More on Playing dieties in the Bronze age

Adventuring from the beginning of a world with a Deity can be one of the best ways to create a Pen and Paper world. Because by doing this you play through a worlds history quickly. In this form of play story telling is the most important aspect of the game.One way to run this campaign is to have the players play a pantheon of gods, whether such a pantheon is of allies or a mix of allies and enemies is up to you and them. It is certainly more difficult to run a group of players who are enemies but it could make for an interesting game.This could especially be if you played within our game room. In this method you could have each group of players trying to counter each others actions as they come one. With Deities having many demands on their time it would give each the opportunity to quest against the others.Of course for the sake of existing friendships it may be best to have the players work towards similar goals.In this option the players would all be good, neutral or even evil deities. They would play to shape the world as they wanted, while the GM would create oppositions to this.Again this sort of play would be in the form of collaborative story telling primarily, as the GM explained the problems and the players discussed what they did to solve it that the GM, discussed what happens at each point.Play would occur when combat was necessary for the Deity to achieve their ends, or when the Player wishes to play their followers on some quest.One of the nice things about the web is as the characters and the GM build a world they can post it in a blog, in a forum, to allow others to play it. There are even a number of online places now where you can go find more players to play in your world.