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Of course you all know what an RPG is, but have you ever played it on a message board? Basically what happens is someone pitches an idea for a story to the board, and if enough people are interested, then a sign-up topic is made where people submit their character's information and await the gamemaster's (GM - whoever came up with the idea) approval. There are various genres and lengths to them. Once the game starts, everyone takes turns introducing their characters and beginning the story. Although the GM has control over direction, it's all up to the role players to move the story along. Characters work together to solve problems either set up by the GM or from a logical outcome generated by the players. There is always one main goal to accomplish, with turmoils along the way, but if it ends up to flunk, ie. a bomb inevitably goes off or a plane explodes because of another character, then wither a deus ex machina could be geniously used, or find a suitible way to die gracefully . Even then, anything can happen, and as long as both the role players discussing the story outside of the game, or the characters in the game work together, the game will survive and give everyone involved a great time!

There is so much that can be done with role playing games on a forum, especially this forum. RPGs might become scripts for games, or atleast generate a working idea. So, if enough people like this idea, I'll post a simple story to role play and try to get it to work!