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Really, as a general rule, MUSHes give out too much XP, and characters advance too fast.

The first is more or less a function of the 24/7 availability of a game, combined with how many games want to reward activity. I mean, if you used the suggested XP per game and then ran your tabletop game 7 days a week, XP would inflate pretty far pretty fast as well.

The second you just have to sort of suck up and deal with, but has its roots in similar issues. In a TT game the ST can sit you down at the table and say "Okay, it's been six months since you X'd the Y of Z's plans to A the B, and you've all kept in touch." or whatever else describes lends to a sense of the passage of time and gives the advancement of abilities a sense of scope.

I don't really know that much can be done about either. People do like to see their characters advance, and at more than a snail's pace, and there's no denying that XP for activity/participation serves to motivate people to participate more. As with anything, that can be taken to an unhealthy extreme, but it's true enough even for people who aren't trying to abuse the +vote/PRP system for xp.

@Misadventure said:

You know, this has replaced my image of HR as this suave and sardonic city slicker into a bearded gruff survivalist. In plaid. Maybe armed. He shows up in the middle of the horror film to tell you just how fucked you are, and won't be burdened with trying to save you.

I did in fact wear a lot of plaid at one point or another, it's true, but I'm afraid I've never really been able to make a go of the 'grizzled' thing. I did once spend the better part of a year living more or less off the land around Chicken, AK (less in that we didn't do shit like make our own clothes). Sleeping in a cabin, chopping wood, hunting for food (dressing, carrying, cooking, etc), and a lot of other physical shit that I only vaguely remember. I was probably in the best shape of my life after nine months of that shit, but even then I could never pull off grizzled. Mind, I was still a teenager, but I'm pretty sure I couldn't even now.

Part of it is probably that I lack the genetic predisposition towards heavy facial hair, and you have to be extra special to pull off grizzled without a beard or pretty heavy stubble.

As for armed, sadly my wife won't let me buy a gun unless... something. There was some condition, but I forget what it was. Maybe letting her buy a snake or something. Though I guess I do have a wide array of cutting tools.

He shows up in the middle of the horror film to tell you just how fucked you are, and won't be burdened with trying to save you.

I have a process that determines whether someone is worth saving, which largely amounts to assigning values to their Smart and Pretty, and requiring that it add up to at least n. So as long as you're not dumb and ugly, I'll help you out.

It's easier to mitigate a gigantic grid with travel and map commands than it is to mitigate a tiny grid with temprooms.

This. Forever this.

And this is why Bastet were always more popular than any incarnation of Werewolf.

Also not having to rely on a pack, but lots this too.

Sorry @Glitch, can't understand you with your mouth full of dicks. Try eating a smaller bag next time, you glutton.

I generally copy&paste whatever bits catch my eye into notepad before I get around to posting, since I might not post just then and I don't want to scan back for it. I'll try to add a @whoever, though, just for you two delicate flowers.

@Glitch & @Thenomain

@Jaded

You could check out the Greyhawk source material. Oerth is pretty diverse like Forgotten Realms but not as magic heavy. While it has Elves, Dwarves, etc. I'd consider it a more low fantasy setting compared to the high fantasy that FR is.

Greyhawk is more middle-magic to FR's high-magic, with LotR being a pretty low-magic fantasy setting.

Greyhawk has a ton of high level magic shit happening almost everywhere there are people, it's just not as pervasive to the setting as it is in Forgotten Realms. Anywhere there are magic-marts (even if only in major cities) where you can buy all manner of magical goods, isn't going to qualify as low-magic.

I prefer low/medium/high-magic over low/medium/high-fantasy, because LotR was plenty high fantasy while being distinctly low-magic, really.

Zombies AND Mage ... wait, Mages would just wipe out the zombies and we'd just be left with Mage >.<

A zombie apocalypse for Mage would probably look like Resident Evil, with the Seers having been wiped out when one of their own fell to the Abyss and used their labs and resources to produce and distribute an Abyssal virus that turns humans into the menagerie we see there. Resident Evil has a pretty full spectrum of zombie-type-creatures, and an Abyssal plague spread in the same fashion would be as much a threat to Mages as to anyone else.

You can run, but you can't really escape. You hide, but they'll eventually find find you. You can try to tamper with them directly with magic, but risk backlash or corruption as you interact with Abyssal forces. You can turtle up and protect yourself for a while, but that's only sending up a flare to attract the attention of bigger, badder things.

So there you go, Zombies AND Mages.

This weasel., doing what it can to put an end to the tyrrany of seagulls.

Fuck those birds.

VTR – Half-Damned: There are creatures tainted by Kindred blood, yet not quite among the Damned. Building on Vampire: The Requiem Second Edition, Half-Damned covers ghouls, revenants, and dhampir as playable characters.

Aaaaaaaaaahahahahahahhahaahahahahaha.

DHAMPIRES.

I keep thinking of the people I know who like Vampire, and the looks on their faces when they see that, and I cannot stop laughing.

Since he was using a comedian as a reference, @Arkandel, I don't think that part was meant to be taken seriously. Hopefully. Even Denis Leary doesn't think that's true.

@Sanguine

It's true. As a vampire player I was a bit -.- at that section.

I'm looking forward to seeing the sort of depth and true darkness they'll bring to Vampire.

@Arkandel said:

AD&D has two things going for it in my own head.

1. Nostalgia.
2. A fuckload of AD&D novels (the Dragonlance Twins saga, the Drizzt stuff, all those Harpers books, etc) which I used to read when I was a teenager. So, also nostalgia, but some of those weren't bad.

Also, nostalgia.

The early Dragonlance stuff is... not good. I mean the writing itself, and the dialogue, is really just painful to read. I didn't really notice at the time, but I was a kid so probably didn't care. There's stuff that came later that was markedly better, but the original books just hit cringeworthy when I went back to read them later.

@Sanguine

Of course this implies you'll play with me and you've made so many promises and never delivered. tease.

Don't hate the player, hate the game.

@Wizz said:

Wait is it too late to say I would play it ironically

It's never too late for that. Never.

I turn on an 80s pop music channel on XM when on long drives. My wife and our housemate want to murder me for it sometimes, but to hell with them. ^_^

@Roz
That's how I feel about it mostly as well, though I could have done without the horrible butchering of Anders or anything to do with Fenris.

Why not simply limit players to 1 supernatural template?

Man, I wish.

At the very least, somebody somewhere mentioned maybe giving priority on the waiting list to people who don't have a supernatural alt already. That sounds like a good idea. >_>

First post updated with some Windows 10 info.

Not having a TL also means there's no one person who has final say over a particular sphere, which means anything that requires escalation to that one person instead tends to end up in committee.

And everybody knows, committee is the most efficient and timely way to get time-sensitive shit done.

@Wizz said:

Also, if you want to see why I think a Demon: The Fallen post-apoc game would just be awesome, you should start watching Dominion. IT IS SO COOL...except for all the Chosen One bullshit, haha.

Yeah, Jesus is so overrated. ;D