12-14 player Urgaia

[quantum_mechani]

Originally posted by Cainehill:

Someone, either Zen or Gandalf, had mentioned doing games where each person designed a pretender for a nation, but then the nations were randomly assigned. Thus, no-one builds the uber-setup they think would be capable of winning, but rather one that someone else would be hard pressed to win with - everyone gets a sub-optimal pretender.

Kind of interesting, but a lot of work, what with passwords and all.

But maybe if you did a lottery to see who gets first choice of nations, who gets 2nd, etc? Everyone has a fair chance of getting something decent - the 1st person gets a primo nation, sure. But the next to Last and Last get to make a choice with the knowledge of just what nations are going to be in the game, which might even it out a little bit.

This seems a neat idea, and one I've been wanting to try for a while. However, a possibly better way of doing it would be to have a third party create a thematic pretender for each nation.