in the Shadow of Greatness

...if you build it; they will come

I thought about playing an rpg against a generic urban background versus playing on a stage created by Players (something like the lexicon game crossed with a "letter-game" backstory.) I'm much more excited by a project that could lead to a romance game run on the surreal streets of Yianeveh than on Anytown, North America. This almost follows the 'Firefly' concept of the N^th character being the city (ship Serenity in Joss Whedon's vision.)

The best immersive 'sticky' is when contributions twine about each other like a wild tanglevine, each hopefully adding some substance to the other.

So how difficult would this be? A complete Lexicon would take twenty-six 'turns'. Most games seem to be set up to provide a turn a week. Would six months be too long for a backstory setup? Mmm. If even five people worked at it: the seed would have 130 entries and be an interesting artifact.

There would be no commitment from You to play a rpg based on Yianeveh. Nor would there be a guarantee from me of running such. Mmm. That's probably a broken equation. Why would folks commit to entries if the only result was a wiki artifact? Then again, Lexicon Games are writing puzzles that appeal to me.

Perhaps. Just a blip: Yianeveh, at the seed wiki.

Filed under : Muse at 24.05.2005