Hardcore GM'd open RP idea/feedback requested

[Alexandrea]

Please be honest and let me know what you think, everyone. :)

This is NOT an actual rp planning thread, YET. I'd like to see how many would actually be willing to take part in this before I decided to do it.

Additional Notes
GMed (game mastered) threads are encouraged and rewarded. Anyone can GM, if they know how, and once you complete a GMed thread, you can PM one of the developers in order to get a 1000 RPP boost PER PAGE, for each character posting at least twice per page.

The idea is a game, on grid and in roleplay.

Hardcore Hot Potato

The game:
There will be seven 'potatoes'. The team that passes the potato to the most pc's on grid that are listed as roleplayers wins bragging rights and the team leader (whomever bought the potato to start with) gets the pot. Thralls and Doppels are welcome to sign, but they must also actually be passed the potato and the needs to be in a post in the roleplay.

A team is whomever signs that potato. You can sign more than one potato, in fact you want to. Whomever signs the most potatoes or ends up with all the potatoes on grid AND role plays it out, gets 10 karma from me.

The roleplay.

Should not be just passing a ball around the team, players can roll to see if they can steal potatoes and if they win the roll, that potato gets passed on the grid as well.

Meaning that yes, you can steal another team/player's shot at winning. If you roleplay and the RNG likes you. Rolls must be public to count.

You can also roleplay out you put the potato someplace safe, filled with traps and summoned critters with big nasty teeth. And if you roll and win, anyone trying to steal your team's potato has to Roll to find it, for every trap, and anything else you write setting up to protect that potato. (Could be interesting to do that on grid as well...)

How it'll work
Alex buys a noticeboard linked to an image of a potato and a number, and a link to where to sign the names. Then Alex auctions off the notice boards.
I keep track of the buys (if any) and all the cash from those sales go into a pot, along with 25K from Alex's account.

I'll have Alex post the opening of the thread with a post about autioning off the potatoes and post the url here. (meaning the ooc planning post, if I do this)

Requirements:
Posting in the thread if you are after the karma or cash or both.
Minimum of 300 wpp/min of 7 posts
Live Chat RP is okay but doesn't count to the required 7 minimum posts to win.
No posting order but no posting twice in one day as the same character and no posts over 700 words.

The game is over when someone either has all the potatoes on grid and in roleplay or the first player with the most potatoes signed that hits 13 posts in the thread.

[Alexandrea]

Edited to add a poll. Flaming Fruitcake anyone? Too bad we don't have catapults...

[Robert Pratt]

No posting order but no posting twice in one day as the same character and no posts over 700 words.

That's the only bit I have an issue with. The first bit cause it could get very messy, very quickly with no order and structure to it. And the second bit, cause that is REALLY restrictive to some people.

But I think Charlotte might do this if those two points are changed - maybe see if a Vedarian team could be put together for it.

[Doc]

For my characters.. it only suits one of them. Because it is a game with no real point other than its a game. Sorta like an Urban scavenger hunt type thing. Which I think is a great idea.

I have to agree that only being able to post once a day; would be a huge hindering factor. I do not always have time every day to post. Or I don't have the desire to write every single day.

And for the character I have in mind for the thread, chat rp is her primary way I rp her, so not having chat count would completely let her out.

Also, trying to hold on to the potatos .. I dont quite understand that bit. The bit about stealing them. For instance.. if Doc were to play.. (which he wouldn't its not in his persona to be bothered with a game) but he would lie flat out to some one. "No I passed it on. I do not have it anymore." So that sorta defeats the game - right.. but if you want to win.. a character would/could li - right?

[Alexandrea]

Well nothing is set in stone. That's why I posted this thread, to try and sort out the details to make it fun for everyone. And the idea of it being a 'potato' is just the name of the 'game'. The object being passed around could be anything.

So I'm open to changes, like a posting order and no max and maybe allow chat rp to count. If I'm going to give away ten karma and 25k I'd like there to be more than one or two other players interested, lol. ;)

As far as the lying goes, Doc? Sure someone can lie. But when was the last time a thief asked a target what they had in their pockets? ;) Finding out who to try and steal the 'potato' from would be half the battle and shouldn't be easy.

About posting order. I have been in so many threads where the story gets dropped due to or two players not posting. So maybe okay to a posting order but if someone takes over 48 hours they get skipped?

About max number or words. Yeah, I have trouble with that one myself and hate counting my words, lol. Consider is gone.

About posting once a day maximum. (That was a max, not a min...) No longer is an issue, if there is a posting order.

The Chat rp counting... so long as it it split up and each one in the chat posts, okay.

[Robert Pratt]

Yeh, I have no issues with people being skipped if they miss their turn in a posting order.

I've just had too many threads where there is no order and so people jump in all over and some folks on different timezones/with busy lives don't get a look in. Or a crapload happens between one of their posts and the next, cause a couple of people have just gone for it. lol.

And yeh - Chat RP is easier for some folks to do. As well as easier in some instances. Like if you've got two people having a conversation on their own with no-one else in the 'scene'. It can be really difficult to hit a minimum word count in that sort of thing. So having chat RP count is fab.

[Alexandrea]

So long as everyone IN the chat rp posts a part of it, I have no problem with including those. :)

[Robert Pratt]

Yeh - I wouldn't feel happy if chat RPs weren't split. But it's part of the rules of the board - that everyone in it should post some. Unless they wave their rights. And I think everyone is good at splitting things up. :)

[Alexandrea]

everyone in it should post some. Unless they wave their rights.

^ that. None of that, lol. ;) All who contribute to the tread need to participate in the thread. Passing whatever the teams use as a football on grid and 'signing the ball' it's okay to be an 'inactive' part of the game but in any other way, I want to see posting, lol.