Team games: Teams vs Alliances

[Gandalf Parker]

A "flexible" variation I remember was the idea of Pantheon. Nicely RPG but the end-game was to have a 4-god pantheon such as fire, air, water, earth. Or heaven, earth, hell, fairie. Or god of war, love, fertility and death.

I think it was set teams from beginning to end but if you did it in the normal open-ended style then switching sides can take the form of stealing away their god of war to be our god of death.

[Septimius Severus]

Hmm, sounds great calahan, but it also sounds just like what might happen in a regular FFA game with open and unrestricted diplomacy allowed. So no real distinction there. I sort of like it the other way around starting as a team but having the option to go solo or disband, and perhaps reform or recombine into a new team. When we think of the word team as it applies to team games we generally are talking about alliances that are "fixed" at the start versus alliances that form during the game as the normal course of diplomacy.

[Sombre]

Originally Posted by Septimius Severus

Hmm, sounds great calahan, but it also sounds just like what might happen in a regular FFA game with open and unrestricted diplomacy allowed.

You don't say.