Posts made by Lithium

@bobotron Ah never watched Angel, did not like that character.

@wizz Wait... Spike was alive in the comics? Da hell?

@autumn said in Amber: Why Can't I Quit You:

You could go the other way round and make a more Chaos-y Amber: skip forward in time a few thousand years to when Amber is an ancient, glorious, and decadent imperial culture ruling over uncountable reflections of itself, and the royal family has gotten so large that it's organized itself into noble houses.

Here's my take on that: It's already been thousands of years that Amber has been a thing. The royals are hundreds of years old. If not thousands. Each.

Long long ago in the days of Before, there was actually an AmberMU that was based out of the Courts. It did not generate much of a playerbase or a following, but back then AmberMUSH was king of Amber.

@brunocerous said in Amber: Why Can't I Quit You:

@sunny Could you just have people silently assign their points, and have some kind of coded check in place so that if PCs need to know what their comparison is, the code tells them who is higher/lower without stating the specific number? You lose the fun of the active auction, but there is something kinda great about having to make a blind stab at the things you really want without knowing how high they are going to go.

This is how the original AmberMUSH did it back in the early 90's.

They've actually fixed that about Talisman of late, unless it's cropped back up (Haven't actually played it in a bit). I enjoy playing Talisman and Ticket to Ride on steam.

@faraday See, I'd find that fun. The whole word 'fun' is subjective. It's why we can only build what we would think would be fun and hope others do too. But that's a whole other tangent.

@surreality said in The Makeup Thread:

@ixokai We don't have the face-shaving thing to worry about. And that's daily fuss.

PCOS says Hello!

ETA: Props to Tina for that costume, the thing weighed like 75 lbs!

I think the problem with mage is there are simply far to many of them on a MU most of the time. Having /dozens/ of mages running around the same section of space (The game grid) expands their power exponentially. A smaller group of mages, yeah, attrition becomes a thing. When there are as many or more mages than there are Vampires, Werewolves, Etc, then it's less about attrition and more about: Even if I manage to take out this one asshat, there is twenty four more of them who are going to smack me around.

So it's one of those things where it just doesn't balance well in a MU environment imho.

I do agree with @Coin that timelimits are the way to go though. Keep the scenes moving, don't give them time to peruse every last book for what they can do, etc.

It's not only polite to everyone else, but it also adds tension to the scene.

For me it's ShadowRun first edition, and the Dresden Files, Big Trouble in Little China.

Jem and the Holograms wouldn't hurt either, the original mofo's.

I am also on the Too and not Tuh camp

@ganymede I never got the hate for Andromeda, it was a different story and not even a bad one. The only beef I ever really had was all the NPC's looking the same for the Asari.

@botulism That is firmly out of my playtimes due to work. Not that I have a dog in this race, the alien story was one that seriously intrigued me but the archetypes available didn't yell at me to play them.

@templari Not free on my steam

Here we go again

@ganymede Space Opera sounds awesome. I've recently started up one of my old projects again myself.

@Thenomain Ahh still there are worse things to reveal in a book. I'm glad they've been made canon.

Sidenote: If this version of Vampire is about Sex and Monsters, then being Jeanette's favorite isn't necessarily a bad thing either given what can happen in that game.

@thenomain What did they do to Jeanette and Therese?

@secretfire There are probably a fair few more honestly. MSB is not the be all and end all source for all things MU*