Interest thread for a Let's Play

[Melfice]

Originally Posted by Token

Dude, there are like seventy stupid pokemon LPs going on at any given time, and no one really complains. Two board games would be totally okay and awesome.

Yes, but there's only a minimum of viewer participation with LP's played by others.
But if there's enough interest, and people can play two boardgames at the same time - if they want - I see no problem with running two different games at the same time.

[synkr0nized]

Originally Posted by Fifthfiend

This seems less like a Let's Play than just like, a forum game or something.

This is part of what I was mulling over. Ostensibly, the forum members participate in playing a game with the thread author being the mediator/"hand of God" as Melfice labeled it. However, recall that LPs are in a way the children of After Action Reports, threads recanting the tales of RTS games, often with narration and characters and, as they too evolved, containing thread reader participation/contributions. Giving rise to play-and-participate RTS threads, this style has been carried over in many ways to modern RTS LP threads. As a result, a few LP forums, SA's included, have lumped these in with the video game LPs [though they have no forum games section like we do].

I'm not sittin' on either side with the idea yet, though.

[Melfice]

I don't care one way or another where these games go in the end, but if you look at it in a certain way, this will be more of a Let's Play than a game where one plays and the rest gives minute directions and comments.

In the end, the boardgames can go in either forum.

Regardless, the question remains. Who's up for murdering eachother's armies in the name of peace and brotherly love?

[Fifthfiend]

Originally Posted by Melfice

I don't care one way or another where these games go in the end, but if you look at it in a certain way, this will be more of a Let's Play than a game where one plays and the rest gives minute directions and comments.

Pretty much why I brought it up is that a "Let's Play" is, in spite of the name, basically defined as a thing where one person plays and everyone else gives minute directions and comments. This plainly seems to be, not that, but rather just a bunch of people playing a game!

Actually TBH given the relative level of activity in FG I'd say the best thing to do is to kill the forum and just let people make whatever games-related threads they want here or in general or wherever. Or just kill "forum for talking about forum games" and make forum games open-posting.

[The Artist Formerly Known as Hawk]

Less talk of what is and is not an LP, more signing up for the LP! I want to know who my opponents might be, to better contemplate their imminent demises.

[Kim]

I'll play.

[Sage Harpuia]

Hm.. I'll join, but I would need to brush up on how to play Risk. Also hello, I'm your local lurker.

[Nique]

I would play Risk. I would play the crap out of it.

[tacticslion]

I would totally play, however, I'd be, roughly speaking, the least reliable person ever right now with roughly four hours of commute per day. Really, it depends on how fast the turn-around is. The faster (as this is Christmas break for us starting Friday) the better for me. Aside from that, I'm all down for it!

EDIT: I meant Risk, as I've never played Axis and Allies. Sorry, I presumed (as NonCon has told me - that is something I shouldn't do) that my title indicated that. Sorry for the overly oblique reference.

[Melfice]

Also, I guess this was a little bit stupid of me.
Since we have two boardgames on offer, I guess it would have been useful to specify which game you're interested in.

So far, I can only really tell Hawk, Nique and Geminex are in for Risk. And Geminex seems more interested in Axis and Allies anyway.
So... yeah. Probably handy if you'd edit that back in on your posts.

EDIT AGAIN: So, I've got Hawk and Geminex (I think?), Sage Harpula, Nique and tacticslion. If not Geminex, preferring Axis and Allies instead, I think either Token or Nonsy would play instead?
Fight it out amongst yourselves!

Well, with a maximum cap of five players, this means the roster is (more than) full.
Gimme a day or two to draft up some (house-) rules, and we'll be good to go!

Most of the rules will be thought up on my own, but I noticed it bears some similarities with the rules on the Risk LP on the LPArchive. It'll be a decent guideline for reading up in any case.