Collaborative conworlding with Microscope RPG?
Collaborative conworlding with Microscope RPG?
Back around Gencon, I happened upon some information about the Microscope RPG (review) and its spinoff Kickstarter project, Kingdom, which seem like tools for collaborative conworlding. Has anyone else heard about these or tried them?
Re: Collaborative conworlding with Microscope RPG?
I downloaded a copy of Microscope a little while ago, and it seems like it could be pretty interesting if you got a good group of people together. I'm not looking at the rules right now (I've got them on a different computer), but as far as I can recall there's nothing about the rules that would make them unsutable for use in a forum-based game.
Incidentally, in playing Microscope you don't build a world, per-se, but rather a history. It's a fine distinction, but at the beginning you have to agree on a certain number of assumptions about the setting, and if you're more interested in things like the geology and evolutionary biology of a world rathter than the social and political history of sentient beings, Microscope isn't really the system to use.
Incidentally, in playing Microscope you don't build a world, per-se, but rather a history. It's a fine distinction, but at the beginning you have to agree on a certain number of assumptions about the setting, and if you're more interested in things like the geology and evolutionary biology of a world rathter than the social and political history of sentient beings, Microscope isn't really the system to use.