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Content Addition · Articles & templates · Created by Joseph.Knight
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Give us an article category for creating games in our worlds.

It's so obvious that I'm surprised it's gone unnoticed for so long, given that this is a platform for designing game content. This template could cover anything from card games to sports.

Current score

23/300 Votes · +760 points

Votes Cast

  • +10

    by Space-Time Will Tell
    on 2022-02-25 06:51
  • -300

    by A Rambunctious Dryad
    on 2022-02-21 09:36
  • +300

    by DMStretch
    on 2022-02-15 03:33
  • -300

    by Twaren Stormborn
    on 2022-02-13 12:34
    So the issue here is yeah, a sport or game is a tradition. They are tied to cultures and evolve with them just like traditions. For example ice hockey. Tradition/Ritual may sound broad but that's a good thing because it then encompasses a great deal of things, and this includes sports and games.
  • +300

    by Tatortotzke
    on 2022-02-11 21:48
  • +20

    by PrincessESH
    on 2022-02-11 15:30
    I agree that maybe adding a tab or modifying the wording of the prompts in the Tradition template would be more effective than creating a whole new template.
  • +20

    by Exarx
    on 2022-02-11 06:36
  • -50

    by mezzopatricia
    on 2022-02-11 05:57
    To me, this is just too specific to be a template. I know Tradition/Ritual is incredibly wide, but it functions perfectly well for games and sports. I think that some tweaks to the Tradition/Ritual template to make it clear how to do it more generally might be worth it, or at most dividing Tradition/Ritual into something like "Practices and Games" vs. "Holidays and Rituals."   If a specific event of a game (I don't know, your world's version of "Super Bowl XX") is important to you, Military Conflict works beautifully.
  • +300

    by Cammykins
    on 2022-02-11 00:04
    I have to agree how is this not a thing.
  • +300

    by Ailill Blackwood
    on 2022-02-10 20:47
  • +20

    by AuraGuard
    on 2022-02-10 11:26
  • +20

    by A Sneaky Dimensional Horror
    on 2022-02-10 00:33
  • -300

    by Timekeepers
    on 2022-02-09 19:42
  • +10

    by anamis18
    on 2022-02-09 19:13
  • +300

    by Aegrist13
    on 2022-02-08 02:22
  • +100

    by ratlord13
    on 2022-02-08 01:34
  • +10

    by Scyoni
    on 2022-02-07 21:43
    Looks like there's a solid basis for making it a Tradition/Ritual, but maybe the terminology is a bit weird? Calling a certain game or practice a 'tradition' when it might be a recent invention or something like a social-media challenge makes me think 'activity' or something more generic may be a better title.
  • +100

    by [email protected]
    on 2022-02-07 15:16
  • -10

    by Michael Chandra
    on 2022-02-07 08:06
    To prove that this is meant to be Ritual from the perspective of the developers, here's a game-prompt that lets you create a Tradition article for answering it:   Advent Prompt #22
  • -300

    by A Lusty Kobold
    on 2022-02-06 22:47
    Use tradition :)
  • -50

    by UnknownWriter88
    on 2022-02-06 18:49
  • +10

    by SoulLink
    on 2022-02-06 18:18
    Yeah the tradition template covers this. However I do think it would be neat to have a Creator / Inventor character link in the template and a Rules section for the Tradition / Ritual template.   Maybe use the follow up to suggest a few sections / relationships you would like to see for games / sports.
  • -50

    by A Uncontrollable Hobbit
    on 2022-02-06 15:40
    That's what most people use the Tradition/Ritual template for.
  • +300

    by Joseph.Knight
    on 2022-02-06 15:12