Duchess of Malfi wrote:
I've been meaning to ask this for awhile, as so many people seem to be involved with it, and seem to hugely enjoy it...(actually, they seem to be genuinely addicted.

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I
am genuinely addicted, have been since before I ever joined the Game as I lurked on it since the planning stages and helped Fist's characters behind the scenes the whole time.
Duchess of Malfi wrote:
What is this Pantheon game and what is it all about?
It's interesting that you put this here in the Fravashi District, as I had originally suggested Pantheon be played in the Close instead of in Mallory's on the Watch. Hmm...perhaps that helped get Av involved.

Patheon is a text driven role playing game (RPG). The concept was proposed and developed by Xar. He is the Game Master of it, known in this Game as the
AllFather. The concept is that each player creates and plays a deity who has followers on a fantasy-like planet called Eiran. You have to recruit a prophet, proselytize to potential followers, found cities (or in my deity's case weyrs, since her primary race of followers is dragons), defend your lands from either fellow deities or their misled followers, build a clergy if your religion requires that, etc.
We are finishing up the second version of the Game. I didn't join until mid-way through this second Game, so I still am pretty much a novice, even though I lurked and helped Fist's characters from the start. In both versions on the Game, I would say there wasn't really a goal of winning. The point was to be the most successful and strongest.
Duchess of Malfi wrote:
If you play it what do you enjoy most about it? Like least about it?
For me, the interaction between players, and Xar's writing of the Turn results and
Game Summary is what I enjoy most. One of Xar's results to Bhakti (Fist's character) just took my breath away before I started playing, and made me want to become more involved. I still wasn't ready to attempt playing, so Fist and Av helped me gain access to other behind the scene interaction. I think after that it was only a couple of weeks, and I jumped in.
We are preparing to launch the third version of the Game, and we have several experienced RPG players joining us for the first time. I think they think the goal is to
win, by eliminating the other deities. So I think the feel of the Game is going to change drastically, not to mention that the rules have evolved each time to become more and more complex. So we'll see how the new version plays.
Duchess of Malfi wrote:
(Note, I am asking from curiosity, and have no intention of being converted.

It sounds like playing it takes a lot of thought and time, and I do not have enough of either to take on a huge... thing like this.

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Currently, there is one more space available, should you decide to join us. But, the Game, as Xar put it to me once in a teasing manner as he saw how addicted I became after lurking for over a year, is
viral. The Game
is extremely popular. The Graven Threndor sub-forum was created for it, and it's success has so far spawned three other RPGs on the Watch. Graven Threndor was just made into its own full forum, with sub-forums for each game.
You can play without devoting a huge amount of time to it. And if you are good at making decisions on how to react to situations, it shouldn't take all that much time. I, on the other hand, love
agonising over things, and I thrive on deciding how I want my next move to go.
Duchess, if you should decide to come play, I would love to see you. And...think Sunrise Court, not Sunset!!
