Interest Check: Freeform un-DMed Matrix RP
Posted: Thu Jun 27, 2013 5:57 am
Ok, so - I can't commit to actively "running" a game, consolidating posts and creating daily replies, but I used to manage a forum based RPG in the good old days, the year the original Matrix film came out. I set the scene, occasionally moved an NPC or created an objective, and aside from that the players managed themselves. It's a big futuristic sandbox.
It was set before we knew what Zion was like, before the general weirdness of the second and third films, and so on. I had a rudimentary stats/skills system, both in-Matrix and Real World. There were different classes of Agent (before the film did it - heh) and Program, a whole fleet of independently captained ships, an outpost nearer the surface called Babylon...I lost these details along the way - it was several laptops ago and backups lived on Geocities. But I can recreate them.
Would anyone be interested in this? There's no limit on player numbers, anyone could join, you could be whatever you wanted - hell, you could have several characters. It can be huge or tiny. But I'd love to see my little world inhabited again. I'll throw all my old PCs and NPCs, and some other characters whose players I know wouldnt mind being used in homage, in as NPCs. I just need some players to get it started, and then we can grow it from there together.
If I get some interest, I'll start padding out details. I really hope some of you want to join me.
(edit to add: in our game, Neo was just sort of glossed over, since the end of the film made him kind of godly and game breaking. We pretended he did exist, but he was just another freedom fighter, symbolic rather than Uberpowered. I might make this version pre-Neo, so somewhere in the background, Morpheus still seeks The One, but hasn't found him.)
It was set before we knew what Zion was like, before the general weirdness of the second and third films, and so on. I had a rudimentary stats/skills system, both in-Matrix and Real World. There were different classes of Agent (before the film did it - heh) and Program, a whole fleet of independently captained ships, an outpost nearer the surface called Babylon...I lost these details along the way - it was several laptops ago and backups lived on Geocities. But I can recreate them.
Would anyone be interested in this? There's no limit on player numbers, anyone could join, you could be whatever you wanted - hell, you could have several characters. It can be huge or tiny. But I'd love to see my little world inhabited again. I'll throw all my old PCs and NPCs, and some other characters whose players I know wouldnt mind being used in homage, in as NPCs. I just need some players to get it started, and then we can grow it from there together.
If I get some interest, I'll start padding out details. I really hope some of you want to join me.
(edit to add: in our game, Neo was just sort of glossed over, since the end of the film made him kind of godly and game breaking. We pretended he did exist, but he was just another freedom fighter, symbolic rather than Uberpowered. I might make this version pre-Neo, so somewhere in the background, Morpheus still seeks The One, but hasn't found him.)
