Here's the URL for a topic idea:

http://imagines.herstik.com/wiki/index.php/Lexicon_Topic_Suggestions

Cheers,

IMAGinES

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Subject: [horizonvirtual] Virtual Lexicon?
Date: Sun, 12 Jun 2005 18:06:43 +1000
From: Rob Farquhar <imagines@...>
Reply-To: horizonvirtual@yahoogroups.com
Organization: IMAGinES
To: Horizon Virtual Group <horizonvirtual@yahoogroups.com>



Hi again, everyone.

A few of you may remember me talking about getting the Horizon: Virtual
project up and running on a personal Wiki. As getting one set up hit a
few snags, I wound up setting it up on the RPGnet Wiki.

But just this weekend, I managed to get my personal Wiki up and running
(after a few frustrating false starts, of course)! Now, I'm not planning
to shift the Virtual Project from RPGnet's Wiki to my own. I have
another idea, though:

Early last year, a gent by the name of Neel Krishnaswami came up with a
new kind of "correspondence" RPG that was particularly well suited to
the Wiki format. He dubbed it "Lexicon", and he explains the idea here:
http://www.20by20room.com/2003/11/lexicon_an_rpg.html

You can find a list of Lexicon games here:
http://riters.com/LexiconGame/index.cgi/LexiconGame
I recommend the Lexicon of the Lost 500 years (based in the world of the
Nobilis RPG) and the Paranoia Lexicon, a.k.a. the Toothpaste Disaster
(although it's a rather extreme example, with shiteloads of players) as
good examples.

It was this idea that got me keen on setting up a Wiki of my own to run
Lexicon games with my friends (the first one I played was cancelled due
to the Wiki not being moved over when my web-host shifted servers). And
now that I have a new Wiki all of my own, I'd like to try running
another one.

So, how about a Virtual Lexicon game? Each player would take on the
identity of a Waker scholar discussing some sort of place/event in
Program Space, and would have to write a hundred or so words every four
days, plus read everyone else's posts.

What do you fine ladies and gentlemen think of the idea?

Cheers,
IMAGinES




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