@ganymede said in New Games and Feature Characters...:

@faraday said in New Games and Feature Characters...:

Staff letting their friends/siblings/spouses camp characters they never intend to play is not only poor planning, but is going to open them up to cries of staff favoritism to friends.

And yet it happens all the time: the favoritism, and the crying, regardless of whether there is any conscious favoritism.

Sure, but I think the favoritism card gets overplayed. If you’re giving a coveted role to a player you know is awesome and who has a proven track record of being reliable and not crazy and just happens to be your friend then that’s not really favoritism in my book... that’s using common sense and making a decision that’s likely to benefit the game as a whole.

Now if you give that same covered role to a friend who you know is going to just camp it, TS with Batman all day, or flake out like they have on every other game... then you’re not only playing favorites, you’re a fool.

@kay NP chick.

@thenomain said in Geist 2.0 Kickstarter:

@insomniac7809 said in Geist 2.0 Kickstarter:

after he drove trans RPG developer Avery Alder, writer of Monsterhearts, out of publishing for some time

...Why?

I suspect that the answer is that Zak Smith is a professional troll, but I'm always willing to be disappointed in assuming that some people are jerks for the lulz.

I don't know. He hates her for some reason, that seems to be enough.

Although, for what it's worth, he doesn't seem to be transphobic in the general sense. He pulled his podcast off the Escapist because it gave transphobes airtime. But if he has issue with a specific transperson, deadnaming and harassment start popping up.

Not really a defense, just getting facts clear for the sake of a) accuracy, and b) preemptively in case a bunch of people show up talking about how they've never heard of Zak Smith but he sure does sound handsome and successful and do we know for sure he had anything to do with the people he dislikes getting death threats in the mail. (This happens a lot.)

ETA: Okay, so according to what I've found, Alder... removed a stretch goal from a kickstarter that would have been written by a friend of Smith's, over the friend's defense of Smith's previous harassment campaigns.

@botulism Sounds awesome! Hope you knock it out of the park. 🙂

@bored

I think if you really set it up so that it's not just 'oh, Vampire Sphere A sucked, let's disgruntled players make Vampire Sphere B'. I'd hate to say it, but having a limited amount of things that are the same genre/game might be useful there.

@shincashay said in Questions of Etiquette:

About 15-30 then try the next day to reach them. Still no response? I know where the relationship stands.

you're dead to me

bats eyes

@coin Back in the days of Everquest (I played on an RP server), a friend of mine and I did this as a flame war on our server's EZBoard (aaaahahahahaaha) that turned into 30+ pages of how I was REALLY A MAN AND JUST PRETENDING TO BE A WOMAN ON THE INTERNETZ.

He used to call me as he'd write his latest flame of me and we'd laugh about it.Oh, the good ol' days.

As I am logged in right now looking at the +jobs queue, I can confirm that there is a daily staff presence on this game and plans for staff to move game-plot forward once we're out of Beta. There is no hold on CG, nor is there anything stopping current players from going out and enjoying RP themselves. Staff simply had to make a choice between continuing to be the driving force behind all RP ever or take the time to actually finish getting the systems built while also juggling RL constraints.

Like was mentioned above, the other game exists if you want something smaller finished Right Now, but we are also not dead, just napping.

@sparks said in Arx: @clues:

@cobaltasaurus said in Arx: @clues:

@Sparks Gave me one of the most chilling clues in the game (imho) but it's only so chilling because of the context that comes with that clue. It's akin to real world when you find out why the story behind "Ring Around the Rosie".

Was that Hush, Hush that you're referencing? I'm still rather happy with that clue.

Yes. Brrr.

Match of the Millennium. motm.kicks-ass.net is both website and gamesite. 2002 is ze port.

@coin said in Now for something different:

Why are you sharing pictures of your mom?

Because that's how you left her last night: Sad and unfulfilled.

I think part of what might be overlooked here is that @Arkandel wasn't a staffer on BITN, either. He was a player, running a PrP for fellow players.

The player went not to the actual ST running the plot, but to staff. Which the ST wasn't. Now, what @ThatOneDude is talking about re: 'use staff to coordinate with the ST if we're not around at the same time' is a valid possibility regarding intent. Schedules being what they are, that is a thing that sometimes happens and it's easier to handle through a cc'd +job with everybody all on the same page (especially if +comms or whatever the players-only version isn't installed, and it wasn't on BITN from what I recall... and most people don't know about it even when/if it is installed somewhere).

It's more, 'this isn't something you'd get every detail of in a single roll'. It's more suited to a collection of different rolls for different aspects of the very complex problem. It's not a single action required to understand the totality of it. In another thread, I used the example of 'players need to blow up a satellite'. This would require a number of steps to accomplish, and it wouldn't be reasonable to do it in one roll. Similar issue, and would involve a number of different skills depending on what the thing actually is. Academics would be the step that helps get there, but is it an (Occult) paranormal gateway? A (Science) singularity? And so on.

@prototart said in nWorld of Darkness 1E v 2E:

@shelbeast said in nWorld of Darkness 1E v 2E:

I ran a tabletop game of VtR like this, in another sort of way. I made Humanity and Blood Potency a sliding scale with a maximum of 11 points spread between the two, with normal starting stats of 7 Humanity and 1 BP. The basic idea was to play up the conflict between being a human being, and confronting the monstrous nature of being a vampire. If you wanted to truly grow in power as a vampire, you'd have to sacrifice your Humanity. And when you'd realize that you had become this horrible thing, and try to seek redemption, your vampiric might would ebb, as you were denying and neutering your own Beast.

that sounds kind of like the system stuff in the like print-run-of-10 blink and you missed it oWoD Africa book, which came out like a week before they cancelled the line and which i kind of loved

Kindred of the Ebony Kingdom.

And yes, it's very much like the Orun/Aye dynamic. I still have that book in surpriginsly good conditions.

@carex said in Let's talk about TS.:

It dosen't matter if someone walks in wearing a giant, neon purple, strap-on it isn't "forcing a kink" on someone unless that viewer finds it arousing and is made uncomfortable by that arousal.

In some cases, sure. But I wouldn't call this one a universal. (It's often easy enough to spot in the 'methinks thou dost protest too much' sense when this is true, but that's also not any sort of certainty.)

Some people are hot for gore and mutilation for sexual gratification; someone being made uncomfortable by that isn't necessarily going to be ashamed of their own secret sexual woo from gore and mutilation, they may simply find it horrifying and gross if they don't like gore or mutilation period. There are people into racist or sexist themes in fetish play; someone being put off by that isn't necessarily put off because they are ashamed they find it also hot, but because they're not fans of racism or sexism.

Even some of this is a RL vs. VR thing. If I walked into a fetish club and people were engaging in scat play, and that's allowed there, I may just be plain and simple put off by the smell and leave. Until we have smellovision in VR (OH PLEASE GODS NEVER NO PLEASE NO), that's not going to be an issue in the same way.

There are fetishes for damned near everything, so the reasons for an objection are going to vary a lot.

Let me get yelled at by mods for saying , the same site hosting that chart has a web entry spell builder for 2e that's way easier ... 2e Mage win?

Runs

Policy: I don't really have a best one. If anything I think the 2 person policy cause sometimes I have another idea or want to have a dick and twat.

Game System: Randsomscene that incentivizes rp with others. So yeah you want xp? play with me fool!

Setting: For the short while it was there a Victorian Dark Ages Hunter setting. I forget the name but it needs to be revived. (Hmmm... I'm tempted)

Code: I gotta give it up to @faraday . A plug and play code system that allows you to quickly set up a game and setting for anything under the sun. It has all the basic stuff common place in all games. That's just awesome.

@tyche What is the value of the Spectre book for Wraith at this point? Or the Changeling Tarot deck? The book was $120 at one point. I doubt it is $30 now. And given that the contents of the book are otherwise available, its only market is those who want the cover. So much smaller group, but sometimes willing to pay the ridiculous prices.

ETA: Hey, well I found Dark Reflections: Spectres at one place for $131 I am in the money.

@tragedyjones @DownWithOPP It always seemed like Europe and the UK were heavily gutted during 2070's seeing as how the major powers were US/China and we saw very little if any involvement by the UK.

@pyrephox Don't spring RL Sexual torture on people either.

I've had some real darkness in my life, I don't need to be blind-sided by it on a game.