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DISCLAIMER These are daydreams, and I will not be returning to MU, even for this scenario.

But I will gladly consult on stuff to make things horrible foe the players.

I'm now LOLing at the idea of him dying, then afterwards when everyone is at the compound with full memory of what happened, someone turns to him and goes...

"Soooooo...about that time you put on 250 pounds and performed AMERICAN BADASS while giving CM Punk a lap dance..."

Man, this set my brain on fire.

I'm now thinking of a character who spends 99% of the year as a boring CPA out of Council Bluffs, Iowa, but when the Juggalo Gathering comes...

DJ RobotFingaz comes out. He specializes in 8bit Kid Rock covers and performs entirely in Optimus Prime armor made out of Faygo Cans. He never turns down performing lap dances for anyone, and is known for making sweet-ass weed chili and is a backyard wrestling powerbomb expert. He is also roughly 350 pounds (2% muscle...ladies) and covered in rub-on tattoos.

His wife occasionally calls and he tells her that he's at a State Farm in northern Michigan working out car accident settlement claims.

@Botulism said in Horror MUX - Discussion:

Every so often, I threaten the players with THIS story for a future season:

An alien invasion at the annual Gathering of the Juggalos. You Faygo drinking ninjas are all that stands between alien invaders and the rest of the Earf.

And they keep pushing me to pull the trigger.

@surreality I said I couldn't be convinced to mush again, but I didn't mean it.

What I should have said was: I will not mush again unless "An alien invasion at the annual Gathering of the Juggalos" is on the table.

It's official:

I am going to play the ass off of Anthem.

@Ganymede What, a human trash panda wasn't enough, so now you're gonna play the ACTUAL TRASH PANDA?

@BobGoblin waaaaaaaaaaaat no shit??

I'm gonna see them again in July so I'll probably get it then.

One other thing I love about their stuff is that it isn't expensive. I love the smaller books for smaller $ trend versus the gigantic 50-70 dollar book.

@BobGoblin Yea and the guys behind the games are great. I'm really rooting for them. When I saw them last (a few months ago) I picked up Tiny Wasteland, which is going to be amazing for Mad Max stuff. I didn't hear anything about Tiny Supers at the time, but since they've made a Tiny game for damn near every genre I wouldn't be surprised to see them do it.

@Runescryer I know it's not FASERIP. I'm talking about the MWP version. Could never get my finicky-ass TT group to try it.

@Goldfish Have fun, then. Sounds like you chose the right FC for you.

@Auspice You're right.

I think people who play FCs need to remember that any given tabletop RPG or MU isn't going to replay stuff the FC has already done. So knowing how Daredevil solved anything in some 1987 Daredevil run is less important than getting to the core of the character so that decisions will feel like decisions he would make.

Which, in most cases, is to constantly push yourself to the point of breaking every bone in your body because you love your friends and dont want them getting hurt in your fights. Then confession. Penance is a big theme with Daredevil.

@Goldfish Netflix Daredevil is actually a pretty accurate portrayal of what's in the comics, character personality-wise.

Often a loner. Roots for the underdog. Takes on hopeless cases. Constant martyr. Willing to die for a cause. Elektra is his Achilles heel.

I think the only thing people dont like is what someone plays an existing character and alters the shit out of them, like a Happy-Go-Lucky Partying Dancing Punisher, for example.

Aw, man, someone made a game using the MSHRPG system after I quit mushing?

Ya fuckers.

Bruno Ganz, also known as The Guy Who Played Hitler in Downfall and ALL OF THOSE PARODY VIDEOS has passed at age 77.

@Ganymede Everyone loves the quarterback who will throw them the ball. Everyone dislikes the quarterback who keeps it for themselves.

Oh, I know!

Lemme drop a few names from people in my neighborhood who had RPGs come out in 2018, on or around, who deserve some notice.

Tiny D6 (Gallant Knight Games) WEBSITE are some great guys and are making games fast. They've got rules-minimal, RP-high systems and have put out books in post-apocalyptic, fantasy, sci-fi, amd in 2018 their pseudo Baywatch title (BEACH PATROL) got funded. Theyre on DriveThru.

Happiest Apocalypse on Earth made it to DriveThru in 2018. You can find it here

I'm also kind of surprised that Legend of the Five Rings isn't getting more attention, too. The newest edition came out in 2018 as well. John Wick is a great guy (not to be confused with Keanu and guns).

@ZombieGenesis That just...stinks. Sorry to hear that. Not to take this too much towards the political, but people have been harassed for less (namely Kellie Tran from Star Wars). My favorite "leaving Twitter" response was from Will Poulter after Black Mirror Bandersnatch.

Regardless, that article in the OP puts my feelings about V5 pretty well at the end: it's the best version of Vampire yet.

@Arkandel said in Best (PnP) RPGs of 2018?:

A villain is defined by performing villainous acts. If they happen to not be to your liking then don't buy the product, but this trend of actively campaigning against products - or writers - because of the material itself gives me the creeps. It's no less than organized attempts at censorship.

Yeah, I get the creeps out of some of the growing social trends going on, most of them seem to be centered around the U.S.

It is shockingly easy right now to destroy someone's career with an accusation without evidence, diametrically opposed opposition are lobbying for censorship of content they don't like and want unchecked censorship for content that meets their approval, and the growing norm is to try to use social lynch mobs to force businesses to do things they want under duress.

It's really unnerving to me. A guy I know said that everyone involved with V5 should be (actual quote) skinned alive or at the very least chased out of the industry and blacklisted.

We really have passed the point of burning actual heretics to creating new definitions of heretic, because people are unwilling to admit that maybe it isn't the heretic that they hate, but the feeling of doing the punishing that drives them.

This hobby is notorious for having opinionated people spread opinions without actually addressing it with the person they have the opinion with. Little gaggles of people talk amongst themselves and/or anyone who will listen in private discord chats that they hope aren't logged or forwarded to the person that's being talked about.

Ask the person if they can schedule a scene with you. If they are unwilling to or ditch said plans regularly to RP with others, chances are your character isn't where they're wanting to focus their energies or there's something else going on. Use the three strikes rule.

You're not entirely off. There are a lot of people in the hobby who harbor long-term opinions on players, but if you can't jar an actual scene out of someone, then you don't really need to pry it out of them; people role play with people they want to RP with. Period.

All you can really do is be nice to people and check your own behavior to ensure that you're not behaving in a way that you wouldn't want others to treat you. Understand that there are people who simply aren't upfront about not wanting to RP, any existing opinions, or are perhaps zeroed in on some other existing arc of RP that they don't want to overbook themselves.

@Killer-Klown Agreed 100%. To put it bluntly, for a game that previously had a book with a vagina with teeth on the cover, saying that some Brujah might be alt-right or that radical Islamic vampires were involved in Chechnya IMO isn't shocking.