Hello! Merry Christmas!

I've been working Our Pantheon off and on for most of 2019 and I just have to get it out into the wild. It started when one night I was looking for a world building game that was from the perspective of gods. There was a lot of interesting games where you play god-like figures and games that involved the map drawing and world building, but none that really combined the two. Then I discovered a free game from 2005 called Dawn Of Worlds.

After playing it a few times I found it had a structure I really liked, but I felt that a lot of the specific actions and language could use a bit of modernization. So, I decided to do just that. I looked to some of my other favorite modern games for additional inspiration. Such as Powered By The Apocalypse dice mechanics and Microscope's palette and narrated scene systems.

Many of the moves in the original and the initial draft had a lot of flavor but not a lot of room for that flavor to be expressed. So I came up with the idea of the Chaos Phase. It provides a space to explore the civilizations and factions that you create as deities. For the Chaos phase, a players set a small scene based of a set of dice tables. This allows players to step away from playing as gods and into playing as the mortals for a moment while still defining things about the world. I think it provides an interesting framing that was lacking from the original. 

I'm excited for folks to play this game. If you do check it out please let me know what you think of it!