Discuss What matters most?

[GuyYouMetOnline]

I'm sure I'm not the only one who's thought up a perfectly good RPG but screwed up on one or two important points. I was thinking about that, and I started wondering what the most important parts of an RPG are? What should you focus on when making an RPG? Oh, a note: this thread is focusing on the Adventure Inn posts. I want to know what you think the most important parts of the introductory post (where you give the backstory and have the sign-up form).

One thing that I think is important is to offor potential participants a variety of choices when choosing their characters. For example, let people choose race (for example, in a fantasy-type RPG, you might want to allow people to be humans, elves, dawrfs, or other races). If you're allowing magic, give multiple choices as to what kind of powers people have. A perfect example of both is in an RPG I tried not too long ago, Release. I allowed people choose from four races, humans being one of them, and the other three being ones I made up. One race had element-based powers (only a couple of the people who signed up weren't that race, which tells me that element-based powers are bery popular), and the other three could all have magical powers. People could choose areas of magic that their characters knew (healing magic, defensive magic, offensive magic, etc.). I screwed up that RPG plot-wise a couple pages into the actual RPG, though, so people stopped posting. So plot is also important.

In my oppinion, the single most important thing is the title of your RPG. Not the plot, not what kind of RPG it is, but the title. People's first impressions of RPGs come from the titles of those RPGs. I'm not even going to look at an RPG titled 'Street Life', because what that title indicates (modern day setting, reality-based) is not the kind of thing I like in an RPG. I personally prefer fantasy, so I'll probably check out an RPG titled 'Demonic Rising'. I might not sign up, but I'll take a look at the RPG. That's why title matters, in my oppinion.

Well, that's my two cent's worth. I'd like to hear what you think.

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