OOC: Space Marines (query)

[peterpan]

Hi everybody. I would like to try churning out some space opera with lots of space-hulks, tough women and bug eyed monsters etc etc.

..but really I am more interested in running it as a colaborative story (where rough plot points are discussed ahead of time) rather than an adventure where no player knows what is going on. I would like lots of character development but not proprietry characters as such. Being a story it would probably be based around one character in fact.

I have had a look at the Chyoo stuff. That is typically several authors on a single character, but I dont desire effort spent on side threads and the plots are to novels as IMAX are to movies. Also, feedback is slow, I suspect.

I have also seen some collaborative novels around. Well, two anyway. They might be a good end result but I don't know how they are organised. Really I just want somewhere I can add a page occasionally, discuss plot points etc.

Anyone suggest how to run such a thing?

 

[PmTick]

I tried doing something similar about 2 months ago but it didn't pan out. My idea revolved around a planet full of heros who where powerless to stop an oncoming meteor from destroying their planet. I told everyone the thread would last 40 days and no matter what happened the meteor could not be interuppted. Basically only two other people posted and I couldn't keep it alive all by myself so it fizzled. I think the way to accomplish it would not tell people it was plotted out ahead of time and just keep setting everything up yourself.

 

[peterpan]

You mean they kept wanting to find heroic new ways to save the world?

 

[PmTick]

Nope, I provided plenty of chaos and mayhem to clean up: a sudden crime wave, floods, buildings collapsing, the timing just wasn't right. Didn't even get to the meteor really.

 

[peterpan]

Well that's heros for you. Ungrateful sods.

BTW I just got my interactive story Space Marines in http://www.chyoo.com authorised.