ELFS is pretty rules light IMO. It’s pretty silly, but it’s a fun one shot.

1) I do agree that in general freeform style gaming is not good in most situations, I am still a BIG fan of freeform. In fact my gaming career started with creative writing freeform. I’ve played in genre/system inspired creative writing games as well. And it takes a lot of maturity, and there are rules to it, while they aren’t published rules you still have to in the end be in agreement about what is/is not allowed between you and your partner, or your group. So even in what most people think of as freeform envinronment consensus is important. Which is why I love it, because it’s so dependant on good interactions with other players and there is NO GM, that’s the part I love. The players make the story, and it’s them alone. And yes sometimes this ends REALLY badly, perosonally I had to go through a screening process for partners.

2)The thing about new players and not grasping the rules, that is ME. It takes me FOREVER to learn game mechanics. I have been lucky with groups that more often than not people are willing to HELP me learn the mechanics. I know GMs have fudged rules for me in the past, but a lot of times it was because I did soemting really creative, I rolled, and it was screwed up. Like the Fading Suns game I was in where my faith 8 Amalthean priestess BOTCHED a healing roll on the PC that basically was her brother, and nearly killed him. He let me use my character’s faith as reason for her to pray for a miracle, he rolled like crap on the roll, but he said I roleplayed it so well he just couldn’t let her HAVE her miracle. yes, that WAS the same game my creepy gamer story came from.

As for Ptolus, I’ve played a rogue in that setting and it’s pretty cool. Unfortnately I wasn’t able to stay with that group, do to other commitments.

Project Twilight, the only think I remember that had anyhting to do with that is we had a guy playing a Project Twilight guy in our MAGE game and none of us ever knew. Damn you, Mike, you sneaky bastard.

Okay, I’m done now.