Ghyll:Lexicon games

For each Lexicon below, you'll notice barcharts that map the number of entries per turn. The original goal was to determine if there was a regular ebb and flow to expect from gameplay. However, since nearly every Lexicon has a different metric of what a "turn" is (how long they last, how many entries can be written, whether a turn is single or multiple letters, whether turns progress alphabetically, etc.), the barcharts can no longer fulfill their intent. We have not yet determined what they do reveal (if anything), and they may eventually be removed entirely.

Ongoing Lexicons

These Lexicons may or may not be accepting new players - contact them to find out!

Ghyll (Gamegrene.com)

Key	Value
Date Started	August 30th, 2004
Date Finished	Ongoing
Listing Last Updated	July 29th, 2005
Total Entries / Players	250 / 50 +

Ghyll is a world created solely by the players as the Lexicon is played: there were no preconceptions, planned genres, or previous source material to go on before the game started. Things quickly shaped up and merged during the first two turns (comprising nearly 40 entries). The current technology level is "roughly one of humorous fantasy", but there are often bleak undertones as demonstrated in entries such as the Agony uncle, Doggerel plague, and Justice Device. Note: LexiconTheRPG.com and these Lexicon pages are hosted by the same folks behind Ghyll. Since this Lexicon is ongoing (and intended indefinitely) counts and barchart are based on completed entries as of July 29th, 2005.

• Visit the Ghyll Index or use the items in the navigation bar.
• Contact Morbus Iff about this Lexicon.
• Turns are one letter per week, adjusted for holidays.

          Number of Completed Entries Per Letter, Round 1

 20|   *
 19|   *
 18| * *
 17| * *
 16| * *
 15| * *
 14| * *
 13| * *
 12| * * *
 11| * * *                               *
 10| * * *                               *
  9| * * *                               * *
  8| * * * *                             * *           *
  7| * * * *     * *             *       * *           *
  6| * * * * * * * *     * *     * * * * * *           *
  5| * * * * * * * *     * * * * * * * * * *   *   *   *
  4| * * * * * * * * *   * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
  3| * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
  2| * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
  1| * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
   +----------------------------------------------------
     A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z 
      x axis: entry letters          y axis: # entries


         Number of Completed Entries Per Letter, Round 2
 20|
 19|
 18|
 17| *
 16| *
 15| * 
 14| * *
 13| * *
 12| * *
 11| * *
 10| * * *
  9| * * * * *   * *
  8| * * * * *   * *
  7| * * * * *   * * *
  6| * * * * *   * * *
  5| * * * * * * * * *
  4| * * * * * * * * *
  3| * * * * * * * * *
  2| * * * * * * * * *
  1| * * * * * * * * *
   +----------------------------------------------------
     A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z 
      x axis: entry letters          y axis: # entries

The Homeworld War

Key	Value
Date Started	May 18, 2005
Date Finished	Ongoing
Listing Last Updated	May 19, 2005
Total Entries / Players	3 / 14

In the year 3216, Hegemony reckoning, the hyperspace route to long-lost Earth was rediscovered. The resulting century of war over who would possess the Homeworld reshaped the Galaxy. Now that the peace accords have been signed, and seem to be holding, a conclave of the Galaxy's preeminent scholars, representing the four great powers and all the planets, worldships, and inhabited constructs in between, has been called on neutral Autarch Prime, in the hundred and forty-fourth year after the reopening of the road to Earth, and the ninth year of peace, to reflect upon the decades of upheaval--political, military, economic, and cultural--that are now simply being called "The Homeworld War."

• Visit The Homeworld War.
• Telephonepad entries.
• Locked to new players.

          Number of Completed Entries Per Letter

 10|   
  9| 
  8| 
  7| 
  6| 
  5| 
  4| 
  3| 
  2|   * 
  1|   * *
   +----------------------------------------------------
     A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

      x axis: entry letters          y axis: # entries

The Tyrconnel Companion

Key	Value
Date Started	May 17, 2005
Date Finished	Ongoing
Listing Last Updated	June 10, 2005
Total Entries / Players	11 / 7

The Tyrconnel Companion, Class of 1980, is the high school yearbook for Tyrconnel-Ormonde Regional High School in Tyrconnel, Maine. This Lexicon is a project associated with the Barons of Suburbia Deliria tabletop campaign. The PCs are high school students between 1976 and 1980 and college students from 1980 to 1984.

• Visit The Tyrconnel Companion.
• Telephonepad entries.
• Open to new players (for this weekend only!)

          Number of Completed Entries Per Letter

 10|   
  9| 
  8| 
  7| 
  6| 
  5| 
  4| 
  3| *   *
  2| *   * *  
  1| * * * *   *           *
   +----------------------------------------------------
     A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

      x axis: entry letters          y axis: # entries

Vampire Wiki

Key	Value
Date Started	May 2005
Date Finished	ongoing
Listing Last Updated	Jun 2nd, 2005
Total Entries / Players	29 / 10 +

This is a wiki, in Portuguese, intended to play a variant of the Lexicon Game. We are at the moment researching a fictitious vampiric population, which means that each round the players will write entries about a subject related to this population, or events thereof, or any other related subject. There is a rule in place allowing each player to post from one to three entries each letter, so the number of entries can float from round to round. Vampire Wiki is currently on letter "C".

• Visit Vampire Wiki.
• Vampire Wiki user Cain began this project.

          Number of Completed Entries Per Letter

 14| 
 13| *
 12| * *
 11| * *
 10| * *
  9| * *
  8| * *
  7| * *
  6| * *
  5| * *
  4| * * *
  3| * * *
  2| * * *
  1| * * *
   +----------------------------------------------------
     A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

      x axis: entry letters          y axis: # entries

Lexicon of the Firmament

Key	Value
Date Started	June 10, 2005(???)
Date Finished	ongoing
Listing Last Updated	June 3, 2005
Total Entries / Players	In progress

The stars and their constellations are important to the Cabal. While the Zodiac and most importantly the decans have primacy in their magic and cosmology still all constellations have some degree of importance and wars have been fought over the symbolic importance of the sky.

At its first meeting in 1922, the International Astronomical Union (IAU), astronomy's governing body which is responsible for assigning names to celestial objects and features on those objects, officially adopted the list of 88 constellations that we use today. Definitive boundaries between constellations, which extend out beyond the star figures, were set in 1930, so that every star, nebula, or galaxy, no matter how faint, now lies within the limits of one constellation.

This Lexicon is about those constellations (and those constellations that are no longer recognized). Their magic and their myth, the history and impact they have had upon the Cabal and the magic of the world.

• Visit Lexicon of the Firmament.
• Telephonepad entries.
• Open to new players.

Green: Lexicon of the Gaean Revolution

Key	Value
Date Started	June 23, 2005
Date Finished	ongoing (turn K-L)
Listing Last Updated	July 28, 2005
Total Entries / Players	74 / 22 (signed up)/8 (regular)

Green is a Lexicon from the future. In 2085 C.E., scholars of the earth gathered on the EcoNet to chronicle the events in Lexicon form that led them and their world to the Green planet it now is, populated with various factions of Gaean Languages speaking Gaeans, who now speak with the rock, the trees, the animals, the rivers, the sky, in meaningful and consensual dialogue and prepare for the next earthly visit of the representatives of the Consortium of Interdependent Beings, a galactic federation of peoples aware of their responsibilities to the living worlds they inhabit.

• Visit Green.
• The WikiWorld user LaoTzu/Malcolm Gin created and administers the game with a gaggle of volunteer GMs. Mail Malcolm for details or for an account.
• The game plays 2 letters per week. One entry per player per week.
• Some articles are alphabetized oddly.
• The Article Index is BIG AND SPAMMY, but useful for recordskeeping.
• Aside from the Rules, there is also a FAQ. Please gander both before applying for an account.
• We may well start at Z and work backwards once we're done with the first round through the alphabet, depending on interest.

--Peri 09:55, 28 Jul 2005 (EDT)

          Number of Completed Entries Per Letter

 19|  *
 18|  *
 17|  *
 16|  *
 15|  *
 14|  *
 13|  *
 12|  *
 11|  *   *
 10|  *   *   *   *   
  9|  *   *   *   *   
  8|  *   *   *   *   *
  7|  *   *   *   *   *
  6|  *   *   *   *   *
  5|  *   *   *   *   *
  4|  *   *   *   *   *
  3|  *   *   *   *   *
  2|  *   *   *   *   * 
  1|  *   *   *   *   * 
   +----------------------------------------------------
     A-B C-D E-F G-H I-J K-L M-N O-P Q-R S-T U-V W-X Y-Z

      x axis: entry letters          y axis: # entries

Finished Lexicons

These Lexicons have been completed or abandoned, and are probably not accepting new entries.

Exalted: Lexicon Of Elder Days

Key	Value
Date Started	January 2004 (???)
Date Finished	June 2004; ongoing (???)
Listing Last Updated	December 5th, 2004
Total Entries / Players	141 / 24 +

Being a Cyclopedia of Ages Past. The Scholar-gods and wise Exalted of the Forbidding Manse of Ivy hold endless knowledge; here they gather to reminisce upon fallen times. You are someone with extensive knowledge of ancient times, collaborating with a number of your peers on the construction of an encyclopedia describing the past ages of Creation from the Primordial War to the Terrestrial Shogunate. Note: this Lexicon still allows submissions, but regularly scheduled play has since vanished. As such, there's no "official" finishing date; the project died during Summer 2004 when ExaltedWiki was down for an extremely long period of time and no one could edit any pages (it had been winding down for ages, though). In order to hopefully eventually finish the thing, anyone who passes through is encouraged to fill out any of the remaining entries (without creating any new phantom citations), even if they've never done so before. Further Note: ExaltedWiki moved in January 2005, and therefore the Lexicon moved as well -- links have been updated.

• Visit Exalted: Lexicon Of Elder Days.
• To the best of my knowledge, the ExaltedWiki user FourWillowsWeeping began this project, but I appear to have sort of taken it over since I'm the only one still regularly writing entries; you may feel free to contact me about it if you want. -- Shataina 06:45, 3 Dec 2004

          Number of Completed Entries Per Letter

 14| *
 13| *
 12| *
 11| *
 10| * *             * * *
  9| * *       *     * * * * *
  8| * * *   * * * * * * * * *
  7| * * * * * * * * * * * * *
  6| * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
  5| * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
  4| * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
  3| * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *                     *
  2| * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *   *                 *
  1| * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *   * *   * * * * *
   +----------------------------------------------------
     A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

      x axis: entry letters          y axis: # entries

Fangor Encyclopedia

Key	Value
Date Started	August 2004 (???)
Date Finished	September 2004 (???)
Listing Last Updated	December 5th, 2004
Total Entries / Players	32 / 6

It is assumed that at the time this encyclopedia is compiled, the average technology of the civilized parts of Fangor is generally equivalent to the European Medieval time period. For those who are more familiar with Fangor, it is assumed that this encyclopedia is compiled before the beginning of events known as kelKhazem Roc (the conquest and rule of much of the civilized world by dwarves). This event marks the end of the Second Age, and takes place sometime around SA 1200. Fangor is a setting that emphasizes realism. In this case, realism is defined as being plausible and fitting in logically with the assumptions of the world. Everything should have a plausible explanation (even if that explanation involves magic).

• Visit the Fangor Encylopedia Lexicon.
• Contact Andrew Batishko about the Fangor Encyclopedia.
• "The game is played in 16 turns; turns end on Wednesday and Sunday."
• "Each author will pick a different letter group to use for their first turn."

          Number of Completed Entries Per Letter

  4| *
  3| * *                                 * *
  2| * * * *       *         *     *   * * *
  1| * * * * * *   * *     * * * * *   * * *         *
   +----------------------------------------------------
     A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

      x axis: entry letters          y axis: # entries

Fiery Dragon Lexicon

Key	Value
Date Started	May 21st 2004
Date Finished	September 2004
Listing Last Updated	December 23rd, 2004
Total Entries / Players	30 / 10

Fiery Dragon L-type Lexicon is a Lexicon game in which players will create a concordance to the fictional original video animation series Fiery Dragon L-type, including information about the characters, creators, and popular and critical reception of this anime. Fiery Dragon L-type is an OAV (Original Animation Video) anime series created by Akatsuka Eiji and his then-wife Juri, who released the series themselves through their fledgling company Studio Eijuri as thirteen DVDs, each one a 60-minute episode. The series was misunderstood by mainstream viewers and critics, although some voices in the small press hailed it as one of the finest achievements in the medium.

• Visit the Fiery Dragon Lexicon.
• Contact Ouroboros about the Fiery Dragon Lexicon.
• Each author is assigned a specific letter group, moving by progression each turn.
• Intended to create an even sprinkling of entries should the game become abandoned.

          Number of Completed Entries Per Letter

  3|         * *             *
  2| *       * *   * * *   * *     *     *       *
  1| *   *   * *   * * *   * * *   *     * *     *   * *
   +----------------------------------------------------
     A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

      x axis: entry letters          y axis: # entries

Lexicon of the Sphere of Breakwater

Key	Value
Date Started	May 2004
Date Finished	July 2004
Listing Last Updated	December 5th, 2004
Total Entries / Players	162 / 8

Breakwater is one of the oft-overlooked jewels of the Thousand Spheres, a motley collection of Realms with enough to enchant even the most jaded traveller. With nine Gates that connect to other Spheres, each in a different Realm, Breakwater is poised to be a crossroads - yet for some reason, it is not. The Library of All Worlds has convened a panel of scholars, both domestic and foreign, to create the definitive reference volume for the Sphere of Breakwater.

• Visit Lexicon of the Sphere of Breakwater.
• Contact Alexander Cherry about this Lexicon.
• Used the Rule of X (in short, entries for 'X' could be other letters).

          Number of Completed Entries Per Letter

  7| * * * * * * * * * * * * *   *       *
  6| * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *     *
  5| * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
  4| * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *   * *
  3| * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
  2| * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
  1| * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
   +---------------------------------------------------- 
     A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z 

      x axis: entry letters          y axis: # entries

Lexicon of Untold Ages

Key	Value
Date Started	March 11th, 2005
Date Finished	April 5th, 2005
Listing Last Updated	April 22nd, 2005
Total Entries / Players	84 / 12

This lexicon was to provide a fantasy of history that will serve as an inspiration and back-story to much that happens in Tantaene animis caelestibus irae, deepening the connections but not taking the place of the unfolding story of the characters. The Story So Far is broken down by individual sessions: the first character design and the following in-game retellings.

• Visit Lexicon of Untold Ages.
• Contact Jere Genest about this Lexicon.
• 8 turns, broken down as on a telephone pad.

          Number of Completed Entries Per Letter

  6|                                       * 
  5| *     * *   *                       * *
  4| * *   * *   *           *   * *     * * 
  3| * *   * *   * *   *   * *   * *     * * *   *     *
  2| * * * * *   * * * * * * * * * *     * * * * *   * *
  1| * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *   * * * * * * * * *
   +----------------------------------------------------
     A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z 

      x axis: entry letters          y axis: # entries

Nobilis: Lexicon Of Lord Entropy's Rule

Key	Value
Date Started	May 11th, 2004
Date Finished	June 22nd, 2004
Listing Last Updated	December 5th, 2004
Total Entries / Players	133 / 11

The Earth has long lain under the rule of Lord Entropy and his Code Fidelitatis as it fights the Valde Bellum, for good or ill depending on the viewpoint of the observer. A Rainbow Festival has been called to document the history, politics and features of the rule of the Council of Four (The Imperators who govern the physical side of Earth; led by LordEntropy and including Ananda, Ha-Qadosch Berakha and Surolam) and its impact.

• Visit Nobilis: Lexicon Of Lord Entropy's Rule.
• Contact Jere Genest about this Lexicon.
• "This is an abbreviated Lexicon, with 13 entries, with two entries a week."

          Number of Completed Entries Per Letter

 10|                       *
  9|                       *             *
  8|                 *     *             *
  7| *   *   *     * *     * *           *
  6| *   *   *     * *     * *     *     *     *
  5| * * * * * * * * *     * *   * * * * *     * *
  4| * * * * * * * * * *   * * * * * * * *     * *
  3| * * * * * * * * * *   * * * * * * * *     * *
  2| * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *   * * * * * *
  1| * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
   +---------------------------------------------------- 
     A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z 

      x axis: entry letters          y axis: # entries

Nobilis: Lexicon Of The Lost 500 Years

Key	Value
Date Started	March 15th, 2004
Date Finished	March 31st, 2004
Listing Last Updated	December 5th, 2004
Total Entries / Players	96 / 16

The Earth lost 500 years of its history, a time of wonder and accomplishment that will never come again and is forgotten to all but the Society of Flowers. A Rainbow Festival has been called to document these lost years and their glories. The erasure of a period of about 500 years happened a little over one hundred years ago when human history was set back en masse by a rogue Imperator. One day it was the year 2400, and space-ships plied the Aetheric Currents between earth and the colony worlds. The next day it was 1900 again, and the world, the history books and all (well, enough) mortal memory had been changed so that it seemed normal for it to be 1900. Naturally, what has happened since then has not conformed to what happened between 1900 and 2000 the first time around.

• Visit Nobilis: Lexicon Of The Lost 500 Years.
• Contact Jere Genest about this Lexicon.
• "This was an abbreviated Lexicon, with only 8 entries, broken down as a telephone pad."

          Number of Completed Entries Per Letter

 10|                         *
  9|                         * 
  8|                         *             *
  7|                         *             *
  6|                         *           * *           *
  5| * *   *   *             *           * *           *
  4| * * * *   * *     * * * *         * * *         * *
  3| * * * *   * * * * * * * *         * * *         * *
  2| * * * * * * * * * * * * *     *   * * *   * *   * *
  1| * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *   * * * * * * * * *
   +---------------------------------------------------- 
     A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z 

      x axis: entry letters          y axis: # entries

Nobilis: Lexicon Of The Second Age

Key	Value
Date Started	December 22nd, 2003
Date Finished	February 21st, 2004
Listing Last Updated	December 5th, 2004
Total Entries / Players	164 / 9

The assembled scholars of the Rainbow Festival are famous for their colloquiums and encyclopedias of matters historical upon the World Ash. They have assembled to discuss the Second Age of Earth. The Second Age of Earth runs from Adam and Eve having their first child to the death of the Phoenix Family two thousand years later after Atrocity killed Heaven's gatekeeper.

• Visit Nobilis: Lexicon Of The Second Age.
• Contact Jere Genest about this Lexicon.
• Nobilis: Lexicon Of The Second Age was the first public Lexicon.
• Turn schedule was "a letter every two days."

          Number of Completed Entries Per Letter

  9| * * *
  8| * * * *                             *
  7| * * * * *   *       *               *
  6| * * * * * * * *     *     *   * * * * * *     * *
  5| * * * * * * * * * * *   * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
  4| * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
  3| * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
  2| * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
  1| * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
   +----------------------------------------------------
     A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z 

      x axis: entry letters          y axis: # entries

The Orbital Wars

Key	Value
Date Started	September 2004 (???)
Date Finished	January 2005 (???)
Listing Last Updated	July 29th, 2005
Total Entries / Players	77 / 14

We're currently researching the Orbital Wars, which means that each round, all the players write an entry on something related to the Orbital Wars, or the events leading up to them, or following them, or whatever tangets they desire, really. Example entries include Battle For Oubliette 2, the Church At Nine West, Dymetricists, Erasing The Impossible, and supplementary pages on concerning Who's Who, Where's Where, and When's When exist.

• Visit The Orbital Wars.
• Contact Kevan Davis about this Lexicon.
• Turns are one letter per week, possibly adjusted for the holidays.

          Number of Completed Entries Per Letter

 10|   * *
  9| * * * *
  8| * * * *   *
  7| * * * *   *
  6| * * * * * *
  5| * * * * * * *
  4| * * * * * * * * *   
  3| * * * * * * * * * * * * *
  2| * * * * * * * * * * * * *
  1| * * * * * * * * * * * * *
   +----------------------------------------------------
     A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

      x axis: entry letters          y axis: # entries

The Toothpaste Disaster

Key	Value
Date Started	April 1st, 2004
Date Finished	May 13th, 2004
Listing Last Updated	December 5th, 2004
Total Entries / Players	254 / 21

In the standard PARANOIA RPG, players become lowly Troubleshooters in service to The Computer. In this Lexicon game the players were nothing less than illustrious High Programmers who administered entire sectors of Alpha Complex. Last year the Toothpaste Disaster hit these Programmers' sectors. Fascinated high-clearance citizens across Alpha Complex sought to know more about this notorious event. The Computer created a fact-finding panel to investigate the origins, determine the causes, and implicate the traitors involved in this chaotic, mysterious, and wide-ranging disaster.

• Visit The Toothpaste Disaster.
• Contact Allen Varney about this Lexicon.
• Allen Varney is the creator of Paranoia XP.
• Players wrote two letters, due Mon/Thu, every week.

          Number of Completed Entries Per Letter

 16|                         *
 15|                         *
 14| *   *     *             *     
 13| * * *     *     *     * *     *
 12| * * *     *     *     * *     *   *
 11| * * *     * *   *     * *     *   * *     *       *
 10| * * *     * *   *     * *     *   * * *   * *     *
  9| * * * *   * *   *     * *     *   * * *   * *     *
  8| * * * *   * * * *     * *     *   * * *   * *     *
  7| * * * *   * * * *     * *     *   * * * * * * * * *
  6| * * * * * * * * *     * *     * * * * * * * * * * *
  5| * * * * * * * * * *   * *   * * * * * * * * * * * *
  4| * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
  3| * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
  2| * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
  1| * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
   +----------------------------------------------------
     A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z 

      x axis: entry letters          y axis: # entries

Other Lexicons

Either no language translation, deviated enough to be their own creations, or woefully unplayed.

• De Buldrende Fjellene (Norwegian; December 10th, 2003 - June 7th, 2004; incomplete)
• SteamPunk (November 6th, 2004; lack of initial player base; derelict)
• uqbar (Italian; in-progress as of December 23rd, 2004; started April 2004?)
• Vrinthia (May 19th 2004; inspired by, but not, Lexicon; derelict)