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The first What We Do in the Shadows trailer is out:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SyZi3rJPENs

First, I want to applaud you for severely limiting spheres. It's not a popular move, but I think it's a good one.

Now, I took a stab at Reno several times in the past. It was always a particularly inactive game with most characters idling in rooms and little RP to be found easily on grid. What are you guys doing different this time to encourage a different game atmosphere?

@Auspice I think it's great that language is being expanded to include step moms & foster moms & adopted moms and all kinds of moms!

I'm not OK with messaging that has to try and find a way to squeeze motherhood on you because without it, somehow you just aren't a complete woman. You can have inclusive messaging without sending the message that it's something all women need, and really, that's all I'm asking for.

This will be unpopular, BUT I'm kinda peeved with spoiler-phobia. I'm fine with showing simple courtesy, by not posting things in your FB feed, but when people start demanding that every one else bend over backwards to accommodate your ignorance.

Examples:
I made a hobbit/stranger things joke on my FB feed about the time season 2 came out and had a friend jump down my throat.
I was listening to a podcast this past week and they gave a spoiler warning for Lost. Lost!
GoT specific podcasts and discussion groups have been prefacing posts with spoiler warnings...which is kind of the whole point?

In this week of quarantine viewing, I, too, went down the Letterkenny rabbit hole. It was everything you all promised me it would be.

@Ominous Totally agree.

Plus all games should have a 0 to character wiki page. This page should go beyond CG and cover the first steps that a character needs to get established including:

• How to set up a wiki page
• How to get housing
• How to get equipment
• What their first steps in getting integrated with their sphere should be, including which PCs to contact.
• A list of basic PC maintenance commands (pool spends/regains, etc) including how often to run them.
• How to get involved with plots.

You know, all those things experienced players like us just know how to do, but someone coming from a different setting would be clueless about.

I have a vampire on Fallcoast that I did one scene with and occasionally log in. I just don't get how to find RP on that game.

I also play on Fate's Harvest where I have my little psychic and have found a pretty decent RP circle. Being mortal, she's not really involved in the big plots, but I'm not a fan of big plots anyway, preferring to tell my own character-centric stories, which I've easily been able to do. And like I said, the RP that I've been able to get has been excellent.

Also, despite some of the fear mongering, it's been ridiculously easy to avoid VASpider's player. I've only had a single run in with her, and while she did try to pull the whole, 'I'm the coolest cat around' routine and I did have to get firm with her to get her to actually tell me what she was rolling for, she didn't end up dominating the scene, and I was actually able to ignore her chars presence in the scene fairly well. At this point, I would say to not let her presence drive you away from the game. The more people active and RPing, the easier it is for us all to ignore her.

@Taika I love everything you say there. Like really. I was skeptical of yet another multisphere WoD MU, but you seem to be thinking about how to keep momentum going. I don't know all the details, which is to be expected at this point, but the mere fact that you're thinking about it puts you several steps ahead of other games.

I'm also with you on not wanting to artificially limit a sphere just because. I think in a low-XP game, Mage won't be able to break stuff nearly as much. It's been so long since there's been a true low-XP game, that people are used to them having infinite abilities. Also, I wanna play a mage!

The only other thing I'd love to see is an extremely limited alt policy (1 major sphere + 1 mortal/m+?). That would have the benefit of limiting the number of mages running around without having to impose a cap. It would encourage cross-sphere RP, encourage investment in a single character (which will help with sustainability), and will help beef up the mortal sphere.

It's frog season here in Florida, and there's currently a frog climbing up my sliding glass door. My cat really wants to eat that frog and keeps trying to attack it - despite the fact that several sheets of glass are between her and it. She's stubborn though! She'll get it soon enough! She's even tried licking the glass to see if she can taste it.

I love cats.

@Rook said in MU Pacing:

Rushing into revealing things is a sure-fire way to make sure that you reach that entropy point faster than you might otherwise. Draw it out, make it last like a nice batch of homemade fudge. Take little bites.

Yeah, that's pretty much how I feel about it. Not just with romantic relationships, but with everything. I want to savor what's happening. However, I do get what @Goldfish and @surreality are saying in that it seems if you don't act quick, you can miss the opportunity.

@Arkandel said in The Apology Thread:

But although that kind of friendship is important I will return what I'm given, too. If I suggest playing together a few times and you decline but don't reciprocate later on I'll take the hint and not ask again. No harm done or insult taken but I'll share my time online with people who like spending theirs hanging out with me. I think that's fair.

This should be embossed in gold and hung over the door. It's my basic philosophy. I'm an easy-going person. I'll spend time with anyone ... as long as I think they want to spend time with me, too. In game, that means if I'm constantly bugging you for a scene, and you never seem to be up for it? Well, eventually you're going to be on my list of people to not-bug. If I page and chat and you're all standoffy? I won't page anymore.

@Rinel said in Game of Thrones:

Like hell. They're bored and they want to move on. I don't judge them for that. What I judge them for is not giving the series over to people who still give a shit.

I do. Knowing when to pass a project off into other hands is an essential leadership skill. Okay, so they're bored/burned out/whatever. Then give the end of the season to someone who's as passionate about wrapping it up well as they were during the first season.

@apos said in System dealbreakers:

1. Absolutely no means to organically find rp and having to reach out and page people to arrange RP scenes. Look, I just want to jump in and RP. I don't wanna talk to someone and create a weird, pseudo friendly acquaintanceship with every single person that has relevance to a potential story. That's just weird, man. No wonder WoD games feel like a meat market. If the way to find RP on a game is to talk to strangers OOC first, it's not really my thing.

Quoting for emphasis. I am not going to page someone for RP unless I really, really want to RP with that person and have an objective to that RP (IE - introducing myself to the Prince, etc.). So games that don't allow for organic RP to form are going to lose me as a player, not because I think that's horrible and stomp off, but because I'm going to lose interest in any game where I'm not getting RP.

I'm not generally a member of a clique, so I come into a game on my own. And as I said on another thread, as a person who comes into a game without a pre-made RP group, the ability to locate and find active RP partners, esp. through utilizing an active public grid, makes or breaks a game for me.

On MUs, RP is either accessible or its not, and for the most part, on Fallcoast, it's not. RP happens in temp rooms or private rooms. I need to be able to log into the game and see scenes that I could potentially join while I'm getting my feet under me.

In my mind, a good pose should:

a) Be detailed enough to give flavor and be interesting.
b) Be clear enough to avoid ambiguousness or an interpretation different than the author's intent, in grammar, spelling, and style.
c) React to and respond to the scene in progress.
d) Provide something for others to respond and react to.
e) Does not overwhelm or dominate the scene.

Alright, I know I'm late to the party on this one, but holy crap, The Expanse is good. It grabbed me right from the pilot, which is really, really rare.

@Apos I have to agree with @dontpanda that the idea of coded clothing affecting stuff - even if it's only coded social interactions is a huge turn-off. I know that I'm not the average Arx player, but I only have 2-3 hours a night, 2-3 nights a week and very little, if any, time on weekends. I want to spend my RP time RPing. I don't want to have to worry about jumping through code-hoops in order to get satisfying RP or to be involved in things.

Maybe someday, I'll be inspired and create some coded clothing for my char, but I don't want to feel pressured that it's something I have to do in order to keep up with the game.

Maybe we should spin this into it's own thread, but to weigh in, my main issue with closing off public RP, is that it makes it very hard on newcomers. I know this has been said before, but we are a dying hobby and anything we can do to make it easier on a newbie player to find RP, we should do. Why? Because if they actually find and like RP, they'll stick with the hobby longer, which means the hobby will be healthier and we'll all be happy.

I also don't think it's inherently bad to have your private scene interrupted. If I can take my scene from this morning as example:

My character and another char on BITN just figured out that we both knew about supernatural stuff. We wandered from a cafe onto the UMD Mall, where there was an idle player. We continued to play, but invited the player to join. Now, he was idle, so he didn't, but what if he had? Would that have changed the tenor of our scene? Of course. We would have been stopped before actually confirming that we were both saying what we thought we were. That would have led to several days of us both wondering. Would this have been bad? Well, I don't think there is bad in RP. I think there is just different. Our scene would have been different and would have led in a different direction, but I am confident that we could have made something interesting of it.

Recently, my sister gave birth to a very early and very small preemie. Born a trimester early and weighing only a pound, there was no guarantee that she would survive the first few hours, although she thankfully did. In fact, the baby's doing extremely well, although there's still no guarantee that she'll ever be brought home.

This level of uncertainty is why it's especially infuriating to learn that some people from my parent's church have been resharing my sister's FB updates and using them to promote their prolife agenda.

Don't get me wrong, both my sister and I lean prolife ourselves. But it's a bit shitty to politicize someone else's life while it's hanging in the balance and without even talking to them about it first.

@saulot said in Encouraging Proactive Players:

I don't disagree. However, I'm not sure if there are a lot of people that want to fix it or have it fixed. I've gotten enough of an earful on people preferring their stats and quibbles not being known in the public in any form. This is why what I work on has sheets and the whole shebang visible to everybody.

I once suggested a system that had immediate goals/aspirations that were visible to everyone and long-term/secret goals/aspirations that were only visible to staff. That might be a middle ground for people who aren't quite ready to throw everything about their character out there in public.