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.

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