Hi, and welcome to all participants in this micro-game. If you did not participate in Topic 2000, subtopic:
2006 - Experiment Six: One Character, Multiple Players... and wish to contribute here, please go and read that first.
We're not going to bother with any rules here, and just go free-form. The purpose of this micro-game is to see how using multiple characters with the same name can work to allow all players in the game to act for and thus simulate the play of a single character so named.
Dabbler, who proposed the experiment, also proposed the following scenario:
quote:
...The original problem I was trying to solve was a situation where I had 3 or 4 players playing NCOs in a squad of mercenaries.
I wanted each of the NCOs to be able to post for any or all of the Redshirt Privates, so that they could carry their squad forward, and I could concentrate on handling the opposition.
I didn't want to hand 3 redshirts to player A, 3 redshirts to player B, etc, I wanted more flexibility than that.
If this experiment, by chance, turns into something actually fun to play, I will commit to fielding it as a separate game.
To get things started, I'll create several mercenary privates with varying names, assigning "clones" of them to all participants, and creating a common character sheet for each, as Skald has suggested, in a separate topic.
Since this topic is 2600, the topic for each of these mercenaries will follow in sequence as 2610, 2620, 2630, on out to 262F if need arises. (Yes, I'm compulsive when it comes to organizing topics and subtopics...)
I will also produce a jump table somewhere with links to the various subtopics, but at a later time. I worked an odd shift yesterday, and am re-adjusting to my normally nocturnal routine today, so I'm going back to bed for a little while as soon as I post this.
I will remind all participants and onlookers that, even though some content for this annex to Experiment Six is in groups other than zero,
mature and adult content is not permitted in this game.
Until I get all that I've committed to done, feel free to chat among yourselves and get further acquainted.
With that out of the way, I'll turn this part of the experiment over to Dabbler for any further fleshing out of the scenario that may be needed.
Take it away, Dabbler!