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@Ghost I'm going to double check when I get home, just to make sure

@PuppyBreath the lone deserted highway east of Omaha, not so deserted with all the people trying to get out of the city on weekends ing Loess hills for recreation or wineries. This was a crazy winter, I still use a shovel and got a his five foot pile at the end of the driveway this year.

I had fun enough with their Star Trek game with my TT group. For a MUX I think I'd suggest using GURPS and their Prime Directive line.

There's probably an amazing marketing opportunity that WWE could take by having Wrestlemania be from the Performance Center, but probably won't because of course they won't.

Also I need to catch up with AEW, I'm a few months behind due to all my writing shit.

Some of my funniest RP has been through text messages. Love it!

@tragedyjones said in White Wolf Street Fighter:

Cool! I only briefly flipped through that book, once. Never saw that part.

Yeah, it's pretty good. It's like a deck-building card game crossed with an RPG. Any White Wolf game can be cheesed, but the simplicity of the mechanics prevent a lot of that, and the card game aspect brings in elements that add entirely new player skills to gaming.

Got naked, rolled on her stomach, looked back and said 'Kiss me.' all demanding-like. He kissed my character's shoulders, got an impatient look for his efforts. Kissed down her spine; her back arched - better. He finally kisses her ass cheek and that's what I'd been waiting for. Rolled over, pulled on a robe, and told him she was merely interested in seeing if his actual ass-kissing was more interesting than his repeated attempts to do so publicly for favor. It was not, and he was dismissed.

Never pestered me trying to suck up and put others down to make himself look good again. Maybe he learned a lesson, maybe I just pissed him off. Doesn't matter, I thought myself very clever and laughed about it for days. I'm still laughing now and it's been years. Where does the time go.

I gotta say, tho, He Is is one of my favorite songs of theirs in a while.

Shenanigans!

https://youtu.be/laNRPAjKQsM

@Chet Nah I've never played sociopath before. Far too likely that people will assume that I am representing myself through the character. People get judgy like that and sociopathic heel-type characters tend to end up just being avoided outright.

LU is some of the best entertainment wrestling easily available in the US.
I personally prefer RoH but that is mainly based o nthe quality of in ring action, production value and storyline-wise LU is superior, even if you are not a wrestling person the storylines are quite fun.

@tnp That would have the potential to be a hell of a lot of fun.

Day fucking one.

I'm really surprised, actually that anyone cares about MU*s in any official capacity. That astounds my brain considering how few people are involved with any particular game.

@Spitfire Peta-player Here. Glad to hear you're still alive and kicking. I hope things are going good in your life these days. ❤

I think the genre of the game applies, too. In Game of Thrones, being the victim of a villain or facing justice for being one, usually isn't a pretty sight. Whereas Darth Vader's TIE fighter can get beaned and float off into space "CURSE YOU, LUKE SKYWALKERRRRrrrr...."

How this could be implemented highly revolves around the IC stakes of the game. WoD, Walking Dead, Game of Thrones, etc would require a lot more creativity to determine what kinds of defeat don't equate to death, but if you look closely these genres DO have villains that are defeated, evolve, return, etc.

It is literally derived from their Rail Wars wargame. They produced that and Deadlands, and the wargame version won out. Would it feel better to call it a skirmish game?

Most RPG rules hold their basic form based on their descent from wargames. The most famous would probably be Blackmoor which gave personalities and goals other than win this battle to a wargame, and inspired Dungeons & Dragons.

A few examples of games moving away from that would be Burning Wheel/Burning Empires, the Apocalypse Engine, FATE, and more free narrative oriented systems like Don't Rest Your Head, The Solar System.

It's never about what you resolve, unless you can only resolve combat I suppose, it's about how you go about it.

And yes, I agree with you @ThatGuyThere. It fails to be engaging as a roleplaying game, nor striking as a wargame. Malifaux and other skirmish games do better because they know the game mechanics and how you go about resolving things is the game play and has to be engaging. Savage Worlds relies on the strengths of any roleplaying group to make their generic system fly.

tldr; My criticism is that as a system it aims at the personal engagement level of a skirmishing game. That it is not great as a skirmish game only makes it worse.