Best posts made by Misadventure

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Also to recognize that the other players are the entire source of fun on a game, and so if your agenda is to force other players to do things (not have their characters forced) you should probably not be playing.

I am always stunned at how often players try to frame forcing players as some sort of IC choice. No, people don't have to play with you. No, people don't have to play through things just because. Not for any reason, ever.

If you aren't making a story they want to be a part of, then find a new audience. Or get the hell off the game.

Now I am going to run a story where there is a monster among the humans, and they will secretly convert or destroy mortals via dating.

@kestrel its a sign you should create roster characters for games that have them, >.> <.<

Hey guys, let's play MLP where we recreate the feel and stories of MLP. Except my pony is a Dominant vampire pony who secretly rules Equestria.

@greenflashlight BOOOOO on veined shrimp.

The second link has a free PDF copy of the 540 page book People Forced To Flee. It lays the foundation of how these situations have evolved over the last 70 years.

@solstice fuck those guys.

Or say you can do 56% less and still be better than the person mentioned.

A better term than enforcing might be reinforcing. Build up the parts that emphasize your setting and theme idea. Use "punishment" and "reward."

Make a contract of PvP required to proceed, which both must agree to.

And thus the noodle wars began.

Do eeeet!

All games have rules and guidelines of play.
That helps keep people near the same page.
If you expect support from someone, you have to work with them. Not at them. Not against them.
When running the game, that relationship should be skewed towards others working with the runners, so they in turn can support the players back.

It’s true. The Force, the Jedi, all of it, it’s all true.

Keep your laser handy.

Sounds closer to a low to middle fantasy game, which happens to use geography, cultures and a rough history outline from reality. Similar to how Conan took place in a mishmash of places and cultures based on Europe etc.

Seems like it could work.