Coming in 2016 - Bump in the Night
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Sorry, I don't know who Manu is.
An idea was expressed, someone expressed some concern about it, they were promptly told they just were expecting the worst of their fellow players and there would be no concern, I'm expressing my understanding of why/how it could be a concern.
I don't assume what the policy will be on a game that hasn't opened yet and where staff there has said hmm interesting/maybe/IF we do this.
I don't see the harm in the discussion.
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@mietze Whoops. Including real names. Apologies! And I edited my previous post just in case said person takes issue.
I don't think there's any harm in discussing anything. I'm simply taking the line of questioning to highlight some of things on BITN that have been decided. More using this discussion as a platform to point out what we're trying to accomplish, and how we'll be different in different ways. I appreciate that someone could start running a story using a previous character as their NPC and get attached to it in a way that they would not were it a character made just for the story. I will definitely warn against that... and, well, I think that's the best we can do in the situation.
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To clarify what @skew was saying.
On BITN, we have Vampires, but not Kindred. We have Werewolves, but not Uratha. We have Frankensteins but not Created. And so on.
I'm a rodeo clown.
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@tragedyjones Fuck you! I'm a dragon!
- He who takes offense when not intended is a fool. He who takes offense when intended is a greater fool.
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We have at least one dragon species with game mechanics. I will send one to eat @Royal shortly after CG.
I'm a rodeo clown.
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@tragedyjones said:
We have at least one dragon species with game mechanics. I will send one to eat @Royal shortly after CG.
WITNESS ME!
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I'm a rodeo clown.
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@tragedyjones you say that now. Just wait. Watch. Witness the glory that is a Danny Devito looking maniac throwing molotovs to cleanse the battlefield.
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@skew said:
Did they have cell phones in 1980??? I like having those in my RP.
@surreality said:
Nope. One of the main advantages of the setting: google doesn't solve every mystery, and communications are trickier.
80's business Michael Douglas disagrees.
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@Jennkryst That's just it--that ain't no laptop in his pocket. Those were res4/5 items around then.
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@Royal said:
@tragedyjones you say that now. Just wait. Watch. Witness the glory that is a Danny Devito looking maniac throwing molotovs to cleanse the battlefield.
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I think that cell phone has a strength requirement.
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While cell phones existed in the 80s they were ultra rare.
And that pic to me look more like a cordless phone not a cell phone.
Which if true means it had to have a base connected to a land line and limited range. -
... that may actually be a cordless, since he's all robe-y and not bizniss suit. Should have gotten a picture of one of the ones with a satchel/cord.
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@Jennkryst
It's a cell; a quick Google search shows a lot of models of that, circa 83 through the early 90s. You could murder a man with that cell. Do we call it a +1B weapon? -
My mom became a realtor in the late 80s and had a car phone. I knew a handful, not many, of other people that had them. We did not know anyone with a true mobile phone though I know they existed. At that point in the late 80s-through the 90s my dad had a "brick" which was more like a walkie talkie than a cell phone for military stuff (though that may have been for appearances, I am pretty sure it operated sort of like one, but the thing weighed like 10 pounds).
At the toddler's parent/child class that we go to, they have a shelf of old phones for the kids to play with, it's actually pretty funny that they don't mimic using those at all as phones--but they will pick up calculators and other smaller devices and talk on them. I wonder how long before memory of flip phones and phones with cords will be extinguished. I think it's happening quickly, except for in toys/old picture books. My older kids, all teens now, have never owned a cassette tape (and when they found my old collection when they were all under 10, they were like what the hell is this stuff?). I showed them a floppy disk (the small/hard kind, not the giant ones) and they had no clue as to what it was.
It is pretty hilarious to show them stuff like that. Though all of them knew vinyl--I think that must be back in again, since my oldest has been combing thrift stores and the like for record players, and was interested in saving a bunch of albums I was going to dump o goodwill. -
@Jennkryst said:
... that may actually be a cordless, since he's all robe-y and not bizniss suit. Should have gotten a picture of one of the ones with a satchel/cord.
I remember those bag phones. My step dad had one. Not because he was a fancy business man but he was an over the road trucker and it proved the best way to stay in touch with the family so he decided it was worth the ridiculous cost at the time. Granted this was 1992 not quite the 80s but the point stands.
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I am happy to say that the grid desc has been all but finished! We have just a few rooms that do not have a desc, and those are mostly buildings tied to the various factions and other plot elements. I want to give a big thanks to everyone who helped me with this!
Next step: Digging a grid. O god.
