Weird or unrealistic gaming... stuff
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@carma Off-screen is fine. I more mean 'the 40 hours a day you spend on Piano maintain your piano skills... but you have ne free time to go to the gym, so you cannot obtain or maintain an Olympic physique' without cutting into piano time... doing so means you lose some mad piano skillz
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@greenflashlight said in Weird or unrealistic gaming... stuff:
Hit Points. I just can't stop thinking about how weird it is that if you stab a lot of people to death, then you will require more stabbings to be killed than someone who has stabbed fewer people than you.
Yeah, I struggle w/ hit points as well, though mostly as a byproduct of struggling with "Character Levels". If the Hit Points are derived from some combination of attributes or skills, less of an issue.
But yeah for real, "Character Levels". Yuck.
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@jennkryst I still, after like, so many damn years, loved the haunted Memories version of 'Once you raise this stat, it is x amount of time until you can raise that stat again.' At least for atribs and skills. But I like the slow long game and the insta bulk up because you had xp sitting around just hits my personal suspension of disbelief buttons.
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@wretched said in Weird or unrealistic gaming... stuff:
@jennkryst I still, after like, so many damn years, loved the haunted Memories version of 'Once you raise this stat, it is x amount of time until you can raise that stat again.' At least for atribs and skills. But I like the slow long game and the insta bulk up because you had xp sitting around just hits my personal suspension of disbelief buttons.
Saaaaaaaaame.
Also, having everyone start with a massive amount of xp just because some other people have been playing there longer is stupid and broken.
Racism isn't Tinkerbell. It doesn't need you to believe in it for it to exist.
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@derp Yeah. So is roll-over XP so Abelard grows powerful, dies, and gets a new PC who's halfway to monsterhood to start with while Millicent, who joined the game when Abelard, Brigid and Camille were all two and three characters in, will never catch up and get to play with the big doggies except as incompetent sidekick.
Most MUs that are looking for that long slow game really ought to set advancement XP costs on a sliding scale so the more you have spent, the more everything costs, so new characters get the encouragement but by the time you're close to what game-runners consider a maxed-out sheet you can only swing two spends a year or so.
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@il-volpe Also, XP caps. Most games are not adequately designed to handle the quantitative and qualitative differences between most characters with little XP and most characters with massive amounts of XP, and especially not both categories existing on the same game. Particularly in systems and settings where XP doesn't just make chance of success go up, but gives you the opportunity to purchase distinct abilities. Without an upper cap, your dinosaurs inevitably end up able to be the astronaut doctor forensic scientist superhero mentioned above, even if they're not actively trying.
Now, there's nothing wrong with a high-powered game, but unfortunately, a lot of GMs aren't necessarily comfortable with the kind of world/setting-changing influence that high powered characters can/should have in many settings, so the plot challenges tend to be 'more monsters, just bigger numbers', which means that lower level PCs can't participate in those plots without exploding on contact with the monster, but the upper level PCs can trivialize any plot beneath them.
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@hedgehog said in Weird or unrealistic gaming... stuff:
Doctor Astronaut Supermodel Pastry Chef Forensic Scientist Barbie.
And her counterpart:
Evil Sex Slave Doctor Astronaut Supermodel Pastry Chef Forensic Scientist Skipper.
I hate that I think I know exactly whom you are talking about.
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@carma said in Weird or unrealistic gaming... stuff:
@il-volpe said in Weird or unrealistic gaming... stuff:
@derp Yeah. So is roll-over XP so Abelard grows powerful, dies, and gets a new PC who's halfway to monsterhood to start with while Millicent, who joined the game when Abelard, Brigid and Camille were all two and three characters in, will never catch up and get to play with the big doggies except as incompetent sidekick.
This is a complete tangent, but where did these names come from? I've started to use them just out of repetition.
I don't know but I just now noticed it too, and I vote we use it as MU-standard. Abelard, Brigid, Camille at least.
Racism isn't Tinkerbell. It doesn't need you to believe in it for it to exist.
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@derp I use Bob and Jane so screw you all with your cool new names.
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@arkandel I use Dick, Jane, and Spot!
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@hedgehog said in Weird or unrealistic gaming... stuff:
Doctor Astronaut Supermodel Pastry Chef Forensic Scientist Barbie.
And her counterpart:
Evil Sex Slave Doctor Astronaut Supermodel Pastry Chef Forensic Scientist Skipper.
Wait. I was expecting Ken. Skipper? From Gilligan's Island?
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@tnp said in Weird or unrealistic gaming... stuff:
Skipper? From Gilligan's Island?
I don't know if this is still true, but at least back in the eighties, Barbie's little sister was named Skipper.
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@greenflashlight this is immediately what my brain went to.
Skipper can be all the things!
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And I deliberately chose Skipper in my example because of the teenage thing. Then again, Barbie was supposed to be 17 for a couple of decades, so....
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Goth tattoo teen Skipper was a thing.
The goth part being aftermarket modifications.
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Nonverbal communication.
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Weird, psychic, metaposing non-verbal communication, at that.
