Samuel Penn wrote:
>On Sunday 27 July 2003 17:48, Bryce Harrington wrote:
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>>Very true. Hmm, maybe this means we should be playing it? That's the
>>surest way to test out if it's something we'd want to play. ;-)
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>Just to clarify, what I mean is that instead of trying to figure out
>what would work best as a Free Roleplaying Game, and going
>with that, design something because you need it, and make it
>Free.
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>
Well, personally, I think we _need_ a Free vanilla fantasy world. And
by "vanilla" I by no means am referring to completely colorless and
stereotypical. What I mean is something that [a] is based on easily
recognized and grasped concepts (something someone with little
experience in fantasy gaming would catch on quickly too, and someone
with a lot of experience would say "This looks like the
[Greyhawk/Forgotten Realms/Middle-Earth] stuff."), [b] is easy to get
started in (this is a by-product of [a]), and [c] makes it easy and
natural for groups to do cool stuff in (like discover the Clock of the
Gods and have to slay a legion of monsters to get the key that will
allow them to wind it up before it stops, taking the universe with it).
>I realise people want a 'Free Game World', I'm just cynical
>about the chances of success[*} if it's being designed for
>the wrong reasons.
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If it will ease your mind, the world I'm thinking of doing has been
brewing in my mind for years. I've decided that opening it up for the
rest of the world to improve because it hasn't been going much of
anywhere recently. I'm hoping that be billing it as a vanilla fantasy
world, it will become a Free replacement for worlds like Greyhawk and
the Forgotten Realms.
>As much as I'd like to contribute, I've only really got time
>for one game world - and that is going to be whichever I happen
>to be running at the time. I assume other people are going to
>be in a similar boat.
>
This will be a problem for me at first, but once the user and
contributor base gets going, not everyone will have to work on it all
the time. I don't intend to spend the rest of my life working on and
playing just one world.
And now that I can't back down without looking like someone who's all
talk and no action, I'd better stop yapping and start working.
-J. Jensen
