Posts made by Jennkryst

Depending on how high you like your fantasy, Exalted is out there for shenanigans.

I'd be cool with First Edition (this was just the topic I found first, so it is the one that got thread-necro'd), but... you'd think that the more narrative, less doom-filled play style would work for MUs, with the whole... not wanting to die unless you're retiring sort of thing.

MAYBE a 1e system, with some of the 2e setting? DISCUSS!

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

Performing the Fell Thread Necromancy to see if anything is in the works for this?

@OldFrightful I think WoD is so successful because it is easy. You can literally just go 'I make X real world thing, but also a Y supernatural thing', because it is modern (city) by night. I think this is also why there is your typical sandbox stagnation, because there is SO MUCH OF THAT, but in a fairly mundane type setting.

The initial mold of 'White Wolf System + Bureaucracy' can work, but as it is a White Wolf System, it needs a firm, guiding hand.

@Rook said in How to Change MUing:

WoD, as an example, does not seem to lend itself to this, in fact it does the exact opposite: segregate races and characters apart in order to keep thematic secrets.

The issue with WoD is not that it does not lend itself to narrowing of roleplay. It is the age-old issue of 'game designed for one ST put into many hands'.

With a single ST, they can look at players and say 'this is how X works, this is how Y works, but never Z'. On a multi-sphere MU, this is possible, but everyone has to be on the same page. THE PROBLEM, then, occurs when staff just wants every game to be their own sandbox, while also working in tandem. Which is to say, they are lazy and don't want to write up any more than the bare-minimum for getting the game up and running.

From what I've glanced over with Changeling 2e, it has solved a small part of this problem. Rather than have all the courts of 1e re-written, they just give rules for how to make your own courts. So you can custom tailor the social structure of your own game, instead of having ALL THESE BOOKS that may or may not contradict each other (not as badly as oWoD, mind you, but still contradicting).

The fix to this is to just... literally write your own theme for how the various groups and sub-groups work together. GIVE THEM A REASON TO WORK TOGETHER. Give them history of cooperation, have specific threats that only one group can handle... You know. Active ST stuff.

I am very pro-spaceflight, partly because minigames are boss, partly because Star Wars AoA was my verreh first MU and I miss the good old days.

(All these ideas for D&D games/settings)

Hey, you guys know how to do all of them together? Spelljammer! Maybe with coded space boats?

(gets murdered in her sleep)

@Rook Generally, level-based advancement is tricksy, as it could result in L20 dinosaurs wiping out all the threats new L1 characters should face, or they team up and all the L1 folks get turbo murdered.

Now, if you just took the setting and stapled another system on, we could maybe talk, because it is a cool enough setting.

I will one-up you all: fuck staff on games who go 'No, your background is too long, make it shorter'... double-fuck them on a game where the +policy includes:

Illustrate things with the character's thoughts -- maybe not literally quoted, but his take on situations. Don't simply say, "He was happy"; instead, describe the tears of joy and relief that he shed upon seeing his comrades emerge alive. Don't say, "Her father abused her", show us a scene where it happened, or her having flashbacks, or show her after one of the attacks and how she felt. It takes a bit more space, but it results in a story that comes alive in the mind.

Emphasis mine.

... sorry for minor derail, but I'm still fucking bitter over that bullshit.

Shadowrun has a decent way of describing these sorts of things with Security ratings. How quick the police response will be, and so on. Maybe instead of ONLY including it in the description, a handy ranking system could be employed.

@Arkandel That's why I want some elements pulled from it, if not the actual setting. I was leaving the twist at the end hidden for folks interested in watching it, but basically, there is a reason why the island folks know that everyone there is worthy of living there. Everyone of them used to be from the mainland, and they all had to pass the tests to gain acceptance.

'But what about the babies born on the island?' There are none, because the final test is chemical sterilization. Nothing on the island is inherited. It was earned, because they proved themselves worthy.

But yeah. PCs are shitlords with every advancement and luxury, separated from the unworthy peasants. Sounds like your standard L&L game, but without all the 'uniting houses by breeding' subplots.

There is a Netflix show called 3% that I want to pull some elements from for a thing, at least, if not the setting itself.

Post apocalyptic setting, there is a hypertech island where only the worthy can go. Like, there is a rigorous screening process... psych, physical, intellectual, willpower. Mainland folks scrounge to get by, and the island gives no shits. Paraplegic? The 3% on the island have a shot to fix that.

But there aren't enough supplies to go around for everyone. So only the 3% of people allowed on the island have access. Which is kind of shitty and unfair until you get to the M Night Shabalabadoo-ian twist at the end, which I leave hidden, cause SPOILERZ.

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Where was I? Oh. TLDR, basically like Exalted, where the PCs are powerful shitlords and the NPCs are lame masses who had the chance to be awesome, but didn't live up to the challenge.

Re: Highlander (Films)
Everyone hates on the idea of SPEHSS ALIUMS and ranks 2 as the worst of the films, but never even acknowledge the Existence of the Source.

As for 'interesting stuff over the eons'... there is a reason why, when I play a vampire or immortal or some such on a game, I literally tell other people 'Vampire is like highlander... all the old people know everyone else, and half our RP should be flashbacks to previous encounters where we actually met and other shit happened. Usually conveniently relevant to present day dramaz!'

Although... maybe it says something about the concept that too few people actually take me up on the offer.

I don't know what brought this to mind... probably arguing with a DoC guy I know, but I figured this out a couple years ago, WAAAAY too long after initially reading it.

In 'To Kill a Mockingbird', we are told that Tom Robinson, a black man found guilty of a crime he was physically incapable of committing, was shot while trying to escape prison. This happens 'off camera', but I vaguely recall the family talking about how Tom HAD TO HAVE KNOWN he couldn't climb over a fence, what with the crippled arm, and all.

What I should have learned sooner is that he did not try to escape. The prison guards executed him, and gave what should have been an easily seen-through false-narrative. Hell, the whole trial is foreshadowing how nobody looks at the evidence, you just assume the story you are told is true.

This sort of thing always upsets me more than it should as someone who never RPed with folks who have passed on. What's worse, is that I am shit at expressing well-wishes for these things. Please pass along more condolences!

@Ghost I don't watch regularly, but I saw a youtube video of the luchadragon fighting the aztec zombie controlled by a priestess. Which was lolz.

@Lithium There is one teeny problem with this idea.

On Monday, you are in port. On Tuesday, you are in a PrP/Staff Plot where you must sail for a week or more for whatever. Then, on Wednesday, you are in port. A week has gone by for you, but other people literally saw you two days ago.

Consider: TIME Pirates...

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

... Stargate ...

Unpopular Opinion: scrub the SG1 Lore, because the original world where Ra was the ONLY alien involved, was hella more compelling than 'Watch MacGyver be plucky!' repeated, ad nausium.

Back to pronunciation for a moment:

Continuity? Khun-tin-yu-ih-tee. Continue-ity.

@Tempest How else do you think the Technocracy tracks everyone down?