PT is cheeseball garbage designed to fill out a character sheet will all kinds of higher-priced items for cheap. I absolutely hate it. Players should earn the dots on their sheet through RP, not cheese the system to get better dice rolls.
Best posts made by Ghost
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RE: CofD and Professional Training
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RE: RL Anger
@Three-Eyed-Crow Nah, that wasn't a vaglueblog at you. You said how you felt.
I could type for hours about who I think I am vs. who you think I am, but at the end of the day, I don't think either of us know each other truly well enough to make any accurate judgments.
But being someone who was sick of someone else's shit at the time, I can't really cry foul when someone got sick of my shit, can I?
Nah, no hate/beef here on my end. I recently make a move to give some people who are at odds with me a little extra space. Is what it is.
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RE: CofD and Professional Training
Social combat is important because nearly every player is interested in their social game succeeding, but very few players are willing to organically choose to lose in social situations.
Almost every time I've chosen to lose on a MU (because it made sense ICly) I tend to get pages asking if I'm ruining the character on purpose
These games have plenty of win and lose, but combat is avoided altogether by certain players because there is dice supported winning and losing in combat.
For this reason alone, social dice rolls are important and should be used.
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RE: RL Anger
New Topic: I hatelove Castlevania on Netflix.
I love it because it's a lot of fun.
I hate it because there are only 4 episodes.
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RE: CofD and Professional Training
However, the 8/9/rote bonus from PT doesn't clarify that it should be reserved to simple tasks.
For example, if an artist character has PT: Artist to rank 5, they'll have 8/9/rote on all crafts checks.
Now, realistically, a well trained artist (using chef as an example) should be able to craft a better than normal ham and cheese sandwich, reasonably, with rote successes, but when it comes to complex, highly difficult, or experimental meals, the degree of difficulty and attention required comes up, and I don't feel that even famous chefs like Gordon Ramsay do highly difficult things so simply.
I have zero doubt that Gordon Ramsay could cook me up a super-nice, rote-grade version of macaroni and cheese with his eyes closed, but where PT is concerned, Gordon Ramsay (crafts5 w 8/9/rote) could approach the following as if they were as difficult as making macaroni and cheese:
- Making a katana
- Cooking a Michelin Star grade meal for the Queen of England
- a birthday cake made out of human skin
- Recreating the Mona Lisa with matching brush strokes
- Making a samurai grade suit of lamellar armor to go along with a Hanzo sword of his own design.
This is where I think PT is broken. IMO the benefits should all be restricted to uses WITHIN SAID PROFESSION and the rote usage should be restricted to dice rolls that are not considered extended dice rolls.
Be it NWoD or CofD, I've seen too many people apply benefits of PT to other used outside of their professional training. Staff should make this distinction and keep an eye on it.
In short: Being an expert pastry chef with 8/9/rote on crafts rolls should never be applied to forging Hattori Hanzo katana
Edit/Afterthought: It is my belief that the draw for PT isn't to have 8/9/rote in <skillname> rolls pertaining to profession, but to have 8/9/rote in all uses of that skill, which is overpowered and, IMO, gamebreaking.
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RE: CofD and Professional Training
@ThatGuyThere Do you remember Secondary Skills? I liked those. oWoD had all kinds of secondary skills and super-type specific knowledge/lore skills to buy up, which I think was a better way to go than ACADEMICS, which makes you just as good at understanding ANCIENT ROME as you are at understanding THE HISTORY OF NEPAL.
The way it appears to me, NWoD wanted to streamline XP use so that there weren't so many skills to buy (which, newer RPGs really are minimizing the # of skills to buy in play. Rolemaster had HUNDREDS of skills. Newer RPGs are skills-lite).
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RE: A Constructive Thread About People We Might Not Like
@Paris said in A Constructive Thread About People We Might Not Like:
Ghost, you're advocating for a player (edit: AND STAFFER) who, for over a decade, has done to others the kind of bullshit that was done to you. In some cases, she did worse.
Oh I'm not advocating for HER, Paris. I'm not trying to stop this discussion at all. I'm about to politely bow out of it.
I'm more or less advocating at this point for other people who might not be so deserving of ugly, open displays of he-said-she-said that may follow.
I'm not accusing ANYONE of shit talking or whatever, I'm just being this philosophical little toad in the corner going "...but what are we if not evolved creatures and this method of Socratic turns into mob justice?" LOL. I can totally get it that you guys are like "Okay, fuckoff Ghost, VASpider's earned this".
The floor is yours, folks. I'll stop it with the DVD commentary.
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RE: RL Anger
????? What on earth do you think you're saying, you egocentric living drama pile?
Not slinging mud here, but I'm taking your "she's keeping this going, not me" card away from you.
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RE: A Constructive Thread About People We Might Not Like
My personal favorite is the one of us might be a Cylon paranoia. Far too many people(for comfort) I've met on these games would often go into stalker mode themselves trying to determine who is who.
- That person typed a pose like VASpider does! Might be spider!
- Your character name is vaguely similar to an old character name who stalked me...are you <blah>?
- A creepy guy used that PB once on another game and I can't trust you arent him, so please don't take offense
It'd be interesting to see the results as to whether or not the damage done out of paranoia is > the damage done by the actual bad guys.
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RE: RL Anger
Don't apologize on the apology thread.
DOOOOONT
Don't
//don't//
Do notDangerous.
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RE: A Constructive Thread About People We Might Not Like
@Arkandel See?!?!? It's everywhere
Once I had a player I didnt even know start texting me really weird questions about where I'd played. Turned out she was screening me on behalf of someone else I was actively rping with at the time.
DUDE, I got blackOps'd screened.
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RE: RL Anger
@Three-Eyed-Crow OMG Mexican Coca-Cola is amazing and one of the best parts about being in this part of the country.
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RE: Working on Theme, Focus and Challenges
@Collective I think having a game plan for this, even if it's just a loose one to start, really helps.
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RE: Forum Factions
@Meg said in Forum Factions:
@Ghost said in Forum Factions:
@mietze said in Forum Factions:
12 year old boy sense of humor faction? Though to be fair, I make more fart jokes on faction channels or pub than I do here. ;). Maybe immature humor faction would be better cause I can't really pass up a menstrual joke either, really.
What did the pirate say when he turned 80?
AYYYYYYYY MATEY
What does a pirate pay for corn?
A buccaneer!
What is Bruce Lee's preferred beverage?
WATAAAAAAAAAH!
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RE: RL Anger
@Auspice I'm game. Mine is fixed. It's a relatively safe plan.
(Which is exactly how I talk to my friends who are parents of teenage girls, being the parent of a teenage boy)
No bullshit, I said this to my friend Peggy last week:
"So that we can remain friends, could you please never let your 16 year old daughter know we have a 17 year old son? We need to keep that a closely guarded secret."
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RE: Positivity Going Forward...
@selira You should know that it appears that you care more about me than I do your opinion about me. How about you stop carrying this around and move on with your life? Alas, clapping back at bullies is different from preying on innocent people with self-esteem issues who weren't looking for a fight, and you're clearly looking for conflict.
Be nice to me and others and I'll be cool with you. It's that simple. Let it go and gabble for updates with your make-believe assumptions about who I am with people who will pat you on the back for it elsewhere.
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RE: RL Anger
Me: "Honey, have you seen my keys?"
Partner: from the other room "It's over there."
Me in head: WHERE THE FUCK IS 'THERE'?^OMFG THIS
Not to mention:
ME: I lost my keys, can u help?
SO: (not looking) Where was the last place you saw them?
ME: Right where I am right now. I just looked there.
SO: Where was the last place you saw them before that?
ME: IF RETRACING MY STEPS WERE SOME MYSTIC ART I HADN'T THOUGHT OF IN THE FIRST PLACE, OR HAD IT YIELDED ANY RESULTS, I WOULDN'T BE ASKING FOR HELP.