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@ThugHeaven said in Odd Mu* urges:

@Auspice I choose "resting bitch face" characters all the time! There is just a certain appeal there.

And Aubrey Plaza is perfect for it, really.

@Ganymede said in Game Concept: Paying for rare things:

@SunnyJ said in Game Concept: Paying for rare things:

I'm not even going to start with our good friends, the Salubri.

Siiiiiiigh.

Oh, to play a Salubri. It'd be the one thing that'd get me to try Vampire again.

I have hella respect for people who can do needles. I can't. I am terrified of needles.

I put 'sometimes' because there isn't a 'once in a blue moon' option. If my connection goes out mid-scene? I'll hop on from my phone to let people know. If I'm out somewhere, alone, and bored out of my skull? I might sign on to chat.

But I don't RP from it. And if I do login from my phone, it's usually just to chat or watch RP if my conn died / warn people that it did.

@Sunny said in Health and Wealth and GrownUp Stuff:

@Auspice

I am sorry. That just sucks.

Thank you.
on the upside, when I was finally brave enough to go into Sephora and ask, the girl I found has clients with vitiligo so she was able (and comfortable) to show me some things and help me find a concealor that, while not perfect, helps.

@Rucket said in Mobile phone usage poll:

I would use it more if Android had a half-decent client that I could get into.

I always liked Mukluk.

@Sunny said in The Work Thread:

Office365's web interface now lets you 'like' emails and things. I made the mistake of ranting about this (having likes in a professional environment) to my coworkers...

Yeah. My boss 'likes' every email I send her now.

ETA: I need to clarify. It is all in good fun.

iOS lets you 'like' text messages.
My recruiter does it (she's a very bubbly, perky girl in her mid-20s so it's fitting I guess!) and it throws me off every time.

@Wretched

Years ago, on a D&D MU*, I was getting my DM legs under me, so I was running one-shots.

I made it clear, up front, that they were one-shots. There was nothing special, nothing mysterious, no need to follow up. They were just to have some hack-n-slashy fun.

But on one of these, the players became so convinced that the dire wolf they encountered MUST MEAN something more that they put in jobs.

I closed the jobs, explaining: this was a one-shot, there is nothing else. You talk to the farmers, you comb the trails, there is nothing. You're exhausted and tired and there is nothing. That dire wolf must have been a freak of nature.

...so two of the players began submitting +jobs 'ATTN' other staffers to 'investigate' with them because they became absolutely convinced I was just being mean.

So I totally get that. I reeeeeally really do. This is where Perception checks, IMO, become valid. Because I try to customize what people notice. Three people met the difficulty? I will give them each a unique thing they notice. Person A might spot the flare, while person B spots someone nearby the flare waving their arms, and person C sees the zombies in the distance on approach.

That way everyone gets a unique thing to contribute (rather than 'whoever has the fastest fingers gets the glory') and I can do my damndest to make sure the legit clues get spotted.

@Selira said in RL things I love:

@mietze Peak week is a terrifying time for a lot of people. I'm so glad you have things that can help you at home now, and I am so scared of my own asthma flaring back up someday in the future. I can't even imagine the relief of not having to make a trip to the hospital while being unable to really breathe.

I had to google this term. As an asthma-sufferer, I'd never heard of it before!

But then, it's that shift into cold, wet wintery weather that always gets me. Usually late October to early November I'll find myself going through a ton of inhalers.

I'm on singulair now (my doctor's attempt to help my seasonal and illness-triggered asthma), so my fingers are crossed it won't happen this year.

@Tinuviel said in Coming Soon: Arx, After the Reckoning:

I am so glad I left before this BS started showing itself...

I feel you. I kinda miss playing Lou, but the time demands of the game were just way too high for me and with this recent stuff... I feel like I've maybe dodged a bullet.

@Alamias

It's always surreal to run into a MU*er IRL like that. Like not pre-determined sort of deal.

Years ago, I went to a new TT game. Half the group and the ST I knew, the other half I didn't. One guy was introducing himself and also provided his usual online handle. Which was not a common one (I don't remember what it was, but it wasn't something you'd expect to see twice). Last I'd known him, he was on the other side of the country and we hadn't talked in about a year.

But then bam, same TT group, with no way of knowing the other would be there.

@Sunny Venting is what this is here for. Sometimes just getting it out helps.

This isn't strictly MU*ing, but...

I wanna give a shout out to all the baby roleplayers out there on Tumblr and the like that provide us with a plethora of screencaps and GIFs we get to then comb through for our wikis.

WNOHGB (Where No One Has Gone Before), early '00s. It did have a playerbase spread out all over, but it was also big enough to manage it. Really rich space system, mercantile system, etc.. It was MOO, so I'm guessing fewer folks here knew it.

Loved that place (up until my ship was stolen, but yaknow).

Anyway, I think a Trek game now would have to focus on a single place. Probably a space station. And you'd need to allow for advancement for people in Fleet. The whole 'you must complete X number of projects and submit X number of logs each month' style of promotion may have worked when we were all in high school still, but it just doesn't anymore. Let people have their fun. Sure you don't want everyone being a Major, but ffs you can have more than three LTs.

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

@Auspice

If you haven't reached out to your school's IT dept for help you might try it. They may fix it, or send it to you in a diff format. OTOH, depending on the school, it may actually be MORE frustrating than just Dealing With It until you're through it. I had to work with the IT of a university at one point because one of my voc counselors was having problems exactly like you are describing with one of the modules. It was a headache and I wouldn't recommend it if you didn't already know computers, but it might be worth a shot.

Either way, thank you for even pursuing being a teacher. I feel like that is good for you and good for the kids that will have you to be fierce for them.

They're redoing the module and I'm preeeeeetty sure this is why.

Unfortunately it's not being released until late October. So I'll probably work on other modules and kick at this one now and then. I'm just actually really interested in the contents of this one and nearing the end of what I can do on my own while I wait for a school to get back to me about my in-classroom observation time.

Also thank you. I'm pretty terrified about actually doing it to be honest. I keep finding applications for what I study at my current job (I mean I'm writing training documentation after all) and in staffing which is kind of fun. But. Actually teaching kids someday already has the imposter syndrome meter turned to yikes.

@Coin said in Magicians Game:

Just some advice: Give some real thought to how the learning of magic will be represented system-wise. Becuase if you let people just learn things at the same rate other games do, then the "school experience" will be lost rapidly.

XP gain in FS3 tends to be much slower than, say, nWoD. Many games also throttle spends and require justifications for them. I will likely go a similar route.

'Your character is better at summonings? Alright, do you have logs either showing study/practice or execution?'

As for the darker themes- psychological distress (such as Alice's attempts to summon her brother), physical harm, etc., is very likely. In regards to rape, child abuse, etc., I would likely not push that on anyone as an ST, but I would also not make it verboten if, say, a PC wants to utilize it in a background or if it came up as part of a PRP in which all PCs have given consent.

Those themes are there and I'm not going to reject/deny them outright, but I'm also not going to foster an environment where anyone feels it's going to be forced upon them. Any instance in which they occur will likely require staff oversight/approval and signed consent of all players involved.