ATUM

Overview

ATUM is a shared procedure for creating immersive settings for Role-Playing Games (RPGs). ATUM provides a collaborative and structured approach to world-building, allowing players to craft rich and engaging game worlds. ATUM empowers players to create entire universes, offering endless possibilities for exploration and storytelling.

Key Features

• Collaborative World-Building: ATUM facilitates a shared experience where players collaboratively shape the game world, allowing for a diverse range of creative input and ensuring a sense of ownership for everyone involved.
• Customizable Scale: ATUM can be tailored to suit the needs of medium to long-term campaigns, allowing for the creation of expansive and intricate game settings.
• Inspirational References: Players bring their favorite books, movies, TV shows, comics, and other forms of media as references, providing a wellspring of inspiration for constructing the game world.
• Phased Approach: ATUM is structured into distinct phases, guiding players through the process of establishing consensus, defining truths, creating a timeline, shaping geography, developing factions, and adding captivating details to the game world.
• Open-Source and Agnostic: ATUM is an open-source tool, freely available to the gaming community. It can be adapted to work with any gaming system or genre, providing flexibility and accessibility for players.

Game Procedure

ATUM is conducted during a session zero at the beginning of a campaign. The procedure involves several phases, including sharing references, establishing consensus and vetoes, declaring truths about the world, creating a timeline, shaping geography, defining factions, determining the campaign's origin, and adding intriguing details to various aspects of the game world. Each phase encourages player participation and ensures the game world's cohesion and depth.

License

ATUM is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. This means that players are free to use, modify, and distribute ATUM, while providing proper attribution to the original creator. The license enables the gaming community to benefit from ATUM's innovative approach to world-building.

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