lose the fight of being invaded and either surrender, are taken prisoner, or are killed.)
Every single Knight, General, and Leader of the faction is dead. (The faction cannot appoint new ones of these roles until it controls at least one base, although it need not be their’s originally.)
The faction no longer collectively controls more than 10 army units.
If all of these conditions are met, the faction is disbanded and is permanently destroyed.
Dungeons and being taken prisoner!
If your character is reduced to 0 hitpoints, that need not be their end! The person who reduced you to 0 has a choice: kill you or take you prisoner. If they choose the ladder, you then travel with them and their army until they take you back to their region and then to their main base. You, however, do not simply get to join the main base thread, but shall instead be put in a dungeon PM as you are taken prisoner. While in this dungeon PM, you cannot post on other faction war threads in character and cannot post anything besides clarifying questions and the likes. A player that is part of the faction you were captured by can serve as a guard there. Every single real life day you spend in the dungeon PM, you can roll a d20. On a 15 or higher, you escape the dungeon into the region thread and must put a post describing your escape and your character moving threads. The DC goes up by 1 for every player character acting as a guard for this prison, to a maximum of 19. A general or higher of the faction currently controlling the main base is able to free you from the dungeon, with the permission of that factions leader or not.
And those are the main rules for this super, duper complex game! Unless it specifically comes up no need to read dungeons, alliances, and spies.
And with that, onto the personal descriptions for this thread!
-Definitely not Archfey
Long ago, the planes were all separated from the others. Nobody knew of the other realms, no connection to be found. However, this changed one day when a man, Correnus Regnum, a skilled mage quickly gaining power, managed to use magic to catch a glimpse of the other planes. Obsessed with what he'd briefly seen, he quickly began studying and theorizing, developing much of what we know today about the planes. He began travelling though the realms, finding more and more information and connecting the planes together. Eventually, he returned to the Material Plane and decided to spread the knowledge he had learned to his home plane. Many people were just as fascinated with the planes as he was, and thus a society was formed- the Regnum Collective, a union representing the Material Plane in the universe's vast expanse. They dedicated themselves to protecting their own plane, finding more and more knowledge about the rest of the planes, and mastering the planes' magic. With war and resentment brewing, they seek to protect themselves as well as establish their position in the world.
The Regnum Collective's bases are all centered around a mountain, known as Ianua Peak-- a mountain so large it's top touches the clouds. At the base of the mountain are two small bases, each covering half of the mountain's area. These bases are Videntes Outpost and Parvus Lookout, each named after their founders that created them when the Collective was born. This thread will take place at Videntis Outpost and Parvus Lookout, while the main base will be a PM with all faction members in it. Both of them serve three main purposes- defense for the Collective's main base (more on that in a second), a place to store materials, and housing for people not living in the main base. Special magic infusions allow the leaders of each of the small bases to communicate with each other, and the entrance to the main base requires a permission input from both of them, meaning that the main base can only be sieged if both Videntes and Parvus are taken. If both give the signal, it opens a portal that people can step through to enter the main base.
The main base itself, known as the Ianua Complex, is the carved inside of Ianua Peak. It starts at the bottom, where the majority of people in the Collective live, and ends at the top, where Correnus Regnum, the Planar Overseer himself, dwells.The base is where, as said before, most of the people in the faction live. Here they study the planes, learn magic, and live in a peaceful society. Over time, the rock of the mountain hardened to the point where entrance into the Complex is impossible by drilling, only able to be accomplished by the entrance mentioned earlier. The Complex is composed of housing, training arenas, and various libraries for people to study the planes in. The higher levels are only allowed to be entered by residents if you are a high enough rank, or if you get invited by the rank required.
As for resources, the Collective has access to precious stones and metals since they live in the mountains. However, the main resource they collect is planar energy, the stuff that suffuses the universe itself. They can make this energy manifest into creatures, which is how they summon troop for battle. All of the creatures are planar energy animated.
Ranks and Troops:
Planar Overseer (Leader). Correnus has become so skilled in planar magic that the planes suffuse him with life, preventing him from dying of old age and keeping him alive centuries after the Collective was founded. Statistic wise, Correnus is a planetar, and if it's fine his creature type is humanoid and not celestial.
People wander about Videntis Outpost and Parvus Lookout, minding their business. Notices have been put up in each: "The Regnum Collective is going to war! Become an Initiate of the Planar Arts, or an Essence Harvester, and join in the fight that shall rupture the Material Plane!"
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Locations are dead, the Temple of Potassium has fallen but its ideals live on
People wander about Videntis Outpost and Parvus Lookout, minding their business. Notices have been put up in each: "The Regnum Collective is going to war! Become an Initiate of the Planar Arts, or an Essence Harvester, and join in the fight that shall rupture the Material Plane!"
More of these posters have been put up. Some have a new message: "We can't win without you helping!"
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Hello! I am a perfectly sane gibberer. Hi! :D
Locations are dead, the Temple of Potassium has fallen but its ideals live on
Correnus Regnum is in the top of the Ianua Complex, mumbling to himself. "No new members... That's not good, not good at all. We can't win the war like this."
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Hello! I am a perfectly sane gibberer. Hi! :D
Locations are dead, the Temple of Potassium has fallen but its ideals live on
He looks down at the rest of the complex. "Nobody wishes to fight for their home? Not good." He says to himself again. "We might need an alliance with someone."
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Hello! I am a perfectly sane gibberer. Hi! :D
Locations are dead, the Temple of Potassium has fallen but its ideals live on
The Red Baron’s carriage, a wonderfully crafted vehicle made of dark wood and red velvets, pulled by star spawn Grues, makes its way to the Edge of the Regnum Collective’s territory. They are waving a flag of peace.
The red Baron steps out of its carriage, the ground around where it steps wilting and dying. The red Baron, a short humanoid figure with skin like white painted wood and flowing, expensive white clothes, as well as a curly white wig, in stark contrast to their dead, completely black eyes, bows to the volunteer.
“Why hello there! I am BARON from the BARONIES. I seek to discuss a potential alliance with… Regnum.” It extends its hand to shake the volunteer’s.
The red Baron steps out of its carriage, the ground around where it steps wilting and dying. The red Baron, a short humanoid figure with skin like white painted wood and flowing, expensive white clothes, as well as a curly white wig, in stark contrast to their dead, completely black eyes, bows to the volunteer.
“Why hello there! I am BARON from the BARONIES. I seek to discuss a potential alliance with… Regnum.” It extends its hand to shake the volunteer’s.
"Uh... Hi." He shakes it's hand. "What are the Baronies?"
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Hello! I am a perfectly sane gibberer. Hi! :D
Locations are dead, the Temple of Potassium has fallen but its ideals live on
The red Baron steps out of its carriage, the ground around where it steps wilting and dying. The red Baron, a short humanoid figure with skin like white painted wood and flowing, expensive white clothes, as well as a curly white wig, in stark contrast to their dead, completely black eyes, bows to the volunteer.
“Why hello there! I am BARON from the BARONIES. I seek to discuss a potential alliance with… Regnum.” It extends its hand to shake the volunteer’s.
"Uh... Hi." He shakes it's hand. "What are the Baronies?"
”The BARONIES are the BARONIES, of course. I’d rather speak with Regnum more directly.”
The red Baron steps out of its carriage, the ground around where it steps wilting and dying. The red Baron, a short humanoid figure with skin like white painted wood and flowing, expensive white clothes, as well as a curly white wig, in stark contrast to their dead, completely black eyes, bows to the volunteer.
“Why hello there! I am BARON from the BARONIES. I seek to discuss a potential alliance with… Regnum.” It extends its hand to shake the volunteer’s.
"Uh... Hi." He shakes it's hand. "What are the Baronies?"
”The BARONIES are the BARONIES, of course. I’d rather speak with Regnum more directly.”
"Ok? Follow me, I guess?" He's definitely on edge. He walks towards the mountain, in the direction of a seemingly barren wall.
Hi! I'm EJO. I am a silly billy who forgets to play Genshin Impact every day totally DOESN'T simp for at least three different ninja girls. Some other facts about me:
I main Milio in League of Legends, and therefore have extreme anxiety whenever my glass cannon Vayne main teammate charges at the enemy while I'm at the spawn zone.
My average accuracy in Marvel Rivals is about 19%.
If anyone says the words "Spider man lord" in my presence I will immediately lock myself in my room.
Would you like to be a Planar Champion or an Essence Harvester?
Planar Champion, please.
My character is a Sapphire dragonborn war magic wizard, what's the level limit?
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Hi! I'm EJO. I am a silly billy who forgets to play Genshin Impact every day totally DOESN'T simp for at least three different ninja girls. Some other facts about me:
I main Milio in League of Legends, and therefore have extreme anxiety whenever my glass cannon Vayne main teammate charges at the enemy while I'm at the spawn zone.
My average accuracy in Marvel Rivals is about 19%.
If anyone says the words "Spider man lord" in my presence I will immediately lock myself in my room.
Would you like to be a Planar Champion or an Essence Harvester?
Planar Champion, please.
My character is a Sapphire dragonborn war magic wizard, what's the level limit?
Adding you to the rankings! Welcome to the Collective!
The current rule is that level is the same as the CR. That may change in the future, though, since it's not too balanced.
Ok. He was already level 3 so nothing to change
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Hi! I'm EJO. I am a silly billy who forgets to play Genshin Impact every day totally DOESN'T simp for at least three different ninja girls. Some other facts about me:
I main Milio in League of Legends, and therefore have extreme anxiety whenever my glass cannon Vayne main teammate charges at the enemy while I'm at the spawn zone.
My average accuracy in Marvel Rivals is about 19%.
If anyone says the words "Spider man lord" in my presence I will immediately lock myself in my room.
Would you like to be a Planar Champion or an Essence Harvester?
Planar Champion, please.
My character is a Sapphire dragonborn war magic wizard, what's the level limit?
Adding you to the rankings! Welcome to the Collective!
The current rule is that level is the same as the CR. That may change in the future, though, since it's not too balanced.
Ok. He was already level 3 so nothing to change
Planar Champions are 10-14.
Also, did you read the basic rules? You don't have to read the long game rules for now, but the basic rules are important.
Oh OK wrong rank sry
Umm I kinda skimmed them
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Hi! I'm EJO. I am a silly billy who forgets to play Genshin Impact every day totally DOESN'T simp for at least three different ninja girls. Some other facts about me:
I main Milio in League of Legends, and therefore have extreme anxiety whenever my glass cannon Vayne main teammate charges at the enemy while I'm at the spawn zone.
My average accuracy in Marvel Rivals is about 19%.
If anyone says the words "Spider man lord" in my presence I will immediately lock myself in my room.
Hi! I'm EJO. I am a silly billy who forgets to play Genshin Impact every day totally DOESN'T simp for at least three different ninja girls. Some other facts about me:
I main Milio in League of Legends, and therefore have extreme anxiety whenever my glass cannon Vayne main teammate charges at the enemy while I'm at the spawn zone.
My average accuracy in Marvel Rivals is about 19%.
If anyone says the words "Spider man lord" in my presence I will immediately lock myself in my room.
I like cheese.
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here is the general layout for factions. Each rank should have its own names for these things but this is just the placeholder name until you fill that in.
Leader (1) (CR 15-20) (also uses This)
General (2-3 generals) (CR 10-14)
Knight (5 knights) (CR 5-9)
Farmer (8 farmers) (CR 1-less)
footsoldier (any amount of footsoldier) (CR 3-less)
Every single faction follows this same format, although each one of their ranks has a different name, they are equivalent and function the same.
Some basic rules:
1:Roleplay, roleplay, roleplay! We want you to do it, it makes everything more fun, we will be doing it! Have strategy conversations in character and stuff! It makes the game much more fun.
2:PG-13 everyone! Listen, this is mostly a game where you will wage war and brutally destroy your enemies. But nothing above what you would see in a PG-13 marvel movie.
3:Romance is allowed, although I doubt it’ll come up. But if it does, no inappropriate stuff!
4:In your first post in whatever thread you see this message first, write a compliment to Archfey. Who definitely isn’t writing this. I promise.
5:Don’t get too competitive or angry. And don’t bring any drama into these threads, leave it outside, we don’t wanna deal with it here.
6:Ignore rule 4, actually write, “Bippity Boppity Boom!” Which is my signature spell. Again, definitely not Archfey writing this.
7: Just… don’t be a mean person. Don’t insult or argue or say how someone’s idea is utterly stupid and should burn in the pits of the underworld because that’s not nice :>
8: Please, don’t make overly jokey characters. Some of the factions are a bit silly, but this is still a serious game. Funny characters are allowed, just don’t play as an obvious meme character. I mean, I have a gunslinger fighter named Goldi Flintlocks but she’s still pretty serious. This is a serious game about war!
Combat rules!
For army combat, we can use these rules: https://media.wizards.com/2017/dnd/downloads/2017_UAMassCombat_MCUA_v1.pdf
Any player in the Unit can count as the Unit’s commander, who decides what the Unit does. Otherwise, whoever bought the army or currently has ownership over the army controls it, with one unit in the army acting as the commander. If there is a higher ranking character of the same faction in that unit, they get priority to become the units commander, unless it already has one.
For every Farmer that a faction has, they produce ten (resource unique to each faction) at a certain time each day. This time is the same for each and every faction, which for simplicity is 12:00 A.M. Pacific Standard Time. This resource is what is used for the faction to build troops, which will count towards the units of the Faction, as in their armies for mass combat. Each faction has six different troops they can recruit using their special resource, each costing a different amount. What creature they are depends on the faction.
Troop type one: creature CR 1/2 or less, cost 1 resource (example: Lemure)
troop type two: creature CR 1 or less, cost 3 resource (Example: Imp)
troop type three: creature CR 2 or less, cost 5 resource (example: Spined Devil)
troop type four: Creature CR 3 or less, cost 10 resource. (Example: Bearded Devil)
troop type five: Creature CR 8 or less, cost 50 resource (example: Chain Devil)
troop type six: Creature CR 25 or less, cost 500 resource (example: Pit fiend)
these troops are recruited in increments of ten. For example, buying one Troop type one in this scenario would give you ten Lemures. However, for troop type six, it is instead recruited one at a time. So you would only get One Pit fiend, for example.
for combat, abilities that take a specific amount of time to recharge take that amount of time in real life. (Example: a one day use ability would recharge at the same time it was used the next day)
For smaller scale combat not including armies, you simply use regular combat rules for D&D.
Knight rankings and above can buy troops without the permission of the leader of the faction. Whoever bought the troops controls the factions as long as they are within the same region. A higher ranking character in the same region can confiscate the troops from a character (as long as there is reason in roleplay, the leader can veto any of these attempts if there isn’t a pretty good roleplay reason. don’t do it if you just want their troops for no reason, ask them to come with you or ask for them) as long as they are a member of the same faction (known spies don’t count) and a character can gift troops to another character of any ranking, granting ownership and control to them.
Promotion:
a player can be promoted to a higher rank in their faction if 1: there is an available spot for them, and 2: they would reasonably be promoted for roleplay reasons. A general can promote any player up to a knight, and only a leader can anoint generals. A player cannot be promoted twice within 5 days, and they cannot be promoted until after at least three days of being in the faction.
If the leader of a faction dies permanently, the general that has been the general the longest becomes the new faction leader. If you are promoted you have two options when you are promoted when it comes to your character: Make a new character or your new character gains upgrades or becomes more powerful to fit. Unless you really want to, we usually suggest doing the latter.
character creation:
Your character represents your rank in the guild, and follows the CR guidelines for your rank. Try to have your character fit with the theme of the faction, although less so if it is a spy. If your character dies and is not brought back through in game magic within a real life day, they are dead permanently and you lose your rank in the guild, so be careful! When this happens, you are demoted to the lowest guild rank.
Rules for spies!
1. If someone wants to be a spy for a faction, they PM a general (or leader. If the generals are pm'ed it's their job to alert the leader(s).), as asking in the main thread wouldn't work for obvious reasons. The general or leader would then decide which faction to send the spy into.
2. The spy asks to join the faction they were sent to.
3. The spy rises up in the ranks, and gains access to more and more information. (there will be PM meetings for different levels of ranking- Foot Soldier+, Knight+, and General and Leader only. The higher level the meeting, the bigger the information will likely be.) The spy has a PM thread with a general or the leader (or both) of their true faction where they share information they learn.
4. If the spy does a good job remaining undercover, then they keep feeding information to their true faction. However, if a general or higher thinks they're a spy, they can execute that spy and they'll perish.
5. Also, double agents are allowed, maybe even triple. Cause why not.
Alliances Rules!
Alliances can be formed between factions and individual people. For example, An alliance between faction A and faction B could form, And they agree to not attack each other and to send troops to help each other on the battlefield. Or, a general from faction A could ally with Faction C, sending out their personal troops to help them on the battlefield. Or two generals of rival factions teaming up together to storm the fortress of another faction. An alliance between factions cannot contain more than half of the factions in the game.
Regions!
Each faction, as you know, has its own thread. That thread serves both as a recruitment thread for new members as well as a thread for the region that faction controls (again, we suggest roleplay as much as you can! Your faction can have like side projects besides war and cool roleplay opportunities!) in the region there are three main bases for that faction: two small ones that take place on the region thread, and a large, main base that takes place in a separate PM. The two small bases can be raided if there are no troops that anyone in the faction used to drive off the threat. If a base is raided, a fight occurs around the base, involving any creature in the base as well as any army units occupying the base. If the defenders lose the fight, their base is taken by the opposing force and must be taken back. The main base can be breached only in one of two ways: if both of the smaller bases are controlled by the same or allied forces, the main base is able to be attacked directly. Other option is that a spy or invited force attacks within the base. This usually is not the best idea unless you have a loooooot of troops under your command. A fight within the main base works practically the same as described for the smaller bases, but the players invading the base are invited to the main base PM and they play out the fight there. If this happens, once their characters and armies leave the base, they must leave the PM as well. When your character leaves a region, main base, or dungeon thread, you must make a post publically announcing it as well as if and how many troops they are taking with them. A base in a region is also used as a faction’s special resource storage, allowing factions to store resources. Any resource the faction makes above this limit is wasted and destroyed. The smaller bases can contain 500 resource, and the Main base controls 2500. To access these and recruit troops, a character must simply be in the same region and their faction must control the base.
Destroying Factions!
A faction persists on through trials and tests, and is quite hard to destroy. It is possible however, and doing so is likely a main goal for most factions against their enemies. For a faction to be destroyed, several conditions must be met:
The base no longer controls All three of their home region bases (controls meaning they lose the fight of being invaded and either surrender, are taken prisoner, or are killed.)
Every single Knight, General, and Leader of the faction is dead. (The faction cannot appoint new ones of these roles until it controls at least one base, although it need not be their’s originally.)
The faction no longer collectively controls more than 10 army units.
If all of these conditions are met, the faction is disbanded and is permanently destroyed.
Dungeons and being taken prisoner!
If your character is reduced to 0 hitpoints, that need not be their end! The person who reduced you to 0 has a choice: kill you or take you prisoner. If they choose the ladder, you then travel with them and their army until they take you back to their region and then to their main base. You, however, do not simply get to join the main base thread, but shall instead be put in a dungeon PM as you are taken prisoner. While in this dungeon PM, you cannot post on other faction war threads in character and cannot post anything besides clarifying questions and the likes. A player that is part of the faction you were captured by can serve as a guard there. Every single real life day you spend in the dungeon PM, you can roll a d20. On a 15 or higher, you escape the dungeon into the region thread and must put a post describing your escape and your character moving threads. The DC goes up by 1 for every player character acting as a guard for this prison, to a maximum of 19. A general or higher of the faction currently controlling the main base is able to free you from the dungeon, with the permission of that factions leader or not.
And those are the main rules for this super, duper complex game! Unless it specifically comes up no need to read dungeons, alliances, and spies.
And with that, onto the personal descriptions for this thread!
-Definitely not Archfey
Long ago, the planes were all separated from the others. Nobody knew of the other realms, no connection to be found. However, this changed one day when a man, Correnus Regnum, a skilled mage quickly gaining power, managed to use magic to catch a glimpse of the other planes. Obsessed with what he'd briefly seen, he quickly began studying and theorizing, developing much of what we know today about the planes. He began travelling though the realms, finding more and more information and connecting the planes together. Eventually, he returned to the Material Plane and decided to spread the knowledge he had learned to his home plane. Many people were just as fascinated with the planes as he was, and thus a society was formed- the Regnum Collective, a union representing the Material Plane in the universe's vast expanse. They dedicated themselves to protecting their own plane, finding more and more knowledge about the rest of the planes, and mastering the planes' magic. With war and resentment brewing, they seek to protect themselves as well as establish their position in the world.
The Regnum Collective's bases are all centered around a mountain, known as Ianua Peak-- a mountain so large it's top touches the clouds. At the base of the mountain are two small bases, each covering half of the mountain's area. These bases are Videntes Outpost and Parvus Lookout, each named after their founders that created them when the Collective was born. This thread will take place at Videntis Outpost and Parvus Lookout, while the main base will be a PM with all faction members in it. Both of them serve three main purposes- defense for the Collective's main base (more on that in a second), a place to store materials, and housing for people not living in the main base. Special magic infusions allow the leaders of each of the small bases to communicate with each other, and the entrance to the main base requires a permission input from both of them, meaning that the main base can only be sieged if both Videntes and Parvus are taken. If both give the signal, it opens a portal that people can step through to enter the main base.
The main base itself, known as the Ianua Complex, is the carved inside of Ianua Peak. It starts at the bottom, where the majority of people in the Collective live, and ends at the top, where Correnus Regnum, the Planar Overseer himself, dwells.The base is where, as said before, most of the people in the faction live. Here they study the planes, learn magic, and live in a peaceful society. Over time, the rock of the mountain hardened to the point where entrance into the Complex is impossible by drilling, only able to be accomplished by the entrance mentioned earlier. The Complex is composed of housing, training arenas, and various libraries for people to study the planes in. The higher levels are only allowed to be entered by residents if you are a high enough rank, or if you get invited by the rank required.
As for resources, the Collective has access to precious stones and metals since they live in the mountains. However, the main resource they collect is planar energy, the stuff that suffuses the universe itself. They can make this energy manifest into creatures, which is how they summon troop for battle. All of the creatures are planar energy animated.
Ranks and Troops:
Planar Overseer (Leader). Correnus has become so skilled in planar magic that the planes suffuse him with life, preventing him from dying of old age and keeping him alive centuries after the Collective was founded. Statistic wise, Correnus is a planetar, and if it's fine his creature type is humanoid and not celestial.
Planar Champions (General). EJODM18604
Realm Guardian (Knight).
Essence Harvester (Farmer).
Initiate of the Planar Arts (Foot Soldier)
Troops:
Type 1- Psychic Gray Ooze
Type 2- Animated Armor
Type 3- Will-O-Wisp
Type 4- Phase Spider
Type 5- Animated Breath
Type 6- Empyrean
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People wander about Videntis Outpost and Parvus Lookout, minding their business. Notices have been put up in each: "The Regnum Collective is going to war! Become an Initiate of the Planar Arts, or an Essence Harvester, and join in the fight that shall rupture the Material Plane!"
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More of these posters have been put up. Some have a new message: "We can't win without you helping!"
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Correnus Regnum is in the top of the Ianua Complex, mumbling to himself. "No new members... That's not good, not good at all. We can't win the war like this."
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He looks down at the rest of the complex. "Nobody wishes to fight for their home? Not good." He says to himself again. "We might need an alliance with someone."
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The Red Baron’s carriage, a wonderfully crafted vehicle made of dark wood and red velvets, pulled by star spawn Grues, makes its way to the Edge of the Regnum Collective’s territory. They are waving a flag of peace.
Soon enough, news of the arrival reaches Correnus. "Oh? Peace? That is good. Send someone to talk."
And so, a volunteer walks out to the edge of the territory to meet with the Red Baron.
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The red Baron steps out of its carriage, the ground around where it steps wilting and dying. The red Baron, a short humanoid figure with skin like white painted wood and flowing, expensive white clothes, as well as a curly white wig, in stark contrast to their dead, completely black eyes, bows to the volunteer.
“Why hello there! I am BARON from the BARONIES. I seek to discuss a potential alliance with… Regnum.” It extends its hand to shake the volunteer’s.
"Uh... Hi." He shakes it's hand. "What are the Baronies?"
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”The BARONIES are the BARONIES, of course. I’d rather speak with Regnum more directly.”
"Ok? Follow me, I guess?" He's definitely on edge. He walks towards the mountain, in the direction of a seemingly barren wall.
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Hi. I answer your pleas for aid and join!
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Thank you! We've had no hope for a while!
Would you like to be a Planar Champion or an Essence Harvester?
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Planar Champion, please.
My character is a Sapphire dragonborn war magic wizard, what's the level limit?
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Adding you to the rankings! Welcome to the Collective!
The current rule is that level is the same as the CR. That may change in the future, though, since it's not too balanced.
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Ok. He was already level 3 so nothing to change
Hi! I'm EJO. I am a silly billy who forgets to play Genshin Impact every day totally DOESN'T simp for at least three different ninja girls. Some other facts about me:
I main Milio in League of Legends, and therefore have extreme anxiety whenever my glass cannon Vayne main teammate charges at the enemy while I'm at the spawn zone.
My average accuracy in Marvel Rivals is about 19%.
If anyone says the words "Spider man lord" in my presence I will immediately lock myself in my room.
I like cheese.
Planar Champions are 10-14.
Also, did you read the basic rules? You don't have to read the long game rules for now, but the basic rules are important.
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Oh OK wrong rank sry
Umm I kinda skimmed them
Hi! I'm EJO. I am a silly billy who forgets to play Genshin Impact every day totally DOESN'T simp for at least three different ninja girls. Some other facts about me:
I main Milio in League of Legends, and therefore have extreme anxiety whenever my glass cannon Vayne main teammate charges at the enemy while I'm at the spawn zone.
My average accuracy in Marvel Rivals is about 19%.
If anyone says the words "Spider man lord" in my presence I will immediately lock myself in my room.
I like cheese.
There's a codeword in them. Please say the codeword.
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Uh...
Bippity Boppity Boom?
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I main Milio in League of Legends, and therefore have extreme anxiety whenever my glass cannon Vayne main teammate charges at the enemy while I'm at the spawn zone.
My average accuracy in Marvel Rivals is about 19%.
If anyone says the words "Spider man lord" in my presence I will immediately lock myself in my room.
I like cheese.