[djo]

If you want to play, I encourage you to sign up in the other thread ("RP-Heavy Late Era Game (Accepting Players) -- OOC").

Speaking from the yarnspinner perspective, it's really hard to get small scale interaction, simply because it takes a lot of back-and-forth between the authors. And speaking for myself, I never had enough time to do that, what with getting a yarn out every week. We did see characters in the stories appear on the battlefields (I got a thrill the first time I saw that happen).

Besides the coordination is the difficulty in writing someone else's characters. On one hand, you have to go with the flow (as in roleplaying), but on the other hand, you don't want the interactions to screw up a long-term storyline you've planned (yours or theirs).

We had better interaction in the diplomacy. A lot of the diplomatic messages--I would say nearly all, actually--were in character. They never appeared in the yarns, but you can see the effects. When Man's yarns talked about Vanheim's ambassadors, that reflected the role-play messages we sent back and forth.

There's a difference between the yarnspinners game and this, though--that game used roleplaying to further the creation of stories. This game looks like pure roleplay. I think that will make it easier to interact--no worry about your future stories.