Posts made by Misadventure

I would have liked to have seen more of the pretty hate machine do her thing. I just got to see her be bored at Christmas.

@Templari
@HorrorHound said:

@Sonder

'Finely boned hate machine'

Probably one of my favorite short-descs ever.

That what you are looking for?

I'd love to worry about character death. However, it is a long and storied history of how many ways it raises problems when something seems out of scale.

Perhaps if we said character death meant you couldn't re-app to that sphere for a year, then people might be concerned.

Perhaps if NPCs would get mad that their important goals, properties and NPCs were fucked with, and they could come after PCs.

People don't fear IC death in rational ways for obline RP. Those who don't are are empowered beyond scope. Those who fear it fear it from the most trivial events, which paralyses action on their part.

So having it go through a formal system like the Off Screen System and have the escalation to personal attacks be included in that. Then at least you have some understanding and build up.

Really wish there was a better, and as easy to type term that took out the term player.

in RP it's almost alway character vs character, and very little player vs player. The games are certainly never designed for it.

What level of PVP do you mean? Control of things, races for prestige, or killing each other off?

Start looking. Tell your boss you need extended lunch time for interviews.

And I know Thomas was well liked on Darkwater 1. He was a neat concept.

I had friends who belonged to an anime club. Through that they met a guy who set up Anime MUCK. They used it for RP some, but also to build models of anime settings, fun coded bits, and to have slow conversations about whatever. This was done through tinyfugue and a free for students university dial up.

I remember you had to be an anime character, but I had no desire that even in the remotest sense someone would think I had signed up to RP a given property, so I made up my own character based on a Vampire variant I was writing up, the book Night's Master by Tanith Lee, and my love of tuxedos. I am unsure if Tuxedo Mask existed to me then.

I just realized this may have relevance. My mother(!) bought me Tunnels & Trolls and the solo dungeons for it. That inspired me to code up similar for the PET computer. It may not seem related, but it crossed the line between reading and participation.

You can get close for items written down like a Complication etc. I've had problems where one player pushes the boundary in one direction, and another player goes the opposite. If you are going to go with the stronger personality players views, you should review the other player, and see that they are getting the same experience/value.

I can only speak for myself. I personally dislike any game system where the description of things are so vague that interpersonal aggressiveness, charisma, power gaming or popularity can alter the interpretation of some in an inconsistent way.

So a +1D complication should be the same scope from character to character, no matter who is involved as player.

Things are always open to interpretation, it's the personal power of a given player altering those rule I am most concerned with. I've had some very reasonable, logical players, and IF I agree with them, i still need to make sure that the other players benefit from an expanded ruling etc.

I hope that makes sense. I want a leveled, egalitarian playing field.

I'm seeing chat bubbles and a notifiction counter when I sent a message.

We refer to it as the Hearthstone playroom.

@EmmahSue Think of it as using your internet glory to shill for Armello. And yeah no one will be paid or paying I don't think. You never know.

Wut?

Your charge should last a week or more. I routinely forget to charge it for 8-9 days.

@Thenomain @EmmahSue
C'moooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooon!!!!

Oh man, I crossed Supers! with Superworld. My bad.

Silver Age Sentinels is poop. Not as bad as Brave New World, but after working hard with it, we ran into allllll sorts of issues.

Simplest: game rolls under a stat to make a skill check, like an attack or Investigation roll. To scale up for supers, they just you know upped the die type you roll. So regular cops go from hitting regular people some of the time, to very very rarely. It removes human scale from being resolvable by the game system. Hope persuasion wasn't important to your hero who doesn't have super charisma.

This is the first Kickstarter in a long time where I would be willing to cough up for hardback game books.

Question: what level of tactical play, attention to guns and armor, computer systems and AIs do you intend to deal with. If you want to represent body armor and guns versus the superhuman scale you choose, FATE isn't your thing, Hero is. If you want to see character with small powers take on small fry, Marvel and Aberrant aren't your thing, but FATE might be.

Supers! is never anyones thing.

Have you looked at Capes, or Masks, or Mutant Blues?

@ghost The desires of your group are important to consider. There are many possibilities to you group issue:

Let the wookie win. Give them things that under challange, and let them run amok.

Design for game mechanic play if they are into all the rules and powers and tactics.

Make the game about dealing with people and decisions, and whatever you choose you can back with skills, though that doesn't always give you the best end results.

Change games to ones where rolls aren't as common.

Change a game to one where they can roll against each other, and suddenly they see just how much they just want to win isn't sustainable. I recommend Apocalypse engine games for this.

Ask if they want to be spoon fed praise and victory, or might want actual thing they can actually over come with some effort?

Play with others.

Just get away from running a game for players who are trying to play something else.