Best posts made by Misadventure

I was thinking they meant the original person of the complaint.

Just call it a short story setting. A novella setting. An anthology.

@Ganymede said in Shadows over Reno:

I'm sorry, but I'm cooking up a sexpot Gangrel because if I don't, someone else will and do it poorly.

Wiki link or it didn't happen. In a PM, so only I know.

So change it for your own game.

@Jennkryst said in Resident Evil: Redefined:

CAN I PLAY A BIOWEAPON?

Done! You are now a Taco Bell Chalupa.

So, make the game be about those freakos who can turn into a Titan. Add in WoD-like control rolls and actions that send you closer to being a full on human chowing down monster, and now you have tension. Make them take on impossible missions, and try to be human around their support who can be NPCs or PCs. AND randomize for each mission the one character who will get like X2 the risks of sliding towards inhuman, or X2 the loss when they do fail. There will always be failure eventually.

And if there is a total wipe out, bring out younger soldiers, who were kept in reserve, with the terrible curse of having ingested Titan flesh or whatever.

Constrained Played Character.

Constrained by: Roster created/template, directives, thematic elements they are meant to support and enact.

FATE is best for having your very competant characters succeed by doing what they do, well., and by being themselves. Savage Worlds is a war game engine disguised as a RPG.

I thought the point there was that once you go play there, you deal with what they want to do. Was anyone saying shut down the public communications on this or another site?

You remind me of this Doonesbury.

I only +stalk you because I luuurrrrrve you.

Or because you have a butter bean I need for my magics.

This is a math issue arising from a desire for quick and easy chargen. It goes way back, farther than Vampire 1st Edition. Space Opera had it, and if you could raise skills at all in original Traveller, Traveller would have it.

It is very distorting and I highly recommend against it.
It will save you time of policing anything.

BTW the reverse exists in linear priced games that try to maintain some power level. EG Hero System and Mutants and Masterminds, due to the linear pricing, make it possible to jump above the described power level in a few sessions.

You always have to keep an eye on what you want your end products to look like.

Do Space Lords and Ladies in the Eclipse Phase setting. Don't have to use the game system, it's not for everyone.

Why not? My Sin-Eater liked everyone. Except those soul enslaving Vampires. They had to go. Now.

Cancer is a distraction when discussing second hand smoke.

My friend moved out at 18. At 35, he went in to have his lungs checked. He was asked how many packs a day he smoked currently. He's never smoked.

That is evidence enough for me.