I have tried to RP from my phone twice, both necessitated by the internet service dying, and being in the middle of something I felt obliged to finish for other people's takes.

But man, its a solution of last resort.

@Arkandel Too late!

@Faceless Thank you for that link! It looks wonderful!

@Coin Oh, definitely. Absolutely just going to run for friends and people I know first. I'd never even consider it otherwise. Heck, I'm having second thoughts when it's just friends.

I think the thing to watch for me will definitely be what @Gilette says - expectations of what players might do. Hopefully I'll have time to read that Storytelling thread today. But thanks to all for responding with some solid advice to think about.

@bladesurfer said in Rewards other than XP:

@Thenomain Back in the day, X-Men: End Times (XET) also had a sort of 'RP Oscars' and I always thought they were a blast.

Nominating for them also meant people went back and reviewed the last year's logs, which is always kinda cool.

omfg it's a @bladesurfer. 😮

@Bobotron said in Plots for Spheres:

A willingness to integrate personal plot/goals into larger, long-term plots IF they fit. Steal that shit from the players whose ideas are better than yours.

This.

@Kairos I have a similar sense that it's a bit more accessible and MU*able. DFAE also has some clear inspiration from a few of the PbtA games (such as how they've implemented Conditions), which I admit I am a huge fan of.

However, I have not played on Dark Spires, so I am not so well-versed in what the likely player population would be like or what sort of broader DF-related MU* history/archaeology would influence possible interest (or lack thereof) in a DFAE game.

Apologies if I'm rechurning what someone else has already said. I did read through the thread which prompted me to think about this but I may have not committed every comment to memory.

I guess my issue with villains in any game or story setting- PC or NPC- is that its such a binary concept. Good vs bad. Nice vs mean. Grace vs. evil.

And that's not wrong. But.

It's a concept that presumes that your character is in the default position of being in the right and the villain is the default position of being in the wrong. And their actions are supposed to be a staircase to your good PC achieving a state of grace through their act of evil.

And I want to be clear that I'm not knocking stories that have this sort of push/pull. There are people who want to unpack them for a number of very valid reasons. But the reason they're operating through this lens is because they're presented from a point of view that polarizes these actions that favors the 'good' because the intention is usually for good to win. The result is that triumphing actions are treated with virtue and the behavior of the villain is generally termed as having an antagonism. And I think we're conditioned to accept virtue on its merits even when there's little logic or actual supporting evidence that what's happening is actually good and the behavior of the villain is slanted for cause, wherein we're given within reach ideas about why this is bad.

I'd like to see the whole dynamic re-examined, I guess and step out of this frame work. So much of what we understand as conflict on a global scale is deemed as complicated and the argument about who is wrong vs. who is right is a thing steeped in relativism. That's definitely not the case in binary villain v. hero motifs most of the time and I wonder if purposefully framing it in the notion of who did what to whom is steeped in relativism would actually take the pressure off who needs to win.

@Bobotron said in Game Concept: Paying for rare things:

This isn't about ridiculing a concept for 'speshul snowflakeness'. It's about finding another way to allow something that is problematic, or should be rare, in a different way than an application, a cap, or staff fiat. It gives player agency to the choices they make. Sure, everyone on the game might go OKAY I WILL BE JEDI AT 6 POINTS or somesuch, but the THEORY behind it is sound, as many of us have witnessed first-hand. It could be applied to the Jedi issue in SW to help alleviate some of the above insanity.

This argument presumes any insanity on an SW game if people are given the freedom to choose.

This argument also presumes that a larger occurrence of purportedly rare concepts is problematic.

I understand the system and how it is calculated to work. I'm arguing that there was never a problem to begin with that needed to be addressed with system modification.

@Cupcake said in Culture Building:

I've already stated that should I submit this org, I'll be removing the feminine element, but in the interim, boy you sure did out me for the rabid feminazi I am!

I was being constructive. Take it personally if you want, or don't.

Not a future based one. that was just conversation that others were throwing around.

Folks who are interested in helping out on the wiki, the time is now. Send me a message if I haven't contacted you already, we'll get you the wiki password and you can start claiming pages to work on.

When some wild-eyed, eight-foot-tall maniac grabs your neck, taps the back of your favorite head up against the barroom wall, and he looks you crooked in the eye and he asks you if ya paid your dues, you just stare that big sucker right back in the eye, and you remember what ol' Jack Burton always says at a time like that: "Have ya paid your dues, Jack?" ... "Yessir, the check is in the mail.

@ThugHeaven said in Odd Mu* urges:

@Auspice I choose "resting bitch face" characters all the time! There is just a certain appeal there.

And Aubrey Plaza is perfect for it, really.

Grah, per SE, I know 'say' is not Latin.

@Steel I'm glad it helped

@Apu Yeah, it definitely wasn't super surprising, but still a shame!

There is a slim chance that it could be done, so long as all the faiths have at least a decent foothold and some real power. Thinks 'Christians v. Pagans' via 'The Mists of Avalon'.

There would still be a lot of dickwaving, of course, but if neither side has the option of just completely eliminating the other, it could be done.

ok

I get inspiration for PBs from the oddest things. Like I recently had the song Broken stuck in my head so had to use Amy Lee as a PB for a werewolf I'm making.

"Anita Riceverse". I giggled.