Thursday, June 21, 2018

The Meta Game - Round 2

This is something I am creating. I call it the Meta Game. It's goal is to create a shared world for GMs where the backstory is created by a handful of people who play The Gods, and create the World. It starts with the Primordial Age in which the Gods create the Terrains (we are in Round 2 of the Primordial Age now). Then goes on to the Dawn Age where they create Races, Cultures, Dynasties and Seeds of Destiny which are Quests upon which the Elkron (Gods) wager for Kismet (the energy they use to create the World). After the Elkron have used up as much Kismet as they are willing to, the Age of Heroes is played by dropping the Meta Game and each GM goes into their own region of the World to play it as a regular Campaign with other players... the goals of which are to complete the Seeds of Destiny Quests so whichever Elkron created them can gain back a large amount of Kismet, and therefore have a chance of winning the End of Ages ... which is The God War.

Rules will be forthcoming.

Here's some images of the Map as it stands thus far:













The completed Map


Primordial Age - Round 2


Stay Tuned.

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Monday, June 04, 2018

The Elthos Meta Game - Proto-Test

A quick report on my most recent (and current) game experiment ...

We played the first Elthos Meta-Game last night. It's a competitive/collaborative World Building game in which GMs play the Gods. It's intended to be a wrapper game around a regular RPG via which the God's actions create the world's terrain, races, cultures and dynasties... forming the back story of the regular campaign.

Here's the starting board, and then the board after the first round of the Primordial Age.

It was totally fun. :)




Elthos Meta Game - Map Images

Below are a few detail shots of the Meta-Game Map thus far. The hexes are 100 miles across, so those mountains are actually mountain ranges. The Celestial Island is about 3600 miles in diameter. The hexes shown are those that our Elkron-Players have already used Kismet to create terrain on. So far so good!

On to the images...







Elthos Meta Game - Map of the Celestial Island

This grid map shows the locations of the 12 Planetary Elkron Thrones.


So far so good.  I'm very pleased with the way things are going.  I have written up 11 pages of rules for the Meta Game (aka God Game), and am working on refining them.  In addition I have a couple of spreadsheets that help do the Kismet Point number crunching for the game. 

If all goes well I will package this up and send it along to the community.

As always, don't be surprised if it takes me a while.  You know what an incredible slow poke I am!  haha.