Consequences

Just written a long rant about how builders should play more mods and players should give more feedback to builders, but deleted it as rereading it, I came across as a dick, and I hate those kind of preachy blogposts anyway. It's often important to review things written in haste or in anger - the number of draft emails I've written at work to have a go at someone, only to delete once things have calmed down.... but it is fun to vent sometimes... ;)

Some time ago there was talk about starting a consequences style module - like the dinner table game where people fill in their own parts of the story

1. There was a man called .................
2. And a woman called .................
3. Who met at .....................
4. He said .......................
5. She said .......................
6. And the consequence was ...........................

So people would take it in turn to collectively build a mod, without necessarily knowing the overall direction or how it would end up. I thought this was a pretty interesting idea but it seemed to die a death, and given the builders that read the blogs, wondered if there was any interest? I could imagine a contribution of any size to be worthwhile - someone builds a start area, the next person might take that and add a dream cutscene to the on enter, or add a trapdoor to a basement etc, the next person might add a companion to that area, or whatever inspired them. Not sure how well a freeform plot might work, but it might also be something to help builders keep their own projects fresh -- a break in doing this could be good. What do people think?

Oh, and sticking with the theme of consequences... my girlfriend asked me if I had 3 wishes, what they would be...

1. That I had the guitar playing skills of Randy Rhoads and Eddie Hazel in their prime
2. That I had a fully functioning Holodeck with safetys that wouldn't go haywire and end with Prof. Moriarty taking over my life
3. That the wishes would be interpreted benignly, and not in the old edition D&D style of screwing me over, so I wouldn't be given the guitar skills, but not be able to use them due to a sudden freak deformity (actually happened in a game when i was younger..)

And the consequence was I was told to grow up

Oh, and finally for something actually module related - I've never been happy with my choice of portrait for Briars... if anyone has suggestions or links to gnome farmhand/monks, then I'd been keen to see them!