Posts made by Lithium

@auspice What's the difference between regular and the deluxe version do you know?

@egg Then make a different character? Save the Tier you want to use for the Mage, on the Mage, when you can.

Until then there are other sphere's open? The reasoning for the closing of chargen for Mage and Changeline are good ones. They literally /cannot/ devote enough time to any larger of a sphere and still get stuff done. Does it suck? Sure, but just like you can't really do 25 people in TT with reasonable expectations of much of anything... Limits for the good of the game are still for the good of the game.

@arkandel Different thread.

@misadventure said in Respecs.:

Consider superhero games where you can buy pretty much anything.

^^^^^
This right here is the problem.

Any game, of any Genre, needs to have limits otherwise there is no point in even trying to have anything remotely resembling game balance.

The rest of the statement doesn't even matter really, how does it hurt or hinder your character if someone else is stronger?

This has sidetracked a bit, but, I would rather pick a PB, or be able to change it. I was able to get into my roster on Arx a ton more once I swapped the PB to fit his written description better in my mind.

As for the multiple people using same pb (And even the same picture sometimes), it doesn't weird me out that much because I am one of those who still reads descriptions

Let me preface this with a few caveats:

1. I dislike XP Caps, but, some people like them.
2. Systems should not be obfuscated imho. Players should know how to build the character they want to play.

That said, if a game is making major changes to system, then I don't mind a respec. That's literally the only time... Except for maybe in the case of an XP cap situation in which case any sort of character growth/change would /require/ respecs of some sort.

@ganymede Hehe I finally got the Kestrel to the last boss ship! Killed it twice! But... really needed a way to repair my hull before engaging the third time... dangit.

I like backgrounds, they help finalize a character for me in the head, help me find their voice.

I also like bulletpoint backgrounds that answer the questions that are relevant to the character and the staff.

I got compliments on my background on my changeling from Staff so, I guess I am hitting those notes.

That said, I prefer Cgen that has very few barriers to entry, so that people can get in and /playing/ especially on games where character loss is going to be a thing. Chargen shouldn't be a punishment.

I just check see if they are idle. If after 20 minutes of no response and they're not idle I assume one of two things is happening:

1. They are busy and spammed and missed it, and I will page once more.

2. They have an idle timer, and I will still page once more.

Anything more than that I consider I am being a petulant punk and they obviously don't want to talk to me if they are available so... go do other things.

So been playing FTL finally, surprisingly addictive game for how 'simple' it is. Unlocked a few ships now, still haven't survived the final system yet with any ship lol.

@thenomain Which is kind of silly, as I did not optimize my mage I am pretty sure my lower tier Changeling is way more powerful in swingy combat than my mage even though has less xp.

Oh well.

Only tangentially related, but there was a time I wanted to do an Aberrant MU* set in Ibiza. There's so much tourist blowthrough in Ibiza the city is 'larger' than the census would suggest.

I liked Superman in his original iterations, where he didn't really fly, wasn't godlike in his power like in his current incarnations, where he had weaknesses that made him more approachable as a character.

I can't connect with Superman as he is currently, or as he has been for decades now. He is simply... to much. Every character is only a story being told by others, but Superman's Story /feels/ more contrived to me than possibly any other character other than Batman.

Batman as a character I dislike too, but that's not for this thread.

@peasoupling It also depends on luck to some extent. My mage I waited 3 days for, but then caught Gabriel luckily and got approved fairly quickly with a few fuck ups on my part being fixed.

My Changeling was approved super fast, but also was lucky that Hadraniel happened to be doing apps right that second and other than an XP bug that made me have to go through chargen twice, was relatively painless.

I think some of the pain might also come from the types of backgrounds written too, some of them are just easier to pull the info from than others.

If the game is set up for it it can work ok I guess. The problem only really arises in two places:

PvP and Plots.

If a Plot is built around a certain xp level it can be to hard/trivial, but that also depends on character build too. A completely social char with 500 xp is still probably not going to be as good as starting combat build with 50 xp in a fight. This can be dealt with though by solid plot design.

PvP is another beast entirely and probably deserves it's own thread, but huge xp combat beast is probably going to make some problems if not handled appropriately.

Not big on Demon or Beast myself, but always wanting more options and games out there for people who do like those splats.

Hope you find what you're looking for.

@wretched I've been wanting that one to be finished since the initial trailer, glad to see more in game footage and stuff. Looks to be a good game I hope!

I like the hands on feel of the staff (Also dunno how vamp is, not made one so couldn't say), getting comments and conversation about making sure players and staff are on the same page about their characters is very cool.

Even if it does take a while to get approved.

Considering that many parts of chargen aren't even finished yet, and it is in very rough Alpha... I'd say give 72 hours as per the +request thing, and then mail or poke staff if you see them on and active and on duty.

Went to try and share some clues, the 6 AP per clue thing sucks hard.

But hell... I guess it does it's purpose.

Wish I had 100's of clues I have like... 30 maybe.

Staff here are pretty cool, will work with people, and are pretty willing and able to let someone's story run in my experience.

It's also getting super packed, sphere's are being closed due to overpopulation and lack of support.

If you're solid with 1E nWoD and like to help out, they could use it for sure.