A forum game that takes advantage of Atlas' wikis seems to be in order. I propose Forumworld. I will set up a wiki, and anyone who wishes may contribute articles to it. There are only a few rules:
1) You may not add more than one article at a time; if you put one up, you have to wait for someone else to post something before going back. You may, however, continue to edit the article unless the content you want to add violates rule 2.
2) Whatever is posted first is canon. So, if Player 1 posts that X is Y and Player 2 later writes that X is Z in a different post, Player 2 will have to edit that post to agree with Player 1.
3) Anyone can edit posts for spelling and style, but they can't change the substance of the post unless they are the original author.
4) You may not write articles on the same series of subjects consecutively. That means that you can't write about Language X, then its daughter Y, then some other language. Diversify!
Some basic facts:
1) There is no magic, period.
2) Humans are the dominant race on the planet (90-95% of the world population). However, people do like having other races, so there will be two. What these races are like is up to the players, but whoever gets to them first can only create one. Their articles will be the only ones which can have new information put in them by non-OPs so long as they don't add anything that violates rule 2.
3) Posts about geography, climate, etc are exempt from rule 4 because that stuff is HARD and I wouldn't mind if some interested party were to do the heavy lifting in that department.
4) The technology level may be bronze age of 16th century, it's up to you, the people (first three posters get to pick which of the two, majority wins).
1) You may not add more than one article at a time; if you put one up, you have to wait for someone else to post something before going back. You may, however, continue to edit the article unless the content you want to add violates rule 2.
2) Whatever is posted first is canon. So, if Player 1 posts that X is Y and Player 2 later writes that X is Z in a different post, Player 2 will have to edit that post to agree with Player 1.
3) Anyone can edit posts for spelling and style, but they can't change the substance of the post unless they are the original author.
4) You may not write articles on the same series of subjects consecutively. That means that you can't write about Language X, then its daughter Y, then some other language. Diversify!
Some basic facts:
1) There is no magic, period.
2) Humans are the dominant race on the planet (90-95% of the world population). However, people do like having other races, so there will be two. What these races are like is up to the players, but whoever gets to them first can only create one. Their articles will be the only ones which can have new information put in them by non-OPs so long as they don't add anything that violates rule 2.
3) Posts about geography, climate, etc are exempt from rule 4 because that stuff is HARD and I wouldn't mind if some interested party were to do the heavy lifting in that department.
4) The technology level may be bronze age of 16th century, it's up to you, the people (first three posters get to pick which of the two, majority wins).