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[Supernerd]

Welcome to the world of Create your own dang update Gridhood!

I found that a lot of players really like Gridhood, but the game invariably comes to an unceremonious halt when the GM ceases to update it for whatever arbitrary reason. There have been some 'lazy GM' approaches before where the GM would offload some of the work onto the players, but for some inexplicable reason this did nothing to enchance the game's longevity. This time, instead of half-assing the game, lets try not even doing any percentage of the ass at all and see how that works!

For those who are not in the know, Gridhood is a game where players either take on the role of a God that creates a world, or a civilization that tries to collect food if they are smart, and starves and dies if they are not.

Here is a good example of a previous Gridhood game.
And here is another good example.
And here is another bad example.

In order to retain the purity of the no GM status of the game, I will not be making any other posts in this thread whatsoever, and will not answer any questions about the game. In the event that there is something that you do not understand, either ask another player or use your imagination and figure it out. Its probably a good idea to talk to other players about how game rules should work or something. The most important thing is to have fun, and don't forget to starve!

Here is a blank Gridhood Grid that you can use if you want.



If you would prefer to play a more traditional Gridhood game that does have an active GM as of today, Click here to go to the current Gridhood game that I am GMing.

[Megam0nkey]

Borr, The god of Stone and Mountains has awoken!

He creates a Mountain range on E4 and E5, spending 2 out of his 5 starting FP! It would have costed double, but since Mountains falls under his domain, it is thusly reduced.

[Oakrose905]

Yish'Tra, The god/dess of Grain and Grasslands has awoken!

They see the work of Borr, and cast a large, verdant field of Grasslands to the West beside the Mountain range on C4, C5, D4, and D5. Hoping the efforts of both stone and grain can soon offer a cradle for civilization, though there is much work to do ahead of them.

Yish'Tra hopes for the cooperation of Borr to grow a potential Civilization together.

They also wonder out loud to Borr, if they were to make the Mountain's weather change to Rain, could the runoff cause a River to appear on their Grasslands to the West, providing clean water and potentially fish for a Civilization? It was hard for both of them to create Water landscapes after all, at least currently without a God for it, so they'd have to get creative.

4 of 5 FP used, 1FP remaining

Created Tiles
Grasslands: C4, C5, D4, D5

[Megam0nkey]

Borr, agrees to Yish'Tra's plot, and adds a special property to his Mountain on E4, Causing frequent Rains, which spread off of it down to the Plains below!  If it were in his Domain it would have costed 2 FP, but since the special propety is outside of his domain, costs 3 instead! Borr is out of FP for the time being, but will gain more by civilizations paying tribute through prayer, or will naturally gain +2 after 3 posts by other users (1/3 Posts)


Created tiles
Mountains: E4 (Special Property: Constant Raining), E5

[Oakrose905]

Yish'Tra would use their remaining 1 FP to modify the Grasslands of D4 into a River with the assistance from Borr's Raining Mountain to reduce the cost of such an endeavor.

Yish'Tra hopes with this action, a civilization will have everything it needs to begin in their lands.

1 of 1 FP used, 0 FP remaining
Yish'Tra is out of FP for now, but more could be gained through prayers of civilizations, otherwise, they will naturally regain 2 FP after 3 posts by other users (1/3 Posts)

Created Tiles
Grasslands: C4, C5, D5
Rivers: D4 (East to West)

OOC: If this isn't right holler at me! I'm new to the forums as a whole so I'm trying my best to learn.

[TricMagic]

Finburuu Ota, Deity of Waters arises from the core. They create a Coral Ocean, Warm Ocean, Cold Ocean, and Swift Current Oceans at F6, F5, F7, and E6/G6.

0 FP Remaining.

[Iris]

Finburuu Ota, Deity of Waters arises from the core. They create a Coral Ocean, Warm Ocean, Cold Ocean, and Swift Current Oceans at F6, F5, F7, and E6/G6.

...are those special in any way, or are they just reskinned basic ocean tiles?

It's pretty hard to tell what people are actually doing when there's no concrete rules. It appears that you start with 5 FP, and that basic tiles are 2 FP, and special tiles are 3 FP, and that doing something within your domain gives a 1 FP discount?

I suggest we should probably hammer out a formal ruleset before actually trying to play.

[Oakrose905]

Finburuu Ota, Deity of Waters arises from the core. They create a Coral Ocean, Warm Ocean, Cold Ocean, and Swift Current Oceans at F6, F5, F7, and E6/G6.

...are those special in any way, or are they just reskinned basic ocean tiles?

It's pretty hard to tell what people are actually doing when there's no concrete rules. It appears that you start with 5 FP, and that basic tiles are 2 FP, and special tiles are 3 FP, and that doing something within your domain gives a 1 FP discount?

I suggest we should probably hammer out a formal ruleset before actually trying to play.

I'm not sure lol, this is my first god game on this forum (I'm new, less than a week of being here) so i'm just copying what I see and apply it to my own domain. While also trying to experiment with what we can do (hence why I asked Borr to make it rain in one of his Mountains so that I could make a River in one of my Grasslands.

[Megam0nkey]

Yeah probably, lemme come up with something for gods

What I suggest is that maybe Terrain costs 2fp, Adding a specialty to a tile like a Nonmagical unique quirk or propety (like constant weather, or special features of a tile like a river) is 3 fp (with adding power and strength to whatever effect or applied is increased by multiples of 3), Supernatural quirks are the same, but for 6fp (with increasing effects on multiples of 6)

Maybe you can create artifacts or something for civilizations for 10fp, or damage/heal a civilizations workers for 3fp.

And also create creatures that inhabbit a tile. 3 for a bunch of non supernatural ones, 6 for a bunch of somewhat supernatural ones, and 9 for 1 Legendary beast

But thats just a idea

[TricMagic]

Basic terrain is usually 1 FP no matter the game. Given there is a ton of pace on the map. Gods get 1 FP every update.
Fish, animals, and such usually come part and parcel though.

[Megam0nkey]

fair enough

[Iris]

I'm not sure lol, this is my first god game on this forum (I'm new, less than a week of being here) so i'm just copying what I see and apply it to my own domain. While also trying to experiment with what we can do (hence why I asked Borr to make it rain in one of his Mountains so that I could make a River in one of my Grasslands.

Yeah, we chatted on the General AR discord. I see you've made your tenth post and lost Loonie status; welcome!

Since the game has no GM whatsoever, I'm pretty sure "what we can do" is just "what everyone else will let you get away with".


Here's my attempt at ironing out some rules. Obviously, none of it is binding, and I still haven't figured half of it out (like how do aspects work lol), but I thought it may be interesting as a starting point.

Spoiler: General (click to show/hide)

Since the game doesn't have a GM, there are no update posts between turns. Thus, a "turn" is considered to be three players acting after you have acted. This means that turns are "rolling" separately for each player. You can only post once "per turn", but there are no limits to how many actions you can take during that turn (provided you meet the requirements for those actions, like having enough FP). Your actions take effect for other players immediately, but before you can take another action, you must wait for three people to act so you can enter your next turn.

If you have not already acted, but have nothing to do during this turn, you can decide to "pass" your turn. This counts as taking your turn (and therefore also counts towards other people's turns progressing) but does not have any other effect. This is to avoid the game deadlocking when nobody can act.

If you do something that changes the map, be considerate and post an updated version in the thread. It doesn't have to be fancy.

Spoiler: Playing as a Deity (click to show/hide)

All deities have a name and aspect. It's recommended you pick a colour too, but it's not mandatory.

You start with 5 FP. You naturally regain 1 FP every turn, but you can gain extra if a civilization prays to you. Almost everything done by a deity costs FP, so keep an eye on it.

Most of what a deity will be doing is affecting the map in some way. It costs 1 FP to make a "basic" tile on an empty square - something generic, ideally described with a single word, like "Forest", "Mountain", or "Desert". Everything else counts as a Feature.

Features cost 3 FP to make. A Feature is a permanent effect which differentiates a tile. It could be a geological feature like a river or cave, an artificial feature like a building, or something that affects the whole tile (i.e, turning a "Forest" into a "Tropical Forest", or causing permanent weather) All tiles start as generic, and adding Features is what makes them special and interesting. Features can only be built on existing tiles. Features cannot outright replace the type of a tile - they can only add onto it (so a Tropical Forest is still considered to be a Forest, just with extra things on top). By spending multiples of 3 FP, you can make stronger and stronger features.

However, permanent magical effects cannot be accomplished with mere mundane Features. For those, Supernatural Features are used. Each Supernatural Feature costs 6 FP, and like regular Features they increase in power for every multiple of the 6 FP base cost you spend.

Non-lingering effects (which I have not thought of a catchy name for yet) cost 2 FP per tile or worker affected. It can be something like causing a temporary change in weather or harming or healing a worker. These can also scale in power the more FP you spend.

[Megam0nkey]

Perhaps aspects could work as simply reducing Features both mundane and supernaturals costs by 1, depending on if it alligned with their aspect? Like a god of storms can easily add some permenant adverse weather, only costing 2 fp, but making this area  prone to sinkholes would cost 3? Only features though, since Tiles already only cost 1 fp you dont want a god to suddenly cover the entire world in desert if hes the god of sand.

[Iris]

That may work. It could even be cumulative - the discount applies to the base cost, so a Tier 2 effect would only be 4 FP instead of 6.

[TricMagic]

Being honest, being gods of something is flavoring, rather than mechancial.