Posts made by Ganymede

@faraday said in POLL: Super Hero MU Gut Check:

You can either compromise the powers so that the code can accommodate them, you can expand the code to accommodate all kinds of super things, or you can use the code for certain things and deal with others through manual GM intervention.

Given the discussion above, I think the general consensus is that an effective resolution system is worth compromising powers within a combat setting. Hence, why some of us believe your system is super-wicked-effective for a superhero game.

@Auspice said in Things We Should Have Learned Sooner:

And fuck instant grits.

And fuck polenta.

And an extra fuck you to anyone who tries to conflate cream of wheat and grits.

Couscous.

Delicious.

@faraday said in POLL: Super Hero MU Gut Check:

I seriously don't think FS3 is a good fit for a superhero game. You could probably square-peg-round-hole it into some semblance of submission, but I wouldn't. Combats only work well because the effects are coded and you don't have to sit around fussing about what happens. It's all automated. Once you throw flexible superpowers into the mix, you lose all that.

You don't really need flexible powers for combat, though. I mean, Superman has a limited number of attacks: he either punches the bad guy or uses some sort of elemental blast (heat vision or ice breath). His Super Strength could be a melee weapon that does a stupid amount of penetration and/or damage, and his ranged attacks could simply be a ranged weapon named "Blast."

Take Iceman. He doesn't have super strength, but he could make ice weapons, so maybe he has some sort of Elemental melee weapon available that has medium penetration and damage. And for his ice blasts, again, you could use a ranged weapon called "Blast."

Take Jean Grey. Psychic attack? "Blast." Cyclops? Maybe given him an Augmented Blast that does more damage, or allows him to do either a charged, massive attack or a burst attack.

I think one simply needs to be creative, and FS3 provides the flexibility to do so.

@surreality said in POLL: Super Hero MU Gut Check:

I think with 'in space' you start running the risk of going too hard into the scifi, which can be daunting for some.

Depends on how it's set up, though. If it's just 'what's going on on earth is not something you're going to be interacting with regularly' in a terraformed zone or something, that's one thing.

If it's too tech-focused and futuristic, you start running into the 'lost in the technobabble' problem. (The struggle is real.)

That said, I think that would be pretty cool unto itself as a futuristic setting, since both scifi games and superhero games definitely have their fans, and seeing a pooling of those players in a tightly defined concept like this would be pretty cool to see.

In the Marvel Universe, just because you can do something doesn't mean you understand how the science goes. Like, there are a lot of alien things out there, and spaceships, but you know what they don't do? Explain any of that. That's why it's hard to consider Guardians of the Galaxy a sci-fi story.

Speaking of systems, you know what might work well?

FS3.

Bear with me, please. It could work very well, actually. Just needs a little tweaking.

Why FS3? Because it's simple to learn. Because combats are easy to run and operate, and can have 8-10 people and still get resolved in around 3 hours.

I've seen FS3 work in a medieval setting (Fifth Kingdom). I've seen it work in a war setting (BSG:U). And I think you could easily adapt it here. It doesn't handle the fluidity of magic very well, but I think it could work here.

Seriously.

Don't laugh, @faraday.

@Ghost said in POLL: Super Hero MU Gut Check:

Good question. Might be worth another poll in another thread. I know for SOME the juice is in playing existing characters, and others are die hard OC players.

I was on this X-Men high school game where all the mutants were in a compound, and were all OC. The FCs were bit players, if I recall, but most of the action took place between all of the OCs. I kind of liked it, but activity was sort of low.

You could go full rogue, though, and make a Mutants in Space game. Like, have a bunch of people launch off to find a better world out there, with some bit-part FCs and OCs heading into outer space to find strange new worlds, seek out new life and new civilizations, and to boldly go.

@Ghost said in POLL: Super Hero MU Gut Check:

What about DC Cosmic, such as Green Lantern Corps and the ROYGBIV spectrum of heroes and villains?

I always found that a bit lame.

But I'm in if I get to be Dex-Starr.

@Ghost said in POLL: Super Hero MU Gut Check:

Don't give up hope on humanity versus We aren't going to wait to be placed into chains

#MutantLivesMatter.

@Coin said in Things We Should Have Learned Sooner:

@Bobotron said in Things We Should Have Learned Sooner:

@Coin

... I need more sleep, I read that s 'Coin is a Unicron'. WUT?

I am that, too. I am many things.

Thanks, Orson.

@ZombieGenesis said in Vampire the Requiem 2.0 Bloodline Resources:

Thanks for the info! Looks like Reno has the best options on the net!

@skew and I also worked on a few.

@Tyche said in RL Anger:

Maybe learn not to hate? Get help?

Shooting people that are causing you severe distress isn't irrational.

@scar said in RL Anger:

Now, I’m just shaking thinking all about wtf is going to happen to this poor dog that didn’t ask for any of this. SJHFKJHFIDGIGFIEFUIGFEUHFH%@#5972 !! Grrr.

Wisdom tells me you do nothing. The owner is scarred now, and has a tough choice to make. If you call the authorities on that dog, the dog may be put down and the woman may lose her kid. With no good options, the only reasonable choice seems to avoid the fuck out of the woman and her beast from now on.

@faraday said in nWoD2.0 Support Code?:

The trick is to figure out what the people on your game need/want and then give it to them in the most usable way possible.

Unless there's something you want people to use, for one reason or another.

On RfK, there was a phone system. You were encouraged to use it. +Txts sent through it were monitored for any potential breach of the First Tradition. That could result in you being hunted or bad juju happening on the Grid, which would then mean IC repercussions if other vampires discovered the message.

Admittedly, we just started writing notes and letters via @mail after being IC told not to text messages including breach material. Still, if there's something you want people to use, no reason not to code it up and push them to do so.

Senua's not the only person who's wet now.

@Auspice said in RL Anger:

I've had one setup. I think I just suck at getting the word out.

Send to me via PM, lady.

@Auspice

If you set up a GoFundMe site, I'm sure you'll find people here that will help. Paying it forward is important.

@Meg said in The Music Tastes Thread!!!:

Also man. I would throw down with @Ganymede and @Auspice with their music. Tech N9ne and Lissie both almost made my list. If I had more room--

Honestly, I picked those -- and listen to them -- because they are in iconic video game trailers.

I'm that lame, yes.

Sure, five songs.

"Something In The Way," by At Sea
"Nothing Else Matters," by Lissie
"Stand by Me," by Florence + The Machine
"Ready or Not," by Scala & Kolacny Brothers
"Through the Valley," by Shawn James

Yes, I picked these for a reason.

@Arkandel said in RL Anger:

Posts today that read "I'VE NEVER WATCHED A SINGLE EPISODE OF GAME OF THRONES".

... Okay? They're the same people around superbowl who post "I DON'T EVEN KNOW WHO'S PLAYING".

It depends on context, with all things.

I've never watched a single episode of Game of Thrones. I'm nether proud nor ashamed of it. It is a statement of fact.

Now, if I said that I've never watched a single episode and I'm proud of it because people that do watch it are tremendous douchebags, then, sure I'm a dickhead.

Same with people who trump around their ignorance about the Super Bowl, as if this makes them somehow morally superior. (I know people like this.)

To me, that's like folks decrying single-payer universal health care without knowing a damn thing about it. Being ignorant is fine, but using it like a sword is like giving a child a gun.

@Meg

You're a special case.

@Meg said in RL Anger:

Basically, we all as humans suck at feeding ourselves. Too many choices.

No, no. This is wrong.

We're very good at feeding ourselves.

We're not as good in predicting what others may want.

We really shouldn't give a shit because adults should be able to obtain their own food.

But, no. We insist on partnerships and shit.

Because we're stupid.

Endut.