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Dude...

@Pyrephox said:

@Coin said:

@Pyrephox said:

@Arkandel said:

It sounds like a Dresden Files MUSH might be up your alley then. But the go-to themes for urban MU* are usually intended to be bleak rather than the opposite.

Dresden isn't really what I'm looking for, either. Probably because the books are tightly focused on one /amazing/ character and his collection of Colorful Sidekicks with ever-escalating power and drama, it's hard to imagine that being a fun MU* on a long term basis (and yes, I know about Dark Spires, but it never attracted me).

I'd really like to see something NEW. Not even very new. But something where the cosmology and canon isn't already established, and the setting and game can grow into unexpected directions, with actual revelations and game-changers along the way.

I'd kind of like that a lot, too.

See? I'm not alone! I've even kicked around various ideas for settings and games and how to build them from the ground up as a sustainable "organism" that still allows PCs the chance to be awesome.

We should talk some time.

@DnvnQuinn said:

@Bobotron said:

@DnvnQuinn
New York, but don't get into street-level minutiae. Build the boroughs and neighborhoods and set them up in areas; don't do 'A and 1st,' do 'Alphabet City' and such. It makes doing things on grid, and mapping as a staffer, so much easier.

So what your saying is do like, Brooklyn then have folks have their havens and businesses off that but don't to individual streets?

I think this makes absolute sense.

@Bobotron said:

@DnvnQuinn
New York, but don't get into street-level minutiae. Build the boroughs and neighborhoods and set them up in areas; don't do 'A and 1st,' do 'Alphabet City' and such. It makes doing things on grid, and mapping as a staffer, so much easier.

This is what we did for Eldritch.

@DnvnQuinn said:

Also I have to say, this forum code is ace...

Ahahahaha, where the fuck is @HelloRaptor when you need h--oh, right. XD

I think I like this Lex based solely on the fact that it is pissing off so many Superman nerds that it's funny. Like, I could find reasons to dislike Jesse Eisenberg as Lex, but I'm having more fun finding reasons why his interpretation is perfectly fine, heh.

Wonder Woman dropping in like "what's up? I just saved your asses. NBD." is awesome.

@Pyrephox said:

@Arkandel said:

It sounds like a Dresden Files MUSH might be up your alley then. But the go-to themes for urban MU* are usually intended to be bleak rather than the opposite.

Dresden isn't really what I'm looking for, either. Probably because the books are tightly focused on one /amazing/ character and his collection of Colorful Sidekicks with ever-escalating power and drama, it's hard to imagine that being a fun MU* on a long term basis (and yes, I know about Dark Spires, but it never attracted me).

I'd really like to see something NEW. Not even very new. But something where the cosmology and canon isn't already established, and the setting and game can grow into unexpected directions, with actual revelations and game-changers along the way.

I'd kind of like that a lot, too.

I think by necessity games tend to be set in places that give the broadest range of settings possible, geographically and sociologically. That's why, for example, eldritch is set in Northern California. Mountains? Check. Forest? Check. Desert? Check. City? Check. Beach? Check.

I mean, it took a little fudging or whatever, but there you go.

I like to see settings that are characters in themselves. It's not so much that I'd like to see a specific setting, but that I want the setting to really matter and for both staff and players to really push for it to matter. The Reach lost a lot of its mystique when everyone broke the setting, essentially. It didn't feel like a small town anymore.

Inspiration for Exalted. And also a pretty bitching movie scene, really.

@Spitfire said:

Something that's always been a dream of mine is a Werewolf-only nWoD MU with two spheres: Forsaken and Pure.

Some of the bigger multi-venue games tried including them and failed miserably, but I think hope that a game focused on just Werewolf could manage to pull it off correctly. The real problem I see is that Werewolf has always been one of the least popular venues in WoD, so just getting enough people would be one problem, and then making sure that the Pure players aren't just evil PK machines is another.

The Pure sourcebook is by far my favorite and it's such a shame to see these awesome tribes relegated to the role of either cardboard cutout NPCs in small plots, or the abstract evil threat in sphere "themes".

I actually think the themes of the Pure could be better explored via the other tribes. Instead of using the Pure as separate counter-culture to the Forsaken, make their viewpoints and practices part of the larger werewolf scheme. Make them part of the same actual society--Blood Talons who side with Luna, and Blood Talons who don't, etc.

Someone on the Onyx Path forums had a pretty good re-write of the Tribes to accommodate that.

NaNoWriMo, worrying political changes in my country, Jessica Jones, end of the year syndrom, work-related exhaustion, a severe drop in my overall mood (which happens), and stress.

some of those are reasons, some of those are excuses, some of those are the way I cope with the reasons.

I'm hoping to pick up again in December/January.

@Arkandel said:

Holy shit. http://www.breitbart.com/big-journalism/2015/06/29/harping-on-the-hypocrisy-and-lies-of-twitters-most-notorious-anti-abuse-activist-randi-harper-part-1/

Which part are you "holy shitting"? The fact that Randi Harper is horrible? (Knew that.) The part where the comments on this article are about as classy as Youtube comments? (Expected that.) Or the fact that I can't find a single link to parts 2 and 3, even though this was published in June?

@Jaded said:

@Coin

If you only watched 12, you're missing one. There's a 13th.

Naw, I just miscounted.

@Bobotron said:

@Coin
I'll keep that in mind. Probably tonight plus tomorrow before my partner and I go do Hunger Games.

Also, for anyone like me who is a fan, the first chunk of Digimon Tri is up on Crunchyroll.

I watched ten episodes yesterday before I finally called it quits,s lept, and then watched the final two just now. XD

@Bobotron said:

@Coin
That's my plan for tonight after LARP.
Jessica Jones.
So looking forward to it.

It's a great way to spend 13 hours. Get food first. >.>

Well, Jessica Jones fucking nailed it. I feel like I need a cigarette after that.

@Saulot said:

@Coin said:

@Saulot said:

Anything with magic.

Edit: And no horses. Bonus points if the equines have been wiped off the face of the Earth.

Dragon-horses. All horses have become dragon-horses.

You exist to cause me pain.

So back on TR while I was playing Sun Wukong, the Monkey King Silver Ladder Mage, I made a dragon out of a Savannah lizard, right? Thanks to staff bullshit, I was not allowed to let the dragons procreate--despite having been allowed to give them parthenogenesis. This was actually the first step towards creating a stable of dragon-horses.

Why?

Because the Monkey King was the stable boy for Heaven's dragon-horses.

Everything he did had a reason. People just didn't believe me. >.>

P.S. Of course I do.

@Saulot said:

Anything with magic.

Edit: And no horses. Bonus points if the equines have been wiped off the face of the Earth.

Dragon-horses. All horses have become dragon-horses.

@Ganymede said:

@Warma-Sheen said:

Has there been any push in the direction of games with a much slower XP rate?

Absolutely, but it depends on what your definition of "slower" is. Eldritch and Reno have slower XP gains than The Reach, for instance.

This depends. Eldritch is slower than Reno, but Reno has a consistent minimum of 2 XP per week, which is (give or take and never actually so around) the equivalent of 10 XP on The Reach. Sometimes on TR you got way more; but eventually, you got way less, which Reno does not apply. If Reno and The Reach ran concurrently, the most active people on Reno would outpace the most active people on The Reach in terms of raw experience points, and if we're talking "both games begin at 0", then it would happen very quickly. Eldritch scales back after six months, and then again after six more, and once more six months later.