So; crawling up from my silent lurkpit to say - if this does get off the ground? Totally 100% keen to play. Gimmie, gimmie, gimmie.
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Best posts made by A. Meowley
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RE: Interest/Volunteer Check: Major Multisphere Chronicles of Darkness
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RE: Health and Wealth and GrownUp Stuff
Sending much sympathy your way, @Catsmeow - there must be something in the atmosphere, because I too have had soo much excess anxiety recently, it's mind boggling. Similarish situation in terms of lifestyle changes, and various obligations have just eaten all my Mu time up. The real kicker? When I find I do have time to go online, there's this damnable Anxiety Imp which says 'omg, everyone is going to either be super mad at you for going AWOL, and/or totally fed up and bored with you because many reasons', so I just withdraw entirely. Like, c'mon brain: this is a favourite hobby!
Irony being once I'm actually in a scene and posing? Everything is hunky dory.
But yeah, guys. Social anxiety is a fuckin' bitch. Lends me a tendency to lurk silently and not reach out to the people I truly adore RPing with.
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RE: Miami, Blood in the Water
Look, what I really want to know is are we going to have pre-established stats for Everglades alligators and Floridian panthers, so I can hit the grid with a swamp-pad full of animal retainers? Something's got to be protecting my attic full of bath salts, soul jars, meth and Changeling blood, and a little birdy told me gun laws are gonna be crazy restrictive on grid.
So let's see a preview of those security HRs, please.
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RE: CofD and Professional Training
Now this could just me being all green and naive and stuff, but... Why is it that some people are so anti-Social Combat? I've tended to approach social dice rolls/reactions as being flexible, but still important. If a soldier gets an Exceptional to cut my PC with a switchblade or whatever, regardless of 'omg my agency', I'm going to include an appropriate description of events in my next pose. I expect the same for Mental and Social rolls.
But in my actual experience, I've witnessed some Players just flat out ignore Social rolls*, as if they are of zero consequence. Stuff like:
- Exceptional Intimidation vs failed contest by the PC with Composure 2? 'You don't scare me, in fact <string of insults>!'.
- Good Subterfuge vs a 0-suxx contest? 'There's something shifty about that guy!'.
- Empathy to suss out PC motivations or glean info about the hierarchy within a group? HAH. As if.
Allow me to put my cop uniform on and say: maybe it's just bad RP, or at least conflicting styles. Because the Players who can 1) understand that conflict and tension and failure can create interesting opportunities for play and character development, 2) use dice to add a randomised element to their creative writing, almost like an improv prompt, are usually playing the more compelling characters and able to support plotlines which are rich, unexpected and collaborative.
Meaning sometimes ya push, sometimes ya pull: but it's all a matter of figuring out how to tell a story, not necessarily your story.
But I dunno. I'm probably burnt out on experiences where Fancy MacNeverlose is willing to overlook dice results, mechanics and thematic setting in order to come out on top as the realm's Most Best Fellow, with their unwavering fearlessness (WP: 3) and wisdom (literally kicking a wasps nest) and social astuteness (wasp nest is owned by a known Sensitive & Vengeful Wasp Lord).
It really breaks thematic immersion for me, and can make developing Social PC and investing in social-focused Professional Training feel like a huge waste of time. Nobody ignores L5 damage! Why, why is it so hard to express your PC feeling the sting of a Exceptional Intimidation or whatever?
(*Major caveat: anything to do with seduction and PCs. If both Players haven't consented to this? Fuck. That. Noise. Use that shit on NPCs if you must, and throw it in between consenting players for funsies if you want to randomize how suave/gawky your PCs are acting in the moment, but for the love of Glob, don't pull that nonsense on the unsuspecting. Maaaaajorly creepy x infinity.)
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RE: Evennia 0.9.5 released!
@Darren Thank you - this is clarifying!
So once you have that sweet framework in place, you could use Python to code a bespoke +jobs system, for instance -- or if an accomplished Python coder had already written a functional +roll system using XYZ game specs and you got permission, you can slot it in to the existing codebase?
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RE: CofD and Professional Training
@Ganymede But doesn't ignoring a game's Social mechanics deprive me-as-a-Player agency over my PC, if I've invested in Socials? That makes me uncomfortable too... Of course, it's then kinda like a Sen's paradox situation.
Holy crap. I'm starting to understand why people would favour creating Physical focused PCs, or default to combat or (eek) PK in order to resolve situations that (most probably) could have a diplomatic solution somewhere if they used Social Combat instead...
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RE: Fate's Harvest BETA Live (Full Open Soon)
@Ominous said in Fate's Harvest BETA Live (Full Open Soon):
Do I need the books to know what I am doing to play here?
@Pondscum is right: the FH wiki is amazing in terms of info, and there are some key changes around Kiths, HRs, & custom Contracts on the gwiki which are essential reading.
But @Thenomain is also right: read the books. They're essential'er reading, and more than that, they're pretty well written. You will get a million-times-a-bajillion more enjoyment* out of the game if you've dived into the splat books. They're very rich with theme & setting & tone, and that kind of flavour only adds to collective funtimes.
(*results may vary)
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RE: Identifying Major Issues
@HelloProject hahaha, okay good! To my knowledge I've never interacted with them, but I've heard whispers that lead me to believe they're malicious & problematic as a player. Glad this doesn't include like RL threats!