Posts made by Lotherio

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I don't know if there was ever mushcode for Ars Magica. Google shows old pages that referenced Pax Magica, but I believe that may have been a MUD.

As for Crossgen Comics, is there a way to just base an original theme off what the Mystic comic had? High fantasy place, guild drama throughout the realms between mystical guilds competing to control the power/resources/what have you.

Just looking at Mystic, it looks pretty in depth. It looks like Crossgen had a few comic runs going in a blended universe with lots of lore throughout all of them? It also looks like it used the rare wizard type (Sigil Bearer?) as a special character type (Jedi/Gandalf and his kind/etc).

For me, I'd more buy into original theme these days I think when it comes to high fantasy (most themes actually). I may be odd person out with wanting original themes.

I started working on one not too long ago focused on small folk (sort of like gnomes) and their high fantasy adventures/world. The knights road like snow lynxes, war ponies and wild boar. It had an encroaching enemy of other small folk (goblin-like) who mounted like winter wolves and wolverines. It was a small forest location and focused on their struggles, the bad ones were winning the struggle to control the vale/valley. It stalled as some collaborators weren't sure about playing wee folk.

A unique high fantasy would be interesting to see.

@groth said in A healthy game culture:

If you made a game about kittens where they're all constantly fighting to be the top cat

Cat, the Whiskering?

@l-b-heuschkel said in A healthy game culture:

Tempted to say that if you want to run a genuine pvp game you need to take it all the way and make no illusions of 'supportive community' or 'team play'. And also make it so that losing a char is not a big deal -- roll a new one, get back in the game, this is not the game for long, deep stories.
Which is fine. Again, boiling down to being bluntly honest on the label.

AKA - make a MUD? The only thing to determine: on death is the new char from scratch, is there partial XP return, or go to the temple and lose a few XP/Skills/Whatevers.

Beverly Cleary

@derp said in Mercenary Entrepreneurship:

I can read words. I know all of these words by themselves. And yet together they make absolutely no sense.

Chet, bruh. Are you a prototype AI?

I never thought we'd have to get to the stage of 'are you a bot' on MSB but here we are, I guess.

I'm not sure if its abstract writing, which is a thing, or more trolling to get me to go to that page and get some malware download or something.

I guess I'm the only one watching new movies.

Raya and the Last Dragon is really good for me. Its a combination of a few showings from recent animated series and blended it well for me (broken/mixed/'non-trad' family structures, etc.). Could the various cultures combined into the movie have had more time/showing, yes. The over all message at its heart presents well without being a slap to the face; kindness starts within, or be the change you envision don't wait for someone else. I really liked it is all.

I haven't heard from the Texans yet that I know post around here, hope they're doing well.

I know power and water are slowly returning. Folks that way are hitting a big issue with the pipes (no basements, freezes, and breaks, faster in crawl spaces); not simply in fixing them either but for those that know what to do, stores are running out of plumbing supplies pretty quickly too.

If anyone has links to fund raising sites for plumbers (Habitat for Humanity like groups helping folks out) or money for supplies for self doers, that might be good to share. Or any other needs, food/water other supplies in general, posting those might send a few donors that way.

@curious1 These could very depending on time frame you were there. Here are some.

Kender: Sprybert
Red robe mage elf: Sarantha
White Robe: Lanran (or similar)

ETA to fix mage ... autocorrect was putting in 'image' instead

@ganymede said in The Challenge of 2020s:

@lotherio

Cat lawyers.

Haha, right?

Was Cat Lawyers, Emmers flipped it!

@pyrephox Accidental gluing your hair is one thing. Gluing a solo cup to your face cause you thought the hair lady one wasn't real is another story all together.

@jennkryst I can't keep up with these kids and their challenges. I'm so far behind. I just got my gamestop stocks.

Tied pod challenges were stupid 10 years ago. I guess tiktok dance challenges of late were boring. Now its Guerilla Glue, I guess, I'm buying stocks in Emergency Medicine.

@derp said in Developing a WoD Codebase for Ares:

@jennkryst said in Developing a WoD Codebase for Ares:

Mummy in the database by default.

Yeah but which one?

Any mummy except the Saqqara mummies, their opening brought the curse of 2020.

The man who beat Muhammed Ali - Leon Spinks. 67, Cancer.

@pyrephox said in Sensitivity in gaming:

In my experience, something like more often goes:
GM: talks about the held breath burning in your lungs, the distance to safety, the pressure of trying to hang on for just one more moment as the gas is pressing in
Player: Oh wow, I'm having a reaction to this; drowning is kinda phobic for me, and this is hitting that drowning thing even though it's not water. Can we maybe gloss?
GM: Oh, sorry, man, sure! Take a stamina roll - succeed and you get through the other side with no problems, fail and you take X damage. Narrate that how it's most comfortable for you.
Player: Thanks!

This too, I was trying to help give context where its not easy to forewarn but could be a trigger and how can we deal with it. This is how I'd do it too, but wanted to help conversation along (smiley face, but that's a peeve trigger for some folks)

@greenflashlight said in Sensitivity in gaming:

or are you just crafting ridiculous examples for the sake of being dismissive?

I ain't saying is hyperbole, but if I have to explain it ...

No, it sounds like hyperbole or being dismissive.

A better example is, breath as a trigger/squick. If I have part of the scene involving trying to hold breath while swimming, I haven't considered all angles. I don't know if someone nearly drowned or lost a family member to drowning recently. Its not a major part of the scene, but maybe I get into describing how long one has to hold breath and the dangers involved and without knowing, I hit someone's trigger without warning.

Does breath holding need to be added somewhere or where does responsibility lie for acknowledging its a trigger? Up front, so a player can leave, in the middle? Does the player leave or the GM alter after like 2 players have made their roles and entered the secret cave?

@ganymede said in Sensitivity in gaming:

@hedgehog

Conceded.

The opinion piece she wrote was in reference to the Bender scene ... but it was weirdo John Hughes fixation with her that is creepy AF and the 16 candles parts are just as weird. I've managed to show and explain wrongness in Breakfast Club and 16 Candles to my daughters, but can't even get into his Weird Science with them.

80s in general is weird ass misogynistic film noir (continued from the 70s). It includes a Disney classic, which is also Michael J Fox's feature role as runaway misguided younger brother, in Midnight Madness. This Disney piece includes a boy using a supposed public telescope at Griffith Observatory to watch some lady undressing in the hills saying he's looking at Venus' two moons that are coming out tonight or some such (not full nudity but underwear-clad lady is shown) and a trip to a Pabst Blue Ribbon brewery where a guy on the 'jock' team leaps into a vat and is pulled out completely inebriated by his frat brothers. Other slightly ribald jokes abound, it also features nerds on mopeds led by Eddie Deezen (nerd boy voice/motion capture guy in Polar Express) and Paul Ruebens (Pee Wee Herman) at the end of his 70s cameo's as the quarter jockey at in the arcade scenes. 80s movies in my house is me saying these things happened, it doesn't make them right, we've come a ways since and we have a ways to go - like Whoopi's Intro's in Tom and Jerry collections to express inappropriate stereotypes and caricature, what it meant for the voice actress while saying what is wrong about it.

In TT games, my group has always vetted a player in with several months of public pay. There is an assumption everyone is open and can honestly say something's a trigger and can we move on. In one fantasy campaign i was running, I went a little over with some of the bad guys and the horror concept. One guy said nope, the group left the area and we avoided it IC, checked on each other OOC and played a fun game to wind down instead of continue the campaign.

On-line, I think the theme/genre should be telling. If I'm playing dark urban horror, a trigger can't be spooky horror. Like no one should be surprised. There could be an over the top moment. A player should speak up and remove from the situation if its a little over the top.

But I think the runner shouldn't push beyond R without some warning. Like I don't want to go in expecting Michael Myers/Halloween level horror (some blood, very little gore) and get like Rob Zombie mixed with the Human Centipede as a surprise twist. Not without a warning from the runner.

Everyone has different levels, OOC communication should go a long ways. I don't think a group of random players should necessarily concede to one at random, but if they're always pushing the same trigger with the one same player at random it seems purposeful/hurtful knowing they didn't like it the 7 other times and doing it over and over is cutting them out of some fun.

@wretched said in Good TV:

Spider Dude and the Z-Men.

Nightcrawler and the N-Men, sweet, I might have to watch.

eta: just sarcasm.