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This thread for coding the roller. At this point, go ahead and ignore the initial requirements, as we are getting Python options too.

http://musoapbox.net/topic/937/7th-sea-dice

@Faceless said in Are MU* videogames:

I tend to liken them to reading a book. Often a book written by a horned-up teenager. Or a psychopath. Or both.

One of the original Penn devs said that TS was no more horrible than coauthored fiction-based mutual masturbation.

This pertains to nothing, just coming out of the grab bag of thoughts that is my head this afternoon.

@Arkandel The funny thing is that our sort of base theme is certainly limited in some ways. We don't have crazy comics-level powersets cause we're more in the movieverse vein, stuff like that. You can be super creative with mutants, though, and introducing this recurring element with AUs lets us do some stuff we couldn't otherwise do on a temporary basis. I'm pretty excited about bringing it into play more.

If I had all the books for the 2nd ed games I'd probably have went the 2nd ed versus 20 th ed.

I am unconvinced that you can't get what you're describing with Google Drive and a project manager like Asana, both of which you can use for free.

I think I've settled on a Fallout inspired wasteland game. That way I have more world building options.

@Coin Mortality rates and years, the two numbers to be most concerned with!

One disappointing thing in China is beer. Chinese beer ranges from tolerable (the better ones from Qingdao) to stuff that barely manages to exceed even American beer in flavour. It's because of this that I have to keep scanning Taobao for bargains on imports. Like this:
BEER!

That's 48 half-liter tins of German beer. It's exported German beer, so pretty much the worst of the breed. Still, worst of breed from Germany exceeds best of breed in China so that's fine by me!

@faraday

I'm also describing pretty much all cRPGs. There's no small reason why the SPECIAL system is percentile.

So! I am looking for a handful of numbers minded folks to help me playtest the grid vs grid system.

We're just a few things away from being able to do a soft 'Please don't break the game' open, and I want to work out some kinks in the Survival System before then.

Things Left To Do:

Data entry for help/news/shelp/snews with all the commands for the code that's been in.

Check for broken code.

I have someone working on a Defining Moments code - it'll be akin to an xp log and aspirations. Staff settable with a timestamp. I'm a bit waffly on staff setting it, but I think that would keep people from altering their history. And, more importantly, keeps staff in touch with what is going on and what people are interested in and helps to make plots more personal to pcs.

Add in a few more codey things. +ic/+ooc, a notes system, get things locked (I need a bit more sleep and less caffeine before tackling code!), and I'm definitely open to suggestions on what might be code to look at adding in later. (A more complex feeding code, and loci are on the list.)

I saw this topic and wasn't going to reply initially. Then I thought about all of those scenes that when I was done partaking of... I sat back and went 'phew'. They were emotional roller coasters. I felt a high or a low or a rush or just otherwise 'moved'. I felt a connection with the character, the other characters in the scene, and generally the whole experience. And.. isn't that the whole purpose of art? To achieve a connection on some level in some form with the viewer/partaker? So yeah. Not every scene hits that level. But damned if you don't feel it when it does.

@Packrat Karl was a Marquis though. I mean.

Weakness for Pretty Wikis.
Do we have an adress yet?

Make it snappy!

I keed.

This is one I'm keeping my eye on though.

I've logged into Cybersphere on and off for a few years now. I mostly don't remember how to do anything anymore, but it was fun finding random RP in that game. Very few people ever tried to kill me, which I am thankful for. I think one person even toyed with me like a spider watching a fly, but for some reason would generally let me go. Ah, decking.

Edit: Damn it. I'm logging in on there when I get home.

@Bobotron said in CoD - Victorian - Penny Dreadful-ish.:

@Coin
There's some info on combining the BP and Generation stats in the Vampire Translation Guide, if you're interested in looking.

I've seen it. I don't remember them, but I don't particularly remember them being too great? I can take a look, though.

@Ganymede said in New Player Onboarding:

@Thenomain said in New Player Onboarding:

Now I know that @Saulot doesn't always think I am the most awesome thing since sliced bread. I don't know how I'm going to live.

From what I know, I don't know how you go on living either.

Here's some aloe.

I want some bread with my whine.

Player volunteers are the best staff a game can ever have. Unfortunately, they're also the worst. Support the good ones with praise.

@faraday

Throwing things directly into the tables. I never looked at the API because I imagined it was difficult to trigger from TinyMUX.

Addendum: I imagine the risk of inserting directly into a MediaWiki table to be pretty high, tho, since sometimes they change them or plug-ins change them for fun. But what the hell, right?

Tacking on to feedback @Ghost and @Lotherio both provided, I would say that the setting of game isn't necessarily as important (to me) as the type of game. I think the genre of this game works best when:

There are real risks and you might actually die. The environment is trying to kill you while the surviving groups are also trying to kill you because of resource competition and you're adding to these chances by having to get from A to B by deciding if taking the dubious rotting bridge over a raging river is safer than going all the way around, which sets you back by hours but means you're stuck out in the wilderness when the sun disappears.

I can't really speak to games I'm not familiar with but I tried No Return and in addition to what @ghost said: there was literally no risk to this game. Sure, people died but they were dying because the players were shelving them because they were bored or they had a flaw that required them to die by x time. And even the unlucky players who were the victims of bad rolls and gotten bitten by zombies, still had to do a check to see if they turned and even then could take a serum that would cure them of permadeath. There was little risk inherent to this game and it mostly resulted in a lot of playing house and having babies and ignoring a lot of basic cooperative survival needs like making sure the PCs had a secure fence.

Staff on the game kept trying to course correct these issues through very hamfisted plot devices but they often ended up over correcting where it became railroady staff fiat in the form of IC punishments or the plot devices were so drastic and theme breaking that, most players literally didn't want to deal with it, ignored it and just kept scavenging for canned pears in light syrup.

Which feeds into...

Active plot staff or active plot runners. If the staff are the kind of staff that don't want to run plot that doesn't basically react to players ignoring previous staff fiat and want players to do it for them largely, then empower your plot runners to keep running plot that moves the game's story arc forward. Otherwise, again, you literally have nothing to do but scavenge for lawn chairs and ignore theme. This can be avoided by just pushing the main story line along on a proactive basis.

Set a date for the game to end. Most of the survival genre is counter intuitive to this (the author of the TWD has stated that he planned to keep telling the story for as long as he could which is turning out to be a very long time and not necessarily for the better). A game with a beginning, middle, and end in this genre sends the message that you don't have time to sunbathe on top of the abandoned mall when you should be stock piling ammo because the Reavers are coming. It gives players a chance to make more meaningful and strategic choices and if they blow it, well then they blow it. Losing is fun, I think.