05-02-2014, 04:00 PM | #1 |
Join Date: Nov 2004
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What is Storium anyway?
"An online storytelling engine" isn't real helpful, and I can't find any other written information on their website or Kickstarter. Watching the video is impractical as my speakers are otherwise engaged (also, I hate videos).
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05-02-2014, 04:07 PM | #2 |
Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: Berkeley, CA
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Re: What is Storium anyway?
http://www.escapistmagazine.com/arti...d-Write-Online seems informative, though it doesn't especially make me interested in supporting it. Then again, I don't generally favor kickstarters.
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05-02-2014, 04:11 PM | #3 |
Wielder of Smart Pants
Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: Ventura CA
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Re: What is Storium anyway?
So it's basically a VTT for a very specific card driven RPG system?
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05-02-2014, 05:32 PM | #4 |
Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: Dobbstown Sane Asylum
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Re: What is Storium anyway?
The best introduction I can think of is this short video explaining how it works.
(What follows assumes that you've watched that video. I'm not going to attempt to further explain how it works, just offer my thoughts and experiences.) I've been using it for about two weeks now. I'm playing in three stories and narrating one of my own. My experience is that the "card-play" system provides just enough of a "game framework" to preserve the RPG elements that we love -- resource management, tactical play, etc. -- but is "lite" enough to facilitate asynchronous play. By asynchronous play, I mean that the site and system do not require (or even assume) the narrator and players to be logged in at the same time. Everyone logs in when they can, at whatever frequency they can. (When the narrator creates a story, he sets expectations, such as, "2-3 scenes per week" or "1-2 scenes per day"; ideally, players will only sign up if they can meet those expectations!) Clashing schedules is one of the hardest things to overcome in remote gaming, and the "challenges" system built into Storium targets that issue very well. I have players who log in 4-5 times a day, and one who can only log in every other day, and it doesn't matter -- the story is flowing smoothly.
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05-03-2014, 06:02 AM | #5 |
Night Watchman
Join Date: Oct 2010
Location: Cambridge, UK
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Re: What is Storium anyway?
I signed up already on the strength of the people involved. I really hope there are going to be some non-video explanations of how to use it: I started trying to watch that one, but had to stop (I'm partially sighted and getting meaningful information out of moving pictures and listening to speech at the same time is really hard for me; reading text that holds still is easy).
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05-03-2014, 09:20 AM | #6 | |
Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: North Yorkshire, UK
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Re: What is Storium anyway?
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https://storium.com/how-to-play (You'll need to have a beta login account to reach that.) Graham
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05-03-2014, 10:33 PM | #7 |
Join Date: Nov 2007
Location: The City of Subdued Excitement
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Re: What is Storium anyway?
For those who have tried it, how invested in your character do you feel compared to a face-to-face game with a heavier ruleset? Does it make a difference?
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05-03-2014, 10:43 PM | #8 |
Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: Dobbstown Sane Asylum
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Re: What is Storium anyway?
Equally for me. But then again, complexity of the rules system has never affected my character investment; there's no difference for how much I like a character if I make it in GURPS vs. Fate vs. Storium. How invested I am is usually based on how well the character "clicked" for me when I came up with their initial concept.
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05-03-2014, 11:04 PM | #9 | |
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Join Date: Aug 2007
Location: Longmont, CO
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Re: What is Storium anyway?
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05-03-2014, 11:47 PM | #10 | |
Join Date: May 2008
Location: CA
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Re: What is Storium anyway?
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A lot of those games were less collaborative and more adversarial in nature - the very basics of the Storium system might still work in that sense, but it doesn't sound like it's set up to handle it. It'd basically require a rework such that non-narrators can set up challenges. Not sure how that'd work out *shrug* Anyways, I haven't backed Storium yet and I'm unsure if I will (though I realize I only have a short time to decide). I wish there was a way to actually see the site and how it works without backing, but it seems to be very much a 'buy blind' effort at the moment. |
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