(March 7, 2021 at 6:02 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: That’s always been pretty much how I use ‘Traveller’. I build the ships and the planets and the political systems and the trade structures - I just never seem to get round to actually playing the game.
Boru
Oh, no, I play. No, the role-playing I do is collaborative writing. I have a character and you have a character and we agree upon a basic story premise and the "playing of the game" is us trading back and forth in a series of posts written like a story. There's no GM; I don't write for or control your character and you don't control mine(unless we have NPCs that we share control of). So, the posts can be anywhere from a line to 1,000+ words, where my character does or says something in order to move the story forward and give your character something to react to.
The idea of it is like a round robin story game, except with the type I do, it's kind of odd to read back over the story because it changes perspective between the characters every post and sometimes the basic plot isn't defined beyond a skeleton or a goal to shoot for. The point is the character interactions and telling the story through that.
