Best posts made by Goldfish

@surreality , preach!

I've always felt strange in Historical settings playing a male. In Horror's case, he's a white male. In contrast, I am not a white male. I knew a great many growing up. Had many good friends and dated one for a decade. It's those people I draw from. I always feel like I'm doing the period a disservice of I don't, at least, faintly gloss over a social matter. I won't shoehorn something I preplanned. It's more like, "Oh, hey! This is a spot to highlight something problematic." Keeps me in the headspace, I think. Helps form the voice and inform the character.

That said, on Horror, we make no issue of it. It's not a A Very Special MU. We are just slightly more woke. I have had OOC discussions about race and the historical context of the story and lemme tell ya. We are civil AF.

ETA: On Horror, my PC has a lingering trait of being disabled in some way. It's a long story. But my point is I feel super comfortable playing with that idea over there and have had a great time researching these things in a historical context.

Reconnecting with a long lost friend and RP partner. I missed my bud, man.

A month of radio silence though? That's not the best omen ever.

@Tinuviel You have a point. Slippery slope fallacy and all. (If someone could link that awesome fallacy image I found here once. Epic.)

At that point, it breaks down into do you trust the staff? Do you cosign their vision? Do you have friends who do and can you tolerate the staff bullshit to play with them. And so on.

ETA: I didn't see that there was a new page of discussion! So I play a lot of characters with disabilities. I don't fetishize them. (I don't think I do. If someone has receipts, I'll accept them. But I know it is not my intention.) Even after a decade of playing these concepts, I put in my work. I research, I read personal stories, when I had a character with a similar issue as a friend, I talked to him. Not to mention all the experiences I have personally bore witness to or heard about.

I do my very best to approach each of these character with respect to other players that I don't know and can't see. And while the concept might be born as: nWoD Hunter who uses a wheelchair. From then on, it's character first. Who is this person? How does this affect them in the day to day? In a scene in a coffee shop? While fighting a monster? And how does it not matter? It doesn't in the coffee shop. But the monster might tip his ass over. Then what?

Point is. I try. I try to approach it with thoughtfulness. That's it.

@thesuntsar If I had a nickel for when RP managed to pull me out of whatever funk I'm in or make me feel better, I'm proud to say I'd have a nice nest egg.

It takes a lot of guts to apologize on the internet. People spend a lot of time doubling down on their opinions and standing firm when we could all be more flexible and forgiving and kind to one another.

Online friendships are tenuous under the best circumstances. I've lost many people far too easily and I have walked away with no more than a change of a screen name. I didn't know what was going on with you and I never poke or dig or press for those reasons. I rather have my friend hopefully come around than push them away.
No one is perfect. No one is above ugly behavior under the right circumstances. It doesn't make a person bad. Simply flawed, like the rest of mankind.

That said, I accept your apology, unconditionally. I am so happy to hear that you fought your cancer and are winning the battle. I wanna keep you for a while longer.

EDIT: Also, word to @Ghost. I don't keep score either.

I'm totally uncreative when it comes to chance encounters and scene sets so I stole the best of this list from tumblr. Credit to that person, whoever you are.

• A storm is delaying our flight/drive/travel. Let's talk while we wait.
• We're both in small claims court and you totally stopped me from catching a charge by holding me back from punching the guy I'm in court with.
• Minor vehicle collision. Gotta exchange that info.
• I just drove X hours to the last store with Y item and there you are with MY thing in checkout.
• I just bought that thing you were selling online and we met and you are kinda cool.
• We both decided to take this (Yoga/Cooking/Whatever) class but we aren't taking it seriously and we're cracking up and everyone kinda hates us.
• You want me to sign your petition but I have no idea what the hell you are going on about.
• I'm wasted at this festival/public event and before I cracked my head on something, you helped me out. What a bro.

I don't ST often. I can't really organize a whole plot or a whole story of mystical elements. I could run combat on the basis and agreement that I'm not gonna nitpick and I do run a less than mechanically tight scene. There was a time when I would do template changes but I can't quite retain all of the template fluff (I'm speaking of WOD here) that I used to.

Either way, I really, really prefer more intimate, character driven sort of scenes. I've offered for this corner of STing that I think is not served. And it's character fluff type stuff. People pick up merits like Mentor or just have certain people in their background or as NPCs and as much as I like plot, characters feed my soul.

In addition, I had the idea at one game I was at to run scenes like "Let's roll your obscure dice." or "Wanna show off? Wanna flex your powers without flexing at a fellow a PC?"

They would be small. You want an NPC for a dying mother? Tell me about her. We'll talk and I'll make it happen for you, as best I can. PC can stop me at anytime and be like, naw, not my mom. We adjust, etc.

I always want to rustle around BGs and do backscenes and meet the special people who matter in a character's life. I like deep dive into my character and I end up writing vignettes and sometimes I post them. Most of the time, I feel isolated because so much is in my head for any given character

So if anyone other there who cares about you character development and think it made be super awesome to get into your backstory and connections or chat with a sage mentor or whatever. I got that on lock.

A face can set my creativity on fire. PBs often come before or right alongside a concept. Occasionally, I will be lazy and just pick my favorite thirst trap of the moment but a lot of the time, PB choice is as important as the background and stats.

@surreality We are so fucking grateful for your help that you can take all the time you need. We'll kick it old school and be wiki-less as long as it takes.

Because forms? That's the wave of the fucking future.

I love nWoD because it's all I know. I love the usual stuff. Urban fantasy, playing monsters, the ability to wedge any concept into it. But really, it's what I know. I have no intention of learning another system. I have no desire. nWoD gives me everything I need.

@Royal I was always dying for a reason to play with Jackson but our paths only crossed once or twice. I was never disappointed.

@surreality Yo, we'll make +finger hip again. It's all good.

This is just me but I've loved learning nWoD. I'm still learning, especially with 2.0. And I still can't do combat without handholding and I've been in this hobby for years. I can read the book cover to cover but without consistent and solid practice, I won't learn a thing in the long term.

Does this sound like a person who should be learning other systems to get into other games? Not to me, no. I happily play what I know. (Kinda)

I'm on the East Coast. For years all my partners were on the west coast. I saw the sun come up many a morning while still posing.

An update. I am becoming pervasive.

For those keeping score at home: Third use of Norman Reedus. He's my muse. That's just what's fucking up.

@roz regex highlight? Can I have that in english with a full tutorial? Please?

Meanwhile, I have posebreak and +poseorder's alert is highlighted as well. This are all great ideas guys. Thank you.

@Sunny I found myself apologizing and asking for recaps so many times that I got embarrassed and made this thread. I have a hard time following action anyway. I have a hard time picturing any scene. Like who is standing where, or where the enemy is in relation to me or how big the room is. That's just a Goldfish trait.

(Digression: I would have never made it through the Harry Potter books if I didn't start them at the same time the first film was released. JK's world is so vivid and wonderful but when I read, it's always very blank and bland. Having the films as reference made the books that much better for me. Still mad that my Sirius didn't look like Gary Oldman but WHATEVER)

Y'all just totally fucked up my WoD high social character. I'm like, What's the point? He's a good liar, persuasive, and is expressive in various ways, namely music and writing.

But why bother? I should just dump them points into combat and call it a damn day.

I swear us Pepsi fans must live in shame somewhere. Where are my people?

Mage? On Darkwater? In addition to Changeling?

I'm out.

Like I said recently to a group of friends, A multi sphere game is a trailer park and Mage is an F5 tornado. They don't mix. I say this as a person who loves 2e Mage. Loves it. Alone. By itself.