This is the one you want
Created | Updated Jan 17, 2005
Okay so after Croms mass the faithful of you that have been following this short series will probably be wondering where i've been and what i've been upto.
Well like any good builder a job always takes twice as long as the estimate, and now having arrose like a slumbering student (wait, i am a slumbering student) from the depths of depression and/or madness I got cracking.
Now when I saw I got cracking, I mean Crom would be proud of his disciple. A half century of guide enteries now comprises the near complete Hyborian kingdoms. The mechanics are now in place to ensure both variety within the game as well as a continual growth that will see it through the next two stages of development. It also has the ability to become a lot bigger.
Theres two key ideas buzzing around my head that I havent writen down yet. The first is that the Border Kingdom will act as prize. Yes the ultimate prize that anyone could get is a land of there own. An entire country to command and create however they see fit. An entire populace to enslave, dominate, or whatever else. Power undreamed of....
The second is that all the GM's for the game will actually be the Gods of the land. Crom is the name of the account itself, Ill be adding a seperate name to my account, and so on. Those who worship the gods might receive blessings from them, and those that curse there name could receive horrific retributions...
It all started out as an attempt to build a micro universe. To take what HPB had pioneered in his push when I created the old republic and then take it to the edge of sanity. The very fact you can pick a country and never leave it is wonderous. Not only that but I doubt that anyone will ever travel to the every location because the game is just too big.
You know when youve created something truely impressive when you take a step back and cackle manically at your creation (a la Dr. Frankenstein). When most people do that though they accept that there task is done. I however, have the expansion programs.
Like any great game it must grow lest it become stagnent. Theres an entire planet out there just waiting to be explored. Whilst I'm not too keen on doing the Black Kingdoms, fate has transpired that they be next (when I say fate, what I actually mean is geographical location and the knowledge that if i do the east first ill never do the south). CROM HAS DECLARED THAT IT BE SO!
*ahem*
Looking at my task more sanely I still have work to do. My nemesis that has haunted me since I started - the dreaded Koth - is now under way and is proving such a fun task that like a good builder i've gone for an early lunch. However there are only three locations left. The first is Vanaheim which is fairly average and much the same as Asgard - Laziness will probibly mean that the two become annexed and known as Nordheim. The second is Aquilonia which is kind of tricky because I dont know whether to have Conan rulling it or not. And lastly we have my beloved nation. The land that I truely love, a land of power and savagery - the decendant of old Atlantis. Yes, its my Cimmeria, home of Crom.
*Crom enters with big axe and angry eyes. Conan points at AD and Crom throttles AD angrily*
STOP TALKING RUBBISH AND GET ON MAKING THE BLOODY GAME OR I WILL DESTROY YOU PATHETIC MAN-THING AND NOT LET YOU ONTO MY MOUNTAIN
*AD cower* Sorry oh great lord! forgive your foolish servant for being weak! I will be strong and make your land good.. Look I have made you a mountain of crom, where the faithful can gather *points to the OOC message board he added a few days ago* and look here, links to the words of the master *points to the writings of Robert E Howard*
MEH GET TO WORK *Crom throws poor AD into a pile of research. He quickly carries on his labours*
Well like any good builder a job always takes twice as long as the estimate, and now having arrose like a slumbering student (wait, i am a slumbering student) from the depths of depression and/or madness I got cracking.
Now when I saw I got cracking, I mean Crom would be proud of his disciple. A half century of guide enteries now comprises the near complete Hyborian kingdoms. The mechanics are now in place to ensure both variety within the game as well as a continual growth that will see it through the next two stages of development. It also has the ability to become a lot bigger.
Theres two key ideas buzzing around my head that I havent writen down yet. The first is that the Border Kingdom will act as prize. Yes the ultimate prize that anyone could get is a land of there own. An entire country to command and create however they see fit. An entire populace to enslave, dominate, or whatever else. Power undreamed of....
The second is that all the GM's for the game will actually be the Gods of the land. Crom is the name of the account itself, Ill be adding a seperate name to my account, and so on. Those who worship the gods might receive blessings from them, and those that curse there name could receive horrific retributions...
It all started out as an attempt to build a micro universe. To take what HPB had pioneered in his push when I created the old republic and then take it to the edge of sanity. The very fact you can pick a country and never leave it is wonderous. Not only that but I doubt that anyone will ever travel to the every location because the game is just too big.
You know when youve created something truely impressive when you take a step back and cackle manically at your creation (a la Dr. Frankenstein). When most people do that though they accept that there task is done. I however, have the expansion programs.
Like any great game it must grow lest it become stagnent. Theres an entire planet out there just waiting to be explored. Whilst I'm not too keen on doing the Black Kingdoms, fate has transpired that they be next (when I say fate, what I actually mean is geographical location and the knowledge that if i do the east first ill never do the south). CROM HAS DECLARED THAT IT BE SO!
*ahem*
Looking at my task more sanely I still have work to do. My nemesis that has haunted me since I started - the dreaded Koth - is now under way and is proving such a fun task that like a good builder i've gone for an early lunch. However there are only three locations left. The first is Vanaheim which is fairly average and much the same as Asgard - Laziness will probibly mean that the two become annexed and known as Nordheim. The second is Aquilonia which is kind of tricky because I dont know whether to have Conan rulling it or not. And lastly we have my beloved nation. The land that I truely love, a land of power and savagery - the decendant of old Atlantis. Yes, its my Cimmeria, home of Crom.
*Crom enters with big axe and angry eyes. Conan points at AD and Crom throttles AD angrily*
STOP TALKING RUBBISH AND GET ON MAKING THE BLOODY GAME OR I WILL DESTROY YOU PATHETIC MAN-THING AND NOT LET YOU ONTO MY MOUNTAIN
*AD cower* Sorry oh great lord! forgive your foolish servant for being weak! I will be strong and make your land good.. Look I have made you a mountain of crom, where the faithful can gather *points to the OOC message board he added a few days ago* and look here, links to the words of the master *points to the writings of Robert E Howard*
MEH GET TO WORK *Crom throws poor AD into a pile of research. He quickly carries on his labours*
