Whenever I contemplate making a game, it's always to try out something I don't think has been done. An angle on player interactions, on interaction with the setting (like the Off Screen System from .. uh ... that place), or the desire to see a new setting in play (Yay swashbuckling by night).
Ummm, Pon Farr suggests at the end someone is getting laid, and uh ...
It also tells me that he's mostly not interacting with the other person. He's acting at them.
Or that their interaction is incredibly predictable.
Answer to army of NPCs: Try to get them to do anything without Staff or other player consent. Done. The merit is powerless unless folks give it power.
Same with most powers, skills, merits, etc.
Hey guys, let's play MLP where we recreate the feel and stories of MLP. Except my pony is a Dominant vampire pony who secretly rules Equestria.
Players also have to say Yes. They are not helpless consumers that are Bound, and ready for Torture and Kill.
Mostly.
Also to recognize that the other players are the entire source of fun on a game, and so if your agenda is to force other players to do things (not have their characters forced) you should probably not be playing.
I am always stunned at how often players try to frame forcing players as some sort of IC choice. No, people don't have to play with you. No, people don't have to play through things just because. Not for any reason, ever.
If you aren't making a story they want to be a part of, then find a new audience. Or get the hell off the game.
He 's say that with a Yes Game, you can buy the allies and contacts and influence to be fairly immune to the law (though everyone can buy the same to counter it, and there is no system for law enforcement or counting it so dunno), and other means to in theory make it really hard to stop their rapist concept.
I'd still go with the basic idea that some concepts are only acceptable with OOC consent. You wanna play a rapist, and you have three friends who want to be raped, great you RP that. There is no reason to force players to play with anyone.
Video games also have seriously invested in creating communities, where you play with friends, or just watch your friends play, or watch strangers. Likewise, they create a continuity across a play space by allowing a player to have a known account name, regardless if any given game character. People can find each other (or avoid) with ease.
And yes, RPGs that try to do things that video games do faster and with more detail (combat, inventory, customization) will fall behind. Frankly most tabletop games took hours to play through combats as well, even with players who know what they are doing.
Video games let you try and retry all sorts of things. RP is a serial continuity with few do-overs, so the stakes can see very high.
Misadventure is a cause of death in insurance. I make plenty of mistakes so it seemed appropriate.
I had considered mischievous dogs. I was so disappointed in humanity when a small woman was mauled to death by two dogs, and the crime was "Keeping mischievous dogs". I decided to not go with that.
Ones that like to make statistical understanding based jokes?
Are you part of the internet that is even more outraged than the average?
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As psychologists say "You know how stupid the average person is on the internet? Remember that 50% are more stupid than that."
That book folks were reading talks all about creating a structured play space via among things constraints. So yeah, violating that structure and constraints is saying they don't want to play your game.
The nasty bit comes when you meet people who don't want to just play their own game, but their game consists of wrecking yours.