@Thenomain said:
People always get stuck on Aspects, while Aspects are bar none the single most compelling reason to play Fate.
My name is Cobalt and I take the aspect Artistic Firebug. I get to re-roll failed attempts that have to do with fire! I get bonus points when I succumb to my love of fire!
How is this not non-stop awesome? The rules are still written in a way that's not trivial to grasp, but this one, right there, is the key to almost all of them.
Abso-bloody-lutely.
@Chime said:
@Thenomain ...maybe, but @JinShei and I spent a while talking about it too. Poor girl's gettin it from all sides.
And the lovely Exeter from DS explained it to her so she is giving it a go 
Fair play, it is hard to risk a new system so...
Hey! I was Nic on RTA
Prospero from Mednights says hi
@Usekh said:
If you like Dresdenverse Dark Spires is quite good. Nice and helpful players, cool staff. Little tolerance for drahmaz.
Why thank you
@Usekh said:
But it does run FATE which some folks don't like
True, people who have played other systems for a long time struggle a bit sometimes
I have no character loyalty.
Previous:
Darkspires: Teresa, Gina, Nic, Fie, and some others
The Reach: Elly, Aerith, Hugh FitzWilliam, Neal, Juliana and Cory
Chronicles of Kingdale.: Caliopa, Aimee, Morgan and others
Wildcard: Harry, Mercutio and Brianna
Road to Amber: Nic, Patience, Madeline, Benjamin, Edward and Llewella (2010)
Darkwater: Hope, Josephine, Fie, Amy, Samuel
Windy City: Alysandra, Jandra, Ruby, Cerys, Chloe, Noelle, Leah, Joseph, Mercutio, Robert, Brianna
Discworld mud: Reality, Sera, Lilblue
Blood and citrus: Katherine, Robert
Arx: Elsbetta, Cora
Gray-Harbor: Matthew
Lizzy, Billy and Bertie on Ankh-Morpork
Staffing:
Reality at Discworld MUSH
Tiamat at Chronicles of Kingdale.
Persephone at Windy City
Magdalen at Darkspires
Granny at Ankh-Morpork MUSH
Tanasha at Gray-Habor
Mercy and Colenso at Trelawney Cove
Current:
Cora at Arx (rarely)
Barnaby at Keys
Edit: Updated to reflect current reality
@Chime said:
@Thenomain said:
Yeah, @JinShei, but you're using Fate Core, a fairly simple system that has some internal checks that prevents people from, e.g., putting everything at 5/Excellent. To be good at something, you have to give up something.
So hopefully we'll start to see more people using Fate instead?
We've had a number of people ask for code base for it so I hope so
We're using Dresden Files RPG, but I'm waiting on the DF core to come out, to review and consider it.
@Thenomain said:
First, the people who cripple their socials and mentals for combat, then still play as if they have high social and mental stats
But what do you do about this? You are on the cusp of recommending open sheets, or sheet summaries. I'm all for a sheet summary being visible: This person has Very High physicals, this person has Low socials, et al., but a Mu* by necessity self-polices. Y
We have open sheets on Darkspires. Seems to work well, and it helps players use the strengths of the fate system - less powergaming, more cooperative play, where losing can be amusing.
@darksabrz said:
My peeve: older ladies who feel the need to bathe in their perfume. I work retail, and had two customers tonight who nearly gagged me out because of how powerful their perfume was.
Seconded. People who come into clinics wearing so much I can't breath. It is a closed little room, people...
Joining those feeling like risking the posting of a game
Welcome to Dark Spires MUSH, where the search for truth takes you into the world of vampires, through the lairs of shapeshifting creatures, past magicians, on to psychics and all manner of mortals simply seeking to live their lives. It is where two worlds come together and overlap; the obvious world in which Man works, loves, and walks, and the Supernatural world, where unimaginable creatures are free to play their tricks. This is where mystery, violence, espionage and political intrigue coexist beneath a thin veneer of believable lies.
There is no such thing as sitting on the fence of life.
Our story is set in Oxford, England, where the great universities, ancient churches and cunning city council form a never-ending maelstrom. It is not for the careless nor the faint of heart. A place where your lover might be a spy, your best friend might be a demon and your employer might be literally sucking the life out of you.
Our goal is to foster an environment with enough conflict to be exciting, where puzzles are always to be found and most of all, the story is the key..
.. but is it the truth?
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