This is one set of rules for playing a game over steemit that anyone can drop in and out of.

This is alpha and their will be a mechanism for reporting rules changes / suggestions.

Starting a Game

A blog post with a link back to the RULES of the game should be posted. The title of the blog should be...
[GAME: game title : # ] - whatever fanciness you want to add to the title.

Game title would be something like FANTASY LAND. # would be a number indicating what turn it is starting with zero.

FANTASY LAND game it might start like this....

Once you post the initial setting the game has begun.

How people play

If you want to play, you must up vote the setting you wish to play in on any turn that you happen to be involved in. This means you can skip a turn, or drop in later. If you miss a turn due to life events, no worries the game makes concessions for that.

Here are the rules of play:

1. Up vote the original blog if you intend to play
2. Write a comment that fits with the setting that explains what your character is doing.
3. Up vote comments that you think did a good job and really help move the story along.
4. If you wish to comment out of character on the rules or ask a question. Start a new comment with the beginning of the comment as either [OCC] or [OUT OF CHARACTER] so people know that is not an actual game play comment.
5. If someone's comment is something that works well with your character without voiding a comment you previously wrote then feel free to interact with other characters via replies. The reply votes will not be counted.

USE YOUR BLOGGING TALENTS: Feel free to use appropriately credited images, videos, etc if that helps with your comment and your character.

EXAMPLE COMMENT:
That was a long night for Ruthgut Bydytydy all that honeyed mead went straight to his head. His beard had remnants of something sticky, and he was hoping it was indeed mead. Those moments at least when his head was not throbbing and he could remember what hope is. His mother may be a hobbit, but his father was a dwarf and that made his nights and mannerisms far different from the other folk of the shire.

End of Turn Rules

Once payout has happened the following is done.

1. The votes for root comments that are not OUT OF CHARACTER are tallied and only people that up voted the original blog post are included in this tally.
2. If there is a tie then a mechanism for breaking the tie must be employed such as whether a person has more replies, or perhaps how recently they have been the setting writer (keep variety going).
3. The person that is chosen becomes the next GAME SETTING MASTER. They get to make the next blog post that players up vote. They basically should move the story into its next phase taking into consideration the comments posted by players in the previous setting. This can be written, video, or combinations of that.
4. This should be posted as a reply to the person who won so they know they are the new GAME SETTING MASTER.
5. If within a few hours of posting this reply the new GAME SETTING MASTER has not responded, then reply to them letting them know you are moving onto the runner up.
6. Repeat this process until someone indicates they are moving the story along

EXAMPLE: Of what a second post might look like if two of the people who commented happened to have introduced characters called Squeebo Jabbins and Ruthgut Bydytydy in the post 0 and caused a commotion.

PLEASE NOTE: these posts are intentionally short for instructional purposes. You should put effort into them and attempt to make them high quality content just like any steemit content.

Character Names

Make up character names for your comments. This way you do not become so attached to them that you refuse to eliminate them to further the story. If you eliminate a character, you can introduce a new one on the next turn. Take some inspiration from Game of Thrones. No character is truly safe.

This is only the rules

An alpha game post will be coming tagged alphagame to be the first Alpha Test to see how a game like this works.
Yet, any game needs to have the rules available so people that want to try it out can drop in and out at any time and know how to play.

That was the purpose of this post.

EDIT: The first Alpha Test has begun.... what strange places do you want this tale to go?