Sep 24, 2021, 1:35 AM
@il-volpe Depends on the sphere. Changeling plot is semi-active, so you get lots of opportunity to roll and/or bullshit learning.
Dare I ask...
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I miss WOD (mostly vampire, new or old). Any mushes out there that aren't spreading themselves terribly thin by trying to do everything for everyone?
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WoD Mushes that I know of:
- Fallcoast
- City of Hope
- Liberation
- Modern Nights
Given that you said 'everything for everyone' I assume that you are probably not interested in Fallcoast.
City of Hope I have never played on. I have no idea what they're about or what they offer, just that I have heard the name and maybe looked at the website once.
Liberation has some issues in the Mage department, other spheres report they are having fun. @Sundance is HBIC and is pretty responsive to issues, even if I disagree with overall management style. Probably worth a shot.
Modern Nights is open, but small, and I think only offering Vampire and Mage at the moment with some psychic stuff thrown in for flavor, so that might be more to your liking, but you won't find a ton of players there just yet, so you might wanna bring a few of your own.
Racism isn't Tinkerbell. It doesn't need you to believe in it for it to exist.
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@derp Oh, I didn't see Liberation or Modern Nights on my searching about, do you have their websites?
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@astrid said in Dare I ask...:
by trying to do everything for everyone?
Sidebar.
If there's a MU out there that will do the weeds on my front lawn, lemme know.
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Racism isn't Tinkerbell. It doesn't need you to believe in it for it to exist.
- 10 days later
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@derp Liberation is awesome and I'm loving it. Thanks all!
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@astrid What are you playing there?
"... you'll find the story doesn’t end how you think, and the most important characters aren’t who you expect.” - Penny 40 to Derek, The Magicians S04E07 ‘The Side Effect’
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@astrid I agree!
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Also. If I try Liberation, is their "every XP spend must be justified" rule going to go the way such rules often go -- I can't spend XP until I do something special, but I am never actually offered an opportunity to do something even half fucking special, so it's just doubling-down on making the game unplayable for the rank-and-file?
"... you'll find the story doesn’t end how you think, and the most important characters aren’t who you expect.” - Penny 40 to Derek, The Magicians S04E07 ‘The Side Effect’
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@il-volpe Depends on the sphere. Changeling plot is semi-active, so you get lots of opportunity to roll and/or bullshit learning.
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@jennkryst Semi?
ETA: I have been trying to play vampire.
"... you'll find the story doesn’t end how you think, and the most important characters aren’t who you expect.” - Penny 40 to Derek, The Magicians S04E07 ‘The Side Effect’
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@il-volpe It's active enough that I have been in 1 court scene and 2 other staff-run plot adjacent scenes. There are 3 big events planned Friday night, Saturday afternoon, and Saturday night. That's just staff, also plenty of stuff from Producer/player level STs.
Edit: Dunno about Vamp... Mummy is a subset, but I've focused more on Ling because of alt lulz.
- 26 days later
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@il-volpe I've got a Vampire (that sphere is really active) and a mortal/kinfolk (Shifter's less populated but I cross sphere a lot with that char.) Enjoying both.
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@il-volpe I've personally never had any of my "justified" XP spends rejected. It doesn't have to be too complicated; just have a reason for buying something other than "it's cool and I want it."
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@egg said in Dare I ask...:
@il-volpe I've personally never had any of my "justified" XP spends rejected. It doesn't have to be too complicated; just have a reason for buying something other than "it's cool and I want it."
I think it comes down to is people who could write a BS essay in highschool to meet some arbitrary word count requirement without having read the source material also do well at writing XP expenditure justifications.
So yeah I never had one turned down either.
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@arkandel Really? I've had a very different, more complicated experience. But I'm in Mage sphere so there may be different policies in each sphere.
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@warma-sheen said in Dare I ask...:
@arkandel Really? I've had a very different, more complicated experience. But I'm in Mage sphere so there may be different policies in each sphere.
Oh I meant in general, not for this particular game. I haven't played there.
- He who takes offense when not intended is a fool. He who takes offense when intended is a greater fool.
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I don't get xp spend justifications on a MU*, unless there is some rigid limiter other than having xps such as time, a teacher or some sort of "key" required to open the spend area up.
And I'm the sort of evil that spends half my tabletop players XPs for them to reflect what they actually did.
I have a waggish sense of humor.
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@misadventure said in Dare I ask...:
I don't get xp spend justifications on a MU*
I require them.
I require them for a variety of reasons. Most of it from personal experience. I want to know that you understand what this thing you're buying does. What the requirements of it are. Where it places you in the power hierarchy in the universe you're in. I want you to show me, on paper, that you understand what it is that you're getting your character into.
And then I suffer no bullshit excuses about I didn't know! Yes, you did. You did because I made you write it out before I let you put it on your sheet. You and I reached a shared understanding of what this meant for your character. No take-backsies.
Racism isn't Tinkerbell. It doesn't need you to believe in it for it to exist.
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@derp That ... doesn't sound like any xp justification I've ever heard of.
Could you give an example for a mundane skill and some sort of magical power?