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Yeah, I loved playing on them, so I'm thinking of standing one up.

I'm strongly considering an Academy style game where the PCs are students. I have a lot of world and lore already built. I love to run scenes, build stories, and do long plots.

I'm partial to the Mutants and Masterminds system for MU resolution, though I am reading a few other supers rulesets right now, because total dork.

How does that bounce off of people?

Most evenings, I'm told in no uncertain terms that I have to multitask.

Looks like my boy has bad hind legs. I'm finding out how bad, but right now he has good and bad days. I did get some steps for when he can't jump into bed. He's got a rough hip and the vet says his knees both subluxate.

I have been giving him daily dusequin(or whatever it's called), and we tried some syringe-given antiinflammatories. Getting old sucks.

Doesn't stop him from using a hunting blind, though. No ankles are safe:

@GreenFlashlight said in A fully OC supers MU:

Brutal honesty? I'm interested in the idea of an OC only game, but when you tie that to a game system that requires a financial investment from me, I find myself wondering why I shouldn't just take my OC ideas to a game I don't have to pony up for a book for. I think a strong enough sales pitch could convince me to cough up the sixty dollar investment, but as it stands, "I'm thinking of doing this, probably in a school for supers" isn't selling me.

It's open license: http://www.d20herosrd.com

Weird, you say? Fringe?

Apocalypse World - First game to use the Apocalypse Engine. Your character progression is tied into your role. Fighty types get fighty skills, weirdo psychics get to talk to the End of the World, and leaders actually develop the settlement as XP spends.

The Morrow Project - 150 years after a nuclear exchange, you awaken from cryogenic suspension to discover that someone sabotaged the project and the central base is gone, leaving you alone to try to rebuild, or just survive.

Alma Mater - High school. Just High School(you know, drugs, sex, etc.) Art by Erol Otus.

Stalking the Night Fantastic - Weird is this game's first and middle name, followed by Awesome. You're deniable government assets trying to prune down the supernatural Bad Stuff and protect the citizenry and Good Stuff. Remember, there is nothing you can investigate at midnight you can't investigate twice as safely at high noon.

Justifiers - Furries. In. Spaaaace! Also, a thrown rock is more deadly than a laser gun.

Macho Women With Guns - It's.. pretty much what it sounds like. It's a parody game, and meta-parody at that -- there are rules systems in it making fun of other, famously clunky rules systems.

Dogs in the Vineyard - Religious Police in alternate-world Deseret, 1800s.

It Came From The Late Late Late Show - You play actors on a completely improv, shoestring production of some UHF(ask your parents) station's fantasy/sci-fi/horror show.

The Drones - The game of single London men in the 1920's social clubbing. Get out your flat caps and starter handles, or you'll never make it to the boat races in time to stop Neville's brother from getting married and leaving the club.

Atomic Robo - The FATE system isn't exactly fringe, but Atomic Robo is weird. And Awesome. And has a SCIENCE phase cooked into the rules. And has Jenkins, the Flying She-Devils of the Pacific, and Doctor Dinosaur.

Judge Dredd - The Judge Dredd RPG. Weird is where it starts. Chasing down a Blob gang growing black market dinosaurs for the rogue droid's illegal dino-fighting ring so they can steal the audience from the fatties beliwheel triathlon. Or, you know, Wednesday.

That's the stuff I have within easy reach.

..I may have a problem.

BD is a total Ninja.

Okay.

The MU is standing, and I am braille-ing my way through setting up the server side bits and chargen. I chose Ares and FATE. I'm learning as I go, so it'll be a bit slow.. but quicker than going on another platform and trying to find a coder.

I can tell the same story regardless of system, and this way I can actually have a running game instead of a theoretical one.

Once I get the system bits down, I'll get the website bits up to snuff and a grid built. I think that's when I'll make staff recruitment pitches.

After learning to manage up(Silicon valley geek meets Midwestern Office), I am seeing my role at work change drastically. Less technical, more leadership -- by a very large margin. I have to admit I really, really like the change. I had been very concerned with my burning out around pure tech.

I still carry critical duties; the on call rotations and critical issues, but my plate has been pretty heavily cleared off to let me do the projects I am driving without a lot of distraction. I feel sometimes that I log in at 7 am, work for 2 hours, and then... don't do a whole lot for the rest of the day. I still work, don't get me wrong, but it's coasting and barely engaging me. I get more kudos now than ever. It's weird. I think I found the cadence that my brain needs to do my best work(I did similarly in college).

My boss wants to keep our team fully remote. My workplace provides us a recurring stipend for WFH expenses. They require vaccination OR ELSE. No jab, bye Felicia. No fucks given if you're in the office or not.

They provide us amazing benefits and more front-loading vacation than I have ever seen outside of Europe. I get in trouble for having leftover PTO. I am paid well. I get bonuses.

Pinch me.

I almost feel guilty, but there's a reason for all the awesome, too.

When we fuck up, people can actually die. And they die badly.

Still, wouldn't trade it for anything. Our KPI is how many cancer patients we match with donors and get to live.

After years of shitty tech jobs, I feel like I landed in the right place.

Damn, I miss spicy food. I moved to a hideously white place, and black pepper is considered spicy here.

Ugh.

Blep.

So:

Past:
4CC: Wyatt, Altan, Double Agent
Project Prometheus: Martin, Nikolai, Meyer
Crossroads: Phaedrus, Diedrich, Iorwerth
Marvel 63: Tough
Dragonlance: Sherard
CDI: Raphael
Bloodletting: Bernard
Sometimes a Great Notion: Justice
Dark Metal: A few. Mostly cyber.
UXM: Dragon
COTA: Uh.. can't remember. Old. I think I had quills/spikes.

And anything else I can dredge from my aging brain at some point.

Current:

Guess I'm looking for more games at this point. Noodling to start one up as well.

For any who watch the thread: I'm getting my hosting after the holiday weekend. I haven't settled on a codebase yet, though.

4CC and its contemporaries spoiled me a bit for M&M code. If there's bits out there ready to install for dice, chargen/sheet, etc, that would drive my decision, I think.

A lot of it depends on time, day, and destination. What cities do you want to travel to, and what times? If there's a hub involved, costs can go down. I just got my housemate a round trip from MN to FL for less than 300 ..though honestly, I'm thinking it's because nobody in their right mind wants to go to Florida in July.

If there's an airline that handles the route, get a club membership. I flew from CA to IL for work a lot, and I would often bump to first or get free flights from miles and using the card. Club membership is worth it if you travel 3+ times a year, hands down. Better seats, free checking luggage, sometimes better boarding options as well.

I could do it, but have requirements. And would rule it with an iron fist, which people might not enjoy.

JuntaMU. Players are all bucking for the position of head ruler, and gunning for it at the same time. Or would that be TropicoMU?

More fully on topic, has anyone found a technique that renders things like FO4 and Borderlands playable for people with eye tracking issues other than shrinking the display window size?

So what a supers MU needs is a system. Something that can basically end a schoolyard shoving match between players. M&M is fine. FATE is fine too, especially since it can get pretty granular where powers and what you do with them are concerned. It's no Champions, but it can be reasonably precise.

I'm thinking I'll go with Ares and FATE, since that seems to be the quickest and best supported way to stand it up right now.

@Wretched said in Health and Wealth and GrownUp Stuff:

@JinShei You should also try cheering up. Maybe smile more? Cant you just get over it? It's all in your head after all. Just eat less.

You forgot somethingsomething gluten and weed is the new Jesus.

@insomniac7809 Hah! I was lent a copy of "How to speak Minnesotan".

I did make the mistake of saying on a date, of her outfit, "Interesting". Little did I know...