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@RDC said in FATE experts?:

I'm looking at a system similar to Dresden - the game will have various critters of various types with certain abilities that come pre-packaged and others that will be optional. Does FAE still do Refresh-traded-in-for-power? It's been a long time since I fucked with any of this.

This game will cover everything from vanilla mortals to mortals with magic or cybernetic enhancements to weird unique monsters to spirits to frickin' dragons as player characters. I'm getting an Ares server set up tonight so I can screw around and see how the FATE cg works and how hard it will be to tinker with it - I'm much more comfortable screwing with already-written Ruby than with already-written MU* code, so I have confidence in my ability to tweak things to a small amount, and to recruit help (there's a Ruby coder living in my house nowadays, and another coder who could pick it up relatively quickly if I cried at them) if it's something I can't handle.

Mostly I need to wrap my head around the modularity of this game system and how to make what I want to happen, happen. This will be a game with disparate character power levels - if you're playing a Refresh 3 beat cop or reporter, you're just not going to be on the level of a Refresh 9 dragon or mage or cyborg made of magical metal. I'm thinking of doing the "one Refresh 9 character, one Refresh 7 character, as many Refresh 5s or whatever as you want" sort of alt limit.

I'll have a much better idea what questions to ask once I get to poke at the FATE plugin for Ares and see what its limits are.

I, too, can happily answer questions for you. I do better with FATE than with the Ares code it sits on.

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

Ugh.

I think I know this person. I have known them since high school. They have been nothing but good to me, even through rough times and dark places.

That said, though I dorked around on a LOT of MU back in the day, I don't think I ever crossed paths with them. Really, though, that was a long time ago and many MUers were pretty wretched. There are members of this board I hated back in the day, but I'm sure neither of us were our best, and I get along fine with them now.

I think that's one of the few authors I have read that handles trans characters and ace characters really well if I recall correctly.

As for the actual bent of the thread:

JFC, insurance company. You say you'll pay 80 percent of the cost, then fucking pay it! Don't bill me for the whole thing, it was your operator that sent me to your ER when I wanted to go to the UC.

WTF, Chico and Grand Rapids PD. Adults too challenging for you to beat in public, so you're moving on 11 year olds now?

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.

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.

I have a quandary -- I could get things set up and either hunt for existing M&M code or lean on a coder heavily to get started in timely fashion, or I could go quick and pick Ares with a FATE plugin and not need a coder to get started quickly.

I have run supers games in FATE before. It's very much more narrative, which can work fine on a MU, and though it's more.. indistinct, it gives a lot more wiggle room for GMing.

Thoughts?

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.

@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

@Sparks said in What Types of Games Would People Like To See?:

Give me a setting where the bees are the voice, and perhaps the conscience, of the world itself. Where the Buzzing contains hidden truths for those willing to seek them out and listen.

Our wisdom flows so sweet, taste and see...

Congregation: The hooks descend. We join.

I am presently learning python for work, but just getting started. Long term, Evennia will probably work for me, if I can find a python coder to carry me until I can make things and not break everything.

To stick with M&M as the system, I'll have to generate a die roller, charsheets, chargen, and point trackers. I'm guessing most of the standard utilities are repo'd out there somewhere.

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.