Origins of the Game
Anesidora grew from making Pen & Paper & Laser Guns. I created a new system for the show with 12 sided dice that used ability trees instead of classes. Years later, I had the idea for a frozen world where people lived at the mercy of ancient machines that demanded human sacrifice. I decided to combine elements of the PPLG system with the setting I was developing to create a new private game for my friends, and it has grown ever since.
When I run role playing games, I like stories about heroes with limited power bringing communities together to change the world. This means that they rarely involve a party of adventurers fighting a dragon or dark army by themselves. Instead, they revolve around seeking ancient power, gathering armies and cultures together, or finding other means to overcome impossible odds.
Anesidora - Pandora extension for Google Chrome. Contribute to Anesidora/Anesidora development by creating an account on GitHub. Anesidora is designed to facilitate this type of game play. It focuses on choices and abilities that are not directly meant to fight. When all other options are exhausted, Anesidora uses a tactical combat system that rewards forward planning, encourages options that are not simply attacking, and kills those who underestimate their opponents.
Anesidora is designed to facilitate this type of game play. It focuses on choices and abilities that are not directly meant to fight. When all other options are exhausted, Anesidora uses a tactical combat system that rewards forward planning, encourages options that are not simply attacking, and kills those who underestimate their opponents.
The World of Anesidora
Anesidora is a harsh mythological sci-fi setting. The planet is colder than our world and the days and nights last entire months. Mythic machines reshape the terrain and life itself at a whim. The environment is as much of a threat as other people seeking power, wealth, and basic survival. It is a world where the desperate hunt and gather scarce resources, while the citizens of the Godcities live with extreme wealth and privilege. Most problems cannot be solved with violence, because there will always be someone, or something, bigger, stronger, and more desperate than you.
The mythology and technology of the past has been twisted together by time into new religions and the belief that ancient technology is magic. 500 years ago, a disaster, known as Chione, led to a cultural schism splitting this broken world into two major cultures forced to share it. The Chosen who wield ancient powers beyond their own comprehension, and the Exiled forced to live wherever they can find food and shelter.
Chosen civilization lives an anachronistic late medieval lifestyle, where magic is ancient technology. Exiled society is much larger and more varied than the Chosen. The Exiled live by whatever means necessary as primitive survivalists, poor outsiders, or founders of their own competitive towns, cities, and countries. Some believe in the rejection of the gods and their magic, while others embrace the use of stolen power. Larger Exiled societies are capable of incredible feats of engineering and culture without the use of magic.
The Truth
In Anesidora, technology is magic, and the truth of the past is hidden behind legends and myth. What people perceive as magic is actually advanced technology, from terraforming and large scale genetic engineering to powerful synthetic intelligences. Few records of the past remain, and what does is seen as legends of the impossible or proof of the power of the Ancients.
Anesidora is not Earth. It is another planet in another solar system colonized by humans in the future. They named locations and their ships after mythology from a variety of cultures. Many of those records still exist, so people continued to name new areas, tribes, and children after these people and places of earth.
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Before colonists arrived on Anesidora, it was terraformed for over a thousand years by a planetary terraforming network. The Titans were each assigned to oversee one aspect of the terraforming. The Gods are the colonial spaceships that brought humans to Anesidora. The Gods range from small landing craft to city sized space stations that were never meant to land on the planet's surface. The gods' surfaces are covered in a super strong, light weight, and conductive material that came to be known as 'Godshard,' after many of them were cracked and shattered upon the planet's surface.
Ragnarok was a war between these gods and titans that destroyed humanity and what they had built. No one knows exactly what happened or why. This event caused all technology, other than the Titans, to cease functioning for half a millennia and ushered in a new age where civilization fell into a medieval mindset and understanding of their world. The wrecked spaceships were thought of as gods that gave magical artifacts of religious significance. Computers and machines became holy relics, which people use to commune with the gods and survive.
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When I run role playing games, I like stories about heroes with limited power bringing communities together to change the world. This means that they rarely involve a party of adventurers fighting a dragon or dark army by themselves. Instead, they revolve around seeking ancient power, gathering armies and cultures together, or finding other means to overcome impossible odds.
Anesidora - Pandora extension for Google Chrome. Contribute to Anesidora/Anesidora development by creating an account on GitHub. Anesidora is designed to facilitate this type of game play. It focuses on choices and abilities that are not directly meant to fight. When all other options are exhausted, Anesidora uses a tactical combat system that rewards forward planning, encourages options that are not simply attacking, and kills those who underestimate their opponents.
Anesidora is designed to facilitate this type of game play. It focuses on choices and abilities that are not directly meant to fight. When all other options are exhausted, Anesidora uses a tactical combat system that rewards forward planning, encourages options that are not simply attacking, and kills those who underestimate their opponents.
The World of Anesidora
Anesidora is a harsh mythological sci-fi setting. The planet is colder than our world and the days and nights last entire months. Mythic machines reshape the terrain and life itself at a whim. The environment is as much of a threat as other people seeking power, wealth, and basic survival. It is a world where the desperate hunt and gather scarce resources, while the citizens of the Godcities live with extreme wealth and privilege. Most problems cannot be solved with violence, because there will always be someone, or something, bigger, stronger, and more desperate than you.
The mythology and technology of the past has been twisted together by time into new religions and the belief that ancient technology is magic. 500 years ago, a disaster, known as Chione, led to a cultural schism splitting this broken world into two major cultures forced to share it. The Chosen who wield ancient powers beyond their own comprehension, and the Exiled forced to live wherever they can find food and shelter.
Chosen civilization lives an anachronistic late medieval lifestyle, where magic is ancient technology. Exiled society is much larger and more varied than the Chosen. The Exiled live by whatever means necessary as primitive survivalists, poor outsiders, or founders of their own competitive towns, cities, and countries. Some believe in the rejection of the gods and their magic, while others embrace the use of stolen power. Larger Exiled societies are capable of incredible feats of engineering and culture without the use of magic.
The Truth
In Anesidora, technology is magic, and the truth of the past is hidden behind legends and myth. What people perceive as magic is actually advanced technology, from terraforming and large scale genetic engineering to powerful synthetic intelligences. Few records of the past remain, and what does is seen as legends of the impossible or proof of the power of the Ancients.
Anesidora is not Earth. It is another planet in another solar system colonized by humans in the future. They named locations and their ships after mythology from a variety of cultures. Many of those records still exist, so people continued to name new areas, tribes, and children after these people and places of earth.
Anesidora 1 33 Cm Berapa
Before colonists arrived on Anesidora, it was terraformed for over a thousand years by a planetary terraforming network. The Titans were each assigned to oversee one aspect of the terraforming. The Gods are the colonial spaceships that brought humans to Anesidora. The Gods range from small landing craft to city sized space stations that were never meant to land on the planet's surface. The gods' surfaces are covered in a super strong, light weight, and conductive material that came to be known as 'Godshard,' after many of them were cracked and shattered upon the planet's surface.
Ragnarok was a war between these gods and titans that destroyed humanity and what they had built. No one knows exactly what happened or why. This event caused all technology, other than the Titans, to cease functioning for half a millennia and ushered in a new age where civilization fell into a medieval mindset and understanding of their world. The wrecked spaceships were thought of as gods that gave magical artifacts of religious significance. Computers and machines became holy relics, which people use to commune with the gods and survive.
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All life on Anesidora has its origin on Earth, but much of it has been heavily manipulated. The Flora and Fauna of Anesidora has had millennia to develop and change to adapt to their environment at an accelerated rate. After Ragnarok, the Titans and the unliving machines that performed tasks for them began to create more extreme and strange changes. They also began to experiment on humans. This process came to be known as the Change.
At one time, the Titans and Gods were connected by a virtual world known as the Hades Network. During Ragnarok, the Hades Network was destroyed and all that remains is splintered subnetworks. Hades is populated by Artificial Intelligences called Shades, attempted copies of human intelligence that oversee all advanced technology. The Gods are run by incredibly powerful and complex Shades. These artificial intelligences believe they are the Gods that they are named for, while lesser Shades believe they are the spirits of the dead or other fictional beings.
All of this information has been twisted as society collapsed and forgot. New languages developed in isolation, based on our own from earth. Religions formed to explain the things that people could not understand, and became intertwined with oral traditions survivors of Ragnarok tried to pass down to their descendants in the frozen, crashed ships. The world has become something entirely different and would be unrecognizable to the ancients who settled here long ago.
