@kitteh SOOOORY... 
A mermaid player
A player of mermaids
A mermaid who plays mermaids.
Mermaids have feelings, too, and I assure you that I would never do such a thing.
Because mermaids also have access to the kraken, sharks, and schools of jellyfish and hell hath no fury like a mermaid scorned.
@Arkandel said in Strange Game Dev Inquiries from surreality (condensed):
@kitteh said in Strange Game Dev Inquiries from surreality (condensed):
As a current mermaid player
I totally read that the wrong way.
I play mermaids all the time.
What they gonna do, come up onto land, find my apartment, and knock on my door if I don't call back?
Don't hate the playa...
@Roz said in Strange Game Dev Inquiries from surreality (condensed):
but I admit the attitude of "it's totally cool if people wanna get their RP freak on, but it's kind of weird that they'd ever post it" doesn't make a whole lot of sense to me.
Agreed. I like to think, in theory, that nothing ever happens on the game that should be kept OOCly secret. Not that I'd ever mandate NSFW RP is required to be posted, but simply I'd like to think it's all part of the story, and if the story involves NSFW content, it's really no different than any other log.
Then again, I don't care about posting NSFW content because any bit of RP I do isn't personal to me on an OOC level. It's a story about characters and team-based creative writing.
Constructively? I think a lot of people don't post NSFW content logs for the following reasons (again ghost wit the lists...)
As far as I'm concerned, people should post what they RP. The good the bad, the ugly, the sexy. We're all the same kind of nerd, here, and I think we can all agree that NSFW is fun.
@surreality said in Strange Game Dev Inquiries from surreality (condensed):
Yes, including NSFW content, if for some reason people want to post that. There are NSFW censor things people can use for this similar to the wiki spoiler template I posted a ways back in one of the help forums
Dude, I would totally read NSFW logs in the least creepy of ways.
I mean, work gets boring and on breaks it's nice to have logs to read, but reading some NSFW logs from other players might turn into some kind of Luke and Laura minor fan factor where the next time I see a certain two players post a NSFW log, I might be like: OMG GOTTA READ, HOLY SHIT, I HOPE THEY GOT OVER THAT WEREWOLF CHEATING EPISODE AND MADE UP!
I feel like I'm sometimes missing an entire 'high five' level of this hobby, because I'll comment on PubChan about how great X or Y log was. I totally wanna cheer on other people's RP, whatever it is. Heck, sometimes reading other people's love helps me find people I wanna RP with and I get a little bit giddy when I finally get a chance to:
Werewolf dude Steve is a fucking BADASS. I've read like...7 logs, and now my character just met Steve and they're accidental allies in the same bar right, how COOL IS THIS?!?
@The-Tree-of-Woe said in What's the new hotness?:
@Ghost Don't ever do that to a 2nd Edition Daeva, or it's the basement pit for you.
Hey, it's the World of Darkness. Mistakes get made. After a kiss, a Changeling gets turned into a basement live-in keggerator. Them's the breaks, and it'd be pretty sweet, IMO.
Edit: Yeah, I gotta admit, part of me kinda wishes they'd gone the "keep him safe" route to see how that RPed out.
Changeling has some pretty powerful stuff at the mid-lower range, though, you've just got to pay attention to when your eyes sweep over it in the book.
Spring Changelings have a power where, with a kiss, they can control the desires of the people they've just kissed.
On the surface, this power doesn't seem all too great, right? THE CHICK IS ALREADY KISSING ME, I DON'T NEED TO USE A POWER TO MAKE HER DESIRE ME. Sure, if you look at it that way...
...but what if you're in an interrogation room with a police officer?
Sure, your PC isn't attracted to the cop. 52, balding, beer belly, and with a penis might not be your character's type, but going to jail is less their type and it's just a kiss, right?
I've never seen social attributes and social skills lend to so powerful and so subjective a creature-splat power in a while. Controlling a desire? DAMN. The possibilities are extended, and upon certain critical level results, the change to their desires can last for days.
It can also lead to some fun backlash RP:
My changeling kissed a vampire to keep from being blood-drained, and altered the desire to 'keep <character> safe'. After I'd had the character use the power, I realized that it could have been interpreted as: "YOU MEAN SAFE IN A DUNGEON WHERE NO ONE CAN HARM HIM?". For my character's sake, I was grateful the other player didn't use that "AI" interpretation of "safe", but had she gone that route, I'd have honored it.
@Arkandel Fair enough. I need to reel it in a bit. I just hate seeing people do predatory things and then get what they wanted out of it.
See ya 'round. My continued presence in this thread won't be constructive. Thanks for gibbsmacking me into ducking out.
I'm exiting the thread, but I want to let it be said that when someone who's made a post seeking constructive input that she's worked hard on, for a game idea, getting nitpicked until she says "fuck it" and walks away, leaving the rest of us to look forward to the upcoming games run by the people who henpecked her to death...is not constructive.
What we end up with is a dwindling pool of new ideas and an environment defended by a handful of reliable long-timers and a growing population of people who have succeeded in chasing others off.
What happened in this thread was absolute horse shit, and while it may sound like Hog Pit, that is a constructive synopsis.
Peace.
Edit: and, yes, I hope she changes her mind, too. I would have played my ass off on that game.
@surreality ugh, either way, I'm more in your court. The number of self inflicted wounds by people trying to find rp only results in stupid OOC shit that ruins everyone's fun. The Hobby's fine, but truly, I'm getting pretty fed up by the negging/predatory/drama queen types that chase the sane people out of the hobby.
Recognizing when someone a lifeless troll fuck joins in on a 'Mildly Construtive' topic to discourage the OP and fuck around with everything is constructive.
Here's constructive for @bored : if you're so triggered into not trusting people and have all of these big opinions about rude people in the hobby, then act like a mature fucking adult and don't BE one of the people you claim to hate. You came into this thread to troll, to promote your 7th Sea preference, and sprinkle shit all over someone else's idea until they had a panic attack, said fuck it, and abandoned their creative work that didn't have shit to do with you.
Immature troglodytes like you are the reason people get all kinds of squicked in this hobby, or on these boards, and I hope a bear shits in your mouth.
That is fucking constructive. Fuck that guy.
Weeeeelllp. Looks like Chewlie's Gum guy got what he wanted.
Good luck on you and your friend's 7th Sea game, you lifeless fuck.
@bored I'm saying this to be constructive, not hostile, but I keep rereading your posts and I think you need to take a break. Not necessarily from the hobby, but perhaps this thread.
This stuff isn't that important.
@bored Samurai Cop is a proper noun. The S and C should be capitalized. Samurai Cop is a person.
Understanding this is the first step to understanding why.
Edit: I'm stopping to re-rail the thread now
@bored Enjoying it? Nope. Finding decent Samurai Cop gifs to counter troll you is hard work, dawg.
@bored 
"I've got your punchline right here, Bub."
@surreality and hey, COMMUNICATION IS ENCOURAGED.
When a landwalker and a merperson want to engage in sex, it's completely healthy to share with your partner how you like it. It's the only way to ensure both you and your partner are satisfied, and it shows that you care about their sex life, too.
But if they're slapping you repeatedly while coughing something out of their gills, you're probably not paying enough attention to their needs.
@bored said in Strange Game Dev Inquiries from surreality (condensed):
I'm happy to leave you to discussing the merits of tentacles vs flippers and the very RP relevant issue referenced by my gif
The one that questions where one puts their penis whilst entertaining a mermaid/merman/merperson/mirself caller?
The answer is: Pick a place, and if they like it, roll with it.
Edit: pardon my typos. Taking SQL backups while typing on phone. Don't wanna mention mermaid vaginae when I really mean 'SELECT * from...'
@surreality said in Strange Game Dev Inquiries from surreality (condensed):
...but if nobody wants that sort of thing, yes, please say so and spare me the time it would take to write it up!
Note: I will be personally Samurai-Copping people who say no, because FUCK YEAH, BUDDY! I'm excited about this one.
But in the interests of backing up @surreality and her wishes, please don't let the threat of me Samurai-Copping you deter you from honesty.
@bored said in Strange Game Dev Inquiries from surreality (condensed):
You can also fuck yourself. You're why we can't have nice things on this forum.
I'm also why we have Samurai Cop gifs on this forum.
Look, people, @surreality started this thread for constructive monster designs/etc for her game, not a pre-review from people going "I prefer the Mixmaster 4000 in purple, but it doesn't come in purple, so my constructive support is MEH". If you don't have anything actually constructive to contribute, then you're not required to contribute.
Surreality: I'm bogged down at work the next few days but I should have some ideas for you, soon.
This reads to me like a CHEWLIE'S GUM scenario where a person involved in the development of a 7th Sea game has arrived to give (super airquote time) "CONSTRUCTIVE" criticism of another Pirate/Freebooter themed game in development. Shocker. All of the constructive criticism seems to uphold the 7th Sea genre.
--"Pirate games with aliens are dumb. I think we deserve a pirate game without aliens set in a quasi historical setting, instead! I'm not a representative of 7th Sea, I swear, but...eh...off the top of my head HOW ABOUT 7TH SEA!?"
