imperium offtopicum

:coffee::badcomp::bump::old:The deadline for sending orders for Update 3 is June 4, at 11:00 PM Pacific Time.:wallbash::dance::ar15::banana: The vibe is The World Turned Upside Down, people. Background In the beginning was Napoleon. He, at the crest of the heroic French Revolution, sought...

1921! THE WORLD HAS COLLAPSED! Breaking, breaking! The Great War has heralded destruction and disadulation! The Great Empires have collapsed, and now nations bitterly struggle against one another and their own people in the quest for supremacy! Who will triumph? Who will persevere? Who will...

In 2020 some global disaster wiped out civilization. Now, survivors have climbed out of the wreckage and have started to rebuild. Nations are being formed amidst the ruins of former civilization. You, the player, will control one of these nations. Will you lead it to prosperity? Or will you lead...

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MARCH, 2017. The world struggles to rebuild after a cascade of calamities. Between organized crime's assassination of the President of the United States and the Mexican invasion, and NATO's campaign against the radical hoplitejoe's rhinoceros insurgency and the Namibian civil war, the last thing...

It is truth universally acknowledged, that a single Thorvald in possession of a mutable game, must be in want of a mod. In a chat session yesterday I mused an IOT-inspired mod for Hearts of Iron IV, and in classic fashion next thing I knew I was swamped with suggestions, mostly revolving around...

Welcome to the actual, official, OP-belongs-to-the-devs development thread for the Imperium Offtopicum Civ4 mod! Started by Reus, this project aims to codify the IOT community and its most cherished memes within Firaxis' popular genocide simulator turn-based strategy game, Civilization IV...

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or: Why You Can't Understand IOT Militarism with a 21st Century Economy It's every military-industrial complex's wet dream: an entire economy predicated on aggressive war. A common misconception held by the Imperium Offtopicum player base is that outside of explicitly conquest-oriented games...

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Welcome, conscripts! In ages past, IOT rules were less about gameplay than keeping forumers from flaming each other into oblivion. It was a world without limits, and a time without end, when the only IOT you found atop the mountain was the IOT you brought with you. This game seeks to emulate...

It began, as these crises invariably do, with combat. In its early days, Imperium Offtopicum seemed to defy easy categorization. "Geopolitical role-playing game" seemed an overly generous moniker for the loosely-structured tabletalk culture of 2010–2011. Rules were virtually nonexistent: the...

< --- ambient music --- > The year is 2222. Decades after the Great Powergame destroyed the standing order and plunged the world into lameness, survivors of the Trollocaust have at last begun to reconstitute stable political organization. Will the veterans of the Dork Ages surmount their petty...

Combat orders and post-battle reports for Imperium Offtopicum: The Aftermath occur here. DO NOT conduct main-game roleplay or engage in off-topic discussion in this thread. Players doing so may be punished.

< --- ambient music --- > TWENTY YEARS HAVE PASSED since the end of the world war. An uneasy peace has been kept by the survivors of the nuclear holocaust. Despite the occasional border skirmish and clash for resources, no formal conflict has broken out, either due to national fatigue or threat...

"Fallout" is a special evaluation run of the ruleset for the as-yet-unnamed sequel to IOT4. The game will run for one week, featuring up to ten players on a small custom map. For information and discussion on the upcoming full version, see the development thread. Twenty years ago, the Arquev...

Imperium Offtopicum (IOT) is a geopolitical simulation and role-playing game spun out of the Altered Maps thread in Off-Topic. Players assume the role of leader of a nation of their own creation, and interact with each other on such issues as law, economy, science and technology...