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Oh, I have no problem answering questions, now or mid-game.

You are correct that the glaciers, the race, and the action of making the city are each separate PP expenditures.


Racial lore is... well, sort of left to the player.  Obviously, if your racial lore is 'on the fifth day of the third month, we celebrate our resounding victory over the accursed fire demons' then... there should probably be some fire demons, and you probably should have had a resounding victory over them at some point.  Both of these would be PP actions.

If your racial lore is just a conception of how they act and sort of the fundamental ethos of the people as a whole, then thats usually fine to just start talking about it without spending PP.  I had a race of Naga a few games back that basically were some combination of Pharonic and Aiel in nature, a race that worshiped a water god in the middle of a desert.  Eventually I hashed out a lot of their culture and art, but I didn't spend a ton of PP doing so.  Let me post the relevant PP expenditures that I spent on them at their beginning...  (note that the costs and actions might look odd... different rules)

Tsiyoti 2/1/2011 Shape Populace 4 Nagas in the Sea of Daj
Tsiyoti 2/18/2011 Forge Artifact 3 The Rock of Laments in Niganati  (The name of the valley in which the Naga were created)
Tsiyoti 2/20/2011 Nourish Populace 1 The Naga grow in number Niganati
Tsiyoti 2/23/2011 Mold Land 2  The Naga carve into the rock of the Sea of Daj, forming a vast underground cave network to live in
Tsiyoti 3/4/2011 Craft Artifact 3 The Stone of Rejoicing in Niganati

Tsiyoti 3/8/2011 Command Populace 1 THe fallen attack Niganati
Tsiyoti 3/10/2011 Command Populace 1 The Naga build a temple on the ground they were born
Tsiyoti 3/10/2011 Forge Artifact 3 Orb of Order

And... more from there, but that is what I used to start up the culture, which was an oracular/mystical peoples who worshiped a God who didn't even know that they existed.  Eventually the civilization formed an alliance with another nation, religions spread, a massive siege of half-men occured and the entire city fractured into four or five warring components who each claimed a portion of the now huge underground cave network that stretched through half the desert, but the underlying culture was there without me explicitly spending PP to make it so.

That said, if you *want* to spend PP on things like a culture, by all means go ahead.  What that usually means is that its significantly harder for someone else to change that culture, and easier for other people who (shamefully) have not been paying as close of attention to your posts to get a quick sense of what matters to your people.  If you want to make your people *exceptionally* one way... like 'the most law-abiding of all law-abiding places' then... thats something to spend PP on.

Basically:  If it involves another race, a historic event, a particularly extreme stance, a particularly impressive location or a group within the group (like I eventually made a group of monks to interpret the Stones of Niganati), then PP should be spent.  Otherwise, spend if you want to, but no rules saying you have to.

Our first meeting was a success!  Thank you to everyone who showed up.

We have an important announcement.  We are going to be starting up a new LoC near the start of the new year!  Please come on Saturday to the mibbit chat to discuss the proposed rules and talk to one another about your plans!

 

No worries.  I think we're going to have more of these after the game starts... they're good for comraderie