Post by Iain on Jan 26, 2004 20:27:03 GMT -5
I have given a lot of thought lately to the RPG idea, I have gathered information and weighed my options, and I thought I would share my ideas with a few of you before showing off to everyone what I hope to do.
Back in the late 1980's I wrote a seven part storyline that was broken into three issues of a fanzine that a sci fi club published I once knew.
The story was called "Flight into Destruction" and I introduced an entire world and characters that fitted my storyline, it was a murder mystery in space and I enjoyed the survivors of the tale so much I begun writing a six part storyline around what became of them, well that six part storyline never got past the planning stage, but it is still fresh in my mind even today.
I would like to try and make this storyline my RPG here, I have several well defined characters that I can easily introduce to everyone in a prologue story that was written, and I think a Sci Fi RPG wqould have a different flavour to all the other fantasy ones out there, fantasy can still have its place here but a futuristic timeline I think opens up other possibilites too.
I really would like to hear comments on this as I am cautious about making an enjoyable experiance for everyone, as you may now guess I wish to do a 'story driven' RPG rather than a postcount/stat building one(I feel those types just encourage spamming anyway, to get their stats higher) and if done right hopefully each person will get a chance to shape an epic tale and put their own feel into it.
I can have a bible of the universe my storyline is based in ready fairly quickly, and this can be a guideline for all participants, I just need to know if my ideas sound good here, and if my 'world' is worth living in.
I await opinions, anyone interested please post here.
Back in the late 1980's I wrote a seven part storyline that was broken into three issues of a fanzine that a sci fi club published I once knew.
The story was called "Flight into Destruction" and I introduced an entire world and characters that fitted my storyline, it was a murder mystery in space and I enjoyed the survivors of the tale so much I begun writing a six part storyline around what became of them, well that six part storyline never got past the planning stage, but it is still fresh in my mind even today.
I would like to try and make this storyline my RPG here, I have several well defined characters that I can easily introduce to everyone in a prologue story that was written, and I think a Sci Fi RPG wqould have a different flavour to all the other fantasy ones out there, fantasy can still have its place here but a futuristic timeline I think opens up other possibilites too.
I really would like to hear comments on this as I am cautious about making an enjoyable experiance for everyone, as you may now guess I wish to do a 'story driven' RPG rather than a postcount/stat building one(I feel those types just encourage spamming anyway, to get their stats higher) and if done right hopefully each person will get a chance to shape an epic tale and put their own feel into it.
I can have a bible of the universe my storyline is based in ready fairly quickly, and this can be a guideline for all participants, I just need to know if my ideas sound good here, and if my 'world' is worth living in.
I await opinions, anyone interested please post here.