Posts made by Jennkryst

Shout out to try and find the Van Vetchan twins from the Reach... Skylar and/or Ashley. One of them should be able to find the other. I could list alts if the wiki were still up. Alas, it is not.

The bonus part about intimacies is they don't change all that often, so you can't just up and go 'I have an intimacy against the thing you just told me about'... unless you have a power that lets you.

Crafting in Exalted has always been weird. It bothers my that Melee is used for every kind of combat with a weapon, medicine is used for not only healing and bioengineering but also psychology (kind of), and sail is used for not only using boats of every kind but also flying vessels... but craft? You need a different skill to craft different items. See also: martial arts being broken down into different forms, and performance now being broken down into different things (dance, oratory, instrument)

@Derp - Exalted has many varied mind control/social persuasion/I win buttons, and a kind of social combat system? I haven't familiarized myself with 3e yet, mostly out of protest because of how craft/martial arts/performance is broken up... but I do know there is a persuasion-style skill.

@Lithium Something you do when you can't 3-d print a new version of an item, or are paranoid about ego-theft, or are an anti-matter business mogul transporting vital spaceship fuel from mercury to any-station, Sol-system? Or for local flights which take less time than the 4-hour download (with exceptions) and 4-hour upload (with exceptions) wait?

Also checking in to see what's what with this.

Did we piddle out and die, or is still a thing?

Posting for cautious optimism.

There is an Exalted MU out there somewhere, but it's wiki has all of the ads/popups/LAAAAG. I haven't done anything past Guest checkins.

I play Kerbal... Totally fine to point a ship in one direction, ego-cast away, then cast back when it's time to hit the brakes and land somewhere. I need time to kill/grind away boredom between space whale/squid TS awkwardness.

I humbly request the ability to manually fly a ship around and go pew pew at things. Will help however I can!

@Kay It is indeed!

@Bobotron There's no magic. Well. There is, but it's tricksy. There are the Words of God, but the language is incomplete. So you might say the word for fire, but without a definer, it could be anywhere from match-size spark to building-engulfing inferno. It's been almost a decade since I read through the book, in its 'players get d2 health per level until they qualify for a prestige class' glory

@Kanye-Qwest trust all of your Darwin-is-awesome intuition. Because the only flaw with the awesome of Darwin is how her online time is limited because Australia is upside down.

In the long-long ago, there was a d20 setting called The End. The premise was a game that took place post-apocalypse. Literally. The book of Revelations happened. The catch: when the bible said the meek shall inherit the earth, it was intended not as a reward, but a warning - those who were too meek to pick a side got left on earth, the gates to the afterlife shut forever. A hilarious catch here is that the world is returning to a primal state... flora and fauna are growing crazy fast and/or big... mankind no longer rules the animal kingdom, because that was God's doing. So the critters are all mega-deadly/hostile (except for dogs, because man's best friend. No really.) Add to the mix that if humans don't interact with a thing often enough, it starts to break down into it's component elements. Buildings are crumbling if people don't go in them enough. There's some other lolzy stuff to go with it, but that's the gist. Could be neat.

I just realized Mechwarrior/Battletech could be a space lords and ladies style game, and I regret not thinking of/mentioning it sooner.

Pretty much what @Thenomain said. On the one hand, you could easily have a game set in the 6th world (Shadowrunville) where players could be whatever. Wyld, Shadowrun: Denver's headwiz, often butts heads with theme staff who are Very Dystopia/Noir Gritty in their views, and while Wyld is an awesome coder, he is not good with people (which is why he has other people to deal with shit, and even a Chief of Staff to handle things that would normally take a Headwiz to handle).

I would do several unspeakable things to get ahold of some of SR:D's code, because their voucher system is amazeballs, as well as their in-mush documentation system. To those who haven't seen it - every piece of 'ware (be it cyber or bio) is listed, because when you install it, it modifies stats on your +sheet. +document/find (thing) will return every +help or +news or +anything file that has an instance of (thing) in it. +qarchive will return every +queue (+request before +request was a thing) you have submitted (going back to 2010, when +qarchive was created).

@Arkandel said:

@Jennkryst said:

A real dayjob would give you money, and they're all like NOPE, CANNOT DO.

I just really don't understand the reasoning. Why? Plus, won't any Shadowrunner worth a damn have money? I mean that's what you're doing what you're doing, to get paid.

It's downtime vs active. Having a dayjob gives you money for time spent either doing nothing while you're at work, or RPing being at work. Going on shadowruns, however, 9/10 times involves actively being involved and there being 'danger' (danger in quotes because of the loltastic consent rules in place). And they are very big on high reward requiring high risk. Earning 50,000 nuyen for just walking a pet had best involve ROUSes trying to eat you, for example.

It also has something to do with the way money works. It's not a Resource dot system... you have what you have. A real dayjob would give you money, and they're all like NOPE, CANNOT DO. If you're cool with having no income or resources or pull for your ER Doc from his ER job, then I mean, sure, you could be one.

I don't agree with it, either (it's one of the many reasons I don't play there anymore).

@Arkandel At one point, it got very PVP-ish when people worked for actual megacorps, or were ranking members of the mafia, or leaders of gangs... anyway, people brought big guns to bare on other players, so staff put their foot down. The degree the foot got brought down varied based on who was staff at the time... Vulcan got away with murder... another person (I forget who) got shit done solely because they knew Wyld's phone number and would call him and have something done... Mirage was hired hesitantly because of some problems with Accelerate (his decker PC) while we were in the middle of making new, player-friendly matrix rules, and he basically trashed it all saying the status quo was fine (when the status most most definately not quo (yay for paraphrasing (and parenthesis)), else we wouldn't have been working on new rules).

@faraday The short answer is it doesn't handle alternate style characters. The long answer is that it does allow them, but you HAVE to be a part of the shadows. Your street doc? Can't be a doctor at a hospital who works the streets on the side. Or they can... but you have to buy your own hospital if you want to do that, but even then, it's an illegal hospital.

I am disappoint they didn't figure out how to connect Rokugan to Theah. For shame.