How It Works

A Step-by-Step Guide for New Players

1. Sign Up for the Game

Fill in the form on the Join the Game page of the TribeNet website or email the gamemaster, Peter Rzechorzek, at tribenetpbem@gmail.com to sign up. Let him know you’re a new player. You’ll be added to the game for the upcoming turn ((every two weeks).

2. Receive Your Pre-Turn Setup

Once registered, you’ll receive:

  • A Pre-Turn report, which outlines your starting tribe, location, resources, and basic skills
  • An Auto Turnsheet, a spreadsheet used to enter and submit your game orders
  • A Mentor assignment (upon request), to help guide your first turns
3. Review Your Starting Resources

Open your Pre-Turn report and Auto Turnsheet. Check:

  • Who is in your Clan
  • Your starting location on the game map
  • What resources, goods, and animals you have
  • Your skills and what you might want to improve

This is your foundation. From here, you’ll decide how to grow your Clan.

4. Plan Your First Turn

Think about:

  • What activities you want your Tribe to do (e.g., hunting, scouting, or crafting items )
  • If you want to move to a new hex
  • What skills to develop
  • What to transfer between units or to 1263 (the GM’s code for special actions)

Each worker in your Clan can only do one activity, so plan carefully! Tip: Read “Your First Turn in TribeNet” and “Understanding the Auto Turnsheet”. They explain what to do with the files and how the game works.

5. Enter Your Orders into the Auto Turnsheet

The Auto Turnsheet has multiple tabs. You’ll mostly use:

  • Tribes_Activities: Assign jobs for your people
  • Skill_Attempts: Learn new skills
  • Transfers: Move goods or people
  • Tribe_Movement: Travel across the map
  • GM Actions: Notes to the GM for anything special or not handled by code
6. Email Your Turnsheet

Send your completed spreadsheet as an attachment to: tribenetpbem@gmail.com

Turn deadlines are every two weeks. You’ll receive reminders and turn announcements via email and on the Tribe Talk Discord Server.

7. Wait for Turn Processing

Once the deadline passes, the GM processes all submitted turns. Within a few days, you’ll get:

  • A new Auto Turnsheet with updated data.
  • A turn result report with everything that happened.
8. Read Your Turn Results

Look at:

  • What skills improved
  • What goods were produced or used
  • What your Clan did
  • If your people moved, fought, or encountered others

Then, update your map based on your exploration for the turn.

This is where the story of your Clan comes to life.

9. Plan Your Next Turn

Now that you have your results, it’s time to strategize again. With every turn, you shape your Clan’s destiny — whether through exploration, trade, warfare, building, or research.

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