Lords of Ur: Early Bronze Age Tabletop Roleplaying in Mythic Sumeria

I made this game to simulate the experience of being a mythic champion of an ancient Sumerian king. It does that. It does that very very well. 

I made 

• 3 custom faction systems
• a hexmap
• a character creation system that teaches you the world of the game as you go through it 
• a wonderful gods list
• a horrific demon list
• a generator of actually useful, actually gameable prophetic dreams
• a custom combat system, a custom save system, a custom check system, etc..

It makes you feel as though you have entered the realm of Sumerian mythic literature. I accomplished every goal I set out to accomplish, with this project. And yet, it's not actually fun. It turns out that this is a great simulation of the world of mythic Sumeria, but that's not actually a fun world to simulate. It turns out that being the lackey of an NPC in a world with about nine small towns (by modern standards) of five thousand to forty thousand people and... not a huge amount else... is just not actually that fun. It perfectly simulates the world of Gilgamesh, but Gilgamesh isn't actually a good world to simulate. 

Thus, I didn't release it till now, because at first I was hoping that I could make something work with it somehow and then I just sort-of hated looking at it. Anyways, it's very mechanically innovative, and is completely playable, though the document is probably not in the best order. I hope someone gets something out of it. Most of what I got out of it was "you can do everything right, artistically, and still sometimes fail due to the core concept being bad for reasons not obvious till you're done".