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@surreality said in King of Sex Mountain:

Just shift up setting/whatever every week or two, vote on which thing to do next, groups could pitch an idea to the list they'll help run/set up and do it all round-robin-ish-like.

I do not share power. There is only one king of Fuck Mountain. There is no committee; there is only the existence of loyal orgy advisors giving me suggestions as to how I may succeed at being the #4 orgy-themed mush staffer in all of current mushdom.

Each session I would role play as myself in a throne, sitting high above the Orgy in judgment with my fist to my chin like Conan, but ultimately more like Shao Khan from Mortal Kombat quietly judging the to-the-death fighting tournaments in Outworld.

"GORO! BARAKA! Bring me a plate of spare ribs."

One more quandary to bring to the table:

If social skills/stats are eliminated from sheets, then games and characters can become sorely imbalanced.

The reason these game systems, from D&D to WoD, ALL include social stats and the need to spend points in them that you'd otherwise spend elsewhere, is to result in a standing example of what that character is or is not good at. It lets the players and GMs know the strengths and weaknesses of a character.

Cut social out:

• I spent all of my points in combat skills, and since I didnt have to buy socials, since I can make convincing arguments, my soldier with zero social experience is every bit as deceptive and clever as Littlefinger from GoT

If both social and knowledge skills are handwaved based on OOC attempt:

• I put ALL of my points into combat skills, so my soldier character is primed for all things combat, but due to my Google-skills and ability to form OOC explanations, he is an adept spy and understands the engineering capability of long range ICBMs because I understand these things...but didn't want to spend the points I wanted to put towards combat for him to know these things.

It becomes a Mary-Sue formula, and removing the need to declare strengths and weaknesses by means of chargen only makes it more of an issue.

@Auspice Gimme a bit and I'll update again.

I got a birthday 2 weeks from now and a tattoo appointment next Friday. Busy time and not a lot of time to spare before Jult. Will have to read up.

If I'm good to go I'll post a notice (if I'm gonna do it) to PM me for details.

@faraday I would kind of love an OOCly supportive environment with an IC-PK environment.

It would be like Rollerball.

• People placing side-bets on who wins which fight.
• That one son of a bitch who lucks out on RNG having this massive target on his back
• Cafepress store selling tee shirts, mugs, and underwear with slogans
• Records for longest consecutive combat scene "survives" before permadeath...

• Luchador Prom Night
• Sexy Civil War Nurse RP Night
• CYBORG NIGHT
• Vague Passive Aggressiveness Night
• PARKS AND REC COZPLAY NIGHT (I call DJ Roombah)
• Everyone Dresses Like Elvira THIS IS DEFINITELY NOT GHOST RL FANTASY FULFILLMENT NIGHT
• Judge Judy Night (Where one person RPs as Judge Judy scolding people while they hash out their relationship issues mid-coitus in a courtroom)

Jesus. Stopping. Stopping typing this stuff, that is.

@WildBaboons said in Eliminating social stats:

I'm wary of any Roll that supersedes the Role. I don't like Dice deciding how my character would react to a certain situation or person, especially if it's against the grain of the character.

Counterpoint: It's about the role not the player.

I'm not a fan of my character dying when they stab a dragon and don't do enough damage to kill it in one hit (and end up dead), and it's not what I'd hoped for the character, but it's the game part of role playing game.

Remember: it isn't about forcing your character to believe something you dont think they would (or want them to). It's about whether or not the NPC or other PC craft a character-to-character argument that seems reasonable enough to pass on a character level.

Social rolls should never be made to force romance or turn a Democrat into a Republican because of a d20 roll, so there also needs to be some reasonable boundaries to what social skills can or cannot be used for.

@Jennkryst said in Alien RPG coming soon...:

Playable sexy xenomorphs or gtfo

Sorreh, this is ALIENS the RPG.
Not SPECIES the RPG.

@astrid said in Dare I ask...:

by trying to do everything for everyone?

Sidebar.

If there's a MU out there that will do the weeds on my front lawn, lemme know.

@surreality said in King of Sex Mountain:

that session's King of Fuck Mountain

This session's king??? You dare question my sole reign?!?!?!

DRACARYS!

@Lain

My vampire beats your vampire, because my vampire's PB is Dolph Lundgren and your vampire's PB is Russell Brand.

I mean, clearly, that seems fair to me.

@Auspice Hahaha. I authorized the firing of one torpedo and the dude fired two. It turned into a scolding session that "we are on a FIVE YEAR JOURNEY and only have so many torpedos", and that he would be docked replicator rations until the value of the torpedo was repaid in full. Oh, and that if he went to Federation Human Resources over this as retaliation I'd have Operations airlock him.

Operations Guy: "FUCK YEA, BRO."

I think the mutually assured destruction of "people who have a list of people they won't roleplay with" has come to roost. The mushing pool is getting smaller as it is, but I know at least 6-7 whiny fuckbags who constantly worry over trying to figure out if X player is someone they used to know and swore off rp with. For almost every one of these players is a list of 2-3 "safe" players they focus their home base rp with and very rarely do they squeak outside of that safe zone. People continually get added to that "avoid" list and - give or take a few months - they wonder why a game has become stale.

MU*ing has become very insular over the last few years and in many cases if I do not guarantee relationship/TS rp, the player tends to move on until they find it.

In the end, I think a lot of people just spend a lot of time playing nomad, trying to find the game that isn't like this until their "no play" list shows up and "ruins everything" or...they're simply moving on to things less addicting with a better time:output ratio.

@surreality said in King of Sex Mountain:

@Ghost "FUCK YOU, I'M A DRAGON!!!" Night

WHEN YOU THINK YOURE BEING AWESOME, BUT IN REALITY YOURE FUCKING SLOPPY DRUNK AND EMBARRASSING YOURSELF NIGHT.

Blood Drive....

We're gonna get details on this, this weekend...

I've heard good things about Kushiel, though I've got zero experience with the books. I'd also play the ass off of a Mass Effect game, Gany.

Don't get me wrong, folks, that above post wasn't some pessimistic projection. I really do regularly play with a bunch of people who write others off based on what they see on their wikis, have lists of players they refuse to associate with, often ask me if I think some random player is one of the people from that list and if they are unable to determine for sure...they avoid that person just in case. I've tried telling them that this in NO WAY hells the Mu* community or a hobby, but Meh...

...I think I need some fresh air and nice peeps to write good stories with.

@surreality People need to get in on this "being weird" thing. It's good for the soul.

@Arkandel I think this is a very realistic way of looking at it. It does happen. People who arent so skilled in what is considered to be good roleplay aren't sought out as much, and in turn suffer from a lack thereof.

To take it a step further, what is considered to be good RP is subjective, which is why I may be (EXAMPLE) passed up for rp by those who want to write graphic TS, but not by those who enjoy dialogue (which, I feel, is my strength).

I've said it many times, but this is a TEXT-BASED hobby. Writing skill is of baseline importance.

@Ghost said in General Video Game Thread:

RUMOR HAS IT... That 'From Software' (Dark Souls, Bloodborne, Sekiro) is going to unveil a new game in a few weeks at E3.

From what I'm reading, the likelihood (least likely to most likely) is as follows:

• Sekiro 2 (yeaaaah prolly not. Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice just came out in March)
• Bloodborne 2 (While this is #1 on my wishlist as a FromSoftware fan, Sony actually owns this IP and is stated to not be present at E3. Presumably they are working on PS5, but it is unlikely that they wouldn't be there for a Bloodborne 2 reveal)
• Dark Souls IV (it's been a while and DS3 killed it in sales)
• Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice DLC reveal
• Entirely new IP reveal (Sekiro is a new IP, but in the same vein as some of their older games. Could this be a trend or a one-off?)
• OLD IP reveal (Armored Core, Tenchu, Otogi, King's Field)

Who are we kidding, though? If frickin Borderlands doesn't own E3, then it's because they didn't even try to.

We have a winner! It has been leaked FROM SOFTWARE is going to/is developing a SOULS style game that is being co-written by the minds behind Dark Souls and George R. R. Martin. It will be called: "Elden Ring"

This means 3 things:

1. New SOULS style game. Squee.
2. Add this to the pile of "YET MORE SHIT GRRM IS DOING INSTEAD OF FINISHING HIS FUCKING BOOKS" and...
3. ....somebody should make a mush in this setting really quickly before the Blood of Dragons people do.

@Tempest said:

The important question is, can you be force sensitive and have a lightsaber.

Gonna assume not, since 9/10 Star Wars MUs seem to outright ban that or save it for staff-pals. Which is why the genre has died, IMO. I don't wanna play some goddamn Han Solo knock-off. I want a lightsaber.

Ding!

I used to play Star Wars MU* and on every one I worked hard and hoped for a force sensitive slot. Every time one opened I was passed on in favor of a staff buddy, someone a staff character TS's with, or yet another character that (despite a policy requiring regular rp and involvement) would disappear from the grid and never be seen again...and the force slot would never be taken from that person.

Fuck that bridesmaid waiting game.

EDIT/UPDATE: News Force on the game states there are no force sensitive applications being accepted at this time, but (sic) if you're a really good time player you'll be considered for a slot when it opens.

Nope. NOPEnopeNopeNopenopeNOPE.