Posts made by Ghost

@Cupcake said in Re-Igniting Playspiration:

Should I be Kondo-ing, or grit my teeth and keep trying? Is there some other tactic to consider?

I wouldn't suggest muscling through it and gritting your teeth. That tends to result in resentment. Sometimes no matter how hard you beat the horse it won't Jesus.

My advice:

Step away. Make some tea. Ask yourself what you are really looking for in the hobby, if there was a time you had that, and how long it's been. Ask yourself if you currently feel like it's possible to get back to that. Is there hurt? Does the hobby make you feel negative things that dont feel good? (Self esteem, exclusion, unwanted).

You know you, and if you don't, knowing you will almost always help you find your way through times like these. When it comes to hobbies or social stuff it's not always a particular game or a person that is ruining it, but it can be tied more to unfulfillment of something that you may not be consciously aware of.

Example.

I was "forever GM" for my RL tabletop group for about 12 years. For 12 years I held this candle that I would get to PLAY in a Star Wars RPG game. For 12 years I kept running games my group loved and would always dangle this "okay who is running next?" carrot. No one ever bit. Eventually I said "after this one I'm done running, so if we want to keep playing one of you needs to step up." The group drifted apart rather than try to run, and I never got my SW game.

I was upset. After some tea and instrospection I realized that it wasn't because I never got my SW game, but because I had relied on my friends to give back and they never did.

Now, as a result, it wasn't a happy ending, but at least I am more aware that I need to seek a new gaming group rather than try another single year of beating my head against that wall. Unfortunate, but at least now I can own my feelings on the issue.

@Alamias Hahaha. Ive often wondered if people like you (who can never seem to find spicy enough food) are like this because you've been conducting chemically corrosive warfare on your mouth all this time.

@Alamias @ZombieGenesis It's always surprising when something is WAY spicier than it looks/smells aint it?

Jesus christ. Thank god I have this coffee with cream in it. Proceeding more carefully now because it's tasty as Hell, just surprisingly hot.

@Sparks Choose your poison. You're either keeping the great RP behind a wall where no one can see OR you're risking spoilers and metagaming.

Personally, I think the answer may be to create a spoiler tag for log entries and then double down on keeping an eye out for metagaming.

For example: Log32222 shows that CHARBIT found a secret temple hidden underneath a path of hills that no one would really bother to go to unless they had a treasure map, which CHARBIT did. They entered the hidden temple by pushing on one particular rock on a hillside.

CHARBIT2 suddenly just la-Dee-dahs out to said random hillside and decides to practice hitting a baseball bat against every rock on that particular hillside because it would be totally on accident that they'd hit the right one and oops their way into a hiddle temple they knew about OOCly.

It's a risk, but enforcing good/fair RP would protect against it.

Chef: It's called "Diablo Shrimp". It's spicy.

Me: "PFFFFFT whatevs."

Five minutes later...

Me: "HolyFuckMyLifeWTF..."

Strongbad Mux

With commands like:
+punchfaces
+papers (instead of sheet)
+tothelimit
+makemansbetter (healing)
+comeonreally? (staff complaint function)
+populationtire (+who)

All PBs are memes of the actor.

Characterbit=Heygurl
PB=Ryan Gosling "Hey Girl..." Meme.

@Meg said in New moderator.:

ok, but like, when are you guys going to make me a mod. i was voted 'most likely to be a funny mod 2018'.

1. that was 2018.
2. You backed me up like...twice on some things.

TFW you have a family member (parent) who defends racists with white supremecist ties but is horrified at the idea of someone finding out they have a family member who was doxxed for overt white nationalism/Neo Naziism.

But they are totally totally totally not racist. Really. Not at all. Fake people are my faaaaave.

what.

@Bobotron Horrid Reality is my big concern. It was craaaazy operpowered.

@Bobotron said in Vampire: The Masquerade 5th Edition (VtM 5E):

Ravnos and Tzimisce will be in the PG.

Ravnos, huh?

I thought they all died, or was it just the illusion of death? We're gonna find out. My SO loves the Ravnos, so she'll be happy to hear this.

Me, I hate the Ravnos until they uncheese Chimerstry.

@Rinel said in General Video Game Thread:

@Ghost said in General Video Game Thread:

Squenix just announced they have no plans to release the FFVII remake on any console other than PlayStation.

Suck it, Microsoft.

Wait wait wait wait wait

does that mean PC is off the table?

Article I saw from 2 days ago said it's ps4 only. No plans for PC or Xbox.

@Bad-at-Lurking What's interesting to me is that Modiphius got V5/WoD from Paradox, and there doesn't seem to be an IP that Modiphius doesnt like printing. They seem to be gobbling up product lines these days and have an existing relationship with Paradox.

So you're probably right that Paradox sold BESM rights back to the original owner. It's probably also right that Modiphus didnt want it OR it's low enough priority of an item that selling the IP back was probably deemed more profitable than attempting to continue the line.

@Bad-at-Lurking ^^^^^this.

IIRC weren't there people who paid for preorders of Game of Thrones content that lost their money when Guardians disappeared/shut down? I can't remember, but I remember hearing some anger about preorders when it happened.

Squenix just announced they have no plans to release the FFVII remake on any console other than PlayStation.

Suck it, Microsoft.

@Rinel I liked Road of Heaven a lot, because it made vampires feel very Kingdom of Heaven, which I think is a very underrated movie. It brought out a lot of deep thought into some characters. I love the idea of a Holy Knight continuing his search for Heaven even while living as a creature cursed by God.

Still, I think the newer systems where you define those things Meatloaf will NOT DO FOR LOVE allows for a path/road more personalized to the player/character's desires. Kind of like how some paths might be great on 6-7 of the tenets, but three felt weird?

@Rinel Personally, from what I've seen of your ethics/personality, V5 might actually be better a game for you than you know.

V5 has done away with defining what morality is. It's not the first vampire system to do it, but it encourages the group to determine x-card type content and then the moral tenets for the game itself. The group defines what face morality takes in the ongoing story, and then each character further defines their own morality.

It would be very easy to run a game/coterie (coterie is the V:tM term for a collective group of vampires who are their own team, so to speak) that all have similar morals and derive strength from following the path to humanity.

Also, despite bad press they've updated the theme to break up some of the canon boys club misogyny. It's now canon that a woman broke free of the male-dominated Thelema-styled Tremere Council and is forming a sect of Intersectional and experimental Tremere blood mages seeking to work together. They're hunted, but they're growing and have support.

Also, they introduced a Gangrel canon character named "Rudy". Gangrel are often chased out of cities (they're the animalistic-feral type clan), and in the new canon are outlawed in some domains. Rudy, in canon, has taken this to be similar to the treatment of minority vampires (not just gender, race, or sexuality, but also trash vampires shunned by the Camarilla, namely Gangrel, thin bloods whose vampire blood makes them weak but also daywalkers, and clanless Caitiffs) in some cities and is a canon "vampire civil rights" leader.

Plenty of good stuff to chew on.

@Bobotron I'm curious about this organized play. If they're going the D&D adventure league route and you can take your league-approved vampire from game to game I think it's an intriguing idea.

For a game that focuses on global events, I can see where some real-time events would be neat.

@Bobotron Goooooood shit all around. Fall of London will be a sweet campaign setting, Players Guides will likely answer a lot of clan questions like "Where are the Giovanni?", and the 2nd Inquisition book will have a lot of tasty treats to help define how dangerous it is to BE a vampire in the V5 setting. Love it.

Anyone excited for Marvel Ultimate Alliance 3?