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You know, I've also been thinking, and... for all its flaws, the one game in which we really tried to do that (we didn't play around with PP, but we did play around with costs) was the one that I keep remembering most fondly.  Its the example one in the first post... Lightvoid.  We turned everything upside-down for that game... first age, the mold rules were reversed... 1 PP mold MADE A PLANET.  (it might have been 2 PP, I'm not remembering at the moment) while it took a concerted amount of effort to make something small like a mountain.  You also couldn't make populaces.  Age 2, Mold PP costs normalized, populaces could be made... but their costs were switched... so the elder races... the dragons, the titans, the beholders... they all cost small PP, while the humans, elves, etc cost more.  Age 3... I think we forbade the creation of planets (barring admin approval) and all the costs were 'normal'


The main complaint we all had in the end was that... it got kinda desolate.  By the time the game ended, due to player attrition, we had like... one player per planet, and it was... difficult... to start any sort of interactions.  Its why, ever since, we've had a push to try and make it HARD to create competely distinct landmasses.  Part of me is wondering if we were missing the point

I have many thoughts about this iteration, and what worked and what... well... didn't.  I think I'll open up a post on the group about it: community.wizards.com/lordsofcreation

But I think the main issue is just overall critical mass of players.  The Forums are in a strange place at the moment, where 4e is kinda... old... but 5e isn't yet on the horizon.  Assuming things follow the same pattern for 5e as they did for 4e, the forums will get a lot busier, and therefore more potential players will show up, and we can get the proverbial ball rolling and keep it going with new blood.


Which, speaking of...  Hi Jamespies!  I'm going to stop navelgazing now.

We'd love to have you join.  Fred summarized it fairly well, and your feel of it is exactly right.  Each week you get a certain amount of 'power' to spend that week on a variety of actions, such as creating a moutain range, directing the dwarves to delve deeper into said mountain range.  Creating something to emerge when they delve TOO deep, and then harming the dwarves as they flee in terror from that which was Deep.  

In reality, though... Player X creates a mountain Range.  Player Y moves his dwarves into said mountain range.  Player Z says 'there's a Balrog in that mountain range, and its now attacking you'  Each player does that for their own reason (World Beautification, Race Stewardship and vendetta against Player Y and all its creations, for instance), and in the end, you get something cool.

For instance.  In Lightvoid (linked in the first post), the Goddess of Light creates a world from the corpse of a dead starbeast.  Its true nature is forgotten, and the beast is eventually petrified and turns into a standard world named Yrie.  Eventually, several races and mighty nations appear on the surface, and they begin to grow and fight and flourish.  One, a nation of titans, grows very powerful, and becomes one of the dominant powers in the entire universe.  A series of 'evil' Gods approach the patron of this nation (me) and propose to put it to the test (very Job like).  I agree, and they begin sending armies of the undead against the city, which devolves into a protracted siege.  Eventually, an alliance of 'good' Gods intervene and drive the undead from the deserts where the titans lived.  In response, the evil Gods create a spell that raised ALL of the dead on the planet.  Including the planet itself, which, over the course of a week or so of posts, shakes itself to pieces, killing everyone except for the Titans, who had fitted a rocket onto their capitol, and flew it away to a new world.  There was a tarrasque and a religious cult and a few other things as well.

Anyways.  Its late tonight, but I'll PM or post here tomorrow and try and explain the rules!



 

thats usually enough time for the old game to work its way into the annals, and for us to recover/recup/forget/ or whatever to get our creative juices flowing again.

If you like what you have seen, please join us! If you have friends, have them join us also! This is one of those games where, the more people there are, the more fun it really is. really.

*shrugs*  Not how we usually do it, but... I'm fine with that as well.  My job is basically just writing writing writing these days, and in all honesty, I wasn't much looking forward to doing more of it in my free time!

Guess that means I'll start working on some summary posts for the game, and then start loading everything into the wiki for posterity.  Not sure when it'll happen though.  In the meantime... everybody head to the group http://community.wizards.com/lordsofcreation and we'll start talking about the next one.