[quote=@Gowi]
I love free-level RPs if you can trust the players. You can make great stories on the tip of a hat with new CS's or extensive lore. It can be fun. But I think the only way I can have a RP like that is if I restricted it to my friends/people I know.
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Really you can do anything with friends or people you know more than random strangers. In that sense you know where your partners can or are willing to go and what their experience and skill lies. And it may be me, but friends are someone to trust to not blow up pre-planning to end up serving their own self-interests as I'm afraid strangers might; so I can reveal all or most to them beforehand and we can collaborate more closely to put together a more coherent story.