@Rinel said in Obsidian Reverie:
@Jennkryst this is your cue
I wish y'all the best luck! I would love to see a thriving CoD Ares codebase.
Was holding off a bit so everyone won't just shit all over my undying (hyuk yuk) optimism.
BUT SINCE YOU HAVE SUMMONED ME...
Obligatory plug for Mummy (and other Immortal types, since they now technically a Mummy Subgroup).
@Coin Yeah. It's why I said nothing is perfect and devil's advocate and all that jazz. The good part here is that a dedicated new player can catch up to a week 1 dinosaur.
So I will preface this with no XP system being perfect, you just have pick which flaws you are cool with having, yadda yadda.
@Coin said in What game system would you prefer for a big-tent nWoD project?:
My preferred solutions for this is to set a game-wide cap on how much XP anyone can have earned, period, that goes up on a daily basis. So, for example, at game start, no one can have more than 10 XP (earned, total) because that's what you get at chargen. Perfect.
To play devil's advocate here, the issues here is the same as other activity-based XP gains - so if someone has issue with 'Bobbert can RP all day, every day, and earn tons more RP than Jimmes, who can only RP once a week'. It does give Bobbert a point where the gains stop, instead of letting that train keep on running away. But at the end of the day, two players who are approved the same day might end up with different XP totals, based on who can spam more RP.
Like I said, not necessarily a bad thing, but the folks who take issue with the one may show up and take issue with the other.
You all are not prepared for the ethics of my space wiznerd. I'm not even going to do the dark side things for once. Because I'm going to be over here on the IC soapbox of why the idea of the light side existing is dumb, and how Grey Jedi are as equally corrupt as the Sith, they just have better PR.
Shout-out to @WildBaboons joking about Mummies, prompting me to check Wookieepedia and discover that Mummies do exist in-universe. Looking forward to them not being allowed on yet another game.
@TiredEwok said in Old Republic Star Wars Game - FFG System Poll:
Can we just stop with the mummies?
I could, but... why?
I don't care if they're actually a thing in Star Wars.
If this were a litmus test for what is playable on this MU, I don't care if Mandalorians are actually a thing. Luckily for people who enjoy them, my opinion on the matter has 0 weight on what they can play.
I'd sooner go on a rampage with a spork than play on a game that had them as a playable race.
Also luckily, this game's existence is not contingent on you playing there. If @ZombieGenesis says they're not allowed, fine. I WAS going to make a plant Lady who got drunk off sugar water, but now I might just have to make a Force Mummy out of spite.
One thing that is possibly key, regardless of Pyramid or RAW career trees - drop the 'raise attribute' talents, and just let them be able to be raised with XP. This is in the same realm as the issue with 1e nWoD XP costs, where stuff done IN chargen and after chargen get different bang for your XP-buck.
I am torn on this vote, because modifications are obviously needed. But not to the degree of the Ares Pyramid.
Edit - would help if I read the whole poll.
@Tinuviel said in What game system would you prefer for a big-tent nWoD project?:
@Jennkryst said in What game system would you prefer for a big-tent nWoD project?:
I grow tired of min-maxing for XP efficiency.
Then don't.
I can't control the weirdly selective OCD.
If 1e XP curve is used, can we just have a pile of XP instead of 5/4/3//11/7/4 dots? I grow tired of min-maxing for XP efficiency.
This thread has a few more instances of 'we should not help group A who are often overlooked/in need of help, because it might also help group B who might manipulate the system/benefit when they shouldn't!' than it probably should, and is drifting closer to Politics territory than anyone wants me to bring up.
ahem
The ideas behind a lot of these are good. I'm not a monster, but I play one online, so while I will do chin-strokingly evil things, I try to get the boundaries set in advance, check in periodically through the scene, and all that jazz.
And even with all the advance prep there, I STILL somehow manage to feel like a piece of shit when I accidentally go somewhere that wasn't said was off-limits, but I also didn't do the regular check-in about.
THAT'S RIGHT, I'M MAKING THIS ABOUT MEEEEEEEEE!
Or maybe not, and I'm just like. Posting a warning.
Like @BlondeBot says, all the code and policy and systems in the world won't stop every problem that can happen. Ignoring all of the bad-actors, this sort of thing can happen to people even when all parties are acting in good faith.
But more/new systems can allow for additional ways to prevent this sort of thing from happening, and can also provide other ways of resolving the issues that come out of it.
Alright. So. Smol might be the wrong direction...
@Auspice said in NOLA: The Game That Care Forgot:
@Jennkryst said in NOLA: The Game That Care Forgot:
Vote for the oWoD Nagah-Gangrel rip off who will definitely be done by then. Probably. Maybe? WHO KNOWS!
just make a khaibit gdi
They are too Aegyptian, and I am holding out all the hopes for Mummy's... 2021 publishing date. Because I am dumb.
But also because sneks are cool.
Vote for the oWoD Nagah-Gangrel rip off who will definitely be done by then. Probably. Maybe? WHO KNOWS!
So I got my 'Your Eclipse Phase Hardcopy from the Kickstarter just shipped' email today. So THAT. Arx in space, where you can be a squid that shoots lasers.
I am shocked that there's not really the usual spike of visible/verbal interest that usually comes with new media. We've got the Mandalorian, the new Jedi game, and Episode 9 like... 33 days away.
There is even a fancy Expanse RPG that we can probably just ignore, but it is a thing.
@Tinuviel said in TS - Danger zone:
Secondly, we were asked for our opinions, not for balanced debate.
And I asked that we play 'who is in my mouth?', yet here we are, opining and debating, with no actual smut in sight.
1.2/10