This is a Dingo-original game, but feel free to take this idea elsewhere and introduce it to whomever you wish
Anyway, the idea of the game is this: it's a reverse RPG, in the sense that the players are the gods of the world, and the GM (gamemaster, in this case me) is everyone else (i.e. the animals and people). As the GM, I'll spell out a basic story, and then anyone who wants to play will create a god, and will at that point be able to impart their actions on the world.
The Rules
1) Dingo is the GM. I'll do my best to lead the story, but ultimately, as in all good RPGs, the players should control much of the action.
2) Gods are based more on Greek/Roman/Norse mythology. That means that, while they are immortal, they are not omnipotent, omnipresent, or omniscient. They should have weaknesses and character flaws.
3) Each god is limited to one portfolio. For those of you not familiar with the idea of divine portfolio, it is simply the "realm of power" of that particular god. Using some unoriginal examples: Hades' portfolio was death, the underworld, and in some instances, trickery. Neptune's portfolio was the sea, earthquakes, and aquatic life. You get the picture. The only problem with those examples is that each god exampled had more than one portfolio. Pick JUST one.
4) Gods must be original. I don't want to see Hades, Zeus, Jesus. Because that's boring.
5) The only god/portfolio that is off-limits is the Maker. Sorry.
6) Most importantly: Be creative, and have fun!
How To Build A God
Name:
Brief Description:
Personality:
Portfolio: (A sample list is included below)
Weakness(es):
Examples of Divine Portfolios:
-Nature
-Life
-Death
-Civilisation
-Animals
-The Sea
-The Sky
-The Sun
-The Moon
-The Stars
So, hopefully, you get the idea. If you have any questions, please feel free to PM me. I tend to respond relatively quickly. Or at least I try
And please don't forget to introduce your god to the other gods once he/she/it has been created.The Story:
There is a brilliant flash of light, blinding in its heat and brilliance. An impossibly-huge, near-invisible force shapes the light and heat into a ball, and a sun is born. As it fills into its shapes, small specks of its light break of and float out into the dark void surrounding the sun, and the stars are born. By the light of the stars and the sun, two small balls of chaos can be seen floating near the sun, one larger than the other. The force moves over the land of the larger one, creating seas, skies, and lands. Lands ranging from deserts to mountains, from rivers that flow up into the sky, to volcanoes made from the stuff of stars themselves. Soon enough, life erupts on this now-planet: brilliant emerald vegetations creeps across the globe as plants of myriad other colours spread their rainbow on top of the green. Animals of all shapes and sizes, on the land, in the sea and the sky, begin to walk, crawl, fly, and swim around the world. But perhaps the most spectacularly of all, one animal rises on two legs, with an intelligence in its eyes far ahead of any others, and it smiles in its paradise.
The force moves the other globe above the planet so that, even when the sun deigns to sleep, this astounding creature may have limited sight in the dark. The creature smiles at the moon, and the stars, and the animals surrounding it, and the force seems happy.
Time passes--days, weeks, years, millennia, eons--and the force, called Maker by its creation, has become bored with its toy, and has moved on. Still amazed by the creature, however, the Maker decides to leave other in its place, to watch and rule, to shape, to build and destroy. The Maker reaches within itself, and using some of the light from the sun, some of the chaos from the moon, some of the dark of the void, and the essence of life from the planet, and creates the gods to watch over the planet.
Taking one last look at its creation, the Maker smiles, and moves on to greater and wilder things. This, however, is not the Maker's story. It is the story of the New Gods, and the Maker's greatest creation: Human.
The beginning.
