Posts made by Arkandel

How about this for what we're looking for (specifics-free to give us options):

• Geographically plausible - if possible a single city-setting (maybe a nexus/cultural crossroads). We really don't want to splinter the playerbase into X different nations separated by hundreds of miles between them.
• Liberated women. We want strong female characters to be a possibility.
• Politics should be a thing. Different tribes? Houses? Room to grow for PCs.
• Dangerous but lawful. There should be threats, physical and otherwise, but non-physical characters will need to have roles to play.

Some initial questions:

• Vampires versus Werewolves or collaborative? Are PCs on the same side, antagonistic, cold war?
• Is there a Masquerade or are monsters' existence commonly accepted outside superstition? Do they walk openly as what they are?

@lordbelh Are you guys interested in something more aimed toward pseudohistory (or even semi-following something fictional such as a TV series or novels) instead of actual history?

I'm just concerned it'd be hard for regular players to follow something trying to follow actual history since that'd involve a whole lot of information to absorb - from the names of nations, rulers and religious leaders at the time to the political climate, etc. It seems easier to make up our own or use something very well defined or fixed due to already being made popular.

Also, we'd need to pick a setting where women were afforded agency and self-reliance so that excludes whole chunks of actual medieval history.

@BigDaddyAmin Good luck! Stronglifts has an app IIRC which at least helps with keeping track of your progress, but I doubt any other gadget (except for a camera for form checks) will help much with that.

@Coin, I had some ideas we can discuss if you want but basically I am so tired of modern-era WoD games. They just look done by now, so much they all sort of blend into one big game with semantical differences between them, if not by design (and some MU* have worked hard on keeping a unique design) then because that's how the playerbases treat them, which comes down to the same thing.

There are challenges in doing it in an unexpected way of course but maybe they're worth it. If there's interest we can look into it.

@BigDaddyAmin Not at all for weights, it has a 'weights' tracking program but all it can really do is measure your heart rate while you're at it. You can draw some data from that if you're that serious about your routine I guess but I doubt it can help push through a plateau or anything for most people.

It's a gadget, and I love it for that. I like gamifying things - it won't ever do something important on its own, but if having a Fitbit means I walk an extra hour a week just to get my score up, that's an hour's walk I wouldn't have been sitting on my ass otherwise. It's the same as Ingress, just a little additional motivation to stay active.

@thebird said:

Also, wtf FitBit, why are you dying.

I contacted Fitbit through their web site over mine they got back to me in less than 24 hours asking for my account name so they can look into it. They have data about its health fed upstream so maybe you can do the same? They might offer some non-generic advice or replace yours if it's faulty.

I think we ruffled @thebird's feathers.

Man, I kill me.

@Luna said:

@Arkandel is pretty boss at Fitbit. I beat him one week but not this week. Tooth extraction so holding me back.

Now I see it. Today's battery incident was no accident. @Luna wants the throne back.

@Thenomain said:

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@tragedyjones said:

Monopoly bitches.

You're just giddy because you can beat me this week at the fitbit PvP ladders.

Nerrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrdz.

Do you remember that one time you got upset when I beat you at Armarillo and I made what I said in response to you into my .sig? Good times. Good times. Loser.

@Coin beat me at M:tG once playing a tier 1 deck against my tier 2. And he enjoyed it. What. A. Lamer.

@tragedyjones said:

Monopoly bitches.

You're just giddy because you can beat me this week at the fitbit PvP ladders.

My fitbit battery is starting to be less than awesome. I charged it on Sunday, didn't use the GPS... I woke up this morning and it was dead as a rock strapped to my wrist.

... So I looked up buying a cable so I can charge it at work. $30 for a cable, are you kidding me? Freakin' proprietary crap. I'll order a knockoff one from Amazon at some point but damn.

@Coin, got both good and bad news.

http://tvline.com/2015/10/09/banshee-cancelled-final-season-premiere-date/

@Ghost said:

Some ideas are just better left to tabletop.

Yes.

@Cirno said:

Being a Nazi
praying in public
killing people

Not that I am fiercely religious or anything but one of those things is not like the others.

TIL: There's a group of deniers about the so-called fact that the Earth is round. It's not, dammit, it's flat.

And apparently the proper term for the sheep who just believe what they're told is ballers.

Ah, humanity.

@Miss-Demeanor Trust no one.

@Arkandel said:

The new Mistborn novel is out! Brandon Sanderson's Shadows of Self came out today.

Notice the time difference between this and the last post... it will demonstrate once again why Sanderson is a book-writing AI.

... The new Mistborn novel is out! The Bands of Mourning came out today.

A MU* also shouldn't have to make a choice about certain things regarding its theme but it should at the very least consider them while making game design choices.

For example a player may want to play an outsider/newcomer or the person who's always been there but the other PCs just didn't know personally. It's not 'wrong' to say either can't be done but it should be taken under consideration when staff's figuring out their game very early on, since it's not the kind of thing they can easily change after the fact.

@tragedyjones said:

So bets on what comes out first: Beast or Awakening 2.0?

Whatever isn't Mage 2.0 will come out first, forever.