@Ghost said in Dark Ages Vampire -- Terra Mariana:

@Admiral said in Dark Ages Vampire -- Terra Mariana:

I would enjoy this game but I am a giant history nerd and I think a historical game like this that isn't 100% ACCURATE TO MY EXACT AND NO DOUBT WRONG STANDARDS would trigger me.

So what you're saying is that you're a "Knights had shotguns" denier. Tsk.

I'm not saying Mummy 2e would solve this problem.

But.

With the idea that MummySleep hapens in a non-linear fashion? You go to sleep in 2019 CE and wake up in 256 BCE? This could totally be a lolzy thing, and while the timey-wimey sleep would be the first thing I would HR away for a MU, it is a thing that exists. Hilariously.

@Ghost said:

The task at hand is to break down these behaviors to minimize damage to innocent people and maintain neutrality.

This was in the middle of a longer statement, so I wanted to draw it out.

I don't even think neutrality is critical. Neutrality in breaking down the noise, yes, but sometimes what is exposed is a problem that needs dealt with. e.g.: Venomous, not-cool people.

Um I tentatively am doing a bit of alpha testing now. We think we have our ducks in a row but need people with new eyes to come, make a character, and play to see if we have.

come

@surreality I do not think either structure is wrong, as long as it is disclosed up front. For example I think a very limited slot game that has a great deal of staff attention and interlocking storytelling as the reason for those limited spaces probably doesnt want a people only interested in hermiting with the same person with little interaction beyond that--they are taking up space and not really a good fit for a game where it is important that people participate beyond that. Or even in an unlimited slot game really, depending on game vision and scope.

By the same token, it is just as okay to have an unlimited slot game with minimal metaplot and more hands off staff, and an expectation that players are primarily responsible for creating all action and story on the game, with staff proving some ic and ooc feedback and arbitration for disputes. If someone is constantly talking about how they hate it on channel, or taking up 5 times the amount of staff time than anyone else does because they are in need of a ton of handholding and personal guidance, then it is ok for /them/ to be told that obviously there is a mismatch of styles and needs here, so they can be ushered off before they burn people out or become super disruptive to everyone else due to their distress.

And everything inbetween!

I do not think that any game is beholden to try to meet all comers' needs while trying to keep true to the vision of the people running it, and practices that make their life easier.

But clearly I do not believe in "the customer is always right/every player who finishes CG is to be accommodated at all costs philosophy either, so I know that's easier for me to say than a nice person. Though I think that you can be kind and still enforce/preserve your vision, regardless of whether the player is able or willing to accept it.

@Tinuviel said in Feast of Legends MU(The Wendy's RPG):

@insomniac7809 Naturally, CR got some flack for that deal...

By people with no soul.

@Ominous

If staff has questions about my character’s direction that are important to the game, then they should ask them.

Otherwise I would like a chance to play my character first and make those discoveries on my own.

@insomniac7809 said in PC vs Player Assumptions:

@Arkandel I'm not saying that you can't have a dungeon crawl with RP elements.

I'm putting forward that a rust monster is a thing that exists to fuck with the players, and expecting this fuckery to be met with 'well, my character might not know how to respond to this!' seems a bit disingenuous.

Yeah, now I realize I posted in the wrong thread. Uh, ignore me. If you weren't already. 🙂

It's up currently... marsilikos.silvertree.org 1310

Alternatively: marsilikos.silvertree.io 1310

@peasoupling I think there's a joke here about TS and hand pronation.

I'm not going to make that joke.

@Thenomain said in Do you care about other people's music?:

There really is no dearth of discovering music these days and no right or wrong way to do it.

I do hope there wasn't any sense on this thread that anyone was trying to imply this, but for my part, that was not my intention.

Found it!

It was my peerblock firewall. At one point the game's IP address must have been used by a spammer so the moment I disabled my peerblock software firewall it went right through. I'll add an exception to the list.

Extremely. Basically critical.

If I don't feel like my character is "needed" I immediately lose interest in them. I don't think this is very normal in that I see lots of people wanting to make the same generic good-looking vampire/noblelady etc. as everyone else on most games, but that's how I feel about it.

It's not just about being "needed" by other people; I want to feel like I'm filling in a niche role and helping to balance the demographic, sure, but I also want to feel ... special? Original. While I realise there's no new idea under the sun, when I come up with a character concept I like to think it's the greatest idea anyone's ever come up with and when I then roll in to discover there are ten others exactly like me, I get bummed out.

Private confession time: on the 100 MUSH, I rolled an Earth Skills nerd and when I realised @GirlCalledBlu had actually beaten me to it I almost wanted to reroll. This is of course not her fault at all, just a quirk of mine. I have a need to be the only one doing a certain thing, but I was able to carve out my own niche in other ways, despite that.

This is part of the reason why I usually like playing underdogs, 90lb weaklings, less conventionally attractive characters, older/mature characters, poor people, etc.

I didn't play Arx for very long (not because I don't think it's a very good game, it just wasn't my theme of choice) but when I did I specifically went for a commoner. I like being a foil for others and don't really see the appeal of playing a lord in a game where you can't actually lord over anyone, since everyone else is a lord/lady too.

When rolling into a new game I tend to ask staff/players what type of character they think is currently "needed". Although I think it's very kind of them to do so, I always get a little bit annoyed when someone tells me "just play what you like to play!" Because what I like to play is, in fact, whatever happens to be most needed at any given point.

So like Terre d’ange exept no angels. We got fairies goblins and otherkin.

ETA I think of something like this was to occur it should be an original theme. Borrow from Carnival Row like the dark theme but create a different setting. I do like how the fairies are second class citizens.

@Thenomain said in Consent in Gaming:

@Auspice said in Consent in Gaming:

@Tinuviel said in Consent in Gaming:

@Thenomain said in Consent in Gaming:

We really should find a time to let you drink me under the table.

We should sell tickets.

Gany still owes me whiskey.

I wouldn't get through one drink.

I can't drink like I used to but I can definitely handle more than one.

Lessee...

Home laptop, of which there is also one older backup laptop,
My kindle - which can be a challenge to use,
Super rarely my phone,
My work computer, via web portal or a kindle/web portal combo (read from kindle, pose from portal).

I totally jumped to the wrong conclusion about what this thread is about and I immediately came here to post:

If someone rejects me, even if it's my best effort, I view it as a sign that I should definitely not spend my time with that person and sigh in relief because I don't need to add people to my schedule.

But after reading.... the same response is mostly applicable. If I apply as a character that I want to play and it just doesn't fit theme, or it's too over the top, or the staffers don't know me well enough to know that I'm not going to go FULL SPECIAL SNOWFLAKE on them then that's a sign to me that what I want to do isn't going to be right for the game and I appreciate that in advance.

As a staffer? It's harder, because I swear some people make trolly applications just to troll.

@Auspice said in MU*, Youth, and LGBT+ Identity:

'slow hot lips'

hot lips

Keep it clean, thanks.

@Auspice Yeah she was an immediate favorite. Sincerely, The weird kid.