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When playing in the Sorcerer setting Dictionary of Mu, when you have 20 player-authored demon entries the end of an epoch is triggered. Does this have to be a world-ending meteorite for the game to be a 'real' game of Sorcerer?

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I am not sure I understand the follow-up question. – Judd Jan 29 '11 at 1:23
i.e. Let's say that one of the players kills Nimrote in his Kicker, rallying the prisoners. His dream is to make a city around black rock instead of just a death pit. The end of the epoch could be METEOR DESTROYS BLACK ROCK, right? That addresses the kicker by wiping out the site. But could the end of the epoch be a positive thing, like a fissure opening up and an enormous spring spilling up into the arena? – Ry St Jan 29 '11 at 1:23
Epochs can absolutely be good things. Here's what I am saying. I am not saying the GM should decide what the next epoch means. I am saying you end the game with the player having taken over Black Rock and killed Nimrote. The GM does not then do something catastrophic in order to end the epoch unless it comes organically out of play. You end the session, do advancement and base the next epochal changes to Marr'd based on the players next kicker. Does that make sense? – Judd Jan 29 '11 at 1:23
Are you saying I should just go with my gut based on the sessions that produced 20 demon entries? – Ry St Jan 29 '11 at 1:23
No. Let that game end. Let the new epoch be defined by the NEXT kickers that the players will write after their former kickers are resolved. You, the GM, do not define the new epoch. – Judd Jan 29 '11 at 1:23
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Epochs can absolutely be good things. Here's what I am saying. I am not saying the GM should decide what the next epoch means. I am saying you end the game with the player having taken over Black Rock and killed Nimrote. The GM does not then do something catastrophic in order to end the epoch unless it comes organically out of play. You end the session, do advancement and base the next epochal changes to Marr'd based on the players next kicker. Does that make sense?

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i.e. Let's say that one of the players kills Nimrote in his Kicker, rallying the prisoners. His dream is to make a city around black rock instead of just a death pit. The end of the epoch could be METEOR DESTROYS BLACK ROCK, right? That addresses the kicker by wiping out the site. But could the end of the epoch be a positive thing, like a fissure opening up and an enormous spring spilling up into the arena? – Ry St Sep 2 '10 at 14:05
Epochs can absolutely be good things. Here's what I am saying. I am not saying the GM should decide what the next epoch means. I am saying you end the game with the player having taken over Black Rock and killed Nimrote. The GM does not then do something catastrophic in order to end the epoch unless it comes organically out of play. You end the session, do advancement and base the next epochal changes to Marr'd based on the players next kicker. Does that make sense? – Judd Sep 3 '10 at 1:34
Are you saying I should just go with my gut based on the sessions that produced 20 demon entries? – Ry St Sep 3 '10 at 16:33
No. Let that game end. Let the new epoch be defined by the NEXT kickers that the players will write after their former kickers are resolved. You, the GM, do not define the new epoch. – Judd Sep 3 '10 at 16:47
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I wouldn't say it has to be world-ending, it just has to be appropriately large that one or more of the player's kickers play a significant development in how the world changes.

On pg. 142 of Dictionary of Mu it says that the end of the an epoch is "defined by the player's kickers."

So I think it certainly could involve an end-of-the-world condition, but I think the more general form is just one of immense change based on the driving force(s) behind the character's individual stories.

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Can you give an example of a kicker in play and a decent epoch-resolution? – Ry St Aug 28 '10 at 22:35

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