Hi!
I've been thinking about giving a different kind of Role Play Game a try. How about an RPG in which people don't take the role of one character, but rather write "chapters" for the story of the game. In their individual chapters the authors would have complete controle over all the characters and events (within the rules of the game of course, no god-mode or the like). The next chapter needs to begin at the point where the last chapters stopped, or at least it mustn't alter anything about what happened before.
There are several possible advantages of such a kind of RPG.
-It is more likely to make a coherent story
-As everyone has controle over all characters in the own chapters it is less likely that there will be the kind of favoring characters which leads to very uneven distribution of actions
-It is easier this way to give the plot one direction while in the usual RPGs it often seems like the participants were all trying to "pull the plot" in opposite directions.
-We wouldn't end up with hundreds of posts of one or two lines of little content, but with chapters that are probably much more pleasant to read.
-The result would possibly be something like a fanfiction written by several autors. Of course we would have to agree on certain dos and don'ts of the plot, but I really think that we could make this a really interesting common project.
Who of you would like to give the chapter- rather than characterwise RPG a try?