Posts made by Jennkryst

@Cupcake said in CoD Ancient Rome game...:

Look, obviously I'm going to be a Xena clone with a badass chakram and an awesome singing voice and a metal bustier over my little leather mini romper skirt dress. I'll know all the cool people like Caesar and Cleopatra and Abraham and Ulysses, and will bang both the God of War and my adorable blonde sidekick.

I can do that, right?

You cannot do that, no.

The God of War is [redacted]. As are all the other Gods.

You can totally bang someone pretending to be the God of War, though.

@Admiral said in NOLA: The Game That Care Forgot:

Changelings were kept out of New Orleans due to some kind of big magic contract that was enacted 100 years ago. Somehow it failed and they've started to trickle in. Possible threads: What happened 100 years ago? What caused it to fail? Was it good, or bad?

The Shadow Accords explain this well. Especially if it was originally a True Fae bargain. TIE-INS GALORE

@RDC said in NOLA: The Game That Care Forgot:

My original thought was that a Title was a signatory of the Accords, but SOMETHING or SOMEONE killed it last summer, and nobody knows what.

It was some evil Mummy thing, what do it.

@Livia said in NOLA: The Game That Care Forgot:

@Jennkryst said in NOLA: The Game That Care Forgot:

@Livia Mystery Cults! But they sound suspiciously non-bee.

Not everything is about bees!

Correct. Those things are Sneks and/or Mummies!

@Livia Mystery Cults! But they sound suspiciously non-bee.

@RDC said in NOLA: The Game That Care Forgot:

... what if it Claims somebody? How much work are you willing to do to save the human that spirit has merged with? What are you willing to sacrifice to get the spirit to willingly unmerge, since that's basically the only way to unClaim someone? When that spirit unmerges and the person beneath is still a murderer, are you a "good guy" for killing him even though he wasn't your prey and you may have let your prey go back to the Shadow unharmed to save him? Lots of room for complex.

The Urged/Ridden/Claimed situation is weird. In 1e, once you passed a certain point, the spirit cannot unclaim a thing without killing it. Even if you can get a spirit to move out willingly. This is why killing people wasn't a breaking point for harmony.

No idea if that's still the case with 2e or not, because I'm lazy.

@Rinel Werewolves are spirit cops. They make sure the spirits stay on one side of the gauntley, and humans stay on the other side.

This is GOOD when a murder or rage spirit crosses over and makes humans go on a MurderDeathKill-spree.

This is SHITTY when a healing spirit crosses over and helps keep the death toll at the local hospital down.

This gif size limit is really ruining my witty replies. Rabble rabble.

@Warma-Sheen said in General Video Game Thread:

And sure, every company wants to make sales, but no one wants to make the video game equivalent of the Fyre festival.

Why not? Star Citizen keeps bringing in ALL the cash.

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

@Wizz said in NOLA: The Game That Care Forgot:

@Rinel said in NOLA: The Game That Care Forgot:

I like the idea of becoming a not-total-monster being an almost impossible task, but the heavy emphasis here is on "almost."
ANYWAY the setting is what it is, so I'm gonna quit bitchin' and start learning about warwilfs.

YAY WHEREWOOFS

I mean I don't play but...ughhh I love wherewoofs. I really ought to make one.

Everyone should make werewolves. ESPECIALLY @Rinel and @Ganymede. And they should come to court with my Elodoth. Not like... vampire court. Lawyer-court. And they can watch me just reenact scenes from The Grinder, and Phoenix Wright, and other nonsense lawyer-fu that definitely should not work, but does, because DICE, BITCHES.

Edit to make @names happen and shit.

@Auspice said in NOLA: The Game That Care Forgot:

@Jennkryst said in NOLA: The Game That Care Forgot:

And I HOPE Mummy has it, too.

Auspice does not get free fake legal woof to Phoenix Wright for her.

@Rinel said in NOLA: The Game That Care Forgot:

See, I like this. What I don't like, and I guess it's just the reason Vampire isn't the sphere for me, is how even at level 10 humanity you're an awful creature. Is there really no room for Kindred who go off and suck cow blood?

There is! Crones have a specific title for people who have not murdered anyone, even. It's all in how you do you, as usual.

I just. REALLY wish they had done Vampire as that Harmony/Clarity sliding scale. Ditto Mage. And I HOPE Mummy has it, too.

@Rinel said in NOLA: The Game That Care Forgot:

Uh. Are there any ones who aren't, you know... awful?

Ordo aren't inherently awful. They are the most likely to do SCIENCE and whatnot. Their coils used to be about lessening the curse by varying degrees, I'm not 100% sure if that is still the case.

@Rinel There are also Bee vampires.

@Rinel I'll happily give you a copy/paste to do the +sheet, but you gots to do the other bits.

Video of Rinel playing the Goose Game

@Tinuviel said in CoD Ancient Rome game...:

@Jennkryst Allow me to clarify my point:

That literally goes against the core of how Mage works.

Mage works the way staff says it works. Thus the HR. That section on the golden rule of 'use what you want, ignore what you don't' that all RPGs have.

@toreadorfool said in CoD Ancient Rome game...:

Mummy: With reworking time-wimey stuff and some other things, this could be interesting given the time period and connection to Egypt. Another 'when it comes out, discuss further' thing, like Geist.

This is the best thing ever, and I know it's only on here because I shouted loudly, constantly, but still. THUMBS UP!

@Tinuviel Allow me to clarify the idea I was trying to get across:

HR'd to work that way.

@Cobaltasaurus Sure, why not. Expect some silly shenanigans, though. I can do the STATS, you have to do the background and WORDZ.