« Home | Atlantis 2037 First Thoughts » | Now the Vehicle Battle RPG is called Blacktop! » | Car Wars Reboot Design Goals » | Rebooting Car Wars » | How to Play Misery Bubblegum » | make a game of this picture » | Sexy Deadly » | Sexy Deadly » | Boardgamegeek'd » | Idea Mine: Tutankhamen's Meteorite »

How to Host a Dungeon: Clash of Civilizations


Last month, Ben, Jonathan, and I got together for a playtest of How to Host a Dungeon: Clash of Civilizations. This is gigantic multi-player How to Host a Dungeon variant. I'm just getting around to digesting the learnings now.

For a while I thought I'd just junk this whole idea. The things I like about How to Host a Dungeon solo play feel dull in group play. Counting my Dwarven population to see what they build feels very flat.

But then I read Dawn of Worlds and I was inspired to take another look at my assumptions. Jonathan's also working on a multi-player collaborative world building game that's inspiring me.

So I'm revising Clash with some new fundamentals:

  • Instead of rigid build lists, loose guidelines

  • Breeders breed, delvers build, Drow enslave, and so on: these are the fundamentals, so keep them simple and automatic

  • Replace the more arcane procedures with open-ended instructions to the players

Labels: , , ,

Posted by Unknown on Saturday, November 07, 2009 at 11:19 AM |

Thanks for brining "Dawn of Worlds" to my attention. I've been trying to figure out "How to Host a Wilderness" version of "How to Host a Dungeon". Maybe Dawn will be what I want or atleast push me in right direction.

And don't give up on Clash of Civilizations, it sounds cool.

Posted by Blogger Norman J. Harman Jr. | 8:27 PM  

This sounds awesome. I would love to see this completed.

Posted by Anonymous Mark | 7:04 AM  

Hello,

I'm wondering what your time frame for releasing Clash of Civilizations?

I've tried Dawn of Worlds once. I really like the idea but it seemed way too free form for me. So maybe your game might suit me better.

Thanks.

Posted by Anonymous Mike | 11:12 PM  

Any movement on this? I love both HtHaD and DoW, so a game combining elements of both would be right up my alley...

Posted by Blogger Murk | 8:08 AM  

Man...'Clash' sounds really *really* fun. I hope it hasn't fallen off your radar completely.

Posted by Anonymous Anonymous | 11:09 AM  

Post a Comment