Kill the Insect. Burn the Weed. Purge the Field Mouse.

Farmer: The Harvest

Is that the fucking corn from Castle Crashers?

>>5733959

No. This is one of his minions.

Harvest Moon 40k

inb4 khorn jokes

Farmer Clans ~
The Turnip Crew: They shoot you with turnips to steal your corn cause they hate turnips but its the only thing they can grow.
The Children of the Corn: Cannibalistic orphaned children of the clan wars.

>>5734011

How 'bout Khorne jokes?

Could be a worthwhile premise if only for novelty - sorta like NPC class campaigns in D&D.

As I said in the otehr topic the equivalent of Chaos in this setting are The Children of the Corn:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Children_of_the_Corn

A swarm of fieldmice head for your crops, they are led by RapeMouse - what do you do?

>>5734082

Go into a fetal position and pray for a fast death.

>>5734082
Sic mittens on them.

>>5733938

Eh, your image of famers is very faulty to begin with. It was farmers who walked to russia to sell oil, toys and tiny birds in the off-season.
It was swiss and swabian farmers who worked as merchenaries and it was farmers who made the hussites stand through a crusade.
It was a bunch of sheep herders who build the largest land-empire of the pre-modern world.
The people who came to be the "ninjas" of our imagination were a collective of farmers.

>>5734040
My dad bought my brother and I Hero Quest when we were little. One day he went into a game store, and found some minis that looked very similar to the minis from the game (which we now know is WHFB.) He was told that the Gargoyle from Hero Quest can Count-As a Demon of Khorne. Which I never understood, until I started to look at WHFB more these past few years. I always thought, why would Corn have Demons?

>>5734122

And thats the point of this thread. Their story.

GENTLEMEN, BEHOLD!!!

CORN THAT WILL DEFEND ITSELF!!!

DUN DUN DUNNNNNNNN

The Pumpkins come. The pumpkins come. The pumpkins come. THE PUMPKINS COME! THE PUMPKINS COME!

THE PUMPKINS!

PUMPKINS!

>>5734130
>Heroquest

Oh God Nostalgia!!!

Honestly I am envisioning this as being potentially fucking epic if done right. These guys have to keep a sustainable farm all the while the esoteric wildlife of the Forgotten Realms encroaches.

And being farmers, they probably lack access to any knowledge checks that would allow them to know what things are. These are the sort of people who would, taking a break from collecting chicken eggs, gouge the eyes of a beholder out using a hoe. Each year they pray to the pantheon that the orc hordes choose to migrate around their plantation this year.

I'm envisioning a Cleric with a straw hat and leather armour burning with vibrant blue fire as he brings the cornfield to life to strangle an entire army of goblins at once, adding their corpses to next years harvest.

An overarching plot point could be the relationship with a nearby vampire and/or castle.

>>5734260

Wizard cast animate object on a bunch of scarecrows. Aint no fucking birds getting on his corn, I tell you wut.

>>5734260

This. Is. Awesome.

You are promoted to Awesome Lord.

bump for awesome

But the question is, will /tg/ get shit done once again?

>>5734277
"Well sometimes we worried that losing a hand on the farm would be too high a cost to send Wilbur into the city to learn some of that magic he was always fascinated by, but he's always there when we need him, and believe me, the sight of an animate scarecrow strangling a cockatrice will keep me chuckling till the end of my days..."

by >>5734260

Badass farmer rpg? Make it have a mega-fauna like the monster hunter series and a variety of weird plants like in plants vs zombies. Maybe some aristocratic flying city islands so the working folk have a place to sell their goods to... or just use small isolated communities, that works too.

Are we using an existing system, or making a custom? For my own part, I think we should use the Warhammer Fantasy RPG as a basis, but homebrew the setting and classes. The warp and all that would take on a different name and image, more mysterious, unknown, unexplained and unexplainable threat. No demons, but shit gets possessed and mutated (sometimes literally, going to the outhouse requires a weapon and armor)

>>5734330
>Plants Vs. Zombies

>>5734343
Suddenly the rat-cather has a point!

EPIC!

I propose additional career exits for rat-catcher, with bigger vicious dogs!

Bump!

>>5734308

No idea. I just started this thread as a joke based on that vampire thread.

>>5734354
I know there must be a name for someone who's job it is to patrol the farm for vermin and thieves, but I can't think of what. But that would fit what you've suggested.

There should also be a class that focuses on training and taming animals and such, and potentially the possessed... whatever gets possessed. This will be about the closest thing we get to mystical without requiring a major off-farm quest.

>>5734352
Well, I just really liked the idea of planting a garden to defend yourself from attackers. Something like that could potentially explain how a small village would be able to survive in a world where giant bloodthirsty monsters prowl the wood.

>>5733938
Corn would have your ultimate ride as COMBINE
HARVERSTERRRRRRRRRRR CHOOOPPPPPP
>>5734386
Shepard?
>>5734388
Pinkman?

>>5734354

"Beware the Corn Mouse, my son,
The jaws that bite, the claws that catch!
Beware the watervole, and shun, frumious Muncher Rat!"

Excerpt from traditional Rat-Catcher ditty, taught to children to show them the many and varied dangerous rodents of the fields.

We gonna do this shit or what /tg/!

>>5734388
That can be a career exit for the Animal Tamer or Farm Hand: a career that gives them the ability to tame and grow possessed plants!

>>5734388
Not so much directly in the vein of plants vs. zombies but certainly there should be some aspect, say a tree type that produces no crop yield but its scent turns undead or something. And then of course you can always as above have a cleric or druid equivalent burn their high level spell to animate the entire field at once, meaning even mundane plants temporarily become bloodthirsty killing machines.

At tops maybe giant venus flytraps kept as the equivalent of a rabid dog chained to a pole stuck in the ground to keep people out of the area.

1st! What shall it be called!

>>5734430
Would Agent Orange still be horribly toxic?

>>5734431

Yokel: The Harvesting?

>>5734437
Not really sure where you are getting at with that, also wrong tech level I should think

>>5734442
Let's use that for the time being, at least.

>>5734431
The Farm.
Farm Hand.
Crops and Crowes
Fields of Woe

Stalks of Madness?

>>5734456
I'm liking Crops and Crowes. Really, really liking it.

>>5734471
Agreed

All in favor of using WFRP?

Well, localized conflicts were pretty much the norm for agricultural communities. Just remember how the swiss war against habsburg amongst other things started out as a quarrel over pastoral lands with a cloister. Which the swiss resolved by attacking and plundering the cloister in question and taking all its inhabitants as hostages.

Or how animal herders, who were considered to be petty thiefs in the best and international criminal masterminds in the worst case.

And let's not forget that it seemed to have been perfectly normal for girls to present their boys with brass knuckels or rings that pretty much count as brass knuckles as a token of their love.

>>5734471
How 'bout using that name for the "monster manual"?

>>5734477
So classes wise, I guess we really need to figure out the sort of combat classes we need and then try to reconcile that with jobs needed on the farm. Attempting:

Mystic (IE Wis based Healer/Scryer/Knowledge specialist, during farming time pretty much serves exactly the same role, knowing when trouble is coming, and patching people up. Is only class for which literacy is a default ability).

Fieldsman: (Fighter/Barbarian equivalent, planting/harvesting specialist during farm time, can take a limited subset of animal skills but not by default.)

Any ideas of a Rougelike class?

>>5734561

Poacher?

Looks like /tg/ will get shit done as it usually does...

>>5734589
Brilliant!

I suggest clericlike should be some sort of herbalist?

Suggestion: A variety of crops could have different uses. I mean, wolfsbane to get rid of werewolves, St. George's Wart is deadly poison to dragons and is very valuable but difficult to grow due to insects and rodents loving the taste of it, and then there's food crops.

Suggestion: In non-combat time, players could fill out a time sheet, perhaps, detailing their use of time during the day. That way, the GM knows where they'll be at the time of an attack. If someone's eating lunch while another is milking the cows and Jerrobby is maintaining the root cellar, it might be hard to mobilize in time.

>>5734599
Like a hedgemage or some such? Self taught so magic powers are minimal, but supplements them with alchemical knowledge.

>>5734543
Grower (Plant Specialist, has some optional abilities overlapping with the Mystic with respect to herbal healing etc. but during farmtime they supervise placement of the more delicate and temperamental plants, and their subsequent care. In combat they are capable of using plants as summoned allies as well as using offensive herbal concoctions.)

Crafter (In farmtime, mends any mechanisms around the farm, sews clothing, etc. In combat, their dexterity allows them to use ranged weapons and occasionally contraptions they themselves have created in a considerably more effective manner. They also have a bonus of reduced equipment costs as they themselves are usually responsible for its creation.)

Tamer (Animal Specialist, In farming time is always the character that the animals get along with, at higher levels even the most eldritch creatures can be charmed by one. In combat the Tamer uses animal allies, a respectable close combat capability (Second only to Fieldsman), and charm spells to change the battlefield. Also will be significantly more proficient in horse riding than most, and indeed is the only class for which basic proficiency in this is default.)

Ratcatcher I'm thinking is more a manner of favoured enemy (rat)

>>5734599

Perhaps a Witch, wisewoman, or headologist? Someone who does the birthing of babys, the laying out of the dead, who has the knowing of illnesses?

>>5734561

Shepherder/cowboy/gaucho? You're pretty much at the end of the social ladder with no home, making your living at least partially by killing other people's animals and stealing their belongings.

>>5734627
>Tamer

Why am I seeing a man riding a Dire Cow into battle, followed by a herd of the ugliest sheep you've ever seen?

>>5734629
Strictly speaking its really a matter of what other people call them. They may all be the same, but there a thousand names for them, and consider that a man who does the same thing as a witch will end up being called a wise mystic or something.

>>5734629
I suggest that those are some kind of advancements, as those classes usually are inherited by the elderly and experienced. Maybey use those but put the word "apprentice" first?

Are we to use classical enemies like vampires and werewolfs? Maybey gather up the mob and chase after frankenstein's monster?

New class: Rabble Rouser

>>5734683

Or an advancement: Angry Drunk

Actually, centre of a medieval rural community is almost always the pub and the church. Your Innkeeper is probably going to be a big man in the community.

I demand that this game contains a large mass of superstitions! Many of them true...

>>5734627
I was stuck for a roguelike but you guys seem to have sorted it out:

Rustler (Usually outsiders, you can never really tell who's side they're on. But nonetheless, somewhere out there, some farmers wife is missing her estranged son. In farmtime Rustlers are useful in that they tend to have acquired a lot of speech abilities in their time wandering and can hence haggle with traders far better than most, and in addition, if times call for it, they may be able to relocated someone elses flock as it were, to your paddocks. They do not have animal charming or horseriding proficiency by default at 1st level but can nonetheless in time gain even advanced riding feats which only the Tamer has access to other wise. Given their wide range of abilities, their perfomance in combat can vary anywhere from daring feats of bravado, stealing an enemies horse off of them midfight, to blending into the corn, moving around to deliver a silent but fatal blow.

Are we going to have a few base classes, with a lot of spirit, or the contrary?

If we actually get this shit done /tg/, it's going to be LEGENDARY!

>>5734734
With that I think we have a full complement unless someone proves me otherwise. Pretty much any character neccessary can be a modified version of the above, from the innskeep being more or less any of those classes depending on the archetype you want, the rabble rouser being the charismatic Rustler, etc.

>>5734700

In some regions the inkeeper happened to be the local judge too. That made them the ones who would approve of the burning and hands out the alcohol to rouse everyone up to the task.

>>5734761

I still think a poacher would be better for a more local based Rogue. He's basically a shiftless layabout who gets by by nicking meat from the local lord. If he's ever caught he's going to get his hands and feet chopped off, but until then life's pretty good. He's tolerated because he'll often be the one providing the village with good game meat, and the fact that he often knows a lot more about the beasties tromping around in the undergrowth. That and the fact he's usually the first to know/die screaming iif any of said beasties are about to attack.

Are we having clans?

I hope this thread is still going when I get back from work.

Bee-keepers, anybody? Having a hive nearby can increase your crop output.

Also, I insist that Milkmaid be a character class. A buxom lass that swings a mean pail and can calm the most savage bovine. Also, corsetted busoms for social bonuses.

Also, more emphasis on running the farm. Someone get SimFarm running or something, suggest optimal crop-tending times, seasonal jobs for the different classes, ect.

Also, magical items?

>>5734853

I would imagine so. Great big feuding Oggish clans, I hope. Would probably depend on the type of settlement, however. If the Clan dominates a settlement too much it might start to suffer from "I'm my own Grampa" syndrome. And that ain't purty, boy.

>>5734827

Poachers aren't shiftless layabouts, they're socialist heroes who work hard to reclaim from the nobility who monopolise land that should belong to everybody.

>>5734872

Milkmaids are also immune to Smallpox because they almost always have had cowpox. Perhaps disease immunity could be played up.

That and the creation of powerful cheeses.

>>5734901

I was trying to emphasise the Rogue aspect in a vaguely negative way. You could certainly play him as a heroic man-of-the-working-classes, Robin Hood figure if you choose. I just like WHFRPG scumbags!

>>5734910
Milkmaids shouldn't be overpowered.

Pic related.

Although, cheese and butter as magical potions mightn't be too bad.

OP here.

I make this thread as a joke and then abandon it only to come back and see what you turned it into..

I love you /tg/

>Poachers aren't shiftless layabouts, they're socialist heroes who will kill other socialist heros by beating in their skulls with rocks while they're asleep FOR THEIR HONOUR!

Sorry, but poachers are violent white trash.

Okay going delving further into these classes:
Mystic (Or Witch): Starts as an apprentice, moves on to sagelyness. Using d20, primary Cast stat is WIS, followed by INT, physically fragile.
Fieldsman (Or Fieldswoman): Starts as a farmboy(/girl), pretty much just gets stronger, depending on the subtype (Some subtypes involve Warlord esque abilities that are powered by CHA) may eventually advance to being a core pillar of the community, a well respected, honest man, whos word is certain as bedrock, and has never shied from work in his life. Primary stat STR, followed by CHA or DEX depending on the subtype.
Grower(Gardener): Starts as a mere hobbyist but progresses to someone with a near supernatural mastery over all things photosynthetic. Some may think of plants in a mechanical sense (Int/Dex) and place them with great care, fully aware of the harm they can inflict. Others believe that plants are more intelligent than they seem and try to befriend them through respect and song (Wis/Cha). Depending on subtype Primary casting stat is WIS or INT, followed by DEX or CHA.
Crafter(or Seamstress) progresses from someone good with their hands (Sowing needle, clocks etc) to an obsessive to whom nothing is unfixable, and the concept of their body lacking the dexterity to accomplish any task concievable is alien. Primary stat is DEX, followed by INT.

>>5735024
Tamer: Begins as a stableboy, shephard or the like, and progresses to someone to whom communicating his will to animals is as natural as with another human, and with increased understanding comes an equal increase in ability to exploit their properties. A high level Tamer could concievably surf a horse. Primary stat is CHA, followed by INT.
Rustler (Outsider): Begins as a boy who is "trouble I tell you", but by high level a Rustler, depending on subtype chosen, may be a fisher of men, able to wrap the will of the people around his finger, or he may be a wild man, viewed with seething disdain by the authority figures of the town, who knows no fear because it is unfounded, who can matador a rampaging Ogre to death, who stages daring battles against overwhelming odds while on horseback, or perhaps he is the stranger who can always slip back into the shadow of the crowd unnoticed, or perhaps he is several of the above! The Rustlers primary stats may be DEX, STR, or CHA in more or less any order.

Is /tg/ giving this up? Or should we keep going another day?

Anyone thinking Scarecrow minions?

>>5735678
Or jack o' lantern sentries.

(I tried to find some badass communist farming propaganda but all I kept finding was pictures of obama :<)

I love this, but we should backtrack on classes and just find out the stats /skills we require and name them later.
I'm not familiar with WFRP but from what I've heard it fits perfectly.
What we should struggle to do is not to make the players OP, the point of this is to have a mundane "lynch mob" fight off supernatural and natural threats.
At high levels you're fighting off the army requisitioning your crops but the level cap is around somewhere where you become a legitimate adventurer although you can become increasingly badass after that. Instead of classes why not have titles you gain in the community? You just pick the correct skill tree branch corresponding roughly with the shepherd
turns tamer/pocher
classes we've been discussing.

>>5736375
You, sir, very stupid mericunt, yes ?
This not commy propaganda. This not russian and not farmers.

*clap**clap* OI! Pay attention!
Is there an existing system we could use?
Them damned undeds back in my wheat field again, knew we should have cashed in for some holy water!

Theres no shortage of farmers fables I could dig up to use as material for folk magic. Golden axes anyone?

>>5736375

To be honest, I don't see we need to do much to make WFRP fit. It does the gritty, "you are a shitty peasant and the only thing saving you from an ignominious death is your dwindling supply of fate points" thing pretty well. Just don't allow access into the magical careers, use the alternative, no-magic priests and you're set. Hell, a non-adventuring WFRP game could easily be based around the important characters in a small farming community beset by occasional orc raiding parties, the depredations of the local baron and the apparent "threat" of heresy. If you wanted to go more along the lines of some of the stuff suggested earlier, like controlling plants, or summoning pumpkin men, then you'd probably need to use another setting, but the rules for WFRP are fine, as far as I see.

I don't see a need to go into too much detail on the farming side of things, regarding skills at least. No-one wants to play a crop harvesting RPG. Just have a trade (Farmer) skill and leave it at that,

>No-one wants to play a crop harvesting RPG.

Fuck you, good sir. I'm gonna take up my battle against nature right now.

and when you die you get replaced by one of your six siblings

>>5736685

ATTENTION FARM-HANDS OF OLD SECTOR. CROSS-OVER PROTOCOLS ARE NOW BEING ENGAGED. DO NOT BE ALARMED.

>>5736665
game was pretty cool, but i cant get a translation patch for the japanese version =/ as usual, natsume never fails to grind that game into dirt purged with salt,

just use 2ed DnD, should work just fine.

WHEAT FOR THE WHEAT GOD! OATS FOR THE OAT THRONE!

>>5736924

HARVEST! MILL! BAKE! HARVEST! MILL! BAKE!