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 ====== Fair Play ====== ====== Fair Play ======
  
-A multi-media fantasy RPG+A multi-media fantasy RPG of Fantastic World-building
  
- By Mike Holmes + By Mike Holmes
  
- With help from Shreyas Sampat, Kirk, JB Bell, Charlotte Irrgang+ With help from Shreyas Sampat, Kirk, JB Bell, Charlotte Irrgang, Nate Banks, and Andrew Cooper
  
 ===== Introduction ===== ===== Introduction =====
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 Play generally starts with a concept creation phase, player role selection, character generation, and then general play.  Play generally starts with a concept creation phase, player role selection, character generation, and then general play. 
  
-===== Concept Creation Phase =====+===== Campaign Creation Phase =====
  
-==== Overview ==== +In this phase, the players jointly concoct the elements of setting and character activity that will be the center of the plots that evolve in play. The concepts should probably involve the characters being peripatetic or some other explanation of a way in which the characters come across enough elements of the world to keep play involving discovery of new things. 
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-During this phase players will create certain basic concepts about the nature of play. The concepts should probably involve the characters being peripatetic or some other explanation of a way in which the characters come across enough elements of the world to keep play involving discovery of new things. +
  
 ==== Initial Setting ==== ==== Initial Setting ====
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 Examples: Examples:
-  * A team of explorers working for the king +  * Picture: A King's palace with a group assembled. Concept: A team of explorers working for the king to map out the realms 
-  * A retinue that travels with a high priest doing espionage in foreign lands +  * Picture: A temple with a high priest giving a command. Concept: A retinue that travels with a high priest doing espionage in foreign lands 
-  * Characters are all involved with organized crime in a series of cities along a coast+  * Picture: Shady characters gathered in a den of iniquity. Concept: Characters are all involved with organized crime in a series of cities along a coast 
 +  * Picture: A baroque ship that floats above the sand. Concept: The ship serves as the palace of a wandering Sultan moves about the realms bringing on newcomers from everywhere to entertain the Sultan's wishes, and all the while the various passengers are involved in intricate espionage and intrigues 
 +  * Picture: A ship being sucked into a maelstrom. Concept: On the other side of the maelstrom, the crew and passengers, almost all from the same city, end up in an unknown land, relying on each other to find a way back home. 
 +  * Picture: A caravan leaving a burning city. Concept: A caravan of merchant folk, mostly family, have lost their home, and have no place to return to, and become constant travelers to survive.  
 +  * Picture: A man is interrogated by guards at a gate. Concept: The characters are a team of investigators and their support being sent by their Duke to investigate a strange cult popping up all over the realms.  
 +  * Picture: A wizard stands before a crystal portal. Concept: The mighty wizard and his selected companions from all over the world travel through his portal to strange lands they've never been to before, and right wrongs as they come across them.  
 +  * Picture: An ancient ruined city. Concept: a sage, having gained a large sum of money from a patron, leads a team she's hired to ruins across the land in an attempt to study the cultures of the previous age, and the team has to deal with the very real dangers that still reside within these places.  
 +  * Picture: a rowdy group celebrates in a tavern. Concept: A group of roguish folks of various backgrounds and professions, friends through many adventures, are chased out of town after town, while pursuing their vices and taking on dangerous tasks that nobody else will face (this last should be very familiar to players of other fantasy RPGs).  
  
  
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 +==== Player Karma ====
  
 +All players start play with a pool of 10 Karma Points. See below for their uses. 
 ===== Character Generation ===== ===== Character Generation =====
  
-Players invent characters that make sense given the concepts worked out above. These should include one main character or one secondary character for each player in the game, and one additional secondary character for each main character who is somebody important to the main character. Normally the player most involved in creating a character will play that character, but players may decide to swap, up to and including changing the player role if necessary to accomplish this. +==== Character Concepts ====
  
-Generally the player of one of these designated characters has the usual prerogatives of a player of a Player Character in most RPGs. +Players invent characters that make sense given the initial setting and ideas that revolve around that which were worked out in the campaign creation phase above. These should include one main character or one secondary character for each player in the game, and one additional secondary character for each main character, somebody important to the main character. Normally the player most involved in creating a character will play that character, but players may decide to swap, up to and including changing a player role if necessary to accomplish this (one player may become a primary character player, and the other a secondary character player). 
  
-Players of main characters should indicate if the character is a protagonist or some other type of character. There must remain one protagonist among the characters for play to begin, and players can negotiate which characters these will be. +Generally the player of one of these designated characters has the usual prerogatives of a player of a Player Character in most RPGs, including creating their background and enumerating them. 
  
 +Players of main characters should indicate if the character is a protagonist or some other type of character. There must remain one protagonist among the characters for play to begin, and players can negotiate which characters these will be, including bribing each other with available Karma Points, if they wish. 
 +
 +=== Inspiration for Characters === 
 +
 +Players may not want to create a character concept out of nothing. If so, here are a couple of ways by which a player might come up with an idea. 
 +
 +One method is to play it out using the [[Narrative Character Generation Method]]. 
 +
 +Another method is to select a character archetype from the list here.
 +
 +=== Character Essence ===
 +
 +Once a character has a concept, we know if they are a protagonist or not, the player of the character gets 100 Essence Points with which to create the character.  
 +
 +==== Aspects ==== 
 +
 +Characters all have several Aspects that comprise who they are. Aspects regard things like the character's Form, Culture, Education, Careers, or other things that define the character, such that we then understand from where they have obtained whatever abilities they have (see Abilities below). 
 +
 +==== Abilities ==== 
 +
 +Abilities are rated on a scale and purchased with Essence Points. 
  
 ===== General Play Phase ===== ===== General Play Phase =====
  
 Play is conducted using the usual scene-setting procedures and so forth.  Play is conducted using the usual scene-setting procedures and so forth. 
 +
 +==== Scene Framing and Turns ====
 +
 +Who frames scenes, and how?
 +
 +Players take turns (ala Universalis), during which they can make stuff up voluntarily, or compel other players to do so (see below). 
 +
 +=== Interruptions ===
 +
 +Players may pay a Karma to interrupt.
  
 ==== Adding Media ==== ==== Adding Media ====
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 If a participant in the game finds that an entered piece of media changes details from previously established egregiously (especially if established by previous media entries), they can protest to the facilitator who will make a call on whether the submission is suitable, or if the player must edit it or select another.  If a participant in the game finds that an entered piece of media changes details from previously established egregiously (especially if established by previous media entries), they can protest to the facilitator who will make a call on whether the submission is suitable, or if the player must edit it or select another. 
 +
 +=== Trumping ===
 +
 +Another way to modify something entered into play is for a character who is an expert in the field of the addition in question to edit the entry. Multiple players may do this, but characters with higher levels of ability trump those with lower, in terms of which is correct. If it's not clear if an ability applies to an entry, the facilitator makes the final judgement on if the character may trump. 
  
 === Interrogation === === Interrogation ===
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 Once a piece of art is exhibited, players may interrogate one another about the piece. This can be accomplished by having a character investigate, or at the player level, in which case the information may simply be player knowledge. In the latter case, a player can use a knowledge test to figure out if the character knows the information already, making investigating unnecessary.  Once a piece of art is exhibited, players may interrogate one another about the piece. This can be accomplished by having a character investigate, or at the player level, in which case the information may simply be player knowledge. In the latter case, a player can use a knowledge test to figure out if the character knows the information already, making investigating unnecessary. 
  
-=== Compelling ===+=== Compelling and Bounties === 
 + 
 +Each player starts a session with a bounty of 3 Karma. A player may, once during their turn, compel another player to create something, and when doing so the compelling character takes karma in the amount of the current bounty. The next player to compel that player takes one less, and so on each time. When the bounty is zero, the player may still be compelled, but there is no reward for doing so.  
 + 
 +If a player wants to create something, instead of another player, they may offer Karma from their own pool to add to the bounty, and the player doing the compelling may change their mind at this point.  
 + 
 +=== Creation Reward ===
  
 +For adding something to the game, the player making the entry gets one Essence Point. 
  
 === Reference Wiki === === Reference Wiki ===
 There will be a wiki that stores added media and notes about them, which will be maintained by the facilitator. The facilitator may get help from other players, who will get a reward.  There will be a wiki that stores added media and notes about them, which will be maintained by the facilitator. The facilitator may get help from other players, who will get a reward. 
  
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