Best posts made by L. B. Heuschkel

@JinShei said in MU Things I Love:

@RightMeow said in MU Things I Love:

I am sad I am not witnessing this char.

You could be...

totally could be.

@Goblin Believe me, being invited for tea and biscuits with Lord Downey, cordially known as the best damn poisoner on the Disc, is mildly unsettling as well, let me assure you.

Next time we face consequences for our actions, let's swap guild leaders?

@Raemira Oh wow. That really is a blast from the past!

@faraday That's what I do. If a scene is idle for 24 hours and I have heard nothing from the idle player (or someone else bringing word from them), I will move the scene on. Maybe not on the 24 hour mark but definitely soon. It's not fair to the rest to leave everyone waiting.

@JinShei Still got it. Yesterday, Jin managed to injure 2/3rds of the active players in one hour.

@Phalkyn She is best Onion, granted.

@tek Haven't had the (dis)pleasure but if a player makes you feel like we should probably talk to him but it'd be such a shame to lose all of whatever, then that player is likely doing exactly that. Gut feeling is usually right.

@JinShei said in Discworld: The MUSH:

Feh, lightweight... don't make me bring the plot to you.

Oh please do. I have a kneecap that's not injured yet. Might as well get the full set.

Jokes aside -- now is a really good time to turn up if you're sitting on the fence, debating whether to pay us a visit. We're at the point in development where stories have taken off and there's lots to dig into, but there's also lots of room for new people and their own stories.

Want to set the tone for a guild, so to speak? Several are as of yet defined only by the book canon, and you can definitely get away with leaving your mark. Want into a guild or group that already has people and a mood? The Watch is popular these days, and a lot of plots seem to be heavily investigation-themed. Want to join me in my gentleman's academia-club, also known as the Guild of Assassins? Draw up a Chesterfield chair.

We're very happy to help brainstorm character concepts and answer questions. Visit our Discord at https://discord.gg/h6nCbV or pop in on the game proper, there's usually a few heads around all day EU time and lots of US time as well.

@Surasanji All your socks are belong to me.

@faraday Tempted to say that if you want to run a genuine pvp game you need to take it all the way and make no illusions of 'supportive community' or 'team play'. And also make it so that losing a char is not a big deal -- roll a new one, get back in the game, this is not the game for long, deep stories.

Which is fine. Again, boiling down to being bluntly honest on the label.

@JinShei Details. I can aim a rulebook and hit a student at 50 paces.

@ninjakitten Pretty sure there aren't any things you can only do on the web portal. There are things you can only do from a traditional client.

@too-old-for-this said in A healthy game culture:

@l-b-heuschkel Or the bad guys looking to take over the world. I cannot express how often I wished for a good WoD MUSH where the players got to be the bad guys trying to take down the good guys. But I agree, you can't have both factions being playable PC's, it invites entirely too much backstabbing and pvp.

Yeah, that works too. Or both sides have grey mentalities, but they're still opposed to one another.

You see this in traditional TTRPGs a lot as well. There's a reason a lot of game systems recommend restricting 'evil' or 'opposition' races/nationalities/species to NPC use. The mystery is lost when half the party is from 'the enemy' and know all about how it works, and gameplay does tend to get far more complicated in terms of politics.

@JinShei If Vimes is getting on this train, I'm going back on horseback.

@Ghost said in What Types of Games Would People Like To See?:

WoD set in the Vampire Hunter D universe.

Post apocalyptic vampires, werewolves, and all manner of monsters living with the Barbarois. Ancient vampire lords in castles that were once equipped with rockets to travel to a safe zone on the dark side of the moon. Wild west type towns with high-tech hunters taking on bounties to hold back the dark.

... I'd be all over this. I have most of the VHD novels, I've written VHD fan fiction. I'd be willing to learn the rules of WoD for the opportunity to play Nobility.

It's certainly important to communicate what you want -- as a player but also as a game. Personally I want to feel included on equal footing with everyone else which is bloody difficult to achieve when you're on Central European Time.

@Auspice Last picture there reminds me of @JinShei storytelling... I'm the cabbage in the bucket.

@Ghost said in What Types of Games Would People Like To See?:

@L-B-Heuschkel Meier and Carmila were amazing in Bloodlust

I'd have a party ripping off --- I mean, creating a character concept in Meier's style. Hell, I already did, in my first fan fic from 2009. Why has this not happened yet?

@arkandel said in Decriminalise Pretty:

Isn't this kind of a natural consequence of every Hollywood-produced movie, TV series, etc having exceptionally attractive and/or charismatic actors playing every role?

At least to the extent that it's considerably harder to find suitable pictures of perfectly ordinary people that can be considered 'public' enough to warrant some semblance of fair use. Even stock art models are rarely plain or even ugly.

@Sunny For what it's worth, he started this crap back in January, before COVID quarantine was a thing anywhere. He's just a racist troll who gets off on games of gotcha.