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Methinks the lady doth care too much.

Or "Can my vampire catch rabies from my werewolf lover?'

That's what cross-sphere'll getcha.

I wonder when it came about that IC cornflake pissing was a problem OOCly. I've always valued most of the people who antagonize my PC. I say most, because yes there are a select few who abuse it.

I think if you police the problem players on an individual basis you can have antagonist factions.

If I was going to have a third sphere for mortal/+, I'd just make a new organization called 'The Agency'. It would be comprised of pure mortals/psychics. Or just pure mortals.

Make them the Technocracy minus the gadgets and magic. Their sole job is to cover up supernatural nonsense that the public might get wind of. It gives them cause to deal with supernaturals in a non-destructive way.

I play M&B: Warband some. Usually its in short bursts followed by me cursing because I die quickly and hate my life.

I bought copies of core books. All the splats I just downloaded.

nWoD vampire, for instance, doesn't have any case of Camarilla versus Sabbat.

Carthians don't -have- to hate Invictus. It's all ifs and maybes, definable by the players/game runners. Odds are if you provide players without strictly defined boundaries, they're going to stretch things just as far as they can. It's human nature to want to be special.

In oWoD, you could have Cammie/Sabbat star-crossed lovers and fluffysextimes on the side all you want, but if you get caught you're going to get ashed.

In nWoD, you can have Invictus/Carthian star-crossed lovers and whatever the game's theme, people are gonna shrug and say 'whatever'.

By it's very nature of needing to be defined by the players/staff, nWoD will inherently be less defined than oWoD. In oWoD, a duck is a duck. In nWoD, a duck is whatever you want a duck to be.

Disparaging my person is beneath you, Ganymede. Or at least I'd hoped so.

Pardon me if I'd rather run things that my players can already relate to rather than pulling crap out of the aether and expecting them to be engaged. oWoD is very plug and play. nWoD requires a lot more from its players.

Those on the side of education and intellectualism have to work hard, document their studies, choose their words carefully and be very aware of the ramifications of everything they publish.

The other side just needs to fling their shit and screech as loud as they can to achieve equal effect.

@Miss-Demeanor said:

What I miss of owod Werewolf and Vampire is Pentex and Sabbat. God do I miss those. In nwod, God help you if you want to play a 'bad' vampire. You will be staked. Then burned on a bigger one.

I was willing to deal with the folks who played BSD fetishists just to have some built in antagonism.

nWoD lacks teeth. But I've posted on that several times. And people railed against it and went on and on about how much conflict nWoD has and how much better it is than oWoD.

I still disagree. Firmly.

@HelloRaptor said:

oWoD Werewolf was about a dying breed of spiritual warriors fighting a cosmic evil in a hopeless series of battles trying to stave off the end of everything.

So the werewolves were just Eldar the whole time?

That actually makes me appreciate them a bit more.

When I was a child, my dad was out of his mind on speed and tried to carve through the bathroom door with a knife to kill my mother, my sister, and me. I gained nothing positive from it.

When I was a child, my grandfather shot at me with a rifle in the yard because he 'didn't want no sissies in the family'. He was drunk. I gained nothing positive from it.

When I was a child, I witnessed a drunk man dive off a porch, tackle my mother in the yard, and try to beat her to death. I gained nothing positive from it.

When I was a teenager, my dad was murdered by a drug addict who was trying to carjack him. I gained nothing positive from it.

These are just a few gems from my own experiences. Not the smallest glimmer of positivity came out of the hell that drug and alcohol abuse made my childhood. It took me well into my mid-twenties through years of counseling before I came out of being a useless lump of low-self esteem that it made me.

I don't feel sorry for myself. I imagine many of you have had the same or worse growing up. I just wanted to say... I understand @Cobaltasaurus and others having a sense of righteous indignation at being told to find positives in examples like this.

We all have things that set us off. Racism. Rape. Child abuse. Drug and alcohol abuse. And for every X number of cases, yes, there might be Y number of cases where something good came out of it. But the number is slim enough that those of us who are triggered by the subject matter being told to 'find a positive' is a little insensitive to say the least.

It's educated folks who try to find meaning in bullshit that makes uneducated folks believe that education is pointless.

I don't think I've ever met someone whose had to deal with substance abuse on a real, personal level either as an addict or with a close family member who was an addict who could find a single goddamn positive thing about the experience.

I'm a compulsive hand-washer myself. I'd never say I'm OCD about cleaning. That's a whole different kind of monster.

On the bright side I manage my problem by washing my hands without soap 99% of the time and just pretending in my head I'm cleaning off the dirt and grime.

I feel really, really bad for people who have it worse than me. I met someone whose hands were just reddened, raw, and nearly skinless because he went after them with a brillo pad.

@Thenomain said:

@Admiral

Player arbitrators based on a ratings system? (High rated arbitrators get bonus XP, low-rated ones are barred from judging)

He said he wants to get rid of clique controlled spheres, not hasten them.

Here I was, thinking the best way to stop cliques was open and honest communication with your players about your expectations.

Also he said the purpose of full consent was to get rid of RP staff, not to get rid of cliques. Cliques were only referenced in the Dick Size discussion.

@Sponge said:

First we've switched to full consent. We don't actually think consent is the best way to go, but it's necessary for our main objective: abolishing RP staff. We feel really strongly that people having arbitrary authority over the RP of others is inseparable from the aspects we dislike in most games. Our goal is to automate away or abolish all functions performed by RP staff.

That's like saying you dislike herpes, so you're going to just outlaw sex. I'm sure there's a more efficient way to get rid of RP staff.

Have you considered....

Player arbitrators based on a ratings system? (High rated arbitrators get bonus XP, low-rated ones are barred from judging)

Switching to a diceless system like they use at LARP.?

@Sponge said:

It's a sort of disadvantage to Vampires, Changelings, and Demons in that it artificially caps their powers. It's a boon to Shifters and Mages as we've done away with Renown and Seekings. You're not reliant on others to progress. This also means that people will progress without having "earned" it, but you can't run afoul of some clique who controls a sphere.

So you believe Mages needed even more of a mechanical advantage over other spheres than they already enjoy?

On a more positive note: Good luck with your game.

I work the graveyard shift, but I tend to wake up at around 4-5pm CST and go to work at 10pm CST. So anything in that 5-6 hour window is when I can play. More on my days off, but... I don't have any of those this week.

@icanbeyourmuse Me and Moiren played some Don't Starve Together yesterday and plan to play some more in the future. If we get our times lined up that'd be great. The more the merrier.

The only thing worse than having a job you hate is not having a job at all.

Part of me misses being jobless. Having all the time in the world to MUSH. Play games. Be a man-child.

The reality of it is that being jobless caused me to indulge in a lot of unhealthy behaviors and in general be a total dickwad to others. So even when I think to myself how soul-crushing my job can be, I remember just how terrible it would be not to have it. And that brings me to my peeve.

Peeve; WHEN THESE FUCKS WONT FIX THE FUCKING SHRILL ALARM THAT GOES OFF EVERY 5-6 SECONDS IN MY EAR FOR THE PAST TWO MONTHS.

Ahem. Peace and love.

I would but weekends are rough for me, sorry.