@bored said in The 100: The Mush:
@GirlCalledBlu
I honestly don't remember the Fifth World stuff too well in terms of which characters were what, only that I had a hard time getting a piece of the plot despite having a character who for all intents and purposes made a lot of sense to be highly involved (one of the oldest PCs, head of minor house responsible for a lot of shipbuilding, denied having any kind of position in the fleet administration and told to 'work toward it' in a vague way despite the guy being in his late 40s or 50s, IE presumably mid career at least). My perception was less of specific staffer malfeasance (although I did remember a lot of eye-rolly very public relationship spectacle stuff) as it being a lot of RP among friends and outsiders just being kind of clueless on what to do at all.
This matches pretty well with my experiences on The Fifth World, I played Alexis, she was a cousin to the royal family and experienced military leader in her 50's but had to be a 'Knight Lieutenant', in command of a few dozen people at most, because apparently player characters were not allowed to have real influence or power. The thing is, that was despite the fact there were plenty of player characters who were the heads of noble houses or ducal heirs with literally thousands of troops and country sized domains under their control.
Obviously people who had ten thousand minions, many of whom were almost as capable as a really focused player character, still had the same number of points for their +sheet and had much more plot involvement as well in general. It just did not seem to make much sense, if one person can be a Count why cannot another person be a General, or the head of Fleet Procurement, or whatever? Not to mention if all senior nobility are PCs/NPCs played as PCs, especially in a feudal system, why should they be just as capable as the person playing a Space Knight with nothing particular going for them apart from their raw ability and PC Aura?
Now in my case I was hardly shut out of plot, Alexis was actually in command of all of the player characters and their part of the fight during the first big battle with the cyborg invader people. She was the royal heir's aunt who remembered them being toddles and they came to her for advise sometimes, etc. Everything still felt very much on rails though and I eventually stopped playing despite otherwise having fun.
