Sometimes things don't get run because they aren't allowed to staff in the sphere they enjoy most so they never want to be staff, which can lead to nothing happening because you might have someone who is in a staff position as a stop gap. So that can be staff limiting players in that way.

And I say again, if you can't trust a person to not cheat as staff, you can't trust them to be staff in the first place.

@surreality said in What themes and subjects do you look for in a game?:

@Coin Thank you! You know I ❤ you, but it's in like ALL THE THREADS lately... and seems to turn people away from universal contributions once it seems all WoD-centric. 😕

I'll help turn it back by responding to @Coin's comment (ie It will all be N edition soon, prior edition no longer accepted).

I think that creates a hard line, another reason I'm not a fan of cannon source (movie- book-verse)/game material (specific rpg). I just spent some ducats (cause I'm Roman, not cause I'm gangster) on N edition books for a good read, but its a year or two later and the new books are billed as N.N edition. I don't want to spend more money to play the game. I don't want to wade through the virus infested swamp that is 4share or some other file share on-line. The kind folks that love that specific game or cannon have taken the their valuable time to enjoy all the books or supplements and decide which is the most fun for their game, but then I have to look through the list to make sure I have the sources material specific to what I want to play or just not play it.

10 pages of wiki for original theme (which is light for some places we can agree) is a lot less reading I have to do to get into something.

Now, I do agree with @Arkandel, I don't want to read all that original theme to discover I'm onto some personal meta by the staff which is really running through the course of some unplanned book they want to write and everyone is just some pawn in the course of them revealing that story to the audience, which is the 10 people remaining on the game after a year who have all been promoted to staff.

This gets into other realms I've brought up, how much needs to be meta versus free form. Any grand meta sets the life of a Mu* to the extent of this great arch, even if it includes dozens of people, there is an end. Any lack of meta means lack of long term interest too. As it comes up a lot and a few WoD have run the course lately of being active with >dozen folks for multiple years running. The old standard when places ran for 5-10 years, just cause we thought they'd never close and the purpose was to stay open forever (SW1 is still running around, bless their soles).

I prefer original theme cause recurring genre like WoD is just a rehash of stories already told it seems. Its white washed and run again. Didn't @Thenomain just comment in another thread, if you have a great game running that eventually 'dies', just white wash it and run again with new name. I don't want it white washed, I want it painted. System doesn't matter, say its historical western. Don't say its small town Colorado again in 1868, the last frontier. Move it to 1842 New Mexico pre Mexican-American War. Do something new. WoD, don't just move city and let it be similar stories. I just want something original. That and a mix of adventure, where I know what the adventure is that I can do on a personal level because I'm never on when staff are around, with social between the adventure bread so I can mix peanut butter and jelly all I want.

A new patch was finished earlier, written with 1.8.6p0 compatibility.

https://github.com/pennmush/pennmush/issues/410#issuecomment-231619832

Instructions are at the top of the patch. It grants native support for the main commands of MUX channels and such (as noted at the top of the patch).

@bored

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.