NEW TRADE CONTEST

We have a wide, dynamic, and interesting range of characters on Amaryllis, and this is why we are looking to expand the system by introducing a brand new trade!

We currently have 12 trades (Barbarian, Cleric, etc.) and will be looking to add a new addition to the line-up for improved IC development, and the ability to tailor your character's trades more accurately to their personalities and lifestyles.

How It Will Work

Please note that the development of a new trade will take time and will likely move a bit slower than other contests we have seen (given that we need to prioritize balancing the perks and tasks with what we currently have in the system), but we are very excited for this expansion and look forward to seeing what sort of new additions everyone is interested in!

• Members can submit multiple ideas for new trades.
• However, the submission will only be counted if the form has been completed in full, including the listed minimums for tasks/perks.
• There is a base prize for everyone who enters the contest!
• After the submission period has closed, we will determine how to proceed. This could be via a vote, a community discussion, both, or something entirely different. We would like to see what ideas we get, and go from there!

Contest Guidelines:

• Try and make your suggestion unique from what we currently have on-site — try and think of where we have gaps, and how those can be filled.
• When in doubt, check the Guidebook for inspiration and to see how our preexisting trades are broken down and what character archetypes they apply to. This can also give you an idea of how strong the perks should be so that they stay balanced.
• You must provide ideas for trade tasks and trade perks when making your submission(s).
• For trade tasks, do NOT list universal tasks that all of the trades have access to (i.e. "Participate in a hunt using the rolled hunt system" will not count as a suggestion).
• For trade perks, do NOT include dice modifiers as a suggestion, as these are standard for all trades (i.e. "Level 1 - +1 hit dice" will not count as a suggestion).

Submitting Your Entries

Please use the following code submit your ideas:

Code:

<b>Trade Name:</b> what would the new trade be called?
<b>Trade Description:</b> describe the trade in one sentence
<b>Trade Icon:</b> any ideas for what the trade icon could look like?
<b>Trade Tasks:</b> provide at least 5 examples of what their trade tasks could be; more is better!
<b>Trade Perks:</b> provide at least 3 examples of what their trade perks could be

Submissions will be open until June 3rd!
Next steps will come after that.

Prizes

Petals are claimable after your submission has been posted, in full.

• 100 petals per suggestion (entire form must be completed)
• An exclusive prize (tbd) for whichever ends up getting added to the trade system!

Trade Name: Merchant
Trade Description: A character who specializes in the trade of goods and services.
Trade Icon: Money, coins
Trade Tasks:
+20 - Facilitate a trade of lionesses or cubs between prides
+20 - Make a pact with a pride leader to offer your future services
+10 - Win a bid against another merchant to make a sale
+5 - Outline your pricing system to another character
+5 - Make a sale of goods or services
+5 - Forage for items to add to your wares
Trade Perks:
Level 2: +1 to hunt rolls
Level 3: Automatically count as one pride hunt per OOC month
Level 5: Rogues' litters are rolled the same as a pride lion
(these perk ideas were hard, but I think it would tie in very nicely to a future resources system that has been suggested on its own)

Trade Name: Apostle
Trade Description: A character tied to their beliefs in the superstitious.
Trade Icon: stars, runes, ...
Trade Tasks: provide at least 5 examples of what their trade tasks could be; more is better!
Trade Perks:

Level 5: Get advanced knowledge about upcoming board-wide plots thru a vision or sign

Trade Name: Thief
Trade Description: A character who takes advantage of others to make their way in the world.
Trade Icon: Bandit mask
Trade Tasks:
+20 - Successfully steal a lioness or cub from another pride
+20 - Take a pride (or band?) from another leader by force
+20 - Successfully break into an enemy pride and steal their food
+10 - Successfully break into another pride and steal their food
+5 - Practice disguising your scent or appearance
+5 - Take more than your share after a group hunt
+5 - Tell a lie without getting caught
+5 - Study the borders of a pride
Trade Perks:

Level 5: Can auto-steal a lioness or cub once every 3 OOC months

Trade Name: Pedagogue
Trade Description: A character who focuses on the passage of knowledge to the next generation
Trade Icon: Book
Trade Tasks:
+20 Become a Mentor for your other Trade
+10 Teach a Group of Cubs Something
+10 Find a Mentor for a Young Child
+10 Teach a Pride Heir
+5 Tell Someone about a Past Event on Site
+5 Fight with a Barbarian or Paladin
+5 Hunt with a Ranger
+5 Help a Bard with an Event (etc for other trades)

Trade Perks:
Less threads to gain apprentices
Gift +10 XP to an apprentice once an OOC month
Can shorten cooldown of another's trade perk by one OOC week

Trade Name: Tactician/Erudith
Trade Description: A character who uses the brain over raw force/actions. They are up to brain power, sees things ahead of the rest.
Trade Icon: Paper, graduation hat or glasses.
Trade Tasks:
+5 Learn something from someone else about trivial matters.
+5 Learn another language
+5 Think/Test out a theory and it being wrong.
+5 Fail to trick someone.
+5 Lose a game/activity of strategy
+10 Test/Try a theory out that's right.
+10 Teach somone something they didnt know before
+10 Teach someone under 1 year how to solve a problem.
+10 Win an strategy game/event
+10 Host a learning lesson for cubs/yearlings about any science(Astrology, meteorology etc)
+20 Teach a pride/band leader about a relevant topic
+20 Trick someone and get away with it.
+20 Solve a major pride's problem.

Trade Perks:
Lvl 1: Uses the brain to get away from trouble. +1 to dodges
Lvl 2: +1 to escape rolls
Lvl 3: Can mentor +3 apprentices
Lvl 4: Master of the game +1 to hits
Lvl 5: Can claim SWP knowedlge

Master Perk:
Negates -1 strike from leadership requeriments once per every 6 OC months
Can auto escape a fight every 3 OOC months

Sub Master:
Can auto escape a fight every 3 OOC months

Trade Name: Beatnik
Trade Description: a character who prioritizes good times and easy living
Trade Icon: clinking glasses
Trade Tasks:
+5 relax in the sunshine
+5 slack off or shirk one’s responsibilities
+5 tell a story or sing a song
+5 meditate
+5 give someone a present
+5 spend quality time with a friend or family member
+5 make a friend
+10 learn about another characters trade
+10 have another character perform a task or favor for you
+10 participate in a group event
+10 perform a bit of mischief
+10 win a bet
+20 throw a party (10+ characters)

Trade Perks:
Ability to “opt out” of or escape a challenge (limited # per IC year)
Player chooses # of cubs in litter (1-3)
Players chooses Master or Sub-Master perk from any other trade

Trade Name: Dryad or Druid
Trade Description:

A character who has a spiritual connection to the earth, nature and life.

Trade Icon: A wreath or a pair of leaves

Trade Tasks:
+5 Participate in a rolled hunt
+5 Document local flora and fauna to be used for spiritual, medicinal and poisonous uses
+5 Document local wildlife and ecosystems
+5 Lead a small cleansing ritual (5 and below)
+5 Commune with local wildlife
+5 Bless a downed prey
+5 Give someone a fortune using leaves (tea reading)
+5 Bless bones for ritual use
+!0 Lead a large cleansing ritual (10 or more )
+10 Create an altar using items gathered from nature
+10 Orally recall an event, a part of lore, or a parable to yearlings or cubs
+10 Bless a hunt
+10 Prepare a sacrifice
+10 run to boost endurance in 3 consecutive posts
+10 Successfully remove and dry prey pelt for ritual use
+10 Learn about your trade from another
+10 Share your knowledge with a potential apprentice
+20 Take on an apprentice
+20 Lead a celebration at the turn of a IC season
+20 Commune with nature in solitude to strengthen spirituality for one IC season

Trade Perks:

Master Perk ideas:
--Ability to remain undetected while traveling in the wilderness
--Increased pride resistance to natural disasters or other dangerous weather phenomena (Must live/be part of said pride)
--50% chance to cast a curse on an opponent in battle, causing the opponents stats to drop by 2 for a single round at the cost of one of the users stats (Can only be done once per IC year)
--Poison has little to no affect
--Bond to one animal 'till its death (chosen npc companion)


Sub Master ideas:
--Increased pride resistance to natural disasters or other dangerous weather phenomena (Must live/be part of said pride)
--30% chance to remain undetected in the wilderness





Trade Name: Viking
Trade Description: warrior of the seas and rivers, bound to life among make shift rafts

Trade Icon: incorrect hat with horns
Trade Tasks:
+5 Participate in a rolled hunt
+5 Pray to the sea
+5 Document aquatic biomes
+5 Run to increase endurance along a beach
+5 Collect drift wood
+5 Attempt to create a raft, and test it out
+!0 Spar with another character in the shallows or on sand
+10 Swim during choppy currents or during a storm to increase endurance and strength
+10 Refine driftwood raft, test it in deeper waters
+10 Learn the different buoyancies of specific woods near the shore
+10 Share your knowledge with a potential apprentice
+20 Take on an apprentice
+20 Successfully sail on said raft from one point to another either via river, or within the sea
+20 Successfully use a raft to raid another herd


Trade Perks:
In no particular order:

-Unable, less likely to drown or be swept away in strong currents
-Increased dexterity--the ability to craft small items like rope from fibers and rafts from nothing but drift wood
-Pride gains a debuff against all water related natural disasters such as hurricanes, floods, tsunamis etc. Only in affect if the trade bearer is part of said pride.
--A chance to call upon creates of the sea/rivers to aide in a fight or raid.




Trade Name: Berserker
Trade Description: Warrior with the soul of a predator, spirituality and strength in one.

Trade Icon: claw marks?
Trade Tasks:
+5 Participate in a rolled hunt
+5 Explore and document various terrains to use to your advantage
+5 Lead a small warriors chant before a fight, spar, or other celebration (less than 5)
+5 Commune with warriors from beyond the grave
+5 Use a downed prey's blood as body paint
+5 Drink the blood of a downed prey during a chant, ceremony, or blessing
+5 Lead a blessing upon warriors in a pride
+5 Identify your warrior spirit (animal, symbol, or otherwise)
+10 Lead a large warriors chant before a fight, spar or other celebration (more than 5)
+10 Discover a focus while patrolling: this can be bones, a stick, feathers, or the claws of an enemy.
+10 Perform a blood blessing on newborn males within a pride
+10 Bless a platoon, legion, or sovereign before a fight
+10 Prepare a blood sacrifice
+10 Brand another warrior who shows promise
+10 run to boost endurance in 3 consecutive posts
+10 Successfully remove and dry prey pelt for ritual use
+10 Learn about your trade from another
+10 Share your knowledge with a potential apprentice
+20 Take on an apprentice
+20 Embark on a spirit journey, led by your spirit guide or another berserker master, and find meaning
+20 Successfully maim (severe) or kill another character and take a piece of them as a trophy



Trade Perks:

In no particular order

-Gain the Blood Rage trait upon mastering this trade: 70% increase to physical strength, but a 70% decrease to all other stats. During the Blood Rage characters will take more damage than normal but not feel its affects until post fight. This affect lasts for two attacks before it wears off. Can only be used once every two IC months
-A temporary +3 to strength for all pridemates should a beserker be present in a fight or war where multiple battles are occurring. This only affects the pridemates who are participating.
-50% chance to call upon a fallen warrior to aide in a battle

Trade Name: Mercenary
Trade Description: A lion who sells their strength and/or skills to the highest bidder
Trade Icon: paw on prey skull? or pelt? shiny stones? anything that implies some kind of payment/greed/contract i guess
Trade Tasks:
+5 - negotiate contract/agreement terms/payment
+5 - dissolve a contract/agreement
+5 - receive your payment
+5 - carry out a task for your employer
+5 - act as a protector/bodyguard for your employer in a thread
+10 - successfully defend your employer from a threat
+10 - enact the penalty for an employer breaking a contract/agreement

Trade Perks:
- take your employer's place in a dominance or maim match
- if present in the same thread, add +1 luck to employer's fight roll
- if a member of the same pride, take your employer's place in a rank challenge regardless of your own rank (if a sub-master perk, don't include leadership, if master perk might be able to? staff discretion on this one)

Trade Name: Witch/Mage
Trade Description: Lions who practice mystical arts
Trade Icon: A wooden staff, or a crow skull, or stars
Trade Tasks:
Practice producing and casting spells
Concoct a potion for a magical purpose
Attempt to read someone’s future
Tell a prophecy
Collect herbs
Commune with the dead/spirits

Trade Perks:
Bonuses to hit and luck dice
The ability to “hex” someone’s dice for a thread (-1 to hit and dodge) once every 3 ooc months
Alternatively the ability to “bless” someone’s dice for a thread (including their own) (+1 to hit and dodge) once every 3 ooc months
An NPC familiar who can act without them in a thread/function as an extension of them without the character being present

Trade Name: Fisher
Trade Description: A lion who specializes in catching fish!
Trade Icon: A lil' fish or a fishing rod!
Trade Tasks: Catch a fish, de-bone a fish, collect fish eggs, discover a new fishing spot, share tools of the trade with another fisher, catch something outrageous, etc.
Trade Perks: Maybe a bonus to a dodge dice since they'll be so dexterous, an extra roll in pride hunts since it's a food related trade or an extra cub roll since they can keep them fed? Also an extra dodge dice roll when fighting in areas containing lots of water!

Trade Name: Den Designer
Trade Description: A lion who specializes in decorating dens!
Trade Icon: A lil' protractor or ruler with some fabric swatches!
Trade Tasks: Help someone pick a den, decorate your den, decorate someone else's den, craft decorations for your/someone else's den, move in together/help two new mates move in together, cub-proof a den, etc
Trade Perks: Maybe a boost to pride tiers? Extra cub roll? Idk it's just such a cute idea and inspired by my old character Clem <3

Trade Name: Artisan or Craftsman
Trade Description: A lion who creates customized items for others.
Trade Icon: Needle and thread or scissors
Trade Tasks: cure an animal hide, experiment with colored dyes, craft a small gift for someone, carve a shape out of wood, use a gem in the creation of a piece of jewelry, use fermented fruits to create wine, use various parts of a prey animal to create items, trade with other artisans, work with another artisan to create something, gift a child a toy
Trade Perks: LVL 1: Plus 1 to dodge rolls
LVL 2: Able to craft traps to slow prey (-1 dodge to prey dice)
LVL 3: Boost pride morale in a war (+1 luck to pride lions) by creating pride colored items such as warpaint
LVL 4: Plus 1 to dodge or luck rolls
LVL 5: Craft one masterwork bone armor set once per ic year. Can be used once by yourself or someone of your choice for use in a single spar. This heavy set of armor slows the lion wearing it but also absorbs damage (-1 dodge roll per round +2 hit immunity per round)

In the event some things are too complicated for a lion to craft, perhaps they could enlist a knowledgable NPC baboon to assist them.