Age/Game Rating[]
The rating for Forgotten Frontiers is 18+. However, this is not a free pass to write a continuous stream of sex, murder and violence. If you want to write Trek smut, go somewhere else. Break this rule and you WILL be tossed out.
Joining[]
With that warning out of the way, what if you want join ? Well, send a mail to p44728@yahoo.com. What should be in it ?
- Your name, age and the e-mail address you want to use for the game.
- Your previous RPG experience. If you don't have any, just write 'None'.
- The basics of your Player Character. (Name, gender, species, age.)
- Optional: The basics of your Special Player Character. (Name, gender, species, age.)
Once this has been rubber stamped, write a biography (or biographies) for your PC (and SPC). For rules about PCs/SPCs, see the page Character Rules. To see what should be in a character biography, read the page Everything Else.
Format[]
This game uses the standard PbEM format perfected by other games. Since they have well documented this format in all it's glory, I will not recap it here. I will, however, include a list of the special text indicators. This is because our list includes several options not commonly found in game manuals
- =/\=Communications=/\= (Hailing frequencies, intercom, sound-powered phones. Only applies to what is incoming to your character.)
- "Communications." (Talking)
- //Communications\\ (Sign language)
- <>Communications<> (Computers talking)
- ~Thoughts~ (Internal)
- #Thoughts# (Telepathic Communications, both incoming and outgoing)
For the dates, Forgotten Frontiers uses the United States format of Year/Day/Month. So 1 January 2376, becomes 2376.01.01. 2 January 2376 is 2376.02.01. And so on.
Tense and Person[]
Posts should be written in the past tense and in the third person.
- Not: I walk into the bar and order a drink.
- But: Yenna walked into the bar and ordered a drink.