Posts made by hedgehog

@Rick-Sanchez

The Akashic Brotherhood having nothing to do with the astral plane was another good one. Or 'Bruja'. Who were not witches at all.

@Rick-Sanchez

Sure. But the nockers especially peeved me, because it was like 'hey - these guys are actually Welsh (maybe even Cornish) in origin, but we already saturated the splats with fae from the UK and Ireland. How do we rectify it?' 'I know! YIDDISH!'

@Kanye-Qwest

No. Not at all. At least, not that was given any indication in any of the material. Like everything else in the WoD, I think the developers just picked words out of a hat (or had manatees do it with balls in a tank) and put things together with little respect to the actual mythos they could be working with.

@Kanye-Qwest

Aww, thanks! That was a nice little confidence booster.

@Kanye-Qwest

They are all OWoD racial types, mostly Changelings.

Redcaps are pure appetite and fury. Pooka are shape-shifting fae. Satyrs are those humans with goat legs from Greek mythology turned into a faerie kith. Most people play them as horny goats, but there is another tack to take, which is that of the intellectual. Nockers are another kith/race of fae who are frustrated perfectionists, loosely based on the mythological Welsh knockers (who were the ghosts of miners) and somehow turned into crotchety Jewish stereotypes by White Wolf.

Mummies are supposed to be refined immortal souls taking up residence in the bodies of slackers, at least in Revised. Most of the ones I have run into on games have been some sort of celebrity, for some reason.

A subtle mage. Someone who understood the ramifications and consequences of being able to manipulate reality.

A profoundly terrible and noble sidhe, whose motivations are completely inscrutable and nigh-alien in nature. A master manipulator, but without veering into cliche.

An intelligent redcap, whose cunning surpasses their ferocity.

A mummy that isn't a celebrity, but more of a joyful sage, who is slow to anger and operates on a very refined and cautious plane, due to the risks of being judged.

An intellectual satyr.

A pooka evangelical/prosperity gospel preacher.

A nocker who says more than 'fuck'.

@thebird

It always helps when the nursing staff is awesome. One of the nurses that stuck out most to me when I was in the same situation as your husband was the one my husband and I affectionately nicknamed 'Nurse Dudebro'; he was in his mid-late thirties, and had decided on a career change. He was not the smoothest of nurses, but he was trying his damnedest to do a good job.

@skew

I've done that sort of slight metagaming with telepaths I've played before, and it's fun. I'm currently kind of utilizing your suggestions right now, and they're helping. Thanks so much!

@skew

Re: the fortune-teller/diviner types - how do you suggest making this work on the new breed of WoD games where everything is PrP, and there are no overarching stories being told? It's something I'm really struggling with at the moment on City of Hope (sorry for the minor derail!).

@Arkandel

I will say this: Elliot is dead on. And Monday's episode has given me all kinds of great ideas for things I want to to with my oneiromancer, I tell you what.

Not sure if it's been brought up yet, but what do people think of 'The Magicians'? I'm having this weird tension between it being something really good if I hadn't read the trilogy, and the fact that I HAVE read the trilogy, so there's all sorts of things that are just wrong. It isn't preventing me from watching it, at all, but my SO is getting annoyed with it.

I started playing on NannyMUD because of a friend I met on a Cocteau Twins channel on IRC (and I only found that because I stumbled upon it after interviewing and taking Robin Guthrie out for coffee when they played Milwaukee, and I had to boast about the experience to like-minded individuals). I got kind of bored with Nanny after a couple of years and a move across the country, and then discovered The Dreaming after doing a search for other online roleplaying games.

US-based, but he's a phenomenal percussionist, and can play so many world styles and instruments that I can't name them all: Servitor.

http://artistecard.com/servitordrum

Also, he's super nice and apparently big in Pennsic and a Ren Faire dork.

I would love to see the actual rituals and secret mysteries inherent to joining any number of IC mystery cults and/or secret societies get played out more, not just implied to have happened off-stage. I understand why it isn't done - STs don't have the interest or energy to invest in creating the rituals for the off-chance that people are actually going to be interested in joining their thing, but I really like things like that. Then again, I am also a weirdo who likes scenes involving tutelage and intellectual/philosophical discussion and the revelation of mysteries. Things that might not change the world, but can cause epic changes in a character.

Ah, well.

@Ganymede

And, like I said, easy enough to cheat on. That said, it was successful for me because it made me think about what I was about to be doing. It also gave me the impetus to buy the books and learn about things. But I can definitely see how it would be hugely annoying to people who already knew what they were doing.

Fields of the Nephilim, Talk Talk, Haujobb, Arcadia, Assemblage 23, Aaimon, Psyche, Killing Joke, Coil, Cocteau Twins. But mostly FotN.

@Thenomain

The Original Dreaming MUSH had an approval questionnaire. Granted, it was easy to cheat (I did, getting really specific answers from Turner/Demosthenes because I didn't have the books yet), but at least it was there. And, no, it didn't totally weed out abominations like Peri and Ranger, but I think it was at least somewhat successful.

High King David's gone home to Arcadia.