@JinShei I love it!

I have some school projects starting soon so I’ll most likely poke at ya later.

@mietze said in Adapting to New Ideas:

If a system is relatively simple, doesn't have a ton of special exceptions or radically shifting rule sets in the same game, then I am down with trying something new.

How many people here started with RPGs like Toon or Paranoia or CP2020? Even early (A)D&D was deeply simple: Pick a class, at each level you might pick a thing, and leave all the rest of the work to the DM or module designers.

Years ago (in the most recent Wora timeframe), Ink(@Darkwater, I can't remember his Wora nick) with some light frustration mentioned how that we're using these incredibly powerful computers and yet almost never did we utilize it.

Nuku, our resident furry now writing Ponyfinder god bless 'im, did utilize it and his Mucks were almost always incredibly popular, partially from theme and partially from implementation.

The unfortunate part is that we're not all game designers, we're not all code developers, and we're not all GMs. When we find a game with the magic balance of all three, it can be simple or it can be complex but I guarantee it will gain popularity. If it can hit critical mass of popularity, it will keep for quite some time.

@Admiral discworld mud has some accessibility settings that makes screen readers more useable. I knew a number of blind players there, including one coder!

@Ominous Yeah, after looking through the PDF, it is definitely more crunchy than what I can handle for this game, especially given that more than half of every character will be a "normal human" Host, pregenerated by a coded system on the server side. Multiple Hosts will need to be generated and then presented as options to pick from for each Player, so by necessity, the game system has to be pretty crunch-lite.

@hedgehog said in Aberrant Second Edition:

Is Kraig Blackwelder actually any part of this, since it was originally his development?

I don't believe so.

I just have a few finishing touches on the grid and a good bit of work on the wiki and it'll be golden. Grid is pretty much done. It's a small grid but I like to think I put good detail into it and the Ares system of create a room specifically for a scene is going to make that small grid really shine long term. The wiki is a bit of a longer thing due to me not really understanding how wiki's work but yeah it's pretty much all done really. Should be good to launch into season zero shortly here.

Don't want to promise exacts yet because I don't know what'll happen in the near future, but yeah it's pretty much all done except the wiki, and maybe some bugs here and there I injected into things while messing around.

Willing to pay? Seriously. I'm not even remotely intelligent enough to be poking around in server stuff.

If you want the darkspires fate code, it is in a public repository.

@Derp said in X-Card Code Idea:

Now, that said, I think if it's anonymous (which this system should make it, since the emit is coming from an object presumably in the master room), that the other players have a chance to say 'Yeah, cool' or 'No, that's not reasonable.'

Yeah I imagine the code/idea would only be as good as the policies surrounding it.

Well, the site is up and I'm slowly teaching myself code by being on the RhostMUSH server and chatting up folks there! I have a very solid idea of what I want the game to be, but now have to get there. 😉

@surreality Yeah, most of the LARPS around here in that timeperiod were one of two things - a sponsored 'club' in HS or university, or held as part of a local Gaming Convention. Pretty much it was 'excuse to have sex with some gaming involved' than the other way around.

Gotta get them IROC-Zs.

Sounds like a cool idea and you clearly love it. Go for it.

I dont currently mush, BUT IF I DID, I'd absoltely make a character that specializes in boosting 2nd rate sports cars like the IROC-Z, Delorean, and the Fiero.

I'll make a comparison.

I played on Modern Nights, a recent V20 game. It had a lot of options and a lot of potential. But there were no wikis, and the players weren't really talking to one another online. It was hard to find RP most nights, and I did not have the ability to sift through wikis to even see where I might have a tie or two. Yes, there was code available to guide me towards folks that my PC may have known, but that's a far cry from being able to browse at leisure.

Contrast this with Echoes in the Mist. That game had a wiki, but you didn't have to reveal your stats if you didn't want to. Even the most basic information -- Clan, Covenant -- was enough to help me figure it if it would make sense that my PC would bump into another. That made me feel more comfortable reaching out for RP.

Aside from Ares-based games, I don't know of or haven't played on games which allowed all-but-full disclosure of stats. Whether an OOC masquerade is purposeful I think largely depends on the kind of game you want to run, but I prefer games with player wiki pages.

@Wretched said in Mudkraft:

@Auspice I am not sure how i feel about this.

Well the web site gives a 404 so... I wouldn't feel any way about this, since this is beyond vaperware. 🙂

Edit: I'm moving this to a different forum category until there's something to advertise.

@Ghost It's been a few years since I've run a Penn game, but last I knew there was no ability to save pages to the DB or snoop live as Seamus describes. You could turn on command logging for everyone or set people SUSPECT, but that stuff all went to a text log file on disk.

Ares presently has no SUSPECT flag, but it logs all commands (from everyone) except for pages/channels/poses (and a few other private things like passwords) to the text debug log on disk. Channels are saved to the DB for channel/recall and web portal chat. Poses are saved to the DB if you have scene logging enabled. Individual players can currently log pages they receive in a very limited fashion for abuse reporting.

Can't speak to the other codebases.

I have suggested such an idea before. Though, it was more of a list of side characters that people may not feel like playing as their main.

@bored Honestly, I'll look forward to playing a Lion samurai or a Phoenix sorcerer.

So baiscally rehashes of my Kishi Kaisei characters? Fuck if I know.

WIKI UPDATE:

Firearms, Ammo and Mods have been placed up and on the Wiki. Chems also now have costs listed.

@Kumakun said in WoD Games in the Works:

@skew said in WoD Games in the Works:

Which I just realized I wrote that pretty backwards as the two important pieces of information are above. Crescent Moon Mux and City of Shadows, both WoD 2E games that have stalled(?).

Kind of! We collectively decided to take a break till after the holidays blew over. We all got hit with RL responsibilities it seems like. You know how it goes! We're not far from soft opening, we just need... staff honestly. Pretty much the same problem others are having I'm starting to notice!

That being said, if you're reading this and interested in helping out? Join the discord channel: https://discord.gg/F7ZZT8p I'm Ghede there, and normally online (though slow most times). I'd love to talk! 🙂 </shamelessPlug>

No official announcements have been made yet, but the wheels of progress are grinding slowly again! More soon on our thread! 😊

You should start with The Firm, since it's the most well known book. Then work your way out from there. A Time to Kill. The Pelican Brief. Like that.