First off, I haven't been part of, let stand [i]made[/i], a RP in years. Bear with me.
My idea was to make a story where when you join the focus is not on a character sheet. Instead it's on a Dimension description. You see, everyone who joins the RP starts off in the same universe. [i]However[/i], you also start off in your entirely own dimension of that universe, and all dimensions should be in some way different from each other, though still be parallel. Then there are loopholes between dimensions that you will fall through, ending up in someone else's dimension. Stuff like that. :^D
So let's say George, Charlie and Emmy are all living in Exampletown.
[list][*]George is a knight to the court of the king of Exampletown, slaying dragons when possible, and his life is told by an epic storyteller who seems to be looking over his shoulder, because he's cool like that.[*]Charlie is a cleaning man for a restaurant in sector X-AMPLTWNX88, cleaning after Wookie-like creatures.[*]Emma is a mysterious detective whose actions are always told in first person in Exampletown, crime capital of the world, where everything is black and white and it always seems to be raining.[/list]Then Charlie drops into a dimension hole, and suddenly he finds himself in a trench coat, talking to himself while washing blood off the streets of Dobbeltown, crime capital of the world.
Stuff like that. Is the idea so far completely lame or slightly cool?