Posts made by Bobotron

... we ordered our wedding rings. 15 and a half years, and we are finally doing it.

I AM SO EXCITE.

@Hexagon
Multi-word names aren't typically a difficult thing, unless your code doesn't use pmatch() to verify. Or at least in my experience.

What's the POINT of the XP tax? I mean, I get you're trying to find a way to 'use or reduce' a skill, but this is not a good way to do it. It feels like minutiae just for the point of minutiae and a system that doesn't ADD anything to a game.

Being completely frank, I would never play on a game using an 'XP tax'. Especially if you have to upkeep your starting dots. It wouldn't promote anything on the game other than making sure you had enough beats to upkeep your baseline; what's the point of buying things if you need ever-increasing points to KEEP the things you ALREADY bought?

If you were doing increases and such based on time-learning, and 'use or forget' type stuff, a downtime/time tax might make sense (you must spend X hours to keep a stat of X).

@Hexagon
I used to use an object that had all the hand-made functions and it had a startup. I primarily use Penn, and Penn keeps user-defined functions from restart to restart now, so it's superfluous. I still use it out of convenience, and paranoia of something going crazy and the functions missing.

Why would you use multiple objects, out of curiousity? To me, that just creates a 'shit, where did I put the function?' thing. Not hard to find, but why spread them overm ultiple objects? And yes, it's doable, you'd just either set a startup on each object or have a startup on some object that grabs all the DBREFs you need, but them you have to mess with adding the DBREFs to the object every time.

@ThatGuyThere
Right. Flashpoint did fuck up a LOT of stuff. You could easily say that the 31st Century dimensional fabric is weak and there's the likelihood of people from Dimensions B and C popping through to Dimension A, which is the primary.

@ThatGuyThere
Make your own Legion that takes the cool shit from all of them?

@thebird
My advice? If you have a genre you want, google "the genre here" dreamwidth RP, or "the genre here" tumblr ad. There are tons of dreamwidth RP (it's where a lot of people when when greatestjournal went down, along with insanejournal). Both of those are big into text-based RP.

@Misadventure
Jealousy is my name for you.

I'm in the process of trying to build an Invictus, Nos/Galloi. I'm on there as Lucien. I may, if/when approved, start putting out hooks for a fraternal twin sister to do the 'creepy twin Nos Galloi' thing.

@Cupcake
Yup. Ashur was also Captain Boomerang.

@mietze
Nyssa al-Ghul? She also played in Spartacus. She was nekkid a lot.

@Insomnia
There're two versions, both under Potpourri there. I think Highlander: The Gathering is the one people used the most, or at least in groups I know

@Arkandel

I figured I'd share this here for... purposes. Mostly the reactions I expect from you guys.

http://bjz-backup.droppages.com

For those that don't know, BJ Zanzibar's World of Darkness was a huge fansite in the 90s/2000s. It disappeared due to a university policy where it was hosted, but I had a HTML clone of it and uploaded it. It contains tons of fan stuff, mostly terrible, but it's good for a laugh. There are a couple of decent things, but not much.

@Kanye-Qwest
Again, that's part of my 'COMMUNICATE WITH EACH OTHER' hope/mandate/hammer to the forehead. I don't want to ban topics (I've already been round the bend twice with the MES and their recent 'you can't have <X> topics as a backstory/thing to play out' policy that came about because, well, the MES is a joke and won't eject people who are PROVEN to be crazy), especially if people are comfortable with them. And I don't want it to be a way to get out of consequences for things like, say, attempting to assassinate the leader of the city's supernaturals or the mayor or being a moron and getting the police on a manhunt for a murderer.

But if Player A says 'I'm a monster, I want to <X> to your character for <Y> reason' and player B says 'I'm game' then that's consenting after communication, and you have communicated per my personal 'cooperative non-consent' game policy/ideals. Conversely, if player B says 'I'm not comfortable with that, <Z> is a better out come for me' then that's fine too. And in both cases, if Player B says 'I don't really want to RP it out, it's fine to DO but let's FTB because... well, I can deal with the aftermath but I squick writing it' or whatever, then that's fine too.

But if Player A is told no and player A continues with that shit, that's where staff should come in. As far as your experience with the rape plotlines, I haven't had any experience with that personally. I've done the whole capturing, torturing, murdering stuff but I don't enjoy sexual RP. I have heard about things, so we'll see how things go on my game. I'm talking about policies from my own personal standpoint, so YMMV.

@Thenomain and @Sunny
Hence why I brought it up. I feel that it's something that HAS to be adhered to, simply because someone may be cool with the OUTCOME, but... it doesn't have to be 'on screen' for lack of a better term.

@Arkandel

That line should be drawn scene-by-scene and by the participants. We, as staff, cannot account for every single instance of something that will offend/trigger/otherwise make people go batshit insane. Especially with the number of people who use these hobbies as a way to work out their own issues. My only thing about policies there is make sure your policy gives outs, suggests FTB, and flatly says 'IF YOU ARE NOT COMFORTABLE WITH SOMETHING YOU ARE NOT OBLIGED TO PLAY IT OUT. And if people are trying to force you to do it via OOC methods, tell staff, because that shit is harassment. Otherwise, do what you will, to the comfort level of the people involved in the scene'.

I've done it two ways:

I have stored a copy of all the stats for each form, and then copy them to the 'active' stat whenever a form changes. This works well for static stats.

If they need to be more dynamic, I'd store them as an attribute and then whatever code grabs them, checks to see if they have a form active. If so, it grabs the form`stat and adds it to the main stat in calculation. This should work for your need to not adjust the sheets each time, since it's dynamically pulling the info separately for each call. It just requires a couple of if() statements and clear ways to store the extra data.

@Miss-Demeanor
... okay, that I'll feel you on. Hopefully you'll get a reprieve when they're both there and can entertain each other?

@Miss-Demeanor
I am the youngest of six and my partner is the oldest of 8. Teenagers are the least of my hated things to deal with. I work for Aramark, the uniform company. We're either going to be slammed due to the holiday, or slow due to the holiday.

@Miss-Demeanor
I wish I was that lucky. I have to work tomorrow. At least Saturday will be good, the in-laws' thanksgiving.