Dominion Wiki:About

Welcome to Dominion: Empire of the Stars!
Dominion: Empire of the Stars is a statecraft pen-and-paper role-playing game currently in development in Aberdeen in the United Kingdom. In addition to Richard Cooper (the lead writer), the developers include James C. Munro (the original writer), Alastair Meek, Jonathan Rettie, and Christopher Noble.

What is Dominion?
Dominion: Empire of the Stars is a game in which players take control of their nation and shape its destiny through war, espionage, diplomacy and trade. It is Birthright meets Exalted, Empire at War meets The West Wing. We aim to allow all of the drama of the sweeping space epics in a statecraft-based format. But what is that, really? It is a rules system that gives players the ability to define and build your own space-based empire spanning multiple systems and then play that empire and its ruler(s) in a structured environment, working with and/or against other nations played by other players, all under the governance of a storyteller. That is the dream that is Dominion. There is no other game like it, in or out of print.

What Dominion is Not
Dominion is not a 4X game. Dominion is about more than expansion and extermination, and does not even include exploitation. It is about drama more than anything.

Dominion is not a computer game. It is firmly rooted in pen-and-paper gaming, and can be run without ever needing anything more than the book, some paper and pens, and some dice. Snacks have been known to help, however...

About the Wiki

 * This is a Fluff Encyclopaedia. Therefore all articles should be be in an "in-universe" style
 * We aim to be Encyclopaedic. All articles should offer a Neutral Point of View. (NPOV)
 * Despite the above, we want more Fluff. So if you only have POV fluff to submit, put it on here anyway, eh? :-) Just mark the article as a stub, and we'll get round to improving it later, unless you beat us to it. :-)
 * All of your submissions here are subject to the GNU License. However, Langley Books will not be able to credit unregistered users for their contributions.
 * Finally, Dominion:Empire of the Stars is copyright 2007-2008 by Langley Books.