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@Cirno or create a thread for people to tell others what that population is and then scold them for not freezing in place at their infinite wisdom on the topic. snort

@Rinel Check out this article. Here.

If this is Wi-Fi it could be attributed to channel congestion, but may also be attributed to windows processes. That link may help diagnose or rule out your router. There is a good phone app (WiFiAnalyzer) for Wi-Fi Analytics that will help you diagnose channel congestion, as well.

Wi-Fi operates similar to radio in the sense that the more devices using the same channel in a frequency range can cause a sort of "static" that will interrupt transmission between your wireless router and devices.

One fast way to diagnose this is to Cat-6 hardline into your router and run similar ping tests. If they do not persist over Ethernet, then the likelihood that it's channel congestion is high. If it STILL persists over Ethernet, then you can rule out Wi-Fi and focus on Windows processes or other possibilities.

Also, log into your router and enable logging if it isnt currently enabled. Make sure the logs catch as much as possible because there is a chance that you may be getting hit with regular packets scanning your IP range for vulnerabilities.

I knew of a guy once who had RL issues with a cheating wife. So, IC, he would SHOWER PCs with gifts and praise, and want them to dress all sexy, and then ICly/OOCly get mad at them and call them whores for RPing with other men.

A lot of this stuff goes on for a while before staff is even brought in, because people don't want to spoil the roleplay or cause some huge ruckus. Mushers have a way of shaking victims, just like in real life, and the OOC rumor game is often used against the complaining player, so the abused player tries to placate the aggressor by giving them what they want, making an alt, and trying to get around the issue that way. It's...kind of depressing.

@Arkandel Uff. I dunno. D&D culture is kinda split down the middle between people who like RP and people who want hack-n-slash. In fact, Gygax original gangsta D&D was just dungeon crawls with very little RP. So...you may just be playing with a guy who interprets D&D as monster fights with riddles.

Frankly? Its hard to change someone's GM style, so the best you can do is mention that you really love the RP aspect of D&D and try to encourage it. But... wtflinearalgebra???

We see in MU* a lot the GM/ST/DM often interprets problem solving by generating a scenario with ONE SUCCESSFUL SOLUTION, and then the whole night of gaming is either trying to guess what their pass/fail solution is. This (IMO) is weaksauce GMing but also something that can be hard to break a GM of, too.

tl;dr "Gaming is a lot like dating. Best you can do is try to encourage what you want. If you cant find what you want, it's better to move on."

@Arkandel well, I agree that open-cgen won't catch the bad players. Like my above-mentioned example, players like that tend to make fairly normal seeming characters.

I'm banging my head here trying to think of an easy way to get around this. Maybe I'm just so used to long app processes and consent policies that have existed for decades.

Another shoutout to @faraday (who I'm a big fan of), but I think she had the right of it. She had an app process that was based off of her FS3 system. You see, if you want to have a fast/quick app process, you have to have sheets/game/cgen system that isn't bulky. A lot of WoD is horrible for this, but FS3 was great for it.

You will want to automate what you want to see on the sheets, or have a system that is rules-light enough so that you know what's on the sheets won't be something game-breaking. All you would need to do is give the sheets a once-over to look for obvious red flags, and then move on. OR if the CGen was so automated that you could trust in it, then BAM, you don't need to worry about sheets.

The "I agree" section could be a good place to automate consent rules and whatnot, too. Just like an EULA, whether or not you read the "I Agree" section doesn't negate your requirement to follow those rules, so you could throw up a minor "be adult, get consent, speak up if you're uncomfortable" as well as an "I am 18+ years of age" into it. That could make your app process all a bit more agile.

Though, logically, I don't think I can stress enough that the complexity of the expected character sheet really does determine the complexity of your all process.

On the BSG games, I saw some days where 20-40 characters were approved because the sheets were might lifting and the staff was on point.

@Auspice said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:

I mean, I'd be out just because of the algebra aspect.

I'd be out over the algebra, too.

Granted, GMs who use that "Escape Room" style of roleplay (The key in a book in the library but unless I properly understand some nuanced riddle the GM thinks is so fucking obvious the GM will literally let me spend 45 minutes guessing which book it's in) is bad enough, but the moment you add linear algebra to it? NOOOPENOPENOPE.

RPGs should be about "Texas Whoopass" not "Texas Instruments".

^^^
I just made that up on the fly. It's mine. Dont steal it or I'll sue.

@Arkandel said:

It's not consent which allows the worst of these offenders to create horror stories the rest of us repeat here afterwards and go 'whyyy was this allowed?'.

I can tell you why it was allowed if you want, @Ghost. And what the most major reason it doesn't get reported is. I didn't really want to because it might derail the thread - but it's got nothing to do with what administrative system the game is using or what its goals are.

PM me if you really want, but there's no real need. I'm not one of those people that really demands anything. I'm more that comfortable taking your word on it. This thread is about experimentation and everyone seems to have differing grades of opinions on what will or will not work, but I commend your efforts to try.

@Auspice Yanno what holiday I like? Boxing Day.

The holiday where everyone who fucking worked on Christmas gets a day because we needed them on Xmas.

America should have a "Labor Day Two" for those people.

I'm really curious as to how theyre going to depict the Ogier, since ive seen many styles...

Or

Orrrrr

So forth and so on. I prefer the first. I prefer the BESTIAL LOOKING MONSTER that loves books a la Ron Perlman in Beauty and the Beast and less "kinda Shrek meets Ichabod Crane".

Realistically, there are players that are either hard to gel with (one line poses, TS hounds, not playing in-genre, poor grammar), or characters that are hard to work with (disruptive to scene, uninvited, sends of trolling chills). I'll be the first to admit, there have been sometimes where I've been banging my head against a keyboard because I'm RPing with someone who is a pain in my ass. It kills the vibe. It kills my escape, right?

And I think that, knowing that this is a reality, people are very sensitive to the worry that they might be on this unspoken list of people who others don't want to RP with. I recently had the pleasure of getting IM after IM from someone I used to RP with about how she wasn't gonna RP with this person or that simply based on what was on their wiki page. People can be cunts, but there really, REALLY is an element of maintaining your MushRep(tm). I can absolutely empathize with people who worry or feel like they've been blacklisted, because people simply do not confront people as to why they are avoiding a player. It can be like Amish shunning. I've seen it happen, so when things get quiet...how do you know you aren't on that list?

I empathize, which is why I try to be really up front about how I feel or what I'm expecting from people, even if it's CONSTRUCTIVE criticism.

My only suggestion, based off of my experiences, is to not be afraid to speak up, even if you're feeling vulnerable, and if you are asked by said shunned-feeling roleplayer, to provide helpful support and not be afraid to introduce player to other players.

Shit, I would totally page someone with something like "Hey, this is X, she's feeling like she's having trouble breaking into the rp, could you show X around a bit in these scenes and help get them involved?"

On the days I need to get up at 245am for work at 330am...

• 2:45 - get up
• 2:47 - just in case you hit snooze.
• 2:50 - Your SO will kill you out of bed at this point.
• 3:25 - You should be at work at this point so double check everything is in place.
• 3:30 - Start working.

Trying to be constructive here, but when another player has done things that come across as disruptive to the scene (or attention whoring), have any of you asked them politely to tone it down a notch? Any first-name experiences with trying to work through that kind of behavior?

I personally can't think of any examples where I've tried to mitigate the situation diplomatically to keep the scene somewhat sacred. Now that I think about it, I've often just gone ugh and treated it like a problem without trying to fix the problem, which could be part of the problem in some cases.

I mean, what if said EXPLOSIVE ENTRANCE character is run by a player who has had some good feedback for that sort of thing and is just trying fuckall hard to get noticed?

@SabotKick72 "Take Me Home Tonight" is a jam. Sad news.

@Cirno Holy shit, Cirno, it's a good thing I didn't open that WHILE IN LINE AT MY COFFEE HOUSE WITH A BUNCH OF CUTE GIRLS BEHIND ME!

F.M.L.

@Derp said in Wildly Out of Context:

@Killer-Klown said in Wildly Out of Context:

Said to me, rather than something I said.
"No, it's not a sex toy. It's my sister."

I really want to know the context behind this one, lol.

It would be amazing to no end if two consenting adults legally adopted a sex toy, and the person literally meant "Please stop acting like that sex toy is just an inanimate object, because it is legally my adopted sister."

@Cirno I'm laughing. You can't hear it but I'm laughing. LOL be er means the person is actually laughing out loud, but I got a good laugh out of this.

Thanks for the good addition to the morning, Cirno.

@insomniac7809 said in Should Rinel become smol birb?:

@Ominous Wasn't that a JRPG?

You know, the one where a bunch of teenagers with bad hairstyles use the power of friendship to kill God?

The monster squad?

To be honest? I kind of feel like, without the sex element, xWoD would never have flourished. The various settings are such a magnet for sexy roleplay that True Blood, Eclipse, or Anita Blake likely wouldn't exist had it not been for online vampire roleplay throughout the years.

I say this because my tabletop group doesn't want to gather every other week to roleplay depressing shit. One of my players is a cop who has seen some really depressing shit. So they like their pretend funtimes to be swashbuckly with the feeling of Han Solo and/or Firefly. I tried to pass WoD/BSG past them, but they weren't interested. They like Call of CthulhuTech because it's short term horror, and I'm sure they don't feel comfy getting into the sex element of xWoD around a bunch of bros and my buxom, tattooed significant other.

People don't like to roleplay depressing shit all of the time. It's hard on the soul and it isn't an escape from our already depressing, aging, someday-to-be-wormfood lives.

So, without the sex element, would xWoD have become so big, or become so big online? I don't think so, and I think the Winnie the Pooh giggletimes Changeling players roleplay cute stuff as a means to let off pressure due to a lack of want to truly embrace the themes of horror, destroyed lives, and quicksand darkness xWoD provides.

You never really complain about how many RPG books you have in your collection until you need to pack and move them.

god...in...heaven...I have probably 300 pounds of RPG books.