Jeez, and here I was thinking I was strange or being a derp for wanting a WoD game that /wasn't/ set in a sleepy Maine town/Castlerock/Stranger Things-esque place! Like Vegas, or heck even just New York.
What about 20th century London, go all Great Mouse Detective on shit? Or Indiana Jones-ish. Or Maybe WW1-WW2.
@surreality said in Internet Attacks? Why?:
They expect it to be non-lethal, and think that because they expect it will be non-lethal, the idea that it may end in physical injury or death isn't a consequence they even let into their heads.
The possibility that someone can be accidentally shot and killed is entirely the idea with some of these, not just the person getting tackled to the floor by a swat officer.
I hate the idea of SWAT'ing, would never do it--also hate the fact that people can weaponize gripes, reports, rumor campaigns ect on these places and it's super easy to do. Reputation really is everything. Gets worse when there's cliques involved.
Swatting is not even being done by just kids--there was this case where a /British/ guy from overseas got a man swatted and shot by police in Kansas: https://tinyurl.com/kty6wof
And it's not just kids doing this, I don't think--they did it to Calebhart42 on twitch and he's not even that popular, by Twitch standards--he's just some dude who speedruns megaman x and final fantasy. What I think this is like tombstone mentality where nothing got done about it till people started dying. And lets face it, not to say anything bad about police, but you're going to eventually run into that one cop with the itchy trigger finger, like that one in Arizona: https://tinyurl.com/y7u4bc52 (that was the guy who had 'you're fucked' written on the side of his AR-15, which cops carry in AZ because I dunno, the south.)
We basically live in an age where people can reach right out over the internet to kill you. Probably good incentive to not put your personal details online.
Having looked at their rotes and such (from what I could from the eyebleeding gold text of the book) I'd say their rotes tend to be more useful than other equivalent abilities, (okay, by a lot) but mages aren't meant to be played with 700 xp or on a mush format either. In tabletop if they survive long enough to master multiple arcana that's supposed to be a big deal. In MU*s they have no opposition or threat, most of the time, it feels like, it's like oh, I failed my roll to show off, ouch, bashing damage~
They do totes tend to take over RP on games though, I have seen that before. That's a problem with people who play mage not the material itself, though.
@ThatOneDude I was referring to MU* WoD setups with 1.0 like TR, or hell even FC now. They're already up to 300-400 XP by now, I think? That's just a problem with dinosaurs on any sort of game like that where newbies are allowed to 'catch up' because otherwise they never /can/, it's catch 22.
I haven't looked at 2.0 vampire too much but yeah I can imagine a 100 XP vampire is really strong. (Edit: Or CAN be, I should say.)
@Auspice Yeah Paradox never matters on any game I've seen mages on, that's what I meant about 'oh noes, bashing damage' any damage you ever take outside of combat on a mush never matters because you can assume it was healed before anything else happens scenewise, either by natural or a character taking care of it actively. That and it's just never substantial damage, what's 3 bashing gonna do?