I'm adding Carrie Coon to my list. Although it will be really hard to not just rehash her character from The Leftovers. So vulnerable, so broken, so barely keeping it together...

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I don't necessarily agree but I see what people are saying about FCs. I think it'd still be awesome with OCs, maybe even better because then you can combine your favorite wrestlers; I'd totally have The Macho Maniac.

@lisse24 said in MU* Activity Survey 2018 - DRAFT:

I'll certainly use this feedback, but my fear with adding a N/A option is that, say, you'll get someone from a game that uses XP, and they'll scoff at both options and choose N/A. When you're trying to identify trends, you really want to force a choice, even if that choice isn't perfect. However, I think that I can probably word a third choice to avoid that. I'll work on it.

There are a lot of your questions that flat out do not apply to most of the games I've run or helped run - which is 4 or 5 depending on how you want to count. So while I get your fear, you should ALSO have the fear of 'how accurate is my data if people are choosing things that straight up don't apply to their game because they don't have a correct option?'

I highlighted most, but not all, of the questions that seemed to have that particular issue, but I'm just speaking from my viewpoint, and I imagine that other games exist for which different questions might also feel wildly inaccurate.

For what it's worth, I think an 'NA' option is probably less likely to be abused than an 'other' option, but also I think most people are lazy and will choose a ticky box over filling out 'other' where it seems feasible to do so.

I have a hot 60 year old lady that might suit your fancy...

@bobotron When looking at the boards, they're all listed as being set to '0' or to never time out. Though, some old posts are just gone 😞

To help deal with this, I've made this instead - http://flashpointgotham.tk/index.php/Current_Hooks_and_Plots

I'll also be tossing up two other pages that will log the news reports.

Well hey, if your Whoniverse game doesn't work out and you decide to go in this direction let me know and we'll see what we can work out. 🙂

@ghost said in Bad Actors, and Bad Behavior (extended):

If we're going to define, or discuss "BAD" behavior by players, and if it's defined by very specific things such as sexual harassment, stalking, doxxing, etc, then I think we should take a moment to acknowledge the amount of hell some people have gone through on these boards for things like:

Some things are fairly universal. Those are the only ones we can really address in a generic post - sexual harassment for example is a pretty damn good bet for what constitutes a no-no.

Everything else depends on each game's staff. Maybe I am more SJW than some and would ban you for calling someone a bitch; maybe you are a real elitist and would condone someone being derided for too many typos in their posing. But we can't possibly apply any rhyme or reason to such things, as they are just too game-specific.

@tnp said in 'The Magicians' mechanics with FS3:

Gods, I hate FATE. But I'd prefer it over FS3. I don't hate FS3 at all but I think it encourages combat more than RP. That's not a fault of the system but the ones playing it.

Wot ones playing it? BSG players?

@faraday Pretty much. I may just have spectacularly bad luck with dice, but that always struck me as - well, what you describe, a routine task for their job. It gets worse because they're a lot more heavy-handed on the roll penalties than they are on the roll bonuses, and every task from the 'this is the simplest thing you could ever possibly do' to 'this is actually really hard' all have the same difficulty; one more or less dare not walk and chew gum at the same time, pretty much. It all doesn't quite work out so well as it should in the end.

@arkandel you offer benefits without friends? 😉

@pondscum My fellow socializer!

@surreality said in Social Systems:

P.S. Will want to pick your brain for appropriate expertise categories for Law task. As in, I doubt 'Civil, Criminal, Contract, Prosecution, and Defense' would cover all the bases. (Or maybe it would? Maybe that's too fussy already? I dunno. But will be asking when I get there, as fair warning. ❤ )

Honestly, you could probably lump those into Academics, like WoD does, or Bureaucracy, like the old World of Darkness did.

Should probably note that while Sincerity in L5R is essentially Persuasion and Subterfuge rolled into one, the "social offense" skill is Courtier and the "social defense" is Etiquette. Causing someone to misstep via your skill in Courtier can lead to a loss of Honor, whereas making the right move to save face or avoid a loss is, of course, one's knowledge of Etiquette.

Altered Carbon, as a major inspiration for Eclipse Phase, has re-ignited THE ITCH.

This project is sidelined. New job etc. I would need help regardless, and right now, I don't know of many people whom I would trust to /be/ staff, especially on a game like SR where PvP can and will take place.

I may get back to it, like I said, consider it vapor ware for the time being.

Sorry 😞

@arkandel said in Star Trek Discovery (Loosely):

@rnmissionrun said in Star Trek Discovery (Loosely):

I can guarantee you that the number of people willing to RP mundane chain-of-command stuff and RP via +reports, will be very small indeed.

Oh my god, I used to think that too, and as it turns out I was so wrong.

It's true from my perspective but then I tend to favor heavily coded games over pure RP style games.

Yeah Extra Life Org specifically is streaming PUBG all weekend to raise money. Generally they announce when the yearly even will be around April, and you can start taking donations then, even if you don't play until November, and they accept them each year until December 31st.

@surreality said in Table-top gadgets:

This is more writing-focused, but it is entertaining and may be similarly useful: http://www.springhole.net/writing_roleplaying_randomators/backstory-idea.htm

I think I linked it elsewhere recently, as it's what I use to come up with random filler for test templates for wiki and whatnot as well because once the wiki code brain is on, the 'I need random examples of what might be on a character sheet as filler that doesn't need to be a huge chunk of lorem ipsum text' part is so, so very turned off.

http://www.ashami.com/rpg/

@killer-klown said in Vampire Requiem 2nd Edition Bloodlines Question:

@surreality
One, I said 'the main reason it didn't work on Reno', not 'then main reason Reno created the HR'

Uh-huh. And done now. <clicks the little eye thingie>