Best posts made by Jennkryst

@deadculture Rolls don't replace the actual role playing; however, as I keep pointing out, rolls do, in fact, reflect the efficacy of the role you are playing.

@Tempest At some point, I will grow tired of the cyclical argument, be the pedant you all know I am, and will make a point of posing shitty techniques for things and somehow succeeding in an actual game. Limp-wristed backhand attack! Holing a gun upside down and pulling the trigger with the ring finger! Performing neurosurgery with a plastic spork and a Harlequin-style rubber mallet. Starbucks Barista who will literally piss in your cup (unseen), get a GREAT craft roll, and lie perfectly about how the secret ingredient is soy milk, because fuck social rolls, amIright?

I also shouldn't have to remind folks that being a fun RP partner and arbitrating social stuff with dice are not mutually exclusive. If you don't want to have this sort of thing affect you, there are games for that. Exalted with perfect mental defenses is a great example. But it also has a robust social combat system, so if you still worry about your social-fu, get your defenses in place instead of being able to suplex the moon into that city-sized zombie mech.

@Ominous That's how the Vampire Social Combat from the Danse Macabre is supposed to work on Fallcoast. Dunno how much it sees in practice, but it is a social system that literally functions like the physical combat, with Nerve (Social 'health), Guile (Social 'defense), and Dominance (Social 'initiative'), and it's very own merits to make you better at things and new discipline interactions and everything.

@ixokai This is why there are alts, OOC plot rooms, and holographic communicators that let you talk with people across the galaxy.

@Arkandel said in Shadowrun: Modern:

@Kanye-Qwest said in Shadowrun: Modern:

It's a mega bad stat. Oh my god. Every_rper says in OOC: "Teehee/heh SL2/appearance 6...."

What about players who're too cheap to actually buy the stat although they clearly want it, so they end up making a wiki with super attractive supermodel pictures, write descriptions about how scorching hot their every inch is, and yet they don't have the merits because dammit, brawl 4?

You bitchslap them and run train on them with NPCs until they spend the karma on appropriate social stuff. And then you take this argument back over to the social combat thread where it belongs.

Steam has Subnautica on sale, with proceeds going to plastic cleanup something or other, and I'm over here like.

Bills bad. Bills steal monies. Boo bills. Boo.

Let Freedom Ring is a 20th anniversary MU run by the same folks from City of Hope, set in Philadelphia.

Fallen World... CoD/2e nWoD game (only Mage and Werewolf presently) set in NYC.

@lithium said in Dragonlance?:

@jennkryst said in Dragonlance?:

:performs the sing-song lure of Spelljammer, to have ALL D&D settings, simultaneously.

Except Dark Sun,the best AD&D setting of them all.

We had Dark Sun AND Ravenloft in our Spelljammer game.

@lithium Faux-science is allowed for +3 majik sword and spehss wizard, but not for spehss boats.

Blitzball MU when?

@Bobotron said in Which canon property/setting would be good for a MU* ?:

@Tempest

A lot of people also have problems with people playing Changeling as 'abuse victim: the RPG'.

If the mindset of the Social Combat thread is any indication, there are never abusive keepers. They are mega-friends with the changeling, who either bluffed their way out of their durance with crap poses and AMAZING DICE ROLLS, or 0 social stats and amazing poses. No combination of the two exist.

@Wizz said in Which canon property/setting would be good for a MU* ?:

At what point does that reputation not spread?

When you fail to kill a thing and it can go spread rumors. Besides, this is just the home town base. All plots are ROADTRIPS, donchaknow?

@bad-at-lurking So you are specifically against weeaboos and otaku characters. Which helps answer things a bit.

... but leaves you with slim pickings. I can't think of anywhere that lacks the sort of player who makes those characters. Even ignoring the occasional wiki-pic that someone just uses Anime or Anime-ish artwork, there are folks who go out of their way to put the trope into a game they normally wouldn't work in. (Doing this sort of thing is my favorite game. Making a character from X setting in Y game, but still somehow functions close to the way they do in X).

@quinn I will move to there and do all of the things. ALL.

All these steam sales.... why?

It is post-apocalyptic. One might wonder if you are going to have proper covenants, or if they vanished along with mortal society, with new replacements? Sorta like the conspiracies that you could use in lieu of covenants, from Danse Macabre?

I also wonder if you even NEED different clans or bloodlines (or, hell, make the clans themselves bloodlines?)

I also whole-heartedly support coastal settings. Mostly because I wanna be ON A BOAT.

@squirreltalk Easiest answer is code.

I feel MUs have fallen out of popularity because of variable command structure. The bboard code has been around forever, so everyone takes it for granted that you know the way it works.

BUT. Last night, City of Hope saw someone new to MUs go crazy because the help files weren't clear. +help bb, not +help +bb. @mail is another area, considering the differences between Penn, BRANDY-mail, and... I forget the others.

To say nothing of game- or genre-specific commands. +hurt? +damage? +lose? +equipment? +inventory? +gain? +spend? (The list can literally go on forever)

@insomnia said in Dead Celebrities 2018:

Sir Roger Moore, 89.

From last May?

The first two games that come to mind for this are the Bubblegum Crisis RPG (which was just Fuzion/Cyberpunk with a fresh coat of paint) and The End (which... needs it's own infodump)

Most post-apocalyptic settings take the phrase as a metaphor. The End takes it literally: the Book of Revelations happened. The part of the Bible that says 'the Meek shall inherit the Earth'? Was a warning. Those who were neither good enough for Heaven, nor bad enough for Hell, get left behind and have to deal with an animal kingdom no longer... shall we say semi-cautious of humans? A sort of rapid-entropy sets in on anything people don't interact with on a semi-regular basis. And a slew of folks trying to rediscover lostech, cause that entropy really screws with fuel for cars, medicine for folks, roads to places...

My biggest complaint is that it was a d20 open license book, so of course it uses levels. Every player begins with the Meek class, which has like... 2 in-class skills, d2 HP per level, and maybe some other zaniness.

@ganymede said in Looking for potential staff for a Colonial Marines (Aliens) game:

@jennkryst said in Looking for potential staff for a Colonial Marines (Aliens) game:

Throw it into the BattleTech MUX engine! Because that will never go wrong, right?!?

Do you have access to this? Because I would so run a Battletech game in a second. Kind of.

I do not. Also, they are very much less Role-play, as 'simulate being in a mech cockpit and go blow up things'... in real time. Every second ticking down your weapon cooldown, and so on. I always WANTED to do a mechwarrior RP MU with this as the combat method, but I dunno how it would work out.

@lotherio Versatility for it's own sake is problematic. Not to mention sometimes a command line is different because a coder just happened to write it that way (or may have been forced to write it that way because of things in the code, I don't know how that sorcery works).

@faraday brought up my other point: Computers revolve around the point/click interface (for most people, who don't go into the command prompt). During, for lack of a better term, the golden era of MUdom, people still had to do DOS run cmd whatsits.

@thenomain said in Good or New Movies Review:

For instance, I actually liked the Super Mario Brothers movie. I know that nobody else on the planet did, and I know that if I saw it again I would cringe so hard that I’d invert myself, but fuck it.

SO DID I... mostly. My most negative association with the film is that during my fifth watch-through, one of my dogs died. Which just hit me harder than I'd have thought after 20 years. WHY YOU DO THIS TO ME, THENO?!? (The second most negative is that wacky 90s cliffhanger that we will never get resolved.)

I may end up regretting missing Wrinkle in Time in theaters, but I was too busy being HYPED on A Quiet Place's audio design.

For my own late-addition: Solo? It was entertaining, and gets bonus points for triggering my schadenfreude when others rage against it.

As always with the Star Wars stuff for me, I find it incredibly more compelling when they drop random world-building (galaxy-building?) details that just shatter years of presupposed rules or facts of the setting. Entire swaths of Wookiepedia are just up and invalidated because of cool-effect-thing. 'Gravity wells have shadows in the Hyperspace realm that makes things explode when they interact with them' FUCK THAT. You want to throw the emergency break while at Light Speed while in atmosphere? DONE! You want to engage the Hyperdrive while still in atmosphere? EASY! The Empire stores Battle Station plans on magnetic tape? HELLS TO THE YES.

... that said, I do have a few minor critiques.

• L3-37 needed to be in at least 200% more of the movie. Sassy Droid's Rights activist? Yes please!
• The whole Kessel Workers' riot could have been at least twice as long. (Unrelated to Solo, but BB-8 using the rich dude's money as a weapon against the police? Could have validated the entire Canto Bight plot for me BY ITSELF, even if it had 0 impact on Finn's arc).
• The whole Kessel Run bit (I am of a similar mind to Darths and Droids when it comes to the Kessel Run - that it was just a thing Han threw out to sound impressive (and rolled poorly on his bluff check, as evidenced by Obi-wan's reaction). So including it as an actual thing, while visually neat, was a bit of a drawback for me.)

I caved and got Osiris New Dawn for like. $12.50. Trying to kill Shai-Hulud on there, send better weapons, plz.