Posts made by Arkandel

@ThatOneDude said in CofD and Professional Training:

When games have no PK, why does PT benefits matter?

Oh, they matter.

Dick measuring contests always matter.

@Paris Then where's my Geist?!

@Ganymede Yeah, Netflix's advantage in storytelling is massive. They have no need to account for filler episodes, villain-of-the-week stuff, dealing with 'new viewers' by planting constant exposition to narrate the whole arc up to then, account for commercial breaks...

But even so, I really have to give it to them that they put good quality stuff out there. The fight coordinators they had on Daredevil (especially season 1) blew me away for example. And they haven't fallen into the romantic cliche trap so many series get trapped in - there's no Oliver+Felicity shit or Barry+Iris endless, endless storylines until I just hope they'd kill someone just to stop watching the same predictable, tired dialogues over and over again.

I haven't watched the new Sense8 season yet either. Saving it for a plane ride.

Oh, oh! And Stranger Things. Goddamn Stranger Things.

@Jaded That's not necessarily a bad thing. Sometimes a different medium requires changing things around.

I think two things make or break fantasy series adopted from books... budget and creative vision. The Shannara Chronicles series is just... meh, and looks incredible fake and blue screen-y, with actors telegraphing their parts in (all those different accents among the same Elves, wtf), and directors who seem to just want to crank their alloted number of episodes and be done.

And then there's Game of freakin' Thrones.

@Jaded Star Trek: Discovery, The Gifted, I'll give Inhumans a shot of course. I also liked The Mayor's trailer for some reason, and Zach Braff's Start Up hit some major Scrubs vibes for me.

@skew 05/13 isn't that old. I hope it won't get to that though, good luck guys.

@Paris said in Android Client other than Mukluk?:

@Arkandel I use a tablet, but have peripherals, so I can mush from bed (I can't sit up for too long).

You must speak of these peripherals!

@A.-Meowley Sometimes these hard-coded things can either be awesome or great.

I remember on a MUD ages ago there were ways to intercept whispers but it'd only give you part of the string, which is easy, but then they wanted to do the same thing with +places (well, the equivalent of it) which is a whole different beast altogether since then you're spying on more than verbal exchanges.

But if you can get your players to buy in and use IC methods of communication (whisper Coin=your momma as opposed to page Coin=your momma) it can open some interesting doors, and a whole new path of character specializations - you can add ways to delve into saved communications instead of doing it in real time, but also forgery, maybe even more elaborate things like replacing messages en route or using cyphers.

The trick, other than the above buy-in, is probably to provide a decent interface so all this doesn't become super complex for the average player to use.

@Coin said in IC Message Code/Alternative to @mail:

I was like, 'holy shit JACKPOT'.

... That guy was a genius. A mad genius, but who are we to judge such things? Hah!

Of course it devolved into OOC drama but still... that's one ambitious, kind of legitimate way to TS like it's going out of fashion.

@Coin said in IC Message Code/Alternative to @mail:

How awesome would it be if you could clone people's phones?

+phone/clone <name>

Some code rolls your Wits+Computer-Diff of the target phone based on factors. If sucessful the code creates a separate folder in your +txt code that houses all the received/sent texts in that person's phone.

Awyiss.

Now you remind me of a friend who got an abandoned rostered character on Arx and thus inherited all of the last incarnation's sexts.

@Collective said in Savior of the Universe: Flash AhhhhAAA!:

Second, I'd suggest saying that Flash bought it. He took a ray gun blast or just went missing and other heroes from both worlds have stepped up to fight Ming and his forces. That lets the PCs be heroes, without the players knowing, from the start, that their stories are less important than the official one.

Yeah, this, absolutely. I played on a setting derived from novels and it was frustrating since everything - from prophecies to power levels to politics - was completely dominated by book characters. Keep them in the background as much as possible - perhaps turn them into objectives, milestones or even antagonists for the stories you tell, but don't shackle your PCs.

... And for all that is holy, don't turn Flash himself into a playable character and hand him to a friend. Don't do that.

@Ganymede said in FS3:

@Arkandel said in FS3:

Remember though that on a MUSH things are different because you can automate so much, whereas on table-top everything has to be done by hand. So maybe you can hide some of that complexity behind the code (since it knows the target's armor/defense, the weapon's penetration and modifiers, etc).

... it's like you didn't read the second part of my post, and that makes me sad.

I have failed my clan and disgraced my people. <headhangs>

Anyhow, my aim is to simplify the system without falling back to code. My hope is this will make the coding easier and more attractive to others.

I think many coders would actually like this. Back in the day we had an ambitious project about automating turn-based combat completely - where you'd literally type "hit arkandel left shoulder" and it'd just take care of it based on your stuff and my own, all under the hood.

The idea was... ah, nm, that'd be off topic here. Sorry about that.

@Ganymede said in FS3:

And here I am thinking: "Man, I like FS3, and I'm going to use it as inspiration to simplify my own system!"

Remember though that on a MUSH things are different because you can automate so much, whereas on table-top everything has to be done by hand. So maybe you can hide some of that complexity behind the code (since it knows the target's armor/defense, the weapon's penetration and modifiers, etc).

@Tinuviel said in Android Client other than Mukluk?:

An old crappy laptop with some flavour of Linux on it is the best MUSHing station.

I thought about that, but a laptop comes with charger bricks, it's heavy (more so than a tablet) and gets hot in your lap.

My ideal MU*ing station would be something I can easily use while watching TV on a couch or recliner. But a guy can dream.

@Ominous Sometimes I think a Surface might be the perfect MUSHing station.

Not anger... but a bunch of mixed feelings.

I've decided to take an offer for a different job, and it's not something I'm good at doing. It feels disloyal somehow to jump ship even if rationally I realize it's just business, or that I've seen my boss lay people off without any warning several times over the last few years.

It feels awkward, and the excitement of being at a new place with cool new things to do is mixed with the knowledge I'm not going to be seeing some of the people I've been interacting with everyday and have come to quite like.

I just hope all that - and a nice salary bump - make all this worth it.

@Auspice Ron Perlman?

@mietze I'm still mad Dungeons and Dragons didn't stop with AD&D.

The A stands for Advanced, motherfuckers. What else do you want? It's advanced! Leave it be!

Wonder Woman's first reviews are good!

@Thenomain said in Vampire the Masquerade 5th Edition Info:

but the more I think of seeing the name "Mark Rein-Hagen" and how people left even Onyx Path over the hiring of Zak at White Wolf, I'm not sure I can be excited for this.

For those of us not keeping up with the Joneses, can you explain this? The names mean nothing to me.