Good places to Sandbox/Anyone interested in forming a group for Sandbox RP.
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Basically what I just asked in the topic. MU seems to be rather limited as of late. Are there any good places to sandbox that I haven't heard of? Also would people be interested in a Discord group for Sandboxing? I don't post often so idk if this is the place to post this but whatever.
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I'm sure there is a Discord server for anything. I just don't need something else sucking my time with another 'ding' 'beep' 'you've got a notification sound'
You can even find bots for RP instructions. Not sure if they do sheets, but certainly rolls.
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The problem seems to be finding people more than finding something to facilitate gameplay. All the MUSHers grew up got mortgages and kids and have no time for RP.
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@paperbrilliant said in Good places to Sandbox/Anyone interested in forming a group for Sandbox RP.:
The problem seems to be finding people more than finding something to facilitate gameplay. All the MUSHers grew up got mortgages and kids and have no time for RP.
To be fair -- a good many of those that grew up and got mortgages and had kids are now getting old enough that the kids are moving out of the house and they're staring at retirement soon, so.
Bright side?
Racism isn't Tinkerbell. It doesn't need you to believe in it for it to exist.
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@derp The far more relevant problem to solve is how to get more new people involved than are fading away from the hobby, rather than how to get back the bunch of old farts who got too busy to play after adulthood smacked them in the face.
- He who takes offense when not intended is a fool. He who takes offense when intended is a greater fool.
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@derp Yeah, I'll be starting up some new games in about 25 years.
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@arkandel said in Good places to Sandbox/Anyone interested in forming a group for Sandbox RP.:
@derp The far more relevant problem to solve is how to get more new people involved than are fading away from the hobby, rather than how to get back the bunch of old farts who got too busy to play after adulthood smacked them in the face.
I mean, you might as well ask how to get people back into telegraphs and steam engines. There'll always be a small market for them just based on tradition or the fact that they're rather quaint, but in an age dominated by graphical games that are becoming more and more interactive as VR/AR gets better and cheaper, this is ultimately a losing battle.
Though to be fair, Ares has done a pretty good job of getting things nice and modernized. I haven't explored enough of Evennia to know if it does the same, so cannot comment. But the answer is 'make it feel as close to a modern experience with gaming as you can get', and I just don't know that 'type out literally everything you're doing for five minutes while you craft the perfect pose even though you could have re-enacted it in fifteen seconds, tops' is the way of the future, no matter what.
Racism isn't Tinkerbell. It doesn't need you to believe in it for it to exist.
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VR RP sounds both terrifying and fascinating.
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@solstice said in Good places to Sandbox/Anyone interested in forming a group for Sandbox RP.:
VR RP sounds both terrifying and fascinating.
I'm totally ready for my Cyberpunk meetsReady Player One virtual world.
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If it wasn't for my oopsie I'd be an empty nestee in the fall.
It's not always about the mortgage and work being why people are less available. Some of us have been slowly learning that it is okay to be more choosy and to not be as tolerant of shitty stuff as we might have been 20 years ago.
I think I will still be mushing as an old lady but ill accept less bullshit than I do now. And I accept far less than I did in my mid 20s.
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@derp said in Good places to Sandbox/Anyone interested in forming a group for Sandbox RP.:
I mean, you might as well ask how to get people back into telegraphs and steam engines.
Now on that I disagree. A modern train is better in every aspect than a steam one; telephones or e-mail both cover every aspect of a telegraph's functionality and add more features on top of that.
Roleplaying in real time through words in a persistent multi-player setting is a very unique thing that's not being covered by any other type of game (that I know of).
For example while you can RP on an MMO you're limited by the graphics engine, and although you can /emote the words themselves an afterthought compared to the nuance, descriptiveness and details you can add in a pose. It has other strengths, obviously, but the goal is also different.
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There will always be writers and there will always be gamers, so I believe there will always be a future for the intersection of writing and gaming.
Will it be MMO huge? No, of course not, but RPG crossing play by post boasts 40k PBP players, there are tons of MUDers, Storium has another few thousand... so I don't think text-based roleplay is quite in the realm of steam engines either.
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@mietze Oh absolutely. I think back to the shit I put up with on some games or with some players and wonder why I did that at all. But it would be nice to meet decent people to play with.
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I still long for some sort of truly modernized MU* code that would let you, like, have triggered mood music for events and ambient weather sounds. (Other than the GM just saying 'Play this youtube playlist!')
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@solstice That sounds like discord with a play bot server/chan?
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So where are the sandboxes?
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@vaermithrax When I finish bugging the Exalted folks to open a creation-wide game running on the Essence rule expansion, I'll let everyone know.
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Introducing live speech/vr into RP sounds incredibly awkward, especially if your voice doesn't, uh, fit your character. Also it makes it kinda tricky to do awesome combat poses or describing things happening. That stuff's fine for tabletop games, but the average 'run plots and RP isolated scenes' superhero mush would be weeeeiiiirrrd.
Really I think we just need A) A new thing that lets us more or less what we do on MUs, but with better/more convenient functionality, and B) find some way for people to actually find out about that thing when/if it exists.
