@Mr-Johnson said in Building a new Supers Game:

It makes me properly sad to see that so many people have gotten so jaded and cynical over the years that a genuine statement of praise is seen to be something it's not.

It's not that I didn't think you were praising Runescryer & Co., it's that I disagree with the premise that games are inherently in competition with one another. But that's enough derailing for one day.

Some people have been PMing me about the progress of the game so I thought I'd post about it here. For the time being progress has stopped. When I thought about everything that I would need to do to get this game to an "acceptable" level of play it was just too much. I'm in the process of reevaluating my online life and how I approach things and I'm honestly not sure where this project falls into things.

I do have a desire to run a game but I need to find a way to utilize Ares that does not involve needing to write a ton of code for the game and the web portal. Obsidian Reverie has inspired me with their approach of attaching character sheets to the web profiles and I'm experimenting on a private superhero game with that approach now. I won't lie, so far from my standpoint, it's been amazing. Instead of being buried in code that may, one day, help people create their character I'm able to just help people build their character and get to RPing. It's been very refreshing. And the players I've been trying it out with seem to really enjoy it as well.

Unfortunately, I'm not sure where that leaves this project(or any other at the moment for that matter). The only thing I can say for sure is that this project, in this incarnation, is no longer moving forward.

Not taking Mummy seriously STRIKES AGAIN

Arx doesn't have a traditional temproom system, but it does have a plotroom system that would probably be adaptable and that you'd be able to find in the public Arxcode github. It's more designed to have temporary rooms tied directly to @cal events, not just for everyday RP, but it has a whole database setup, people can desc plotrooms and make them public so others can use them for events or keep them private, etc. I'd imagine it'd be a good jumping off point, at the very least.

@Darren said in Modiphius/2d20:

@Ghost If you're looking for a generic system suitable for a wide range of settings/games, why not consider TinyD6, MiniD6 or even-- my personal favorite-- QuestCore?

I'm familiar with Tiny. I've done some gaming with the creators. Was just more wondering if someone tried stabbing at 2d20 that's all

Very interested in an Old Republic game.

Fortunately, it's a breeze to code for!

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@Runescryer Interesting way of approaching this. A lot of the inspiration for my structure comes from how some distributed systems are done for larges enterprises. A core repository for assets, then purpose driven areas where those assets are applied.I admit I don't know what inspired the design originally, I'd be tickled if we're all just cribbing design notes that comic book companies made in the 50s to figure out which universe Bizaro was from.

@Derp said in Microsoft Azure...?:

Part of the benefit of using GitHub. So long as all that is up to date, you've basically got an offsite backup of everything.

Well your code anyway. You still want to back up your database and config files and such. Ares has built-in support for automated backups using Amazon S3 FWIW. It's mildly tedious to set up initially, but it's a nice comfort.

Progress report: Fixed bug which barred characters from being able to be approved.
Fixed bug that made every player get the admin flag
Fixed bug which deleted characters at the end of chargen
Fixed bug with demographics meaning half of demographics wouldn't show up
Fixed bug with recursive code causing log size to bloat
Fixed tag for if characters were FC's or OC's
Added full timeline of game events
Added frame of detailed events of great war to show differences between the real first world war and in game events
Avoided working on porting grid.
Made login screen even more prettyful with lovely colors
Removed Fs3 after testing showed it would be too much work to have both it and the traits system.

@Rinel said in Has anyone ever set up a server just for a small group of friends?:

@faraday said in Has anyone ever set up a server just for a small group of friends?:

If you grab the log information (from Admin->Logs on the web portal,

...the fact that I continually missed that fills me with so much rage. THANK YOU.

FYI, @Tat and @faraday still have to remind me a couple times a month to check my logs.

@dvoraen said in Wheel of Time:

The reason I think it needs to be basically homebrew/customized has to do with addressing the channeler : non-channeler power ratio. Every PC being a channeler isn't precisely boring and stale, since channeling is a diverse system (who has what Talents and skills), but not every PC should necessarily be a channeler, considering that they are approximately 10% (I think that's the percentage) of the population at most.

Also keep in mind the power disparity in the books exists but it's also exaggerated by the book characters; Rand, Mazrim Taim or Nynaeve aren't exactly typical channelers, for example.

One of the (many) ways this could be reflected in mechanics is having players make meaningful choices. Sure you can build someone who can slice weaves and heal or blast with impunity but they'd be a glass canon as well - after all there's a reason Aes Sedai had Warders around and Asha'man started carrying swords. Not everyone should be a top-end channeler and a near Blademaster. Then enforce the natural limitations channelers have, too; for example that they need training to do anything useful (or, hell, to not burn themselves out) so people don't end up making nobles who're also secretly great channelers, too.

But also in my experience in most games people don't necessarily go for the 'power' templates. They go for where the RP is, which sometimes happens to be where the power is because staff don't do their jobs right; the WoT theme provides ample opportunities to go in different directions - there's a full Lords-and-Ladies minigame baked into the settings so you can have cutthroat politics, you can have tournaments and PrPs for weapon wielders, etc.

In other words if you make your game support both channelers and support diversity you'll be fine.

A couple of suggestions:

Mention the game's name in your advertisement thread's title 🙂

Bring up some basic 'technical' facts about the game itself - codebase, gaming system, playable characters, URLs to the wiki if any, that kind of stuff.

@Jennkryst I have never really gotten that code to setup. Though tbh it has been ages since I worked with MUX.

@insomniac7809 That's entirely fair. The game is clearly centered on a single adventuring party's worth of characters (with each's unique die reflecting that, if nothing else).

A MU* approach would have to allow for the possibility of multiple parties having been brought to Die, whether at the same time or at different times, and there'd need to be a way to deal with having multiple godbinders, fools, and even masters--unless the master role becomes, effectively, a "staff PC" role for antagonist/storytelling purposes.