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I have a problem.

My problem is a certain kind of book is crack cocaine to me; once I find one I just feast on it, quite often starting then finishing it in the same day. So now I need my fix and hopefully you people will point me to an author/dealer to keep it going.

Don't judge me, but the material at hand involves (in semi-random order) a combination of military or arcane training, underdogs and badass moments. I'm talking about books such as the following:

• Rage of Dragons by Evan Winter; a low-class nobody in a caste-based militant Empire gets into a military program and kicks all kinds of ass.

• The Red Rising saga by Brown Pierce; a low-class nobody in an solan system-wide oppressive regime fakes his way into a military program and kicks all kinds of ass.

• The Lightbringer series by Brent Weeks; a bastard of the world's most powerful man makes his way into an magical military school and kicks all kinds of ass.

• Red Sister by Mark Lawrence; a piss-poor orphan girl gets in the world's most badass nunnery and kicks all kinds of ass.

• The Raven's Shadow series by Anthony Ryan; a young nobleman is forced into a military school and kicks all kinds of ass.

• Okay, okay, Ender's Game. You know this one, the author turned out to be fucked up... but Ender kicked all kinds of ass. In a military school.

Anyway you can stop judging me now FINE I get it, I said I had a problem. Find me more books to feed my habit, will you?

@Trundlebot said:

I once mav'd a serious-rp set-pose into a pwp TS scene and felt strangely really embarrassed about it.

What is pwp?

(Ah, MSB, never stop teaching me new things)

At some point tonight or tomorrow morning (so 07-17 or 07-18) I will upgrade MSB to the newest version and update some packages on the server then restart it, which will require downtime of 10-20 minutes or so.

@fatefan I don't know if any three of us who've posted here agreed on what 'this game' should be.

@silverfox said in Books...Books...Books....:

I was guided step by step how to find the hog pit after almost a year of knowing it existed

I hope you found it in your heart to forgive the person who did this to you.

Wow, what a piece of shit of a human being.

There was an issue with the redis service (our database) last night which caused downtime. I think I got the root cause, but I'll continue to monitor things.

@Rook said in Indicating Discomfort in a Scene (online):

In any sampling of MU*ers, I think that 1 out of 20 is a dirtbag for any of the following reasons:

• racist beliefs, subtle or overt
• sexist beliefs, subtle or overt
• hidden need to dominate/ruin others in the name of 'fun'
• someone simply looking for sex/rape/BDSM RP, no matter the theme of the game, or even discussion leading up to.

Devil's advocate though... we are playing charcters, too. So for example I would like (well, in general, I'm not saying I want to ) to be able to play a racist character without being racist myself.

So how is that done? How do you play out villainous values without being branded a villain? What's the mechanism of introducing discomfort in a way that serves the plot without it taking over that plot?

I very much want you to hate my character but I'm not keen on being hated.

@reimesu said in Books...Books...Books....:

@silverfox I'm in the same boat: I had no idea that the book forum existed or how to access it.

Fair enough. Let's change that.

As requested another question: What happens when Mages use common powers to access the Shadow/whatever other 'parallel' reality? And what lurks there?

@tnp Yeah, we went out of memory shortly after the reboot. I'll keep an eye on it.

@faraday said in Eliminating social stats:

@Arkandel said in Eliminating social stats:
But wouldn't that be true for a lot of skills? I mean, charging skills based on utility is a perfectly fine system, but I would think you'd want to use it across the board and not just for social skills. Punch is way more useful than Computers in most MU*s, for instance.

Oh it would be. That's why in my system I don't want to have filler skills; if I need to bundle a bunch of them together to make it work then so be it.

But I don't want to have Punch and Mapmaking, then charge the same for them. In that respect Gany's "Guile" idea works better for my purposes.

@silverfox The Readers category should now be visible to all registered users (i.e. it's opt-out, not opt-in). Please let me know if that's not the case.

@Dillinger Seconded.

Also what are the coded features? For example is there such a thing as persistent character sheets? Or is it closer to a virtual gaming table relying on externally stored sheets, manual bot-based dice rollers, etc?

@ganymede said in Things Ganymede has broken:

I will confer with Arkandel about flipping it back to where it was before. I apologize for the inconvenience.

<goes on immediate vacation>

@Lain said in Eliminating social stats:

@Ominous I agree. It's outdated. So let's make a MU that breaks these kinds rules, man.

That's the spirit. +1.

@lordbelh Yeah. I think Lawrence has legitimately become my favorite fantasy author even though he's (probably?) not as well known as the usual big names in the field.

Plus the Red Queen trilogy had a much easier character to like than Broken Empire. His own personality uh, issues and redemption arc were handled in a completely different way yet such a satisfying one.

***=What I quite love in both series were the depth of ideas, some of which I had never seen tackled before. For example in Broken Empire Jorg is dealing with an enemy who's ***

@RDC said in NOLA: The Game That Care Forgot:

@Admiral as long as I'm not the other one. XD

/r/AITA, MSB edition.

@derp said in Forum wonk:

Seems like if we're going to try to preserve/archive things and not lose any data, figuring out a way to migrate the DB from Redis to Mongo is the way to go.

Not the only way to go.

For example I posted a link above with instructions to migrate nodeBB's database from Redis to another platform for free.

The cost in that scenario is not money but someone's time.

@Ghost said in Eliminating social stats:

I also dislike the argument that these systems arent often used out of fear of players being rolled into unwanted TS.

I didn't intend the TS portion of my reasoning to take over the thread. It's a minor (if still a) factor for discussing the elimination of social stats.

The game I have in mind wouldn't be using any existing system anyway, for the record. I don't want to reuse something meant for a different medium as I believe that's the root of many issues we've had over the years by adopting mechanics developed for table-top into MU*.