Prehistoric Droyne campaign (some OTU spoilers)

[Murphy]

This strikes me as the best way to get my players familiar with the race.

I was thinking tribal times of the original Droyne, before jump drive was invented, and in fact before the emergence of Yaskoydray. But I am not sure if there would be any coyns.

What I know is that Grandfather (re)introduced coyns to the declining Droyne cultures to keep them from dying out. But coyns are also known to have been used in the Ancient era (albeit there were 38 instead of 36). Were they invented by him or were they innate to Droyne society?

 

[Murphy]

Addendum

To clarify and expand on the idea...

I'm thinking episodic campaign with a strategic feel, with several "missions" spaced decades (at first, even centuries) apart. Each player is going to control a single tyafelm (a family of at least six Droyne, one of each caste), and together they form a small tribe.

The overall tech level is going to rise by 1 every mission, starting with TL0 and going to TL8 or so. Think Spore.

How do I envision it? Each session would begin with a coyn ceremony, then some background / OOC briefing and then a series of minigames intermingled with dialogue a la Mafia, only more focused on teamwork. I'll have to devise a scoring system; the bloodline that scores the most points gets to be the one Grandfather was born into, and the campaign ends.

Then we play Mongoose's Secrets of the Ancients campaign.

 

[rancke]

This strikes me as the best way to get my players familiar with the race.

I was thinking tribal times of the original Droyne, before jump drive was invented, and in fact before the emergence of Yaskoydray. But I am not sure if there would be any coyns.

What I know is that Grandfather (re)introduced coyns to the declining Droyne cultures to keep them from dying out. But coyns are also known to have been used in the Ancient era (albeit there were 38 instead of 36). Were they invented by him or were they innate to Droyne society?

I've assumed they were used in prehistoric times to perform hunting magic, predictions, and that sort of thing. Sort of like a Droyne Tarot set. The Ancient coyn set would miss some of the modern coyns but have various animals instead.

Here's the Ancient coyn set I came up with (non-canon but canon-compatible):

Worker     Warrior      Drone       Technician   Sport    Leader
Void       Soil         Air         Gas          Water    Fire
Darkness   Cold         Noise       Signal       Heat     Light
Genesis    Aspiration   Sacrifice   Defeat       Death    Achievement
Beast      Mercenary    Voyages     Justice      Chance   Phoenix
Hissayt    Emissyob     Ayvaylk     Bestoy       Nebbay   Hayyarn

Droyne     Eskaloyt

The six you don't recognize are six prey animals native to Eskaloyt. Used by primitive Droyne to perform hunt magic. Obviously they were of little use to Droyne living off Eskayloyt. I had descriptions of them once, but that file was lost long ago.


Hans

 

[GrayPennell]

Did anyone do canon names for them? I didnt see any in the Droyne book. Also for Alpha, Beta Male plus Drone

 

[Murphy]

Hmmm. I re-read the books I have and it seems there wasn't anything like fast tech development in original Droyne history. Lack of drive and all.

Maybe I'll just run an adventure off Andor in year 1105, and merge it with the events of my other campaign instead of starting yet new one. We're halfway through Beltstrike and I've placed the setting's system right there in the Five Sisters subsector...