@carma said in Weird or unrealistic gaming... stuff:
It's somewhat dissociating to RP with a character who has my RL name.
To this day I'll occasionally see someone addressing a character who has my name and I'll think they're talking to me. I'll physically freeze while my brain screams, "WHO DOXXED ME?!"
...Now that I say it out loud, I wonder if I need to talk to someone about why I interpret that as such a threat.
@mietze said in Weird or unrealistic gaming... stuff:
Old fashioned girls and boys names seem to be extremely popular right now.
Yeah, last time I checked a list of popular baby names in America, a lot of them seemed like names my grandparents' generation had.
@aria Yeah, Arwen doesn't have a whole lot of meat on her bones, narratively. Eowyn is just about as hungry for a boyfriend as Arwen is, but at least Eowyn has an arc and things to do, y'know?
@coin said in Weird or unrealistic gaming... stuff:
I'm going to go ahead and assume you meant "white women in the United States", which would probably still be wrong, but I feel compelled to point out that though Bianca is a name of Italian origin, it's pretty common and popular among Hispanic and Latinx communities in the US.
You, and Jennkryst, and mietze, are wrong. Literally no one has been born in America after 1990 and been named Bianca. Anyone over the age of thirty who says their name is Bianca is lying to you to trick you into being gullible so you will not be able to resist the coming Propaganda Wars, which means anyone who pretends to be named Bianca (which, as previously established, literally no one does) is actually a sleeper agent bent on destroying Western civilization.
@arkandel said in Weird or unrealistic gaming... stuff:
Names. Very few characters are called Steve or Jen.
It's always Maximillian and Lillian.
I do kind of groan when I see characters who are supposed to be twenty but clearly have the names of someone who is the character's mom's age. It's not a huge deal or anything, but I notice it. No American born after 1990 is named Bianca.
@tnp said in Weird or unrealistic gaming... stuff:
Skipper? From Gilligan's Island?
I don't know if this is still true, but at least back in the eighties, Barbie's little sister was named Skipper.
@hedgehog said in Weird or unrealistic gaming... stuff:
Doctor Astronaut Supermodel Pastry Chef Forensic Scientist Barbie.
And her counterpart:
Evil Sex Slave Doctor Astronaut Supermodel Pastry Chef Forensic Scientist Skipper.
I hate that I think I know exactly whom you are talking about.
Hit Points. I just can't stop thinking about how weird it is that if you stab a lot of people to death, then you will require more stabbings to be killed than someone who has stabbed fewer people than you.
Am I the only one who just doesn't really care for Ares?
Even if I didn't (and I think it's pretty good actually), given that its creator is fairly present on these forums and seems like an abundantly decent person, I would not say so like this.
@kestrel said in The Dog Thread:
I feel like I'm accompanied by this beacon of sunlight who spreads joy everywhere she goes, putting smiles on people's faces and brightening people's day. A teenage girl once stopped me to say, 'Can I pet your dog? Please I've had a really shitty day.' Just ... this dog is such a source of goodness. I love her so much. A perfect being.
Seven years ago, I was on break at work, sitting in my car in the parking lot with the windows down and my arm hanging out the door because it was a little too warm not to want fresh air on my skin, you know? And then something furry headbutted my palm, so I looked down and it was a dog. Some lovely goodboi came up out of nowhere and just stuck his head into my palm for a stroke. Seven years ago, and I still remember how happy it made me.
Dogs are so great.
The main character of the Lord of the Rings is, let's face it, the languages.
The rest of it is just a handy showcase.
Take your Like and get out.
@cobalt oooooo nooooooo, i have fallen over with my tummer exposed and cant get up, i sure hope no one comes along while i am helpless and wubs my belly
Jesus, you two (or you four, I guess). You have had a rough go of it. I'm so sorry.
@jennkryst said in FFG L5R:
@greenflashlight So it is totally cool that a Courtier will not be allowed to 'infiltrate' Bushi RP out on the battlefield (as well they shouldn't, because they don't have training in all the combat skillz), but a Bushi being forced to not be on-par socially with a Courtier is somehow creating a rigidly separate game.
Not only is that not what I said, I don't think it's a reasonable inference to draw from everything I've said about it in this thread, but whatever. I'm very tired of trying to talk to people who keep changing it to suit them. It's really starting to hurt my feelings.
@jennkryst That's fine for tabletop, but in a MU* setting where people are already painfully shy about contacting one another for scenes, I worry about the wisdom of creating a game so rigidly segregated that it's effectively three to six different games in one.
I'll be honest, the only thing I remember about Wings is Steven Weber doing a killer impersonation of Tony Shaloub's accent during a joke that had something to do with the latter stirring up a daytime talk show's audience against the former.
My concern about creating a social sphere is that I don't think it solves the problem of excluding certain kinds of people from certain kinds of scenes. It might even making it worse, by giving courtiers a separate niche that bushi and shugenja can't infiltrate.
I'm not trying to crap on anyone's ideas. I just don't personally have the kind of problem-solving mind that sees a solution to this, so I hope someone has input they want to share.
@jennkryst said in FFG L5R:
Upvoted for brilliant plan, always roll every social scene ever.
I agree. There's literally no reason to ever build a character who isn't Appearance 1 but whose PB is Scarjo, so you can spend those extra points on Dexterity while still getting to be so hot everyone's flinging themselves at you.
Yeah, but just because anyone can enter a talking scene scene, doesn't mean they should actually talk. If you have an audience with the Emerald Champion, you want the good with words guy to go be good with words.
The impression I got is, it was the kind of game where your ability to roleplay the intricacies of the setting supersede your character's stats. Unless this hypothetical L&L5R game makes it a rule that you have to roll dice to be polite and personable, I don't see a way around that.