Thread: Fantasy Mercs

Sanoci said Broom I have read about your influences, but this does constitute a question. How is technology regarded within the confines of this world? For example typically most setting even in fantasy to a degree utilize the Middle Ages as a default reference for technological progress barring anything enchanted by magic. The Renaissance period if enabled could led itself though still expensive and exotic forms of technology like the printing press, mechanical clocks popular to engineered into clockwork devices, Gunpowder via artillery and flintlocks, eye glasses, flushing toilets, etc. Get the point. Anything beyond is almost modernized. Nonetheless I am curious for that could affect my character concept slightly in an intriguing way naturally. Seeing as you are facilitating this world and by extension leading it, what is the starting reputation of this group? Though I imagine it has yet to be fleshed out what is this leader of yours like to perhaps get a better idea of the type of people within his circle. Said moral gray area with the true complexities of how mercs truly work, like what principles does he follow which might be emulated within his group? Certain discussions can be made for that overtime..more or less curious as I admit the broad stroke of my concept is a man whom was raised as a child soldier, something this group as a whole might not support as a legit recruitment tactic. Click to expand... In your particular character concept, like anything else it depends. Someone who was raised as a child to perform soldierly things because nobody else could or someone had a heart to not let some kid die isn't really a morally gray area as it is giving a child a home. The war in question is against two nations that has ground itself to a military standstill, shit happens. I don't personally care if you do that concept though, but nobody would run around recruiting kids for combat for the obvious reasons of why, it wouldn't be common unless there was a desperate need...which at that point, well, mercenaries would be kind of irrelevant. But if you're referring to children being used in a supporting role and then joining when they're of age, most likely common enough. As for your setting question, my influences I pull from aren't really rooted in a sense of realistic technological advancement per-se, and frankly it isn't extremely relevant to the development of much to focus so strictly on following a progressive technological scale. You'd be better off thinking of the setting as a nebulous sort of technological area where there is a height in certain places and it goes no further. It is used to differentiate locations, or insinuate certain ideals or ascetics. JRPG concepts of technology are literally Whatever is cool to a certain point. If it's not steampunky or just technologically simple, it's magitech, if it's not magitech, it's forgotten ancient technological wonder. These kind of influences have robots with swords and crossbow arms and are defeated by swords and spears, again, don't look too deeply on that sort of area, because you might make your brain hurt. However, in terms of what is relevant to mercenaries, the technology is what you'd expect for fantasy fare, I'll try to drum up the basic idea and the setting soon. But the basics Don't worry a whole lot about it, this isn't a zany land of wacky technology in terms of divergence, but there's not going to be a whole lot of huge leaps unless we come across the token ancient structure deals. As for my character and the reputation of the mercenary band starting out, I do have something of a basis, yes. They would be decently reputable at first because she is a daughter of a Duke who lost his life to the initial phases of the war and the local dukes didn't want her for political reasons she was an illegitimate, and her mother was from an antagonistic foreign nation and worshiped a different religion, while this made her unpopular initially, her original retainers were effective soldiers that had a strong loyalty to her father and used their talents to house her while they engaged in the front lines. At the point of the roleplay, she's well into her twenties and has established a suitable network of people, her retainers are either too old, dead or not able to fight Nihil and I discussed his character being an original retainer, which I think would work nicely to establish her background. Racially, yes, there will probably be more than just humans.