The first functional playtest of the RPGtonight Online Living Game is about to start up. We are still accepting players and GMs. The more of each the merrier! Players are organizing themselves into parties and GMs will soon start recruiting parties to perform adventurous and nefarious deeds on their behalf.
If interested please take a look at the information on the main page of our site (www.rpgtonight.com ) and in the Living Game Playtests section about midway down our message boards, and respond with an email to admin@rpgtonight.com if you are interested. Players and GM's manuals will be sent to will be sent out promptly. Please state whether you are interested in testing as a player or GM. We particularly need more GMs.
The playtests will use the D&D 4e system, simply because that is what most
people are playing right now.
This living game is unique and quite a bit different from other living games. There are no pre-planned scenarios or adventures. Instead, the GMs themselves are playing the game amongst themselves, with characters of their own instead of random NPCs, and using the actions of adventuring parties to advance their interests and thwart the goals of others. The rules set that we have devised to make this happen is what is being tested.
You had me until the third paragraph. :(
Same here.
Wait...this sounds like an awesome idea, but is 4E really what most people are playing? Not inciting a flame war, that just seems bizarre.
Anyway, I'll probably still check it out...but hmmm...the third paragraph mostly lost me as well.
|
I'm not a 4e player either, but they're testing the system. They'll need results from the various playtesters that reflect common experiences and variances within the system, so they need a common game system.
No matter what your preferred game, using one game for the test sounds entirely reasonable.
I won't have time to participate, but the idea sounds great.
Good luck!
Wait...this sounds like an awesome idea, but is 4E really what most people are playing? Not inciting a flame war, that just seems bizarre.
My guess is that Obbligato meant to indicate that 4E is what most of the folks currently involved with rpgtonight are playing.
Got it. Agreed, Skullbone, it sounds like a great idea, regardless. And that does make sense...I totally read that differently, but you're right Heaven's Agent.
Anyway, good luck and I will check it out!
Looks pretty neat.
Interesting topic - who has the biggest market share and player base now?
I started a thread in the Gamers Life section about it. It's my impression, judging from my local area and the net in general, that 4e dominates with the most sales and a majority of the current player base. Obviously not among people on this board, but in the English speaking world in general.
See my post in Gamers life if you want to discuss it.
(PS: and sign up for the playtest at rpgtonight.com too. Players are just starting to get organized into parties and all that. Sorry - 4e only.)