Posts made by Faceless

House Rules should be used to minimal, but precise effect. Particularly when you're hosting/playing a game that is based on a source material, which features multiple groups or organizations. World of Darkness for example. The moment you start House Ruling and creating a plethora of custom content for one group/sphere/organization and don't make an effort to balance it? You're throwing a lot of that game out of whack.

There's my opinion on it. HRs should be minimal, while being precise in their implementation and effect.

@Monogram here is my outlook on it. Do it. If you're sorry, apologetic, or otherwise feel as though you somehow slighted someone and truly feel remorse for it? Show the other party that you recognize your mistake and are attempting to correct it, whether that means moving on from it and trying to return to a sense of normalcy or leaving them alone.

Why do people hold grudges? The answer is likely as varied as the person holding it over the span of months or even years in our hobby and I'm well aware that I can hold grudges for decades. Why do people hold grudges repeatedly? Well, as we've saw with a member or seven of our community and as you indicated in your post "Oh, I can't believe that X and Y are friends again"; sometimes people act like asses. Repeatedly. We see X and Y being friends again after Y told X they hated them, then six months later they're enemies again when it gets out that X said they didn't believe Y over their self-diagnosed Asperger's. People attempt to forgive, forget, move on, and never stop to think maybe their personalities just don't coincide. Which spawns years of back-and-forth loathing-make up-loathing-make up relationships that we see sometimes.

Sometimes? It's miscommunication and the ability of some people to refuse to be adults in the situation, even only some of the time. Other times one or both parties just want to avoid the drama until it blows over, but it never does. Sometimes it's not even clear what the other party was pissed about, people are finicky creatures at the best of times.

Two or three years ago I was acting like a complete and utter dick to @Coin. He may very well have not noticed it, I only say this because he never mentioned it to me directly and I never brought it to his doorstep. I allowed it just quietly fester. At that time he was running his own game, with multiple people inviting me to come check it out. I refused because he was a (head, I think)staffer and I figured that he'd use his position to be an ass toward me. Fast forward a couple of months and I finally gave in to the repeated attempts to get me onto the game.

You know what Coin did? That jerkoff (I say this with love)? He was nothing but friendly, professional, and overall Chillzilla with me. Maybe he didn't know about our quiet beef? Maybe he didn't care? Regardless, if he did have some inkling of it he gave zero indication and took the high road. This, in turn, made me realize that I was being a childish dickhole. It was on me, not him. This made me reassess how I was treating others and as a result made me want to change how I behaved toward others; selfish, right? Well, change has to begin with yourself. Now? I pop onto Skype randomly to share pictures with Coin, check in on him randomly, make small talk briefly while I'm on there(which isn't often), and generally attempt to restore/maintain the sense of camaraderie that he and I shared a long time ago. Know what else? I've never actually apologized in written word, I've only tried to show that I was sorry for my actions by returning to a sense of normalcy.

But, if I'm wrong about showing rather than saying. Then you have my apology @Coin for acting like a fucking idiot by taking something that could have been resolved early with a simple conversation and blowing it out of proportion. I hope that my actions have shown this to be true.

Now that goes against my earlier comments in this thread about making an apology personal, rather than shouting it in the street. Which makes me a hypocrite now, I guess. It seemed appropriate, oh well.

@HorrorHound to hell with walking. Mine has discovered climbing. Everything!

Congratulations on your crotch goblin. Will you be finding a game to have a birth day party or anything? I jest.

Welcome back. Things are as they always have been and always will be. MUing...MUing never changes.

@Cobaltasaurus

You'll be back. They always come back. Like big, stupid boomerangs.

But seriously, good luck with your endeavors.

@Auspice he's a looker, not much of a cooker.

This is George Winston(top) and Zoe Francis(bottom).

George is dumb and he likes to get under your feet as you're going through a pitch black house at night making sure everything is secure. If not for being strictly an indoor cat, he would be dead. George is dumb. Lovable dumb, but dumb.

Zoe was a darling and the only cat I've ever liked. She would pet herself using your hand; awake, asleep, willing, or unwilling. She died last January. I miss her.

@Kanye-Qwest

All of the above? Though during big, climatic battles I've always been fond of the smaller, elite "strike force" carrying out a specialized task or spearhead with a large scale conflict as the background. Whether that background is predetermined, rolled for and summarized, or whatever. This may be a result of playing on a number of games that have attempted large, epic battle scenes and they ultimately end up either excessively confusing, poorly executed, or different imaginations paint different pictures. This does not mean that they are not a load of fun or exciting, just that in my opinion there are a number of pitfalls with gigantic battle plots as the focus.

See The Reach and the End of the World plot, where some were safely sipping wine and giving out handjobs behind the safety of their doors, while others were treating it like an episode of The Walking Dead mated with a Mad Max flick; and everything in between.

Even social plots are enjoyable for me. I would say that the only sort of plot I do not regularly invest myself in are mystery plots. More often than not, because of the differing imaginations coupled with poor expression, they quickly shift from Mystery Plots to Confusion Plots.

I'm sure I should mention while I have been considering checking out Arx, I do not play there. So my thoughts on plot-stuff doesn't carry the same weight as one of your playerbase.

@Cobaltasaurus

Those are all very fair points.

It's not a game that is friendly to the Splat Secret Pillow-talk that some players are prone to doing; considering the moment someone begins the pillow-talk the rolls begin.

While I will say that having played through Demon on one game, that a lot of the splat's staff involvement can be resolved through +requests. There are just some aspects that would outright require direct staff involvement, such as being Blown.

@Kanye-Qwest I would totally play that with you.

No Demon then? That's a pity.

Back in my day you apologized to someone in person or at least directly. Doesn't really have the same weight when someone steps out onto their front porch and shouts to the street "I am sorry that I stretched out the crotch of your panties when I wanted to dress like a lady for a day"!

@Coin And blacker, if CAH has taught me anything.

I'm putting my bet on Ulysses.

@Auspice I'll probably give it a whirl then. I tend to enjoy the games like Civ. Star Wars Rebellion 4 Lyfe.

Endless Legend bundle for sale on Steam.

I've never played it. Anyone able to confirm whether it's worth the purchase or not?

Spores, molds, and fungus.

@Cupcake

Sploosh.

I tend to liken them to reading a book. Often a book written by a horned-up teenager. Or a psychopath. Or both.

This complaint isn't so much anger. It's more sadness, perhaps? I woke up this morning and discovered I have three silver hairs. Not one or two for my first discovery, but three.

Hello, mortality. A pleasure to meet you.