Rules to play open roleplaying games within the world of Kensei
Kensei's Open Roleplaying System
What is a open roleplaying game?
It is a roleplaying game driven by forum, without any predefined story as it will be written by players without almost any game director intervention.
How do we play?
A game director creates a new roleplaying game (a new forum and new topic and a main story topic within that forum ) and set up a basic context. Then players can write wh1atever they want, answering in the main story topic, related with their character, clan, parallel story... based on the world of Hymukai and somehow related with the original plot.
The game director is not going to intervene in the story, he would only act as a moderator. The global story will evolve thanks to players stories.
This open roleplaying game is all about narrative. You will reach your objectives through the word and trying to influence as much as possible in the story.
There is no dice roll and any conflict that may happen (player vs players or player vs world) will be resolve through a poll where all players can participate.
Roleplaying game goal
Our main goal is to have fun using our imagination., develop our clan and fictional characters within the world of Kensei and fill of stories Hymukai.
Who can be a game director?
Members of the community who admins and moderators can trust to carry on with a game.
Do I need to create a player character?
Yes, each game forum contains a presentation topic and you must introduce there your character, answering few question asked by the game director in that presentation forum.
How many players are allowed to play?
The game director decides. We will create a new member group to only let those users write although everyone will be able to see the game. It is recommended 5-6 players.
Game turns
Each game is divided in several turns. Each turn is a topic within the game forum.
A game will consist in no more than 5 turns. Each one would take no more than two weeks. In that time players must write all their allowed answers.
The game director is in charge of starting a new turn (open the topic) and to finish it. When a turn is opened the game director must sum up the status of the main story and players and put the basis of the following turn.
How much can I write?
Each game turn, you can answer the story topic up to 3 times. Each answer can contain up to 100 words. When you have spend your three answered, you cannot intervene any more until next turn or until you are involved in a conflict.
You can use this website to word-counting your texts wordcounter.net
What can I do and what I cannot do
In your answers, you can write about whatever you want and your player character can do and get anything. The game director will stop you if you fly too high (no, you cannot be emperor in your first game).
Your answer must have any kind of connection with other players answers. It may be not directly related but your story must affect the main plot at some level (even slightly) . The game director can ask about this connection and you must be able to tell it.
You cannot interfere in the official Kensei's background if the game director do not allows it.
You cannot directly decide about other player's characters or non player characters (kill them, kidnap, drive mad, etc.) but you can initiate a conflict against another player or the game director (ie: start a fight). You must clearly indicate in your answer that you are initiating a conflict against one or more players or game director and what is your goal in that conflict.
How do we resolve a conflict?
When a conflict is open, the game director ask to player involved in the conflict to send them a private message (100 words) telling how they are going to act during the conflict (within the fiction) in order to be the winner. These messages are secrets. When the game director has all messages, he will open a new poll-topic specifically for that conflict, including all player's arguments and the players must vote who should be the winner.
When the conflict poll is done, the game director will edit the main story topic's conflict post indicating the winner. Then those players involved can continue their stories through their answer starting at that point.
Non Player Characters
Non Player Characters (NPC) are those characters who you players introduce in your stories but are not your main character.
As any other aspect, you decide how they act and what actions these npc perform through your answer.
Only during a conflict, the game director takes control of the non player character in order to know how he would react to the conflcit (ie: a player wants to convince to a other's player npc to betray its lord. A conflict is performed and the game director is in charge of creating the non player character's argument. As usual, players vote who is the winner of the conflict).
When the game finish?
When the last turn is over, the game is done and the game director will present the conclusions in a farewell topic. Players can also answer their conclusions (1 only answer, 300 words maximum).
