A freeform RPG - Any takers! From: "Imajin" <imajic@usa.net> Date: Sun, 07 Sep 1997 00:00:00 +0000 I'm interested in starting a RPG through e-mail or newsgroup, or whatever. I have played many RPG's from all over the place, but my favorite is freeform, new real rules, it's interaction between the players and a storyteller (storyteller can be a player too). This is something I wrote up when I had some friends playing (kinda rules): Interactive Storytelling The ultimate role-playing that utilizes the human's imagination. Without all the numbers and set order required, the players can focus on the adventures and tales forming through continuous writing. It is as if you were frantically constructing another world while the world that you live in dissolves beneath your feet, and that your survival depends on completing this construction at least one second before the old habitation collapses. -Tennessee Williams This free form of playing with each others creativity and mind power has to have some limits to keep the adventure in a some orderly fashion. These rules are simple and apply to rules of improvisation. 1. One character can not effect another through sudden action. Sudden action is considered to be anything that occurs in one moment. The character being effected must be given a chance to respond. 2. A player can not reject the other players intentions on purpose. If one player wants to go a certain place the other player must compromise, not say no. A compromise is anyway that allows the other character to give response. 3. Must interact with any previous actions that requires that characters involvement. If one player ends his segment with three dots then the other player must finish it. 4. Players must always allow other players to respond. Can not leave them out of any action that involves them. 5. Characters are not limited to any requirement, but are recommended to have handicaps. A handicap is some sort of weakness. 6. Any other rule applied to this must be up to all players involved. Well, if your interested then e-mail me, my email is - imajic@usa.net -- - Mike Jones, Imajin (that...) Up