Microscope

[roll to seduce]

I invite everyone interested to join me in creating a brand new world using the Microscope system. It's a worldbuilding/history creation game where we take turns adding to a world. To start I want to run a couple of rounds to see how the format works.

I advice you to read the actual rules, it's very well written. Though I'll do a little rules breakdown here.

The game is broken down into rounds. Each round is lead by the lens. The lens is chosen at the end of the previous round. Each round also had a focus. Everything added to the history must relate to that focus. The lens always starts as well as gets to add at the end of the round giving them an extra say of the round.

On your turn, your allowed to add one of three things. A period, an event, or a scene. 

Periods has a short description to describe it. It can host events.

Events are often more specific, they're also just a short description. They can host any number of scenes as well

Scenes are defined, by a question and an rp to answer it. We'll run these in seperate threads as they will take up a bulk of the game.

Before we can even start, we must decide on a couple of things as a group.

1. The Big Picture

A short description of what our world is about

2. Bookends

The first and last period of our history chronologically. This mean anything added will fall between these.

3. Pallette

A list of things that does or does not belong in our history.

4. First pass

Everyone gets to add an event or a period to the history.

The game is very discussion based so I welcome everyone to chip in with ideas and suggestion even if you're not interested in actually playing.