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@thenomain said in World of Darkness -- Alternative Settings:

My core problem with WoD is the players play the monsters, but rarely monstrously. What in Mars is a threat to Werewolves, Vampires and Mages?

This, really. I try to play monsters, but a lot of their monstrous...ness is unsees often, because everyone else who wants to be white hats will strait up murder my character if they knew.

But then, I like playing borderline antagonists, since those spheres are never actually open.

@autumn said in Interest Check: Exalted 3rd ed Mu:

So I would recommend being super cautious about copying one of the long-time pain points of Amber games: having a higher up tier of PC that's, well, better than the sort the average person gets to play. The other flavors of Exalted might be better kept as NPCs and/or villains; otherwise you have to walk a very narrow line between allowing too many in play (which risks the game becoming entirely different and no longer meaningfully about the Terrestrials at all) and allowing too few (which runs the risk of DB players getting cranky about being reduced to second fiddles in a game ostensibly about them).

This, incidentally, is a reason why a creation-wide game could work. DB politics on the BI or in stronger Satrapies, Celestials out and about elsewhere.

Double-post, but I hope this loads right. Because Hyooj Birb could also be a thing.

@auspice Hella sturdier and designed FOR space sims, but also hella more expensive and intensive.

A single stick and base will probably cost more than the whole x56 set... to say nothing of how you decide to mount it, and possibly need to take apart and do sorcery with the springs.

But also also, SO FAR AS I AM AWARE, Virpil is the only place designing actual left-handed sticks (though Thrustmaster does have a semi-ambidex set with their t-1600, it has some engineering issues).

Virpil also makes their stuff out of aircraft-grade metal because some hobbyists want their shit super authentic, so you could use it as a club and it would probably still work the next day.

@chet said in Silly things you'd been tempted to do on/for a MU*:

A combined Ghosts of Mars/Doom/Cowboy Bebop/Total Recall game set on Mars, Phobos, and Deimos, with news files written out, but no combat system dynamic elected on.

ECLIPSE PHAAAAAAAAASE

@greenflashlight Yeah, my question was more directed towards the comment of there only being 100 Abyssals.

Not being rules for STUFF is a big problem for Exalted. Evocations are going to be tricksy, for example.

I salvage my viewings of the prequels pretty okay by pretending four facts are true for them.

1. Darth. Darth. Binks. No, I'm not joking. If you follow the ring/rhyme theory, 'powerful force user hiding their identity behind goofy idiot facade' is... Yoda. There's a ton of other little snippets I totally pretend is FOOL PROOF EVIDENCE to support this.
2. This step is the squick step, but... well. All romance dialogue in 2 is Anakin unintentionally mind-tricking Padme. It's not malicious, but as established in 1, he is really good at using the force reflexively/without knowing it is happening. Also a reason why 'he is too old!' Not enough time to teach the level of subconscious restraint needed to stop this sort of thing. We presume this stops by 3, because the dialogue was not as god-awful, and that she does manage to have genuine feelings for him at some point. This ties into the next bit a bit, which is
3. Padme and Obi-Wan were an item in the lull between 1 and 2. Ya'll. He jumps out a window to get the assassin droid. Anakin hasn't seen her since 1, but Obi-wan does seem rather familiar with her, DOESN'T HE? It also gives Padme some complex emotions that Anakin can misread during his 'she betrayed me!' spiel.
4. I honestly can't recall if this was actually canon before now, but in light of ROS, it is extra believable if it was not already established as fact - Padme does not die of a broken heart. Palpatine steals her life energy to keep Anakin alive until he gets all Vader-fied.

Alternatively... had every actor embraced that the films were actually supposed to just be 100% cheesy CAMP, like McGregor and McDiarmid did, the prequels would have been a magical delight.

@auspice But the x56 doesn't look like a xenomorph!

@ghost Still in the building phase, but http://musoapbox.net/topic/1989/unnamed-ffg-star-wars-game is a thing.

This is a lot of the reason I suggested 'just do all of creation'. Have the Blessed Isle for those who want to do Dragonblooded politics. Let the Celestials run around the threshold doing sandbox adventures... yes, with some plot, but also spread out so your Abyssals aren't pushed right up next to the Solars, and now we're in a pvp scenario.

It's how City of Hope actually manages to have semi-working antag players. By keeping them VERY SEPARATE from the white hats, who will all try to murder them instantly.

THEN AGAIN, I tend to make high conviction/low compassion characters, so even my 'non-antag' exalts are pretty damn antag when you look at them.

@TheOnceler said in Good or New Movies Review:

@Sockmonkey said in Good or New Movies Review:

Everyone who doesn't put The Last Jedi at the top/near top of their ranking lists is wrong.

You can't fight universal truth so don't bother trying.

There are probably good and valid reasons to dislike TLJ, but thanks to shitty Internet people over the last two years I just assume that anyone who doesn't like TLJ is trash.

I cannot defend the pacing.

Kelly Marie Tran... we stan a queen, but CAN YOU IMAGINE if Disney let Poe go with Finn to CasinoWorld? CAN YOU IMAGINE the Han/Leia go-to-Bespin vibes they would have? CAN YOU IMAGINE if, during the skiff-fight on SaltWorld, Finn disobeys orders like Poe did at the top of the film, and Poe realizes that yes, sometimes throwing lives away to take out a weapon actually isn't worth it? And crashing together? And that kiss?

CAN. YOU. IMAGINE?!?

Monster Hunter Rise came out a few days ago, and already started to brainstorm Monster Hunter MUSH. Possibly using D&D 4e because I hate everyone.

Edit to add: is verreh good on its own. Ride to battle on your pupper, run up walls because it is anime as hell.

Not to derail or tangent too hard, but I feel obligated to point out that the whole pack/alpha mindset keeps getting debunked and ignored. CARRY ON.

Can't believe I initially overlooked pointing this one out, but THIS

@surasanji said in Interest Check: Exalted 3rd ed Mu:

In that same vein Abyssals are also likely to be allowed, but highly regulated. There are only 100 of them in all of Creation, a precious commodity of the Deathlords. They will likely be given out to trusted players who can create RP as they will absolutely be antagonists.

Is just the limited Jedi/Force User staff favoritism argument waiting to happen.

@Ominous He is part of the BPL, yus.

Obligatorally chiming in because I half-min-max... but it's rarely for combat efficiency or the like. It's almost always done when a game's chargen and xp advancement ratio is different. To explain to the five people on the forum who dont know the concept, and to use the nWoD math... two characters start, one with 1/1/1/1, and the other with 4/0/0/0. Player one needs to spend 27 XP (6 + 9 + 12) to get to 4/1/1/1; player two needs to spend 9 XP (3 + 3 + 3).

This is why CoD is a delight. The cost to raise things is flat. 0->1 costs the same XP as 4->5. So I feel less compelled to dump everything into a single skill, and make a more well-rounded character.

Can Social Combat be compulsory? Because that would be amazing.

@greenflashlight 1) Renegade Abyssals exist, and 2) Non-Abyssals can easily try to destroy the whole world.

A quick primer on FFG dice for those not in the know: https://www.uptofourplayers.com/comic/edge-empire-rulez-pt-1/