Best posts made by Lithium

@jennkryst said in Dragonlance?:

:performs the sing-song lure of Spelljammer, to have ALL D&D settings, simultaneously.

Except Dark Sun,the best AD&D setting of them all.

XCom2 might be solid for a MU as well, where the aliens won, and the PC's are part of the resistance...

I'm of the opinion that there is no single policy template that will work for everyone.

I have a few policies I feel are absolutely key, and if people break them I will point, then stomp.

I don't believe in three strikes, I believe people should be adult enough to step away when it is time to step away.

First offense /may/ be a warning, so you know you've crossed the line, but second will always be a boot in the face.

Sometimes the first will be a boot in the face if it's something like violating the 'no rape or you will be deleted' rule.

@ixokai You are dealing with an Alt-U right /out the gate/ so canon, doesn't matter to begin with.

The differences between your game and others is downright huge. Every character on your game is already an adaptation and a different take on the character than what exists in normal comic book sequence and lore.

So honestly, that's why you've hardly ever seen it.

On other Comic games, which try and do year one, or JLU or whatever, it can get very nasty, almost impossible even, to try and keep it all wrangled together.

@Seamus I can only say how I am doing San Francisco.

I am focusing on the important parts.

What important parts? You may ask...

The ones important to the theme and story of the game.

For me that's The Presidio, it's Golden Gate Park, it's Alcatraz, It's Fisherman's Wharf and Pier 39, it's also Chinatown, the Aquarium, and a tiny bit of downtown.

Trying to map out an entire city is just silly, it's never going to all be used, so make what you're going to use.

@ominous Was playing an Amber Diceless game, and one of the characters was trying to tag Princess Flora, turned out they were both shapeshifters of the advanced quality. So we go to get the other PC from Flora's room and the GM describes in rough terms, the sheer hentai going on in there (without being ultra descriptive, they just said slimy tentacles. Lots of them. They start reaching through the door).

I took a step back, and being first in strength amongst the group placed my hand on the other characters back so he can't escape when he tries to run. As he screamed when the tentacles took them I forced the door shut and held it shut until I heard nothing on the other side again.

Meanwhile, the guy who became the center point of an inadvertent tentacle threesome is all: I don't enjoy it!

GM compares psyche's of people in the room and then says:

Yes, yes you do.

ETA: The player of the character I stopped from running, used to have this /thing/ when he ran V:tM or W:tA where my characters would always end up being tied up and abused somehow to the point I stopped playing in games he was running. It was nice to 'return the favor' so to speak.

SAGA is not my cup of tea, like most d20 based games it hinges heavily on optimization in order to be 'effective'.

DoD says that you don't have to do that, but then I've caught conversations where people were discussing exactly that, that they have done with their characters so your mileage may vary.

@auspice Damn you.

Damn you for making me want to code an actual Ultimate Powers Random Chargen again... Damn you to hell.

Not really.

Maybe I'll break down and actually code this up.

@surreality Most of the time I feel like Catbug trying to do anything responsible.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RrviEBJyx3g

There have been teen focused Hero games in the past, Ravenwood Academy which did well even with the draconian 'We make your character sheet, not you.' Premise that drove so many people away. At least until standard MU* drama brought it down and it became invite only or something like that.

That said, you've got a pretty severely limited pool of FC's there. So there's going to be issues unless you did it as all OC's there is going to be major Drama about FC's and Activity, etc.

It /can/ be done, and successfully but it's going to take a lot to keep the OOC drama down due to that.

The only thing that could save the Justice League movie for me...

Remove Batfleck. Remove Cavill's dark and broody murderous superman. Let Cyborg experience emotions. Make the Flash's lightning /yellow/ and not fucking blue.

Or make it an Aquaman (Momoa) & Wonder-Woman team up movie.

#1 reason I quit a game: Staff don't do their job.

Staff need to be as impartial as possible, follow and enforce the rules equally, and make sure everyone is held accountable.

I don't care about presentation, just do your job. If you're an asshole staff, I do not care, as long as you are fair and do the three above.

@ghost I'm going to see it too, cuz... I'd go straight for Jason Momoa... if I was being 100% honest.

Haven't read all this yet, but the one type and trope I simply cannot /stand/ is the person who is so shy/cautious they literally pose only how they aren't interacting with other people, and then complain about not getting RP.

And I guess another trope you see happen on SuperHero / Comic games sometimes:

The character that isn't even remotely human, and thus cannot be interacted with by normal human means to any meaningful extent.

It's like... why?

@Arkandel I am /really/ happy with the way they went with Punisher, it could have been just pure ultra-violence but there is a ton of emotional drama involved all around on the show. The hardships involved on personal levels, etc.

Let alone the whole Veteran angle they have focused on.

Really. Really. Happy.

@collective You're right, I misread. My apologies.

@bobotron When I am feeling particularly old school:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rSffLmJ99PY

@collective Here's the thing, anyone has the ability to opt out on most any game by simple FTB or leaving a scene if it's not to their taste.

All else fails, there's the whole ability to type 'QUIT' and log out. Nothing can really stop anyone from doing that.

If the setting and theme are of a type where such -ism's and -obias are appropriate, and such things really bother an individual player then that game is probably not the game for them.

This is an entirely optional hobby, with entirely optional worlds, with entirely arbitrary settings decided by the game runners and creators.

There is no way to please everyone, all we can do as a game runner is present the game we want to run and enforce the decisions we have made.

To try and turn the whole idea into some sort of 'blanket' ruling is nonsensical because some settings and themes have certain aspects built in.

So the answer to me seems pretty simple:

Is the IC discrimination part of the setting and theme of the game? If so, then ICA=ICC.

If it's not, then Staff may need to step in and enforce the tone of their theme and setting.

It is impossible to please everyone, and it's all pretendy funtimes but that's the thing... not everyone finds the same things fun.

My favorite period face is probably Christina Ricci.