Replacement Needed for: The War of the Five Houses

[geoschmo]

If someone wants to join and doesn't want to or have time to write that'll be ok. The story part of it might be too much to ask, I just got a little carried away when thinking up all the possible angles for such a game. Heck, I may find myself without time for writing once school starts back up.

I would ask that you still abide by the "RPish" rule to avoid glassing human opponents worlds even if you aren't writing.

[Randallw]

maybe a tad OT but I have been reading the dread empires fall series (backstory: After the alien masters die off the races of the Praxis have a civil war. Naxids, who reckon they should lead having been the first subjects, vs the other races) Anyway its a good story of how different elements fight it out to take over leadership. At one point 5 billion people get glassed when the ringworld collapses. Anyway it talks about they are fighting to take over but they still try to avoid glassing each other, although the Naxids do stuff like execute 50 hostages for each of their troops they lose. As one loyalist says, they are fighting to win but their not barbarians.

[geoschmo]

Ok, I've thought about this some more and decided to officially remove the paragraph about making it a story game. The more I thought about it I'm probably not going to have time to commit to writing as much as I did with the HOTG anyway. I do intend to write a little and I will encourage the other players to write if they want, but it's no longer a requirement.

As far as other setup issues, let's say 2000 point empires. I'm also thinking no events and no ruins. As fun as ruins would be from a story perspective, it's just too destabalising to get that extra colony tech.

My feeling is to disallow surrender, but if someone has a compelling reason to allow it for this game I might be swayed.

Any other thoughts?