MP: Chronicles_MA - General Game Discussion

[Zapmeister]

This concept sounds quite similar to a game I started back in the days of Dom2, call "Yarnspinners". In that game, writing your AAR was the main point and that was reflected in the rules of the game as follows:

1. Each turn, each player submitted a couple of paragraphs of narrative to an independant, non-playing gamemaster that scored the submision as follows:

- 0 points if nothing was submitted
- 1 point for overly terse (one-liner) or excessively verbose submissions
- 2 points for anything else

After a nominated number of turns (I think we chose 60) the game ends and nations are awarded further points for being the front-runner (10 points) or runner-up (5 points) in each of the score graphs except army size.

Nation with the most points is the winner. The idea was popular enough to spawn a second game (Yarnspinners2) although I wasn't involved with that, and I think they tweaked the rules a little.

Anyways, good luck with Chronicles!

Zap

[sansanjuan]

....nudge

KC .. I'm attacking T'ien Ch'i. Not sporting of me to battle someone in a stale-spin. I have no doubt you can put a hurt'n on Caelum with those ponies of yours.... and you likely have 1E6 gold for more...

-SSJ

[djo]

Thoughts from the "Yarnspinners 2" game in Dominions 2 (search the forums, it's all still there):

-- writing even one contribution per week is hard to keep up, so don't have the turns too often
-- crowded map! the best stories come when nations interact, so make that happen early
-- consider de-incentivizing the elimination of players (no VP in capitals?); it sucks to get knocked out if you're having fun writing

Yarnspinners 2 was a whole lot of fun. Hope you can get this one going. In the past, heavy RP games have had bad luck.

[Zeldor]

Can I be LA Ermor? Or Ashdod at least?

[Lokean]

Yes you can, and you can have a special starting location that links directly to eight other regions...

All of which are deep sea regions, all of which have zero income.

[Tifone]

I personally don't think everybody will write every turn. Spoiling your tactics when you're still working on them, giving away precious informations talking about your important battle the very turn you won/lost it, or just those turns when nothing happens... I think it will be more likely that people interested in writing during the game will do it once every 3-4-5 turns not to spoil their tactics immediately and just to find their muse Of course, as you said, many players will make for stories to come more often

If you're planning turns long enough and it's ok for you, I hope you'll keep a lil' spot for me But before deciding the map I suggest to wait for a decided number of players (as djo suggested, a crowded map seems a great idea, at least for the variety).

Oh, if i can make my last suggestion (I hope you aren't finding me intrusive, I'm just chatting and advicing friendly ) I'd tell you to at least -consider-, on the basis of the dimension of the map also, going for easy magic research. Tales of wild spells and enchantments, enormous summons and legendary artifact are much more interesting than the simple steamrolling national army going around - and with turns eventually being long, getting to the interesting part early would boost the attention IMHO.

All from me. Best regards!

[Zeldor]

If I get LA Ermor I can promise to report growth of Empire of Darkness every turn! [muahahahaha!]

[hunt11]

Then can I get Hinnom. You can never have too many stories about evil demonic giants eating everything under the sun.

[Lokean]

Right, if you're not in the list in the first post and are interested and willing to keep up a narrative, please say so. I'll give it a few days then start organising things.

[Zeldor]

To be honest I think that Niefel, Hinnom and Ashdod are the nations that would totally own Ermor in 1:1 fight.