01-30-2013, 01:24 PM
I think it's interesting that you bring up the World of Darkness setting (Vampire the Masquerade, etc), because as far as a Pen and Paper system goes I hated it, but I always found myself a little bit in love with the setting. The balance of the different supernatural forces was always very delicate and interesting, vampires, werewolves, mages, etc. Only downside to this is that the world that it's in is VERY well structured, which might require all of the writers to learn a lot about the setting, and some might find it constrictive.
As far as I go, I really would like anything that creates an interesting world to explore and interesting questions to ask and perhaps answer. Like I said before, I much more enjoy a game where I can help contribute to world building, which kind of makes really really structured and specific mythologies unattractive to me.
Also, it's really important to me that there is a large variety of abilities or other options for me to use as a writer, which will allow me to be really creative with the way my characters interact. That makes giant robots kind of boring/repetitive, that makes too-realistic settings kind of boring, and it makes any game with a limited scope of powers/whatever boring or if the ability spectrum IS large, if we can only use them in specific ways. It also means that I like the options to write my own abilities.
I think that a lot of these factors are what draw people to anime-based play-by-posts and also magically based play-by-posts. They're both things that don't really have defined limits. I do think, however, that a more realistic super-hero forum could be fun. "Super heroes" is also a vague enough term that you can go in pretty much whatever direction you want with it. If you really wanted to, you could even set it in a canon universe like Marvel or DC. Just an idea.
As far as I go, I really would like anything that creates an interesting world to explore and interesting questions to ask and perhaps answer. Like I said before, I much more enjoy a game where I can help contribute to world building, which kind of makes really really structured and specific mythologies unattractive to me.
Also, it's really important to me that there is a large variety of abilities or other options for me to use as a writer, which will allow me to be really creative with the way my characters interact. That makes giant robots kind of boring/repetitive, that makes too-realistic settings kind of boring, and it makes any game with a limited scope of powers/whatever boring or if the ability spectrum IS large, if we can only use them in specific ways. It also means that I like the options to write my own abilities.
I think that a lot of these factors are what draw people to anime-based play-by-posts and also magically based play-by-posts. They're both things that don't really have defined limits. I do think, however, that a more realistic super-hero forum could be fun. "Super heroes" is also a vague enough term that you can go in pretty much whatever direction you want with it. If you really wanted to, you could even set it in a canon universe like Marvel or DC. Just an idea.
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