I prefer to run humans, but you can choose whatever kind of race you want. It will probably by flavored humans.

Location can be a generic terrain type or something more specific. But don't make it overly specific nor a real life place. Think of it more as scenario, like islans I want to play a pirates game, or plains I want horsemen battles.

Tech level anything from 1-10, but I prefer the lower end stuff.

The leader has to have some special quality about him. It doesn't matter much what, but he became the leader for a reason after all.

The goal is the overarching vision of your civilization. Usually is something tied to expansion, conquest, knowledge, innovation, cultural or religious goals, militaristic goals, political goals or mere survival.

Gods could have that greek flavor of showing up uninvited, could be absent from the world but still influence in subtle ways, could have totally vanished or never existed outside men's imagination, or anything else you can think of, just describe it properly.

The easiest types of magic to run are vancian fire and forget type of thing, or some overland ritual magic that takes massive amounts of resources like in master of magic. But if you want some bizarre shit like in mage ascension, power creep (starts really shitty but becomes overpowered) or something subtle like synchronicities and schizophrenia, then just say the word.

I plan to run long sessions, and when I can't run sessions I'll drop an update saying "today there is no session".

I might use AI slop for images, like this one, cause I'm no drawfag. I find AI slop for text a bit distasteful, so any AI use will be solely for brainstorming, inventing puzzles, random research about some crazy bullshit you wanna do, that sort of thing. Maaybe grammar check, but I don't mind a few spelling mistakes. Do you?

Pick something cool and let's have some fun.