So imagine a game where damage taken shows in red, healing done shows in green, names are color coded to their relative danger to you, and powers and weapons are coded so you'll know what was being used. That is usually used to help you spot important details in a massive combat text output.
Now for RP ... yeeesh.
Exercising actual constraint is a skill, and practice will make you better at it.
ETA: I mean this as encouragement, in case anyone wondered.
I don't see the problem. Don't do the storyline you don't like. Don't do their storylines at all.
An important thing about negative feedback: 99.9% of all feedback is negative. People do not leap in to say "I thought it was good" or to argue with people who clearly didn't like something. I say this having dealt with feedback from millions of people. Unless you have 10 players you want there, and they say no way, it just doesn't matter.
I want to emphasize that I am not exaggerating. I worked for a customer real time feed back company. It is very rare someone praises something, but complaining is an art.
My not so practical thought:
It's not on someone to get others to act reasonably. It's on your team to not be harassers, to see beyond whatever limited images they have in their head of any group. No one is making them do anything, and work isn't anyone's private space, nor is it a public rights space. Everyone acts appropriately, everyone participates in setting the tone, and everyone adapts every time there is a change to group composition. No one gets especially catered to.
I work in tech, and for my team it's the largest ratio of women to men I've seen, in QA, management, SEs, SAs, and devs. And it's really easy.
Now I want to make a character named Sport.
Or Scout. Tiger. Champ.
Also: I'm not your pal, buddy.
@tragedyjones Al anon includes meetings for people who gravitate towards folks with addictions. She might consider them, atop her own therapy. They also offer a book which might be helpful.
You know how dumb the average person is? Half the population is dumber.
I think it ignores the vast lore and timing of hunting animals, as well as the dominate source of food being gathering from known plants in predictable locations.
I am a pill like that.
Make Rocket Raccoon as an example.
Annnnd Bender Bending Rodriguez.
Perhaps the Stainless Steel Rat.
@Aria I thought it was more like metal, hair bands, emo
What are these coded combat systems? Is there a description in a wiki? Is this like the FS3 combat? Or something else?
For me coded combat can be anything from yes you can have access to the controls to get an action order, and check for actions and success and results AND mark your own damage tracks -- all the way to everything is automated you just select what action/power and what target.
No comments about Connery and Trebek together a la the SNL skits?
I loved Alex appearing in X-Files as a MIB.
Utter side note:
A D&D group I know had a GM lean into images and text and even story tidbits to flesh out their new small setting so the GM coulod focus on what happens next etc.
So lots of NPCs with described personalities and relationships, items with stories and local history flavor all made this way.
I don't understand how fish get fleas, though I can see getting flea collars on them might be hard.
@buttercup I feel like reading tvtropes on a given game, and being given a character with basic notes about the supernatural factors in their behavior/history should be enough t try something out, and I wish staff were comfortable with only semi defined characters that you settle out their details after say 1-4 weeks depending on rate of play.
