{"id":4970,"date":"2003-11-24T15:57:01","date_gmt":"2003-11-24T22:57:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/?p=4970"},"modified":"2003-11-24T15:57:01","modified_gmt":"2003-11-24T22:57:01","slug":"lexicon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2003\/11\/24\/lexicon.html","title":{"rendered":"Lexicon"},"content":{"rendered":"

The new 20′ By 20′ Room <\/a>gaming blog has a suggestion for a very fun-sounding collaborative world-building exercise, “Lexicon<\/a>.”<\/p>\n

The basic idea is that each player takes on the role of a scholar, from before scholarly pursuits became professionalized (or possibly after they ceased to be). You are cranky, opinionated, prejudiced and eccentric. You are also collaborating with a number of your peers — the other players — on the construction of an encyclopedia describing some historical period (possibly of a fantastic world).
\nThe game is played in 26 turns, one for each letter of the alphabet.<\/p>\n

You then, through individual entries and cross-citations (some of them on later letters, which entries you are, in turn, not allowed to write yourself), develop an encyclopedia for the world\/era in question. The encyclopedia ends up with (players * 26) entries, all fully cross-cited.<\/p>\n

Damn. Sounds like a fine way to build an interesting world that they players would then get to play in. More work for the GM, perhaps, but also less.<\/p>\n

Or just a fun exercise in and of itself.<\/p>\n

Hmmmm.<\/p>\n

(via Random Encounters<\/a>)<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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