Groups of character class/species/specialty/utility/prominence to upgrade through, in exchange for a consensual character death, when proper XP/AP is accrued? You'd need the proper type of AP judgment, however. For instance, exchanging XP for scenes would fall into the category of more face time, whereas experience with the combat system would be specialization. Or how about a system where the more you contribute to larger plots, the more you work your way up in terms of ritual importance?

I might suggest that there be a random element that can make you discover that you have or don't have sympathy with someone you thought otherwise of. This can be anything like selected interpersonal traits to just randomized stuff (like draw three playing cards, these are "traits. The closer in number to someone elses trait the more it matters. If its the same suit its a positive thing, if its the opposing suit (say hearts-spades, clubs-diamonds) its a real problem, if its just the other color uh -- its its something one doesn't care about but the other is focused on). Face cards suggest outside relationships with friends, family, exes, duty, obligation, emotional scars)

Likewise, if you want the video game funny, assume that like martial arts moves, the character commits to an action, trying to guess what the others action will be. So benevolent or not, there is chaos and competition.

I'm just making stuff up off the top of my head here.

@tempest

I'm not staff there, but I can shed some light on this as a player there. The policy is that they slowly introduce new series during certain chapters and acts (ie Chapter 1, Act 2) as the grid and plot focus(es) shift around.

It's had some pros and cons, but I think it's ensured several games' plots don't start out of the gate at the same time and compete with each other. Also, some plot items, like WA2, are already being dropped in hints. I hoping it'll have the side effect of also allowing new people of feeling able to jump in without having to be there at the MU* opening, too, but that's just my theory.

As for the one other place I've been on:
Battle Fantasia: Been on there on and off. If you like magical girl anime and the whole aesthetic of it, give it a try. I couldn't really get into it after a while, but that was more me than staff's fault.

@lithium said in Savage Worlds Rifts:

SavageWorld's is a system I /want/ to learn,

You have a bunch of different dice depending on skill levels, from 1d4-2 all the way to 1d12. In addition, heroes get another 1d6 to roll. Everything explodes. And you succeed on a 4+ unless there's horrible conditions.

There you go, you've learned savage worlds.

@lithium

I mean, a teen Blue Lantern of Earth would be spiffy.

@lithium said in Character Information: Wiki or Mu*?:

@thenomain On some MUD's I played on (Namely one WoT Diku derivative) they had an object that you could take say that Excalibur you looted off King Arthur (It wasn't fully converted at the time to WoT and had some base Diku zones still) and rename it, redesc it, etc, using ansi color and everything. Was pretty neat.

Yeah, it'd be nice to let people @create their own objects and rooms again, but as I'm not a fan of the giant purple penis brigade I'd have to create a more casual kind of game for it.

Maybe something involving three sci-fi universes colliding with our own.

Possibly using the Cypher System.

Got naked, rolled on her stomach, looked back and said 'Kiss me.' all demanding-like. He kissed my character's shoulders, got an impatient look for his efforts. Kissed down her spine; her back arched - better. He finally kisses her ass cheek and that's what I'd been waiting for. Rolled over, pulled on a robe, and told him she was merely interested in seeing if his actual ass-kissing was more interesting than his repeated attempts to do so publicly for favor. It was not, and he was dismissed.

Never pestered me trying to suck up and put others down to make himself look good again. Maybe he learned a lesson, maybe I just pissed him off. Doesn't matter, I thought myself very clever and laughed about it for days. I'm still laughing now and it's been years. Where does the time go.

I'll say there is a RPG called Phoenix Dawn Command which is card based. Not a normal deck of cards mind, but it has an aspect of deck building where various classes gets access to various cards, and as you level up you basically do deck building and challenges are made by using cards with various values and modifiers based on class abilities.

It's quite neat.

@sparks To me the question (which is unanswerable) is whether development will continue or under the same model.

If the Scabard project is abandoned a year from now, or they switch to a subscription model, your notes might be stuck unless there's an export function of some sort.

@bobotron said in X-Men Utopia MUX:

@tnp
So make it automated? Set it as an @aenter on the room where they leave cgen to @force them to do the command?

We did. But the point was in reference to having people use the wiki as a primary resource.

@ganymede Not to completely derail, but ❤ John Waters, loved he got to do a cameo as William Castle in the Crawford vs Davis Fued tv series recently so damn fitting for him.

I dunno, I don't think I'd need to change much else and I honestly think the only real hardcore mechanical changes I've suggested so far are cutting Mana and its associated ties to Arcana, and how reach works. Just the changes above would still basically be familiar and play more or less the same, I think, so maybe at this point I just need to write some crap up and test it and see how it feels.

@ixokai I do believe the attitude and expectations of staff sets the tone for the whole game. It's one of the reasons why I push Dystopia Rising's codes of conduct so hard -- the behavior of the people running that event was the most empathetic I have ever seen from people running a LARP and everything about the event reflected it, from the behavior of the players to the number of women and minorities who legged it out to the sticks to participate in the LARP, which was set right in the heart of lily-white Western New York (Dansville).

No shit.

Lol, I think it was the useful/weird thing where the board saves posts in progress even if you move around threads or start another answer.

... and apparently posts them all simultaneously if you post anywherewhere. At least I learned something.

Penultimate destination i think?

I'm wary of supporting positive reviews remaining in the ad threads if negative ones are being put elsewhere, especially with the risk the negative reviews could be hidden behind the membership wall of the Hog Pit. It might be easy to join but it isn't something a new member will know to seek out unless someone held their hand into discovering it.

I think keeping the ad threads for Q&A as well as for linking to revelant threads, whether in this subforum or the Hog Pit, is the correct course of action to avoid bias.

@faceless said in Looking for potential staff for a Colonial Marines (Aliens) game:

@Seraphim73 and random people I never really got to know from TGG can attest: I ain't afraid to assault a trench on my own. Everyone else will catch up. Eventually.

Jack: What are your legs?
Archy Hamilton: Springs. Steel springs.
Jack: What are they going to do?
Archy Hamilton: Hurl me down the track.
Jack: How fast can you run?
Archy Hamilton: As fast as a leopard.
Jack: How fast are you going to run?
Archy Hamilton: As fast as a leopard!

@tnp That would have the potential to be a hell of a lot of fun.

@thatguythere Lost Dominion has some neat rules and adaptations, but due to playtimes I was never able to get into any RP there. The staff are friendly and the rules are rather nifty. I don't agree with all of them, but it's pretty cool.

I have managed to pull off ye olde swash and buckle here and there. PFS actually was the most recent and worked out. Though its easier when you fuck up THE DICE FUCK YOU, to turn Ha-HAA! into a scream of Ha-H-AAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!