#Dawn of Worlds

[elancholia]

The Worlds Dawn a Second Time

Well, it's happening again. Being strives against nonbeing, gaming against nongaming. Dawn of Worlds is designed to aid the winning side of this perennial struggle.

Do you want to play god? Do you want to write rather more fervently than you intended? Do you want to roll some dice, but not too many? Do you want to do all that from the comfort of your Tumblr account? Dawn of Worlds can help with that, too.

REPLY to this post to be added to Dawn of Worlds (Tumblr community, pending approval).

ENTER this Discord server with a loose concept for a DEITY or ANALOGOUS ENTITY to become a PLAYER in Dawn of Worlds (casual play-by-post TTRPG about creating a fantasy world, one turn per week for about 15 turns total).

COLLABORATE with your fellow deities (hopefully about 5–8, four playing already) to have a damn good time in Dawn of Worlds.

USE your deific powers in accordance with the simple and newly improved Dawn of Worlds ruleset (see bottom of post) to shape lands, bring forth Entities, carve civilizations, visit catastrophes, and smear the whole thing with a heaping dollop of MYTH and HISTORY to make Dawn of Worlds a rousing success. Again.

This game will take place in a new and unrelated paracosm with limitations on post length, so don't worry that you'll have to write a novel or anything like that.

We'll establish god concepts, etc., over the coming week and play proper will begin next Sunday (July 14, 2024). Turns will end/begin on Sunday, but don’t worry excessively about posting an action a day or so late.

The annals of the previous game are stored here for the perusal of interested deities, innocent bystanders, and those who are not yet deities but may become so by an acausal act of creative will, being torn from the thigh of another god, or spontaneous separation from watery chaos.

Guidelines as originally outlined by Oligo and rules as per the Dawn of Worlds game:

Errata:

Discord:

Map:

[dawn-of-worlds]

O Those Who Seek Communion

CHI A ASH Turn 2: 6 + (3 + 5) = 14 - 4 - 8 = 2

Create Order (8) The mother's womb is barren. The mother longs to reunite with us. Thus we join with her by will and severed horn.

CHI A ASH founds the Cults of Ecstatic Unity. Meeting on sunny plateaus, her followers conduct orgiastic rituals. They are commanded to ritually dull their horns, eschew personal space, and argue only for sport.

Purify City (4) CHI A ASH gives to her followers a gift: a gnarled black root, which, when planted, grows into a stubby tree. The bark of this tree, when smoked, is a powerful entactogen. Her Cults are commanded to plant the seed of this tree, the Tree of Wisdom, far and wide.

[tanadrin]

trying to decide whether to save up my god-magic to instantiate a sentient species early or whether to go nuts on the geography. decisions, decisions...

[merrikstryfe]

Hey so I'm doing a world-building game and I encourage folks to go check out the community posts that are starting to get put up around it. It's my first ever public RPG and I'm very excited!

[kathylbrownwrites]

Good Soup by Jordan Dube—A RPG Review

New Game Review at the Storytelling Blog: Good Soup by Jordan Dube. A wholesome story game and a great evening of laughs. #storytellinggames

Good Soup is “a wholesome story game,” published earlier this year by Goosepoop Games. To quote the website, “Good Soup is a GM-less, rules-lite roleplaying story game where players are woodland creatures gathering ingredients to make soup to heal weary travelers.” Both print copies and e-book versions are available. Disclosure: I received a free review copy of Good Soup. Your story will…

[fonmythenmetz]

The Shadow

[squidflavoredsoup]

lil art dump cuz i haven’t posted here in a lil bit

[k4pp4-8]

They would get along well I think :>>

[kingsorbet]

I saw some people on TT fighting over this two ships. shut up, John Dory is a bisexual icon and has two hands :]

[gummygoatgalaxy]

Designs and Ships for my Funk King Branch au!

Most of these redesigns i will use outside the au as well, as these are mostly my headcanons for them lol

[liliavalley]

finally posting art for my trolls au that's been in the works since january!!! good lord

At 10 years old, Branch can no longer take the isolation he feels in Pop Village, and so he leaves. After a tip from some forest residents and a few full days of walking, he finally makes it to the Lonesome Flats, and finds himself under the care of Delta Dawn, who quickly realizes she'd heard about him before.

[technovillain]

apologies & realizations (?)

part two

[dawn-of-worlds]

The First Mortals

Kirrik has 0 + (2D6 => 12) + 1 = 13 points to spend. She spends 3 points in a collaboration with Zoreinak, Hierosteon, Tokhtamysh and The King Irradiant, each contributing 3 points towards a Create Race action, producing quarrelsome beetle-centaur folk called the Tolinakka.

When Kirrik began to make her first children, she intended to do so alone. Yet despite her best efforts, the first forms she created were weak an imperfect, and their life faded quickly. She knew that the bargain she made with The King Irradiant – a bargain she had made willingly – demanded that they return to him, but she hoped that they would not last so soon.

Kirrik was filled with despair – she wanted to bring forth children, but not to condemn them to a short life. Yet as she laboured, other beings came to her, drawn by the echoes in the aether of her creative work. Each aided her, in their own way.

From Hieroston her children gained sturdy exoskeletons and hardy endoskeletons within, a gift for waiting and contemplating without moving, and a taste for fruits, nectar and honey which aligned well with Kirrik’s propensity towards flora and the tending of gardens. From Tokhtamysh they gained mighty horns, for both display and defense, for Kirrik understood combat in the defense of what was hers. From The King Irradiant they gained knowledge of what lay after death – not full comprehension, but a taste of it, that made them both more respectful of death and less apprehensive of it - and long lives with which to come to terms with it.

From Zoreinak the children gained much – their contemplativeness turned to philosophising, their lack of apprehension over death turned into courage and outspokenness, their insectoid forms were refined into upright beetles in imitation of Zoreinak’s form, their antlers became dark and flinty – but nothing so great as their desire. For when Kirrik thought they were finished and well-made, she looked upon them and saw them dull and inert; capable of action, labour, creation and advancement but unmoved to any of them.

Zoreinak looked over them all, and gave them a last gift – the gift of Want, imparting into them a desire to achieve things as the Gods did. Kirrik was overjoyed, and soon her children took to arboriculture, formed villages and towns, and began to ponder the mysteries of existence.

Yet Zoreinak’s gift had also made them fractious and disunified – they quarrelled constantly, no matter how much Kirrik tried to maintain peace between them, and even began to war amongst themselves when she departed. Yet despite this, Kirrik loved them, and named them the the Tolinakka.

[wyvernity]

been thinking about the sinnohtrio lately......plus misc other stuff

also, casual ko-fi drop!! get something in this sketchy style starting at $10 woop woop

[justl-12]

This is really self indulgent but I rewatched black clover again and kept thinking of a bc au