The thing that strikes me though is that you seem to be moving twitter away from what it does best, the social part. I’ll be honest I’m not sure how you’d go about it but I think that instead of trying to recreate the modern MMO in twitter it would be much more interesting to try and evolve the MMO paradigm back into the social experience it once was.

I’d be intrigued in seeing something like a D&D toolkit for twitter. Have a web based component for character creation and current game status but allow the players to update their actions and be updated via twitter.

Still, I’m interested to see what happens and once I figure out some of the twitter tools available to keep things straight I’ll be signing up.

Thanks!

NPCs will occasionally join a battle on your side, and if you treat them well, they may join you. If they join you and subsequently are defeated, they may join the other side and fight you in future battles.

I lied in the post; I do need to start the web integration, just so if issues come up that affect the game play, I can deal with them early. An hour of work at the beginning could be worth days at the end.

First campaign (yay calling it a campaign now!) will likely be solo, just to limit the complexity and to be able to tell a compelling story. There will be NPCs and hirelings to fight with you. Not every battle will be a fight to the death.

That last sentence implies victory conditions, and THAT sentence implies being able to get a basic idea of the fight to come before you enter, while you’re setting up your character and NPCs friends. Of course, surprises could come mid-fight that you could not prepare for…

I need to write a good, basic scenario. The very first fight must both explain the game and be fun enough to make someone want to see the second fight.