Posts made by ixokai

@Livia @Sanguine We're winning!

@auspice is a monster

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO.

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I'm like, two and a half minutes? We got this. This game is ours. That's like infinity in Tom Brady time.

Also recently read, the Demon Cycle (first book: The Warded Man) by Peter Brett, and I quite liked it a lot. It's about a sort of post-apocalyptic fantasy world where every night demons manifest and try to eat everyone. A rough sort of civilization has managed to survive, just barely.

Very interesting magic system, good characters and cultures. It's got a good mix of action, character growth and diverse groups of people with different agendas all while hell is rising nightly.

@ixokai said in Book Recommendations:

@Arkandel @saosmash

I second NK Jemisin is great. I can't reccommend The Inheritance Trilogy, starting with The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms, enough.

All of her stories have very intense and interesting and different worlds. They are very atypical fantasy that don't delve into easy tropes, she has great characters, and while there is a lot of world-building, it doesn't bog down the pacing a lot, imho.

Right, so!

Another trilogy by Jemisin is the Broken Earth trilogy, whose first book is The Fifth Season. The last book was recently released and I just finished re-reading the series before reading the last, and wow, its great. As usual she has very interesting, diverse, deep characters and an interesting world. It's got a lot of strong, deep women, notably. Plus a gay guy and a transgendered woman, and lots of people of color -- without it actually being about race or sexuality at all. Its just there, a part of the world, no one blinks.

Now, to be forewarned, the perspective these books are written in is a little odd -- it switches in chapters between second and third person, but always in a way that sounds narrated, which takes some getting used to, but its for a really good reason. But I know some people are very sensitive to POV.

My go-to comfort food is either kraft mac'n'cheese -- nothing fancier -- or campbell's chicken noodle soup (also, nothing fancier).

If I'm feeling ill, I eat saltines and 7-up.

Do note, on Rhost, changing the timeout only applies when the individual characters next connect -- the timeout is set on the connection itself so updating it doesn't update that value. This has confused the hell out of me in the past.

@arkandel said in The trappings of posing:

@ixokai said in The trappings of posing:

I don't mind metaposing as long as it is treated as something that can be read-- body language, tone, intuition-- or if its directed entirely at oneself. I do not want to see 'Jane smiles warmly to Bob, even though she thinks he's a jackass for showing up'.

How about "Jane smiles warmly to Bob. That's something she never does, but the Prince's downfall made her day, not that she'd ever admit it to anyone of course."

It gives you some information Jane wouldn't choose to share and which is difficult to guess from her body language alone unless the player makes it really overt later in the RP, but it also provides some context about what's going on in her head.

I'm not saying there's no other way to convey the same information if the player is crafty, but I find insights like that welcome in a scene if they don't get used too much to set the narrative, since they can't be responded to directly.

I don't mind that, as I consider that the 'directed entirely at oneself' -- its internal, not about other people. The commentary is about your own character, not about others. Its the 'commentary about other people they cant respond to' that is the kind of metaposing I find offensive.

@lithium said in The trappings of posing:

@ixokai What's even worse, is when people start paging you in character, as if you were your character... it's super creepy.

Oooooh yes. It's like, boundaries, people!

Note, the linode I use to host games got taken down an hour early, FYI.

General Spelling and Grammar: Mostly, I just need to understand. I don't really care otherwise.

Pose Length and Detail: What I need is for every pose to have give me something, I don't care how much detail or the length of it is. That said, people who pose very small are likely not giving me a lot to respond to: but I've known some people who were gems at it. So, too, I've seen people who write novellas per pose and have absolutely nothing I can do with it. Multiple long paragraphs with maybe two words, and none of those paragraphs really usable content. Its downright frustrating.

Tempo: It depends. For me the point at where I start wondering if someone fell asleep is the 15-20 minute mark, but as long as I know its a slow scene, I don't mind. I usually try to get my pose done in five minutes after the last person posed, but this is because I start writing my response while other people are posing, and just adjust as each pose comes in, sometimes completely rewriting it. But this is why I prefer round robin in any scene <= 5 people: at this point the chances of someone invalidating my pose complete is high, and I get into this trap of never finishing. For bigger scenes, I see 3pr as a needed evil because otherwise I find it impossible to keep up... but even then, I will tend to do that for maybe an hour then just blank out and mentally check out of the scene because its too big to keep up with.

Personal Peeves: You-posing is completely creepy: I do not identify myself with my character. I don't mind metaposing as long as it is treated as something that can be read-- body language, tone, intuition-- or if its directed entirely at oneself. I do not want to see 'Jane smiles warmly to Bob, even though she thinks he's a jackass for showing up'. You don't get to call Bob a jackass and not take the heat for it. Now, if she posed, 'Jane attempts to smile warmly to Bob, though her irritation at him over just showing up makes it difficult', that's fine. Bob can still respond to her 'tone' or attitude or something, its not just essentially OOC commentary mixed in an IC pose.

What annoys me is when people don't take the OOC agency to involve their characters. This is my biggest pet peeve in the world. If you are playing shy, that's fine. Its still YOUR JOB to come up with a reason to get your character to engage with others. I've played shy characters before: I don't have them sit in a corner reading, waiting for someone to drag them out-- I make up a scenario that gets them out of their shell for some reason. (Maybe they're a clutz, and oops! Bumped into you. Damnit now we must make social noises).

@tinuviel said in MUX Block:

Hey all, is it possible to - in TinyMUX - set a conditional lock that prevents me from seeing someone's poses/says/@emits when in certain rooms? I want to block any incoming stuff from people in certain OOC rooms but not interfere in their input elsewhere.

Or am I just gonna have to do this through hella LUA scripting?

You gotta do this through client side gagging. And separating it out from IC vs OOC rooms is a little hard to the point at at midnight I can't think of a way to actually accomplish it off the top of my head.

I played a lot of Sin Eater on TR (I was Chance, a Reaper who hunted the living who created ghosts-- abusers, killers, (ab|im)mortals), but never did find a group to fit into and krewe it up. It's.. oddly tempting, doubly odd because I sorta thought I was done with being tempted with most things WoD, especially the freak hybrid 'half-GMC' TR/FC thing.

But you've moved your krewe mythology away from Greek, any words on what to?

I've been buying all my rpg books off DriveThruRPG for awhile now. Then again, I buy all my regular books off Amazon or iBooks too.

I have fully embraced the tablet as what it is I read from.