When you go to take a drink of something expecting it to be one thing, but it turns out to be another. And you like both things, but you weren't expecting the second thing so it just tastes wrong at first.
This is doubly worse when you are expecting gingerale, but it's golden gingerale, so it's the same thing but more, and you were not expecting it, so it tastes even more, more.
I have decided the RL Tweets of @s8n are to be in game canon.
I understand it would be just mechanics, but what I was getting at are the hunters with powers would be in their own grey area, which still works for the theme of the show. (Sam has visions, other Hunters think he's a monster to be hunted.) But things would still need to be houseruled to work, because otherwise you might as well just say the system is nWoD rather than HtV is what I mean. Like Lucifuge are maybe like Sam where some demon slipped them demon blood when they were a kid, and Cheiron group is an offshoot of the Men of Letters.
@magee101 It might come down to that, in all honesty. I'm not a coder. I fully intend to bribe Theno with the monies for code, no matter what happens, but there is so much code for WoD out there anyway, it may just be easier because people know it already. Supernatural does have the Cortex system, but it's not like I can post the rules for it for people. And if I want people to be able to run things for other people they've need to know the system too. It would be heavily houseruled but it's something a lot of people know.
To me it's less about the system and more about the story, and with HtV how do you justify going around and killing monsters, when maybe you are one yourself? I'll have to talk it over with Thenomain, if he's willing, because ultimately he's the one I'll be throwing money at. I'm great at finding bugs and theoretical coding; give me coder and I can tell them what I want and what the code should look for, or exclude, but the last time I coded was uh... on a VIC 20?
So yeah, while this is an interest check, please remember someone should have already thrown that starting a Mu* flowchart out at me, if I'm going to be completely honest.
Well I mean, the virus is spreading, the world isn't completely gone yet all over. That's what temp rooms are for! The game itself would be a better fortified (and hopefully more fireproof) Roadhouse.
But also even though I figure it will be a small game alts will be allowed, if only because people will be out of town, hunting things, while the "monsters" are more likely to stay home. CoI shouldn't be too much of a problem because while "monsters" should have an interest in stopping the demonic stuff because if the demons win everyone is screwed, hunters should still be out...Hunting.
One thing that I hope will happen is people pay more attention to the news boards, or maybe have coded some sort of system like events, but for news where weird things happen that Hunters can pick up on weird things going on to hopefully limit +event hogging. Because I am fine running big scenes with people, and there are a few times in the show a group gets together, takes a picture, and goes off to fight some big bad, but most of the time Hunters hunter solo, or with a partner. So limiting an event to first come first served when I have time to run things won't be fair to anyone. But also, even though Sam and Dean hunt everything, most Hunters aren't like that. It makes sense for them as they are the stars or the show, most Hunters seek out a specific thing that made them Hunters in the first place, and take on other things if they come across it. The plan for every Hunter to have to choose a specialty. That's their thing. If someone needs information on that thing, they go to them. It could be something like vampires, or it could be something vague like the ghost where you have to be drunk. With the news stories it can be first come first served, but also can have it where multiple hunters show up and get in each other's way. People will have to decide if they want to do an event, or choose to be away when it happens.
The thing about away too is that I really do plan on it taking place in Nova Scotia, not just in the city. It's a teeny provence, really, you can get just about anywhere from one point to another in 6 to 8 hours. But at the same time with our whole global culture it's not hard to find out something is happening in Saskatchewan if someone really wanted to go there, although with things starting in Detroit and radiating out, going that far might not be the best idea. So while it may be one place, it's a big place with a common place that people can gravitate to and hold the fort down as well.
(I may have been thinking about this all long before I ever made the post to check on interest. >.>)
@auspice It would be work, but I do't think it would be more work than what was being suggested that I replied to, which was locking threads and mods making constructive and hog pit posts, and linking them. It's essentially what you suggested too where you lock the thread and allow the owner to allow other people to post in the thread, because now that I am more awake I remember that groups are all opt-in, aren't they? I mean sure, people could join groups and troll posts, but if they are going to do that, they are going to troll anyway.
Either way you guys would be doing work, but I admit I don't know the back-end of nodb and I don't know how many steps there are to making a group verses setting a thread in one section to allow a specific person allow other people to post.
Yeah we're all adults, but some of us have been dicks and had to be banned, and people want more moderation. But I'm also a firm believer of "You can't please everyone all the time." So at some point you just need to say "This is the way it is." and have to do some amount of work when people step out of line in regards to the rules.
Because yeah, we're all adults, but we're all adults on the internet. G.I.F.T. afterall. Absolutes suck, but no one can claim that they have never done it, it happens. I've had people who have been attacked who have made comments to me that I had to look because I had thought rightly that I was still in the constructive forum.
As a result while I don't have any threads on ignore, I usually stick to off topic, read posts that look interesting to me when knew ones pop up, and middles click ones that look interesting to me to read in a new tab, and mark everything else as read and mainly lurk around here is because of the community as a whole, not the moderation of it. And not just the community but culture in general. Everyone is entitled, offended, and jaded now. The internet is just a big free-for-all, and we're all adults really feels different today than what it used to mean when a lot of us got into this hobby in the first place.
@auspice Belatedly, and may not be an issue with the new area; and probably not easily doable with this forum because it seems pretty lacking in easy code things, but what about for ads locking them to a group. The game owner would have to say MSBPoster 1, and MSBPoster2, are staff, could you add them to our group, and then if someone leaves staff the Game owner would have to contact you guys to have them removed from the group for official threads.
But you could also still allow random people to post because they just found this really cool game and want people to know about it and lock it up. If a game then wants an official ad made they could ask for a group. I mean if you are proud of your game and staffing, why not have a badge by their name?
Not sure if groups can work this way or not, but they seem under-used.
Slate skin: When sending a DM to a person where the message box on the forums is white, the box on the slate skin is slate, the text is also slate, so no real way to preview what you have typed unless you make a mistake, then there is a weird red squiggle you can click if you have spellcheck as an option.
@surreality Exactly. Or the ever popular: powered by followers. Used to be the shit, but were forgotten and now people don't give two shits. I just don't want people to think they are unkillable, because everything is. And also, depending on the thing or the intervention can come back too.
I mean, it wouldn't be supernatural without the ability to come back somehow. Probably not make a deal though, I mean the demons can probably get you easier with the virus. But if you're desperate enough... know the right people, who knows?
It's a really good game to start on, whether it's catching up or never played. Still didn't stop people from asking me on the stream what had happened to that point though. >.> It's a fresh start though, new story, if you don't know the history, it won't be an issue.
Controls are very different, but if you play Souls type games, oe played Hellblade you should be fine. God of War is what Hellblade could have been, with a big budget.
Also the soundtrack is AMAZING. It's done by Bear McCreary, you've probably heard something he's done if you've watched TV since the Battlestar Galactica reboot.
The puzzles are good, not too easy, or hard, just frustrating enough. Lots of things to explore, absolutely gorgeous.
And the kid? Actually useful. I'd put him on par with Ellie; he doesn't talk all the time, actually gives you tips and help, and doesn't feel like one long escort mission. I read somewhere that at one point they were going to ditch the son, can't really imagine how the game would be without him.
The fight first fight with The Stranger is something everyone who likes a good action sequence should check out on Youtube, even if they don't plan on playing that game. It's a great way to start the game and can only get better, honestly.
@catsnake They'd be allowed, depending on the lore they might be restricted to the lore....maybe. Some things by the lore of the show (Dad's Journal, other books, heck even the anime) say some things are solitary or regional. Probably a case by case basis.
I mean if I got 4 apps, all unrelated who were say those Japanese drunken vengeance ghosts, I'd allow it and say a case came in on the boat.
For monsters if there are enough of them, to do something like what the failed back door pilot tried to do where the vampires and mages and werewolves were doing. It could have worked, but people wanted the Winchesters, I think. But with some magical Mcguffin that makes the monsters a little bit more human because the demon virus is taking over and they have to survive or something. Just so long as people are prepared that if they are a monster, good or no that you won't be a monster for long. The thing with that example, and ghosts in general are the visibility, and anchors. Even if you aren't all vengencey, you're only going to stay human enough not to be killed outright for so long.
The plan is for people to have fun. Yes, within reason. Starships would be great, and it's an alternate world, so maybe they developed without Eve. But Eve and all the Alpha's would be out. You could be an Angel, but not an Arch-Angel. I'd probably even let people be a god...so long as they didn't lord it over people. (Pun completely intended),
@surreality Yep, I mentioned it in the first post. 
Although it probably wouldn't be 2014 in game RL time seems pretty weird to put in there.
@arkandel Right? The whole lone wolf, or pair traveling around the country makes it difficult for a static Mu* setting, but set it on top of a Hellmouth, or have an apocalypse going on, and you're golden!
Pretty much by having +events code in, and allowing people to go nuts with PrPs. So long as they aren't stopping the apocalypse in a PrP, or blowing up the grid without pre-approval, (I mean, if someone wants to run a PrP where they blow something up, as long as they provide a destroyed desc for the building, or whatever, go for it.) But also I don't want to focus just on MotW but also throw in a bit of Warehouse 13, and SCP Foundation, to get cursed artifacts and objects.
There will be a meta plot, but it'll be in the background. Hunters aren't supposed to have a long shelf life. If the game manages to stick and is around for years, I want new people to be able to jump in with what's going on and not have to worry about everything that happened in the past. Most plots will have a limited time as well, but if people can play only on Tuesdays hopefully they can do something to whether it's running something for other people, or going out on a hunt themselves.
I don't expect it to be a huge game and am going to look at it more like an online tabletop, so hopefully keeping people busy when they would like to be, will be doable.
Based off the TV show Supernatural, in an alternative universe where Sam said yes, and the virus is out and making things all apocalyptically. Using the Cortex system books / lore from the show. (Season 5, Episode 4, In game time of August, 2014).
Set in Nova Scotia, the virus is spreading through the Americas, but with the global society we have it's a matter of time before it takes over the world, unless it can be stopped?
Will be allowing Humans, Hunters, "Monsters", and Men of Letters.
PvP will be allowed, but kills must be justified and hopefully morally grey. So if you make a vampire, who only ever feeds on cows, and Hunters find out about you, they can kill you that's what Hunters do. But one Hunter might let you go, another just sees you as a monster. If you make a vampire who feeds from people but don't kill them, again, it's a grey area, depending on the Hunter. If you make a vampire who kills for fun leaving bodies everywhere? Expect to die. If you are a Hunter going after any of the vampires, expect to die.
No TV show characters will be playable.
Aside from the Apocalypse, the game would shoot more for the monster of the week format of the first few seasons, with the metaplot being the whole virus thing going on in the background.
Make sure you do everything you want before you kill the final guy, or you won't be able to.
There are also weekly community missions now that give an outfit for the community, and 2 weapons, and a vehicle so far.
This week it's running over cultists / animals with any vehicle you want.
@thenomain Yeah, well God of War comes out that day too! 
@thenomain Because games typically come out on Tuesday or Friday.
Arise! DW coming back wet my appetite to RP again, but it's been a few months, and that's forever in internet time. Looking for a place to play. Not too picky on 1.0 or 2.0, or even V20 or whatever at this point, just looking for something I know.