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Welcome to the world of Ghyll. The basic idea is that each player takes on the role of a scholar, from before scholarly pursuits became professionalized (or possibly after they ceased to be). You are cranky, opinionated, prejudiced, and eccentric. You are also collaborating with a number of your peers -- the other players -- on the construction of an encyclopedia about Ghyll.

Despite the fact that your peers are self-important, narrow-minded dunderheads, they are honest scholars. No matter how strained their interpretations are, their facts are accurate as historical research can make them. So if you cite an entry, you have to treat its factual content as true! (Though you can argue vociferously with the interpretation and introduce new facts that shade the interpretation.)

The core of the game is based on the principles of Neel Krishnaswami's "Lexicon: an RPG".

Game Rules

New players may join in at any time. If you have questions, ask in Lexicon discussion.

  1. Scholars shall dib (reserve), and then write, one entry per turn. Turns loop from A to Z.
  2. Entries shall cite two phantom (unwritten) entries and, after the first turn, one existing entry.
  3. Scholars shall neither cite themselves, nor write phantoms they cited first.
  4. All phantoms for a letter shall be written before new entries are created for that letter.

Ghyll is different from previous Lexicons (The Toothpaste Disaster, Nobilis, etc.) because there is no pre-existing world for entries to derive from. We don't know if the world of Ghyll is fantasy, cyberpunk, sci-fi, horror, or all of the above. Ghyll is a blank slate, and will be defined and finessed by our entries. Anything goes until everyone knows.

How To Participate

To join the other scholars documenting Ghyll, create an account and login. Defining a new entry is as simple as going to its URL or clicking any red links (phantoms). For example, to create "Crab apples", go to http://gamegrene.com/wiki/Crab_apples, click "edit", and begin typing your entry. More information about wiki syntax (creating headers, links, bold, italic, etc.) can be found at Wikipedia:Help:Editing (this is a third party site... DO NOT test your skills on their pages!)

Each defined entry has a "discussion" page. When discussing an entry (in-game or not), do so on this discussion page and not the entry itself. Think of the discussion pages as the footnotes in the encyclopedia's margins. Be warned: other scholars may take heated issue with your comments!

Also consider writing a brief intro about your character/scholar (see Morbus Iff for an example).

  • All pages: Every page created so far (in-game or not).
  • All users: Users of this wiki, with their own discussion pages.
  • Phantom pages: Entries which have yet to be defined.
  • Short pages: Minimally defined entries that could use fleshing out.