Posts made by Coin

@Thenomain said:

@Coin Pedantic twat.

You knew what this was.

@Thenomain said:

@Arkandel said:

@BetterJudgment True! Unlike the rest of what we do and talk about here which is guaranteed to pass the test of time with flying colors.

This community has been around for, what, 10 years? The earliest Mush in, I believe, 1998. Pretty sure time has been tested.

Time isn't tested, it does the testing. >.>

I tried to read this thread (even just the last five pages). I mean, i really did. But y'all are some wordy fuckers, oy. And also, there's little of substance.

TL;DR the folks from Optional Realities have come to advertise their site and ignored the explicit and implicit function and tradition of these forums when engaged by the locals. Also, @Jaunt has been doing this for over twenty years, @WTFE drinks a lot, and @Sunny should rename to Sunny of Arc!

i suggest you guys tighten up your arguments and make them more concise so I can enjoy them. Thank you!

@Derp said:

@Seamus said:

@Alzie I seriously must have missed that because I do not recall seeing that in the main GMC book. Could you enlighten me?

You're not the only one that missed that. Nobody that I've talked to about it is aware of this either. Can you give an example in the books of where this is located?

Thirded.

As far as the original topic goes:

Staggering XP does work, to an extent. There are exceptions. For example, if you have a player like Spider, whose obsession with gaining every little mote of XP possible leads her to obsessively running as much stuff as possible--sure, you'll have someone who is consistently supplementing their diminishing returns. (This is as close to a compliment as I am ever going to give her.) But that's an exception. And even she has never been able to keep the constant PRP running for long enough for it to make a very big difference (or perhaps that was just the way TR did XP that prevented it) without burning out.

There's no one better way to do XP; but each way does promote different styles of play and character building. A hard cap, no matter how high, will make players consider their character sheet "end game" a lot more than otherwise, for example, while a system like The Reach's/Fallcoast's will allow people to spend whatever on whatever because there's always more XP down the pipe as long as other people are active and running stuff.

Different strokes.

@tragedyjones said:

So let's be honest. Eventually I am going to wanna do a new project. And I have a few ideas for what I would like to do with it, and I am looking for some idea bouncing/feedback.

Here are some things I am contemplating:

• Tiered Focus between "Casuals" and "Actives"
• An actual Metaplot focused on the God-Machine
• An emphasis on ST-led scenes
• Gamewide Coherence

Here is what I mean by some of those things.

Casuals vs Actives

I want to make a game for the people who want to seriously invest. People willing to do lots of work running scenes, pitching ideas, possibly having to put in more to get more. These players would have some sort of perks - IC titles, XP, who knows. But I also don't want to completely exclude those just looking to play a scene or two a week. These slots would be less restricted in the application process but have less impact, so to speak, on the game.

God-Machine Metaplot

I fucking love the idea of what you can do with the God-Machine. I have a lot of ideas on how to integrate it into various spheres and the game in general.

ST-Led scenes

This could never and should never be a requirement for a MUSH. But I am a tabletop player in background, and I love the idea that anyone could opt in to be the ST for a scene - not a scheduled plot necessarily, just any scene. This would give them some control over the environment, NPCs, etc. Possibly even a coded way to see local sheets.

Gamewide Coherence

One problem I have never been able to solve, is to make it so that what happens on grid happens in a meaningful way. Sure, you could log everything everywhere but that is intrusive and time consuming.

Of all of this, it's the metaplot and ST-led bits that are going to be the hardest to pull off, to be honest. It really depends on how you build it, though.

@BigDaddyAmin said:

Oh, I could be more offensive in a WORA way, but I will refrain. If you wanted my input, I was just offering. That's all.

Not my game! Also, it was a joke. Thus the comment in parentheses...

@BigDaddyAmin said:

I'd be down with Louisiana, being from that part of the nation. Let me know if I can give you any help on adding "color."

THAT'S RACIST!

(Sorry. I'll see myself out.)

@Arkandel said:

I will assume you didn't watch the video rather than that your sarcasm detector is broken on a Friday, when you need it the most.

I did not watch the video because fuck you and I'm at work. And still moody as fuck. Hopefully this weekend will make things better. Hopefully.

@Arkandel

My fingers are more accurate and way faster than my mouth when I'm trying to tell a story. I use my voice when I'm telling a story orally because the language isn't so much what matters--it's the inflection and tone and the intensity.

I'm sure it'll work dfor some people, but it doesn't really work for me. I need to be able to type it out.

@Seamus said:

Considering we're almost done....

It's an expression.

Hey, don't let me stop you. I have and always will be a fan of having as many games that are different from each other as possible.

@Arkandel said:

Hellz yeah. This should be a thing.

That's so sad. I was so puilling for Musdasir. No, really.

You know I'm in.

@Seamus said:

I'll leave this clue.. Fangtasia.

So you're going to do a Louisianna backwoods legit nWoD in the South? Lol.

@Ganymede said:

@tragedyjones said:

Sexism is bad. But when a bunch of girls are engaged in high schoolish drama, the comparison to Mean Girls, a film about high school girls involved in drama, isn't exactly evil.

There are a million other ways to describe the hand-slapping than to fall back to a meme that's so fucking gay.

(See what I did there?)

No, not really, as nothing said actually has anything to do with either LGBTQ culture nor is particularly happy.

How about "STFU about basketball in a thread that is about something completely different"?

@Ganymede said:

@tragedyjones said:

My next game will be set in Cleveland.

Why the fuck in the name of everything holy would you do that?

Because there's a Hellmouth there. Duh.

@Alzie said:

@coin or bad shit starts happening to those werewolfs who keep ignoring the oath. Because you know it's not like father wolf isn't still out there or that they don't each have auspice totem spirits.

So basically,

Players will ignore what they don't like. It's important for staff to have a presence in character--someone who can react to breaches of the Oath if they happen even if other players don't care. But honestly, if there's a pack who runs around killing other PCs in violation of the Oath of the Moon, eventually there's gonna be a bunch of people who app in a pack of Blood Talons and take them out, rofl.

@Arkandel said:

The Oath of the Moon might reduce the casualty rate. Unless of course PCs decide to ignore it, but it's a pretty big part of being Uratha.

Players will ignore what they don't like. It's important for staff to have a presence in character--someone who can react to breaches of the Oath if they happen even if other players don't care. But honestly, if there's a pack who runs around killing other PCs in violation of the Oath of the Moon, eventually there's gonna be a bunch of people who app in a pack of Blood Talons and take them out, rofl.

That werewolf game would be neat. I think if you did run it, though, you would need to prepare people for a high PC turnover and just ... be okay with PK.

Because even if you gear it towards non-lethal conflict, they're werewolves. Lethality is kind of what they are about. And honestly, if a game is honest about it, it could even be a lot of fun.