On a tangent from the Arkat threads, I have in the back of my head, an idea for a game in which the players take two roles. One would be a sage/scholar type character, and the other would be a historical person (or possibly, group, magic item, something).
The scholars would interact with each other using "documents" that they "researched", "translated" "used truth magic to determine" etc. In other words, the players would make up documents relating to the events of their historical character.
Other players could "attack" the translation, expose inaccuracy with other research, use magic and truth contest to ascertain the truth, interview spirits and other that are still around. etc. The forum for the game would be PBEM, to allow for documents to be created (suggested method would be to "find and replace" from real documents.
The original idea was to be based in the Big Rubble, with the scholars from the twilight years of the City (just before Balastor) looking at events in the 830's 40's and 50's (ish)
The game would be competitive, in that each player should have an agenda for both his historical point of view (prove the Arrowsmith dynasty was corrupt, prove that the Daughters of Pavis worked in cahoots with the nomads prove that Joraz Kyrem was no hero etc.), and from a personal, local, point of view (eg prove he is a better scholar, expose fraud, rampant pedantry, get better apprentices etc.)
Keith
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