The RPGene Pool Wiki

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The RPGene Pool is a collaborative project of evolutionary analog RPG design. I decided against naming it "RPGenome Project" because "The RP Genome Project" is a UK retinal disease consortium and that felt like weird SEO is share.

How This Works
Begin with at least two parent RPGs. I recommend using 200 Word RPG entries or existing RPGene Pool children. Longer games are welcome, but much harder. All parent pages must link to their source and adequately credited, as well as contain links to all their children. A child game must link back to all of its parents.

Analyze the phenotypes of the parents (dice rolling, journalling, sci-fi, larp, etc) and describe in the child game's page what got passed on. Label each game page with a Generation number. Non-RPGene Pool games (external sources) are always Generation 1. A child game belongs to the generation after that of its youngest parent. For example, a Gen 2 game and a Gen 4 game would make a Gen 5 child.

Child games around 1,000 words can be hosted here on their own pages, however speciation may cause gigantism in new children. Larger games may be hosted offsite with a wiki page linking to them.

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