Yes, I said DMs. Plural. Multiple. Because this is gonna be a slight twist on the PbP format, hopefully for the better, but prooooobably for the worse. We'll see.
The idea is rather than have a bunch of players and one DM, this game will have multiple DMs and one player. A simple little guy, nothing terribly special, who gets swept up into a whirlwind of chaos and insanity. That's where you all come in!
This is going to be muuuuuch more different from normal PbP campaigns, in that there really isn't going to be a great deal of rules to hold you all back. It starts out simply with our little friend living his life on a farm, and from there... well, that's up to you to decide. I'm not even going to prevent others from randomly joining in: if you need to take a break, you have other GMs to stand in for you and cause chaos. If you're totally new and want to jump in, by all means! The story is up to you guys.
That being said, I do have a couple of requests:
-Try to be respectful of the other DMs. The idea is to watch a little monkey dance to your insane song, not drive each other crazy. It's effectively a story written by multiple people, so there may be one or more toes stepped on. It's probably inevitable... just be good sports!
-As fun as it may be to toss a level 1 character into a room with an elder dragon, that's probably going to grind things to a halt. Unless of course, you fashion a method of escape for him, in which case, sure.
-Try to stick to one element of the world at a time. If you decide to introduce an NPC, try to keep it to that one NPC, at least in the first post. If, in the next post, you'd like to say he/she explodes in a shower of confetti, it will freak our hero out, but otherwise, it's acceptable.
-Act on the hero, try to avoid posting for him. Rest assured, I will ensure he reacts quite accordingly (arguably by running away in cowardice), but act on him, and he will act back.
-Keep it loose, keep it friendly, chug right along.
-A good grasp on how to write properly would be helpful.
Not too hard, right? It's meant to be a fun little experiment. So if you'd like to get started, just check out the campaign tab, and we'll see how long it takes for a monkey made of mayonnaise to leap out of a cauldron make with brambles and attack our little hero.