@Thenomain said in How can everyone play the same game?:
I am slightly curious about this "TS Mystery" genre.
... Oh, wait, there's the comma. Hahahaha, my bad.
Could not find a 'Who is in my mouth?' gif, and honestly, not sure if I'm upset over that or not.
Dead Wolf totes needs to be a bloodline for any, not just Gangrel. BUT I'M WEIRD.
@Rinel said in Has anyone ever set up a server just for a small group of friends?:
oh god
Looks like you broke it. Time to scrap it all and start from scratch!
Why only have ONE D&D Setting, when you can have ALL of them, with Spelljammer? With the one edition that actually solved the problem Gygax never could (linear fighters v exponential wiznerds)?
HOSAS is more compliated than I thought, and I need MORE TINKERING to get the joystick sensitivity juuuust right. Halp.
@Jaded Yeah, I'm getting HYPE on Mechwarrior Online, and continually fail at setting up these dual joysticks. Which I also need to figure out the setup for Space Trucker Elite Dangerous. Woe.
@RDC said in What Types of Games Would People Like To See?:
Also: I mentioned D&D and now I wonder: why aren't D&D 5e MU*s super common?
Because 4e is the superior D&D game, especially for MU. It's so well balanced, you could throw it off a building and it will still work once you pull it out of the crater in the pavement.
@Derp said in General Video Game Thread:
@Jennkryst said in General Video Game Thread:
I spent monies on the flight stick with an extremely LEWD name. And then bought another one.
Wait, what is this? Link me!
THRUSTMASTER - it's... uh... the company name, so not quite as LEWD. But there's TWO of them, so whee?
(Not that I've figured out how to make the thing work yet, though. Ugh.)
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@Jaded said in General Video Game Thread:
Anyone who is interested in getting the Battletech game, there's a day or two left before the October Humble Bundle releases and it's the primary game for the monthly at $12. You get the game and ~$25 in DLC with it, on top of whatever other games are released with the monthly.
The Hairbrained Scheme game, or is there a different one I didn't see come out?
Bold of everyone (myself included) to assume staff will take a table top level of activeness and investment in every characters' creation and stuff.
I spent monies on the flight stick with an extremely LEWD name. And then bought another one.
Not sure which game to dive into first with them. Meep.
My long-term aspiration is to never die. Every day I live is a success towards that end. FEED ME XP.
@Lisse24 said in What Types of Games Would People Like To See?:
@Ganymede said in What Types of Games Would People Like To See?:
@RDC said in What Types of Games Would People Like To See?:
Unpopular opinion: Generic CofD 2e game where the defining feature is that staff just kind of stay out of your way and let you play the game without metaplot or too much staff-lead politics and stuff. >.>
It's a fair opinion to have, but I have not seen this work in practice for longer than a few months.
I think in order for this to work, you still need to encourage play. In most recent WoD/CoD games this has been through metaplot, which is top-down. I think if you want a game that is bottom-up, it can still work and would perhaps work even better, but only if replace the time you'd spend planning an elaborate metaplot instead focusing on systems that encourage interaction and RP. I think you'd really have to heavily think about design and how/why characters would interact and how do you push them towards that. And I don't think that relieves the staff from having to put in plot seeds, they'd still need to give story reasons for players to interact, they just might be smaller, more personal stories.
So fun story, I think about Reno? I dunno.
For the like... two weeks I was active there, I was HELLA active there. I don't really recall if there was meta plot at the time...
What they did have were the Aspirations. Like full on 'get XPz for doing the thing' along with the quick squirt of happy brain juice that goes along with that.
Which I admit I maaaay have over-used/abused.
Literally every scene involved fulfilling a short-term aspiration, or work towards fulfilling a long-term aspiration.
Then again... if you're not working towards these things, why have them at all? They are designed to be a roadmap for what sort of RP path you would like to follow. So if you have staff that reacts to these aspirations, plot-wise, and weaves them into a meta-plot, instead of writing their own and hoping the players engage it... that might be a thing?
@TheBigD Penn used to, might still work.
So, having never played on DM, I thought this meant a WoD setting with FATE points or something similar, and not gonna lie, I kinda want to go to there.
@Sarah I also must know where you left from, as I am a needy bitch obsessed with drama.
Mechwarrior: Destiny is a more narrative-y take on some Battletech-fu, the beta test for which is available to folks who backed the Clan Invasion Kickstarter. I haven't dug too deeply into it, but there's some neat stuff with FATE point type things.
It needs some work, to get chargen and in-play XP to be 1:1, but we'll see how things shape up.
I warble back and forth on the purple prose. Like. I will specifically use utter nonsense in an @desc (Blonde, just under 5'6", and fit! Like, muscle-y, but not super muscle-y. With clothing that changes based on the weather and other assorted circumstances! Descs are hard.)
In poses, I somehow manage to come across (in my inner-ear, at least) like the SNL Love-Ahs. I should probably just tell people to read my poses in that voice, even. It's the best!
As for Big Word Poses Bad, I get it. I can't stand the dialogue in, say... the film Contact, because everyone speaks like Carl Sagan. All those SAT words. Dude should have gotten someone to edit it.
I sort of did this when I was testing out HSpace 5 stuff, back when the developer was actually active and junk. Not that any RP happened, cause it was more in the 'figure out how to make the space stuff work' stage than 'do RP' stage.
