Posts made by Cynan

@tragedyjones Everything's still there, it's just not visible because of some issue that is exceedingly unlikely to get fixed (given that Mechanipus is dying). If you click on "view source" all the content is still there.

@nyctophiliac I totally am. Right now I have more ideas than concrete plans for a reboot, but I definitely want to talk.

I'm torn here. On the one hand, yeah, a 2 XP weekly cap seems insufficient to motivate people to play.

On the other hand, in 2e, even 2 XP is a lot. 2 XP every week means two dots of Disciplines (if they're in-clan) every three weeks. No scaling costs means people are running around with multiple five-dot powers within a couple of months. I'd contend that the game isn't meant to be played that way.

For gameplay purposes, I like something similar to @Tempest's proposal as well. Use a fairly high floor and a fairly low ceiling. I also want to explore the idea (similar to what we did on CoFaB toward the end) of having deliberately asymmetric starting points. If you want to play an older vampire, you start with higher BP and more discipline dots, but also lower Humanity etc. That only work if it's paired with slow and/or capped XP gain - if everyone gets a ton of XP, then the different starting points don't actually differentiate much because people can just buy whatever they want to level the playing field anyway.

The goal, then, is to find something other than XP to motivate people to play. In Vampire? Make people work to earn blood, or territory, or Status (it seems like every Vamp game eventually decides to make Status stop costing XP anyway). Create opportunities for advancement that A) aren't tied to XP and B) aren't permanent - you have to work to maintain them, which means newer characters have a fighting chance to catch up.

The wiki implies that Guest Stars are still a thing, but the in-game bboards say they aren't. I think the latter is the most current information.

Updated with current alts!

@Coin said in Good TV:

In short: there wasn't anything Littlefinger COULD DO, never mind that letting him talk is just always a mistake and that was what Sansa learned--slowly, but she learned it.

This. I mean, also everything else you said, but this especially.

When your opponent is the guy whose superpower is talking his way out of everything, and when he's demonstrably caused at the very least dozens of deaths (and way more if you blame him for every death in the wars he started) by doing so, you don't give him the chance to talk his way out. It may have been extreme, but it was justified in context.

To all those who replied, wow! Thanks for all the well-wishes, and I'm so glad (and surprised) to see this much interest in a game that petered out years ago.

CoFaB's status is still definitely inactive, but I'll be hanging around in the OOC room there (cofab.mechanipus.com:2514) if people want to chat, reminisce, or kick around ideas for the future. I'm only just getting back into the hobby myself so it'll be a while before it happens, but like I said before, I'm totally open to doing a reboot.

@Cobaltasaurus - I'm game to help out with your project, too, and you know how to reach me.

@Auspice Same! I had so much fun with Roger.

I've been around a little while, but I tend to stick with one PC for an inordinately long time (and take quite a few breaks at that), so it ain't a long list. Here's my list of PCs (and one staffbit) of note:

Current
Fear and Loathing - Donald
Shadows Over Reno - Wilbur
Fifth Kingdom - Argyle
Arx - Eiran

Retired - in mostly chronological order
Haunted Memories

• Casimir

The Reach

• Mariano
• Nehemiah

City of Fog and Blood

• Barracuda (and various associated NPCs)
• Micah
• Emmanuel
• Roy
• Donald

The Fifth World

• Cynan
• Roger

The Eternal Crusade

• Alaric
• Humphrey

Creation's Edge

• Alaric
• Jonathan

@Jennkryst Absolutely. Real 2e, not the weird 1e/2e hybrid that we ended with.

@Cobaltasaurus - Hey, now you do!

I'm still alive and working my way back into MU*-ing after a prolonged absence. I still have #1 access and I think I can dig up the shell info somewhere. And I've kicked around plenty of ideas for a reboot.

Not that I even want to think about doing it alone, but if there's enough interest, I'd be in.

BC