Anyone up for a TwittRPG?

First off, fair warning: I’m stealing and modifying the text below from ChattyDM. If you want the original post, go here. I’m modifying it to suit my own goals. Let us begin:
What is TwittRPG? It’s a Play by Tweets Storytelling Roleplaying game based on the features of Twitter. It’s divided in scenes. The game structure goes like this:
- The game has Two ’rounds’
- A scene with the DM posting a series of descriptive tweets and granting each player one action tweet.
- Players can discuss the scene among themselves with no limits.
- The action tweet covers a variable time frame depending on players.
- Players send their Action Tweet to the DM before the appointed deadline of the next round of the next round.
- The DM adjudicates the results of player actions, responds to some tweets and hands out bonus tweets to some players (Max one bonus Tweet per player).
- Players can discuss among themselves.
- Players with bonus action tweets send them before the appointed deadline of the day’s last round.
- DM describe results and concludes the scene or extends it to the next day’s turn.
- If scene is extended, DM summarizes event the next day and resets all players’ action tweets
The game will not have a particular schedule, it will only be based on the time constraints of the players and DM.
Crunch:
Success is DM-fiat based and is guided on cleverness of Tweets and subjective strength of tweet vs other party members’ action.
If a random event must be generated, a d20 will be rolled with the goal of rolling 10 or more. Possibility to get a +/- 2 bonus/penalty.
Above and beyond using these mechanics, the Rule of Fun and Rule of Cool must prevail. DM must reward Clever use of the limits of a Tweet post (140 characters less the tag) and must focus on ’saying yes’.
Fluff
The current setting is a mix-match of all D&D editions and campaign settings (including the tropes behind them).
It’s going to be epic and sweeping in adventure.
If you are interested in playing, simply sign up for a Twitter account, find me (markmeredith) and message me. We’ll get playing as soon as i determine we have enough players.
Players will be required to name and describe their characters in only one Tweet.
CHECK OUT THE TWITTRPG PAGE ABOVE FOR DETAILS.







Tweet sent! I’m glad to see the schedule is based on time constraints. I had 4 ambulance calls yesterday so a set schedule wouldn’t have been the best.
The very notion of twittRPG has gotten my own creative juices flowing and I hope to use your work here as a basis for my own game using the Mutants & Masterminds rules – a Super-twittRPG if you will.
I just wanted to take a moment and thank you for sharing this with the masses! Seeing as it was your Bolt write up that caught my eye and ended up in a google search I did looking for more M&M stuff out on the web – A chance accident that has truned into a blessing!
cheers & good gaming
Wasabi