Posts made by Miss Demeanor

@Coin If you're awarding Beats just for logging in, or even just having an unfrozen character... then that's a whole separate issue. That would be like... showing up the TT session and getting a Beat for playing Angry Birds on your phone the whole time. At that point, you aren't even awarding for participation, just for HAVING a character.

I'm pretty sure the 'Beat for participation' is intended for anyone who both showed up AND played their character during that session. Which is why I don't really have an issue with the occasional uneventful event. Sometimes it will JUST be a get-together, an infodump, a chance to meet new people, etc. At least they showed up. Posed. Did something other than idle and chat on channels.

Towel Segue!

Child, you used that towel ONCE. It is NOT dirty. You CAN use it again or you WILL be the one washing all the towels at the end of the week!

Doesn't the book itself suggest offering a Beat just for participation in an evening's activities, though? Granted, a 24/7 MU* doesn't have to grant a Beat for every day... but not every TT session is going to be some big danger or cunning riddle or whatever, either. Sometimes its just gathering information or schmoozing up an NPC or something else fairly rote/mundane.

As much as I love The Stand... it doesn't make the best example, no. It starts out with a fairly broad base group of PC's that get whittled down through death, betrayal... and pregnancy. If it were a true representation, you would see more main PC's appearing after certain ones die. But that doesn't really happen. The group whittles down more and more with precious few of them being replaced.

That said, the basic premise of it could make an awesome metaplot.

I didn't bring it up is why. People just decided to latch onto my dislike for the new Conditions. And I can still decide that I don't like something because I think its complicated and vague. If I look at it and decide that it seems more complicated than I'm willing to put the effort into delving into, it doesn't make my opinion any less valid than your own.

Still not sold. But again, I don't care for the GMC/WoD 2E games overall. I don't find the new rules or settings to be all that interesting or enjoyable, so I have zero interest in investing the time and effort into figuring it all out. I don't even really care for the hybridization of NWoD/GMC that TR uses, but I'm already invested in the character that I still have there.

Which Conditions apply which modifiers to which rolls? Oh right, go to the appendix. Then keep that page open for EVERY time a Condition comes into play. Want to remove your Condition? Act on the Condition or address the source of it. Nice and vague, WW, keep up the good work. Oh, but there's examples of how to resolve them. No, wait, those are just suggestions, you can solve them in other ways that aren't explained. And look! There's improvised Conditions, too! Lets run down this list...

1. Get a Condition (or make one up on the spot).
2. Track its effects through the appendix (or have it all written down somewhere because yours was 'improvised').
3. Play out effects of Condition as appropriate (don't forget to explain the improvised Condition when nobody is able to figure out which one you have!).
4. Decide to rid yourself of Condition.
5. Use one of the example resolutions in the book (or make up your own!) and hope that whoever decides these things is in a good mood/likes you/etc.

Then comes the inevitable cries of 'but he/she was able to drop theirs this way, why can't I' and 'hey, they got to make up a Condition for this, I want to have a made up one too'. If you want to allow that sort of freedom to make stuff up... good luck keeping track of it all. If you want to hardline and stick to the book, invest in earplugs for the whining shall be fierce.

And this isn't even touching on the Doors being opened or closed to make way for the Conditions. Yep. So simple. Man, remember the days of if your dice beat my dice in a contested Social roll, you won and we could get to the arguing over the results that much sooner? That was so hard. I'm so glad they simplified it into this.

I'm with @HelloRaptor on this one. Conditions look nifty on first glance, but as soon as you delve deeper it just becomes a confusing jumble of too much to keep track of.

@surreality The issue that always arises with something like this is that what you consider crappy, someone else likely won't. So you might end up getting rid of a Condition that others like, while keeping one that they hate. Also, edit and adjust too much, and you fall into the TR trap of people ending up playing a very different game from the one they expected and wanted to play. But then, I don't particularly care for GMC overall. I feel they added a lot of unnecessary and unnecessarily complicated components.

Nope! I think its Florida.

Damn it... I -knew- that was going to happen.

Peeve: RAIN ON MY RENFEST DAY! >:/

@Chime I wasn't even thinking of code staff. They are a strange and mysterious lot to me. I was more thinking of sphere staff or general admins, of which I've seen many simply stay idle online for days or weeks at a time. Not a job done, not a comment given on channels. Mind, this is also mostly taken from TR, since that's the only place I've staffed personally. Everything else that I've heard of about, say, HM staff, is second or third hand stories and generally taken with a grain of salt.

I can only speak from my experience as staff and dealing with staff. Yes, staffers WILL spend SOME time idling. It happens. People have lives. That said, if someone is ALWAYS idle for hours at a time? There's an issue there. There's never NOT jobs that need monkeying. There's generally people with questions. Or time stops that need adjudicating. Or.. or.. or.. the list goes on. A staffer that's occasionally idle? Usually not a big deal. A staffer that is always idle? Proooooooobably not doing their job. In my experience. YMMV

You know... this makes me want to go back and watch the original Buffy, The Vampire Slayer movie (and possibly the series) with that mindset. XD

@Thenomain Let me clarify again, I wasn't trying to attack you or your decision directly. I just personally don't feel that removing the Dark flag will resolve anything in the long run. If anything, I wonder if it won't make players more resentful when they can clearly see a staffer online and being useless than when they simply can't see the staffer at all. I might grumble about a particular staffer always being dark, but I will personally be more upset and angry at a staffer just blatantly sitting on their staffbit and doing fuckall every time I log in. Its that whole 'out of sight, out of mind' thing, I suppose.

It won't always 'fit' again, though. Especially if you already have stretchmarks, whether from kids or weight gain/loss, sometimes your skin will just always be a bit... flabby. God knows mine is like that. For the better part of a decade, I was a size 6. Didn't stop me from still having some poochy belly skin going on. I accept that I will never have a completely flat belly. That time has passed. At this point, I'll be happy if I can get under, and stay under, size 10.

@Admiral As a female with a rather large tattoo on one calf, let me tell you how few employers would agree with your 'no pants' idea. >.>

@HelloRaptor Tableflip, indeed, sir!

@Admiral Conversely, try being a woman and having a body that doesn't conform to the presets. I have a short torso, but long enough legs that petite sizes look like Urkel pants on me. Regular sizes are just long enough to leave about half an inch of excess hem, however. There is no in between. No 'by inch' inseams. There's petite, regular, and long. If you do not fit in one of those three... well....

And don't even get me started on how a size 8 differs in actual size based on the where the pants sit on the waist.

@Three-Eyed-Crow This sort of thing is why I tend to do my shopping at Goodwill or Salvation Army. They're the only places I can reliably find bootcut and flare-leg jeans.

@Olsson It is if sewing is not something you like or even tolerate well. To this day, I can't sew a straight line without it looking like some Frankenstein-ish hatchet job. Thankfully, getting things hemmed is pretty damn cheap. I still generally just walk off the excess length though.

Will removing the Dark tag really keep the staffers that only log in and idle from continuing their behavior? They can just set themselves to Off-Duty or Busy or AFK for forever (and some do). I've seen staffers stay logged in for 3-4 days at a time and never in the many hours I was about take themselves out of Off-Duty. The tags aren't the problem at that point, the staffers that abuse them are.

Mind, this is not a rant about how all staffers suck and should be penalized. Its recognizing that just like for players, sometimes a few bad staffers can ruin a nice thing for all.

I envy men that ability. Summer in Florida with bras is HORRIBLE.

@Three-Eyed-Crow Its like skinny jeans. Someone made them. Someone else said they looked good. And now they're EVERYFUCKINGWHERE. I hate skinny jeans with burning, fiery passion. Unless you're a stick with great legs, they do not look good. WHERE THE FUCK ARE MY BOOTCUT JEANS?!