Post by Corey the GM on Sept 7, 2014 8:37:14 GMT -5
So let me start this out by saying thank you to everyone who has posted an application so far. I was totally caught off guard by the amount that was posted. Interest in my other text based games never grew as quickly as this and now I have some tough decisions to make. I believe we have 13 people who've applied so far, and I'm not one to reject people who want to play but I have to figure out something..
To keep everyone in the loop, I have a couple of decisions I could make. To those who've played in IRC or other chat based type of games, you know there that is a free for all feel, those who log in generally get to play in either a passive non-GM run game or a scheduled event. A dream I had for this game was to create something like the chat rooms of the past, creating an environment where anyone could log in and have a chance to role play on any given night. Not every night would be a GM ran quest, but rather people could sit in the tavern or other setting and mingle with other characters and create their own stories with out the supervision of a GM.
The only concern with this would be people trying to compete for the Sunday night game. I can only accept 6 people, and if I allowed an open door type policy then people would still have to apply for that game on that night. To get around this issue, I would allowed players in this game to apply for a CO-GM spot. These CO-GM's could run quest and other story arcs on different nights to give everyone a chance to play. These quest would be pre-approved by me and would still require everyone who was interested to apply.
The other option I have is just to accept six of you, and maybe two backups. I don't want to do this, but these are the decisions I have at the moment.
I've also received a lot of questions about religions and the setting of the game. The game takes place in a homebrewed world of Juscor, that I'll elaborate more soon. To make things easier, I'll just keep the deities in the book so that everyone has an easy central source.
To keep everyone in the loop, I have a couple of decisions I could make. To those who've played in IRC or other chat based type of games, you know there that is a free for all feel, those who log in generally get to play in either a passive non-GM run game or a scheduled event. A dream I had for this game was to create something like the chat rooms of the past, creating an environment where anyone could log in and have a chance to role play on any given night. Not every night would be a GM ran quest, but rather people could sit in the tavern or other setting and mingle with other characters and create their own stories with out the supervision of a GM.
The only concern with this would be people trying to compete for the Sunday night game. I can only accept 6 people, and if I allowed an open door type policy then people would still have to apply for that game on that night. To get around this issue, I would allowed players in this game to apply for a CO-GM spot. These CO-GM's could run quest and other story arcs on different nights to give everyone a chance to play. These quest would be pre-approved by me and would still require everyone who was interested to apply.
The other option I have is just to accept six of you, and maybe two backups. I don't want to do this, but these are the decisions I have at the moment.
I've also received a lot of questions about religions and the setting of the game. The game takes place in a homebrewed world of Juscor, that I'll elaborate more soon. To make things easier, I'll just keep the deities in the book so that everyone has an easy central source.
