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[FallacyofUrist]

Some of you may recall the glorious world building game known as Titans of Creation and its fork World Building Game.

I find the idea of such games very interesting. As such, I have now created my own variant.

Credit to Iiteum and Roboson for inspiration/baseline.
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Rules:
1. I will take 5 players, no more, no less.
2. Each player will start out with 700 points to spend on whatever they may wish according to the given prices.
3. No more points can be gained, and points cannot be stolen. Players may transfer points to each other, if they wish, but I doubt that'll be used.
4. Players may spread costs among themselves if they all wish to do so.
5. The game will update daily. I wait for nobody.
6. The game will be complete when all points have been spent, and each player has created a god, an ancient one, and a sapient species.
7. The prices are as follows:

Spoiler: Le Prices (click to show/hide)

250 points: Creation of a moon. The creating player may populate the moon with general categories of life for free.
150 points: Creation of an Epic Entity. Examples: Godzilla.
100 points: Creation of mystic laws. These can be something as simple as "cats are immune to precognition" or as complex as an entire magic system. Please make these "hard". That is, you should state very specifically what the law is. An example of a "soft", or undesirable, law would be "bone powder can be used for transmutation". A more "hard" law would be "A handful of bone powder, if sprinkled onto a metal, will transmute it into a larger volume of a less valuable metal according to the following chart:...".
100 points: Creation of a continent. The creating player may populate the continent with general categories of life for free.
100 points: Creation of a Greater Entity. Examples: powerful immortal wizard, bronze colossus, dragon.
50 points: Creation of a special location(may be magical, if you like) or special item(may be magical, again, if you like).
50 points: Creation of a Lesser Entity. Examples: minotaur, vampire, werebeast, zombie ninja pirate robot.
25 points: Creation of a race of special(may be magical) creatures, special plants, or special ore.
points: Special recurring(or not) event. Will depend on how potent the event is and what its effects are.

More prices available upon request if you can't find what you're looking for here.
Do note that finding what you're looking for may be as simple as combining two prices.
Also note that linked items, Entities, or locations may receive a discount depending on how linked they are. Examples would be a pair of magical gateways, a set of mystic rings, or a pair of magical twins.

Final note: In addition to the things that cost points, each player may create one sentient species, one god, and one Ancient One for free. No further gods and Ancient Ones may be created by a player after that, but one additional sentient species may be created at a price of 150 points, though I would prefer it if you would not all use that, as I would prefer not to see an overabundance of sentient species.
What a sentient species is should be obvious.
A god is a very powerful immaterial entity that is restricted from directly influencing the world(but not other gods), aside from their followers, and gains power from worship.
An Ancient One is similar to a god, but is very opposed to them. Instead of gaining power from worship, they gain power from dark rituals. For the moment, all Ancient Ones are nearly asleep, but should they be awakened... well, they do have corporal forms which may manifest given enough ritual...
Basically, sealed eldritch entities.

An Entity may be made sentient for free when created, provided they cannot reproduce.

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So with that in mind... I hereby remind you I'm taking 5 players.
Should you wish to play, just post In.
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The current state of the world:

The world is a oceanic plant, with all of its surface covered in water. The planet receives light from a brightly glowing star, at such a distance away that the planet is in the habitable zone. The ocean is filled with a wide variety of aquatic life. The planet does in fact have an oxygen based atmosphere.

[Roboson]

I'd be in if that would be ok. Either way, I'll ptw where yours goes.

[Demonic Spoon]

I'd like to join
In

(Could I create a moon that causes a permanent eclipse?)

[Ardent Debater]

IN!

[Demonic Spoon]

-250 Points: (Moon) Create a moon completely made of crystal clear, comfortably warm water, that permanently eclipses the sun, causing the light that shines through it form into colourful rainbows and other light spectacles. Within the moon there lives vibrantly coloured corals, many flowers floating on the surface, fish, squid, eels, massive algal blooms and large flocks of waterbirds. All of this life creates a riot of colour, and all the different lifeforms are quite transparent, simply adding flavour to the light passing through the moon, rather than blocking it. Name it the Water-Moon
-50 Points: (location) Create a massive water pillar that connects the moon with the ocean below, allowing the adventurous to swim between the moon and the planet over a long period of time, beholding grand vistas during their travel.

-175 points: (Intelligent Race) Create the Celestial Sculptors, this extremely powerful race are massive serpentine legless dragon with transparent wings (something like this maybe), who enjoy shaping entire mountain ranges, coastlines, weather systems, eco-systems, etc into aesthetically pleasing forms. They are placed on the main world, but could potentially travel to the moon.

-75 Points: (Race) Create the Illusions on the Water-Moon, a magical race extremely skilled in making elaborate, beautiful illusions. They can make illusions that effect any of, or all, the senses the target(s) may possess and instinctively know what senses the creature possess. Enjoys playing extremely artistic tricks on people, or even trapping them in wondrous illusionary worlds for long periods of time. Often times crazed artists will emerge from such illusions and create their greatest masterpieces. Sometimes will simply make things appear prettier than they really are on a whim. As a result of their constant use of illusions, no one is sure what Illusions actually really look like. The illusions are more or less very smart animals, with an idiot-savant specialization in creating extremely artistic and creative illusions.

-50 Points: (Artifact) Create the Sky-Painter, this magical item allows the user to create beautiful auroras and stars, add some flair to sunrises and sunsets, and possibly more exotic things in the skies above. Give it to the greatest Tontal artist.

-25 Points: (Magic Plants) Create the Art-Corals, these massive reefs produce many different types of liquids, some can be used to paint or dye threads, even underwater, and never fade or flake, others hardened into pottery and sculptures or even used as glue or building materials. They can produce paint of almost any colour imaginable, and as they grow older and larger, they produce even more types, and more exotic liquids, like a sap that constantly emits a specific tone, or a thick tar that can be mixed with the paint liquid and used to create paintings that emit intricate aromas, paints that periodically become invisible, or concentrated ink that can be released into the ocean to dye large swathes in brilliant colours, making the ocean itself the canvas. Preferably make them everywhere, but if I can't then on the Water-Moon

Free Race: Create the Tontals, a race of hundred armed, hundred eyed, hundred eared, hundred nosed, hundred mouthed beings with incredibly good senses, and artistic ability, capable of seeing a an extremely wide spectrum of light and with great acuity and detail and across great distance, and sharp hearing over a wide range of sound, even capable of echolocation, who love nothing more than to spend their time making glorious art. They are omnivorous and amphibious and can shift the colour of their skin. They are placed in/on the Water-Moon.

Free Ancient Being: Argol, the All-Dream, that traps all beings in his dreams when he is awakened. Often sleep-cultists will poison entire cities with narcotics and sleeping poisons, causing them to fall into stupor, to honour Argol.

Free God: Nel, God of Beauty, likes beautiful things, whether people or art or otherwise. Will often bless beautiful people or beautiful works of art.

I decided to over-pay for the Illusions and Art-Coral in hopes of increasing their effects? Or is that a no-go?
Hope I'm not jumping the gun here

[FallacyofUrist]

Posting actions before the game starts is fine, just note they won't be resolved until everybody has submitted their actions.

All 3 of you are in.
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The moon is sufficiently mundane, even with causing an "eclipse", that you won't need to pay for a magical area as well. It's fine.

Creation of a race of epic entities. The price is for a single epic entity, but if you combine the price for a single epic entity with the price for a race of special creatures, you can take that. Though they'll be a bit rare, to balance out their potency.

Which balances out neatly because amplifying purchases by paying more points for them(unless the purchases need a price fusion to work) is a no go. The amplification isn't really necessary though.

You should probably state the locations of most of your creations. For example, how am I to know where the Sky-Painter is located(at the point of its creation, anyway)?

[Demonic Spoon]

Posting actions before the game starts is fine, just note they won't be resolved until everybody has submitted their actions.

All 3 of you are in.
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The moon is sufficiently mundane, even with causing an "eclipse", that you won't need to pay for a magical area as well. It's fine.

Thanks for the answers, editing my actions.

Pricecheck on an event that gives all people greatly increased artistic inspiration for the first year of each new century. Also, how much for decade instead of year, or decade instead of century? (1/100, 10/100, 1/10)

[Draignean]

I'll take an IN to do some fun world creation.

[endlessblaze]

IN

[FallacyofUrist]

And that's two more. Go ahead and post actions for the first turn now.
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Pricecheck on an event that gives all people greatly increased artistic inspiration for the first year of each new century. How much for decade instead of year, or decade instead of century? (1/100, 10/100, 1/10)

All 3 are 50. You can consider that the base cost for a special event. The rapidity of occurrence isn't too much of a factor, unless the event occurs very quickly, at which point the price moves towards the price towards Mystic Laws.

-75 Points: (Race) Create the Illusions on the Water-Moon, a magical race extremely skilled in making elaborate, beautiful illusions. They can make illusions that effect any of, or all, the senses the target(s) may possess and instinctively know what senses the creature possess. Enjoys playing extremely artistic tricks on people, or even trapping them in wondrous illusionary worlds for long periods of time. Often times crazed artists will emerge from such illusions and create their greatest masterpieces. Sometimes will simply make things appear prettier than they really are on a whim. As a result of their constant use of illusions, no one is sure what Illusions actually really look like.

Looks like a combination of Lesser Entity and race of creatures. Though you could create these without using the additional Lesser Entity cost, the increased price will have something of an effect. It's a matter of... shall we say, mundanity. Without Lesser Entity, "Hm. Got hit by an Illusion." With it... "And there we were on our great adventure. Our next trial was one of the dreaded Illusions."

Final note: Each player only gets one intelligent race, because I don't think a world overrun with intelligent races is a good thing. I refer you to Dwarf Fortress, which has humans, elves, goblins, kobolds, animal people, dwarves, and clowns. I don't consider that to be overrun by intelligent life, however, based on the count of intelligent races in the original Titans of Creation. 14.  Are the Illusions intended to be an intelligent race?

[Demonic Spoon]

Final note: Each player only gets one intelligent race, because I don't think a world overrun with intelligent races is a good thing. I refer you to Dwarf Fortress, which has humans, elves, goblins, kobolds, animal people, dwarves, and clowns. I don't consider that to be overrun by intelligent life, however, based on the count of intelligent races in the original Titans of Creation. 14.  Are the Illusions intended to be an intelligent race?

That's a bummer. The Sculptors, Illusions and Tontals were all intended to be intelligent races.

I was thinking Illusions would more or less fill the Fey Tricksters fantasy role, and Sculptors dragons, with Tontals being my "race of normal people, with their hat being art".

[endlessblaze]

That's reallllyyy the kind of rule you put In the first post

[Draignean]

That's reallllyyy the kind of rule you put In the first post

Well, technically, the game hadn't even started at this point.

What's the cost for an alternate plane?

[FallacyofUrist]

That's reallllyyy the kind of rule you put In the first post

Yeah, perhaps. In any case, I'm putting it there now. Or rather, a variation on it I find to be a bit more flexible. Each player can create one sentient species for free and one additional one for a relatively high price. I reallllyyy would prefer not to see an overabundance of sentient species.

What's the cost for an alternate plane?

Combine the cost for magical location with the cost for a continent. 150 points.

[Atian the Elephantman God]

PTW