I'm rather of mixed thoughts about this... On the one hand, as someone who tends to be verbose, I'd be up for no or very little restriction in post lengths. On the other, I realise this is a collaborative game, and not everyone appreciates such verbosity, so I can understand the desire for some limits. I think I'd vote for the Narrator being able to set this for his/her game, with different levels or tiers, much as Storyteller described. As long as any limits are included with the game's description, I'd understand what's expected, and would try to stay within those guidelines.

It's also pretty dang easy, programming-wise, to just let the narrator set the ceiling for a post limit. I could do it in a sim with Behavior Scripting in about five minutes. You can do it insanely easy with fields. I really think giving the narrator that freedom (including the option to eliminate the word limit altogether) would be the way to go.

Great idea Storyteller! I like that.

I would be on board for this if there were maybe two or three tiers that the Narrator selects when building the story. Say 300 Words, 600 Words or 1200 Words. The Narrator would always have the maximum word limit regardless but they could restrict the Charles Dickens types to 600, or go full tilt text walls with 1200, or keep the action fast and light with 300.

I agree with SCrow, and I'm sure that the Storium staff have a plan for this. They have been very responsive about a lot of other things, and this thing is still in beta. Mods, can we get any more information about this?

I think that there could be a setting that allows the narrator to set a word count limit so they can get the pacing and flow of the story the way they want for the story they want.

When you establish a scene or build a character, sometimes more words are required. My first post had over 1100 words, because I had a pair of scenarios that established why my character was where she was. This is especially the case when you're world-building in a fantasy or sci fi realm. Sometimes getting there takes a little longer.

I don't think this artificial wall should be enforced by the site just because THEY don't like the idea of having longer posts. Let the narrator establish post limits, or just remove it entirely. Let the Narrator enforce as they desire.

I'm not a fan of very large posts, but if some people prefer to play in this style, why get in their way?

I agree with the other, as much as I tend to write walls of text that encroach on the word limit -- I feel that the current amount is more than enough. Large posts don't really encourage collaborative writing.

But perhaps the solution for this is allowing the narrator to customize word limits so those games that want large posts can have them and those that want shorter posts can have what they would like as well.

I don't think this is necessary. Less is more, there's no reason people should be writing two or three full posts to write a single scene. A bigger limit would also encourage players to write enormous posts.

If anything, there should be a stricter limit.

Weird - I have found myself wishing to be able to configure a more limiting word / character limit for a move. I realize we are writing here, but we're collaborative writing. Wall-of-text IMO doesn't really encourage that.