Andrew was Lens for our last turn, and looks into the knowledge and wisdom of the world. Age of Gods, Round 4 Lens: Andrew Focus: The World Thinks and Speaks Eras Defined Legacy The world speaks to those that awaken it.
Levi’s turn now, looking into something fundamental to this world’s reality. Age of Gods, Round 3 Lens: Levi Focus: The effects of amorphia. Eras Defined Legacy The Harnessing of Amphoria.
David decided to investigate something a little deeper. Age of the Gods, Round 2 Lens: David Focus: The interaction between the gods and mortal races. Eras Defined Legacy Alienation of gods and mortals.
Being my setting, I was Lens for the first round. Age of Gods, Round 1 Lens: Keith Focus: The First Civilization Eras Defined Legacy The bad blood between the Ssthar and the Toresh line.
Yesterday we ran a Microscope session to build the baseline for the Seekers of Lore campaign setting. In Round 0 we laid the groundwork for what was to follow. Age of Gods, Round 0 We kept everything to the Age of Gods, when the gods were still building and directly …
We’ll be applying the Microscope and Lexicon techniques a little differently, and a few people have expressed concern about not having a copy of Microscope in the first place, so I thought I’d do a brief summary of how I see the techniques being applied. Microscope Structure and Element Types Our application of Microscope is …
I think this is getting pretty close to having a framework for adapting Lexicon– and Microscope-based techniques to collaboratively develop setting information for my Seekers of Lore campaign. According to the Campaign Cosmology, the gods created the Prime Plane as a safe haven against the ravages of amorphia, raw chaos. This grand …
Andrew of Fictive Fantasies threw a lot of ideas at me regarding this project. I’m going to try to organize, distill, and respond to them here. Scheduling Set an explicit starting point and ending point (calendar-wise). Then you could do “Volume II” if it went really well, or focus on one …
I’m taking a run at the Lexicon and Microscope idea I’ve been working on. Here is the first cut of the guidelines. These guidelines are derived from Lexicon (created by Neel Krishnaswami) and Microscope (created by Ben Robbins). While both Lexicon and Microscope are presented as games, we are treating this more as a ‘shared activity’ — in part …
I realized a while ago that for my polyhedral pantheons methods to really shine, I need more subdomains, and I want them to be more interesting. I think I know how to manage that, but it leads me to some other things I need to consider. The polyhedral pantheon methods …