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Because not all of us play on Arx and @Rinel loves a good silly-time post.

@Arkandel

If you're only running for Vampire, that'd be why I'd not sign up. Hunter here.

I also kind of avoid the 'open to all' stuff on multi-sphere nWoD games because I'm so used to them turning into 'who has the biggest dick' contests.

@saosmash said in Should Rinel become smol birb?:

Rinel should be whatever she wants!

push over tree

whatever she wants that's named 'smol birb'

@Arkandel

In scenes with the former (the 'do all the things'), I end up just not... doing much of anything at all because I get tired of not even having the opportunity. There are people who just sort of need to be led by the hand, but then there's also those who give up because they realize that their poses are just going to be fluff and filler because Sue over there is jumping pose order, is complaining OOC or on channel whenever someone else does something, and the ST involved says nothing.

I've tried paging the ST before in these cases. To say 'Hey, I appreciate that you're running this... But because Sue keeps jumping pose order to do everything, no one else even has a chance. I haven't even had anything to pose except reactions to her and I'm starting to flag.'

Maybe we should encourage more players to be brave enough to speak up?

As an ST, one thing I've done to help spread the love, as it were... When I, say, ask for a Perception roll... I give everyone a different bit of information (if possible; sometimes it's not doable). That way, no matter who is posing or in what order, everyone has something to contribute. I also page them all separately... as I've had an ST page everyone who succeeded to say "OK, Auspice, you see Y and Bill, you see Z." and Bill poses seeing Y and Z.

There's a lot of psychology to it, sometimes. And you just have to learn that a larger number of players than you'd like need to be treated like children. You can't tell George to share the candy with his brothers and then just turn your back and expect him to do so. You've got to hand it to them each separately as George is probably going to run off, eat it all, and tell his brothers 'Oh, it was only given to me.'

Do you treat everyone that way? Hell no. But it's why 90% of what I run on nWoD is for my friends and 10% is for all comers. Because I can only handle the stress of people management on top of STing for so long.

@Rinel

legit I found this when looking for PBs for my Ithir char and had desperately wished she had a sword instead. PB pic I ended up using is lighter than I'd like but it's hard finding that right balance of darker skin + a sword + something mystic-y + clearly a pirate.

@Miss-Demeanor

Oh, I wholly agree. Law gets the same issue. PCs can blatantly murder people in broad daylight and Law sphere is told 'oh just find a way to work around it' or to ignore it completely.

I get why Staff may sometimes be leery of PVP type situations, but you are entirely right. Supers can fux with Hunters, but not vice versa. Worse than that... on many games, Hunters aren't even allowed to use NPCs of the other spheres. So you can't, say, have Hunters deal with a pack of WW moving in on the area.

@Rinel said in Should Rinel become smol birb?:

@Auspice said in Should Rinel become smol birb?:

@Ghost said in Should Rinel become smol birb?:

I made a thread that was so spicy it got locked. IN THE HOG PIT.

+50,000

do we expect any less from Rinel? From what I read in ArxThreadLand that seems par for the course

That's just my character!!!

I think using NPCs or other creatures from a splat should be Ok for Hunter. It'd be easy enough as saying 'Don't use someone else's NPC or an NPC that would be connected to a PC' (aka don't say they're from someone's coterie).

I think any Vampire or WW that'd look at a Hunter PRP going after NPCs and get pissed off are probably problematic in some other ways... and why should we cater to problem players?

I swear the timezone thing is a no-win scenario sometimes.

You either start early enough for the EST folks and no PST can make it (since they're all still at work), or you start late enough for PST and the EST peeps have to leave early. I work from home and I've tried a broad spectrum. 5:30p PST / 8:30p EST seems to be the sweet spot, but you've gotta be able to jump right into the action in 1 or 2 rounds.

The way I've been trying to juggle it is:

a) to mostly run on weekends (1p PST start on a Saturday is 4p EST and generally manageable for more folks than weeknight scenes).
b) I skip ALL the setup. I skip the 'You all gather here,' the 'figure out who is riding in what vehicle,' etc. We spend a few minutes OOC (or in advance of the scene time if possible) figuring out who has what and is doing which in advance... and then I start with the 'As you roll up to the abandoned Radio Shack, you see...'

Because I swear, for every person that's awesome in the 'setup' by including everything in one pose, there's a couple people who take 2-3 rounds of posing and that alone can add an hour or so.

I'd like to remind people that Wendigo has had two deaths in the family over the past month.

I understand that other Staff could pick up that slack, but it's not a perfect world. Let Wendigo recover and get everything back in order with RL. Let her find people to fill empty Staff slots (there's been at least one bbpost regarding that).

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

I am 30 and it now hurts to sit on the floor for extended periods of time.

welcome to the rest of your life.

@Arkandel / @Killer-Klown
I had the same thought. And then I remembered I work full-time, am in school full-time, and have been traveling lately. Staffing is not in the cards for me.

But it additionally vexes me. That people are complaining about the slow turnaround on a game that is seeing it's initial flood, like @surreality says. Fallcoast went rapidly down the shitter as if it were thrilled to see the sewers. Other places floundered in their own ways. People want a place to play nWoD and I get that; I was one of the very first apps submitted when they first opened.

The only mistake I really think has been made? They should have waited longer to allow alt applications. I think a week was too short a window: it should've been more like a month, what with the RL issues.

But I will definitely call out people bitching about slow turnaround when the HeadWiz has had to go through two deaths in the family during the holidays.

@tragedyjones said in White Wolf Survey:

Did they finally share this? Dope. I got it in an email a couple weeks ago. Yay MUSH ref. Yay Promethean ref

Yeah, posted to their FB today.

OCD is stupid.

My bus driver sees me every day, so while I was fumbling my phone out for my pass, he just waved me on by......but I had to finish going through the motions anyway because it's a required part of my daily routine.

@Miss-Demeanor said in MU Things I Love:

@Auspice said in MU Things I Love:

@TNP

I'm not your buddy, pal.

I'm not your 'pal', friend.

I'm not your 'friend,' guy.

@Rinel

post of the year right there.

Funny enough... my Shadowhunter on Mortal Coil almost fits this.

...and uses Aubrey Plaza as her PB. >.>