first heard of the game, I was under the impression the world shrank as the game went on. (It was advertised as getting too small to contain the races, the cover art even looks like it's crumbling)

I came up with an idea to represent what I thought the game was about.

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Smaller World Optional Rule: At the end of every round, there is a secret bid. Each player puts coins from their stash into their hand. All players reveal their coin tokens at once. The winning bid player discards their coins and gets to choose a land area adjacent to the ocean. That land is now in the ocean. Any race or other markers on it are destroyed. Place an
ocean marker on the space. If there is a tiefor winning bid, both (all) players may destroy a land space.

The player can choose to sink a land into the ocean even if it contains tokens with 'immune' special powers (Dragon, Heroes, etc). The owning player of the 'immune' items gets to redeploy them.

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I wish I would have submitted this idea for the contest instead of others. (Although Days of Wonder wouldn't really have anything to sell,other than markers to depict new ocean spaces)

Smaller World Optional Rule: At the end of every round, there is a secret bid. Each player puts coins from their stash into their hand. All players reveal their coin tokens at once. The winning bid player discards their coins and gets to choose a land area adjacent to the ocean. That land is now