Posts made by Auspice

Will step in to say I agree with @Bobotron on the have a mix of roster and the ability to create your own.

I used to think it was pointless to have ready-made characters, but I've been meeting more and more people who really enjoy being able to dive right into a game with a roster character who has connections, history, and some hooks (not necessarily secrets, but hooks into the game). This is good for the people who are more shy and have a hard time integrating themselves.

It'd also be a good idea for the player-made to have them set a flag on themselves whether they're OK being rostered if they disappear, that way you're not having to write tons of people out of the story if they disappear (so you don't have errrrr head of house just languishing away / dying off all the time... but you're also not alienating possible players because 'Ohhh I don't want my own creation being played by someone else if I leave, gross.').

Peeve:
People who get angry at subscription services because they don't "remember" signing up.

So? It's not the company's fault you're a moron.

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

Just because I do not have a car does not mean that I do not sometimes use my parking space or that it is free for you to use at your convenience.

This was a pain at my last apartment. Neither I nor my roommate had a car. But her boyfriend (who was there a few days a week) did.

People just give no shits about clearly marked spaces. And I notice it's rarely visitors (aka people doing it by honest mistake) either.

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@thenomain

And then when it's wrong.

@faceless said in MUSH Marriages (IC):

Shortest? Hopefully the one I'll get to play some day when I make my married-couple Sin-Eater concept.

Knowing this concept, I really wanna play it with you. It'd be hilarious.

@thatonedude said in Shadows Over Reno (Threeboot?):

How's things in game? Easy to find RP and get into /the action/?

I was looking through the wiki and couldn't find any info on if there are still restrictions in place on XP spends. Does a PC need to wait X amount of time between raising specific attributes/values (blood potency/primal urge/disciplines/gifts)?

Is there active staff this time around that work jobs/answer questions?

Wiki is still being built. 'news advancement' on the game has what you're looking for and yes, there's still a month wait on power stat spends.

There's currently two game-wide plots going on, both with bbposts with hooks. Both have had plot scenes go up and the Staffers running them have been on the ball with handling requests (and running scenes as necessary for the players chasing them down).

Vampire has been very active. Werewolf has people apping in and others unfreezing. Hunter has been getting new blood and I hope (biased seeing as I run it ;)) yet more to come.

Most jobs are handled within a couple days. Some, obviously (major rules calls, for example) will take longer.

The Darkness II free on Humble Bundle today and tomorrow!

@kitteh said in Mutant Genesis (X-Men):

So it's probably a bit of everyone needing to be a little more proactive?

Honestly, this is something I hit just about everywhere these days. So many people just sort of... sit on their hands and seem afraid to go out and do much of anything.

It's so so hard to get people to do stuff. Like, I say this as an ST! I can advertise plots and scenes and people just... don't show. I can schedule for times people say are good and then half those people don't show up.

I promise, while in some cases there might be cliques, I talk to a lot of people who are just struggling to find RP and just aren't talking to each other. Person A feels like they're on the outside, but so does Person B, C, and D... and when I ask them all if they've asked for RP, talked to people, etc., it's 'Well, I'm just not sure...' 'I'm scared of saying anything...'

Speak up! Chat! Say hi! Ask for RP! Put up a social event!

I promise. If you feel awks, so do a few other people.

(This advice goes for p much every game out there.)

I do know scheduling makes it v. hard sometimes on games.

But for anyone who is a nighttime / evening player... I do run stuff (I'm on a bit of a 'hiatus' right now because school kicked my ass the past few weeks) after about 9pm CST and usually on Mondays/Tuesdays if I run earlier. I've primarily played on the DC side, but as noted earlier in the thread: I just picked up Kitty, but I haven't yet gotten to try to get involved in things.

If you're uncertain, please give the DC side a try! Myself, Hal, and Dinah are all running / wanting to run stuff for people. I know Hal has had a beast of a time getting people to join him when he's running plots and nothing makes me more sad than seeing an ST who can't get people to show up.

@insomnia said in Shameless Self-Promotion part IV:

My Twitch link

I didn't know about the free sub, so since you told me about it- you got mine.

(EDIT: esp. since the only other person who would get it does have a full-time job outside his streaming and I know he just got a raise. So he'd probably tell me to use it on you instead.)

@scar said in RL things I love:

A guy just pulled over in a van to try and stop me to sell me snakes. "Extra snakes," he said. At first, I was like /if this motherfucker pulls out his dick/ but then it was... actually a bunch of snakes.

Philly is just a really great city to live in sometimes.

WELL.

DID YOU BUY ANY?!

I will say this was never my experience over on the DC game. Maybe it was overall run by a different person. But I went in not knowing anyone at all and have had a fantastic time and have never felt like I'm hitting any walls or anything. I will say I brought a few people with me and I did come in running plots and scenes, so I may have helped myself out in that regard; I had some built-in RP and I was able to bring RP to myself.

Some people are just fucking assholes at dog parks.

The one I used to take my dog to in SC was specifically for bigger dogs. It was the whole point. There was another one geared towards smaller dogs. But the one I went to (with my pit-sized dog) was for the bigger dogs and was an off-leash park.

It was the whole point.

This one day a lady came with her little chihuahua, carried him in, set him in the middle... and then proceeded to scream at all the dogs/owners when the bigger dogs promptly swarmed over to SAY HI HELLO WHAT ARE YOU OMG HI to the tiny dog.... and all the owners rushed over to get their dogs.

Because it was totally our fault, y'know, that she ignored all the signs and the thirty or so dogs running around playing.

Yeah, people like husky lady and all are fucking idiots about their dogs.

I also remember last year, @Cupcake, the reports of the woman near Issaquah (I think it was Issaquah) who would go around with two large dogs off-leash in a park who was being looked for by the cops because her dogs had attacked multiple other dogs and she'd run off every time it happened.

People like that give dog owners a bad name I swear to god.

@seraphim73 said in Mutant Genesis (X-Men):

Bwahahaha. I picked up Colossus and chatted with @Cupcake about relationship-fu without knowing it was her at all.

I really wish I had more time to play the big Russian.

You should find the time! (Not that I've had terribly much free time of late, but I hope to again soon!)

@cupcake said in Mutant Genesis (X-Men):

@auspice I hope you enjoy her! I'm familiar enough with you to know you won't go for erasure of her Jewish-ness which is pretty much the standard by which I measure Kitty-players.

Nah. Neither erasure nor like THIS IS A FULL ON TROPE GUIZ.
It's just another part of who she is, yo.

@cupcake said in Mutant Genesis (X-Men):

I wish I could have stayed, but to be entirely honest, I had too much of a hard time breaking through. Events were scheduled before I could get on, and arriving in the middle in all cases left me hanging. I brought up a concern about cliquishness to staff and was told "Oh no, they're totally nice people, really!"

Still, I love Marvel theme games and hope that they thrive. I'm bummed that it didn't work out for me.

ETA: I did have a few scenes that were absolutely lovely, and I'm thankful for the chance to have done something cool with Kitty's ninja-ness!

I'm working on picking up Kitty, so hopefully I'll be able to do well with her. I was actually v. pleased to see that the previous person (you!) had given her both Lockheed and her ninja-ness rather than leaving those behind (as seems to happen often in my experience ;.;). They're why I decided to nab her and join the Marvel side of things.

@haven said in Cheap or Free Games!:

@auspice said in Cheap or Free Games!:

@haven said in Cheap or Free Games!:

@jaded said in Cheap or Free Games!:

The Ubisoft weekend deal on Steam, has some amazing deals.

Ghost Recon Wildlands for $20 to start. That is a steal at that price.

Way ahead of you! I almost fell out of my chair when I got the email.

Made me mad I already spent close to $30 on some journal supplies. Can't justify it now.

Sacrifices must be made. Food is overrated?

I buy groceries once a month. I'm good until the 15th on that front!
It's more 'affording the daily commute to work' that costs about $20/day.

@haven said in Cheap or Free Games!:

@jaded said in Cheap or Free Games!:

The Ubisoft weekend deal on Steam, has some amazing deals.

Ghost Recon Wildlands for $20 to start. That is a steal at that price.

Way ahead of you! I almost fell out of my chair when I got the email.

Made me mad I already spent close to $30 on some journal supplies. Can't justify it now.