: crash2455 September 24, 2010, 03:16:52 AM
System: Dawn of Worlds (http://www.clanwebsite.org/games/rpg/Dawn_of_Worlds_game_1_0Final.pdf) <- Rules Here. Right Click and "Save As"
Players Wanted: 3 or more
Posting Rate: Whenever
Special Rules: The game calls for a sheet of paper to be drawn on, to give definition to the world we are creating. I propose that we use MSPaint or GIMP to modify an image of appropriate size.
Advancement Rules: N/A
This is a game I've played twice with friends. I decided to put it to PbP because it's a bit dry to play on its own, and I've never gotten too far in a realtime game. Additionally, it seems like it would work just as well in PbP as it would IRL (minus quips and general bullshitting) as it is extremely turn-based.
Mckma noted that I didn't include a premise here, so here's something from the manual:
Each player will be playing god. Usually players do not take on the role of a particular god, but this can make for a fun variant. What lies on the table before them is a barren, lifeless world. It is up to each player in turn to begin filling it. One of the most important things to remember about Dawn of Worlds is that as players create things, other players are entirely free to change them.
In essence, it's a massive sandbox where everyone plays a god and takes turns in creating a world, including terrain, weather, civilizations, and full-scale wars.
Any takers?
: Flawless P September 24, 2010, 05:51:54 PM
: Mckma September 24, 2010, 05:53:15 PM
: crash2455 September 24, 2010, 06:13:59 PM
If you do get the necessary people are you going to want each player to make a "God" persona?
Yeah. That's part of the fun of it. I think in my last session of was Hendrix the Benevolent God of Rock.
Seems interesting though I know nothing about it...
Thanks for reminding me that I didn't say what the hell this game is about. Pretty much the whole premise is that everyone plays a god and takes turns in creating a world, including terrain, weather, civilizations, and full-scale wars. It's a giant sandbox and you can build civilizations or just dick around and ruin everyone else's. To prevent too much of the latter, there is a veto system in place to prevent people from making totally crazy things (like "plains of cake" or whatever).
I have yet to play a complete game of this, so whatever. If we run into rules problems, then we'll figure something out.
: Flawless P September 24, 2010, 06:51:37 PM
Call me #1
: crash2455 September 24, 2010, 09:38:14 PM
: Mckma September 25, 2010, 11:46:45 AM
: VampireVladd September 25, 2010, 12:02:45 PM
: crash2455 September 25, 2010, 02:59:01 PM
-What size do we want to start with? 8.5" x 11"?
-Does everyone have a higher-level image editing program (GIMP, Photoshop, etc)? I ask this because we can throw down gridlines without messing up the map if we use one of those, making the area effects easier to measure.
-Do we just want to be more vague with regards to area effects and just use best judgement for area effects?
: VampireVladd September 25, 2010, 03:42:30 PM
: Mckma September 25, 2010, 04:59:23 PM
Are there free quickstart rules I can take a look at or something?
: crash2455 September 25, 2010, 07:08:02 PM
http://www.clanwebsite.org/games/rpg/Dawn_of_Worlds_game_1_0Final.pdf
: Mckma September 25, 2010, 07:36:19 PM
:-[
: Flawless P September 25, 2010, 07:46:41 PM
: crash2455 September 25, 2010, 08:00:11 PM
I have photoshop but to be honest I have no idea how to use it. If what you're describing is easy I will take some time to learn the stuff.
I'm not as familiar with Photoshop as I am with GIMP, but I think there's an option that pops up gridlines on the image. If nothing else you can use the rulers as guidelines.
I suppose I should probably start up a game thread.
To configure gridlines in GIMP, you go to Image -> Configure Grid. You want to set them to .25" x .25"
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To show the Grid, you go to View -> Show Grid
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: Flawless P September 26, 2010, 11:24:58 PM
: Flawless P September 26, 2010, 11:40:45 PM
Rolling 2d6: (5+2): Total = 7
just testing the dice roller, didnt know how to do it before.
: VampireVladd September 27, 2010, 12:02:08 AM
: crash2455 September 27, 2010, 01:59:01 AM
: Flawless P September 27, 2010, 10:30:32 AM
It would actually be good to know how to run the dice roller. I don't know how to do it at this point. Also, I suppose being D&D gods would be sorta cool, though I don't know too much about the D&D pantheon, so I'd just kind of pick a name and do things that I would associate with that deity.
I don't want to play a premade deity just pattern our stylings after that....such as
Deity Name
Alignment
Portfolio
Granted Domains*
*Assuming you end up using the map for a 3.x game.
also dice roller is : dice xdy :
x = number of dice
y = sides
also drop the spaces before the word "dice" and after the y
: crash2455 September 27, 2010, 12:37:27 PM
It would actually be good to know how to run the dice roller. I don't know how to do it at this point. Also, I suppose being D&D gods would be sorta cool, though I don't know too much about the D&D pantheon, so I'd just kind of pick a name and do things that I would associate with that deity.
I don't want to play a premade deity just pattern our stylings after that....such as
Deity Name
Alignment
Portfolio
Granted Domains*
*Assuming you end up using the map for a 3.x game.
also dice roller is : xdy :
x = number of dice
y = sides
also drop the spaces before the x and after the y
Ah, okay, yeah that would work out. And thanks for the tip on the roller. Also, I posted the game thread in the main PbP arena.
: Flawless P September 29, 2010, 06:59:04 PM
What do you guys think?
: crash2455 September 29, 2010, 07:58:55 PM
: VampireVladd September 29, 2010, 09:14:30 PM
: VampireVladd September 30, 2010, 12:12:12 AM
: Flawless P September 30, 2010, 02:15:55 AM
(http://i16.photobucket.com/albums/b15/Flawless_P/grid.png)
this correct?
just wanna make sure because I originally used 6 points to fill two cubes and that seemed like a lot less than everyone else's.
and before you mention it, yes I suck at the whole geometry thing, I know probably should have asked this before hand.
: crash2455 September 30, 2010, 02:29:32 AM
Doing the math on the 25p x 25p gridlines, it's approximately 8.3 squares.
: Flawless P September 30, 2010, 09:55:10 AM
this? or am i still retarded?
: crash2455 September 30, 2010, 10:18:41 AM
: Flawless P September 30, 2010, 12:55:48 PM
Yeah, that should work fine.
cool beans, my IRL group has been doing this with 1 square inch instead of a 1 inch diameter...my fault for reading it once and then never double checking. So yeah this makes a lot more sense.
: Flawless P October 01, 2010, 02:41:22 PM
Rolling 1d45: (40): Total = 40
: Mckma October 04, 2010, 12:25:51 PM
: Flawless P October 04, 2010, 12:36:58 PM
Next round?I'm just waiting
: crash2455 October 04, 2010, 01:39:55 PM
Next round?
Ditto. You're the first up, man.
: Mckma October 04, 2010, 03:30:54 PM
Next round?
Ditto. You're the first up, man.
Oh, am I always first? I thought it was based on who got the highest roll that round...
: crash2455 October 04, 2010, 03:37:17 PM
: Mckma October 04, 2010, 03:56:53 PM
I think it's one starter roll. We could change it up if we wanted to.
Okay, no problem, I'll go ahead and do it...
: VampireVladd October 04, 2010, 09:02:47 PM
: Flawless P October 08, 2010, 11:23:05 AM
: Flawless P October 13, 2010, 01:09:01 PM
: crash2455 October 13, 2010, 01:20:27 PM
: VampireVladd October 13, 2010, 09:15:02 PM
: crash2455 October 18, 2010, 03:24:29 PM
: VampireVladd October 22, 2010, 12:47:47 PM
: crash2455 October 22, 2010, 01:58:05 PM
Sorry about that the computer is fixed. How did you do the mountains earlier?
What do you mean?
Game rules: shape land 1" (3 pts)
GIMP: I found an icon-sized picture on google images.
: VampireVladd October 22, 2010, 10:08:57 PM
: Flawless P October 26, 2010, 04:59:54 PM
: crash2455 October 26, 2010, 05:22:54 PM
: Da Rules
Event – Through this power come the changing of fortunes for an Avatar, Order, City, or Civilization. A gold mine may be found, a storm at sea may strike a fleet, an Avatar may escape death, plague, famine, drought may strike, or technologies may be lost. These are the great, unplanned winds of
fortune that blow through the history of the world.
It seems like any point of interest with lasting effects is an Event. In that interpretation, the Scar would fall under that.
: Flawless P October 26, 2010, 05:26:18 PM
: Da RulesEvent – Through this power come the changing of fortunes for an Avatar, Order, City, or Civilization. A gold mine may be found, a storm at sea may strike a fleet, an Avatar may escape death, plague, famine, drought may strike, or technologies may be lost. These are the great, unplanned winds of
fortune that blow through the history of the world.
It seems like any point of interest with lasting effects is an Event. In that interpretation, the Scar would fall under that.
That was my interpretation as well.