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Well, Postmortem is probably a strong word, as I would like to try and create some sort of semi-resolution to the whole thing instead of letting it die.

Anyways, I think this worked pretty well, all things considering.  It wasn't the thunderous return to huge crowds of Gods that I had secretly hoped for, but... well, I think simply put the reason for that is that there just arent' that many people on the forums nowadays, and you can have crowds of Gods if you don't even have crowds of people on the forums.  As the next DnD starts to pick up steam, we should see more people returning.  Alternately, we could try and go to another forum that doesn't have this problem.  The Giant in the Playground forums might be a reasonable option... they have their own breed of LoC game over there... different from ours, but... they do seem to have plenty of players.


Okay, that major issue aside, what worked, what didn't.

Worked:

Early PP system:  I greatly enjoyed the PP system at the begining... mostly because it gave me just enough constraints that it made me think about who my character was and what it wanted.  As such, my God is one of my favorite ones, I think because of the constraints placed on it at the start.

Story recap as part of the thread:  While it was sometimes hard to keep up, I thought it was a nice record to have there in the thread.

PP entry form:  Made my job a LOT easier.

Combat:  I liked the suggested effects of winning and losing we came up with

Feel:  I liked the feel of this game a lot.  It seemed to have a nice flow to it, until people started leaving.

New Players:  Great group of new people this time around!  Just don't leave (or leave for long)!



Didn't Work:

Late PP system:  As much as I loved the early PP system, eventually it got out of hand... too much PP, too much specialization.  If we keep the system in the future, I would propose that instead of just piling on PP at the later stages, instead we have increasing levels allow you to be more and more generalized... a certain degree of specialization at the start, followed by, not more PP but a conversion of specialized PP to general PP

Civilizations and resources and etc.  I think it got too confusing and too... war strategy game.  While I understand the idea that nourishes and harms don't do things in the long run in real life... in the game, it just kinda... stagnated... things.

Time went too fast:  When mortals die in a week or two's time, it kinda puts a damper on storytelling  Again, I understand the reasoning, but I feel it sacrifices Lore for... More Events.

Old players slacking off and not posting enough (myself included):  Boo us! :D

Lack of Elder God:  This is the one I'm saddest about, honestly.  Camu's role was going to be to inject some spontenaity and randomness into the game, and keep it interesting.  As such, we modified the rules somewhat to accomadate his existence... which then never... materialized.  Would have been interesting to see what might have become of that.



For all my whining, I really liked this LoC.  Good people, good stories, good times.  Its just, as usual... what do we want to do differently next time?
 

Oh, I didn't mean that I feel that we *NEED* an Elder God... its just that we put together the rules assuming it, and it didn't happen.

Have you seen our brief attempt at doing a smaller-scale LoC?

community.wizards.com/lordsofcreation/go...

and

docs.google.com/document/d/1bw6RZEDZoupf...

I've been toying with the idea of doing something like that again.  It was definitely more small-scale, and even if we don't do a City-based LoC, I'd be down for talking about limiting God influences to individuals.

Well, I do have an idea that you guys could test out.

Those who were elder gods or had the highest score in previous LoCs should be the gods of an entire people. Those who are newer are gods of a city, or gods of a distric. The newest people (such as I) could even be personal gods, motivating and manipulating their followers in the rise to power.

Well, give those players a chance to alter their gods to fit the world they are in, and it will smooth over nicely.

Still doing a Goddess of Lust.
THAT will be a religion that gets popular quickly

I've had a copy of Campaign Cartographer 3 that I've been using to make maps, but I've always hoped to find some way to make them in a more... collaborative... way, mostly because making those maps often takes the longest time when getting ready for resets, so if I'm running behind, that is what gets dropped first.  If we could find a means for everyone to add their own stuff to the map, things would be much simpler for everyone, I think.


I'm not sure what I'll do next, God-wise.  I'm thinking something a little more... personal.  Maybe I'll champion a race or set of races or something.