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Bobs' Burgers.

I got some eggs for yah right here!

I am a fan of them but I've been quantifying them more objectively.

You have physical, mental, and social categories and then in each three categories you have three traits or attributes that are Power, Finesse, and Resistance.

The skills are also broken down via mental, social, and physical but are used by the skills differently depending on what you want to do:

Brute force punch or slam or grapple: Physical Power + Unarmed Combat. To try and dodge that same attack it'd be Physical Finesse + Unarmed Combat.

I am trying to avoid power skills like 'Dodge' because honestly avoiding getting punched is a lot different than avoiding being shot, but if you are good with guns then you know how to also take cover and avoid being shot with guns as most people aren't going to be dodging bullets due to relativistic speed differences between a person and a bullet for example.

If you were to use a martial arts attack it'd be Physical Finesse + unarmed combat rather than power.

So far it's working out pretty reasonably in my testing.

@lordbelh I didn't say they got screwed. They got skewered right in the feels cuz the show was cancelled. I also hate when shows aren't given a way to 'end' the show in reasonable fashion and the viewers are just left hanging, that's kind of screwed.

@Tennyson Only thing downvote worthy in that, is the assumption that all countries have the same rights as others.

@Miss-Demeanor I like the ones who want to argue with me about how much something is going to cost. I work part time at a parking lot essentially, paid parking. All the entrances are clearly marked.

No mother fucker, just because you don't think you should pay the price for the place where you parked doesn't mean I can just let you out for free.

Even worse are the ones who try to haggle.

This isn't a barter system, it's a fixed economy. If you didn't want to pay nine bucks, then you shouldn't have parked for a whole day on the surface.

Ugh.

@faraday They are different, but there is also some similarities there too. I just find that it can't hurt knowing other systems. Might give ideas, it's a difficult thing to find the balance between swingy and bell curve.

Little things like 1's removing successes can dramatically alter the outcome of dice rolls for example.

Wasn't a fan of the cinematography for the first bits of Civil War, loved what they did with Ant Man and Spider-Man, T'Challa was bad ass, loved the updated costume.

Overall: Will buy ASAP.

@Cobaltasaurus said in MU Things I Love:

@Arkandel said in MU Things I Love:

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I love the process of making a new character. >.> I love making wiki pages. I love choosing music, and played bys, and fiddling, and yes. That. All of it.

You know, I like making a new character from scratch on a game I'm excited about and even PBs (and conversations leading up to picking one) can be fun, I've even even been known to hunt through my notes and the googlez for appropriate book quotes that fit the concept... but music? I can't find and wouldn't even know how to start looking for a soundtrack if I tried.

I generally have two things that put me in the mood to write/working on a character. One) A played by, Two) music. When it comes to just writing, it's usually music that does it for me. I have a really hard time working on my non-RP writing without music. I also somewhat have a hard time RPing with music, but not as bad.

Writing and music is pretty linked for me.

I share the music thing, but when I am making a character I usually have the whole character fleshed out in my head before I even begin writing so I go from start to done for a character amazingly fast, full desc written etc, and then hunt for a reasonable played by for hours on end...

I hate played by's anymore, write a description that tells me what they look like so I can imagine it, thanks.

@thebird I am allergic to everything. The only places I find respite, is high desert like Arizona and parts of Nevada.

Otherwise, allergies destroy me year round there's always /something/ blooming that my body hates.

@Thenomain I'm with you there. MUX is best for me, Rhost, then Penn.

Sucks that people still pick Penn for me, my biggest hate on for it? Frikken channels. WHY IN CTHULHU'S NAME IS THERE AN = OR A + IN FRONT OF A CHANNEL?!?! WHY????!?!?!?!?!

I just hate that.

So much.

Mystique was in charge of nasty mutants for a long time in X-Men, when she was leading The Blob and such around before the whole Death of Destiny plot so it's not even unfaithful that Mystique was well known. The thing about Mystique is that you could know she's out there, and leading these bads, but you don't know where she is, or /who/ she is, at any given moment which is what made her so powerful.

@Coin @Arkandel : Call it anecdotal if you want, but I am going to trust my experience over two individuals who are tooting their own horn.

Quality of anything in this medium is subjective.

@ThatGuyThere See this right here is a problem. If I am able to throw 100 tons around without a problem, there shouldn't be any /swinginess/ when I connect. It should do an immense amount of force on impact and there shouldn't be a feel of 'anything can happen' in super hero's in my opinion. If 'anything' can happen, then what is the point of having super powers if they end up being worthless due to a swingy dice system just screwing you over all the time?

There is /nothing/ more frustrating than standing around and doing nothing because the dice have decided your highly skilled or highly powerful character simply cannot connect at all.

We see this a lot in RIFT's and such systems as well, because your skills are all percentile based but they start off so low like a 30% chance of success or thereabouts that it is not remotely consistent at all.

Sure you can miss a lot on a bell curve too if luck is against you, but overall it's a much smoother experience than with a d20 (as my poor half-orc cleric in 5E can tell you. +6 to hit at level 1 and she's missed 90% of the time due to d20 variance).

@Coin I've played WoD and Firan. I've seen all kinds since 1992. It's not like it's a fight, you two feel differently than I do. Nothing you can say about the quality of your RP or others is going to change my opinion until I run into someone that changes that opinion. I have yet to do so.

I still remember thinking how Lame it was that they made Polaris Magneto's daughter too.

It's like: People can have related powers, and not be related.

Stupid.

Theme is theme.

If you don't like the theme, don't play on a game.

I've played some games that had theme that were /wildly/ different from the norm. Back in the day when MU's were plentiful there was a lot of really great games that had some very non PC themes, the RP was awesome, people just dove in and RP'd and it was great.

I still feel that playing a character that breaks theme is a cardinal sin, theme should be enforced, it's part of why I as a whole dislike open chargen unless the theme can absorb all sorts of ideas.

It's also why I dislike small town games, they can be really restrictive, potentially to restrictive.

I never understood why there was 50 odd vampires in a town of 10,000 for example.

As a staffer I am pretty big on enforcing theme because theme makes up the core of the game setting imho, more than system used or anything else. If theme isn't enforced, it might as well be a talker, with or without rules.

@WTFE In as much as a diseased chainsaw inserted into an individual can be considered sexual intercourse... yes.

As a long term ST/GM/DM since the mid 80's, the best advice I can say is 'Don't have an ending.' This goes counter to what other people are saying but, in my opinion the story should go as long as the players and the ST are having fun. Don't think of an ending, don't rail road the players, don't have a fixed direction. Let the story flow as the players direct it.

Sometimes this means giving up some agency but in my mind an ST is a facilitator not a dictator. They help the stories, they provide the back drop, but the stories are written by the players themselves.

The best games I've ever had, I came up with the introduction and then let the players go from there, what they decided to do, determined where the story went. Admittedly this means it is difficult for new ST's who are not used to running off the cuff but it is without a doubt, the story that the players feel the most invested in because it is their own story.

So my advice is this: Be flexible, be relaxed, if the story goes 'off the rails' let it go off the rails, let it go whatever direction the players are directing it because it will be the most fun for them along the way. It is /their/ story, not your own, and they will be more engaged in it thusly.

To me ShadowRun is the mix of magic and futuristic transhuman elements.

It's the semi-dystopia of CyberPunk mixed with the wonder (and horror) of magic and the supernatural.

Where you could have a child come up as a whole different /species/ than you just because of magics resurgence.

Where the corporations are bigger than governments, and governments try desperately to stay relevant, where most people are happy to just do their time and get their soycaf and underneath it all is a horrible third world element in the sprawls and such.

Where Might makes Right, but the scale can change in the blink of an eye.

Where does Morality fit into such a world?

All these story elements are what make ShadowRun so great for me.

@Ghost said in We Need a Game Set In the Roman Empire.:

@Julia-Cornelia said in We Need a Game Set In the Roman Empire.:

As an aside, I'm glad we've reached that point in MU*ing where we can finally start calling people out for being misogynistic

I'm sympathetic. I've occasionally rolled up female characters because the character just reads better to me as a female. I approached MU as a writing experience, and I'm not much into TS.

Every female character I have rolled up has resulted in a truckload of uninitiated, unsolicited creeper flirtation and nagging, pressuring, etc. I've also ran into situations where I got the impression that my char was being taken less seriously due to alpha male on scene needing to own the dominant role.

Oh. Yeah. There's misogyny.

Happens /all/ the time.

And if you try to play a woman who isn't a submissive sex-kitten then you get even worse.