Hell-ohhhh! I am HorrorHound! And this is my song:
Bye-bye!
^_^
@ThatGuyThere said:
the great thing about a conspiracy theorist in WoD of any flavor is they can be exactly right about the conspiracies existing but completely wrong about the particulars at the same time.
Uses garlic on vampires, only learns when his arms are ripped off that, that is bullshit information.
The primary problem is not finding people who use other mediums, but letting people know MUing exists and letting them find you. Then being patient enough to teach them the method as I can tell you with confidence that the mass-population of people who wish to write, or engage in pretendy-funtimes, have no clue what MUing is.
Just, uh, prepare for the psychologically challenged. M'kay?
I'll start messaging you privately once I get my laptop, but:
What you have with your theme is something akin to Dark Metal, but, with this particular theme, and a different system, you have the ability to play Vampire just as you would in a Dark Ages theme. How is that?
Knights aren't a one-man army. A Knight has weapons, armors, beasts and things that need tending by multiple people.
A Vampire is no different, really, if you strip away the awesome that is Bloodlines and look at the Clans, each Clan uses the world in a different way, and offers the world a unique face. Gangrel can be as bestial as Beast from Grimm Fairy Tales...or can be as intelligent and terrible as Khan, from Star Trek. Nosferatu. Lords of Terror, who project that terror outwards -- or let their lands degenerate into properties of paranoia. Ventrue manipulate the world as if it was machinery, and they have a whole shop to fix things how they need. Daeva, who could easily use passions such as Faith, Charity or even Greed and Gluttony to rule.
Vampires are Masters of their Domain. End of story. That is why politics is so important, because they are also solitary predators...unless, you have Bigger, Badder, Bullies present -- and you do. Draugr. Draugr are no joke. Some can be terrible monsters of terribleness, and some, you'd never know, until it was too late.
So, to my point, enforce a particular edge to both views: You want to be Cowboy Carl, or wish to emulate Candy Cane (American Vampire, guys. Look it up.) Go ahead -- but you have zero resources, because your ass has zero squire's, zero serfs, zero homesteads, zero, zero, zero.
...which sort of enforces your idea for cooperative roleplay. I am Billy Badass, and you are Duke Dollar. We work. Except all of our shit is useless, because we have no idea what this loot is useful for, without Smith Sanders.
Modern vampires are mostly parasitic. Dark Age vampires must be symbiotic, otherwise, how do you know your herd isn't also carrying Spanish Flu?
Omgomgomgomgomg. So, y'all ready to learn about yourselves?
Ding'd.
You ever hear of Mushin? Flow? Hyperfocus?
Fun fact about those with ADD/ADHD, we exist in a sort of mental stasis until our brains are activated by physical stimuli, and while we may not be neurotypical, we come with some bonuses:
Reaction. Your body ever react without you having to think? More than just muscle memory, kids. In the state of Flow, or Hyperfocus, we react better.
Hyperfocus itself: Able to enter and disengage rapidly and more often than neurotypical folk, those with ADD/ADHD seem unable to dislodge or be dislodged from hyperfocused tasks (for me, this is how I worked ninety hours on a project until my shirt was, quite literally, shredded and so muddied, I wasn't recognized. My crew did not appreciate my inability to stop.)
Time: Time is a funny thing, subjective, relative, but to those of this category, most often it is observed one extreme: Yesterday was an eternity ago, and tomorrow doesn't exist. This elasticity is likely some instinctive seed, still relevant now as it was when this neurotype was a survival strategy.
Sleep: When asleep, our brains are different. Not just a little different, but the C-Wave moves to an entirely different part of the brain. We're not really sure what this means, but it means something. B-B-B-BONUS RRRROUND: During PSG Studies those with ADD/ADHD that goes untreated have a higher percentage of waking at the drop of a hat and dime to the floor.
There is more. It's good shit, kids. Good shit.
So, dinging. Maaaaan, dinging is the best. Y'all ever Ding? That moment, that second, wherein you can feel your brain shift speeds, time stops being relevant at all, people too, and all there is - is the Hyperfoci. That stimuli. Project. Person. Song. Whatever it is that activated the HF, The Flow, and The Ding that rings like a little bell, and it's like you don't think anymore, don't feel, just, Do.
I hollowed a mountain in snow biome. Word of warning, after Day 7: They dig.
Learn from the Mines of Moria!
Always have a way out.
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Hush @Fallcoast (Current)
Thraine @TR
Typhon @TR
Rostaris @TR
Raelic @SomeOldPlace with @thebird
Oh, and Krieg @Reno.
Tadaaaaaa. Feel free to message me if you're familiar with any of those names!
I have four-hour windows where I can actually engage with this hobby, so keep in mind, while I'm not making metal and stone do what I want with my hands I'm playing pretendy-funtimes with all you lot.
So, short and sweet:
GMs are players that have become STs. They've ceased first-party interaction to engage third-party interaction. They tell the story. Shit, I've seen more and more players taking this load onto themselves, and thus allowing their STs to focus on greater, and greater metastories or whateverthefuck that ST is going to do.
Players can choose not to log into a game. If the game, the environment or whatever isn't for you - don't log in. Don't talk shit. It comes off wrong, you know? Makes your breath reek.
It also makes your examples squishy, shitty even.
Now, I've been privy of every side of almost every argument and it's fine because it's a bunch of dorks (blanket term, myself included) playing a dorky game (House with Extra-Steps) using a tool that lets them remain anonymous to some degree.
There's a careful balance created and maintained here, and the biggest, most-powerful tool you as a player have against a GM you don't like or don't agree with is simply leaving. It's when you talk shit that you might get called out and dragged through your own excrement, you know?
This is just my constructive criticism, mind you, based on experience and all that. But if you, like me, have a small window to actually engage with this hobby, you should not be opening that window to smell, or permeate the outside-air with bullshit.
I would like to see Shifter oWoD v20. But with a focus on the 'lesser' breeds, such as Corax, Nuwisha, Ratkin and Kitsune. Also the Camazotz. Plzkthx.
Using the difficulty system provided by WoD.
At the end of the day it's about trust, as well as common sense. One of things that Modern Nights does is the code creates 'scenes'. Then you can trace roll activity to the scene. But, I get it.
Well, if we list all the ways these games actually handle XP I think we'll come across a mercantile pattern.
What I have run into in the past, specifically with TorilMUD, is that the use of a skill = raising that skill. More difficult tasks are far more difficult, but success is usually rewarded with a whole skill dot.
Using the skeleton of Physical/Mental/Social from WoD, you can provide a base of a character. A base of which skills will be naturally favored and thus easier to raise, and starting already hefty.
From there, the choice of TSK is much the same.
Moving on, you don't reward XP for scenes or from +votes, but rather, through CodeMagic, make it so skills are raised by the number AND quality of rolls made. Failure is going to occur organically, and I've seen this work via Age of Alliances' janky system.
You roll through CGen, pick PSM then TSK, merits, flaws, etc. Get starting XP to allocate wherever for flavor and customization...then it's all based on your game afterwards. XP can be rewarded safely in small intervals (as intended by the original system) without creating insanity vacuums.
I'm working on something to assist in this mechanically but -- would you guys mind telling all of us what systems you use for the games you want to see failure in?
Example: World of Darkness is typically Attribute+Skill+Bonuses vs Difficulty due to X or vs. opponents Att+Skills.
WoDs XP-System is (roughly): I trade A-amount of XP for Dots in Skills, or Specialty. XP is rewarded as 123. NWoD is rewarded as 123-BEATS to = 1 XP.
I promise, this'll make sense later.
I've fucked with an idea of purely 2e WtF. But I'm busy AF.
I have four-hour windows where I can actually engage with this hobby, so keep in mind, while I'm not making metal and stone do what I want with my hands I'm playing pretendy-funtimes with all you lot.
So, short and sweet:
GMs are players that have become STs. They've ceased first-party interaction to engage third-party interaction. They tell the story. Shit, I've seen more and more players taking this load onto themselves, and thus allowing their STs to focus on greater, and greater metastories or whateverthefuck that ST is going to do.
Players can choose not to log into a game. If the game, the environment or whatever isn't for you - don't log in. Don't talk shit. It comes off wrong, you know? Makes your breath reek.
It also makes your examples squishy, shitty even.
Now, I've been privy of every side of almost every argument and it's fine because it's a bunch of dorks (blanket term, myself included) playing a dorky game (House with Extra-Steps) using a tool that lets them remain anonymous to some degree.
There's a careful balance created and maintained here, and the biggest, most-powerful tool you as a player have against a GM you don't like or don't agree with is simply leaving. It's when you talk shit that you might get called out and dragged through your own excrement, you know?
This is just my constructive criticism, mind you, based on experience and all that. But if you, like me, have a small window to actually engage with this hobby, you should not be opening that window to smell, or permeate the outside-air with bullshit.
I work up really high. Sometimes really, really high. But I really enjoy, before the job is truly done, to lay on rooftops and watch clouds to relax. Sometimes I'll sit up there and enjoy my morning coffee, and the rising sun.
It's not all of them but, I actually have some photos loaded. Some are from the drone, some from 120' lifts.
