Posts made by Ganymede

@SG said in Generic sci fi game.:

hahaha, the SIM city godzilla shows up?

More like what you'd expect in an Alien film. Example:

Scenario -- The Old Colony: PCs start off at the landing pad, the first wave of new colonists to a long-lost-but-found colony at the edge of known space. They've got enough supplies to keep power to one part a large complex, and enough food to last for about a month.

PCs gain Action Points (AP) every day (1 per day). You can use code to spend AP and add to the local communal stash of supplies, representing scrounging and scavenging. If there are hydro machines around, you can harvest food from them. If there's a moisture collector, you can harvest water. Your collective PCs drain the communal stash, so it is essential for people to work together.

Or, you can use your AP and harvest stuff for a private stash. Because, fuck everyone else.

Plan to build things with supplies. Plan on tasks for certain PCs. Whatever. Hopefully, everyone can coordinate and prosper. That's the goal.

Problem: aliens. You need to fight them off. They break your shit if you don't respond to them. Worse, they may eat you. Staff can drop them in, and players can have their PCs fight them off. Drama! Violence! Fun!

So, see: you can have builders and soldiers, together at last.

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.

@Coin said in RL Anger:

It wouldn't do any good and I'd just be told I was being rude.

Then stop showering and hang around her a lot. And when she says you stink, you can tell her that she is rude.

I have good senses for a person that smokes and drinks a lot. Perfume makes my head spin. And, when I'm not with a client, I don't mind telling someone that they need to tone down on the perfume/cologne because it makes them smell like a pedophile. (True story, I've said this.) And when they laugh at the analogy, I point out: "no one likes to smell like tears."

@Coin said in RL Anger:

I have to literally take a huge breath and hold it for like thirty seconds when this one woman in my office comes over to say hi because otherwise I gag.

Did you tell her that she smells like a mortician? That usually works.

I always wanted to be real meta and run a D&D campaign on Fallen World.

@Coin said in Roleplaying writing styles:

I mean it turned out not to be the game for anyone, but hey. >.> Hahah.

The fuck you talking about, homie? I was there from the beginning.

Being sad is finding someone that has never met you diagnose your problem succinctly.

"[C]omedians seem to have two competing personality traits: introverted anhedonia (inability to feel pleasure) and extroverted impulsiveness. Although they are similar to actors, who remain extroverted, open and interested in understanding the world around them, comedians have introverted traits that make them asocial and a little emotionally flat. Some also suffer from clinical depression."

@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.

@SunnyJ said in Fate's Harvest BETA Live (Full Open Soon):

Will try it out!

Goddammit, you gotta stop moving around, woman.

@Auspice said in Roleplaying writing styles:

RPing with them is upsetting because it is emotionally draining to carry an entire scene on your own.

I'm so awesome that I'm always drained at the end of a scene. I have to carry everyone.

Actually, not really. I'm just blessed to get to play with really awesome folks often.

@Arkandel said in RL Anger:

Trump: 'Nobody knew that healthcare could be so complicated'

He be like:

@mietze said in How do you make money?:

I'd tip you!

For that tip, I would do very, very bad things to you. True Blood ain't got nothing on me.

Fuck. I need to re-log into it now. I left a PC I really wanted to play there.

@Catsmeow said in Mental Health and Grown Up Stuff:

I have heard free booze, Dayton.... now throw in free room, free airfare and free food... I'll be someone's bitch.

Mm. Airfare is a stretch. Everything else, not so.

@Auspice said in RL things I love:

A WW boycott would not surprise me, at all.

All of WW's stuff actually bored the shit out of me after I turned 25.

@Misadventure said in Roleplaying writing styles:

I give that .75 Ally McBeals.

I'd say fuck ally mcbeal but, without her, we wouldn't have such shows as "Single Female Lawyer" and "Harrison Ford is Still Alive Somewhere."

Mm. Before I became a lawyer, I was the following, in no particular order:

• Summer Camp Counselor.
• Assistant Summer Camp Director.
• Summer Camp Director.
• Volunteer Coordinator ... for a summer camp.
• Volunteer Coordinator ... for an outdoor science camp.

In between, I was also:

• Coffee and donut manufacturer, and part-time toilet cleaner.
• Popcorn and ticket-taking slave.
• A waiter ... just not the one hot enough for you to tip properly, which led to me getting fired because I wasn't hot enough.
• Systems and scheduling analyst for an engineering firm ... which I was totally unqualified for.
• Wal-Mart motherfucker. (You know who I'm talking about: one of those dipshits in "Seasonal.")
• Lifeguard and swim instructor.
• Summer science school instructor.

And then, I became a:

• Assistant prosecutor ... that did nothing but tax foreclosures.
• Pirate attorney, where I currently sail the high seas of litigation looking for booty.

There's a whole lot of volunteer experience in here, but I didn't get paid for it. (Duh.)

@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.

@Thenomain said in Mental Health and Grown Up Stuff:

Don't you have a "I don't fraternize with people I know online" rule? I'm hurt.

I said we are "supposed to," not that we "had."

Besides, you got my e-mail account and fake pseudonym. Isn't that enough?

@Auspice said in Mental Health and Grown Up Stuff:

So long as you're buying. I'm too poor for bar drinkin'.

We're doing this some place cheap, right? I mean, me and @hedgehog are supposed to meet up in Dayton, Ohio some time. You should come with. Booze be cheap down here; I be drinking double Blantons neat for under $10.