@RDC said in NOLA: The Game That Care Forgot:
@Jennkryst said in NOLA: The Game That Care Forgot:
@Melpomene Staff too lazy to check XP and prereqs, got it. Which is annoying, but it is what it is.
Like, doublepost, and I don't wanna be a dick, but tbh this post right here has me kinda infuriated, ngl.
Sorry, I meant it to just be a half-joke, and did a dumb. I don't mean to say you specifically were being lazy, but rather the royal/generic gestures at everything you. Still! Please let me clarify.
It's not lazy so much as not the same degree of scrutiny I normally dealt with staffing in the long-long ago. I mean... maybe it's because the last time I did the full-on staff thing, it was for Shadowrun: Denver during that one time with that one guy. But I combed through everything. And from my experience, shadowrun players were very vocal explaining where they got X or Y bonus to a thing from, or how they arrived at the numbers they did. And if they didn't, I'd ask how they got there. Because I am dumb.
To say nothing of like. Equipment requests. Fuck shadowrun equipment requests. Shadowrun is an equipment-heavy system. Want to learn a spell? You need either an item or a teacher. Want to install some cybernetics? You need the equipment in-hand, or an NPC to buy it from. Want to change the tires on your car? Well.. show me your car item, and show me the new tires.
"When was your last skill raise? Check log Okay, you're past the cool-down time, skill is raised!" "What page of what book is this gun from? checks book Hey, this math is wro... what's that? House rule page? checks HR Huh. Cool. Go forth and shoot a ton of gangers!" "You... you are spending 100 units of Orichalcum on this magic sword? looks at inventory You have HOW MANY TONS OF MAGIC GOLD?!? Okay, fuck it, why not."
Because everything was logged. So I wanted to make sure there weren't any screw-ups on my part. I wanted no screw-ups because there was a leader board, and damnit, I was going to score higher than everyone else on staff. Combined.
So doing all of the requests, I just kind of... osmosis-memorized a lot of the stuff. Which is why I mostly volunteer for the XP or equipment types of gruntwork on games I obsess over. I'm going above and beyond that for Mummy because zomg mummy fun times everyone else are cowards for refusing them wrap everyone in ace bandages.