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[RAM]

Okay, I may be sort of trying to cheat the prototyping action a bit here... Can we, umm, run a bit of a thought experiment... Like, umm, We sort-of know what imps look like, right? And more-or-less know what shields and spears look like, maybe? So, can we imagine an imp holding both a shield and spear at the same time, and sort of guess at how sensible it would be? I understand if we just don't have that good of a grasp of how mortals and all this anatomy and balancing stuff works...

[helmacon]

Okay, I may be sort of trying to cheat the prototyping action a bit here... Can we, umm, run a bit of a thought experiment... Like, umm, We sort-of know what imps look like, right? And more-or-less know what shields and spears look like, maybe? So, can we imagine an imp holding both a shield and spear at the same time, and sort of guess at how sensible it would be? I understand if we just don't have that good of a grasp of how mortals and all this anatomy and balancing stuff works...

Naw. I assume the rolls is the quality of the shields/spears. We still have to actualy make they to see how they turned out.

[darkwarlock3]

i vote plan alpha. we should do portals and make a variant of the imps that called a lesser demon for the next design/ prototype / revise phases

[crazyabe]

Your Job done, your master sets to work, First shadows twist and cut, rending the winds, (3+5 =8 ) From this the foundry was formed, Next it cracked, and out walked Imps armed with your newest creations, Spear Casters (4 + 3 = 7) and Shadecrystal Shields (2 + 6 =8 ) Finally Imps armed with other weapons walked out of true blackness...
Out burst the Seals upon the gates, you can tell that soon it will be time for your troops to march forth...

Spoiler: Units (click to show/hide)

Imps, short leathery red skinned creatures with small claws and horns, imps have a minor affinity for fire. (1 UWP)

Spoiler: Structures (click to show/hide)

Dark Foundry (1000 UWP)
>Consumes raw resources at 1 per 2 production, actual Resources can be produced at a cost of 1 power per four raw resources
  >Every Unit of Raw Resources processed counts as a UWP for non magical Equipment, and 1/4th for magical equipment
>Requires 1 unit work = 4 pieces of production
  >Can be ran by upto 500 Units at any one time
>leftover resources carry over to next turn

Spoiler: Equipment (click to show/hide)

Flame casters a form of imp sized stave roughly two feet long, Flame casters shoot small balls of fire roughly several inches across, and require several minutes of time after each shot to recharge. (2 UWP)
Spear caster A Spear, enchanted with fireballs (4 UWP)
>A Rather Sharp and functional Stabbing weapon.
>Require 5 minutes to recharge after each shot
Shadow blades short, vicious daggers formed from a semiclear crystal with a very sharp edge. (2 per UWP)
Shadecrystal Shield A large shield made of the same stuff as shadow daggers. (1 UPW)
>Good Defence VS Piercing and Stabbing, Weak Against Blunt
[spoiler=Enchantments]
Fire balls produces a tiny ball of fire at the tip of the item thus enchanted and shoots it in a straight line. Recharge rate reduces with surface area. (x4 price)

Spoiler: Champions (click to show/hide)

The Lich a master of curses and some minor necromancy, the Lich may not be the strongest physically but his mental strength more than makes up for it. (3000 UWP)
>Knows the curses "Slow" "Fear" and "Weaken"
>Knows the Necromantic spell "Raise Dead"

Spoiler: Magic (click to show/hide)

Curse
Slow Halves the speed of creatures within several meters of the target (?)
Fear Inflicts horrific visions on several units at the same time (?)
Weaken Reduces the strength of a single unit by 1/3 (?)
Necromancy
Raise Dead Converts several corpses into mindless undead, is dispelled if the caster dies (?)

Spoiler: Army Stats (click to show/hide)

1 foundry

750 imps W spear casters & Shadecrystal Shields

1 lich

200 imps W Shadow blades

400 unarmed imps

Moral: 5
Loyalty: 5

Special Event: The troops are asking what to call the land they come from, as "The Darkness" Doesn't sound very impressive, thus it is up to you to choose a name to forever more be affiliated with...
It is now the Second era, first development phase.
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[Doomblade187]

@GM , when you say recharge rate decreases with surface area, do you mean faster recharge rate for higher surface area or the opposite?

GM: Recharges faster the larger it gets.

Foundry turned out better than expected.

My name ideas: Shadereach, Shadowhelm, The Origin of All Things True, Shadowhome.

[darkwarlock3]

Names: shadow realm, tartarus
just suggestions

[Detoxicated]

The grand Empire of Umbra

[helmacon]

miseriae et tenebrarum

[Failbird105]

So while we're busy picking a name, what should we make right now?

[Detoxicated]

Blue Imps
These imps look just like regular imps except that they have fins, gills and webbed toes and fingers. Also they have blueish skin. They have a slight affinity to water.

[Doomblade187]

I know this has been suggested before, but I'll throw out my version:

Medium Imps

These imps are 5 feet tall, and have the same affinities as normal imps. They are stronger and faster, and have wings.

Also:

Imp Pits

A vat of bubbling dark magic used to create imps in a mass production manner. This method allows us to convert raw materials into the magical energy needed to create our soldiers, with some manual labor required.

[RAM]

Name suggestion: "The Darkness"

Assessment of Foundry:
1 imp = 1 work?
3 U.W.P. = 8 production + 4 resource = 4 U.W.P. non-magical or 1 U.W.P. magical. Maximum of 1000 U.W.P. output per foundry.
Multiply U.W.P. spent on foundry by 4/3 up to 750 spent for 1000 produced = increase of 250.

Double worker effectiveness = 6/3 ratio and doubles the output limit. Likely difficult.
Double production efficiency = same result.
Half worker cost = same but no maximum output increase but probably much easier, still difficult though, these are extreme examples...
Half-price resources = 8/5 = 4.8/3

...
If we had many-armed workers(3 work on two projects at once) and fractal resources(only get three of them but they double when finished)...
2 U.W.P. = 6 production over two production lines. 2 U.W.P. =  6 resources that double into two items when finished = 9/3 to a maximum of 1000 spent for 3000 produced, or a gain of 2000 per foundry.

Well, there was food for thought there and I am a glutton...

[Detoxicated]

Totally dig the pits i was thinking about such a thing myself.

We can probably pump out imp ideas in revisions so i will do this.

Imp Pits (1): Detoxicated

[helmacon]

currently, as i understand it, 1 uwp = 4 resources = 8 production
You need 1 worker for every 4 production with a max of 500 workers.

So a one time investment of 500 UWP for the workers means we can handle 2000 production per turn per foundry.

So we can turn 1000 UWP into 2000 uwp of equipment per turn per foundry, after an initial investment of 1500 uwp to build and staff the foundry.

In other words, A foundry pays for itself in 1 and 1/2 turns of full production.

[Doomblade187]

currently, as i understand it, 1 uwp = 4 resources = 8 production
You need 1 worker for every 4 production with a max of 500 workers.

So a one time investment of 500 UWP for the workers means we can handle 2000 production per turn per foundry.

So we can turn 1000 UWP into 2000 uwp of equipment per turn per foundry, after an initial investment of 1500 uwp to build and staff the foundry.

In other words, A foundry pays for itself in 1 and 1/2 turns of full production.

Also, since production turns 1 raw material into 1/4 UWP, we can put in 1uwp to get 2 uwp production instead of 8 nonmagical production, right?