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RE: Where's your RP at?
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RE: Good TV
@tek I love Katee's intensity. I'm also loving that hologram.
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RE: Where's your RP at?
I think the rules lethality needs to meet the lethality of elements in play. Using the Battletech, as referenced above, that game was mechanized war machines weighing hundreds of tons firing missiles, PPCs, and other deadly elements at each other. While, yes, one of the drawbacks of failure includes territory being lost, there's also the fact that many damage-related deaths in that setting were due to having enough missiles pummeling your mech that internal magazines exploded, or worse...A reactor explosion that detonated a miniature nuclear explosion that vaporized both your character and the mech.
IMO, if your game uses lethal action, then you cannot rule out character death as a result.
While it's not entirely lethal, a good IP for a MU might be "Into the Badlands", which is a mix of post apocalyptic setting and wandering Kung Fu badasses. Plenty of non-lethal is utilized in that setting, and your character getting their ass kicked in isn't so lethal.
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RE: Good TV
I really like Another Life, too. Right now I feel like I'm getting some great Sci-Fi TV in (Expanse, Another Life) that is probably the best I've seen since the Reimagined BSG. I like technical, heavy, intense sci-fi.
I know I say this a lot, but it's an amazing time to be a geek. When I was a kid I'd never imagined that indie comics (The Boys, Deadly Class, Umbrella Academy, Hellboy), fantasy novels (LotR, Game of Thrones, Sword of Truth, Wheel of Time, etc), RPG settings (Final Fantasy, Star Wars KOTOR, hopefully more...), and nostalgic video games (Castlevania) are getting some decent live action/animated entertainment love.
We were watching The Boys tonight and had to hit pause to wax poetic on how some of this stuff on TV right now makes stuff like the old Incredible Hulk TV show look like poorly scripted Public Access tv, and not just in terms of technology.
A TV show about a bunch of guys seeking to hunt down and murder super heroes who are mostly sociopathic and accidentally murdering people via collateral damage on TV between 1978 and 2000? Never would have happened. This stuff is awesome.
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RE: What do you WANT to play most?
Existing IPs
Matrix
Farscape
Into the Badlands
Magicians
Valerian
Cthulhu Tech
Spycraft
Conan
Street FighterMore Vague
Space opera
Homebrew Cpunk/SciFi
Horror that isn't WoD
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RE: Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.
@Auspice said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:
@Tinuviel said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:
@Derp Psh, they're fifteen year olds. They're already having more sex of more kinds than I ever have.
You're always too drunk to remember the fun stuff.
She means foot stuff.
Which is weird and nope when you TS with Ghost.
Fingergunz+wink.
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RE: What do you WANT to play most?
@Thenomain said in What do you WANT to play most?:
WoD isn't horror most of the time anyway. Sadly.
WoD is more closely related to superheroes, in many cases.
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RE: Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.
New X-Men character announced.
She "Rasputin" has:
- Colossus' skin
- Magik's sword
- Shadowcat's phasing
- Unus the Untouchable's force field
- Quentin Quire's telepathy
I dont know what her first name is, but if it isn't yet defined, I have a few suggestions...
"Mary Sue MU-OC a.k.a. a concept made by the one major problem player in Ghost's RL TT group" Rasputin. (1)
"Mary Sue Everything Bagel" Rasputin.
"Hope 2.0 But Isn't a Summers, is a..." Rasputin.
(1) True fact. I once had a player who wanted to make the son of Magick and Nightcralwer. When their Mutants and Masterminds sheet was done they presented me with a teleporting, kinetic energy-throwing, soul-sword wielding Lord of Limbo who, by proxy of being Lord of Limbo, was immortal.
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RE: PC antagonism done right
Antagonist is the right word, if only we could ensure that players would separate the character from the player.
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RE: Poll: RPG System for OC Hero Game
Margaret Weis' MSHRPG
Edit: JUSTIFICATION
DC HEROES is 90% M&M3e and both involve a ton of coding on an existing IPs product. Both systems are highly hackable and with the proper allocation of points I can make a Shadowcat type phaser that cannot be touched, has Uber grapple, and can suffocate someone in 10 rounds.
MSHRPG is an expired license, is more rp-centric, and has teamwork mechanics. The more "descriptive" chargen and low-crunch dice factor should resonate well with existing SuperMU players who are used to those paragraph +sheets.
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RE: Preferences
@Auspice said in Preferences:
@Arkandel said in Preferences:
Put this thread in the Hogpit, g'dammit. I'm ready to draw a line on the ground and go to war.
Did you forget your admin powers of thread moving?
Noob
Be careful.
nooB saiboT is a badass ninja.
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RE: MSB: The meta-discussion
@Meg said in MSB: The meta-discussion:
I don't think our community would be better off without MSB
You know, the damning part is, I agree with you 100% on this. The community wouldn't be as well off without MSB. I think it's got a useful purpose and could be a pretty positive place if not for the way some egos clash and negativity breeds. MSB is a bit of a double-edged sword like that.
I know that there are some people who like me, some people who don't, but all my opinions aside, I know, in the end, that I'm ethical and I'm not a bad person. So this filter that happens here, I'm self aware enough to know that I can't be the only one who approaches this place like: "Jesus, I don't know why some of these people hate me, but if they knew me in RL, I'm confident they'd think I'm alright." It's like a game of telephone. Everything skews. (Though, @skew is awesome).
Just...Some people like to skew shit either on purpose, or through nasty habit.
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RE: Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.
Hrm.
My company doesn't understand a few basic concepts.
One year we had an egg-tossing competition during a food drive for needy people. The parking lot was covered in broken eggs. Each was a potential meal for a hungry person.
Soon? A water drive. When it's 115 outside water is important and plenty of people die each year from lack of water or shaded places to hide.
So after a "food tossing game to drive in food for hungry people", I'm sure you can guess what kind of event we are having for a "water drive"...
...ice bucket challenge.
I swear to fuckin god one year we're going to have a cupcale eating contest to raise money for diabetes research.
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RE: MSB: The meta-discussion
@Three-Eyed-Crow said in MSB: The meta-discussion:
I think you were often guilty of this in The 100 thread, actually, seemingly over stuff that happened on another game entirely...I think Fifth World?
I was. Absolutely. And while I've said apologies to the people involved, moved on with myself having learned a little about myself in the process ("Why did I care?" "Was I trying to achieve anything at all by that?" "In the grand scheme of things, does it really fucking matter what I feel about a FREE game?" "Was I just being a dick?"), it's up to them to decide if they want to associate with me at all since then, and thus, if they ever start a new game and I wanted to play, I'd reach out to them first and ask if my presence was welcome. I figure that's the mature way to handle it.
Edit: Yeaaaah, I was being a troll and petty little fuck about it, too. I jumped a bandwagon and missed an opportunity to be more constructive.
I'm not saying that I was never a part of the bullshit, I'm just saying I had a mental click a while back and realized the negative feedback loop on Hog Pit that I was participating in was adding to a large, more communal problem, that was circling back and making the hobby a polluted environment for me. It's like a systemic infection. Just because I was being negative on MSB(the lungs) didn't mean that negativity wasn't following me to Fallcoast (the heart).
I think that when it comes to the negative aspects of MSB people have to ask themselves how much venom they're willing to put into the community knowing the risks that it'll pollute their server-side RP refuge. I don't think some people think holistically enough to be willing to give up their super current right now issue hate this person so much to lay down the sword.
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RE: Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.
@Auspice Yeah, I 100% do not partake in company charity events, save for the occasional "company talent show" where ticket sales go to charity or "popcorn and watch movie at work".
I view it as a conflict of interest to assist them in lowering their tax rate, especially in ways where they get the donation for my time put into charitable causes.
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RE: MSB: The meta-discussion
@Three-Eyed-Crow Oh I gotcha. I wasn't feeling accused or backed up into a corner. I think you've made a great point. I just threw in some details about that whole situation because that 100/5W discussion is a larger part of the reason when I, personally, feel I started identifying where I wanted to step away from the larger problem.
Long and short? I think the negativity issue on MSB is a lot like when you've got a friend who says bad things about everyone they know. You hear all kinds of dirt on everyone: Your friends, strangers, their friends, everyone but you. So...Does that mean that when they talk to others, they're not talking about you? Probably not.
It was after that 100 thread, maybe a bit before, but definitely after it I gave it enough thought to alter my approach, that I realized I was surrounded by people who had a lot to say about a lot of people. I don't really wanna be a part of that anymore.
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RE: Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.
Oh, sorry, I got something wrong.
It's not an "ice bucket challenge" while driving to raise bottled water for homeless people.
It's an "Ice Bucket Challenge" AAAAAAND a water balloon fight.
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RE: MSB: The meta-discussion
@mietze said in MSB: The meta-discussion:
Everyone knows that everything you say in skype and all always gets back to people eventually.
I can agree with you on this. I can attest that this is one-hundred percent true.
Edit/Addition: ...But it doesn't stop it from happening as if it won't get back to the person.