[DMSO]

OK, an hour early, here are the rules! There are 3 categories of ingredients in play: System, Setting, and Tagline/blurb. All entries must contain Five ingredients in total, including at least one ingredient from each category.

Submissions should be emailed to: dimethylsulfoxide (at) hotmail (dot) com. The deadline will be Sunday the 6th of September.

The ingredients!

SYSTEM

• There is a goal based system that gives experience for character improvement

• Characters' skills are generated / recorded using a mind map with their placement affecting their value

• Characters draw from a common pool of skills/traits that they must share.

• Character creation is based on archetypes, but characters may change archetypes during downtime.

• Rules must enforce a character life expectancy of 1 to 3 play sessions and must include an inheritance system.

• Game must allow that any skill can be used as a combat skill.

• Physical and emotional recovery/healing occurs only through alignment/code of conduct based deeds.

• Damage in combat is not random.

SETTING

• A world filled with Shapeshifters

• "Monsters" are not real life forms. They condense out of the air / some other medium to attack people when it is disturbed.

• Insanity is a viral-like disease that is spreading like a plague.

• Mercantilism, Political intrigue, and War are bound within the rules of "the Game".

• A world where "counting coup" has deep meaning and tangible rewards, both physically and spiritually.

• A world where mana can be gleaned / mined from some natural resource

• Caste structure. Does not need to be linear, with someone on top and someone on bottom, just division of roles / identities / expectations.

• All life, good and bad, occurs only in contained, isolated zones separated by vast areas inhabitable only by those with great power.

TAGLINE/BLURB - one ingredient from this is a combination of two of the phrases from the list, e.g. "Evolution through suffering+Flesh is obsolete"

• Technology drives progress

• Renewal of the World

• Nightmares of the mind

• Too much to handle

• Bliss is killing the World

• Secrets and lies

• Legends return

• The False Prophecy

• One step forwards, two steps back

• 8 days to live

• Brave new world

• Choose your Fate

• Death before dishonor

• Evolution through suffering

• Flesh is obsolete

• Honor is dead

• Light vs. Darkness

• Nature over all

• Order Vs. Chaos

• Reclaim the lost

• The end is nigh

• The many become one

• The night beckons

• The stars are right

• What am I?

• What is Evil?

• Who do you serve?

Now, choose your weapons... and FIGHT!