Makes me think of a group/troupe approach where the core is the values and goals of the group, and how various gains and losses affect that core group identity/balance. But I like that idea of a society with values that shifts over time so maybe I see it everywhere.
How would you (the generic you) carry a survivalist feel on a MU*?
I personally think it can't be done for any length of time.
I have to admit, it seems like almost all RP settings become something like set dressing on yet another a wealthy twenty something dating sim.
Hard to tell stories when the referred to complications of the setting aren't actually important in any way.
In a survival game, its not just bad dice rolls. Its not having enough characters with the right skills to support the band you have. If you have 5 gatherers, for a dozen people, and hunting is scarce, then suddenly you have to flee towards an unknown place, and find that the water or food there was poisonous, you might easily face loosing characters to "the wrong choice" and "we just don't have enough to go around".
People aren't good with starving usually. Nor are they good with abandoning one of their own. Without such possibilities, it's not a survival game. It's closer to a frontier game.
You could allow for the gain or loss of resources that count into how many NPC support/survivors you can comfortably keep on. They can in turn represent labor and a pool of skills and such for the community which is your measure of a village building focus.
Individuals doing parties/gangs/bands seem like they would dip into doing riskier jobs for some support from a community partly in exchange for easier to get harder to port supplies - like fresh fruit or vegetables, or services that you just can't do in the hinterlands.
For post apocalyptic survival, would people really be up for things like if not enough survival checks were made, your band is now hungry, or diseased, and suddenly in desperate straights, and yeah in a few days if you don't resolve it, you'll be losing characters?
Or are we talking no stakes there isn't enough of anything, but we never run out of anything anyway?"
S/HE SAID BEING CALLED A DEMANDING, CLASS CONSCIOUS, UPTIGHT, JEWISH PALE BOYSENBERRY WAS BETTER THAN DEATH.
I may be wrong about the boysenberry part. That may mean young or new, carefree or a masculine-feminine mix of identity, or twink behavior.
I'm helping.
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When I see a stack of D&D books, from original lil box to Advanced, to 5E.
Also, Basic RP based stuff, though later stuff is more interesting.
Also all retro clones, and most games that say hey I have a setting, I've made a meh system to go along with it (what you want the system to help illuminate the setting/ I have no idea what you mean).
Traveller is MegaMeh.
WarHammer pfft.
If a setting includes even a tiny bit of something to for lack of a better word restructure the approach to the experience, that can be good. Really simple example: The Kushiel religious changes to sexuality.
I now need witness protection from Ganymede.
@Arkandel said in Good Comics for People Who Don't Like Comics?:
@Misadventure said in Good Comics for People Who Don't Like Comics?:
Why I Hate Saturn.
Well?
@Misadventure doesn't like D20 very much.
Weird. At my work, its a question of which messaging and voice system someone wants to use. Make them learn! Teamwork is a thing, including easy to use tools.
Sorry skipped after it was clear you can't follow your own advice on listening or presentation. Little eyeball for you.
@Tinuviel you actually point out something that should be.
I have had bad professional teachers in my lifetime, mostly at the college level. However, I have had a ton of teachers who were great at teacher, taking care of students, and passing on their love of their topic. They do not deserve to be maligned. Even dorky Canadians teaching English.
However, here, well its funny to admit we aren't so great at passing on the wisdom.
Those who can't do, teach.
Badly.
@WTFE said in Coming Soon: Arx, After the Reckoning:
@Misadventure said in Coming Soon: Arx, After the Reckoning:
In the end, your audience can be stupid.
This, in and of itself, is a strong indicator of your thought processes, now, isn't it?
Yes, but not likely in how you seem to be implying. Are you saying I frame everything in a way that it serves my preset agenda? Like you?
No need to answer. You should know that I know you think I already think I know the answer, and so exchange would be pointless.
For those in the viewer audience, I framed things in the form that it will occur to you to underline that no matter how frustrated you are, there is a less troubled truth under there if you can get past all participants monocular vision of how people communicate.
One day when I am a game tyrant, I would hope people would try to reality check me on behalf of players they have long term trust with.
There is a kickstarter here, 4 8.5 x 11" double sided extra thick interlocking dry erase boards with 1 inch squares for gaming purpose. $15 .
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/gamingpaper/gaming-paper-dry-erase-gaming-tiles?ref=nav_search
For those of you who, you know, see other players when you RP sometimes.
It is also possible that some people react differently to the exact same wording and actions, so to some one appears as something positive, to other as a negative. It may have little to do with the actual core intentions or even the tools used. In the end, your audience can be stupid. You can either try to accommodate the stupid or avoid it, or get used to it mouth breathing about you til you go away.
It would be nice if everyone could be aware of this idea, and maybe give people more slack, but whatever.
