Ex Novo Session

Expectations & Assumptions

  • Happiness
  • Upbeat
  • Not Grimdark
  • Pure escapism
  • Conventional

Nation

  • Dominant species: Human
  • Druids - every major city has a druid grove
    • How cities are founded
    • Tree planting
  • Celitc influence
  • American Medieval . Renfayre
  • New style of magic: sonomancy - James

City Details: Freeman's Wood

Target size: Small City Age: Grown Forest: Useful natural resources - Logging Settlers looking for freedom - A group of loggers who fled guild in the next kingdom over to form their own Governing Council - Forestry - Rafters - The Froe - Council at large

Factions

  • Loggers - loggers are the underclass
  • Rafters - six logs bound - in contro# Development

Development

  • Event - Two district joined to for the heart of the town
  • Redistribution of wealth - Fairness prevails. The democracy of consumption brings joy to the citizens. Was this enforced? How do the once wealthy react? - This is the start of the rift between the rafters and the forestery
  • An important alliance is forged - Two factions permanently bond together. What is the goal of this alliance? Was it forged by peaceful means or by deceit? - Formation of the town council, third party
    • Loggers + rafters join together with the druid as the third person
  • Kids are sent to school instead of to the mines. Reading is valued and more people find work beyond manual labor. Who controls this education? - Added the library and mill, papermaking
  • A need now satisfied for all - Either everyone has access to food and shelter or, finally, everyone got a nice gadget or thingamajig. What’s become commonplace in the city? - Artisans. People don;t want to have the manual trades - new woodworkers group / district
  • A shift in cultural values occurs - Does society become more permissive or more restrictive? Who tries to resist this? And does this change the city’s view on a resource? - a liberalization from the artisans, moving from labor to art. -- A bridge is built
  • A peaceful neighbor - It is nice to have new settlements nearby. Trade partners, military allies or just a friendly rivalry in sports. Who are they? What sets them apart? -- Next villager over provides agricultural products - half-ling farming community (food and recreational)
  • Outsiders arrive - new district - halfings moving from the neighboring town
  • A festival is established -- A Music Festival - fairgrounds established
  • The land opens up - The land stretches and opens up. A sinkhole forms, a trench opens, a mountain pass is formed. What falls in or crawls out?