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Jack of Spades
2013-02-04, 10:12 PM
So, this weekend I was talking with some folks about Dawn of Worlds, and it reminded me of a Science Fiction equivalent that I saw posted in a thread about "God Games" a while back.

I've always been a big fan of game-ifying setting creation, so I'm a bit reticent that I didn't save that set of rules back then. From what I can remember it involved something along the lines of each player semi-randomly generating a planet then working out the relationships between those (geographically and politically) through another semi-random system.

So, basically, can anyone at the Playground remember anything like that? If you know of something better, or other setting creation games, please do tell me.

Grod_The_Giant
2013-02-05, 12:22 AM
Microscope (http://www.lamemage.com/)?

Grinner
2013-02-05, 12:32 AM
While I can't help you with that, I've seen good things done with Lords of Creation (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=85710). It's quite popular on these forums.

Jack of Spades
2013-02-05, 07:00 AM
Microscope (http://www.lamemage.com/)?
Hm, I'll probably end up picking Microscope up, but the system I was thinking of was distinctly scifi-specific and was a free download.

I don't have a huge amount of hope for this, but at the very least I may be able to coax out other examples of the genre (which appears to be working :smallamused:)

Grinner
2013-02-06, 12:24 PM
@Jack of Spades: Do you remember when you saw this? And are you sure it was here? I have tried every search term I could think of and have manually searched through two years of Playground Archive, and I've got almost nothing.

Jack of Spades
2013-02-06, 05:13 PM
@Jack of Spades: Do you remember when you saw this? And are you sure it was here? I have tried every search term I could think of and have manually searched through two years of Playground Archive, and I've got almost nothing.

It was definitely here, in a thread that was about (or evoked discussion of) 'god games.'

This was... maybe late spring/early summer of last year.