Best posts made by Olsson

@arkandel

It's weird how good Kingkiller is, because the main character is like the worst Mary Sue I've seen in ages.

In my experiance most of the people who actually want to Storytell will do so anyway. Atleast for me.

As it looks now I will be giving go at playing something like a wallstreet yuppie mixed with a mobster vampire. Not my usual schtick so I'll see if it sticks.

I'll probably be wanting to try and ST stuff for Werewolf during EST daytime once it opens up, because I usually enjoy that if there'll be any people around at those hours. I feel it's become rarer. Actiony Hunter stuff works too.

Here's something I wanted to run on Reno last time around I might try again.

This story is true.

Nevada has not always been a dry wasteland, once it was a lush forest that grew on forever. As all of Pangea it was a hunter's paraide, where man, beast and spirit co-existed in a strained harmony kept by Father Wolf and his pack. Here did the great spirit Coyote dwell, finding itself weak compared to Father Wolf it grew into a jealous spirit, convincing itself it was all due to the relationship Father Wolf shared with Luna.

And so Coyote sought to get it too, but it had never been a spirit of the mad mother, no instead the Coyote sought out the mighty Helion, searing god of light and fire. But he was thrown out, the great helion not having patience for a spirit with a coward's heart. And Coyote did not take this insult well, scorched and with wounded pride he returned, and here he stole The First Flame from Helion and fled to the earth.

Helion searched the forest for days, but not even his bright light was able to find Coyote, the spirit was a great deal too cunning and quick. And so it was that Helion set the forest ablaze, and it burned for days, weeks, months and years. Til nothing but a barren wasteland remained, but still Coyote was not to be found. And so the wasteland now called Nevada was created, and to this day Helion's deadly gaze never truly leaves it, always searching for The First Flame.

Apparantly I need a new CPU for Witcher 3, which also probably means I need a new motherboard which will cost me. And on that note I still seem unable to gain employment over the summer which makes problem A a bit difficult.

@Miss-Demeanor said:

@Olsson And that gratification HAS to come in the form of xp? Your character, which has zero to do with the plots that you are running, should be allowed to become more powerful simply because you as a player have the ability to tell a good story?

What else would it come in form of? Aren't that many things you can reward them with. Items? Bonuses? Authority?

I kinda wish we had some more games set outside of the US, personally, but I understand with the demographic why that's not the case.

@Insomnia said:

That sucks. If you can wait a couple of months to have sex on a unicorn, I would suggest waiting for school to start. At least here anyway things go on sale then.

So I tried running it, I mean who knows maybe it'll work. It runs just fine on medium graphics currently with being 10 hours in. So yay, no need to spend money there yet.

Beast?

@Derp

It was a plot consisting of 11 scenes involving 13 seperate PC and ended with Patrick making a deal with them after a series of assaults against important officers within the Free Company, and killing the Leaders second-in-command, which forced them to abbandon all activity in North America.

I mean I am European so my scenes aren't in the ideal time for americans, but that's bigger than most plots and I guess I'd count it as attention.

Anyway, I am derailing at this point I guess.

@Insomnia said:

@Olsson Yay! I'm pretty much in the same boat except I don't think I'll be able to stream it. Record it, maybe since OBS isn't the resource hog that Fraps is.

Have you had sex on a unicorn yet?

I am actually yet to bang anyonee, and I am 13 hours in. I must be bad at the banging people part. But who knows that the future holds! Unicorns, probably.

And now, for something entierly different.

So in a onlime MU* setting, this one aimed at World of Darkness since it is what I am storytelling,, how do you people think it is applicable to give out physical rewards gained from plots. The most obvious solution is money, but the 'currency' system of Resources in place doesn't really allow for much of it.

Although it worked with what Darkwater for example did where you get a certain amount of Resource points every month, so you can save up, hand out, bet etc. I think Kingsmouth does something similar.

But in the base, no. Which then moves us onto other physical rewards, items? Can you pick up the gun from the bad guy you just shot? Usually this seems to be not allowed or require a great amount of paperwork.

This mostly comes up when I feel I need to create an incentive for characters to go to location X for plot. And the most obvious way is to promise reward, but since XP isn't exactly a thing you can use as motivations IC, what do you do? Or do I just trust players to make up excuses for their PCs to attend?

So after a month or two of fucking idiotic bureaucracy and a interview, it has been decided I am indeed allowed to continue to study at my University next semester, yay.

Seriously I almost didn't get to continue because I had one small ass assingment failed because a certain person is the sort of person to fail me because I missed the capital letter in one of the authors in my references, and wouldn't let me fix it and turn it in again til next semester, knowing that I need to have the entire first semester passed to be allowed to continue to the third.

But yes I get so, so yay.

@Arkandel said:

And occasional even successful games have tried non-US settings - HM comes to mind as it was set in Vienna, Germany.

Vienna is in Austria.

Carry on.

@HelloRaptor said:

@Olsson said:

So apparantly the guy who does a lot of economy stuff for my family? In jail, for beating a couple uncounciouss and burning a house down with them inside.

That's a thing now apparantly.

It's always been a thing, we just usually don't get caugh... I mean, yeah, what? That's crazy. Who does that?

Guy has become the prime suspect in another double homocide.

Apparantly might possibly be the first two double homocides in Sweden, or the newspaper claimed something to that nature.

To be fair, in Mage. Most people only really use like two to three things from every Arcana level. Even in Mage most people don't do the advanced stuff.

I wish it could get colder here so we'd have actual snow rather than this wet snow/rain mix. I hate the wet.

Get colder, thanks.

@Tempest said:

I really like the idea of custom stuff, but it's hard to find a balance with it of allowing people to make fun/cool things that don't confer giant mechanical benefits.

Usually you need to write out what power it is you want, and then figure out how to shoot yourself in the foot enough to have it go past Staff/ST without too much complaint.

Not all models are the same difficulty to paint either. Some can basically be painted with just washes and not have much in the way of detailing at all.

Here's a iron warrior I put together a while back.

The times I have played non-white characters in WoD games and the like I'll admit I've never really thought of them as wholly different from any white character I have played. But if we're being honest most of my characters are pretty shallow and based around singular concepts of like "Oh, I want to be a warrior poet or a mafia wizard." or some other bullshit rather than anything deeper.

To me the problem of being afraid that you'll play it horribly can only stop you so far. I mean I am sure I play a terrible american period, but since basically all games are set in america I tend to play them. Despite not having any real in depth knowledge of what it is like to grow up over there beyond consuming the entertaiment media since you've got that stuff on lock.

I do realise it is a bit different since questions of race/ethnicity tends to be more sensitive than general culture, but still.

I found an old bill for one of my Uni books, turned out it was a reminder with a late bill for a book I apparantly didn't pay for when I thought I paid for them all. So called Customer Support to ask if I could just pay it now, if there'd be another late fee tacked on or how I'd generally deal with it.

A very pleasant woman removed the original late addition and told me she'd prolonge the duration to pay with another week.

Good customer support is nice.