Best posts made by Misadventure

The reason to look at what comic book creators do, is because playing a complicated war game is not evocative of super hero comics.

Mind, I love a system that can let me describe and measure a super power etc with lots of detail. However, dancing just far enough away from an area attack each time to wear someone down shouldn't be an emergent strategy based on endurance cost for powers, an action/ initiative system, and my movement rating. It should be more explicit so it feels less twinky and more like action and tension and tactics.

I think enthusiastic writers can make a crappy war game seem to sing, but it is their leveraging the sensation they aren't utterly in control and adding that to the sense of excitement, atop their utter control via writing tat makes many games work. The sheer fizzle factor (whiff factor) in games is stunning compared to comics.

It is not the only possible solution though.

@ghost said in Looking for potential staff for a Colonial Marines (Aliens) game:

That's a character sheet that screams EXCEL FORMULAS

That's not character sheet, it's a space station.

Actually, its the hit location chart, and the damage per penetration charts for some locations, and the firing statistics and damage/penetration of weapons at various ranges.

And you can use a lookup chart, but there are no actual formulae. That is a complaint leveled at the game actually.

@Insomnia "Follow me!" "Noooo." "I'm sorry." "Okay!"

@macha Those are neither friends nor people to build something with. Putting up with their BS just makes them think its normal behavior.

Question: what level of tactical play, attention to guns and armor, computer systems and AIs do you intend to deal with. If you want to represent body armor and guns versus the superhuman scale you choose, FATE isn't your thing, Hero is. If you want to see character with small powers take on small fry, Marvel and Aberrant aren't your thing, but FATE might be.

Supers! is never anyones thing.

Have you looked at Capes, or Masks, or Mutant Blues?

@fatefan Well, MU*s are low budget, but you could make a list of "voices" to suggest e.g. Morgan Freeman, Sigourney Weaver, Sam Elliot, Dorothy Parker, Harrison Ford, Linda Hamilton, Woody Allen, Claudia Christian, Punch and Judy (Cowboy Bebop), Queen Elizabeth.

You get the idea.

I'm good with these firings. I am pretty sure if any male had done the same they would have the same responses and be fired too.

***=Tone***

Listening to my wife help someone who has lost a family member this morning ...

Just a reminder that humans do try to do and be the right thing sometimes.

If you need help, there is someone out there., ready and willing to help.

Silver Age Sentinels is poop. Not as bad as Brave New World, but after working hard with it, we ran into allllll sorts of issues.

Simplest: game rolls under a stat to make a skill check, like an attack or Investigation roll. To scale up for supers, they just you know upped the die type you roll. So regular cops go from hitting regular people some of the time, to very very rarely. It removes human scale from being resolvable by the game system. Hope persuasion wasn't important to your hero who doesn't have super charisma.

Productive forum discussion is strongly linked with active moderation. No one here has time to be that active moderator.

So we get what we get.

For a brief moment i thought y'all were complaining about the card game Gloom.

@derp Sorry, I was thinking about the limit where you begin to accumulate a lifetime capped sum.

Cheessgrater made a decent one! I wonder if he is around!

For some awful reason people focus on system as how to kill one another, and resolve yes/no story gates. If you like skills so much, look at the mess that is combat, and social interaction. Look at he boredom that is research rolls. None of it is fun online.

Systems can do other things, like show how the story is affecting the character, challenging and changing them. They can suggest directions you wouldn't create or choose.

Y'all just want MU* In Space. Same stuff. Same play. Same baRP and dating sim. Annnnd system doesn't for into that either, so why care about the system?

@Cassite I wish I could be or even write as graciously as Zagreus speaks most of the time.

he, him, his, they, she, her, her, they?

I know, it's not that simple, but sometimes it seems to be.

Atlantis. The creator is out there, and she used to make appearances on MU*s and on forums.

I'd suggest making MOD ACCOUNTS that are only used for moderating.

Also instead of banning, isn't there a no-posting setting? That seems easy enough.

@kireek First off, I think you are on a slippery slope dealing with the presentation of anything in fiction or reality as potential trickery or manipulation. The question of does knowing about something mean it will alter you and make you support or recreate that something.

On the other hand, I have had a lifelong interest in representing the difficulties of overcoming social ills like sexism, racism, classism, but have learned that MU* communities can't deal with any of those save perhaps classism without violating their sensibilities about behavior and player control.

So its something MU*ers already deal with, in a general sense.

I do think that awareness, and visceral empathy is actually needed for many of the worlds ills.

BTW I would avoid the film Brainstorm.

I just call that person ass. Works just fine.