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Originally Posted by Destriarch
This sounds very niche-y. I know I certainly wouldn't want to be tied down to writing all these little bits of side detail just so I could use them in the game.
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You'd be surprised. There are roleplaying collectives out there (I'm a member of one of them) who write lengthy epic stories about what their characters in a MMORPG do, when they can't affect their abilities in that MMORPG through this storytelling
at all. For these people, to write stories that
can directly affect the game situation in which you roleplay would be like what they already do, only better.
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Still, there's nothing wrong with niche-y stuff, as the more variety there is in the industry the more likely there is to be something that will appeal to everyone. One thing I did wonder though is how feasible it would be to adapt these rules for use on a 'play-by-post' forum arrangement. Not for my own use, mind you, I don't have the space for something like that. I'm just generally curious.
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Well, as I said in the review, it would be pretty easy to do that already, using linked live-journals for the "books."
The only thing you'd have to change would be the play session itself. Perhaps you would do that simply by writing "green book" entries directly, without an intervening live-action play session for it to be based on. One person starts, others add comments. (Or it might work even better yet to make it a wiki, so it could be easily version-tracked?) Or, of course, you could do your play sessions in a chatserver, log that, and rewrite it...