Realm of Paradoxia

[Deaghaidh]

I was thinking the other day about an effort I organized (ages ago) to make a non-magical GoT type fictional kingdom for a forum game. It turned out to be dead on arrival, because making the fantasy kingdom was the fun part. So I thought maybe it would be worth doing as a collaborative exercise.

People would take turns on adding to what has gone before. Maybe a region, maybe a family, maybe an event or an aspect of the culture.

That's literally as far as I've gotten with this idea.

 

[Caspoi]

Perhpas make some form of rule system clear if you want people to latch on to this idea.

 

[Deaghaidh]

Perhpas make some form of rule system clear if you want people to latch on to this idea.

I'm not far along with this idea, so aside from "no negation" I don't have much.

One system might be to come up with an outline of the geography and break it up into "counties" or "duchies." Each 'turn' would be a player taking one of them and writing about it up to the "present."

Alternately we could go through the map once to fill in the geography, then a pass to fill in prehistory through bronze age, another for the early Iron Age (Rome equivalent), then for the dark ages/early mediveal, etc.

 

[Deleted user]

Alternately we could go through the map once to fill in the geography, then a pass to fill in prehistory through bronze age, another for the early Iron Age (Rome equivalent), then for the dark ages/early mediveal, etc.

If you want to go this route, check out Microscope for some rules inspirations if you're not already aware of it. It's a game about collaboratively creating the history of a fictional world.

 

[Deaghaidh]

I was not aware of this game. Sounds like something I'd be super into, if anyone has it and wants to do a forum game of it.