INFANTRY

Back towards the end of middle school, I found this cool online game called Infantry. It was free to play, involved a lot of shooting people, tons of weapons and persistent character buildup as well. When I got back to it in high school, it was sadly switched to a pay model. Well, I found out that Sony, the owners of Infantry, have made it free to play once again. I installed the game, logged on, and was overjoyed to find a CTF server with over 100 people on it. So cool, I recommend you all play it. It's free, not bandwidth intensive (I played it in 7th grade on 56k), and really damn fun.

My brother has done another nasty thing, he has...

Yes, my brother has gotten me addicted to Fable.
The game is sweet. Only RPG I know of that allows polygamy, and has a counter that tells how often your character has had sex. But the cool stuff are the real customizable things, like tattoos, and scars that show up on your character's face after battles. Really sweet.
A lot of these kinds of things are really easy to do in paper and dice, actually. It's a matter of keeping track of things, and encouraging character depth so that you have value to that sort of transaction. It's something your players have to want, you can't force them.
I have some ideas for going back in the fall, about my new setting, Version City. I've plotted out lots of ideas for Version City, and I'm going to make it good. The Coast was too generic. Astropolis was really creative, but there was still not enough detail. Version City is going to have detail, character, and attitude. Looking through sheets when I get back, we'll figure out where everyone stands, and then, they'll start off...no longer normal people with a slight amount of weirdness, they'll be edgerunners. And then we can all have some fun.
In the meanwhile, we have PBP, and I have high hopes I'll be able to pull this off.