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I think the main source of confusion is that even though it appears that this is standard for a tabletop session in theory, it's still far more railroaded than your average tabletop session. The reason for that is solely due to the overall setup; though tabletop sessions are usually cooperative...

It's hard to really respond to this without a more detailed explanation of what exactly you mean by "winging it." Any successful tabletop campaign involves "winging it." It's a staple of GMing, and persists into text RP as well. Though I am sure that there are plenty of people that speak quite...

Generally making a point of suffering out to be something "cool" or not all that impactful in a realistic, researched way. Usually what this involves specifically is removing the majority of the elements or consequences of a mental illness that makes it problematic or difficult to live with...

Rarely do I automatically quit an RP, because I usually try to give things a chance. The only thing so far that makes me revoke my interest entirely is absolutely forcing people to use faceclaims. I don't really like using them, and as someone who draws, I prefer to have pure visual control over...

Dieselpunk is defined as a Steampunk-esque extrapolation of technology prevalent during the war era of the 1940s. It isn't born out of Steampunk, and the comparison only comes because the cultural and technological extrapolation is similar. It is necessary for Steampunk to be classified...

Yes, but that doesn't automatically translate to an apocalyptic scenario. People often forget that our planet has been in a state of nearly non-stop war since the 1940s, for instance. 40k is dark, yes, but I don't think it automatically translates into an apocalyptic scenario at all.

The easy rebuttal to all of this is that a skilled writer would be able to tell what's interesting and what isn't without the use of dice in the first place. They would know what pushes would be required in order to break certain characters at critical points, and focus the development of the...

What exactly is the "hook" of this setting? I don't mean to put down your hard work so far, but it comes across feeling more than a little standard to me. I think it needs something special to really stand out.

I disagree heavily on this. Though both genres could be considered branches of speculative fiction, they differ heavily outside of that vein. Pure Science-Fiction involves the extrapolation of real-world knowledge, technology, and physical laws, while pure Fantasy does not bind itself to those...

Yes, but 40k is also not the sort of setting that we're talking about here. In 40k, that sort of thing wouldn't even be an "apocalypse," because it would only cover one planet when there's an entire galaxy to deal with. An apocalyptic scenario, in order to qualify as such, must cover the...

I would honestly buy the first one more readily than the second one, because part of the point of having a Weapon of Mass Destruction (or any weapon, really) is that it'll harm the other guy and not you. No army or global body would want to put something this destructive into practice, because...

I wouldn't recommend it. Unless you end up using a narrative-driven system, not only would there be no real consistency in the way that things progress, there also wouldn't really be that many interesting portions to the story itself. Most tabletop games don't really exist to make stories so...

If Science Fiction and Fantasy had a baby, it would be called Science Fantasy. Works like Star Wars, Dune, and Warhammer 40k exemplify the genre.

I contributed to the initial topic on the first page, and I also steered the point that we were on back into the context of the initial conversation. So I don't think the continued backseat moderation is really necessary.

Discussions evolve and go in different directions. This isn't particularly strange.

Whether or not a roleplay uses dice doesn't really have anything to do with this conversation as a whole, since we're talking about the ability to sell a concept to another person. Your statements here neglect to mention two things. The first is that it is possible for a GM to care about the...

A GM's world and story should be completely without player input if they desire their world and story to be completely without player input. A GM cannot be faulted for knowing what they want, and knowing how to do what they want, only for someone else to come in with unwanted or unasked for...

One person's collaboration is another person's hand-holding. Jobs are a collaborative venture, but if you go to your boss every single time you get confused or don't know what to do or want a second opinion or life advice or whatever, your boss is eventually going to get tired of your inability...

Okay, but this is just your personal preference. If a GM puts up an interest check, and says, "bring X," and you decide that you're going to bring Y instead, that isn't the GM's problem. That's the player's problem for deciding that they want to do whatever it is they want to do. The GM isn't...

Disagree. GM's world, GM's rules. Some settings are more flexible than others, and it is by no means a bad thing for the creator of a setting to want to establish some sort of consistency as to what is portrayed within. There was a thread about this already, so I'm not going to repeat my...