Time for a nerd post

A large majority of the posts I've made have been political in nature or center around Atheism, so today I'm going to back up a bit and dive head first into some hardcore nerdocity.

I recently had the most amazing creative experience with a few friends of mine.  To start this story off, in my large circle of friends there are a few people working on their own private project, creating their own pen and paper, D&D style game, the end result being sold for profit, hopefully.  To do this, they are going to need people to test their game, people who know their way around the mechanics of similar games and who would be able to look at the rules and game setup and intentionally break it all to hell.  Now, their system isn't quite ready for us yet, but at the same time, the person who will be in charge of the campaign is going to need a fictional world for the test to take place in.  That is where this creative experience happened.

The basic idea is that everyone present is taking on the role of God's forming this new world.  Each round you roll dice to randomly generate how many power points you get to add to your power pool.  When it is your turn in each round you have many options in front of you, though at the beginning the focus is primarily on continent/climate building and general geographical shaping.  For us, this meant making the most absurd formations we could think of.  The end result were mountain ranges with peaks around 40,000 feet, everywhere, A giant continent with a valley that slowly descends until it breaks through the crust into the mantle, climactic shifts that make constant tornadoes all over said continent, a giant underwater trench that spans the entire planet and a continent that mirrors the great valley/pit except inverted resulting in a plateau/throne at 40,000 ft.  On the seventh day, Ra'kur, God of Chaos, descended upon the world and sat upon his throne.  We ended up getting through the 0th and 1st of 3 eras and ended up with the aforementioned geographical and climate features as well as two races of humans vomited up by Ra'Kur accidentally, aquatic orcs, dwarves, halflings and elves.

Playing God is so fun.