Is there even a way to perform this event properly??

You need actual wisdom to play this game well, which you obviously lack.

>>52971733
Do you understand how a strategy game works? The "proper" path is going to depend on how badly you want friendship with the ducks and by extension the beastmen, and how precarious your food/land situation is at the moment of contact. There is no one answer. And there is no answer that only has benefits and no drawbacks.

Sure. Options 1, 2, 3 and IIRC even 4 are workable. You can also raid them twice without consequences. Once you do the third raid though, the unstoppable Beastman army arrives after and fucks you do to death.

If I remember right, someone did manage to avoid it completely by raiding the ducks so heavily he forced them off their tula and never suffered the reprisal raid.

The ducks are bros though, why not just make a pact with them? IMO the Humakti deathduck is way more annoying because your guy can be legendary, absolute top tier fighting skill and still lose the contest and die.

>>52971733
5.

>>52971733
Which game is this and can I fuck the ducks?

>>52971873
>If I remember right, someone did manage to avoid it completely by raiding the ducks so heavily he forced them off their tula and never suffered the reprisal raid.
Can confirm this (for the PC version at least). If you beat them in the surprise raid and take their land, they'll disappear and you won't get duck events except the swamp duck ones

>>52971733
that game is so fucking hard
It's addicting but I'm not a masochists so I had to stop

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>>52971881

King of Dragon Pass.

>>52971873
Humakti death duck cheats is why he has an enchantment that will let him defeat the first enemy he fights

You have to send a regular weaponthane at him and let him kill that one, then he'll demand a greater challenge, at which point you sent your general who hopefully has the highest tier in war

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Worst but avoidable event coming through.

>>52972033
NO MERCY AFFORDED FOR KINSTRIFE.

>>52971733
I once raided them so hard in my first and last raid against them that they picked up everything and just left their lands to me.
For some reason I really hate the little fuckers.

>>52971733
Wait I just picked the Steam port this one up on sale, is making the ducks give you food a bad idea?

Friendly reminder the steam version is a phone port, pirate the original it has more content even if the res is lower.

>>52971967
>that game is so fucking hard
Only if you play it the wrong way. Play it the right way and it's easy.
Fortunately, the "right way" is rather broad category. Read manual.

>>52972185

Doesn't GOG have the original? Or is that also a port?

Or am I thinking of something else entirely?

>>52972215
GoG has the original, yes.

>>52972185
They said that the phone version had more content though.

>>52972185
Thanks for the warning senpai. What about the GOG version? They tend to have older stuff.

>>52972185
>>52972241
>>52972256
Okay I'm confused: is Steam or GOG better?

>>52972256
Steam/Phone version has more art (which is all pretty nice, no complaints), but all the same events.

UI is objectively worse than the original, though. Turns the cool settlement screen that displays what your town looks like into a text menu.

>>52972256
More content, more art, more transparent gameplay (mood +/- et al), worse interface

>>52971733
Does anyone know what influences exploring in the Dragonsreach Wilds? Most of the others I could generally figure out what stats were important in the leader, and whether a bigger or smaller exploration party was good. I never really could for the Dragonnewt area. I want those treasures dammit!

>>52972382
git gud.

>>52971983
Is this an ending game or neverending one?

>>52972438
It can end in "victory" or defeat if you know what you're doing and play well (and long). It is by no means a game you quickly play through.

>>52972438
There is an ending you're supposed to work towards but I think it's possible to ignore the goals for winning indefinitely.

>>52972505
Ironically, it's easier to do so in the "quick" game than the long game.

But yes, you can play indefinitely in the long game as long as you avoid doing 6 (IIRC) different heroquests, which is one of the necessary triggers for the endgame event sequence.

>>52972438
At the beginning of the game, you choose if you want to play the "short game" or the "long game."

In the short game, you play until you meet the proper conditions to form a clan through uniting yourself with the surrounding tribes, and then have to meet a number of victory conditions (including not falling apart) within a ten-year time limit. It's hard, but not undoable.

In the long game, you attempt to become king of the entire map. I get the suspicion it's pretty much impossible to do because, both times I've tried it in my experience, at a certain point the "troll kin" show up and instantly destroy youwithout any chance of fighting back, kill all your weaponthanes, burn all your crops, slaughter all your cows, and then the game goes "well guess you have to rebuild from nothing with no resources!"

Short game is really fun though.

>>52972614
Troll kin are invincible or very overpowered?

>>52972614
I'm sure winning is possible, I've seen play recaps where it's been done, even here on /tg/

>>52972212
I did, couldn't understand it. I also can't seem to maintain a tribe larger than 950-1000

Trollkin probably requires some sort of relic or magic to defeat

>>52972614
I've won, and I've never gotten the trolls destroy your clan event. As long as you don't constantly antagonize the Trolls/Trollkin, you won't get Cragspider paying you a visit. And if things get really bad, you can always do the Issaries the Concilator Heroquest to calm things down.

>>52972668
Trolls will periodically raid your Tula, and fighting them is much like fighting any other enemy. However, if you really piss them off, they bring up their local Demi-Goddess cragspider to beat the shit out of you. However they're not the only group that can get this event; IIRC, the HUmakti and Uroxi cults can also do the same, as well as the Beastmen, Dwarves, and the Dragonnewts.

>>52972845
So demigods are invincible?

>>52972881
At the very least, I've never found anything that is even remotely effective against Cragspider. While they're not necessarily invincible in setting, they're way out of the proverbial weight class of one little Orlanthi Tula.

>>52971881
DO NOT FUCK WITH THE DUCKS

They will /end/ you.

>>52972006
Holy shit. New things to discover about this game every time.

>>52972717
>>52971967
You can kind of break it long term with farming and resources but basically, it's like a roleplaying game to the utmost. The way you win i.e. make good decisions is by making the decisions an Orlanthi clan leader would make.

>>52972668
>>52972614
>>52972753
I feel like if you don't choose trolls as your ancestral enemy this is easier/less likely to happen.

>>52973527
Not either of them, but I find early game, the first 3-5 years or so, you win not by being a generous and vengeful Orlanthi clan-leader, but by managing to get enough of a food store to survive the winters and get trade routes together. The key to winning the game is to get about 8 trade routes and 32 crafters ASAP, as that will generate wealth, which drives everything else.

>>52971733
The roll for peace would be extremely hard without a scholar of the ducks if the ducks didn't have an emissary to work with, and combat is always a spotty proposition depending on your numbers.

Wait, that for RuneQuest.

>>52972717
That's about how it should be. You can get it up to ~1200 before then they start breaking off on their own. 1000 is good, that's what you need to work with.

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The guys who made King of Dragon pass announced a spiritual successor called Six Ages two years ago that's supposed to be set in the same world.

We're supposedly getting information on it this year, which I'm still excited for.

>>52973775
The world is Glorantha. You can even play Runequest, the Glorantha roleplaying game anon? What's covered in KoDP is actually a tiny part of the setting. There are places in the world (which is flat) where you can't even see Kero Fin.

Where my boys at? Where my Runic Men?

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>>52974298

>>52972614
>>52972614
Huh, never actually saw the Troll apocalypse event, no matter how many nobles I fed to Cragspider.

Lucky you!

>>52974298
R U N I C M E N

how many years ago was that now?

>>52971733
If you go for the long term and defeat the cragspider there's a really cool scene where you get to decide the fate of the trollkin.

>>52974633
I seem to remember hearing it was bugged in some versions.

>>52974679
Wait, so different from that other anon said the craigspider is killable?

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>>52974669
The game ended in December of 2012.

>>52974731
it is killable, but getting the proper event isnt easy

Remember /tg/
>Violence is always an option
>There is always another way
>No one can make you do anything

>>52974731
I do believe they're trolling.

Cragspider's not a normal foe, plus of course she's got a friggen True Dragon at her command.

(Also, "deciding the fate of the trollkin" is ridiculous. The trolls wouldn't roll over, and the trollkin would just flee at their first opportunity)

>>52974791
Fuck me. It doesn't feel like that long. What the fuck have I done. I didn't ask for these feels.

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>>52975023
I know, brother. I know.

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>>52975049
I used to sit in bed on my old lappy and read the threads. Comfy times.

>>52975023
>>52974791
There were actually playthroughs before that one.

>>52975142
Ands theres been playthroughs after, if I remember correctly, but none are a like and that oen always stuck with me.

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>>52975142
But they were our god damn Runic Men. They fuck planets, steal cows, trick the gods, and have thousands of babies.

>>52975233
What is this? I'm something of a newfag, who is nonetheless a KoDP fan.

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>>52975233
Long ago, a brave fa/tg/uy ran a King of Dragon Pass game called The Runic Men, after the name we selected for our tribe. That game turned into such an unbelievable combination of astonishingly good luck, meme-tastic quest resolutions, delicious fanart, and genuinely unintentional bug exploits, that it became a sort of meta-Let's Play of the game, and damn near the whole board got sucked into it. The Runic men, by the end of the game, had essentially metastasized to fill the whole map, had annexed or destroyed essentially every single other tribe, married into the Horse Folk, befriended the Ducks and the Dwarves by accident, ascended their founding chieftain to Godhood and killed another God, and had accumulated such a frankly ridiculous amount of magic that we were sometimes sending Council members on God Quests successfully four times PER MONTH. We had so much land and so many women that at one point, half the residents of the tulsa were babies. We had more cows and goods than a culture is supposed to be able to get, and Anon at one point managed to - purely by accident - get exactly twice the soft-coded limit on Weaponthanes by mass-recruiting while the entire Thane population was out doing a scripted event. It was glorious.

>>52975233
This should point at
>>52975732
not
>>52975854

>>52975854
>ascended their founding chieftain to Godhood
You can do that?
How the fuck do you do that?

>>52975910
The Legend of Sven Kodslayer Godking. I truly do not remember. It's all in the archives, on sup/tg/ and the various foolz-spinoffs.

>>52975854
>Softcoding is a computer coding term that refers to obtaining a value or function from some external resource, such as a preprocessor macro, external constant, configuration file, command line argument or database table. It is the opposite of hardcoding, which refers to coding values and functions in the source code.
How do you determine that something in the game is soft-coded?

>>52975942
In this instance, I'm using the MMO terminology. Soft-coded in this instance means that the game's natural balance should prevent it from being possible, but it can be attained by exploiting loopholes and without hacking. In this instance, if I recall correctly, the game prevented us from hiring more than 72 Weaponthanes, but we sent all of them off on an escort mission, then hired more while they were gone, so that when we came back, we had a full gross of them at 144.

>>52975942
In layman's terms, it's the difference between using a formula and using a table to determine an answer. In D&D you would say roll 1d20 + X and compare against Y. Where you're dealing with the D20, X, and Y in-game. That's hardcoded. However, rolling 1d100 on a table, the answer is predetermined for the specific result, no math involved, just reading something from a sheet. That's softcoded.

>>52975854
Can't find Runic Men anywhere on suptg.

>>52976568
>>52976568
The other archives, perhaps?

http://mibpaste.com/QQg5Hu

The complete Runic men. As you can see, the links no longer work, but the thread numbers may be transferable to the more recent archives.

>>52974791
>Population 1934
How the hell they didn't get event for splitting up the clan

>>52977258
Most of them are babies. Babies can't split off.

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>>52975910
iirc
He lived fucking forever.
Then, as the endgame approached, we got an unrelated event along the lines of "the priests report an upset in heaven; the gods are getting shuffled around" and immediately after he died.
This was the chief we'd had forever, we were trying to get him to be the one to found the kingdom but it would just have to have a younger man. He was legendary everything. He was a caster, a fighter, a you name it. And his death was immediately preceded by earthquakes, divine restructuring, and the the omens fortelling a new age. (Referring to marrying the horse people, I think.)

I've never played it, so my event recollection may be pretty blurred, but I think that was what happened. No actual ascension, but there was only one way to interpret it at the time. I wish I knew enough about the game to be able to adequately articulate how awesome Swen was.

>>52974791
>Two (2) tricksters
Why am I never this lucky.

>>52974298
Veteran from first thread reporting. Sven best ghost president king.
>>52974434
We need to change that image to include two bulls since we managed to pull that twice (thanks to our lawmaker I don't remember his name, that man was lawyerboss).
>>52977258
Not the actual event but if I remember someone tried to and we bribed em with cows.
>>52975910
We actually took a wrong turn on three quests that ended up giving us better results than normal. Sven came out thrice revitalized so that might have been it. We sent him to try the cow godess quest for some reason when he was already complaining of being old, and he was vital and kicking afterwards. He ascended during the heroquests, or so said the game but without consequences beyong being legendary at everything forever.

Our fucking trickster was the only nigger that outlived him and was infamous for fucking young priestesses. I believe that's how he kept himself alive for so long. He was old before sven showed signs of old age. By the time Sven died he looked like a fucking vampire.

>>52978409
Guy was a fucking vampire or something. He lived longer than any of the original founders.


Also, may I just say, gentlemen, that I am delighted that so many of us are still around?

>>52978425
I like to remember the good times too, nowadays a playthrough would have sent us to /vg/ or something. Newfags too stuck in their own asses to have fun.

>>52978425
>>52978487
>>52978409
I wish I had been there to see it, it sounds amazing.

>>52978170
>Sven Godslayer, technically kinslayer since he killed the stormgod when the game said it couldn't be done. He did everything and Garranth somewhat managed to cover for him.
>Natalina, if I remember correctly we owed her (and sven) our trading routes, most of our food supply and a few quests.
>Orlkarnth, could only be killed by game fuckery when he was very old during a very suspicious raid in which the enemy had more weaponthanes than their clan would have been able to support (and spending magic as if it was piss). Singlehandedly murderraped a chaos beast that liked the flavor of our weaponthanes.
>Dorasa, can't remember much.
>Maniski, Born of the law, bapped a few spirits in the head when they got rowdy. negotiated with the ancestors a change in some olde laws. Got us out of ANYTHING the trickster did. He even made a fake small god of the rocks give us real visions of the future and a bunch of magic after he humilliated it in court AND wrestled it to the ground. This was shortly before dying peacefully in his sleep.
>Beneva gave good advice sometimes, can't remember much either.
>Orlaront, thief of magic, vampiric terror of the virgins from and beyond the pass, (also the nigger that went gay one night with the bulls), with help from sven and maniski he ridiculed our enemies time and time again, impregnated their women, pissed on their faces, and even joked a hostile spirit into leaving us alone. Gave hilariously destructive advice until he got old. Fucked every single priestess that came to bless our cows and overall provided so much street creed and stress relief that thread was bursting with replies.
>Garranth, He had the balls to tell the horse spawn queen to bend over just as he was coming inside the mountainrock. She accepted.
>Enastarra managed to work out with mid level stats for most of her career. She even finished an Uralda quest were we thought she would die from the wounds. Was never as good as Orlaront.

>>52971873
Because the ducks are literally the Spawn of Chaos. Making a pact with them fucks over your relations with dragons and gods.

>>52972033
How do you avoid this?

>>52971983
How do you get these things to show up?

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>>52974298
Runic Men Represent!

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>>52978875
>tfw don't have my harddrive with runic men reaction images

Orlkanth was originally from another clan that merged with the runic men. His passion in life was making sure children learned how to read. If I don't misremembered he died when he was bitten by a snake

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Watch me brutalized these niggers

>>52972033
getting a haunted house is worst

>>52978841
Is this true? I always go duckbro since they believe in our gods and I have won several times

so uh, should I get the GOG or Steam version?

>>52979041
read the thread

>>52978997
Beastmen are all the spawn of Chaos. They just don't all have to be creatures of elemental corruption.

>>52975854
>had accumulated such a frankly ridiculous amount of magic that we were sometimes sending Council members on God Quests successfully four times PER MONTH
Did they become the new Godlearners?

This game made my morals shift tremendously.
>First adventurer party
It won't be said that we refused to show hospitality to strangers. Let's celebrate!
>Second Adventurer party
Kill them all and burn the corpses.

>>52975933
My sup/tg/-fu failed me. You wouldn't have the link, perchance?

>>52972519
If you don't win by a certain year another clan does, and then the game ends.

>>52978868
First you get a random event where your people find some eggs. If you let them hatch you can get dinos that you can try to train for combat or for work, the probability of success of either is random and may depend on the skills of your clan ring.
Not sure how to trigger the initial event. Having a shrine of Maran Gor may or may not help.

>>52979191
Nah, Beastmen are just things from the Green Age which never decided to be men or animals, and ended up a strange mix of both.

Although some do have different myths. Minotaurs, for instance, were said to have been born after Storm Bull and his wife had a quarrel. They each took a human lover to birth a minotaur, and sent them to fight.

They went to watch the ensuing carnage, and found the minotaurs had become lovers instead.

>>52973630
I picked the start where you take room to grow into, and then got the event where your cousin-tribe arrives and you integrate with them, so I started hitting the 1000 mark early on. But that manpower made me fearsome in combat, I accumulated truly excessive quantities of food and silver and cows

>>52974791
Oh god, those numbers...

accumulated fairly decent quantities of food and silver and cows, and I used the Berserker and Fyrdwomen blessings to make myself even more formidable in battle while keeping my population down.

Observation: In my playthrough, as in real world societies, getting past the point where your prosperity is dependent on maximal population growth results in greater equality for women. Once getting pregnant is no longer the most valuable thing, society permits women to do other things as well.

>>52972484
> It is by no means a game you quickly play through
If you are going for just tribe formation,it takes less than 100 turns

>>52982431
Fuck, clan, not tribe

>>52974298

THE HEROICS OF THE RUNIC MEN
The Tale of Kallyr Shieldmaiden
Revenge Upon the Gorinds
The Cooking Of the Runic Men
The Two-Woman Horse Feud
Derik, Bane of Prax
Markalor Wards Off The Sunspear
Urenstand Explains His Proverbs

GARRATH BECOMES KING!
Garrath Becomes King of the Tribe
Garrath Revives the Telmori
Garrath Riddles the Dragon
Garrath Befriends the Bronze Man
Garrath Mates with Kero Fin
Garrath's Marriage

THE DEATH POEM OF ORKARNTH FARSWORD
Orlakarnth Invents the Blender
Orlkarnth Invents The Boomerang
Orlkarnth Invents Long Division
Orlkarnth, Lawspeaker
Orlkarnth's Final Poem

ESTAVOS THE RUNIC MAN
Estavos Steals the Horses
Estavos Steals Himself

SWEN, THE RUNIC KING
Swen Earns His Name
The Sale of the Living Bull
Swen Pleases the Carls
Swen Befriends the Black Horses
The Forming of the Runic Lords
Swen Gelds The Unruly Bull
Swen Slays The Ancestors
Swen Is Called to The Dead

BENEVA THE RUNIC MAN
Beneva Herds The Carls

ORLARONT THE RUNIC MAN
The Harem of Orlaront
Orlaront's Womanly Judgement
Orlaront Tickles the Walktopus
Orlaront Scams the Dragon

MANISKI THE RUNIC MAN
Maniski Sues the Spirits
Maniski and the Rock
Maniski Remembers
Maniski Survives the Cragspider

>>52983045
Yes the fucking Walktopus oh my god it's all coming back ahh no

>>52972614
Long game is easy, I beat it multiple times by marrying the Horsespawn queen. Not sure if there's a different route though and what happens if you're led by a woman.
As for the trolls, just don't bully them too hard and don't piss off the Cragspider personally. Defending is fine.

>>52983835
If you're led by a woman, there's a feathered stallion king who shows up to marry your chief.

>>52984293
...how do the women mate with Kero Fin?

>>52984413
I remember the option that the divination suggested was to "Remove clothes, enter the mountain, and enact a mating ritual". I don't remember what exactly happens, I only played an Ernalda clan once.

>>52984293
Slightly different, he's the Luminous Stallion King, the incarnation of Yu-Kargzant the Sun God.

>>52984413
In the woman's case, you don't mate with Kero Fin, but get born by her.

>>52976635
All of these give me unsafe connection, and archive 4plebs doesn't go that back.

Any way to read up on Runic Men?

>>52985736
same here, please give alternative links or something, I really want this storytime!

links work on warosu, but you only get the thumbnails. I can only encourage the vets to post what they have saved.

>>52971733
How many years before kids stop being a giant burden?

The adult population keeps growing 20 a year, but I'm getting x2 that many kids. And with raiding and defending killing people it's more like x4. I keep bringing in new carls, because they only come in with 1.5-3x the number of kids to try and keep the population stable.

If I split the clan, can I convince them to take all the kids with them?

>>52976568
>>52976612
>>52976635
>>52985736
>>52986554
>>52986608
Here's the best I can do. The foolz archive is long dead and several generations old at this point. Warosu still has the original threads but Warosu only saves thumbnails which is bad for a text heavy game like this. Unless you are familiar with KoDP and it's story events this may be hard to read, but you'll get the gist of it.

Use this link to go to the first thread:

https://warosu.org/tg/thread/18669767 -1

To access the other threads copypaste these thread numbers over the old one in the URL

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>>52988171
<3

>>52986624
Kids get passed into adults at 15 or something. Bear with them till then.

>>52973467

No, can I take a woman duck and bed her?

>>52990221
Some people say so, there's fandone stuff about decadent lunars who kidnap ducks and ship 'em to Rinliddi to act as prostitutes.

(In a recent game my character ended up rescuing a bunch and is currently going south with them to escape the Lunars.)

>>52988171
>https://warosu.org/tg/thread/18669767 -1
+ every internets to you, anon.

>>52972881
Effectively invincible within the scope of the game.

>>52974298
ORLARONT DID NOTHING WRONG.

>>52978841
Ducks are Orlanthi and I think we got events of them fighting against the chaos beasts and helping against elves as an ancestral enemy.

If they're chaos spawn themselves, they're surprisingly bad at chaos.

>>52978975
>He can't read and dies wanting for children to learn what he can't do so that they can do better than he did.

Everytime I remember the runic men I want to do better things with my life.

>>52983045
>Estavos Steals himself
That made me laugh more than it had the right to. It was during the sun god's quest, right?

We need to make a quest about Sven, Orlaront and Maninski. Like the gods took them to their realm and they continue doing what they did in life but in a whole new level.

speaking of storytimes, did AGP ever finish?

I never found dwarves and I have more than 50 hours in the game.
Do you just have to explore till you find them or something?
Also their crisis event looks way worse than the others.
They fucking attack you with guns and cannons.

>>52972185
Don't be an idiot. The phone version had more content added to it compared to the original game - it was an enhanced port (because the original code was a mess). It's like you're shitposting without having obsessively followed the developer's blog for years.

>>52998579
All the races live in set locations. Dwarves were in the northwest not quite in Tarsh I think.

>>52978981
Normally I out legalize the ghost in those cases, I try to live a virtuous live full of rading and tributes.

I legitimately don't understand how the play this game. I don't even know how much food I have, or how much I need.
I can't tell what is required.
How the hell do I even play?

>>52999244
Git
Gud

>>52979191
Duck men were normal humans turned duck.

>>52984413
>>52984535
I won the game with a ninety year old woman, so the whole experience was kinda...eh

>>52972279
Steam has more content, GOG has the original (better) UI.

>>52971733
gb2/v/ fag

>>52999670
y though

>>53000277
Because the Steam version is a port of the much newer mobile release.

>>53000429
I think they have lost some parts of the source code and had to rewrite them from scratch.

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>>52973775
>We're supposedly getting information on it this year, which I'm still excited for.
The game is nearly done, it's mostly art and music that's still missing, plus a lot of general polishing, fine-tuning and bug-hunting.

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>>52974298

Hell yeah. The Runic Men got me into KoDP and Glorantha in general

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>>52974298

>>52974791

Damn I never realized that one of the ring members survived the whole way

>>52975233

>We've been beating the Gorinds up a lot. We should leave them alone.
>But anons, if we take their remaining territory, our Tula will be in the exact shape of a pterodactyl
>SWEN WILLS IT

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>>52975910
>>52975933
>>52977765

Man I am digging deep into my random pictures archives today

>>52978409

I also remember the year when Swen was away on trading the entire time, and no babies were born. Somebody posted something along the lines of I KNEW IT

>>52978661
>>Orlaront, thief of magic

Don't forget those Drakes he taught how to gamble, and then made off with their entire horde.

doing god's work, anon.

>>52997600

Estavos Steal himself:

So here's the thing. Estavos never died. He just disappeared from the roster one day.

The golden horse that he was always stealing from the horsespawn? Gone as well. The running joke was that he'd pulled on last theft on us.

I wish I'd saved the picture in a horse spawn raid when we picked INSANE RISKS (again), and Estavos actually killed a guy and stole his horse in midair.

>>52975142
I still remember Loricon's fucking face.

>>52972614
Why you fuck with Craigspider, anon? Even uzko know this stupid.

>>52983045

>The Heroics of the Runic Men

The list of heroquests of the tribe.

I compiled that. I never expected someone to save it. I started reading this thread, and saw the runic men mentioned, and thought to see if I had saved it... but you, anon. You did it for me; you did it for us. My heart swells with pride.

>>52977258
I've gotten over four thousand IIRC (maybe more?). You just ignore it, basically.

>>52983045
>Revenge Upon the Gorinds
Good. I always hated those fucks. Raided them till they disbanded, and they deserved it.

>>52983045
Does anyone else remember that time when we picked INSANE RISKS in battle and our man did something like throw his spear and then use wind magic to jump onto the spear and ride it like a surfboard while driveby-shanking some fools?

so we gonna do this again or what

>>53006551
The newfags would be up in arms. It's best to just leave it in our memories. They can't touch those.

>>53006704
Oh, because it's a quest?

Shit

>>53006494
Wait, you can actually destroy other clans? What do you need to do to accomplish that? What happens if you wipe out every other clan from Dragon Pass?

>>53006551
We totally should.

>>53006738
You just bully a clan and don't stop bullying them. Eventually you take all their cows and they disperse into other clans while looking at you accusingly.
>What happens if you wipe out every other clan from Dragon Pass?
I have no idea. Probably the game breaks out of disgust for your actions.

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>trade with the clan famous for its vast cow herds
>"I would estimate we have more cows than them"
>tfw

>>53006793
How many raids would you need to do for a ballpark estimate of that? Because I don't think I ever got more than 8 or so raids on the same clan before they bitched out and keeled over to give me tribute.

>>53006835
Oh no, you just have to tell them you'd rather continue raiding them than except their tribute and just keep raiding them.

>>53006856
Yeah, I figured that part. I was asking how many more raids you needed to do before they dispersed as a clan at that point.

Plus, what happens to their clan lands? Do you just expand into them?

>>53006924
I would guess that the number would depend upon however many cattle they had. I don't know how many exactly. I just kept raiding them.

I don't know what happens to their land actually. I think surrounding clans just move into them, but I can't remember (this was a couple of years ago).

>>52972382

Small parties seem less likely to trigger bad events.

>>53006924
IIRC during the Runic lords run or the more recent one we kept displacing clans until they had nowhere to go but the swamp. And then other clans had nowhere to go and also ended up in the swamp, it was hilarious.

>>52972382
Finding good events took the runic men quite some time in which Sven was not present. He took half our weaponthanes and shit and went out exploring after having his stats almost maxed out, a while before his ascension. Our clan was friends with the dragons from before they tried their dick move and afterwards we were respectful to them without upping our behinds. In any special events we would take just a token force alongside our heroes just to evade being chaosfucked in the way. Sven also had a lifetime of exploring our tula and was declared a -seasoned explorer- at the ending of one of these events (we would do it everytime we didn't needed the boss to raid or heroquest), so that might also have something to do with it?

We would also have some treasures both usable and with passive bonuses for exploration (at some points thread was joking about treasure hoarding since we rarely if ever sold one (this includes the mildly dead bulls, sold one and two years before their demise)), I'm very sure there are many ways to protect your shit.

>>53006551
Fuck purity board slavering cunt newfags in the ass, this was literally olde /tg/ stuff, the /tg/ they seem to think neved existed, commander keen rule is a thing for a reason, it's time to remember them why it was so in the first place.

If anything this needs to be a concerted move after converting many of the most open minded children to our side, and making sure the resulting tribe won't be ruined by HFY/pol/tards or random shitposters.
Even janitors can't close threads with mass acclaim tied to them, but if we got as much as 4 or 5 dissenters early posting we can kiss the whole deal good bye.

So I listened to you guys and bought the game from GOG.com. However, "the file was built for an incompatible platform and cannot be opened with this version of the applications" error shows up. I've done a few trouble shooting things and have pretty much closed all the background applications. Never played this game and this thread has hooked me in hard. Any help would be appreciated.

>>53006738
>We totally should.
You'd be shitposted to death and run off the board.

>>53011513
Have you tried compatibility mode or virtual boxing it yet?

>>53011513
It's an old game, made for old computers. The newer your Windows the harder it will be for the game to function. Its not a Gog related issue.

Try compatibility mode, run it on an older computer, or boot up an older Windows either on your computer or a virtual machine. (maybe you should have gotten the mobile one, it was created for this very reason)

Well, that was a fun trip down Nostalgia Lane with the Runic Men stuff. Man, I miss all that.

>tfw we'll never have turn-based live-threads again because m-muh quests runin da burard.

And few nice ones came out, too. Like battle brothers.

>>53011513
>So I listened to you guys and bought the game
Grea--
>from GOG.com
Why

>>52988171
>No pictures
Fucking archival sites.

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I have to leave right now, as in right right now but I had an idea, we can start a petition on the help/assistance/question/bullshit board to allow us to play dragon pass here. I honestly doubt that the antiquestfags are more people than the runic men, we can ID ourselves or not and cast a vote, let hiroshimoot or any of his (trusted henchmen) to see that we still give care about this shit.

Please answer.

>>53020383
sorry for the typos BTW. too many post links.

>>53020383
We're too lazy. This requires the pestering of a dedicated KoDPfag -- an anon so autistic, so dedicated to the art of writefaggotry that they will pursue this to the end.

And, most importantly, will actually hold a KoDP thread together without disappearing once the workload's too much.

It could be me, but I only have KoDP on my shitty android and I don't know how to link that to my computer

>>53020417
I mean I wasn't around for the Runic Men, but I have the game disk here somewhere. I could root it out and boot it up.

How was it done in the past? Was every decision a vote?

>>53020853
>past
I wasn't there then, but I've been reading through the archive, and no, not every decision was a vote, but most of them were. There were also certain ground-rules set ahead of time, like once they decided they weren't going to take thralls in clan creation, every option that potentially involved thralling (say, captures in battle) was just skipped over. For things like heroquests, the first time through "in character" the mob was asked for every decision. Later on, it was just "stick to the myth or no?"

>>53020933
Reasonable.

>>53021396
Is the different coloring in the names supposed to mean anything?

>>53021417
Tribes.

Green = Earth Tribe
Yellow = Fire Tribe
Orange = Storm Tribe
Sky Blue = Council of Pairs

>>53021514
I'm familiar with the first three, but who are the council of Pairs?

>>53021527
Part of the Celestial Court, they embody/own the power runes.

There is Larnste, the Shaper. Maker of Mountains. He is the power of movement.
He is contrasted with Acos, the Lawgiver. Maker of Rules. He is the power of stasis (or law.)
Then comes Tylenea, Mistress of Masks. She is the power of illusion.
She is opposed by Orenoar, the Mistress of Truth. She is the power of truth. (Unsurprisingly) Also she is one of the two members to survive, although she dwells with Dayzatar, far beyond the world.
Ratslaff, Dupe of Disorder. He was Trickster's creator (maybe) and is the power of disorder.
He was opposed by Harana Llor, the weapon of Umath. She was Harmony, whose home was the first harp, and opposer of the Predark (Chaos).
Then comes Kargan Tor, Conflict, Opposition, and Competition. He was War before there was Death. Unfortunately, this proved his undoing, because he could not understand Death.
He was opposed by Uleria, Love. She was the final member of the council, and represented life, love, and sex. She survived, and is now found everywhere, but may use other names and masks to protect herself. She is recognised as a part of Esrola by the Orlanthi.

>>53021777
Coolness, thnx for the info.

Quit being dumb, KoDP has no relation to quests. You're going to get shitposted at because you're on 4chan in 2017 and everything gets shitposted at. That doesn't mean the quest rules are at all relevant.

The better reason to leave things be is that the new playthrough won't be as good as the Runic Men. You'll just be disappointed, especially since you've hyped up the game now for newfags who weren't here when it originally got popular. To those people: KoDP is a fun game but the typical playthrough looks nothing like The Runic Men.