User blog:WhiteSeraph/Real Time Chat RP

Pretty simple (in theory), potentially amazing. A real time RP constantly going on in chat, with each contributing user playing one (or possibly two) character(s). Up until the minute it goes live, virtually everything is subject to change and open for discussion.

Here are the key things to be decided:
 * Setting: It would have to be something where we could easily justify people appearing and disappearing as they join/leave chat. Currently, the best idea seems to be a "lost webway", but really any setting that would allow extensive use of tactical retreats would work.
 * Overall plot: I have literally no idea what to do here, so this is 100% TBD.
 * Emoticon: We'd have an emoticon tag to mark RP actions with. What that emoticon is going to be is undecided.
 * Character Creation: How would this work? I'm thinking we'd just have character sheets in a forum that we could update periodically, but one of you guys can probably think of something better.
 * Combat System(?): We would probably just have the acting GM flip a coin or roll dice on their end to say who wins what fight. Or no combat system. All options are open, discuss plz.

We'll do some one-shot test RPs set outside of 40k first so that people can get the feel of how it would work. These will be set in: a horror setting, a romance setting, and a fantasy setting. Dates and times TBD.

Quick example of how it would work.

GM: Our heroes approach a dark cave. You can hear movement coming from deep within.

User 1: I cautiously enter the cave.

User 2: I yell at User 1 to NOT enter the cave.

User 3: I quietly, but furiously, tell User 2 to shut up and push him into the cave.

GM: A cave troll emerges.

User 1: I attack it.

GM: You die.

User 2: I run.

GM: The troll catches you. You die.

User 3: I attempt to seduce it.

GM: The troll prefers the company of other trolls. You die.