While I concur that people often feel wanted due to their own actions or those of other people, it is under-whelmingly simplistic to not include cultural or societal expectations into an evaluation of fixing what might be a problem.
If you're going to run a Vampire: the Requiem game, for instance, paranoia and power-mongering are essential to the theme and setting, and, very often, players have to bend over backwards to find a reason to be inclusive.
What you said.
In Etheria, queerness is normal. It’s so normal, no one talks about it. No one has to be told to use the right pronoun when talking about the transgender character; they are who they are.
I can’t wait to see what they are going to do with He-Man. (I caught that Easter egg I did.)
@Sovereign said:
People are social creatures, and social exclusion is a common weapon.
This holds true if you do not enact policies or systems that turn social exclusion into a direct detriment and/or social inclusion as a direct benefit. The difference between real life and a MU* is that you can do this on a MU*. As @Misadventure points out, this can be done.
So you’re getting your car looked at the other daaaaay ...
... and this guy keeps talking to you. No matter how focused you are on your own shit. Trying to ignore him. Seems like a lonely dude.
But shit, man, take the fucking hint.
@Ghost said in Roleplaying writing styles:
I hate Rory so goddamned much.
No one talks that way. And if they did so in front of me, they would die.
@Arkandel said:
Now, granted, after that the focus would increasingly lean toward the latter and that might become an issue for people who can't afford to play a lot, as they'll be outpaced more and more over time, but I think the system's heart is in the right place.
The system's heart is in providing a benefit to those who can plug more time into the game, regardless of what they bring to the game other than activity. I am sure the objective will be met.
Don't try to sell me on the idea that this is equitable for people who provide the sort of support to the player base that every game needs, but cannot sit around and RP for 7 to 8 hours a day.
@Macha said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:
I wish they would let us have something like that, but as we're a public service office, it's a no go.
So, I keep hearing that public service offices cannot have office pets, but am reminded constantly of how pets have held public office and seriously question if that policy may be bullshit.
Also, this.
@Sunny said in Roleplaying writing styles:
I used to think it was lazy storytelling to do things like 'hey, you know guys, don't forget you saw X at the last crime scene, too...' as a GM, but it's not. It's really, really not.
Sometimes, as a storyteller, you have to lead your audience a little. Otherwise, you and the rest of your fucking hobbits friends are getting fat off the Shire just before Sauron's Army razes it to the ground.
@Derp said in The Work Thread:
Like... what do they even teach you in law schools?
Based on how often people fail to abide by Fed. R. Civ. P. 6(b)(2), not a whole fuck of a lot.
Kids these days are weak, and I'm defaulting the fuck out of people left and right.
Nothing wrong with space colonization + space horror.
Set up an econ code. Allow the players to create the Grid in which they inhabit. Let them build things. Keep track of all of this.
And then have it all made risky by throwing in space monsters that players also have to fend off.
Just saying, you can appeal to builders and soldiers.
Honestly, suburban politicians on kangaroo commissions are the damned stupidest people I have ever had to work with.
@Gingerlily said in Politics etc.:
What do you think would work for something that wasn't WoD?
I don't think any of the above is unique to the vampire game. It is easier to describe in vampire terms, but it could exist anywhere.
@Arkandel said in Politics etc.:
The problem is when the only tool you have is a hammer every problem looks like a nail.
The other problem is when your players lack the intelligence to look at something other than a hammer as a viable option.
@lordbelh said in Politics etc.:
RfK 2.0 was run by people who, frankly, were incompetent. No offense to them, either. I figure they tried their best. But they didn't have the skills to staff a political game.
RfK 1.0 worked on auto-pilot for how long? Mostly because the players were intelligent and motivated enough to scheme among themselves.
I don't blame everything on the staff, but you're probably right on that. They dropped the ball more than once -- and dropped it hard.
Still, I sit on my point. Intelligent people figure out politics. Brutes resort to brute tactics.
@RightMeow said in The ADD/ADHD Thread (cont'd from Peeves):
Also... when I saw genius cat before scrolling up. I'm like OMG.. is a cat in glasses... not category.
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