@Admiral

We understand, it simply must be done.

I've used waffle.io as an independent source of 'jobs' while getting a game setup. Not sure if they have SQL support. It largely ties into github.

@secretfire said in Input on a new mush idea:

Personally, I'd just make a "north America" grid, make it big but not detailed (focus on highways, a city could just be a single room or two), and then just specify what state the main convoy was in right now.

If you had a few people who like to build like crazy, it'd be rather fun to drop new parts of the grid in front of the PCs as they travel along, and leave their ruins behind. The players declare that they're gonna travel along Interstate 23, heading west, they hang about on the highway grid and RP getting attacked by zombie dogs while having to move cars out of the way of their caravan, you drop Deadsville, TN, in front of them and GM their entry into the town a few days later. After the terrible battle that ensues when Bob the PC rips a zombie-attracting fart, and the PCs get separated fleeing the area, you put a 'HORDE HERE' there. Which maybe somebody will clear out, or maybe you remove it at random eventually.

What fires the imagination about 'The Walking Dead' is imagining ways to solve the problem, which is why everybody likes to criticize how those dumb characters handle stuff. I think you'd really want it to be open-world -- not 'you are trapped in the city with zombies MUSH' but 'Zombies! What are ya gonna do about it?! MUSH.' 'Cause just trying to hold your city territory would get boring, but 'Well, living in this walled subdivision didn't work out, let's build a giant tree-house chicken farm!' type shit would be pretty great.

@Wizz said in World (Chronicles?) of Darkness Concepts You Would Enjoy RPing with:

A vampire and werewolf cop duo.
CoD or oWoD, depending on how goofy you wanted to get with it. (Correct answer: way goofy.)

Cooper and Blitz. Flip a coin on who gets to be whom. Hell, flip @Coin.

@faraday
Not sure it is a culture thing it is generally polite in WoD as well to wait for a scene set and respect the scene going on as you join but that does not mean it always happens.

@ThatOneDude Eh I call bullshit to an extent. I sit around in the OOC room off and on and I don't see it being full of SJW's but I don't hang out in the OOC room /that/ much. I tend to go IC and start RP up.

As for a Mr. Creepy... I don't know about sexually harassing people. I've not felt sexually harassed but I /have/ gotten Creepster vibes in the past from a couple individuals so I distance myself from those individuals.

The only drama I've had there was due to a former staffer's SO accusing me of stuff I didn't do but I got that taken care of.

My only complaint with the game, as it stands now, is the knee jerk rulings that absolutely nerf Wizards. Even starting level Scions and ShapeShifters will /eat/ most wizards for breakfast because wizards will do practically the same damage as a scion/shifter, but the scion/shifter won't take any stress doing so.

@icanbeyourmuse It's finished. It's in Mu2. Jobs are stored in the DB instead of on the game which means web interfaces can access the data.

Way back in the dawn of time just as NorCon PernMush (the original) was starting up, I helped code for a simple ElfQuest game called TwoMoonsMush. We only had elven magic as skills and the time scale was long enough that we created a learning system where regardless of anything else, given enough time your, say, Fire Magic would increase. The curve was diminishing returns, so the older you were the slower that would go. I can see this working with a system that got you more starting points for later age to simulate the learning you missed before creating the player.

Anyhow, it worked remarkably well, and could be enhanced by occasional RP points. This being based on a Chaosium system, we would give people a random very low amount if they showed that they learned something about their magic by failing, or something like that. It was also a percentile system, so people would see the small point increase over time, whether it was RL months or years.

This is the only time I have ever applied calculus to my real life.

@SG said in PVP games/elements?:

@Lithium As far as I can tell, the most recent version has the deck for initiative. I was just thumbing through my deadlands book, and they have a cool dueling system that works off of a game of texas holdem. I think that would be fantastic for a samurai game as well.

Probably one of those things that works better in tabletop than on a MU* in my opinion.

@Arkandel

You can't be told about how cool Exalted is; you have to be shown. </morpheus>

But seriously, the game's an eastern fantasy-based system that incorporates a lot of anime-like systems into a very rich and detailed world. All of the splats from WoD are there in some fashion if you squint a bit, and there's so much lore that it's one of the fullest games I've ever played. Plus, you get bonus dice for describing your actions in a cool way (stunt dice). The character types (Exalts) are all very different from one another with a lot of history built into them.

Redemption's a big theme for the Solar Exalted, who went crazy at the end of the First Age and started committing great depravities on humans and other Exalts alike. They were ousted by the Dragon-Blooded (Terrestrial Exalted) who seek to remain in power. I'm not sure about 3rd Ed, but in 2nd Ed, the leader of the Dragon-Blooded had just come back from the Yomi Hells and was basically made into an evil, evil creature.

Protecting creation is another big theme, since you've got the Deathlords and their Abyssal Exalted, and the Fair Folk on the edges of Creation in the Wyld. So you have to be a big damn hero and save the world, more or less. It's just fun, and doesn't have the grind that D&D does, nor the inherent WHY ME that WoD does.

@Derp said:

I think that merits are just general merits now, right? Except for things like Style merits. So many of them don't fit neatly into one category.

Chronicles of Darkness has, and God-Machine Chronicles had, them broken into Physical, Mental, Social, Supernatural and Fighting.

This is also why I like it when all my significant XP expenditures come with some plot on the side. I like for at some point to finish the plot and have it not reallyt make sense for me to buy that stat because I totally fucked it up and now I need a different way of getting what I want...

I'm happy to take some credit for this, but even with the system being easy to get to the 'ready to go' state, staff can still hang you up on explanations for your 5 in Dexterity, for your power selection, for your background not matching your stats, no background, and so forth.

As a coder, my job is to make staff's job fast-er, to write into code any business rules. Only staff can take the efficient tool and use it efficiently. Sometimes I code for my particular staffing philosophy (the dark flag is ignored for 'staff'), but administration's actions can turn any code into a pile of poo by not using their own business rules.

Truism: A tool that isn't used is a paperweight.

@rebekahse

I think it can be mush quality if you find the right group and sim and you're on with the right people.

For some reason the pirate sims seem to never die, then there are oddball ones like wrestling...seriously, they mic up and act like wrestlers or roller derby. Those "urban" sims like Crackden are still going too.

Yup mesh is everything right now. I stopped with the mesh body, havent gotten into the mesh head thing. I'm waiting to see what they do with project bento, since its going to add facial bones. I just learned to rig fitmesh, so imma wait on a head because bento may make them all obsolete.

I once played an online campaign where each player started as the leader of a party a few weeks before elections for the congress of a fictional European principality, this allowed us to have parties that advocated for Republicanism or to mantain the Prince as the Chief of State. I personally went with a moderate Libertarian party and I was managing to get some attention from the media. Sadly, it went downhill when some guy decided that he wanted to create a nazi party and the admins allowed it.

Is it wrong that I imagine it 'going plaid'... like.. everywhere?

Here's my entry, written over lunch while thinking about how much I enjoy Tsuro, which is kind of the opposite of this challenge.

BUMPER CAR DERBY

Theme: Four bumper cars going from the start to the end. Easy, right? Well they are bumper cars.

Goal: Make it 15 spaces on a board that is built with square tiles as you race. Each tile represents your path.

Mechanics

Draw until you have three tiles in your hand. The face of these tiles are hidden from view of the other players.

Lay one tile so that your token (bumper car) is moved along the path. Each tile has multiple paths and can be placed in any configuration. You must lay the tile so that one side lines up exactly to the tile next to it.

If the tile puts you on the path of another player's car, you have run into them and sent them spinning. Move their car onto a different path on their tile and then follow it to the end of that path. This is where they end up. Do the same for your car.

If any bumper car runs into another bumper car, you get to pick the paths the new cars end on until all cars stop moving at the end of a path.

If a car ends up back at the start line, they can place a new tile next to any existing tile at the start and try to catch up.

The first car over the finish line, after the track is 15 tiles long, they win.

Trade-offs

As long as the tiles are well designed, the players will weave and exchange positions, allowing someone who can follow all the existing paths to see the best way to get to the finish. As the track gets laid out, other paths will become available so that someone kicked back to the start can jump forward on existing tiles. Bumping someone off their current path should throw them back several tiles, or may put them in the way of another player, or may force them to place a tile sideways delaying their forward momentum.

Stupid bumper cars.

Each tile side should have 2-3 paths available with many ways to cross paths and a few, but not overwhelming number, of turns.

@Sunny Really, really!