Kingdom: A Role Playing Game About Communities

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And I just told him that if he does what the people want his precious authority is going to be a thing of the past .

When RPGs grow into longer term campaigns it's very common for the setting to take on a life of its own with recurring characters and increasingly fleshed out histories and conflicts which many times the players themselves help shape.Sit down and create a community together and then strive to make it live up to your ideals… or watch it burn.

Here's an example from Kingdom: the status quo of theocratic city state is challenged by a foreign, barbarian religion gaining popularity among the masses (I immediately thought of the Gol in Matt's game). Characters may change over time as they change roles or affect the kingdom, but the kingdom itself will change as well: characters will have to make decisions and deal with the consequences of them, popular opinion and the various stresses of rulership no matter what form it may take. It was the perfect recipe for writing: post-con euphoria, extreme exhaustion, lots of caffeine, and complete captivity in an airplane seat. Want to explore an epic history of your own creation, hundreds or thousands of years long, all in an afternoon? It's got elements of traditional tabletop roleplaying games, but is definitely on the fringe of that hobby.The could be directly connected, loosely connected or not connected at all, based on what your Players do and how they feel about the adventures. Ben Robbins' Microscope may be the clearest-written game text I've ever read - which is helpful, because it is also one of the most innovative games I've come across in a long time. Whatever the case, unlike Microscope (also by Robbins), I didn't find myself immediately trying to recruit my wife into playing a game of it with me. It's a unique storytelling engine that sweeps away blinders of limits we enforce on the medium, which, I hope, will help us better realize the full potential of this form.