@bobotron said in Active Modern Day Games?:
It looks like it uses the Unisystem code that the Shadowhunters game used, and the wiki is formatted in a very similar manner.
I'm kind of concerned that it may be run by the same people who ran that Shadowhunters game.
@hedgehog said in Potential Buffy Game:
Perhaps there's the Scooby Gang sorority handling issues at the U of Dayton
... that's more of a Miami at Oxford thing.
or the law firm staffed solely by lawyerbots (ahem).
I like the idea of having a 'hood-centric slayers group a la Gunn's backstory, too.
They would probably be from Wayne High School, whose alumni include Kim Deal, Braxton Miller, and Dallas Egbert.
And if you don't know who Dallas Egbert was, he inspired this movie with Tom Hanks. And, as said before, Mr. Hanks later came back to the Dayton area to open his own center for movies.
And so, the cycle begins anew.
@ixokai said in Potential Buffy Game:
The real problem is high dex itself needs to be HR'd so people don't TRY to start with Dex 9 or 10. The unisystem multi action rules are broken AF.
My understanding is that Unisystem can be nerfed in order to make sure that Dexterity isn't the ultimate statistic for everything awesome. But it's been a while since I fiddled widdit.
I am happy and excited. Elated, in fact.
As I said before, if you want assistance in putting the Grid in place, I'm your lawyerbot. Also, I'm pretty sure @hedgehog'd chip in.
Can I PM?
@arkandel said in Active Modern Day Games?:
That could be the meta-premise of a Buffy MU*; the Slayers are gone, the world is going to hell, and who can do something about it?
Highschoolers, of course!
If I hear any more shit about Shin Megami Tensei and its ilk, I'll explode.
(Persona 5 is still pretty nifty.)
@hedgehog said in Potential Buffy Game:
Can I play Kim Deal?
What about Allison Janney? Martin Sheen? Nancy Cartwright? Rob Lowe? John Legend? (Okay, I'm stretching with the last one, but he was born in Springfield, so we claim him too.)
@zombiegenesis said in Potential Buffy Game:
My wife got a kick out of basing it in Ohio as I've been wanting to move there for ages.
Tell your wife that I can probably get you a decent realtor anywhere in the state.
And, seriously, I will totally work on a wiki and Grid for you, if you pick Dayton. It's under-rated for a game setting. There's so much craziness that could happen here. To the point where the last time I TT'd a game (Werewolf: the Apocalypse, 20th Ed.) I set it here just so we could have fun rampaging through the dilapidated areas of East Dayton, and then hunt for Weaver-things in the ritzy suburbs of Washington Township.
Other highlights:
Bill's Donuts, as @hedgehog said, which is one of the top donut places in the country.
Century Bar, one of the best bourbon joints in the country.
The Pine Club, the No. 2 spot in the country for a steak (behind freakin' Peter Luger's).
The Tom Hanks Center for Motion Pictures (Wright State University), which, as the name suggests, was co-sponsored and opened by the Oscar-winning actor.
The Dayton Ballet Company, which is the second-oldest regional dance company in the country.
And why would I do this? Because I like this city, and it will help me learn more about it to build it as a Grid. (Also, because I'm kind of interested in playing a PC.)
@hedgehog said in Potential Buffy Game:
So long as you put the Breakfast Club Cafe on the grid, it's all good.
Out.
Or throw in an homage to my mother-in-law's family and include a Krakov's women's clothing store.
Out.
And goddamn it don't forget Bill's, even if it's in Centerville.
In.
I think that there’s a lot of diversity if you look hard enough.
I mean, in Dayton, there are substantial pockets of Turks, South Koreans, Vietnamese, and Ukrainians. There’s even a group of habesha Ethiopians, due to the influence of one fella who helped bring them here. Also, Indians and Afghans. It’s odd, but it’s true.
There are reasons. Dayton was once a thriving manufacturing center. It has history, like the Wright Brothers, the aforementioned Charles Kettering, and the Treaty of Dayton. If you dig deep enough, there’s a vast wealth of local history to make stories from.
But I think a lot of midwestern cities are like that, like Evanston.
Whatever’s decided I’m fine with. But if anyone wants someone to lovingly make the Gem City for them, lemme know.
I just figure it is easier.
If you go fictional, you have to make up things for the smallest minutiae, e.g., what is the name of the local college’s sports team? You have to think of neighborhoods, and their character. And you have to come up with names and descriptions wholecloth.
Go with a real life location, and I think it’s so much easier. I could tell you about and describe five or six local colleges easily and immediately. I could tell you about all of the local “hot spots.” And the neighborhoods, their history, and their current state.
We all could, I think. And without much thought.
Right, right?
There’s advantages to picking an existing city. I could easily fill in parts of the city life that may be important, e.g. what are the local colleges? And I could get photos of places of interest pretty easily.
Just a thought. I think it would be a fun project for me. And maybe some of y’all might come visit the real deal!
@zombiegenesis said in Potential Buffy Game:
As for the rest, here's what I'm leaning towards...A fictional southern city that is a so-called "college town" (the college is integrated with the city so it's difficult to tell where one ends and the other begins). This way if the focus becomes college students that's easy enough but it's also easy enough to shift to other stories for those who want something more "adult"(for lack of a better phrase) we can use the same setting, same grid, and things won't be weird or contrived.
Why not Dayton, Ohio?
I mean, I live here. I can tell you all about it. Do a Wikipedia on the place. Let that do the talking.
Here's some highlights:
Home of Charles Kettering, once-home of NCR, and the nation's highest rate of patents per capita. (Mad scientists? Yes, please.)
Site of Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, the largest continental USAF installation, along with every other known, substantial defense contractor in the United States. (Government or military conspiracies? All over.)
Minutes away from Yellow Springs, Ohio, the home of the revered Antioch College and Dave Chappelle; also, damned hippie island in the middle of Trump country. (Hippie, witchy, spiritual respite? Yep.)
An hour away from Cincinnati, Ohio and Columbus, Ohio; two hours from Indianapolis, Indiana; and three hours from Cleveland, Ohio, Lexington, Kentucky, and Detroit, Michigan, all of which can be alternate shenanigan sites. (Urban decay! Shenanigans! Bengals fans! Boo!)
Smallish, mid-western, great little burg, and, hey, I can even help you write up a realistic grid.
Just some earnest thoughts.
@brunocerous said in Amber: Why Can't I Quit You:
Could you just have people silently assign their points, and have some kind of coded check in place so that if PCs need to know what their comparison is, the code tells them who is higher/lower without stating the specific number?
I think this is a good way to do it. I'd suggest adding something like an +appraise command, which would allow you to get a general impression if someone is better, worse, or about the same as your PC at a certain stat.
I have.
Hence the increasing amounts of frustration.
Have a lawyer friend start doing this for you. Works wonders.
I miss playing with you, so I will gleefully follow wherever you may go, if invited to do so.
I do like the concept of Amber.
@killer-klown said in Shadows of Paradise: help wanted!:
This fits my gaming style nicely; I usually only have a handful of spells that I use regularly on any given character; while the pc can do all the other crap listed per arcana, I usually don't bother with it. That both helps in planning spends and keeps the options of what to do round by round to a manageable degree.
This is how I like to play Mage as well. Sure, I can do a billion things, but my PCs tend to fix problems using the spells that she's adept at using. I like how Mage 2E fit into that mold.
Yes, I know there are other people that would rather play the "anything you can do I can do better" game, but this is why the game grinds down to 15-minutes-per-fucking-action doldrums.
@killer-klown said in Anyone else want Beast Wars back?:
I remember there was some meta that MASK (The tv show that involved vehicles converting into other vehicles) had ties to the TF/Joe universe; in that the MASK operatives were retired/detached Joes using Transformer technology in their vehicles, and VENOM was some offshoot or evolution of Cobra.
Recently, there was a Hasbro crossover event into the IDW universe, which publishes the new Transformer comics. It's not really an 80s thing, as far as I can tell.
There was a GI Joe / Transformers comic series published by Marvel back in the day. And I'm not ashamed to say that I have the full series in my basement.
The place he wants to go is opening tonight, and you never go opening night anyhow! But no, he'll stomp up the stairs and pout.
When my son does this, I tell him to close the door and be quiet.
And then I enjoy a bourbon on a porch.
He's five. He'll be fine.
My name is Pip, and you're ass ain't talkin' your way outta this shit.
