I stickied this because I am a global mod. I win.
*ahem*
I want to run a story-making game. Sort of a freeform RPG.
What do I mean by freeform? I mean there are no dice. I also mean that GM responsibilities will be shared by all the players.
The game is a shared narrative, built on by every player. You could make one post to introduce a plot twist, or you could post regularly to advance your pet character's plot.
This is sort of like KateStory, with a few key differences. KateStory had an established universe built of private jokes that nobody but Brentai and Thad understood. But also, KateStory was linear. I don't want this to be.
There are a few ways that we could do this:
We could add to the story simply by posting in a thread. This reinforces the sort of linearity that I want to avoid, but the exposure that the story receives by forum-goers would be high.
We could start an e-mail group mailing list, and have participants sign up. Sending e-mails to the group would add to the story. This would help individual plotlines develop well, but it might segregate participants from the forum and each other. This version is the most likely to die young.
Or, we could do something radical and crazy: A communal blog!
Anybody who wishes to participate can sign up to be an author on the blog. Each piece of the story would be seperately linked on the sidebar, and different plotlines can be related via subject headers and post tags, while the story as a linear whole appears on the front page. As a bonus, comments on the story can be added unobtrusively, in contrast to either previous method. In terms of accessibility and ease-of-use, I think this is the way to go.
So.
What is this gay crap, anyway?
My original idea involves putting together a very general setting, and allowing everybody to add to it as they see fit. The setting I had in mind was: a spaceship crashes into a medieval fantasy world. That way, you can have any given sci-fi or fantasy convention interject itself into the story, and allow them to interact in fucked-up ways.
The ground rules I had in mind were that anything goes, with a few exceptions: You can't kill off a main character that you didn't create (unless you have permission), and you can't do anything completely off the wall just to fuck over the story, like having everybody's face turn into a vagina, or vice versa. Aside from that, you can write about any character or any plotline freely.
Before I waste any more time writing about something nobody is interested in, please let me know if you are interested.
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