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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Delemental" data-source="post: 255347" data-attributes="member: 5203">I'd suggest leaving the world generic, and I mean even more generic than Greyhawk.  The writers should be able to develop their own kindgoms, cities, etc, just as they develop the characters.  This could be subject to the same sort of "understanding" between contributors that the characters have; it's fine to wipe out a village with a bandit raid, but if someone creates "Jazandor, City of a Thousand Colors" and obviously intends it as an important location, then the next person in line should have the courtesy not to flatten it with a comet immediately. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /> Perhaps before starting, everyone working on a particular storyline should have a pre-story conference, where certain details are set.  An example would be something like the following (note that I just made this up.  I'm not saying this is how it has to be):There are three main characters.  At least one must be a different gender than the others, and at least one must be a different race.  This can be the same person (ie, a female non-human).  None of these people can be killed, incapacitated, or removed from the storyline without the consent of all participants in the story.  There must also be at least one primary opponent, who is under the same rules as the main characters.  The setting is based on basic D&D concepts (highly magical, medieval to Renaissance-level technology and social development, presence of typical fantasy races, etc), but not set in any published world.  Any developed settings or locations must be left open enough to allow other participants to add or remove elements as needed.  Beyond the main three characters and primary opponent, participants are free to create and/or remove secondary characters as they see fit.  Each participant has one week to submit their portion of the story, starting from the post time of the previous portion.  If a submission is not received, the story passes to the next person on the list.  Three such missed deadlines from a participant will cause the person to be removed from the rotation.  Known conflicts (vacations) or unavoidable circumstances (computer crashes), if reported in a timely manner, will not be counted against a participant.  Any submission which is deemed grossly incongruous with the storyline (the established "fighter" starts throwing fireballs, for example, or suddenly Star Wars-style Stormtroopers show up), or does not meet the posting standards of the EN World forum, will not be added to the ongoing story and may result in the participant being removed from the project if problems persist.  Constructive criticism of writing style or technique is welcomed.  Unconstructive criticism ("you suck!") is not welcome.  All participants recognize and agree that this is a shared story; the events and characters are "ours," not "yours" and "mine".Whew!  That got a little longer than I intended, and went into more "rules of conduct" than "setting rules".  Still, I think hashing out some general details would be a good idea, as well as having set, written standards for participation.  The whole "ours" vs. "mine" thing is just so people don't get into arguments over what someone else has written ("but Pelfor the Indomitable wouldn't do that!"), and accept that these are 'public domain' stories subject to the whims of fate and the tastes of a dozen or so different people.By the way, as if it weren't obvious, I'd like to be involved in this project as well, if there is still room.</blockquote>

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