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I have a system a friend gave me that he plays in called Kingdom Quest. It's based on a hex map, turns are one month game time, there's no magic, and there's a set goal. Of course, you can always ignore the goal if you wish, just like any system.

In reply to PsychoJester (msg # 2):

I am not finding that through Google actually. Could you maybe link me to it or something?

It's a homebrew system

Not necessarily. If you focus on the practical effects of magic, you can get away with treating it like just another form of technology in the skill tree. One nation might invent the printing press; another might invent the truth-telling spell. And so on, and so forth.


Possible. Another option would be a randomly-generated worldmap; one such that I've used, and recommend, can be found at [ http://donjon.bin.sh/world/ ].


It's not clear to me why you'd want a predefined timeline for a nation-building game. No matter how you write up that timeline, surely the players are going to be making choices and doing things that simply didn't occur in that timeline? Perhaps I'm missing something, Could you explain why you'd even want a predefined timeline for this sort of game?


I'm interested in reading more about the particular rule-set you've used in your past nation-building games, please.

I think he has a timeline cause most players don't differentiate between fluff and mechanics. (I keep running into this with my generic game system. The first question is always "what genre/timeperiod?" usually followed by questions about the setting rather then the game mechanics.)

When people say "time period" they mean "what era do we use for comparison of technology and culture". They want to know what toys they have and what the zeitgeist is.

In reply to Cubist (msg # 5):

I completely forgot about the fractal map maker from DonJon. Thank you for reminding me that it exists. I could totally use that if need be.

When I say setting/timeline, I just mean using technology from that era and staying within the confines of that era. I don't mean actually sticking to the timeline historically.

Unless we were to do something that starts everyone in an ancient age and every so often, technology increases to a new age. Could do that as well, but that would make it more complex.

The previous rule-set I had used utilized three different resources and allowed a turn per year rule. Gold, Food, and Manpower were the main three resources. Buildings could be purchased during turns and Manpower could be gained by taking territory. Food was a fixed rate depending on how many Farms you had.

It was a very basic and simple system for a small amount of players. Too many would cause way too many problems.

In reply to RogueCrimson (msg # 1):



Lords of the Earth is such a system.

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