Posts made by Ghost

I also have:

• Cartoon Action Hour: Remake any 80s cartoon, basically.
• Shinobigami: Anime-themed high school ninja fighting each other. The kickstarter has been fucking horrible. 2+ years just to get the pdf and am "ALLEGEDLY" (aaaaaaaaairrrrquooooootes) getting my physical book soon. But very cool.
• Ninja Burger 2nd Edition: You are a ninja from one of 5 different clans. Your duty is to deliver bags of fast food to clients while being attacked by other ninja. Dropping the bag and messing up the order brings shame to your clan. 2d6 system where if you roll snake eyes you literally become Snake Eyes from GI JOE until someone else rolls snake eyes.

The last time I played Ninja Burger, my ninja killed an entire office full of people just to deliver a quarter pound burger, fries, and a shake to a guy in accounting (because being seen brings dishonor to Ninja Burger).

If you're drinking that night? Ninja Burger. Period. Full stop.

@Derp said in X-Card Code Idea:

Now, that said, I think if it's anonymous (which this system should make it, since the emit is coming from an object presumably in the master room), that the other players have a chance to say 'Yeah, cool' or 'No, that's not reasonable.'

Yeah I imagine the code/idea would only be as good as the policies surrounding it.

@Kanye-Qwest said in Gray Harbor Discussion:

@Ghost i like lots of silly fantasy based entertainment. I just don't like Star Wars. Or dr. Who. or Harry Potter. things that make people get snide and make weird assumptions. Tastes differ, there's no reason to be a butt about it.

Thanks for clarifying. Snide people are basic as fuck.

Lets get back on topic.

I would love to see a Dark Ages vampire-only (so Vampires and ghouls) game.

@surreality said in Looking for a specific game...:

@Ghost ...that is weird, wild genius, and I want to know, too.

FUCK I know right?!?! I heard about this and am asking everywhere right now. I may just steal that initiative idea for my less serious one-shot games.

I can just see it now:

GM: "Okay, the thematic street gang clicks out their switchblades. Initiative starts with...."

STEVEN TYLER: "Come here, baby..."

GM: "Detective Jake Valentine, what do you do?"

Was at a Con this weekend and this came up as a topic. I think it might be fun, here.

SHARE THE WEIRD/FRINGE RPG PDFs/BOOKS IN YOUR COLLECTION

I'll go first:

• Hellcats and Hockeysticks: Mean girls ruining each other's lives at an all-girls boarding school.
• Beach Patrol: Basically Baywatch. It's amazing. Tiny d6 from Gallant Knight
• Zombie Smackdown: It's an expansion book for All Flesh. Zombie Pro Wrestling
• Solid: Roleplaying in the Blaxploitation genre. Suckas.

I was told there's an indie RPG based on 80s cop shows like T.J. Hooker and 21 Jump Street where combat initiative is done by each character having their own theme song on an MP3 playlist on shuffle, then players go in order as the themesongs come out.

Does anyone know which game this is? I need it for my collection.

@Rinel said in Gray Harbor Discussion:

small area of woodland going totally still in the middle of an oncoming storm making everything windy, and a fog rising out of the forest edge.

Sidebar: I like that a lot. Curious what the answer is from the players, but wanted to props that imagery. I looooove that kind of stuff.

@Kanye-Qwest said in Gray Harbor Discussion:

this might come as a surprise, but not everyone likes your particular jam of silly fantasy. I haven't seen a star wars move in its entirety since I was a child in the 80s, and I don't really remember much beyond not caring.

Yanno, I've heard that there's this caste of really really really really intelligent and like super highly educated people with all kinds of articulation who don't have the time to dedicate themselves to silly fantasy-based entertainment.

Never thought I'd run into one here!

@Thenomain said in BESM 4th Edition KS:

I've heard BESM 3rd is flexible enough to apply to pretty much whatever genre you want. Yes? No? Will 4e be the same?

It is. I'm not entirely sure just yet what 4e has coming in terms of rule changes, but 3e was very flexible. You could easily use it to recreate any genre or create your own. It's definitely a keeper in my collection.

@Kanye-Qwest said in Gray Harbor Discussion:

@Bad-at-Lurking i don't. I assume those were star wars jokes?

Are you unaware of who Han and Leia are?

I was thinking about it...

Whether or not you're 100% on board with the X-Card (I'm not saying that I am just yet), I realize that there have been dozens of situations Even I have run into in mushing where I felt like I wished that I could anonymously call out a "nopenopenope" safe word without it turning into a personal issue.

Now, I still think the x-card would work better in a real-time (I.e. not turn based, but TT or Online TT) environment , but the thought did cross my mind that:

A + command (ex: +xcard) that would anonymously announce that the xcard and why it was pressed would be fairly easy to code

Ex: +xcard=rape
"The X-Card has been pressed. Please roll back pose or future mentions of: <content after the =>"

Eyyyyyy. Resurrecting with new information.

Over the weekend I was privileged enough to get a game in with the creator of "Happiest Apocalypse on Earth". He is an avid fan of the "X CARD" and he described it in a way that clicked well with me.

He said that he finds that players often seem more likely to get grimdark (my fave!) when there IS an x-card on the table because they can do so knowing everyone has the ability to opt out at any time; that the existence of the X-card makes it more okay to make bold/daring IC decisions because theyre comfortable knowing that anyone who doesnt like it can X it.

The X card can make a player less nervous to try things.

I really liked that.

@TNP said in Gray Harbor Discussion:

@Ghost said in Gray Harbor Discussion:

Would non-white and queer concepts exist during WW2? Of course.

Case in point: this gay Jewish cross-dressing assassin.

To be fair that's only a case in point outside of established military functionality, but it's a hair not worth spending time splitting too much. It's a wonderful story, but not what I was talking about.

Resistance fighter != Rank and file military

@Auspice said in The litRPG thread:

@Ghost said in The litRPG thread:

@Auspice said in The litRPG thread:

I actually have never watched/read Sword Art Online. >.>

It's all on Nertflerx. It's pretty good anime. Thousands of people stuck in an online VR game where death in-game means death for real...and they can't disconnect.

Sooooo.... Reskinned .hack?

Kinda, but I think SAO is better by far. I also like that they change games between seasons.

@Auspice said in The litRPG thread:

I actually have never watched/read Sword Art Online. >.>

It's all on Nertflerx. It's pretty good anime. Thousands of people stuck in an online VR game where death in-game means death for real...and they can't disconnect.

@RDC Theoretical/rhetorical question:

"Is it acceptable to write a setting where <insert demographic> characters are allowed but due to an authoritarian setting there are existing discriminatory laws about what behavior is or isnt permitted publicly?"

Example: In V for Vendetta (going for movie reference since most people have seen it) there are many references to forbidden love which resulted in acts of heroism that wouldn't have been impactful at all if not for the authoritarian horror of the setting. The toilet-paper written story of the actress with the Scarlet Carsons for example, or another being Dietrich (played by openly out Stephen Fry) heroically taking on the regime despite having a basement full of contraband.

None of these would have been nearly as important to a good story had the setting not been written as something that mushers would find revolting. If V for Vendetta were originally a MUSH, it would have said: "...takes place in an alt-history version of England were homosexuality and non-Anglican religion are outlawed during an era of few civil rights." I think some mushers are distanced enough from their characters to see this as challenging and daring, whereas others would view it as a personal insult.

My stance is that I am not 100% into these "pie in the sky" settings in some cases because it's the challenges of these settings that keep ideas and inspiration fresh.

@Roz said in Gray Harbor Discussion:

The conversational thread prior wasn't about whether or not people should be forced to bend their setting to be ahistorical. It was about the idea of not allowing certain fundamental types of identities to be played at all, sometimes despite them definitely existing

I apologize for derailing, then. Moooooove along. I was just self-checking "Under what circumstances would denying these demographics be reasonable" and all I came up with was "historical accuracy". So I went bleh blah blah historical accuracy and was sharing my brain. I derailed. Mea culpa.

ON POINT: I think it would be a poor decision for a MUSH, given the number of LGBTQ+ mushers, to deny agency to those player concepts or create settings that refuse them. I think it's risky with playerbases and popularity. I also think that the social politics of demographics in canon characters is a bias minefield that people arent ready to handle in any way that is truly open-minded, which is a particular danger for superhero games.

@Meg said in Gray Harbor Discussion:

Feel free to disagree as you want, but I do think wanting to run a game based in an era where they can exclude people of color and LBTQ+ people does have a basis in bigotry.

I'm not saying you are a bigot if you want to run that game, but I am saying I think that action is bigoted and has a basis in bigotry.

There's my hot take for the day.

Counterpoint:

To some degree I agree with you. It's reasonable to ask "Why the focus on an era that would deny these character types?" However, I know way too many military realism dorks that be like: "* Ennnhhhhh, I'm not racist but if this is supposed to be a military realism game it's weird that a Samuel L. Jackson PB is an officer.*"

This is why I think BSG was fucking rad. Their military set up gave zero fucks. Multicolor. Multilifestyle. I wouldn't want to personally run a "historical realism" game myself because the boundaries of holding to history are too constricting.