Okay
Well I'm expecting players to post at MINIMUM once a day. Preferably once in the morning and once at night. And I expect more than one line posts ;p since this will be very strongly a roleplaying game and atmosphere is important. See the Metal Joe thread for an example of what I expect. I will be a frequent DM poster (at least twice a day) to allow for reasonable conversations with NPCs.
And I beg of you...please...read over your posts for grammatical and spelling errors. A couple is fine, but if every third word is a spelling error and I can't understand your post...I will be completely lost. Since this is going to be heavy on the political side, and deeply atmospheric, I really need you to make your posts understandable.
That said for my basic rules, does anyone still want to play with the tyrant DM?
My ideas are basic everyday people caught in a web of intrigue, betrayal, and murder. For a first game, I want to keep it in a tight locale, a place I am familiar with. No globe trotting for this first one.
I have two settings that I'm thinking of which bring about two different stories:
Houston, Texas (my beloved home town)
or
Upstate New York (my current location)