Posts made by Misadventure

Such a thing would be about as much of a waste of time for me as writing out a BG.
I am not a funny writer.
People are not interested in what I am interested in.

I see Metaplot as large scale events, that may or may not be clearly defined by anything in RP.

The War, The Depression, Out of the Ashes, The Rise of the Underclass -- these are mertaplots you could apply (WW2, The Great Depression, any post catastrophe, the Civil Rights Movement or the Sepoy Rebellion).

Themes can be developed from that Metaplot, and probably should. But no one thing is the beginning or end of it exactly.

Tortoise, robot, tortoise.

Be nice if they updated the game system to be a little more organized.

RP was zooming in on the personal scale of larger scale conflicts. Which in turn led to persistence, which helps string events into stories.

Do/did you play in a tabletop game now or in the past? Yes. I've played in several multi-year games for Champions, RuneQuest, D&D, Chivalry & Sorcery and home brewed systems. I have run multiyear games for Thieves Guild, Rolemaster (dark ages Arthurian and space opera), Champions, GURPS Pulp, Vampire, Deadlands.

What games(s) do/did you play as tabletop? Tunnels & Trolls, Traveller Classic, ad&d, Thieves Guild, RoleMaster, Phoenix Command/Living Steel, Gamma World, homebrew fantasy, Space Opera, SpaceMaster, RuneQuest, Chivalry & Sorcery, AD&D 3.5, Call of Cthulhu, Paranoia, Cyberpunk 2020, homebrew western, Pendragon, Mekton Zeta, GURPS, Hero System (age of sail and fantasy), Star Wars D6. Champions (Hero System super), Vampire, Deadlands, Silver Age Sentinels (BEBM Supers), Mutants and Masterminds (d20 wildly varient supers), Adventure!, FATE, Star Wars Saga.

Are/were you the GM/ST/DM at your tabletop? Often.

Would you tabletop if you had the opportunity? If it was the right people and the right game, yes.

Do you have the opportunity but choose NOT to tabletop?
Yes. There are public games run at physical game stores. There are several groups to try out various games here at work. I have friends I've known and played with for decades that I could join. I am not very interested in most folks gaming style. MU* style is closest as I always focus on personal (not solo, intimate) stories, and while I like action, i am not interested in "build" games (D&D 4E is an excellent example, and many other games are played that way such as various cyberpunk games). I am not interested in wild aimless shenanigans. I usually want a setting, and a theme to experience and work within. I dislike games where they place strong limits then its "ground breaking" to allow the players to break them (Like D&D and Apocalypse World classes). I use a game system to play in a world, not create a world that uses a game system.

Most games change routinely. They are not trying to achieve a perfection to then hold onto for decades. Each new product is a new chance for a purchase. Players moving onto the new theme, the new setting, the new focus of mechanics, is a trend that supports new sales.

Took me a while to realize that motivates a lot of development.

I miss the hypnotic cleavage, but what are you gonna do?

NaNo writers who don't link their work.

That quitting poster needs to learn how to ignore something.

I invest in the min-max telenuke tech tree. Also the Sexy and the Over The top lines.

Castle Panic.
Forbidden Island (the precursor to Forbidden Desert).
Settlers of Catan (expanded version for 6).

What is your first language?

I guess if you are sure no one who thinks about what is here will interact with you online, it won't affect you.

I'd give up and walk away if I was you.

Screw your cigs, I have my cache of cloves. walks away with an aristocratically dismissive gesture, desperately hoping hedgehog is paying attention

Delivery person, at 10:30 pm, jiggling your door handle so they can be given the .40.

I cannot think of a legitimate reason for trying to enter a house. "I didn't think you were home." is not a sounding better.

NooooooooooooooOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOoooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!

(This helmet is chafing my eyebrows! I swear!)

I can't really see the movie properties as a good game setting. Maybe Mad Max. The rest deal with the very special, very singular character(s) at the focus of an entire setting and how they come into their destiny.

So you won't be Neo with powers. You'll be doing hit and run missions into a virtual space, to what end?

Firefly, okay you don't get River, so you are excluded from the Hands of Blue for the most part. If you just like the ten planets sharing the lifezone but not close enough to notice when millions on an entire planet go silent, I guess that's fine.

Mad Max is the same, but while the main characters were heroic, they were very local in another westernish setting.

Pacific Rim, do we all get to be Mecha-Buffy, or can we be the support team? The tiny, tiny, never in the fight support team who will never learn anything meaningful because that's what the movie is about?

The rest are better! Much better.