I recycle elements. The PB of this game mixed with the concept of that game. I recently tried a reimagining or remix of a character but it's just a reused PB now. He came out different.
Also, there are only so many occupations I feel comfortable portraying, for example. So yeah, I play an EMT again or whatever. I did all the dang research before it's easy to pick up and best of all: I HAVE FUN WITH IT.
@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.
@Tinuviel Word. It's a feature. Flaw. Trait. Whatever.
I feel they are within their right to say, 'Yo. Cool it with the Brits for a sec.' Because the game isn't set in the UK. I'm not as firm on the amputee temp ban. I thought I saw it mentioned that the player(s) had an arc and I know that feel. It's nice if the game is small and the focus narrow to allow a player (or players) to work their angle. I just stepped out of a potential play group because my niche was covered BETTER by someone else and I was super sad about it. But I didn't want to fight with the other person on who getting to be cooler. So, fuck it, let them shine. I'll shine elsewhere.
So I get it. What's strange to me is like...how many amputees apped? More than...two and It'd raise an eyebrow.
@Tinuviel One or two bartenders, sure. Amputees? I mean...that's kinda weird. And this is coming from me who plays disabled characters on the regular. Though, if I did play at GH, I'd play able bodied. Be a real renegade.
@krmbm That is so stunning and bizarre that I feel like I need to be a part of this experience.
I was able to get onto the site and I am very curious about one thing.
Why the ban on amputees? PIs and Bartenders, whatever. Word, word. But did they have a wave of amputee apps and had to be like. STOP. All limbs now.
Just curious.
A month of radio silence though? That's not the best omen ever.
Feeling like after all this time, I might be part of an actual community. With cool, fun, interesting, creative people are roughly as crazy as I am.
I was just coming back to pick up the address 
Good luck and if Matt Murdock's available when you return, I am going to play Daredevil. Damn it!
Reconnecting with a long lost friend and RP partner. I missed my bud, man.
I think I was born to be a nerd. My uncle, whom I was close to growing up, was a computer science major (Or similar) in the late 80s/early 90s. I was but a guppy who loved watching horror movies and stealing glimpses at Leisure Suit Larry.
Later, I was about 5 years old, I received an NES. I got a Game Boy when I turned eight. By the end of a decade, I was a fine young nerd. I had internet first amongst my friends. We are rural. I am the least rural, so I was first to get high speed.
I PC gamed through the 00s. Serious Sims player. I picked up console gaming again in '10s
MEANWHILE, when I was PC gaming, I picked up World of Warcraft and began role playing there. I met @Daeladras. He dragged me into nWoD and MUSHing in about 2011.
Looking back, my uncle and I, were kinda blazing a trail for nerdy black people. Like, I was a weirdo outcast so the kids can do the same today and be appreciated for it. 
I identify as queer because I don't like the word pansexual for whatever reason. And saying "I really don't care who or what you are/identify as." is a lotta words. I'm also a cis woman of color. I'm a "tomboy" of sorts, raised by a mother with two brothers and a father with...more brothers! Big dick energy everywhere. I feel feminine in that down to your bones kinda way but I don't have traditional girly/feminine ways.
And what do I play? White dudes, mostly. Usually straight-ish. I can't even think like a Kinsey 0. Even my straight guys will kiss a boy if the situation calls for it. But if I'm honest, I don't assign a sexuality to any character until it comes up in play. I like romantic RP and I'm not going to turn it down because I firmly decided that this character is straight as an arrow when conceived. And I am not here for the "Character X turned him gay" story. Nope. Pass.
My last few attempts at playing a female have failed miserably. Like I can't even connect anymore Like women are some sort of mystery creature I can't fake. It's so weird. I try not to think too hard. I did first begin to play males as a refuge from skeevy male players after one too many bad experiences. And hey! This is why I've never played a lesbian. I assume that there is a dude behind the keyboard and he's just wants to fap. Logically, I know this is untrue. The guy who brought me into MUing was a dear friend who loved played females and sometimes they were lesbians and he was mostly normal.
Still. Still.
Hitting it off with a stranger. Shy Goldfish counts these as blessings.
Speaking as female of color, who played a white male in Horror's take on 1902: I think the progressive culture of our players and game made it a safe place to explore ideas that would get you run outta town or worse in real life. Now, this is for the same of my fun and (general) their fun.
My Dude sided-eyed a gay couple dancing. I had something vaguely bigoted in the next pose and I was like, naw, this ain't right. For one, I had already established that he was a woman beater, having slapped the shit out of one in front of another woman and I'd made allusions to him having hit his late wife, a close female friend, and his young sister in law. (I think. It wasn't a thing I made a huge deal about but it was firmly in my head canon) I didn't think that him calling a couple of perfectly happy men dancing something ugly was going to suddenly improve our historical accuracy. I'd have just been the asshole.
ICly, he had various reason to at least to keep his bigoted opinions to himself. A short list. Well known family head fucked anything with a heartbeat, making people he grew up with all colors of the rainbow. He'd lived 'Back East' as a Pinkerton for 8ish years before the story. He'd seen things and probably made peace with some more controversial things at the time. He was a disabled laudanum addict and had no place to throw stones, as far as he was concerned. Lastly, he was a closeted bisexual. Very, very closeted. All of that before you take into account Horror's archetype system and my character's archetype. The Confidant. He wants friends. He wants to help people. He wants to be supportive.
@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.
Horror MUX has had one present day story. The first. Then it was 2149 on a space station. Then 1902 in the dying Old West. Then 1989 through the 80s horror film lens. Soon: 1934, Dust Bowl.
I think the cyclical nature of the game lends itself well to period settings, I feel. We aren't there long enough to fret too much about accuracy or long term issues. I love, love, love historical settings so I'm terribly happy.
In case you missed it on the ad board, we are open!
http://portland.echoes.wiki/Main_Page
Character pages are still baking but all the infomation on theme and setting is there and good and mouse over the links on the front page because trust me.
We are open!
http://portland.echoes.wiki/Main_Page
The wikl, of today 3/2/2019, is not yet ready for account creation and character pages are still in the works but all the theme and setting information is there.
The supported Supernatural Templates are Lost Boys, Atariya, and Psychic Vampires. They are not able to pick up Supernatural Merits, except Supernatural Resistance, which is also open to Ghouls and Wolfblooded.
@Botulism I have made my desire to play old asylum very vocal but I'd play any of those stories with gladness and glee.
The 20XXs War of the Worlds made me terrified of that..noise. The one all the movie trailers abused after. That one is kinda bone chilling to me.