House Rules vs Rules as Written

[Ganymede]

@Warma-Sheen said in House Rules vs Rules as Written:

Not sure about Dark Fate off the top of my head, but Common Sense is one that should have 0 issue and should be taken by more people, but isn't because people don't want to "waste" points.

You should have an issue with Common Sense because it is incredibly difficult to implement efficiently or effectively on a MU*, whereas it is very easy to apply in a TT game. And you should have an issue with Dark Fate, for the same reasons.

You wanted some examples of things that don't work on a MU* that work in TT well. These are two. I can look up some more, but these are what I found searching my personal memory.

[Warma Sheen]

@Ganymede But it isn't true that they 'don't work' at all. They just don't work as often or as ubiquitously as they do in a tabletop. However, just because something doesn't work as well as it would in a tabletop doesn't mean it can't be used. If that were true, almost everything would be thrown out, like combat, and no one would would have a MU* to play.

The other part about the Common Sense merit which makes it less than appealing for people is the fact that on MU*s people generally shy away from applying consequences to players in order to avoid ooc conflict so the benefits of Common Sense are either mitigated by that tendency or in some cases, just given it for free. But that's not by any fault of the rules of the merit. That is owing to the way people on that game play the game.

I understand getting rid of the merit or lowering the cost or whatever. But my point since the beginning is that I think that it is much more personal choice of whoever makes those decisions than necessity.

[Sunny]

@Warma-Sheen

Both getting rid of the merit and adjusting the cost would also be house rules.

[Ganymede]

@Warma-Sheen said in House Rules vs Rules as Written:

I understand getting rid of the merit or lowering the cost or whatever. But my point since the beginning is that I think that it is much more personal choice of whoever makes those decisions than necessity.

You could call it personal choice; I would call it "setting an interpretation based on experience."

And, as @Sunny points out, that change would be a House Rule, in my books.

I don't really like House Rules much, but I know when to apply them. And, yes, I do so with some explanation beyond "I don't like the Winged Merit because flying pixie faeries are so lame."

[Thenomain]

@Ganymede said in House Rules vs Rules as Written:

@Warma-Sheen said in House Rules vs Rules as Written:

I understand getting rid of the merit or lowering the cost or whatever. But my point since the beginning is that I think that it is much more personal choice of whoever makes those decisions than necessity.

You could call it personal choice; I would call it "setting an interpretation based on experience."

And, as @Sunny points out, that change would be a House Rule, in my books.

I don't really like House Rules much, but I know when to apply them. And, yes, I do so with some explanation beyond "I don't like the Winged Merit because flying pixie faeries are so lame."

Admit it: You took it.

Bonus points if you took it as a Sidhe.

More bonus points if you took it as an Unseelie and they were bat wings.

[Ganymede]

@Thenomain said in House Rules vs Rules as Written:

Admit it: You took it.

Bonus points if you took it as a Sidhe.

More bonus points if you took it as an Unseelie and they were bat wings.

I can honestly say that I never took it.

I mean, Slipping Seeming? Sure. App 7? Definitely, once.

But Winged? Nope. I might have wanted to at the time, but my cross-dressing Beaumayn Sidhe was speshul enough.

[Killer Klown]

Hey, I once had a Scathach who was followed around by a mischevious horde of chimerical crows; and a downtrodden young man who was raised as a Gwydion but in reality was an Ailil hostage who was never told of his actual heritage <because Gwydions were dicks>.

I think it's impossible to play a Sidhe without speshul snowflake syndrome.

[Ganymede]

@Killer-Klown said in House Rules vs Rules as Written:

I think it's impossible to play a Sidhe without speshul snowflake syndrome.

They are kind of built that way.

[Coin]

I once played a Sidhe of House Liam that was a kindergarten teacher. He was pretty low key. He even had wings, but if I recall correctly, they were torn. He couldn't use them, so he mostly just ignored them. They never became a plot point; it was just a thing that was occasionally sad, but never really a thing. Nothing special about him, really, other than being Kithain in general. He had a very quiet relationship with an Eshu co-worker. It was neat.

[Ganymede]

@Coin said in House Rules vs Rules as Written:

I once played a Sidhe of House Liam that was a kindergarten teacher. He was pretty low key. He even had wings, but if I recall correctly, they were torn. He couldn't use them, so he mostly just ignored them. They never became a plot point; it was just a thing that was occasionally sad, but never really a thing. Nothing special about him, really, other than being Kithain in general. He had a very quiet relationship with an Eshu co-worker. It was neat.

So, basically:

Yeah?

[Coin]

@Ganymede

Not even close.