Thinslayer
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Suppose a roleplaying game accepted characters based on the roles they played. How often was this tried, and were these trials successful?
Character Slots?
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JayTee
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It's pretty common in dice games with class-based mechanics. Works pretty well. Everyone has some way to contribute and share the spotlight in some way, and people usually end up enjoying it.
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Thinslayer
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What about freeform? I was wondering if it would be effective to request, say, "lead," "love interest," "antagonist," "strong supporting," and such like.
JayTee
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People would need to be willing to commit to those roles, as everyone wants to be the cool guy at least for a little bit. It works in dice games because you have a GM managing things to make sure everyone gets a chance to shine, so if you do that in a freeform game, it could work.
Thinslayer
Senior Member
From what I can gather of my experiences, I suspect the best way to make that work is to have the story's outline already planned out from start to finish, then adapt it to allow player characters; this way, no one gets left behind. On the downside, only a limited number of players can be useful, and if anyone drops, the story suffers.
JayTee
Eight Thousand Club
Sounds like you have a plan. Now you just need to find some players who are willing to commit to such project.
