What is a MST?
by Daniel Seltzer (DanielSel@aol.com)



For those of you unfamiliar with the concept of a MSTing (sometimes called 
a MiSTing), it is a method of making fun of a person's writing. It is based 
off of the show Mystery Science Theater 3000, or MST3K. In this show, a guy 
named Joel (or Mike) along with two robots, Tom and Crow, who are forced to 
watch the worst movies ever made. They, however, deal with this by making 
nasty and sarcastic comments about the movie as it runs. An RPG related MSTing 
on the internet is usually on either a fanfic, an editorial, or a review. 
(However, the writer of this explanation has MSTed game scripts, too.) Most 
people use Joel (or Mike), Tom, and Crow for their MSTing characters, but some 
people (including the writer of this explanation) prefer to use their own 
characters, or characters from a game, or something similar.  Some MSTs are 
especially nasty towards the writing, while others more resemble fanfics in 
themselves.