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[Dutrius]

I'm calling God of Magic before anyone else does.

Wait...

Spoiler: Bohenar (click to show/hide)

Name:Bohenar
Spheres: Magic and Fire
Apearance: A seven handed humanoid figure of dark blue fog filled with stars rising from a vortex of fire.
Description: An ascended genie of flames, Bohenar desires to forge a world of magic, greater that the one he hails from. Although ascention left only the barest shadows of memories, Bohenar aspires to greatness, and believes magic to be the superior force.
Symbol: Heptagram with corners marked in red, blue, brown, teal, black, white, and purple.

Damn it! Not again! Damn timezones!

I'll do the survey in a bit. I'm a little busy atm.

[Rolepgeek]

My original idea was for a God of Void and Secrets.

So yes, likely the mortals are pretty well fucked.

[FArgHalfnr]

Great, I was afraid of playing as the only evil god

And the magic system looks great, I'm perfectly fine with it.



ROLEPGEEK IS TOTALLY NOT COPYING MY YG0'S CHARACTER

[Stirk]

Eh, Don Giovanni isn't really evil. If anything, Fusil was more of a gangster than he was near the end  .

[~Neri]

I am rather tempted to be a god of clowns and chaos.

[FArgHalfnr]

I am rather tempted to be a god of clowns and chaos.

I say go for it, that sounds fun.

[Vgray]

I tentatively call dibs on the spheres of honor/oaths and life/death.

[Dutrius]

Spoiler: Survey results: (click to show/hide)

1. How much player power (as opposed to GM power) did you feel there was during YG0?

c. Adequate


2. What did you think of having a one-dimensional stat (Essence) for gods?

b. Sufficient, i.e. an Essence stat for gods is enough


3. What did you think of the amount of conflict?

b. Adequate


4. How much power do you think the Council had?

c. Enough


5. How much emphasis should secret actions be given?

b. About the same


6. How important are prompt updates to you?

c. Important


7. How much do you think a god's actions should be governed by sphere?

d. A lot


8. How would you like to change the emphasis on NPCs?

b. Maintain


9. How easy should gods be to kill? (suggestions recommended for attack and defense components)
a. Harder


10. Would you like to see a ministers system implemented at the start of (a) future game(s)? (The ministers system likely involves increased votes for elected ministers on their departments and a system for electing them. Note that such a system can be implemented ior removed later as with other Council projects assuming a similar or identical Council setup.)

b. No


11. How much should players be allowed to interfere with each other's creations at the start?

b. Little


12. How much should lack of originality be penalized?

b. Not much


13. Given the Captain Ersatz rule, do you think my fear of lawyers was excessive or insufficient?

b. Excessive
 

14. How important is an overall cooperative goal for the gods? (YG0's cooperative goal was intended to be any combination of understanding, expanding, assimilating with the Void factions, or beginning a long quest to exterminate them.)

b. Important


15. How much realism would you prefer to see?

b. A little, i.e. a fairy tale-like world where much is possible with some resemblence to reality


16. What part of the game did you most like?

17. What part of the game did you most dislike?

18. What do you like or dislike most about my writing?

ARG!!! I hate this sort of question because I never know what to say.


0-10 scale questions (10 highest):
19. How much would you like to have the pantheon split into 2-3 administrative teams at the start?
For: Reduces individual risk; Allows normally minority positions to pass (locally)
Against: Demands increased participation; May supersede per-player diplomacy?

3

20. How much granularity/fine-grained control do you feel is ideal for world design?
For: Emphasizes one of the main attractions for god games in general
Against: Increased overhead with little effect?

8

21. How much would you want increased attention to intrigue?
For: Focuses on a popular feature for similar games
Against: Comes at the potential expense of some dissatisfaction

5

22. How much do you value randomness (dice with non-arbitrary modifiers) over intuition (KJP's festering and brooding)
High: Less change to last game's design; Prevents KJP's mood from affecting much
Low: Leads to luck overriding skill; Increases the "human touch" to the story

4

23. On a scale of -5 to 5, how much anthropomorphism/anthropocentrism do you expect of unspecified NPCs?
High: More relatable; Easier to interact with(/write?)
Low: Possibly more realistic; Aligns with realism more closely

0

24. On a scale of -5 to 5 (higher being stronger), how strong would you want the Captain Ersatz rule to be?
-5: Require creations to be references?
-4: Abolish it
0: Retain it for possible future amendment (in either direction)
4: Strengthen it
5: Block anything previously existing?

-1

Open-ended questions:
25. What do you think of secret goals and how they should be rewarded, determined, integrated, &c.?

I have no idea.

26. What sort of magic system do you want? (I have already prepared a more mechanically developed one to replace the loose, broken old one. It is still highly extensible.)

The system I have in mid would be one that can be (at least partially) moulded and changed by the players. Within reasonable bounds.

27. Any other changes/features you want in the base game?

None that I can think of.

Alright, I'll be the god of Technomancy! Well, god of engineering and magic, anyway.

[DreamerGhost]

I'm calling God of Magic before anyone else does.

Wait...

Spoiler: Bohenar (click to show/hide)

Name:Bohenar
Spheres: Magic and Fire
Apearance: A seven handed humanoid figure of dark blue fog filled with stars rising from a vortex of fire.
Description: An ascended genie of flames, Bohenar desires to forge a world of magic, greater that the one he hails from. Although ascention left only the barest shadows of memories, Bohenar aspires to greatness, and believes magic to be the superior force.
Symbol: Heptagram with corners marked in red, blue, brown, teal, black, white, and purple.

Damn it! Not again! Damn timezones!

I'll do the survey in a bit. I'm a little busy atm.

HAHAHAHA no damned people claiming all my wanted spheres this time!

[IcyTea31]

...So basically you turned mancy to urgy. I do not see how that is an improvement. Geomany should probably be kept too, since it is a "real" historical thing. Real here meaning "real Earth superstition".

It is an improvement by virtue of being a word that actually means what it's supposed to mean. Also, I will be using the English titles as much as possible, because the Greek ones are quite pretentious.

Geomancy (Greek: γεωμαντεία, "earth divination") is a method of divination that...

Divination means seeking knowledge through occult means, not "probably offensive use of rocks and some measure of ambient magic stuff," as KJP puts it. 'Geomancy' would be a misnomer.

[TheBiggerFish]

What I have to ask, is why the gods get stuck with random magic that they didn't make.
*points at Litany*
It seems like having the gods create their own magic worked there.
Although, y'know. it does seem kind of a hassle to have a bunch of separate systems.
In short, maybe have there be the concept of magic, but leave the rest of it undefined, left for the gods to shape, whatever.

[Stirk]

...So basically you turned mancy to urgy. I do not see how that is an improvement. Geomany should probably be kept too, since it is a "real" historical thing. Real here meaning "real Earth superstition".

It is an improvement by virtue of being a word that actually means what it's supposed to mean. Also, I will be using the English titles as much as possible, because the Greek ones are quite pretentious.

Geomancy (Greek: γεωμαντεία, "earth divination") is a method of divination that...

Divination means seeking knowledge through occult means, not "probably offensive use of rocks and some measure of ambient magic stuff," as KJP puts it. 'Geomancy' would be a misnomer.

Urgy is an English suffix based on Greek ἔργον. Mancy is an English suffix based on the Greek word μαντεία. They are exactly the same amount of pretentious as each other. If anything, Urgy would be more pretentious, seeing as mancy is an accepted pedestrian term.

It isn't exactly it, but it isn't like Necromancy was (which you left alone...). It is a close-enough Real Life term. You understand what it means, there is no reason to change the suffix pointlessly. Besides, "mancy" more or less means "divination", which has connotations of " inspired by a god". A bit more appropriate for a god game then "Technique for working with".

[TheBiggerFish]

As for all this high-falutin' mancy/urgy debate, let it be known that I don't give a carp.  Words will be made up, have been made up, and are continuing to be made up because they sound good.  I'm in favor of just sticking whatever sounds better on the end/sticking with what people USE, which is probably *-mancy.  Except for thaumaturgy.
And when you're making up prefixes randomly anyway, what's the bloody point.

[IcyTea31]

Urgy is an English suffix based on Greek ἔργον. Mancy is an English suffix based on the Greek word μαντεία. They are exactly the same amount of pretentious as each other.

I agree they are both pretentious, but the difference is that '-mancy' is just plain wrong in most of the cases. Not to mention mixing in Latin and English words with a Greek suffix. Only for Necromancy there is an at all possible correct definition, and even that is a very specific one.

You understand what it means, there is no reason to change the suffix pointlessly. Besides, "mancy" more or less means "divination", which has connotations of " inspired by a god". A bit more appropriate for a god game then "Technique for working with".

I also understand why 'colonel' is pronounced 'kernel', but that doesn't make it any less illogical. I understand why there is sometimes a 'u' in 'armor', sometimes not, but that doesn't make it any less complicated. I also understand why my own first name is completely unpronounceable to an English, speaker, but that doesn't make it any less annoying. Is making the unnecessarily illogical, complicated and annoting English language slightly more logical, slightly simpler, and slightly less annoying not reason enough?

Also, 'divination' does not have those connotations. At the closest, it would be 'to seek inspiration from gods', and when one is throwing fireballs, manipulating life force, or lawyering sublimely, that's not quite what one is doing, is it? _{^{Unless it's FOR SCIENCE, but that's beside the point.}}

And when you're making up prefixes randomly anyway, what's the bloody point.

Well excuse me, I am a person extremely uneducated in Ancient Greek and its etymology, and my most inappropriate transliterations of Greek words to English prefixes are almost certainly incorrect. Where did you get your qualifications for judging my work, professor?


Still, as I said, I will be using the English names I came up with for the magic types. Hopefully, the list will be culled some before the game is out. As it is, it's simply too complex with many needlessly specialized magic types.

[Stirk]

Urgy is an English suffix based on Greek ἔργον. Mancy is an English suffix based on the Greek word μαντεία. They are exactly the same amount of pretentious as each other.

I agree they are both pretentious, but the difference is that '-mancy' is just plain wrong in most of the cases. Not to mention mixing in Latin and English words with a Greek suffix. Only for Necromancy there is an at all possible correct definition, and even that is a very specific one.

You understand what it means, there is no reason to change the suffix pointlessly. Besides, "mancy" more or less means "divination", which has connotations of " inspired by a god". A bit more appropriate for a god game then "Technique for working with".

I also understand why 'colonel' is pronounced 'kernel', but that doesn't make it any less illogical. I understand why there is sometimes a 'u' in 'armor', sometimes not, but that doesn't make it any less complicated. I also understand why my own first name is completely unpronounceable to an English, speaker, but that doesn't make it any less annoying. Is making the unnecessarily illogical, complicated and annoting English language slightly more logical, slightly simpler, and slightly less annoying not reason enough?

Also, 'divination' does not have those connotations. At the closest, it would be 'to seek inspiration from gods', and when one is throwing fireballs, manipulating life force, or lawyering sublimely, that's not quite what one is doing, is it? _{^{Unless it's FOR SCIENCE, but that's beside the point.}}

And when you're making up prefixes randomly anyway, what's the bloody point.

Well excuse me, I am a person extremely uneducated in Ancient Greek and its etymology, and my most inappropriate transliterations of Greek words to English prefixes are almost certainly incorrect. Where did you get your qualifications for judging my work, professor?


Still, as I said, I will be using the English names I came up with for the magic types. Hopefully, the list will be culled some before the game is out. As it is, it's simply too complex with many needlessly specialized magic types.

It isn't a Greek suffix, it is an English suffix with Greek origins. Its in English dictionaries, English words...Mancy is English.

I always thought there was a type of beauty in the English language, which the complexity ties into. It really isn't hard to get, _{if you spend your entire life using it}, and as long as ideas are expressed effectively it doesn't really matter if you use words correctly. Changing such a language is a sin!

Both words have the same general entomology, which is why "divination" looks like "divinity". Thus it has similar connotations.

The mage isn't the one being inspired my Gods...the magic is. Basically, all 'magic' is is Godly powers on an ubersmall scale. A mockery of Godly powers, you could certainly say those using magic are seeking to imitate Gods, thus needing their inspiration.