Pen and Paper and INTERNET

[Snoteye]

I know this has only been going for two days but I reasoned that, to reduce probability of this falling to the ground, I'd give a bit of advice.

• Settle on a system. Obviously it's better to find a system many will agree on but don't waste too much time on it. You will never satisfy everyone anyway. D20 systems post 2e D&D are all very intuitive, for what it's worth. Considering accessibility is also important (e.g. Pathfinder is supposed to be what 4e should have been, but is not released under the OGL like D&D).
• Assuming whoever ends up DM'ing will agree to it, go with an us vs. them or free for fall type of game. The former pretty much requires all participants have compatible alignments (insofar as alignments are used) but can completely remove friction, the latter exposes everyone to equal amounts of friction.
• Design a post format and stick with it. I know this sounds trivial but it can be very annoying to read through a dozen similar posts all styled differently, especially if a format has already been clearly outlined. Clicking Quote is so easy it's almost criminal so there are no excuses (and for whoever ends up posting it, the [noparse][code][/noparse] and [noparse][noparse][/noparse] tags can be used to show unparsed BB code in which case you could just copy without first quoting).
  
• Put a limit on response time. Everyone needs time for real life on the side line but it's also unfair for the rest if the game can't progress for a week because somebody didn't post.

Finally, the use of this forum has been green-lighted.

[9lives]

The logical choice is Inquisitor - Dark Heresy.

[lovethesuit]

Thanks Snoteye. Okay here goes nothing. Wheeeee.

The logical choice is Inquisitor - Dark Heresy.

Logical. Because nobody wants simple, well-understood rules. Let's start off with a complicated game in a complicated setting yay.