@Pyrephox said in CoD Contagion Chronicle:
Has anyone started looking at this? Planning to Kickstart it? Maybe for a CoD MU*?
I haven't put money down on it, yet, but I love the idea, and the Sworn/False factions look like they'd work great for a MU* where multiple spheres would like a reason to interact without being forced to be super-friends-forever.
Also, weird fucking reality warping and the God-Machine are my jams.
I know @tragedyjones backed it.
Cisgender white-hispanic dude, here. Mostly play cisgender dudes (race is the thing that varies the most). When I do play a minority group I am not a part of, I try to do so as respectfully as possible and usually tend to have at least one or two people I can ping for reality checks, etc. I try to keep the stereotypes to a minimum or at least balance them out with non-stereotypical characteristics. My character, I like to think, tend to have depth, even if sometimes it just doesn't come out overtly very often.
I am... heteroflexible, honestly, especially in RP, but like @Caryatid I tend to end up in IC heterosexual/heteroromantic relationships, though there have been some prevalent homoromantic relationships that very seldon traversed into homosexuality.
In RL it's a whole other kettle of fish for reasons.
@AeriaNyx The level of second-hand awkwardness in the latest Orville made me turn it off, because it's difficult for me (the Gordon storyline, basically) and I love me some Leighton Meester. I will eventually go back and watch it. But it hit me hard.
@deadculture said in Good TV:
@Auspice Netflix would rather give us shitty B-movies than quality series and once the subscriptions start dropping, they'll find out why stripping themselves of good content was a mistake.
Except it wasn't Netflix that canceled them, it was Marvel. Like, you rcritique wouldn't be wrong if it weren't contextually absolutely wrong.
@ILuvGrumpyCat said in Horror MUX - Discussion:
@Coin I mean. I KNEW MOST OF THOSE SECRETS BUT NOT THAT ONE.
Again, I fucking have told you this like three times, rofl. XD
@2mspris said in Horror MUX - Discussion:
HAHAHAHA.
Yeah, man. Yeah.
Devlin.
I mean, he knew it was wrong, okay? It was a secret he kept from his own family, and he was runnin' around sacrificin' people and shit with them because all the St. Johns were Silthite Cultists, lololololololol.
Wait.... kept from his own family? Since when do you think you were keeping any secrets from Crystal, Baby Brother? You're so cute.
Well, he didn't tell anyone. He kept it. Whether anyone respected his privacy, well. 
@Goldfish said in Horror MUX - Discussion:
@Coin DEVLIN????
That blew my wig back first thing in the morning. Devlin, man.
HAHAHAHA.
Yeah, man. Yeah.
Devlin.
I mean, he knew it was wrong, okay? It was a secret he kept from his own family, and he was runnin' around sacrificin' people and shit with them because all the St. Johns were Silthite Cultists, lololololololol.
@ILuvGrumpyCat said in Horror MUX - Discussion:
@Coin WHO!?
I already told you this.
Look, he had layers of secrets, okay?
Like, in order of less to more secret: he was a Sin-Eater, he was a Cultist, he killed his adopted parents in a house fire, he was a Juggalo.
Devlin had layers, okay?
OKAY?
@Botulism said in Horror MUX - Discussion:
Every so often, I threaten the players with THIS story for a future season:
An alien invasion at the annual Gathering of the Juggalos. You Faygo drinking ninjas are all that stands between alien invaders and the rest of the Earf.
And they keep pushing me to pull the trigger.
I played a Juggalo on The Reach, but no one knew. I just researched when The Gathering was and he would just not be around for a few days. >.>
@Coin Uh... spoilers much! I Only saw the first episode bro!
I mean I didn't spoil anything! Except them surviving til episode 3, I guess? XD
@Thenomain said in Changeling: The Lost Update [CofD]:
@Derp said in Changeling: The Lost Update [CofD]:
Sin Eaters are not dead things.
Having peeked at the Geist 2e rules, they are now very specifically not alive.
Dropping teasers, here.
When it comes to player arbitration, tho, it's just as much about the complaint as the rules. It's not irony for me to say that it's a lot harder to come up with a good answer if anyone is being a dick about it, and getting a second opinion is critical.
Also, take responsibility for your actions. Make it clear that it's your decision. The buck stops in your lap; own it.
I think the shittiest thing I had to deal with when Headstaff on Reach was when two staffers were using their staff position to help solidify their positions in a...I want to say family faction? They laughed it off until I got directly involved.
Maybe worse was letting the Changeling admin act as sphere lead though we specifically forbade her from becoming sphere lead. Not finding a solution was us tacitly saying "yes, she is sphere lead". I didn't think she should have even been an admin, but such the mistakes we can make when balancing the needs of the sphere to have even a shitty staffer getting things done, vs. nothing getting done.
The problem on The Reach with sphere leads and admins was that if you didn't have the former, the latter was the former, by default. It worked that way all the time. That's the reason I ended up having Geist dropped in my lap even though my main character was a Sin-Eater: I was already an admin when the TL bailed, so I automatically assumed a role that I didn't have the position for. At first I ran things by Head Staff, but eventually Asher was like 'just do what you want' so I set some boundaries, decided I would delegate any and all jobs regarding my PC to Asher, and went on from there.
I love Deadly Class.
I especially loved the third episode where you learn that the two punkers are not as badass as the unassuming homeless kid who had to actually deal with the harsher aspects of being the low-low-lowest class.
Saya and MarĂa are great, too.
@coin Yeah, I give a lot of credit to Penn Badgley for responding to people that liked is portrayal of Joe with basically what amounts to "He killed four people. What else is there to say?" when a lot of actors would probably just enjoy the attention.
Penn was good casting for multiple reasons, first and foremost his usual calm and collected manner of facing inappropriate fans, and second, the whole thematic Gossip Girl connection which had me rollin'.
I think I may be the only person on the planet who didn't watch that show, though I considered it after hearing that. Does it hold up, do you think? I already know THE BIG SURPRISE ENDING that supposedly made no sense.
I mean.
sigh
It's Gossip Girl. It's stupid fun. It's classist stupid fun, even. Some of the characters are so great because of how they bend the archetype they're based on, but it's not eactly high brow television. I watched it, I liked it, it's not a judgment. But it's definitely background viewing at this point.
@coin Yeah, I give a lot of credit to Penn Badgley for responding to people that liked is portrayal of Joe with basically what amounts to "He killed four people. What else is there to say?" when a lot of actors would probably just enjoy the attention.
Penn was good casting for multiple reasons, first and foremost his usual calm and collected manner of facing inappropriate fans, and second, the whole thematic Gossip Girl connection which had me rollin'.
@highfalutin said in Good TV:
You on Netflix was kind of excellent. Super uncomfortable in the best way to be uncomfortable.
I just finished it. Having read the novel when it was released, I.... have complicated feelings about the show. I mean, I loved it. I really loved it. But the book made me deeply uncomfortable with its fascinating portrayal of the narrator and how truly disturbed and delusional he was. The show made me deeply uncomfortable with myself, because despite knowing from the very beginning -- even without being familiar with the book, so no spoilers -- that he's a fucking psycho stalker, I actually really liked him and was kind of rooting for him at the end?
I'm not sure whether that says more about the incredibly fucked up idea of 'romance' we have portrayed in media or about me, but either way, I'm sitting here pretty skeeved out by having thought to myself, "Aww, Joe. You'd be such a great guy if you weren't a violent lunatic." And this is from someone who reacts with an instinctive, visceral anger to the slightest hint of Nice Guy (tm) bullshit after horrible real life experiences growing up.
IMO, it's kind of the point.
People who are dangerous to you, me, and society at large--stalkers, murderers, etc.--aren't all bad, in the sense that there are a lot of parts of them that are probably good. It's just that they don't really manage to outweigh the bad. He's not a nice guy who jaywalks, or a nice guy who shoplifts, or a nice guy who does a little too much blow and forgets date night.
He's a guy who stalks, murders, imprisons, and has a skewed view on what is appropriate, what boundaries are, and his own entitlement... who is other than ALL OF THAT, usually a nice guy.
If you are only a nice guy for 5% of your existence, you're not a nice guy; you just seem like it.
@theonceler said in Good TV:
Constantine is a full member of the cast this latest season.
You say beautiful things that I love.
And it only took me a decade?
@theonceler said in Good TV:
The Orville has been great this season with a lot of character focused episodes.
That said, I wouldn't mind them getting back to missions and away teams and such.
I can't remember the last time a show so challenged its audience the way the porn addiction episode did. That was a lot of beefy alien on beefy alien action and I wonder how many people turned it off.
Also, I finally caught up on last season of Legends of Tomorrow. While I really hated the dumb Nazi crossover* I loved the rest of the season. It one hundred percent embraced how fucking dumb and goofy these shows are. And no matter how many times they bring him back and overuse him, I'll never get tired of Neil McDonough's genial psychopath Damien Darhk. Also, also, also CW I love Matt Ryan as Constantine please make him a regular part of the crew next season and then give him his own show or at least do a sort of JL Dark show with him as the lead!
The best tweet on CW shows:
https://twitter.com/statuses/1027079474951544837
"Iâve seen a lot of people knock the acting on the CW like any of you know how to convincingly cry on cue looking at a greenscreen wizard thatâs also your dead mom from the future while delivering an earnest endorsement of Bing."
"Literally everyone who has said âGorilla Groddâ without breaking deserves an Emmy. Fuck You guys. I couldnât do it."
That said, no desire to watch any of the other CW shows except maybe Black Lightning. I'll watch the crossovers, but I really don't need a full season (much less two) of the Grim Adventures of Ollie and Barry.
The Good Place continues to be amazing, but Superstore continues to be one of the most underrated shows on TV.
*Guys, we're in the future where the Nazis won, ALSO they did a bad job of realizing the evil versions of the characters, and it was hard to believe that the good Supergirl, good Arrow, good Flash plus a dozen other superheroes would have a hard time with the bad version of Arrow, the bad version of Supergirl and the bad version of the Flash. Like, that's three evenly matched people, but then the good side also had Firestorm, Killer Frost, Vibe, Arrow's dumb team, White Canary, Steel, Atom and, though they keep sending him away, a SECOND good Flash.
Constantine is a full member of the cast this latest season.
@killer-klown said in Mage for Multi-Sphere WoDv2 Games:
@autumn Power stats are far less important in 2e than 1, since they don't really contribute to pools. That said, I've always felt that 5 was a reasonable stopping point for just about any given sphere (And I really do believe that you cannot single any one sphere out - if you limit Gnosis, you have to limit things like Blood Potency as well. Harmony... can't, because it doesn't work anywhere remotely the same anymore) The only reason I ever saw to allow higher was, again, Legacies in 1e - since you needed it to get to the third level attainments.
Harmony isn't the Gnosis/Blood Potency equivalent, though. Primal-Urge is. And it can be capped the same way the other two can.
@skew said in Mage for Multi-Sphere WoDv2 Games:
@derp said in Mage for Multi-Sphere WoDv2 Games:
You just need a better class of staffers
Emphasis mine. I think on the one hand, this is laughable. On the other, it really is the truth of it. Mage is exhausting. You need a group that's very committed to keeping the story going, so, just like Derp said, you can hit that sweet spot. Just, finding that group of active, motivated, creative staffers? Well...
When @Coin @tragedyjones and I were working on a new CofD 2E game, I did put together some house rules.
- Paradox: As @Auspice says, paradox really lacks teeth in a game where there's so much downtime. We came up with a new system where each time you contain paradox, it doesn't go away, but stays in your pattern. Each time you would roll paradox dice, they get added to your personal counter, and you roll dice for each counter you have. This continues to build up until it's released.
- Arcana caps. Like we did in FW, I think a hard limit on Arcana by Gnosis is a great idea.
- Spirits and ghosts need to withstand with resistance stat, not rank. Rank is just way too easy, and a baby mage can toss around massive spirits with ease.
- Magic items... need to be deal with in some way that we never finished dealing with. They can be a serious pita.
I dealt with Magic Items we just never got around to reviewing it.
@auspice said in Constructing a FAQ (and what ground to cover):
@fortydeuce said in Constructing a FAQ (and what ground to cover):
Never tried that, @Bobotron. I just know Duck installs on a Chromebook as a discrete app, so you have a window that feels like a full program, even though it isn't -- I'd find it weird to MUSH from even a standalone browser window with a tab and what have you, but Duck doesn't have that feeling.
Duck does install on Chrome itself, FYI. I've done this to help people troubleshoot Duck on various MU*s.
So you can use Duck on whatever OS you want.
Duck has issues with some ports and not others, or maybe my job is weird with it, I have no idea. Sometimes DuckClient works, sometimes it doesn't, and sometimes it works with one game and not another. It's really confusing, lol.
