I think it's a good idea to go with rotes only, with Arcana describing what rotes you can use. When creating the rote, the author must be as specific as possible. To activate the rote, roll Gnosis + lowest necessary Arcana.
Eliminate the Orders and Paths. No more favored or opposing Arcana. Or free point of Resolve of Composure. Just buy the Arcana and the Gnosis, and the rotes, and play.
@faraday said in Potential Game / Temperature Read:
Without a coder, that pretty much leaves you down to FS3. (unless there's a pre-build Unisystem game out there somewhere I'm unaware of, which would be cool)
I think the Shaowhunters game was Unisystem, as was a survival-apocalypse game whose name I can't recall right now. And I think Buffy was Unisystem. Betcha @Cobaltasaurus knows where to find one.
Fair enough. I think the proposals so far are Unisystem and FS3.
Witchcraft may be your best bet, but I didn't like it personally.
@faraday said in Potential Game / Temperature Read:
"But Fara, we have to consider superpower stuff for a Magicians game." Sure, but the existing WoD mage system doesn't fit and FS3 has no magic system, so either way you're going to end up cooking up something custom. Just cook up something simple and it shouldn't matter which system you use.
@Auspice, re-working the Changeling: the Dreaming Arts and Realms could do the trick.
I'd help you, but I'm cobbling together an entirely new blood magic system for Vampire 2E.
Send our hopes along with those scans that it is not cancer; and I'm not much of a sappy person but I feel legitimately crap that you're hurting over something you can only experience from the sidelines, much as I'm sure you want to do something.
Thank you for the positivity.
To be frank, I'm not sure if hurt is the right word for it. It's exhausting. It's probably not quite the same as the sexism and the racism, but living with the constant thought of "what will I tell the kids if she doesn't come home?" is something I could do without.
I get alternately tired and angry at times. I've been more irritable as of late. But things are getting better, professionally. It's really nice to get credit card records showing your adversary in a divorce case has been on a dating site since before the divorce was filed.
In other words, we need to talk about Kevin.
Good excerpt here on a topic of serious discussion. I like this quote:
It’s easy to see where the suspicion comes from. The idea of desire without bounds or limits is threatening. It’s a threat to a social order that exerts control by putting fences around our fantasies and making it wicked to want anything unsanctioned. It’s a threat to a society that has developed around the idea of mandatory heterosexual partnership as a way to organize households. It’s threatening because it’s utopian in a culture whose imagination is dystopian because it’s about pleasure and abundance in a culture that imposes scarcity and self-denial. Freedom is often frightening — and polyamory is about balancing freedom with mutual care. In this atomized society, that’s still a radical idea.
I think the worst of it is that she was admitted into the hospital because the scans showed something in that area. She's had ruptured ovarian cysts before, but this one was different -- that's why she went. After scanning her three or four times, they provisionally determined that it was filled with fluid, that it was probably just a cyst or abscess, and sent her home. And we thought: okay, that's not so bad.
She was referred to someone else, who said that there was some sort of solid mass there. That usually indicated abnormal growth, which is an indicia of cancer. Given my partner's history of cancer (neuroblastoma; skin (twice); kidney; thyroid; uterine), there's a better chance that it is cancer, but they're going to send the scans to a gynecological oncologist.
Of course, it's not her fault. None of it is. But it would be really nice if I could have 12 months without watching her being taken to an ER in pain or twitching uncontrollably. I guess, after being with her for almost 13 years, I should be used to it, but you never do, it never gets old, and the pain still hurts as much as the first time.
That was a pretty gruesome injury.
Not that the Celtics were going to compete or anything.
Oh no. I'm so sorry.
I'm cranky about it, sure, but it's not the worst news we've ever had. If anything, it was foreseeable.
Oh well.
(As I mentioned before, she's survived several kinds of cancer before. But she's only got so many non-vital organs left in her.)
They think my partner has developed ovarian cancer.
It's really not fucking fair at all. I'm tired as fuck, and I can't imagine what she's going through.
It would be neat if the application to make a PC were just to make up the wiki with a sheet on it.
@faraday said in Potential Game / Temperature Read:
Really? I mean, sure if you're doing mass combats it's comparatively easy for running something, but for anything else? It's a basic "roll and count success" system just like a million other RPG systems out there.
I don't think you fully appreciate how awesome having an tweakable engine that can run mass combats is to an ST.
@ixokai said in FCs on Comic MUs:
And no we aren't really putting limits on gender-swaps or sexualities except there's some things that just don't make sense. Someone would have to explain how a FemCap was in a super-soldier program when there were no female soldiers. I'm not saying its impossible but that would need to be worked out.
And, see, you just eliminated an entire line of pointless commentary.
Count me in. No, I'm not going to be Stephanie Rogers.
@tnp said in FCs on Comic MUs:
As for gender swaps, they can be particularly interesting because of the same reasoning. Like gays, blacks, mutants and other minorities, women are still second class citizens. Women with power are very rare. (By power I include things like being a CEO, a police detective, etc.) If they happen at all, they're going to be the subject of prejudice and/or resentment. We make sure this is noted during the app process and is usually a flaw or mentioned in the BG. A female Cap would be problematic since women combatants were not a thing in WWII and would certainly not be the subject of super soldier experiments. If possible at all, there would need to be a lot of consultation with staff on how that would work.
I think the question I have is, knowing that women and homosexuals are going to be oppressed, are you putting any limits on gender swaps or non-heterosexuality? Because I'm not hearing "yes."
I love Kickstarter campaigns.
This is a fantastic idea put together by fantastic people I know through one degree of separation. If you have a lot of disposable cash, this is your chance to have your cat in a published RPG! For shizzle!
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/2007660791/cataclysm-the-rpg-of-feline-proportions/description
@auspice said in RL things I love:
"She filled her dress like a bunch of sleeping kittens. I just wanted to pet every part of her."
Yes, well, I remember Oogie Boogie, so if a woman's dress looks like it's filled with kittens it is equally likely she is just a burlap sack filled with vermin.
God, I really hate Gambit in all of his forms, but there's a part of me that wants to play him more as a bumbling, Inspector-Clouseau character than a too-cool-for-school-90s-slacker-fantasy.
I decided not to run with the Sons of Cade, and went with the Icarians instead, who have the Sons of Cade discipline spread now.
For those not keeping track, all of the bloodlines I proposed have 4 in-clan disciplines and a series of Devotions, as well as providing a bloodline "gift" and an additional "weakness."
I was thinking about giving some sort of boost or boon to non-bloodline PCs, but couldn't think of a way to do it. Yet.
With all of the bloodlines, I'm re-doing from scratch a lot of the blood magic stuff, i.e. Cruac, Theban Sorcery, the Coils, etc. to level out the Covenants a little on that end and re-imagining how Carthian Law and Invictus Oath powers function. Here's a link to the working document.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1l04iGgiRoxVyD1c-xHGN6TFqtIlUmLNriXmcizO2B1w/edit?usp=sharing
