D&D 5E Game focusing on godhood and literal worldbuilding

[TheNoremac42]

So I just had a spur of the moment idea after watching a youtube video about DnD cosmology. What if the player characters were new deities that have been assigned or found a new empty shard? Their primary objective would be literal worldbuilding and making this universe into whatever image they deem fit. How would a game like that be run?

 

[Twiggly the Gnome]

If the game is going to focus on world-building(rather than Immortal tier standard D&D play), probably the best option is to use something like Microscope.

 

[LordEntrails]

Without rules. It can work if the players are all dedicated to making things work and you all share a common vision. But without, you have nothing to fall back on to say how things should work out.

 

[Doug McCrae]

Amber Diceless Roleplaying is somewhat similar. The PCs can create their own universe or universes (called shadows). The game revolves around both inter-PC conflict and conflict between the PCs and their more powerful parents - the elder Amberites.

 

[Mercurius]

Universalis. Pretty much ideal for this sort of thing.

Maybe a bit clunky, but Peter Adkison's The Primal Order is kind o fun.

 

[Tonguez]

New Gods of Mankind has you create a God and a Tribe (start with 100 people in a 10 mile hex)

Enemy Gods has you play dual characters - the God in a Pantheon and their mortal Hero

Godbound - play as chosen heroes in the struggle to restore the world and achieve godhood

Dawn of Worlds is more a shared worldbuilding engine (but you do play as gods)

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

Did something like this in the 1990s using The Primal Order. It didn’t last long, but that wasn’t for in-game reasons.