Best posts made by Olsson

Threw this together awhile back from pieces of cork.

Beppe

Also Beppe.

Past PC Bits
Haunted Memories: Igor, Tim, Quinn, Garfield (and more I don't remember)
The Reach: Roland, Bob, Warwick, Wright, Sofia, Ron (and more)
City of Fog and Blood: Bruce
Fallcaost: Richard, Johanna, Ulf, Whiskey, Keith
Bump in the Night: Joan
Reno 2.0 Alexander, Zeke
Arx Gabriel
Fallen World Panopticon

Current PC Bits
Arx Tibaltus, Asha
Fate's Harvest Vo

Past Staff Bits
The Reach: Carthage

I paint toy soldiers sometimes.

It's fun.

Igor on Haunted Memories, was my first forray into MU*ing and Werewolf. An older russian veteran wolf, who travelled to Austria chasing down a Ghost Child who was the focus of his former pack's downfall. Stuck around for a good while, although I did sadly I suppose come in at the end of that game's lifetime.

Warwick on TheReach, Mastigos Mage running from the Chicago mob with a history in counter terrorism in the UK. My attempt at a Silver Ladder politicing sort of guy, was great fun to play but again he came up at the end of TheReach's lifetime.

Bob on TheReach, a Changeling Fairest and my first forray into that sphere. A Prince Charming who kept looking for his princess, but once he finds her he always ends up dissatisfied and kills her. Never intended for him to actually find the one in a PC for obvious reasons. Had a very grandiose persona, seeing the world as a story where he was the protaganist.

Joan Dark on Bump In The Night, didn't play her much but I greatly enjoyed playing Joan when I did. A former US spook who got caught up being a thrall to some vampire in the middle east. Mind broken by vitae addiction and repetetive Dominate usage, escapes and comes back to the states convinced "they" are still following her. Living off the grid, paranoid as fuck and suffering from Vitae withdrawl which she tried to sate with heroin.

Gabriel on Arx, my only attempt at L&L, and I did greatly enjoy playing him most of the time. It was nice to try and play the mature/stoic/strong leadership sort in a setting where that actually had some form of effect, to whatever degree I managed it. Sadly didn't work out in the end as geography is against me in this hobby.

Is generally unwise to make a PC who is so dependant on another PC, atleast in my experiance. You can expect to play with them, sure, want to even. But do not make it so your fun stagnates if they are absent.

Latter.

For now I put forward Seer, with 4 reputation and 1 post.

@Luna said:

@Olsson Im sorry I told you to quit hitting on me. I'm just not into you though. Fucking creeper.

Now you're just giving me mixed signals, you said Swedes were the only people you didn't hate.

You get more and more good and less sexualized miniatures of female warriors and the like these days in miniature wargaming which I am enjoying. Painted these two up semi-recently.

But also demons.

You're both getting it wrong.

Started working on doing kitbashes with my Warhammer, it's quite rewarding when it works as you get access to some more unique looking pieces and gets you working outside the box. Also I am sick of painting blue space marines.

Me being a reasonably young person (21 now) and I started on HM when I was 15-16 I can say I had been RPing in MMOs for a fair few years before that, and they do usually have communities which are well, much bigger then most MU*s atleast. As Apos says though, many of them have not had any experiance with other formats. I myself started tabletopping when I was around 11, so I am a bit different there and hence why I sought out HM by just googling nWoD Online Roleplay basically.

One thing I think which they often have problem with who have never played in a system before is that they well, are only acustomed to freeform. I know that on my server on WoW for example there's grown an increasing dislike towards chance based system (as some did use the /roll command to simulate simple ones) as they feel they want utter control of their character.

To me that speaks especially to how different they view it from well, traditional RPGs where the dice roll is kinda a main thing. MMO RP is also quite a bit more fast paced. If you spend more than a minute or two writing you're slow, which is simpler as you have more visual means to use so you don't need to describe you walking somewhere, but still.

Mind this dislike for other mediums you find everywhere, I for example have gotten mocked often enough by people who MU* for RPing in MMOs the same way people on MMOs seem to find the notion of RPing in tabletop or in purely text based mediums, to not talk about LARP.

With MU*s I think a big thing is still there is a fairly high barrier to entry, I remember it took me ages to get used to the various commands, and even now when I try something not WoD or using well, what has become the common code and commands there I often eventually get tired of having to look everything up.

To be fair, any person flirting with someone where it isn't a share fatuation pretty much comes off as a creep.

Same as how most romantic gestures are creepy if it's not someone you are into.

Just keep doing it, honestly. There seems to be a big real fear from people at giving it a go. People want things(tm) to do, and games will stagnate and die without it, or atleast to me they will be unintresting. You don't need to be the gift from god, if people are having fun you are probably doing something right.

Obligatory, have atleast a not utterly terrible grasp of the rules regarding atleast the themes you wish to make use of.

I honestly (and sometimes to my woe) just think up stuff I'd think be cool to happend to my PC and then I run that for whoever is around and wants in on it. This is also because atleast I know it is stuff I enjoy, in the way of themes and you do need to be able to enjoy yourself.

Keep things going, try and avoid getting bogged down in big OOC discussions or the like. Keeping shit streamlined helps immensly, for myself atleast. Also for me that means that pose order goes right out the window if we're not in combat, 3 pose rule at most. If someone is taking way too long, skip em.

Have an idea, hell write down planned scenes, but be prepared to change shit. Improvising is a talent you get better at with time.

Some scenes will suck, be frustrating and utterly not enjoyable. And it might not be on you (wholly atleast) sometimes things just go poorly or you get people who can't interact with you/the world/whatever much.

There is something between one-shots and utterly complicated metaplot level crap, people appreciate a sense of continunity and as is the common trope but, if something/someone sticks around for several encounters they will get a relation with it and it will be sweeter once they resolve whatever it was.

Working as a substitute teacher is starting to wear me down a bit. Waking up at 5-6 every work day, only to have to wait for two hours to see if I even get booked anywhere that day sucks. And then having to go to an entierly new place of work more than half the time, new place, new people, new students and try to be some manner of authority in a class where half the time I have been given no or barely any instruction as to what the students are supposed to actually do. I mean I am a glorified babysitter for a gang of kids, but it is hard to keep them in their seats if I can't even give them something to do.

It's nothing terrible or anything, I am just coming up on a year of this and the uncertainty and a lack of consistency in my days, my work and my paycheck. I'm sure some people thrive in this type of waking up everyday having no idea where you will be or what you will do work, but it isn't the long term life for me.

@moth

The Gentleman Bastards by Scott Lynch, starting with The Lies of Locke Lamora. The first book is a rather unique take on the fantasy genre, atleast in my experience. The whole book takes place in a single sprawling city and follows a band of criminals trying to live in a expansive criminal underworld. It's a marrying of a fantasy and a mafia story, with revenge at its heart.

I am personally a big fan of stories that keeps it tight and personal. There is no saving the world, no big world shattering mystery as I said the whole book is really just about one city, and about one band of criminals in that city. The cast of character is pretty colourful, with a few of them going against trope and a few with it.

The following books travel around the world hinted at in the first one as we learn more about it, each one has a very central classic story at its heart. One is a heist novel, another a spy thriller filled with political intrigue. The magical elements also increase slowly through the books as the character's view of the world expand beyond the reality they existed in at the start.

The goverment totally sucks
You motherfucker
The goverment totally sucks

Ben Franklin was a rebel indeed, he liked to get naked while he smoked on the weed.
He was a genious but, if he were here today.
The goverment would fuck him in his righteous AAAAAAAA!