GM x Any/All - Choose Your Own Adventure

[Light]

Hello everyone! I'm looking to run an idea that seems like it might be somewhat unique here on RPG. Simply put, this rp would function as a "Choose your own Adventure" style game, where the players would choose from a selection of action and dialog prompts after each post of mine, to direct and advance the narrative that I would write for you all, similar to something like the Goosebumps CYOA books.

Here's the kicker though, I would keep this roleplay open to any and all players who want to jump in for a bit, tag along for however many prompts, and otherwise come and go as they please. Everyone would "play" as the same single protagonist character, and I would accept choice selections from anyone who replies, no sign up required.

As for plot ideas, I'm still in the beginning stages of an idea, but I'm thinking to start with a simple medieval fantasy dungeon crawl. After that we can just "go from there" based on whatever we end up with, and we would discover who the player character is over the course of playing the game.

So yeah, would anyone be interested in this? I know there isn't a grandiose world-introduction segment of writing here or anything like that but... I imagine it's something we'd all come up with together as we play.

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OOC is here

[The Muse]

I'd be interested :)

[Guardian Angel Haruki]

I'm also interested, if you'll have me. ^_^

[Light]

Sweet! I'm glad this got some attention. Any amount of players will work, and I hope the player count will fluctuate as I play it out for everyone. So with that I can just get to work on an OOC later on tonight.

[Zapdos]

This seems interesting. How would you coordinate the "choose what the character does" part with people taking turns writing posts?

If it helps, here are a few past RPs that incorporated similar concepts to what you want to do:

Mystery of the Key: full disclousure, I ran this one. A group of writers took turns writing for all the characters, shaping the plot and world as they did so. The RP can be found here: roleplayerguild.com/topics/187004-mys…

Wal Quest: a guy ran a choose your own adventure style story here for a while. It's pretty strange, but the mechanics might help you. It is located here: roleplayerguild.com/topics/184216-wal…

Use or ignore those if you want. I'm interested to see how this idea of yours develops!

[Light]

@Zapdos

I imagine it would be a lot closer to the second example you have there, though I imagined the choice would be first-come-first-served rather than a vote. Perhaps voting would be better, so people don't feel like they have to race to reply. I definitely didn't plan to let people write full post responses like in your first example, but smaller write-ins were something I was considering.

[Zapdos]

@Zapdos

I imagine it would be a lot closer to the second example you have there, though I imagined the choice would be first-come-first-served rather than a vote. Perhaps voting would be better, so people don't feel like they have to race to reply. I definitely didn't plan to let people write full post responses like in your first example, but smaller write-ins were something I was considering.

@Light

Well, those are all things to think about. I think having people not race to reply is a good thing though. If you need someone to bounce ideas off of, you are welcome to send me a PM!

[Light]

@The Muse@Guardian Angel Haruki@Zapdos

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OOC is up. I'll be starting the IC on Sunday.

[rocketrobie2]

I love this idea and I think I might drop in too. I used to do a few like this inspired by the fear street movies a little while back but they puttered out when I couldn’t keep up with ‘em (roleplayerguild.com/topics/188463-mel… ). Looking forward to seeing how this goes!

[Light]

Bumping this to see if more people wanna hop in