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[Draignean]

Sounds interesting. Mix 'n match elements to create more elements and fling them at your enemies? Yes please.

Well, sort of. You can't just call your fire fury and start hurling fireballs, you have to have a source of heat. If you're strong enough you can concentrate ambient or personal heat to create blooms of flame, but that takes real power.

Think them more as letting you effect an element rather than create the manifestation of said element. For instance wood could let move softly over six inches of crackly twigs, let you shoot wooden arrows with incredible accuracy, or make really awesome window frames. It couldn't however create a tree where no seed has fallen, and even if you have a seed to work from it still requires vast amounts of water and nutrients for you to instill hypergrowth in it. However with wood (to manipulate the plant), earth (to draw up nutrients from the soil), and water (to call water from the earth) it would become much more possible.

In the example of the steampunk take your simple steam cannon. Furies that could possibly effect the weapon itself would probably be water, fire, and metal. Possible air.

It should be noted that even if you don't have a fury bonded in a particular field doesn't mean you can't work in it, it just means it's going to be a great deal harder.

[Dermonster]

So it's kinda like bending in Avatar the last airbender, except everyone can be the avatar and there is a (Widespread) metal element.

[Draignean]

So it's kinda like bending in Avatar the last airbender, except everyone can be the avatar and there is a (Widespread) metal element.

You lost me at Avatar.

Wouldn't call metal widespread, at least anymore than any of the others.

[Dermonster]

*shrug*

In any case, it sounds interesting. I'd play it.

I would also like to call a preemptive IN if that's possible. I'm not in enough RTD's these days.

[TolyK]

I'd prefer this:
http://xkcd.com/965/

[Talarion]

*shrug*

In any case, it sounds interesting. I'd play it.

I would also like to call a preemptive IN if that's possible. I'm not in enough RTD's these days.

This is my exact sentiments <.<

[Draignean]

*shrug*

In any case, it sounds interesting. I'd play it.

I would also like to call a preemptive IN if that's possible. I'm not in enough RTD's these days.

This is my exact sentiments <.<

Well I'd like to call IN too but I've no idea who'd host it.

[wolfchild]

Well if someone does do it (I thought you were gonna, draig) then I am going to IN

[tomas1297]

 Started writing RTD, ran out of inspiration again. So, ideas?

 I may be a bit too picky about this. >_>

[Draignean]

Started writing RTD, ran out of inspiration again. So, ideas?

 I may be a bit too picky about this. >_>

Which idea are you working from?

Well if someone does do it (I thought you were gonna, draig) then I am going to IN

Hell I've already got two... No wait, Wraith has been inactive for sixty days. Probably safe to say it's dead.

...Which makes me a bachelor as far as RTD GMship goes.
Damn.

[tomas1297]

Started writing RTD, ran out of inspiration again. So, ideas?

 I may be a bit too picky about this. >_>

Which idea are you working from?

I'm not working on any idea because nothing seems to work out. >_<

[Tarran]

...Which makes me a bachelor as far as RTD GMship goes.
Damn.

Not necessarily. Depending on your willpower and free time, one RTD could already be exhausting to GM. And considering Wraith and Imperfect dying, I have a feeling that D22 is the extent of your current abilities, and/or free time.

...Either that or you're just forgetful. Pick your poison.

[Gatleos]

Anyone around here ever considered running an Endless RTD?

I'm imagining an RTD that not only has a waiting list for players, but for GMs too. Whenever one GM gets bored of the RTD, they just pass it off to anyone else who wants to take over. Then, they can take the story in any direction they want. It would just keep going on forever, with players and GMs cycling in and out as time went on.

[Dermonster]

I assume it would be like a miniature repeat of RTD wars, except not at all.

It would devolve into gibberish a few moments after someone like (someone who is not that good at GMing but doesn't realize it and we're all kinda too polite to say it) got the lead.

If it was consistently passed around good-adequate GM's, then yeah, it would work, possibly brilliantly. But also once GM's switch over, any fore planning is lost and the plot is thrown into a bit of disarray, unless you keep an internally consistent set of notes and pass it around. That is not counting the fact that new GM's would have to re-read the thread to figure out whats going on and what to do next.

From a non-RTD standpoint, its like handing the authorship of Harry Potter to a random fan of it partway through book two then repeating that process indefinitely. He might be a great writer, or she might be the author of My Immortal levels of shit-fic.

I'm not saying it's a bad idea. It's just that it has much more potential to erupt into a complete disaster than a regular RTD. Less so than the mess mentioned above, but still.

[Gatleos]

I'd imagine that each GM, when done, would write a paragraph-long summary of everything that happened during their turn. And the way I imagine the story working is in an episodic way. That is, there may be an overarching plot, but each GM's turn is essentially self-contained. It's just like a large rotating panel of writers writing for a TV show.

I just want to see how long we could keep the damned thing alive.