New game ideas wanted!
This is the thread in which to suggest new game ideas and see if people want to play. ANY idea that other people think is something they want to play in is a good one. If ideas posted here get much interest, then when I approve them you can start to open the threads to start PLAYING them.
There are two types of RP around here:
1. Most on-line RPs are more a form of continuous group storytelling with no or few rules as such, just each person adding to the story one at a time, normally in some form of persona. These stories are very easy to create- you just need a background setting can take any number of players and are very easy to play. However, there can often be story conflicts (like if two people want the exact oppopsite thing to happen there is a problem) and the plots tend to be a little diffuse.
2. The style I brought in around here is an on-line version of 'table-top' RPing that I do in real life (though table-top is a misnomer as people rarely use miniatures any more; it's all in the head). How this works is that one person is in charge. He writes the setting and the plot of what is going to happen. Everyone else takes a single character and plays through this story- which should, of course, be open-ended and very liable to change according to what the players do. The guy in charge plays all the people the players meet, tells the players what is going on and what the other people are saying. The players say what they want to do, and the guy in charge tells them the result, using whatever rules system he sees fit to use. This method creates good, interactive stories with strong characterisation and solid plots. However, such games tend to be limited to how many people they can hold, and players have to accept that there are rules and they cannot always do what they want.
Experience has taught me that different styles suit different people; most places prefer the first but around here only the second style has ever been successful, creating a small but dedicated (and very vigorous!) Star Wars RPing area.
As far as I am concerned this place should be perfectly capable of running either style- we can try and run whatever people want. As mod I will have final say on what does and does not go in but if other people want to run their own games in here I will be happy to help make that happen if I think there is the support for it.
Ok, I would love to hear your ideas! And if anyone wants any help or advice, simply contact me.