Posts made by Arkandel

@Meg They didn't say anything. I doubt the guy even believes it.

He's just a troll and we're the day's entertainment.

For a comic book MU* PvP shouldn't be lethal anyway. That's kinda how it works in comics.

Ship'em off to prison so they can escape or tie them in your deathtrap that doesn't work and move on.

@Seamus said in Information Storage Question:

You cannot point out flaws in my logic!

This person codes.

Ex FaviIIa Surgo, also known as Lain, has been re-banned.

Yeah, it looks like we're going to be playing whack-a-mole for a while. Joy.

@tragedyjones said in Sin City Chronicles:

You cannot hurt me, I'mma get hitched soon.

Yes, how do you kill that which is already dead?

@tragedyjones I thought about it at some point but how would bookkeeping of character sheets take place, XP spends handled, etc if you wanted to apply this to more than a handful of players?

I.e. scaling for more players seemed to be the issue.

Next thing @Coin says will be that there was some sort of Matrix sequel or something.

@Kanye-Qwest said in Shadowrun: Modern:

It's a mega bad stat. Oh my god. Every_rper says in OOC: "Teehee/heh SL2/appearance 6...."

What about players who're too cheap to actually buy the stat although they clearly want it, so they end up making a wiki with super attractive supermodel pictures, write descriptions about how scorching hot their every inch is, and yet they don't have the merits because dammit, brawl 4?

@Cupcake Uhm, what movie career?

I watched It over the weekend and had a blast! So much screaming from the audience throughout the movie.

Also, is it weird whenever I watch a horror movie I wonder what would happen if Sam and Dean showed up?

Today the barbell wouldn't move, someone must have glued it to the floor.

But now the fun part begins. Okay gravity, you took your best shot... it's my turn.

@Thenomain You gotta admit it explains Vader's breathing... if he's a french bulldog underneath that mask.

@Pyrephox said in Making Territory Relevent:

@Ex-FaviIIa-Surgo I would argue against encroaching characters being forced into a scene for 'trespassing' for the MU* environment, unless the grid is large, and has clear demarcations between public spaces where everyone can go, and private territories where trespass will be punished.

I feel though not forcing the consequences of being somewhere you shouldn't be on the grid diminishes the value of having territory in the first place. Mechanical benefits and drawbacks nonwithstanding, the actual effect of feeling like you're somewhere you don't belong adds another dimension to gameplay.

Having said that, it probably doesn't belong in every game. It's perfectly thematic for Werewolf packs to bicker over turf for example, but maybe not as much for Mages.

I'm going through season 2 of Supergirl which is fun but...

... was Dean Cain always such a really bad actor? I mean distractingly, holy-shit bad? I remember loving Lois and Clark when I was a kid, this is poisoning my childhood! Sometimes he sounds like he forgets his lines in half-sentence or like he's reading them for the first time, what the hell dude?

@Aria I've a friend who refers to vampires as "Draculas".

I can't tell if he's just trying to piss me off or what.

@ShelBeast said in Eliminating social stats:

In the end, no one can or should force you to play with these people. That's totally your choice. Just don't try to make it out to be anything other than you being an elitist snob who thinks that they're literally too good to play with someone else.

You are extrapolating wildly to prove your point, a point generated from your point of view. No one said they are too good to play with someone else; only that, unlike throwing an IC punch, making an IC argument is a completely different thing and far trickier to abstract through a dice roll.

An obvious example of is this: I can completely accept this sequence: +roll strength+brawl followed by "; walks over and punches you in the face". This is valid RP.

On the other hand how about this? +roll presence+manipulation followed by "; walks over and convinces you to support him"? That isn't so cool (or at least I don't think you'd agree that it is).

And also, don't try to invalidate the rules to suit your inability to tolerate someone who doesn't live up to your standards or to just generally try to help someone grow.

Nothing in this thread suggests we should invalidate the rules; the point of it is whether we should have different rules and what effect such would have on games. It's a debate on systems, not an attack on anyone's value system.

As for standards and personal preferences, those are going to exist regardless of the mechanics. No matter what your or my gameplay style is we both like some things, and the more our partners cater to them the more likely we are to play with them. That's not a game thing, it's a being human thing. I'm not a misanthrope iRL because I prefer the company of some over others, so in the context of gaming that's an even better reason for the same kind of filter to exist since we're playing them to enjoy ourselves in the first place.

No matter the game I will always try to play it with people I like. I just happen to be open to meeting new people I will also come to like. Most of us are probably wired in a similar way.

@Ominous said in Eliminating social stats:

What if before every scene, those entering the scene list their goal for the scene?

At almost no time do I have a goal for a scene when I'm entering it. Now and then my character does but even that doesn't happen very often. In fact for a majority of my scenes I don't even know who will be in it IC and/or OOC, let alone what I want from them! I go to Elysium looking for RP, anything else is a bonus.

It would also be such a drag if we had to disclose everything ahead of time before we even start a pose, aside from the fact we'd be spoiling it for the other person. And it wouldn't even work because someone who doesn't want to ever lose will just create catch-all conditions (/macro "I go to meet Jane in order to get the best possible deal from her while giving up as little as I can from my end") so it won't make a difference.

@faraday I cleaned up this thread. The stuff I took out should be visible again in a hogpit near you soon.