New: Birth of a Legend (free, open-ended, email, human, modern, rpg, abstract)

From: donotreply@pbm.com (PBM List Autoposter)

Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2007 07:13:02 +0000

Name:		Birth of a Legend
Costs:		free
Email:		sharlene79 zat mindspring.com
Frequency:		Daily (at least on my part)
Type:		Superhero
Last-Update:		2007Apr20
Keywords: free, open-ended, email, human, modern, rpg, abstract

Description:

Birth of a Legend has restarted.  This is a game about superhumans at an
early college age.  Not every character has to be attending college, but
their lives should end up connected in some way to the University and of
the same level of maturity.  In other words, this game is neither for
teens, nor ancient gods.  Yes, I�ll consider characters that age a bit
differently, but their maturity levels should conform.	And their age
should be recent, not span centuries.

Characters should be of the four-color comic book code variety.  Law and
politics will be realistic.  Characters MUST be group oriented.  This is
not a vigilante game.  You will need to be in a group to survive many of
the adventures.  Sorry, but the villains are not fools � well most aren�t.
 All PC�s should be super-powered.  No characters that rely solely on
powered armor or gadgets.  Having gadgets to augment powers is fine.  And
if you are going to be an alien, please learn English first.  You need to
be able to interact and mingle among humans.  IE, you must APPEAR human.
In a PbeM you�ll need to fit in.  Most of my NPC�s are very well-developed
characters with years of development.  Interaction with them can become
quickly complex.  Also, please no undead or lycanthropes.  A living
vampire?  Sure, but have a good story and adhere to the other group
requirements.  Shape changer?  Same considerations.

Concept and background are extremely important.  So is the ability to
write and role-play.  You should be able to post daily or at least every
other day.  And posts should be better than a short paragraph.	These will
be GM guided adventures as well as interplayer collaborative fiction.
Yes, there will be non-combat time.  Indeed, I prefer most of the time be
non-combat, investigations, etc.  Combats should be planned out and brief
if possible.  Yahoo Messenger will be used for many joint postings which
will help for those who have trouble with longer posts.  (But try to make
it clear who is speaking and acting in those for ease of reading.  Maybe
even add short narrative at the beginning to explain the scene.)

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