Announcing New STGOD: SDN Worlds 5

[Simon_Jester]

With mod permission, this thread is in G&C so more people can see it:

We're starting SDN Worlds 5 in the STGOD forum, over here. Anyone who's got questions/interest/mockery/whatever about the game, feel free to go over there and chime in in the commentary thread.

People who haven't played or watched past SDNW games are invited to participate this time if they wish; I look forward to much wackiness from your participation.

What SDNW5 Is

SDNW5 is a game in which players take control of interstellar nations of their own design, interacting across a large map. The emphasis is on collaborative storytelling and (if desired) role-playing.

The rules are relatively basic, mathematically simple, and designed to allow maximum flexibility: almost anything you can imagine as an interstellar society can work with the SDNW5 rules. The main purpose of the rules is to ensure that all nations compete on roughly equivalent footings- there is no ‘right’ or ‘wrong’ way for an SDNW5 government to operate, or for an SDNW5 military to be equipped. As far as the rules are concerned, things like mechanisms of government and military equipment are abstracted away and do not matter.

While warfare is accepted as part of the game, it is far from the only way nations and players can interact. We want to encourage you to have ideas for how your nation will behave in peacetime- who are its friends? What will its people do, what kind of reputations will they make for themselves on the galactic stage?

For those of you who followed, observed, or were briefly interested in SDNW4, the current intent is to more or less replicate SDNW4, hopefully with some minor reforms to make play more fun and longer-lasting. If you chose not to join SDNW4, this would be a good time for you to look at the next game and consider coming in.

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Link to the thread where we started talking SDNW5 stuff

Link to the rules discussion thread

Link to the general pre-game discussion thread