Posts made by Jennkryst

Elite Dangerous: Odyssey Alpha: taxi ships are sllllloooooooow.

@il-volpe I would like to pay this 9 year old for a copy of their story, please.

Monster Hunter Rise came out a few days ago, and already started to brainstorm Monster Hunter MUSH. Possibly using D&D 4e because I hate everyone.

Edit to add: is verreh good on its own. Ride to battle on your pupper, run up walls because it is anime as hell.

@rinel Pouring one out for an absolute legend

In before someone else goes 'in before Jennkryst asks for Mummy'... and also surprising everyone by suggesting Werewolf instead of Mummy, but under the condition that other shifters exist! BUT TO BE DIFFICULT, add on how they should also use gifts, not aspects or numina or favors.

@alamias WHO LET THOSE TWO TOTALLY NORMAL HUMANS RIP THE HEADS OFF OF THE DAFT PUNK ROBOT BODIES?!?

So not a DEATH death, but this stings just as hard.

Daft Punk, 1993-2021

@lotherio Weed Stonks were where it was at 2 days ago, gotta find the next target.

@derp said in Developing a WoD Codebase for Ares:

Yeah but which one?

Whichever ruleset. oWoD is Mummy: the Resurrection, nWoD is Mummy: the Curse.

I vote INAPPROPRIATELY COMPLICATED, with +stealth/obfuscate and passive resistance rolls, an entire library of 'does character know about x?' to avoid Int 1 Occult 0 Politics 0 people who know everything about vampire society...

Or at the very least, absolute minimum... Mummy in the database by default.

TANGENTIALLY RELATED to Video Games, and I'm too lazy to search for the other thread this is more relevant to...

@ominous said in Muahaha:

What about Meiji Japan but with steampunk Lord & Ladies? It was an up-and-coming power, eager to prove itself; it was industrializing rapidly; and they altered the system of nobility to resemble something more like Britain and Germany, so you had somewhat recognizable styles of nobility. Then again, you're expecting players to be able to play steampunk Meiji Japan as something other than a caricature, and that's a tall order. Maybe stick with European states.

This sounds like L5R but with extra steps. Which I am here for, but demand the FFG weird R&K dice, not your normal D10s.

LET'S GOOOOOO

@greenflashlight Uh... tall just helps to keep their cult focused on them. Worship+followers to do all that stuff for you.

Also really hope you critique every game over needing to track their characters' caloric intake to make sure they maintain their stats.

@wizz said in Interest Check: Exalted 3rd ed Mu:

You can take mutations as a Solar, but you don't get them in a neat package deal like Deadly Beastman and the other Lunar charms that build on it, so you have to pay full costs for each of what are essentially permanent disfigurements that mark you as a freakish Wyld-twisted outcast, which you would need to constantly pay motes towards disguising.

Bold of you to assume that the 10-13ft tall HUGE Solar even cares about disguise charms. And even if the perma-mutated beastman solar cared about being disguised (pass it off as a godblooded mutation, or a sign of high-dragonblooded heritage?) PERFECT DISGUISE CHARMS ARE PERFECT. And unlike Lunars, they can break the commitment and 'power up' with having more motes to spend, because of course they'll stunt it back, or get it through charm drip, or or or...

Having played on the last, uh... maths five or six incarnations (HAH) of Exalted MUs, I speak from experience of what DOES happen there, not just theorycrafting what the lore says ought to.

Like, Solars are still pretty OP, I don't think anybody could really dispute that, but at least they seem to be giving the other Exalts really unique niches that Solars can't just stomp all over this time around.

This is a valid point. Out of those last five or six versions, only the most recent was 3e. And it closed shortly after Dragonblooded Kickstarter manuscript came out - not even the final copy. So NEW THINGS may mean new player approaches. There's also the folks who WILL play other things for the niche RP aspects. But it still ends up being like 20-30 Solars, 15 Infernals, 10 Abyssals, 15 Lunars, 6 Alchemicals, 4 Sidereals, 2 Dragonblooded, 1-3 Raksha, and maybe some god/fae/ghost blooded, if folks are feeling FANCY. Those aren't the ACTIVE numbers. Those are the TOTAL numbers. Except, as mentioned, that last go-round, where it was 90% Solars because

But these are ALSO the sorts of wierdos who go 'WELL, an 18 year old on Earth is alive for so many days, and Creation has fifteen 28-day months, which means 420 days (plus 5 for calibration) a year...' to run the numbers and figure out just how young they can get away with making their character and still argue 'but but but... LEGAL ON EARTH!!!'

No, fucker, your 16 year old character cannot fake their way past the +policy age restriction.

...

I, uh... lost my train of thought somewhere. RIGHT, the typical Exalted MUer does not follow the same logic as the Soapbox tends to. So gotta plan for it.

@groth said in Interest Check: Exalted 3rd ed Mu:

Historically [non-Solars] have been one of the least popular playable splats. In large part because [non-Solars] have just been worse Solars, all the flexibility of Solars got traded into [something else thematic, but] none of which is particularly useful [enough to counterbalance the SOLAR SUPREMACY!!!]. Nothing stops a Solar from [doing whatever they want because they are SOLARS].

Sure, they can't SHAPESHIFT, but they can get mutations and have SOLAR CHARMS in their Deadly Beastman. They also don't have a tell, so their larceny disguise charms are BETTER than a Lunar stealing/cloning a form.

Regardless I think the only ones who have third edition books are Solars, Lunars and DBs?

Really, THIS is a better reason for why not to have them as even 'trusted' PCs, at least until the book comes out. There has been an impression that Abyssals are going to be more than just 'solars, but spooky' this edition. Time will tell, but it looks more promising than prior editions.

@greenflashlight 1) Renegade Abyssals exist, and 2) Non-Abyssals can easily try to destroy the whole world.

Can't believe I initially overlooked pointing this one out, but THIS

@surasanji said in Interest Check: Exalted 3rd ed Mu:

In that same vein Abyssals are also likely to be allowed, but highly regulated. There are only 100 of them in all of Creation, a precious commodity of the Deathlords. They will likely be given out to trusted players who can create RP as they will absolutely be antagonists.

Is just the limited Jedi/Force User staff favoritism argument waiting to happen.

This is a lot of the reason I suggested 'just do all of creation'. Have the Blessed Isle for those who want to do Dragonblooded politics. Let the Celestials run around the threshold doing sandbox adventures... yes, with some plot, but also spread out so your Abyssals aren't pushed right up next to the Solars, and now we're in a pvp scenario.

It's how City of Hope actually manages to have semi-working antag players. By keeping them VERY SEPARATE from the white hats, who will all try to murder them instantly.

THEN AGAIN, I tend to make high conviction/low compassion characters, so even my 'non-antag' exalts are pretty damn antag when you look at them.

@kumakun said in MUs That We Would Love To Make (But Won't):

@Lemon-Fox said in MUs That We Would Love To Make (But Won't):

Shadowrun?

Well, Shadowrun Anarchy is on my list of 'would totally do if I had the bandwidth' so... Sure, yeah. Shadowrun might be exactly what I'm saying.

Need more deets, but I am almost certainly HERE FOR IT.

@greenflashlight Yeah, my question was more directed towards the comment of there only being 100 Abyssals.

Not being rules for STUFF is a big problem for Exalted. Evocations are going to be tricksy, for example.