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Testing Open World RPG, Chaotica

Chaotica is a table top game I made years ago and have now converted to a spreadsheet format for rolling dice and generating all the details. I'm looking for players to test it on this site, but I am unsure how to best do that. I've DMed for this games dozens of times in person and through calls via Skype and other programs, but I would like to try it on this site for comparison. I'm looking for suggestions, anyone who wants to try it with me, and anyone who has any advice.  The game is called Chaotica, and can be played in a variety of different ways. The basics of course, are simply me describing a setting or situation and you describing how your character responds to it, then me describing the results, and so on. Super easy learning curve, as it's less of a game and almost more like a collaborative storytelling exercise. It can be done via voice chat, play by post, text chat, or face to face.  Chaotica Game Start Options 1) Quick and dirty. No story, just come up with some bare-bones characters and start in some random location. A story usually forms after an hour of adventuring. 2) Character soup. Everyone comes up with a character, backstory, goals, etc. and I create a world and story based on those characters. 3) Random universe. I create a world and a story. Takes about 15 minutes to sort out the connections after I roll one up. I can give you characters to pick from together with a bit of backstory. 4) Collaborative universe. Tell me what kind of world or story you want and I'll patch something together. I work with both fantasy and sci-fi spreadsheets. Both my own creation. The game is played by me describing the scene and situation and you telling me how your character responds. No knowledge of rules is necessary, as the game is meant to be fast and unpredictable, even for the one telling the story.
I’m interested, mostly in fantasy. I don’t mind how we play, I’d prefer a map, prefer not to use discord.
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Pat S.
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If you are willing to run it as a text game on Roll20, either in a game forum or in the game itself, I have a community that might be loaded with potential players. The community's link is in my profile.
I could give this a try.
I have run this as a text game before in a play-by-post forum. In the original table top version players would build the map as they explored. The tiles would change too, with cataclysms and things. I think a version of this on roll20 would work well, but it might be more fun to have the players create the map with the tools they have here as they discover it. 
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Pat S.
Forum Champion
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If you decide to go the text route on Roll20, let me know so I can pass some of the info along to my community. 
Would this be text in a play-by-post or real time? Either way, I'm interested.
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Pat S.
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How to explain my community, hmmmm. The Knights of the Written Word 2 community is a support community for text based gamers. Many members have physical issues such as deafness or hard of hearing, social anxiety, lack of computer hardware or bandwidth, or other issues that make playing rpgs in voice a problem or not possible at all. Other members just enjoy the ability to be immersed in the story similar to how some people get when reading a book but you are actually helping to create it. While there are no games played in this community, we have games recruitments posted in the group's forums. We have threads dedicated to explaining how to play text games in Roll20 along with the various types or styles of text games. We have a discord server for live chats as we don't like the spam effect of Roll20 notifications for each and every post. As we are a system agnostic community we welcome any and all games to be posted as long as they follow the rules and are text based not voice and use Roll20. There are other communities growing on Roll20 also. There are living worlds, system specific communities (savage worlds and 1e AD&D spring to mind), and other groups.
Sure, it looks like a place I could get along. Maybe promote my writing too...&nbsp; It looks like my players for today aren't showing up. But if you want to start something today if we can round up one more player that should be enough. I could play with just one player but the dynamic is better when there's at least two players. Or just point me to your community. Is this it? <a href="https://app.roll20.net/lfg/listing/61164/knights-of-the-written-word-2" rel="nofollow">https://app.roll20.net/lfg/listing/61164/knights-of-the-written-word-2</a>
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Pat S.
Forum Champion
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Yes it is.