Hello! This is another post on a series I am sharing about the development of Petty Gods & Playthings, The Game about Small Gods, Their Great Ambitions, and The Mortals Entangled in Them! Wow, that’s a mouthful, but it does explain all there’s to it. Well, quite. If you want to understand it a little bit better, I recently made this post with the introduction of the game. I meant, the currently written introduction. Who the hell knows how it’s going to be in the final thing.
Today’s post is the second in a series I will share about the creation of your Petty God. You can find the first post here.
Below you will find weird, whimsical and kinda silly sphere of the Biosphere, Nature, and Humanity Domains. These what the Petty Gods, the players, will be “Gods of…”. One of my ideas, is that the use of these weird spheres in the game in creative ways, is also a skill players can develop. It’s one of the spaces the game encourages creative thinking, and where player can get better at over time, instead of just buying points of this, or getting more dice here or there.
Also, I loved spending time coming up with little jokes, commentaries, and sometimes philosophical meanings for all those entries. I shouldn’t be concentrating on making these during this initial phase, but I can’t help it.
Again, this is a work in progress. So if you say it’s bad I will pretend I am gonna fix it!
1 – Biosphere
| d8 | Biosphere’s Divine Domain |
| 1 | Ducks: Birds who are as comfortable on water, land, and air. Which is not much, to be honest. No wonder a lot of your flock end up roasted. |
| 2 | Fleas: Tiny flightless insects that live as parasites on the skin of mammals and birds, drinking their blood while defecating all over their hosts. Basically, tiny little people. |
| 3 | Magic Mushrooms: A type of fungi that grows on shit that, when eaten, lets Mortals glimpse reality for a brief moment, making them feel less shitty. Ironic, isn’t? |
| 4 | Rotting Fruit: The end of the cycle might not be pretty, but the strong smells, sour tastes and disgusting appearance has a beauty in itself. Can you convince anyone of that? |
| 5 | Pigeons: Often compared to rats with wings, these disease carrying birds have eyes and ears everywhere. Let’s hope one survives long enough to tell what it saw. |
| 6 | Geckos: Long lost cousin of the colossal reptiles that once ruled the Mortal Realms before the fleshbag bones called humans came. Very long, indeed. As if seen from afar. They are tiny is what I mean. |
| 7 | Snails: These living mucus is impressively strong, as they carry an entire house on their shoulders wherever they go. They never go out though, as they are very introverted. |
| 8 | Moss: Maybe the lowest of plants, with no roots, no flowers, and which reproduces by sneezing all over the place. Disgusting. At least a lot of people slip on it and it’s quite funny when that happens. |
2 – Nature
| d8 | Nature’s Divine Domain |
| 1 | Puddles: Puddles are small, shallow, and usually dry up after a sunny day. They do show weird cool reflections sometime though. Well, it could be worse. It could be droplets, right? |
| 2 | Sand: Ugh, just annoying. Gets everywhere. I think they are formed when the gods of stone and wind fight? I don’t know… No one really cares that much about sand, unless it gets in their eyes! |
| 3 | Dirt: The name says it all. Dirty earthly compound of mud, ash, soil, earth, and whatever gross thing is in there. Your domain is literally below almost all others. You grow like this position though. I think… |
| 4 | Rust: I don’t know who came up with this stuff but I love it! A thing that eats some of the hardest things to bite! So yeah, everyone hates you, but you corrode and destroy even the mightiest things. If you can wait a few years, of course. |
| 5 | Sparks: You might not be the great fire, but it’s a start, right? Jokes aside, where there’s a spark, there is a chance it will grow big, powerful and strong like a bonfire. Well, unless a breeze extinguishes you, of course. |
| 6 | Splinters: A pain in the ass, or in the finger, or wherever you have one of these in you. These tiny wooden stakes might not kill a vampire, but will certainly drive them mad while they try to pick it out. |
| 7 | Ashes: The remains of the burnt. After all flesh, muscles, bones, mind, and soul are destroyed, you get what’s left. Well, it can be ashes from other things, of course, but I like to think it’s dead stuff. |
| 8 | Pebbles: Oh, the cutests of stones. That’s pretty much it, sorry. Pebbles are tiny, round, smooth, and no one is really afraid of you. They make excellent projectiles though. |
3 – Humanity
| d8 | Humanity’s Divine Domain |
| 1 | Beer Belly: Cultivated over long and tough years, these barrel-like hard bellies are a demonstration of courage one has to have to consume that much mild-poison. Eh… not impressed. |
| 2 | Earwax: Humans were originally created so we could harvest their earwax for our birthday party candles. Turns out they are not even good for that. Meh… What can we do? |
| 3 | Zits: The volcanoes of skin. You heard me! You see the same panic on these flesh beings’ faces when they see one on their reflection as when they see a real volcano. |
| 4 | Mustaches: The hair of the mouth! Some wear them unkempt, others fashion them in elaborate fancy designs. Some just shave them completely. Women, for some reason, like to pretend they’re bald though. |
| 5 | Middle Finger: The longest of the hand tentacles. Humans use it in an intricate and complex salutation that can be easily misunderstood as an offense. Interpretation is not their strong suit. |
| 6 | Hiccups: The manifestation of the inner beat inside all living beings. Music is part of existence, but humans in particular make everything they can to suppress this natural beat. |
| 7 | Ego: If there are any beings who thinks even highly about themselves than gods they certainly are these mortals. They even invented a word for that special part of themselves: Ego. |
| 8 | Pinky Toe: Small, smelly, forgotten, and often misshapen, the pinky toe is the smallest but the most resilient of the toes. It’s always bumping into obstacles but it just keeps walking. |
Well, that’s it for this part. Next post we will continue with the Petty God creation, taking a look at the Professional’, Emotions’, and Concepts’ Domains! Stay tuned! The gods are watching!
Great update! This is game is looking to be a very imaginative and fun game.