Posts made by Misadventure

Iced tea! It has caffeine which reduces appetite.

I missed Garnet singing????

She's not cackling, that's cavitation caused by her shadowless Mantis Shrimp punches.

There should be a service that tries to match up people who need to partner up with other people for child care, house maintenance, pet care, housing needs.

Oh /I/know this. The reasons and fairness of Alimony has long been a topic of interest to me.
In this case one person doesn't get that they OWE $30,000 on the house, so their half is -$15,000 if they want to get off the deed.

Being fair on a couple split is hard. It annoys me that in this case one party completely paid for everything, but the other party has claim to half of it all. That's what i get for being in California.

Peeve: Friend gets married. Friend buys house with no support from spouse. Spouse is same seniority in same field with same pay. They divorce. House is underwater. Spouse wants to sell house to be given money.

Eh, I liked the build a character part being separated from build a trauma.

I am sad that the escape being allowed by your Keeper because they no longer care about you (or they are sending you out as an unwitting agent). My Lost was that, so broken that she had to take a dead Losts name just to have one as she drifted out of Arcadia.

I hope something in there alleviates the disparities in high level Tiers. Otherwise it's the same as Scion and Aberrant in that particular difficulty.

I see the Curses as being confronted with the idea that what you used to escape your Durance might not be strong enough to keep you free.

Don't worry! I shall buy it. I'll take that bullet, because we are a team.

I almost want a thread of just the opening inspiration for a MU*, funny or serious.

I hope all this defense of KD isn't based on what I posted.

I think that Kushiel's canon make PC sexuality more flavorful, a better fit for the given game. Despite that sexuality can make you a GOD in the Laurel K Hamilton Anitaverse, I wouldn't feel the canon helps carry flavor via sexuality in such a MU* setting.

One hope would be that responding to certain situation will have higher Success Costs, so tactics might make a bigger difference.

And example (with made up numbers) would be trying to hit someone whose Dexterity gave them +20 successes, atop what their base pool of say 8 dice gives. If something like surprise, a feint, or a distraction could raise the base cost of a Dodge defense, in theory the base 8 dice may not be able to roll enough successes all the time to get that +20 Successes Enhancement.

Lords and Ladies is definitely a genre unto itself.

The fact that there is a canon codified way of dealing with sexuality at least means that folks may at least be carrying the specific Kushiel setting along with any usual TS hijinks.

@Sunny I wanted a low level (I think not sure) occult concept. I knew it required staff approval (because that is on the wiki). I was reading the books to learn every angle I needed for the type of play IO was aiming to create. If I had been told I probably wouldn't get it, but to go ahead anyhow, that would have been aces. If I had been asked to talk about what level of actual "power" I wanted, and found the concept out of bounds, that would have been aces too.

As stated, asking someone to prove they can play a concept by playing something else, doesn't make a lot of sense to me. Discussion of how often the concept is imagined as having an impact, and to what magnitude (what we call risk analysis in QA), that would be sensible.

Yup! A friend was working on a similar tiered feel for an anime RPG a long long time ago, and that has always kept in mind the effect of set values vs randomized ones. The specific being when your max stat+max skill in Scion can't roll enough successes to beat 0 successes rolled backed by an Attribute one (or more) tiers higher. You have to really think about what you want to see in play.

I am glad they went with the Enhancement model, where there is a core base chance you will not succeed, but when you do the Enhancements kick in and give you that heroic level of success.

Make the thread! I don't run a place, so my opinion is just academic.

It does strike me as odd that someone is worried about an occult effect or coming from an off the map culture more than a character who is in charge of large swaths of on map territory and RP scenes. Its a matter of scale of effect on players, in my mind at least.

Reading the system notes is fun stuff. I hope they do not use the large chunks of stat bonus successes again as Enhancements. The tiers of stats in Aberrant and Scion were pretty much each a class unto themselves, with no in between steps,

Naw, I read the wiki. Its full of helpful info. Except the requirement that you have already played a character before you can play an "advanced" character. I don't play characters I don't want to to earn the right to play one I do. I am fine with being told the app clearly doesn't demonstrate knowledge of the feel or details desired.

On big leadership positions, I just avoid them, and I freely admit I cannot think of a way to show you can do it in an app. Then again, if you don't play one, how would you demonstrate you can? THAT is a good question for every MU*. Make a thread about it!

To chime in, when I asked about something that hadn't been covered by what I had read, I wasn't told where to find it. I wasn't show to the guidelines that exist on the wiki. I wasn't told I could try, but that it was going to be harder to get a pass on. I was just told yeah that's for someone who already knew this before apping.

And NOTHING in the books is that complex.