Storium

[Tamien]

Has anyone else tried Storium? I just recently made an account and would be interested in trying it out with people.

[Alicorn]

There is no obvious explanation of what it is on that page; describe?

[Tamien]

Oh! Sorry! I see the logged-in page and just assumed the not-logged-in page would have useful information. Their Kickstarter page might be more informative, but, well, to give my understanding, it's a collaborative roleplaying/storytelling game that is a bit more structured than freeform forum roleplaying but less so than a tabletop game? There is a narrator who designs the setting and plays NPCs and such, and a number of players who have characters, and you play by writing scenes, and there's a sort of card system to determine who has narrative control over the outcome of a challenge. It's still in beta-test but it seems potentially neat.

ETA: It might be relevant for people to know that since I have a membership, I can invite people to join games I'm narrating whether or not the already have an account. You have back the Kickstarter to get a full membership and be able to narrate a game, but not to play in one. I'm setting up a game with some friends of mine where I'm the narrator, but if there was someone here interested in narrating I'd like to try it as a player as well. Or maaaaaybe I could be persuaded to run two games at once but that's unlikely.

[Kappa]

This sounds interesting! I'm interested. But I'm not gonna back the Kickstarter for the chance to try it out.

[Shoal]

I am also interested. maybe someda ythey will launch and hopefully there will be some sort of free account level.

[Tamien]

I read somewhere on there that you will be able to be in three games for free and for more than that you will have to pay the subscription fee.

If I weren't in the middle of thesis crunch, I might just clone the setting for my other game and run one with people here. I was inspired to make it by an article I read about Kim Jong-un attending school in Switzerland under an assumed name. So if anyone is interested in creating characters who are future world leaders attending an Eton-esque boarding school under assumed names, and then waiting until like June at the earliest to play, that's a possibility :P

[Bluelantern]

It is just me or "Storium" sounds like a made up minerium that can only be found from meteors? Cool concept either way, not sure if I want to try...