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See, like I said, I make leeway for people whose characters die from plot, or who sacrifice themselves for the party, and in tabletop, I am totally in agreement that coming in at the same level as the rest of the party is fine.

But MUs are not tabletop, so half-xp or whatever other system that puts them ahead of newbies but not as high as they were is fine by me.

I also think that all of this is somewhat superfluous because if the game is good, the players won't care. I do however agree that this can be something that affects the players´s decision to try the game or not.

@Macha said in What Types of Games Would People Like To See?:

How about a game where everyone is treated with respect? That would be a nice change.

@Roz said:

Finally finished Sense8 tonight. There was something so heart-wrenching about -- I don't know how to say it, the optimism of it? Not naivite, but the overwhelming sense of all these different, disparate people, all broken in their own places, reaching out to help each other. I AM VERY OVERWHELMED WITH FEELINGS.

You pansy, he said, knowing he'll probably tear up or some shit when he watches it.

You're conflating having power with not having weaknesses, which is not the same thing, though. Just saying.

@Pyrephox said in Web portals and scenes and grids oh my!:

@Three-Eyed-Crow I have forgotten every flashback I've ever been invited to. I pose while I'm on, but as soon as I log off, I forget it exists. I'm so sorry to everyone I've let down on those, but...yeah.

@faraday said in Web portals and scenes and grids oh my!:

@Pyrephox said in Web portals and scenes and grids oh my!:

I pose while I'm on, but as soon as I log off, I forget it exists. I'm so sorry to everyone I've let down on those, but...yeah.

That's how I was with google doc scenes.

It's kinda how I am with portal-only scene son Ares, too, though.

Lol.

I was reading TV Tropes (which will ruin your life, by the way) when I got reminded of The Sleep Talkin' Man, who is hilarious. So if you have never scanned that blog, you should, just for the random, non-sensical hilarity.

Nerrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrddddz.

@Pyrephox said in Game Pitch: Three Letter Agency (modern horror setting - X-Files, Fringe, Control, SCP, etc):

@faraday Once you've had a taste of how user-friendly something CAN be, it's very hard to go back to doing it the other way.

Until the option disappears (which it sometimes does) and it takes a relatively short time to get back into the old swing of things.

Guys, can we move this to this new thread to spare Cobalt the insanity of getting a notice every time someone posts on this one? Thanks.

@surreality and @Tat should get together with @Quibbler and wiki the world.

@chibichibi said in Scion 2E Online Tabletop:

Anyone wanna do something like this? I'm starting to get tired of nWoD/COD, so I wanna go do some Scion-y shenanigans. I could open up a small server or maybe open up an AresMUSH that uses Scion2E and just have people post their sheets.

If anyone's interested lemme know.

I mean, yeah, kinda.

@Arkandel said:

@Misadventure said:

I should make an MMO called "You go out, go to clubs, visit tourist locations, go to bars, get food, go to shops, pay $10/month to be told what to do.."

Worst. Name. Ever.

I'd just call it The Simulations.

Oh wait.

@Ganymede
Well, I was using it as an example of what I do when I want to present an antagonist of that sort. It's often not the way I actually do things. Sometimes I do, because the plot calls for that sort of bad guy; often it'll be more complex.

I am also just generally adverse to presenting antagonists you can defeat by lobbing handfuls of dice at, which in turn can often seem, to players who are used to solving things that way, as an antagonist who is unbeatable. It's not the case; it's just that they aren't beatable in the one way the players have decided to approach the situation.

@TiredEwok said in Scion 2E Online Tabletop:

Is Scion the one where you play as kids of gods? Because I could be down with playing a kid of Anubis or something like that.

It gets a little more complex/intricate/varied in 2E (thankfully), but yes.

@arkandel said in Good TV:

@coin I'm not sure where they can go with a billion dollar Lord of the Rings show based on a young Aragorn's adventures. It's guaranteed to at least piss off the loyalists since it'd need to be 99% new material, just for starters.

Also if they can't actually do anything to alter the course of the books, so say... Strider can't meet Frodo, expose Saruman or any of that stuff, then they might as well set it on any other time period (Beren and Luthien? Fourth Age stuff?) or even just ditch the LotR angle and use original material. And I say this as a huge Middle Earth fan.

Honestly, the LotR one is one of the ones I just sort of went "meh" at. I am less interested in it than I am in some of the stuff I don't even know the source material for.

I just started reading The Fifth Season though and Jemisin is fucking awesome.

Yeah, Changeling is way further back than I thought. Damn. and really, seriously, please fucking release Secrets of the Covenants and The Pack.

@Kumakun said in MUX web portal experiments. :3:

This has nothing to with either MUX or Pueblo now!

This makes me sad. I was looking forward to a web portal interface for MUX.

Ah well.

@auspice said in Um...What?:

@kanye-qwest said in Um...What?:

@thenomain what world do you live in??

Isn't he in Ohio?
I hear they're about twenty years behind everyone else and Sneaker collecting did begin to rise in the mid-80s...

Honey, I hate to tell you this but the eighties were thirty years ago. >.>

@wizz said in MUs That We Would Love To Make (But Won't):

I would love to make a King of the Monsters-style game, where the kaiju are the PCs and they have like, human cults/creepy corporations/both dedicated to them as game resources the players can use. We'd track collateral damage and how much cities have had to pay to rebuild, etc.

Totally goofy but fun.

A game idea I had was people playing spirits/ethereal beings/demons/angels/gods/faeries/whatever and you got to be ONE of those, and you were the patron for different people (PC you controlled) and they all worked in your Patron's interests (or against them, if you wanted to play some traitor storyline).

S'a great way to get rid of Conflict of Interest (your PCs are supposed to help each other -- they all work for the same Patron Being).

And you get to explore the relationship each "sub-PC" has to their Patron in whatever way you want. Patrons could control people via light possession, oaths, contracts, blackmail, sheer devotion and faith on their part, whatever made sense for the Patron.

@Kumakun said in MUX web portal experiments. :3:

I had also started sketching out how I'd accent Theno's CoFD system with an HTML friendly interface too! >.<.

This is what I was most interested in, for sure. A web portal-friendly CofD set-up would be a game changer.