📟 Unreview: Rise of the Gods
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solo_knightPlaythrough/Review: Rise of the Gods
What is it?
A single page concept/quest skeleton
Is it playable out of the box?
It’s not a game. It’s an idea, but you need to bring the system and the characters yourself.
Amendments:
Almost everything other than the quest starter.
Tools
This is meant to be tag-based, so a tag-based engine would work best. I think.
Price:
Name your own price
Verdict
📟 Not a game
The idea isn’t horrible. If you have your toolbox at the ready and you want to play among the gods, with a clear-cut mission, and this story appeals to you, you may love it, and you may end up in interesting places. I’m a writer with a million ideas churning through my brain, I can create new ideas at the drop of a hat, and while I sometimes appreciate a ready-made quest starter to give to my player in DnD, the things I look for there are simpler and things that fit into my world.
This doesn’t. There may be a day when I feel I want an epic story seed and this is it, but that day may never come, and in the meantime, this is taking up space on my hard drive and in my brain that I can use better.
What is it?
A single page concept/quest skeleton
Is it playable out of the box?
It’s not a game. It’s an idea, but you need to bring the system and the characters yourself.
Amendments:
Almost everything other than the quest starter.
Tools
This is meant to be tag-based, so a tag-based engine would work best. I think.
Price:
Name your own price
Verdict
📟 Not a game
The idea isn’t horrible. If you have your toolbox at the ready and you want to play among the gods, with a clear-cut mission, and this story appeals to you, you may love it, and you may end up in interesting places. I’m a writer with a million ideas churning through my brain, I can create new ideas at the drop of a hat, and while I sometimes appreciate a ready-made quest starter to give to my player in DnD, the things I look for there are simpler and things that fit into my world.
This doesn’t. There may be a day when I feel I want an epic story seed and this is it, but that day may never come, and in the meantime, this is taking up space on my hard drive and in my brain that I can use better.
