World Creation: Lands of the Seven: First Age

Log of Play

Turn 1:
Snorky	Created 2 land masses: Thon and Hearth
Dave	Passed
Stephen	Created Avatar: The Ancient who created the Eldar race - Neutral Alignment
Andrea	Created land mass: Barda
Turn2:
Snorky	Created Order: The Despisers of the Elder's
Dave	Created land mass: Shasta
Stephen	Created the Hidden City on Heart land mass and advanced them in illusion (+1). Change land mass Thon to Thun and Hearth to Heart and Barda to Bihrd
Andrea	Created land mass archipelago the Broken Islands and changed middle of Shasta land mass to Desert of Hope.
Turn 3:
Snorky	Corrupting the Hidden City - Alignment -1 and Command Despisers Order to create a Monastary of Hate in the Mountains next to the Desert of Hope on Shasta
Dave	Created avatar: Arandell created the race called the Aron on the Bihrd land mass
Stephen	Command Avatar to command city to create a curse around the city that affects those that enter the city that have ill intent are struck blind and deaf with the vision of the Ancient. Adds onto land mass Bihrd and changes name to Vard. Shasta becomes Zhassa. Thun becomes Dohn. Heart becomes Kaerth. Desert of Hope changes to Hope Desert.
Andrea	Creates Avatar: Sheena and creates race on the Vard land mass in the mountains called the Sheenar with alignment neutral.
Turn 4:
Snorky	Corrupts the Eldar (-1) by instituting slavery, Corrupts The Hidden City (-2) by introducing blood sports. Despisers creat second monestary, Monestary of Pain on Vard.
Dave	Creates Aron city, Morn. Creates volcanic continent of Vendee.
Stephen	The ancient creates the religious order Dawnchildren (+2) in the Aron to guide them. Vendee becomes tropical jungle. Turned mountains on Vardo to Glacier, the Frozen Savannah. Vard becomes Vardo, Zhassa becomes Zhassana, Dohn becomes Dohna, Hope Dessert becomes Xob Dessert.
Andrea	Passed (At this point Andrea, drops out due to exhaustion)
Turn 5:
Snorky	Corrupts the Eldar (-2) as bloodsports become pervasive.
Dave	Passed
Stephen	The Ancient creates Outreach (+1), a city of good Eldar as a haven for freed slaves. The city brings the protective shell with them, only it is flawed: it kills instead of curses.
Andrea	Passed

World Creation: Lands of the Seven

One Thursday in early December 2008 our primary host and his wife needed to cancel, as did one of the other players, so we went to the backup location and did a simple world building exercise using the Dawn of Worlds rules with the following modifications with 4 people (though, this host's wife left the game somewhere in the first age:

• We used a battle Map instead of a sheet of graph paper.
• We started with a blank map instead of a set of pre-drawn continents.
  
• The Good/Evil became a spectrum, without limit, instead of a simple good, neutral, evil scale.
• When advancing a City or Civilization we chose to allow it to be open ended.
• Each Age was exactly 5 rounds long.
• We, inadvertently use a modification on the spend bonus rule, such that any one at or below 5 points at the end of the turn, received a bonus point instead of the escalating bonus.
• Linguistic changing of names was done for free.

In a little over 3 hours we managed to advance the world through all three ages and had a lot of fun doing so.

In retrospect, I should have brought my camera (7 mega pixels) as the photos of the battle map were a bit low res. I should have also brought my digital recorder as the record keeper did not entirely capture the actions of the turn.

More to follow,
Snork

Introduction to Tales of the Table

Greetings,
I have created this blog as a place for my self to Journal the Pen and Paper Role-playing games that I participate in and/or Run. The idea is to exercise the less technical side of my brain and write in a more free form manner than my other blog: Npc-a-Day .

Currenly I participate in the following games:
3.5 D&D Greyhawk D&D classics as a player: Bob Arby is the Character's Name
Gurps 3 rendition of Mass Effect as a player: I play Kaidan Alenko.
D&D 4 Edition as the DM: This game has not started yet, though we are currenly conducting a world building exercise using the Dawn of Worlds rules with slight modifications.

I also will use this blog as an occasional test form for posts for my other Gaming Blog: Npc-a-Day which I may or may not delete prior to moving them to Npc-a-Day.

I currently have no plans to advertise this blog beyond my group, though you never know.

Given that I game only on Thursdays with a group made up of largely older (mostly 30's+) working professionals, the updates will be scattered and occasional due to skipping and canceled Sessions.

Hopefully what I write is worth your time.

Thanks,
Snorkey