@Arkandel Pirates. C'MON ITS PIRATES!!!
But more seriously I love the characters and how they've developed form the first season to the third (especially Flint and Silver, but lesser characters too). The action is great, with some truly impressive moments of age of sails naval warfare, and there's some serious study of the dark side of the British Empire back then.
And hey, PIRATES!
@ThatGuyThere said:
@bored
From what I have seen on the Standard WoD non-consent the norm seems to be finding a small group you fit with and doing your own thing.While it is true there are people on every game who leap to get into plots there are also those who leap to avoid them, do I think it is a majority? Honestly I am not sure but at the very least I would say it is in the ball park of 30 percent of the population, and I think that small core, whether there for relationship rp or to tell their own stories among their small group are doing what they choose not because they lack other options.
I believe this has more to do with the games than the players. Most standard wod non-consent games are sandboxes. In a sandbox politics are mostly just a question of ego, and plots are just PRPs run by your friends. Interpersonal relationships and character development becomes the primary thing that drives the rp, not plots or danger or whatever, because the stakes of those PRPs are low (they don't generally matter beyond whatever self contained story you're a part of). So why should anyone be surprised if players stick to doing that? Especially the subset of players who primarily want to do that wherever they go?
What I saw on RfK was even most of the relationship type of players, and there were plenty of those on that game, too, still involved themselves in the greater story because there were incentives to do so.
Not that there's anything wrong with relationship play in itself. I don't see a good romance story being inferior to a swashbuckling adventure.
Black Sails nailed the season finale. I feel this is a show that's just gotten better and better. First season had some slow moments and uneven storytelling, but second really picked it up. Now third season's done and it's been brilliant. Long John Silver and Captain Flint are so damn awesome.
I made a character: Buddy. Feel free to poke me if anyone wants to cook up something!
@Pyrephox These are excellent points. I feel like I should copy them and incorporate them into my ST cheat-sheet.
In fact, I just did.
@Scissors said:
They keep saying they're fast because the various +jobs are easy.
It was a revelation for me to use @Thenomain 's code when I was staff at Reno. My previous staffing experience had led me to dread anything code based, working on sheets, whatever.
I expect that with a bit of effort its possible to recruit people from other places. There's a roleplay subboard for Reddit where you could advertise for your MU games easily enough. A bit of hand holding in return for some fresh blood seems a real good deal to me.
I've heard tumblr is a thing, too. And like @Three-Eyed-Crow I've wanted to kill myself when reading that shit.
@Roz Is that really a spoiler? That at some point an awesome character will show up again in an unspecified way, at an unspecified time, with no commentary on plot or consequences of said showing up? I don't think its anything close to a spoiler, but what the heck? Redacted it is.
I thought Punisher was the bomb, and I loved Electra.
I fast forwarded through a couple of fight scenes towards the end, if only because I could only take so many Ninja fights in succession. Its a bit of a shame, because the action on this show is very well done and well choreographed, but I think at the end it just got a bit repetitive. Not so with the Punisher fights. The Punisher is the bomb, and that long monologue he gave at the end of the 4th episode? Man, that got to me.
I loved seeing REDACTED again. REDACTED has to be one of my all time favorite REDACTED ever.
ETA: I'm with @Coin on the Foggy question. Foggy is an unsung hero.
I've always thought it crap that downvotes were anonymous.
@mietze If someone is in a public room, I'll join if I feel like it. I guess I'm from your culture; if anyone wants a private scene its on them to go to a private location to have it. If a public scene becomes a private scene, take it into a temproom at that point. Its okay if they forgot, but then its still on them to politely explain it and then depart. I find it pretty rude to claim ownership of public hangouts by excluding others. That's not how it's supposed to work.
I've only come across the sort of situation you describe once, and I was pretty blunt about what I thought it.
ETA: I feel I should add that I don't think just because I drop into a public scene, they are required to interact with me on my terms. Perhaps they're at a table and its pretty clear they're talking low voices and they don't want anything to do with my character. I can chalk that up to bad timing, make a post or two, then disappear.