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All addictions are forms of escapism. To me, all escapism runs a very high potential to be an addiction, at some level of severity.

This one came along in the last two generations, and thus is just "coming to light" to researchers, who always seem to be several decades behind the advent of things.

I think, in less years for them to have declared gaming an addiciton, social media addiction will be "discovered".

@Lotherio The end of Inglorious Basterds was a historical WW2 MU where staff totally did not care about keeping the metaplot immutable.

I try to look towards board games for ideas of how to handle mechanics in MU*s. Pen & paper RPGs is where our hobby was mainly birthed and draws the RP culture from, why not utilize the other side of the tabletop game hobby to inform our mechanics rather than trying to borrow from Crusader Kings, Civilization, etc. Our format seems much more suited for the simpler mechanics that board games have than the spreadsheets of computer strategy games.

I mentioned Republic of Rome in another thread as one game that has an interesting political premise. There is Twilight Struggle and it's mechanics for spreading and combating the spread of influence. Medici is a pretty simple and fun economic trading game. Pit is too. Pandemics, Dead of Winter, Forbidden Island, Shadows Over Camelot, etc. all demonstrate how to handle group management of limited actions and how to present a crisis needing organization with simple mechanics. A few of them also show how to keep a traitor element from detailing the game and instead snaking it more fun.

Now obviously just importing a game with no changes wouldn't work, but using these games as inspirations and references rather than trying to make Europa Universalis but with more roleplaying might be the better route to take.

Grah, per SE, I know 'say' is not Latin.

@Steel I'm glad it helped

@mietze said:

It can be a bit of a balance though. My ideal is someone who has a PC with flaws, who RPs them, but who is /also/ capable of give and take and noticing/playing off others' flaws too. Because there are some people who are so in love with their broken PC that sometimes they become very self centered as far as needing that to be the focus of all scenes you have with them. (The If Only People Bothered to Unwrap My Awesome PC but Instead They're Bothering Me With Their Own Stuff people--I bet everyone has experienced that too.)

This is actually what I find the most enjoyable with MU* RP, the interactivity, having your characters learn about others, having others learn about your character, having relationships develop etc.

One of my most amazing experiences was when the person I RP'd with ICly commented on a minor thing from one of my poses more then a week previously. I felt completely floored by the fact someone had actually noticed and remembered such a minute detail.

I'm not particularly good at making deep and flawed characters, however I try to make characters that are interested in others and hopefully fun to interact with.

Yay! The people who made it are the best! Truly great folks. If you have a place to share non-MU* related things over on your space, pop up the link maybe? I don't think they are in the hole on this project after all the cons, but they have new ones coming up, and exposure is good. The 'geek movie business' is a niche at this point, but people are learning that the audience isn't as small as expected.