Posts made by Arkandel

https://www.thepoke.co.uk/2019/01/30/lord-rings-explained-game-dungeons-dragons-nerdy-delight

@Cupcake That's weird, I haven't noticed anything.

We're running the newest version of nodebb as of a few days ago, so you might need to force a web browser-side refresh... unless of course others are having the same issue.

Try opening a fresh incognito window and log on MSB, do you have the same issue?

@Kumakun I voted for V5 just because that doesn't exist any more. It'd be a good experiment (and perhaps an interesting niche) to have a game running that system.

@Wretched

@Packrat said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:

People who piss on toilet seats then do not have the courtesy to wipe them dry with toilet paper.

Why would you do this? Why would you walk out of a toilet cubicle at work leaving piss all over the seat? Somebody is going to have to deal with that and it will be altogether more disgusting for them.

I never understood any of this. I also read subreddits sometimes where people working in certain industries have to clean... explosions. Like, why? What the hell?

My best guess is they're so worried about sitting on the public seat which might be dirty that they basically end up shitting on the floor.

@chibichibi said in Mage 2e game - The Golden Road:

Oh then that's easy. I'll be putting stuff down that as they figure out things they'll notice modifiers for spells cause they are in an archmage chantry. It's a bonus or a penalty here and there. It's not really house rules anymore than a tweak like when the Reach gave +1 paradox roll if you did magic near water.

Another thing you could do is have the code itself handle some of this.

For example instead of rolling for Paradox manually have a +paradox command - then you can do whatever the hell you want behind the scenes because the player doesn't need to know the ins and outs of that particular system, then, but just use a clear cut command.

@chibichibi said in Mage 2e game - The Golden Road:

@Arkandel

Is it really a stray from CoD mage if we're doing it in chantries where the regular rules of reality don't apply and part of the game is to solve the mystery of the rule? Too abstract you think? If so, I might change how I'm planning the story then.

The way I count it is this: Imagine being a Mage player - but not your game's player.

The threshold of effort you'd need to put into before you understand what the mechanical differences are is what that game should be concerned about because it could be a turnoff. At a certain point it'd be learning a whole new system all over again if there were too many caveats, exceptions and addendums to the rules you already know - and many players don't like that overhead, especially for systems they are already familiar with.

That's why I suggest making as sweeping changes as you feel like as long as the list of those changes itself can be kept short.

@chibichibi said in Mage 2e game - The Golden Road:

The game I'm planning has each "chapter" set in different archmage chantries, so paradox might be meaningless or it might impose penalties depending on the path of the PC in question or even affect certain arcana differently depending on factors like type of spell, phase of moon or whatever. The initial plan is to make paradox random as fuck so the PCs should be paranoid about magic-ing problems away.

Thoughts on that from everyone?

Just two things from me.

1. The more you 'stray' from CoD Mage canon the least approachable your game would be for newcomers who're familiar with Mage but not your MUSH's rules. In other words I recommend creating as short a list of House Rules as you can get away with - no matter how large their impact - rather than a long set of tweaks and adjustments ("On page 133, the Rote's duration is doubled").

2. Giving Paradox teeth is probably a good idea but tread the line carefully between magic use carrying enough risks to not be used trivially and between your game's Mages not using any. I think you still have a large leeway though since in the books Paradox is a boogeyman that doesn't actually do that much mechanically.

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@auspice Shame you couldn't speak to say thanks.

I love the Orville but damn if Star Trek Discovery isn't amazing too.

That's sits just fine with me.

@auspice said in Health and Wealth and GrownUp Stuff:

@arkandel said in Health and Wealth and GrownUp Stuff:

@alamias said in Health and Wealth and GrownUp Stuff:

@arkandel This is why I don't live in a place that gets that white stuff all over the ground during winter.

White is nothing. It's the black stuff you care about - black ice. Black ice is a fucking supervillain.

I once dated someone from the south who admitted to me that until he lived for a couple years in a northern state, he thought black ice was something bad drivers made up.

And then he encountered it.

Until I came to Canada I thought black ice was a cool Shadowrun term. So.

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2191814-we-may-finally-know-what-causes-alzheimers-and-how-to-stop-it/

@alamias said in Health and Wealth and GrownUp Stuff:

@arkandel This is why I don't live in a place that gets that white stuff all over the ground during winter.

White is nothing. It's the black stuff you care about - black ice. Black ice is a fucking supervillain.

Ice.

I'm just walking to my driveway at 5:30am when woosh the Earth slips away from me and I fall like a sack of crap on the ground.

Thanks, winter! I love you too.

@magee101 said in I know it's an old topic but to this day....:

@arkandel I guess what I am trying to find more the answer to is, if I am vaxxed and boostered up do I have to give a shit about catching MMR?

I'm not a doctor but according to http://www.immunize.org/askexperts/experts_mmr.asp...

"Why is a second dose of MMR necessary? Between 2% and 5% of people do not develop measles immunity after the first dose of vaccine. This occurs for a variety of reasons. The second dose is to provide another chance to develop measles immunity for people who did not respond to the first dose."

So it sounds like you'd be fine in that case. And if herd immunity was in place even if the first one hadn't caught and you were in that minority it'd still probably not matter.

@magee101 said in I know it's an old topic but to this day....:

@arkandel I thought the whole point of vaccination was to make you immune to the disease and stop it spreading. So either A) lotta people never got vaccinated/followed up with boosters or B) measels is evolving to combat the vaccinations

Yes, both of those things are needed at the same time. You become immune and because everyone else is immune too the disease dies down due to herd immunity.

Measles ain't no joke.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-46970628

@magee101 said in I know it's an old topic but to this day....:

@too-old-for-this If 99 kids are vaccinated and 1 is not, doesnt only that 1 kid get sick?

https://twitter.com/cnn/status/1087504130929762305?s=21

That's from this week, soooo.