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[Spiderking50]

I'm thing about trying my hand at a fantasy civilization game. The game will be mostly free form with no stats. As a result, creativity will reign supreme over this world.

Here's how I see it working:

Players sign up as their civilization and must guide it through the ages. Each turn players will be given two or so special events, some of which will be good, some bad. Players can choose to address these or ignore them for their own pursuits. In addition there will be magic, science, and religious tech trees that players can research. Your location on the tech tree will effect your special events.

Each turn a player may take three actions. This can be taking over a hex, researching tech, fighting wars (battles will be decided by dice), or doing anything their heart desires. The actions are free form, so what you do is limited only by whats possible in this world. Eventually players will run into eachother and then the politics of the world will begin, which will add another element to the game.

I have a map set up. At the start of the game players will be placed according to their desired biome. Players may not request specific starting areas.

Warning! Large Image:

Spoiler: Map (click to show/hide)

There is no ultimate goal to the game, the players decide what their own goals are.



Sign-Up Sheet:

Civilization Name:
Civilization Race:
Race Description: (If necessary)
Deity Name:
Deity Description:
Deity Spheres:
Creation Myth: (Optional)
Starting Biome:
Starting Tree: (science, magic, or religion)
Specific Interest: (What sort of tech you're interested in)

[Spiderking50]

Reserved for stuff

[Detoxicated]

Civilization Name: Grand Land
Civilization Race:Turtle Men
Race Description: Turtles that are humanoid, highly social and highly apt at memorizing anything, they grow to an old age but are slow
Deity Name: Turrlex
Deity Description: A turtleman with wealthymen's garments and a tiger
Deity Spheres: Nature and Life
Creation Myth: From the dung of Turrlex the turtle men arose
Starting Biome: Jungle
Starting Tree: Magic
Specific Interest: Growth inspiring magic

[Salsacookies]

Civilization Name: The Ashen Tyrants
Civilization Race: Ghost Giants
Race Description: Large, immortal Humanoids with monochromatic skin tones. Majority of them are cruel and evil.
Deity Name: The Ashen King.
Deity Description: A cruel lord, still living and still the ruler of all the Ash Lands, and ruiner of everything he touches.
Deity Spheres: Technology, Industry, Death
Starting Biome: Volcanic mountains within an arctic wasteland
Creation Myth: The Ashen Tyrants do not believe in myth. They've evolved since the world was young to the great creatures which stand as they do now. The others have been created the same, and they will learn that their superstitions are wrong when they die in the cold and blackened earth that it will inevitably become.
Starting Tree: Science
Specific Interest: Majority Medieval technology with some Industrial weaponry mixed in, and tons of smog and pollution. Tanks if possible

[Icefire2314]

I really love your games for some reason Spider

Civilization Name: Druidia
Civilization Race: Treants
Race Description: A race of sapient tree creatures. Damage incurred regenerates but over a long period of time. Slow but highly resilient, but also very intelligent and knowledge sharing is very fluid. Reproduction via pollination, a seed is an embryo, a sapling is a infant, and a full grown tree is an adult. The eldest trees have existed for a very long time and have great wisdom and knowledge, and are similarly massive. They can root or unroot at will to move around.
Deity Name: Morrighan
Deity Description: A goddess with a black dress and black wings, but skin white as snow.
Deity Spheres: War, Magic, Life(Plants specifically)
Creation Myth: When the world was new, Morrighan looked upon the trees of the forest, who were within her sphere and domain. She imbued the trees of the forest with intelligence and magic, and a soul and commissioned them to go forth and advance in her name.
Starting Biome: Dark forest (Any heavily forested area)
Starting Tree: Magic
Specific Interest: Advanced regeneration tech (enhanced natural tree regeneration for speed and efficiency)

[Haspen]

Civilization Name: Ażarra
Civilization Race: Visznu (sg: Viszne, adj: Viszni)
Race Description: Four-armed giants (average height of adult male/female is 2.8/3.0 meters) of dark blue skin and no hair whatsoever, except eyebrows and pubic region. They are highly militant and ardent in worship of their creator, or so they believe, the being they call Aż (ash), and which has its own symbol in the alphabet of 33 Ażarran letters. They see all races as beneath them as they were not created by Aż, and therefore other races can either serve as food or slaves of the Visznu. Visznu were once nomadic dwellers of the desert oasises and savannah, before they mastered the art of construction and domesticated unicorns, beautiful and savage beasts of golden skin and sharp horn on their foreheads. Since then, they've spread around, slowly expanding greener pastures. They also have complex judical system, which produces sentences depending on the type of the crime, whether the criminal was sentenced before, his/her gender, age, merits and even lineage and body deformities. Unfortunately, most sentences are either body mutilation or death (in 105 imaginative ways, no less).
Deity Name: Aż
Deity Description: Albino Viszni with six arms and lips that ooze liquid fire any time Aż speaks, with clouds of fire coming as he exhales. Unlike any other Viszni, however, Aż is depicted with conical, braided, black beard, reaching his navel - the center of the universe, according to the Viszni mythology.
Deity Spheres: Fire, Sun and Law.
Creation Myth: Once there were many deities, created by It, and Aż was born the last to the least powerful of the deities, Ah and Żeh. But Aż grew up amongst others, then warred with them, and in the end devoured them, including his pathetic parents. Afterwards he created the world as a place to cultivate his children - Viszni. They shall serve as his loyal soldiers in case any new deity would dare to appear and challenge Aż's position as the supreme ruler of the universe.
Starting Biome: Desert or savanna or equivalent on the map.
Starting Tree: Religion
Specific Interest: Brainwashing/Mind control for the glory of Aż!

[Harry Baldman]

Civilization Name: Ur-Mazeek, the First-Spilled Nation

Civilization Race: Orcs

Race Description: tall, well-built creatures fond of violence, industry, upheavel and procreation, orcs live chaotically in their ancestral land of Ur-Mazeek, the First-Spilled Nation, an underground trial-and-error anarchy ruled by almost-restrained magic threatening the very stability of the universe.

Deity Name: Radiant Odo, the Exploded God, the Fourfold Lord, the Keeper of Inopportune Times, Messenger of Mistaken Creation

Deity Description: Radiant Odo has three major aspects worthy of consideration - firstly, his gray, decayed, pockmarked, black-haired head, which orbits the planet and lights the cerebral path of night. Then there is his burning, ever-glowing liver, which lights the daytime path of indulgence. Thirdly there is his exploded body, which shows up as specks and streaks of light in the night sky, marking the time for dispassionate, unquestioning work. There is also a fourth aspect, but we'll get to that in a bit.

Deity Spheres: Light, Heat, Disaster

Creation Myth: the race of orcs as well as the cosmos itself was fashioned from a grand and amazing cataclysm, a misfortune of tremendous proportion caused when Radiant Odo, in a great rush to create the universe as we know it, managed to somehow trip over a different instance of himself (time was a bit nonlinear then) and impact the seed of reality, imparting it with the blood and ichor of his skull minutely before he himself was blown to bits, his head flying ten million circles around the world, his liver spinning up into a massive gout of celestial flame and his body shattering into uncountable shining bits, all of which are flying about even now with no evident rhyme or reason. The minute deposit of Odo's head wound ichor, however, remained behind - this spillage soaked into the earth, where it grew for many seasons, heated by the flame of Odo's liver, and produced the race of orcs, prodigies of disaster, children of the earth, the celestial chaos of creation made manifest and slammed into the fabric of reality with all of the implications in question! The universe is a disaster, and at the very center of it lies the orcish race, learning to harness the ichor of Odo that forms their very core as well as learning from the external aspects of the originator of being, adopting Four Main Things that define orcish society - plotting, indulging, moving without thought and the path of ultimate oneness with the universe.

Starting Biome: a great and ancient crater impregnated with orc burrows, occasionally called Ur-Mazeek, but just as often regarded as Odo's Impact. The crater, possibly due to the influence of the orcs, is now overgrown with gravely unnatural flora and fauna, and a whole lot of things work not quite as an experienced scholar would expect them to even above the burrow complex, let alone anywhere inside it.

Starting Tree: magic!

Specific Interest: the Universal Ripple-Moves, when studied and properly understood, impart an enviable mastery of destabilization of a great many known and unknown systems.

[Spiderking50]

These all look good to me. I think I'll take another few submissions before we get started.

Just a heads up: This is the birth of civilization, very shortly after your gods made you and ascended into heaven. As such, no one has any towns or resources or what have you, this is like stone age era sorta stuff here at the start.

I also gave everyone a color on the map (not the one in the OP, but the running game map), if when we start the game you want a different color, let me know and I will change it.

[Khaiel]

It is late here, but I'll try to have a submission made later.

[Criptfeind]

Looks interesting enough, as I think about my app though, I have a question, could you elaborate on how the dice roll of conflict resolution works? Like, is it just a straight dice roll, or are there other factors to it?

[Spiderking50]

Its a die roll for each hex. So if you have a 1 hex and are attacking 1 hex, that's a single dice each. However if you have 3 adjacent hexes and want to attack with all three (which counts as three actions by the way) then you get 3 dice to the defenders 1. Unoccupied hexes are taken without a roll.

[Ama]

Civilization Name: The Calpolli
Civilization Race: The Cueyatl
Race Description: A race of colorful frogmen with poisoness spit.
Deity Name: Hueitlamahuizolticacueyatl
Deity Description: A large red skinned frog, his skin is covered in multicolored feathers. He is feared and revered by the Cueyatl as the creator and destroyer.
Deity Spheres: Blood, Sun, and Poison
Creation Myth: In the beginning there was nothing but darkness, cold.... and Hueitlamahuizolticacueyatl _{and the other gods}. He knew a sacrifice would have to be done to bring warmth to this world. So he took a sharp rock and cut his arm, allowing his blood to pour forth and solidify creating the sun. However he still found himself needing more blood to fuel the sun forever. So he  chopped of one of his slimy fingers created the Cueyatl from it. They were made  to spill blood in his name so that he might allways power the sun.
Starting Biome: Jungle
Starting Tree: Religion
Specific Interest: Complex blood rituals to gain powerful fire magics

[Salsacookies]

I like the variety of civvies we have here. It's pretty cool

[Powder Miner]

I'm making a civ right now! I'll edit it in.

[RulerOfNothing]

I think I might put up an application. Are all normal biomes allowed?