In this RPG, we're all playing tributes and are currently being walked through the process of picking our character's skills, personality, etc. I'm having a blast getting into it so far! Each day the DM emails out a list of how the contestants are faring in the training process. Once the games begin, we'll be emailing him our moves, and he'll email us back how things are progressing.
So far it feels like he's actually running this with dice in mind, as many of the things we tried to train for haven't been guaranteed for us to take to.
Surely all 24 characters aren't real people, it'd be too much to write and take in each day. I'm sure he's got at least 10 earmarked for him to play as for RP purposes and to kill off so as to make the game feel real to the actual players. That's the trick though: I don't know how many people are playing, of who is really real.
Anyone have some tips on email-based RPG's? 
Lyinar Ka`Bael, Piney Fresh Druidess - Luclin
--Satan, quoted by John Milton
The rest scattered different directions with very little if any supplies.
Here's where the drama gets ugly: We're a 4 person team, banding together for safety against the other tributes, but we're all aware that sometime soon we'll have to break the alliance and start fighting each other. My partner and I think we've got a plan for leading our 4 remaining people into a conflict with another group, then running off. With luck they'll kill each other off and leave the survivors injured for us.
This kind of sneaky drama-planning is much more fun than I thought it'd be!
Lyinar Ka`Bael, Piney Fresh Druidess - Luclin
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How.... Lyinar Ka`Bael.... uughhhhhh:
Or you could break the rules and screw the DM over in true Hunger Games style
Yeah, reading the books for the first time is helping make a lot more sense about what the arena's doing and whatnot.
I was a little thrown at first when it started out as a frozen tundra, and the next day became a blooming field, then withered under intense heat. Seems he's going for a constantly shifting weather theme, which is pretty interesting.
My partner and I broke off the 4-person group, and just saw a former ally's face broadcasted in the sky the next evening. Feels strangely guilty knowing I probably indirectly killed a former ally via abandonment.
Overall, great time. Sad to see it wrap up.
