@Wizz
As someone who grew up terrified that this type of thing would be what I'd have to do and go through, by being gay (because honestly, that's what the section I'm on right now feels like for Nomi, gay therapy bullshit that you hear about from the 50s), it's horrible to watch.
So it's striking a chord that I thought I'd left behind a long time ago.
NECROBUMP!
I am horrible at setting up mediawiki manually (no matter where or how many times I try, it fails and never works). Has anyone used any of the autoinstallers like installatron or softaculous to do a MW install?
@Wizz
I started watching Sense8 this morning. I'm on episode 3 right now. I just want to cry over the Nomi stuff in episodes 2 and 3. so far.
ETA: Fuck that. This Nomi thing, all I'm going to do is cry my eyes out.
ETA2: OH SHIT. LET'S GO KICK SOME ASS OLD LADY!
@Corruption
Yeah, it should be fairly easy to change the skill list, depending on how things are stored for the GMC-compatible code. As far as races, that's a function of data entry and how you set up chargen, but again, fairly easy depending on on what you're doing.
@Rainbow-Unicorn
Ahh, I see. The only thing you're missing is Attributes; rather than Str/Dex/Stam and stuff you have divisions of Physical/Mental/Social, though the new MET does utilize the individual traits in a different manner (as specializations, or something you're good at over the rest, where you get benefits and bonuses). Otherwise the sheet is identical (if using a pared down skill list.
@Rainbow-Unicorn
I'm not sure what you mean by loss of character depth/detail there. Care to enlighten?
Define 'sheet flexibility?' Are you expecting outside of say, powers to have lots of different attributes/skills that different character types are going to have?
Because building sheets would be based off of the code being used for the dice roller, and whatever storage method. If everyone has the same attrs and skills like NWoD and GMC, the other parts (just grabbing power attributes) should be cake.
@Rainbow-Unicorn
It worries me a little bit, but I'm going to go forward with it as is. If it becomes an issue I can cross that hurdle when I come to it.
I'm going to (at least, I hope it will) make it easy for people, with a range of easy commands (like +test, which is just +test #/pool makeup=target name/#/pool makeup, or a +info command which can grab just the mechanics of a power in brief form).
http://commonplacebooks.com/ perhaps? Looks like a WoD-style podcast about a 'radio show' from a small town with supernatural stuff going on in it.
@Tempest
I think that after that KH/FF game closed, and the M3-crowd FF game imploded closed, there's not much left. I think that FFXII MUCK is still up with the same six or seven people, but that's about it.
@Rainbow-Unicorn
Glad to hear that. I think that's going to be my biggest fear for a while, using a new system.
The new MET system is extremely tightened up and pared down; things like trait bidding and ad infinitum retests or challenge cancels are gone, as are weird outlier challenge stuff. It has also tightened and up and rebalanced some of the things that were problematic in the old MET, particularly in the Discipline department. And here it even works a little better than TT versions of some Disciplines, like giving Chimerstry actual default mechanical effects rather than having to ST fiat it for doing things with the first couple of levels that aren't just set dressing..
Plus it's fast when challenges and combat come out. That's my biggest thing in using an OWoD tabletop version, is the speed at which things go. Split actions, an action for each dot of Celerity, and so on. My last TT game of VtM was always bogged down when combat came out, and I feel like the MET system has the depth and options desired and needed, without bogging down.
Our last 'big' combat in the LARP, even with people having to look up powers that don't get used very often or double-check their memory of the power, was about 15 people at once and it took about an hour. That's including the limited retests in the system, and it was a good fifteen rounds of combat.
Thanks a lot. I am hoping that the 'decadence and overspending of the rich, and the loss of the affluence of the city' will be something intriguing and unique to play through.
The Kindred timeline is in on the wiki. I'm working on the Downtime and Influence section right now (where a rule from the LARP version is proving hard to adapt to the MUSH). The system is how they handle 'start of game' feeding.
In LARP, where you only really have to worry about session blood, you come in at full vitae if you have a dot of Herd or use a Downtime to feed, or have an item that essentially gives you a dot of Herd by drawing people to you. This is further modified by feeding difficulties, which can push the necessary downtimes/herd/combo of stuff up.
I'm unsure of how to adjust this. I'm leaning towards Herd functioning like TT for Requiem, as blood you can get safely and without effort (and barter), and have the downtime function give you <X> blood you can just pull from, representing you're taking time 'off screen' to go feed regularly.
I don't have time to play right now (maybe when my FF tabletop ends), but you could do worse than Dragonlance as a setting. There's enough stuff going on around during the War of the Lance and just after that there's tons of room (plus it wouldn't be hard to divert and do your own thing).
@spasticgoat
I appreciate your candor and will take it under consideration to review.
I'm also doing more updates (yay for the boyfriend making dinner since I've been sick and under a blanket all day), so you'll see things being updated as we go (like the kindred timeline which I'm working on right now).
@spasticgoat
I don't forsee the options 2 and 3 coming up much, if at all, with the low alt count that is currently planned for the game.
Ultimately it might be 'Player A's Mortal hosts a party; Player A's Kindred alt goes to party to schmooze other people and may be in the same room, but doesn't interact with Player A's Mortal.'
Option 3 I'm putting there because it MAY come up, and MAY be valid (very few cases come to mind about validity of alt-interaction, but I want to account for that corner case that staff has to rule on directly).
Thanks. I have put a lot of theory and thought into this and I hope that I can get it running (even if it's just me myself and I for the moment).
I am probably going to regret this, but... aw, hell. Why not.
I have our wiki up. It doesn't have a link to the live game at the moment, but I figured you could tool around the game's (incomplete) wiki.
I'd love to hear your opinions and thoughts; not everything is completed, but there's a lot of info there currently.
@Arkandel
And that's why I could never work in a shelter; I don't have the capacity to burn that out.
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