Best posts made by Bobotron

I... I am not sure how I feel, but HOLY BALLS. Netflix surreptitiously announces Castlevania series. WUUUUUUUT?

http://io9.gizmodo.com/netflix-has-announced-a-castlevania-tv-show-for-2017-1792131221

I can't say I wouldn't enjoy seeing a Dark Ages Vampire game. Perhaps something set a little later, just prior to all the War or Princes or during the War of Princes, just before the formation of the Inquisition. No historical accuracy necessary.

Or a Victorian Changeling the Dreaming, set in Victorian London and drawing heavily from (again) historical sources without any historical accuracy. Draw from Black Butler, and I'd be happy.

I'm back to working on Houses of the Blood, making some headway on powers, which is were I stalled out (plus insanity inhaled me into a void of RL). No specific opening date, but I'm back to work on it.

All this talk makes me want it. I really enjoyed the Scion game that we played (less due to rules than to plot, story and concept behind Scion as a whole), and this sounds like it will fix a lot of the issues we ended up having with the Scion system (I'm looking at you, Untouchable Opponent).

Looks like OPP will be getting more of my hard-earned monies.

@Auspice
Cool. And also congrats! I am a fucking heel for not putting that in the original post. I was just a little surprised, considering their blog posts were in full support of Zak and had essentially said 'we researched and found no provable incidents and evidence of stuff'. Which really made things even worse.

Anyway. Super awesome for you. It makes me kinda want to finish up my profile and send it over, since I really kinda... don't want to deal with OPP in that same manner.

ARISE FROM YOUR GRAVE!!!

Ahem...

General Update...

• Equipment Stuff is done; base damage ratings, how the weapons function and their base damage, list of weapon qualities that modify non-superpower attacks, armors and armor ratings. A lot of it is very freeform: if you want a Deagle, build a Heavy Pistol with appropriate qualities. If you want a SWAT suit, take Heavy Armor with appropriate qualities. Some equipment will be pre-built from a database and available, but if you want to make your own stuff, you can.
• Powers are underway and having heavier build. Some neat stuff has come out of some of them like Bloodworking and Shapeshift (the powers Sanguine Shield and Blood Purge from Bloodworking, and people who like Gangrel claws will like the Monstrous Talons power of Shapeshift, which modifies your Unarmed attack with a higher damage level and weapon qualities like Armor Piercing and such, which you can choose when you activate the power)
• I FINALLY HAVE A MAP OF NYC THAT I LIKE AND A RESOURCE FOR THE DISTRICTS. It's good for great detail for everything except for The Bronx, which I am using a less-comprehensive/cool resource, but it'll be fine.
• I have a layout for the Consul , the six Princeps, the Legatus, the Praetor and the Aedile. These will be NPCs starting out, that I'll (closer to opening) be recruiting for people to play these PCs out in conjunction with staff goals and direction, in order or them to feel more organic.
• I have about a paragraph each for the other supernaturals of NYC and the rough areas where they'll be, though it's still way open for development (mostly, NYC has a good arrangement of Fae; Therians in the form of Wolves, Crows, and Rats; a small Bygone community led by Euryale the Gorgon; and a single Arisen who gives no fucks about anyone while he's trying to figure out which other supernatural group murdered him).

I'm still a ways from opening, but I'll get there. Probably in the next couple of months, if not sooner, depending on how quickly some things go. More as it develops.

@bored

I think if you really set it up so that it's not just 'oh, Vampire Sphere A sucked, let's disgruntled players make Vampire Sphere B'. I'd hate to say it, but having a limited amount of things that are the same genre/game might be useful there.

@Monogram
Wintergreen a best.

@Wizz

Welp.

@Thenomain
On Penn, it just requires the Guest characters to have the Guest power, and have the password guest. Otherwise it then connects to them in DBREF order, and doesn't duplicate connect if they're all used up. Test it that way?

@admiral

This. It's going to require walking some of the 5e considerations back (like coterie creation, adding back in purchasable Generation and then balancing that, trying to make sure some of the attendant powers that allow you to mess with the narrative are consistently enforced) and added house rules (how to handle relationship maps, for example) to do on a MU*.

Eventually there will be LARP rules (per the AMA) but I wouldn't expect them anytime soon. The licensees still have to pitch it, and they want the existing BNS stuff to 'move towards' the V5 metaplot, but I doubt it'll be 'and next year, V5 LARP by By Night Studios'.

The 100 continues to make me want to THROTTLE THE WRITERS and yet COME BACK FOR MORE.

Season 4 has been kinda nailbiting.

@Moritz
I think you misread my question. In current 616 canon, there are two versions of Beast: O5 Beast and Big Blue Beast. Do you allow for both of those to exist, as technically they are separate characters.

@misadventure

I feel like its' because they had to address SO MUCH BULLSHIT because of the OH GOD NAZIS! controversy.

Saw Beauty and the Beast.
Was pleased. Not the bestest Disney live-action (that still goes to Cinderella so far), but... was pleased with the outcome!

@ZombieGenesis

Sweet. I'm well-versed in the rings from story-mechanics. I will look into it as I have an idea for a Blue Lantern of Earth.

@shelbeast

Yeah. It's going to be difficult, if not impossible, to adapt this to a MU* without pulling out some of the more interesting mechanics or tearing staff's heads open with staff oversight needed.

That said, I'm super looking forward ot actually running it; we are doing our Session Zero on Tuesday for my 4 man TT game of it.

Finding an auction for things you want (in this case, WW LARP clan pins) that doesn't go insanely high AND it you are able to snipe it and get it for a good deal. 9 pins for $50, and I'll make back $15 on selling a set of duplicates...

I've been reading the site and planning to app and, speaking as a gay man, I don't find it problematic. It's part of the inset theme of the game, much like how the Game of Thrones books (no idea if any GoT games talk about it) handles being a gay character. Or any other aspect of theme that should be adhered to. If it's not your cup of tea, then that's fine.

But treating it as some social normative issue is leaning in a fairly disingenuous way to do it, because looking at it, it's NOT the point of it. It's something IC and, I would trust staff to adjudicate and take action when/if something crosses the line into OOC.