Posts made by Misadventure

I'd find it more useful to look ahead to either societal changes and events that would affect the vampires, or major intrigues coming to critical moments and fallouts, and play through those periods basically jumping ahead to the next big thing. I think the apporahc would be someone like that Victorian game where you stated the season, and things could be RP'd freely as anytime in that season, until it passed. Instead of moving to the next calendar season every time, you might move to the build up of the critical thing, the big crisis time, and perhaps a denouement, then start thinking about what the next big important time is while doing downtime handling of whatever needs to be tracked as interesting across time.

So it sounds like basically no one can be trusted to do jack, oversight and transparancy are more dangerous than dealing with problems, and so on.

Oh oh, you could have non-staff players review evidence, and report whether they agree or dissent. Just like Minority Report. No details, just independent review.

There is nothing to prevent lies, biased presentations, etc from either a game, or a player outside the game.
Full logs can reveal a little more of the truth, but it seems folks are far more into not letting anyone know what happened at all.

I oppose this because of conversations had across more than a decade with Staff who would not state any detail of what the problem was.

You can document events and change the names. Yes, people who are related to it will know who is being discussed, but it's not obvious to others, and new players. I think summaries are a good idea, perhaps with a focus on where things went wrong, if there is a specific moment or action that can be detailed further great.

Important thing about theory of mind stuff: others don't have to think like you, so listen to what they have to say about their state. Be aware that where they arrive will not be where you do given a specific set of inputs.

In short, just because it baffles you doesn't mean don't pay attention. Rather it means that everyone needs to get the idea that no one can easily predict how everyone will react to anything.

How easy is it to support the necessary punctuation etc?

Miestz, how will anyone learn without real world examples?

This is how our legal system works, you can see how it was applied to others. I have no interest in shaming anyone. I want people who behave well enough to stay and play, and people who don't to not be playing.

So envious of anyone with an early start on two or more languages.

I thought the UK had been abolistionist for a few decades by the time of the US Civil War, going so far as to police the waterways.

Ignore useless criticism.

I apologize if this is throwing fuel on a fire I would rather see kept at a productive level, but has anyone looked into the way slaves were treated in antiquity versus Americas slavery? The latter seemed much more degrading, barbaric and destructive, but that may just be lack of details about the past on my part.

Example: Egypt - pyramids not made by slaves. Columbus - works Carrib island tribes to death by the hundreds of thousands.

I would really want to know what was going on with Angels, and what their experience of things were, so I could assess how they would manifest and behave.

For instance, in the Prophecy movie series, the angels were as subject to Faith and ignorance of the Divine Will as humans, despite that they may have actually heard or spoken with God. It made the focus on trusting that you had a role in the Divine Plan, and that this trust aka Faith was the most important aspect of your relationship with God. The rest was how to win the Angel War, which was a very literal thing with no seeming influence from Faith or anything save morale, numbers, and fighting ability.

I would go with anything where the God Machine isn't a literal machine in any sense. Whether "God" is a limited entity like The Authority in The Golden Compass, or a usurper system, or an unaware Demiurge is a question of do you want this to be a direct factor in your game.

If The Machine is too literal, it's Leviathan from Hellraiser II.

The closest I've seen the literal idea presented, and even then it's probably still just symbolic, is the clock in The Hudsucker Proxy.

Were you Morgance@TR? Or am i confusing two people?

Is that the legislative body, the judicial body, or the punishment?

Who, alive today, would you blame?

Apology nor reparations are required to recognize systemic disadvantage and do something about it.

The list of those groups that have participated in oppression, discrimination and cleansing, and slavery is very inclusive.

I think I read your thoughts for the idea on WORA.

PS -- CHOP CHOP!

So look into the path of recovery or renewal, figure out how to add the missing 4 emotions into that framework and you have dealing with the past, opening to the future as an arc.