Board Thread:Middle Earth Roleplay Board/@comment-26065062-20150913064729

This is an RP set in Gondor in the year 900 TA. Gondor is prospering under the rule of Tarannon Farastur and you can choose your career and heritage. The only restrictions are being of royal or steward blood. This is following the We are the Shire RP in context that it is not based around the adventures of multiple people, but around a community which is a decently wealthy (for that day's standards, at the time of the LotR it would be extremely wealthy for a town) town called Armar in southern Lossarnach where the river Erui meets the Great Road, and has a bridge that needs a toll to pass through, so a tollman career is open.The idea is to create a self-sustaining comunity which will work properly, although that is probably not going to happen. You must note that I will be throwing random events, such as a call to duty for the soldiers, orc raids, murders, holidays, etc.

Careers:

-Soldier: These people will have a very dangerous job and will have the possibility of dieing while on guard-duty or while a large manouvre is being made by the Gondorian army. You get a slightly above average pay while being an average soldier, but your pay will go up as you rise the ranks and will be able to even order other people around!

-Businessman,woman/merchant: You start with a small shop with the good that you want to buy and sell and can work your way up to owning a large shop or business. You get pay depending on how wealthy you are, but you may experience events in which your business will go bankrupt or on the other hand rise sky-high.

-Workman/woman: You are an average workman or woman. You get average pay with small chance of rising to a higher rank. You may very rarely experience work-injuries, but you have a steady career and little to no chance of becoming very poor.

-Criminal: You have a 50/50 chance on each of your missions to either die or gain a large amount of wealth. This is a very profitable, but by far the most dangerous job.

-Specialised professions needing high education: These are professions like doctors, librarians, historians, etc. You will get a relatively high payment, but it is very hard to find these jobs and you might end up having to accept a normal workman job or becoming a beggar. In this you have almost no chance of injury of any kind, but citizens might get complaints on you, giving you a high possibility to get fired from your job and becoming a beggar.

-Specialized masters: These are people like carpenters, tailors, bakers, etc. You will start out as an apprentice and work your way up slowly, there is a slightly below average risk of injury and you get pay depending on your position, an apprentice gets extremely low pay while a master gets slightly above average pay.

-Merchant: You have slightly above average pay, but have to pay special taxes for being foreign. You have little risk of injury, and economic events affect you strongly. You can be travelling and stopping here every time the merchants arrive in spring and autumn (or more often, but you have to pay extra to do that).

-Bridge tollman: You get slightly below average pay. You have little risk of injury by accident, but people could try to agress or kill you to cross the bridge without paying. Events that include travel along the road have heavy impact on you, so you may get a bonus every time merchants arrive, a jtournament is hosted, etc., but other events will have little to no impact on you.

More careers will come, but this is just for you to get the jist of it. Constructive criticism is wanted! I will play aas the mayor and will do announcements daily on what has happened. These announcements will come 1-3 times a day usually, and will be published as newspapers, so keep track of them, they might mean a great opportunity or a great danger to your career! You will also need to rent/buy an apartment or house to live in and need to buy yourself food, clothes and other neccessities, if you cant buy yourself these things then you die a week after you need them (excluding rent, which will get you kicked out if you dont pay it twice (it is monthly)). You will also need to occassionaly purchase health-care, as accidents will happen and illnesses will strike sometimes (an epidemic is a planned event).

Character template:

Name: Elestan

Position/job: Mayor of Armar (you will fill this in once you find a job, if you havent one yet then you will just post what you want to be/what you studied to be)

Age: 41

Works at: Town Hall of Armar

<p style="font-size:16px;line-height:26px;">Skills: Can use a sword if needed, great politic and strategic skill and can play the lute.

<p style="font-size:16px;line-height:26px;">Heritage: Comes from a wealthy family of merchants and politics.

<p style="font-size:16px;line-height:26px;">Health state: Is very healthy and hasn't been sick for years.

<p style="font-size:16px;line-height:26px;">Pay per week: 2000 silver coins (leave empty if you dont have a job yet

<p style="font-size:16px;line-height:26px;">Lives at/in: His house on the Main Street (Leave empty if you dont have a home yet, you can rent one or buy one from the newspaper once the RP starts)

<p style="font-size:16px;line-height:26px;">Average pay is 100 silver coins per day, which is 700 silver coins per week, the average workman/woman pay. I will tell you your pay with the job that you accept from the newspaper, as well as other details. There will also be prices for apartments, stalls and buildings to buy and/or rent. A week in-game is a day IRL.

<p style="font-size:16px;line-height:26px;">Rules:

<p style="font-size:16px;line-height:26px;">Normal rules of the Wiki apply

<p style="font-size:16px;line-height:26px;">You will post your actions when something happens or you want t odo something, I will tell you the outcome of what they will bring, I will be closely monitoring this RP so that lots of interesting things can happen without huge arguments about them.

<p style="font-size:16px;line-height:26px;">Your character may die, it is up to you to pick a type of job which will make you the wealthiest person in town!

<p style="font-size:16px;line-height:26px;">There is no set main goal, but the main goal is more or less to become the wealthiest person you can be, 'winning' can be becoming very wealthy and moving somewhere and buying a villa. <ac_metadata title="Economic Gondorian RP - Armar"> </ac_metadata>