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.

The Gentlemen Bastards by Scott Lynch.

A refreshing fantasy series which focuses on a small band of thieves with distinct and entertaining personalities. The world itself comes off as quite unique and well realized mixing, themes which I personally have not often seen in Fantasy. For example a clear inspiration taken from the Sicilian Mafia and generally organized crime beyond what one typically imagines for a fantasy setting, also highly varied depending on where in this fantastical world they are.

I would describe it in a way as what people today call "low fantasy", as in magic generally is not highly involved in the series. Atleast to a start, and the more fantastical and magical elements are not the focus as much as larceny and the art of the con.

The books handle relationships, both romantic and platonic in a wonderful way through highs and lows dealing with a band which are sworn together against the world. I would especially praise the way in which Lynch handles the central romantic relationship of the series. It boldly points out flaws, issues and problems with how the characters act towards eachother. The main character's romantic interest is also, to me, an intriguing and very powerful female character who is also quite well realized as much as she plays into and sometimes inverts various literary stereotypes. Although I will say, she as a character is introduced properly later than the rest although very much present throughout.

The series is a planned to be in seven parts, and so far the first three books have been released. The last being in 2013, so it has been a long wait. Each has an overarching theme which somehow makes use of their criminal talents.

The Lies of Locke Lamora (2006) is a revenge story.
Red Seas Under Red Skies (2007) is a heist story.
The Republic of Thieves (2013) is a spy story.

I'll say there is a RPG called Phoenix Dawn Command which is card based. Not a normal deck of cards mind, but it has an aspect of deck building where various classes gets access to various cards, and as you level up you basically do deck building and challenges are made by using cards with various values and modifiers based on class abilities.

It's quite neat.

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

Been a new "trend" at my University recently on the party scene where there are a group of guys are going around forcing other men into making out with/kissing them. People call it something which would translate as "forceout" and find it hilarious and/or just accept it and it bothers me a little.

If both parties are't enjoying themselves, the roleplay has failed somewhere along the line.

As Coin said above, there is no magical seperate mind that decides what the character does. "IC is IC" being treated as there being no OOC effects based on your beheavior is a silly notion too often used to put your enjoyment before, and often at the cost of others in a cooperative exercise.

Of course this doesn't mean you should always be a doormat, but flexibility is required.

Caveat: I do not always pratice what I preach, but I try.

We should start with defining what we view as good political play amongst PCs, so we are discussing the same thing.

@Pandora said in RL Anger:

Any time you punch someone because of 'what they are', be they black, male, white, gay, disabled, a veteran or a Nazi - that's a hate crime.

The latter two are not to my knowledge, I believe a hate crime only falls under the legal categories of sex, ethnicity, disability, language, nationality, physical appearance, religion, gender identity or sexual orientation.

However, it is always assault unless you are defending yourself.

Latter.

Beast?

I feel like it's the norm these days to just do whatever your instructor says to get your pass then move along silently. Although I understand in the US you don't need to get a pass on every course to progress which I guess makes it easier to not always have to do that.

I am still struggling with a 1 A4 assingment this one lady refuses to give me a pass on from my first term which continues to make it so I technically can't progress to my next term where I am now, three years later.

Severed limbs are generally treated as a seperate thing, in Werewolf and I believe Vampire it requires a WP dot to be spent to regrow it. In Mage it can only be done with Life 5, and only for a limited amount of time.

WoD is kinda weird with how damage is represented since only a few very spesific instances of powers or fighting styles actually literally say you remove limbs. The Aspect in question can obviously heal agg with ease, but severed limbs as mentioned is generally treated as a seperate issue. Any Werewolf can be healed of agg with Rite of Healing, but you gotta spend the WP dot to regrow an arm. A Mage with Life can easily heal agg, but it's a Mastery spell to regrow limbs. etc.

So I would question him posing that, but I am also a little in the way of, it's just flavour text basically. How many cool ways can you pose getting torn apart without actually getting torn apart.

Sources:
Werewolf: Blood of the Wolf p18
Mage: The Awakening p193
Unable to find Vampire so might be talking out of my ass.

I had the opposite experience, I got a bit blindsided that some new guy coming in was gonna be my character's brother, and that two characters that had been playing as my distant relatives were gonna be nieces now. It didn't actually come to anything in the end, for unrelated reasons but it is the bit I like the least about the Roster experience so far. The upmake of your close family can suddently change without anyone having spoken with you.

I'm generally for focused settings, I've had ideas pretty much like this but set at a police precint instead.

The main reason I think is most people that make games want mass appeal, and you get that by making it as open as possible. When you limit people in anyway, many see it as meaning the game is doomed to never have players. Or that's been my impressions of it.

Not quite culture building perse, but one setting which I've been writing in for awhile have a culture based around magic and how magic works which I've been going back and forth on for awhile. I know I want magic to be something limited to twins, I've notions of that two souls are needed for such things.

The mages travel the countryside and seem to eerile know when twins have been born somewhere, and take them away to be trained to becomes mages themselves. This among with a setting distrust for magic have made them fairly hated, and there is a semi-regular pratice of twins being left in the woods to die to spare them the fate.

So for the magic/mages themselves I've a few options I have considered.

A: The twins grow up learning the mystic art, and magic can only be done when the two are with eachother.

B: The process involves the twins having to battle eachother, and in the end both souls come to reside within one body.

A is the norm but B is something done, potentially tabooo.

As you might expect, one story point is the protagnosts' having their twin children taken.

Oh and obviously call uncivilized people shavs, it's only appropiate.

ducks

I personally have a liking for curses based upon the in-game things, like the abyss, mirror, demons, reckoning, smiling shadows, etc etc. More people should be called demon spawn and mirrorborn or what have you.

@Arkandel

I've actually gotten to the final season and stopped marathoning there, so I guess it's quite telling I agree with you there.

As for villians, I didn't find Gio particulary amazing. I was much rather a fan of the Dixiemafia stuff. Wynn Duffy was probably my favourite villian who wasn't a main character (aka Boyd).

I'll await the influx of even more viking PCs.

I watched Justified recently at the reccomendation of a friend, it's an amazing show and anyone who hasn't seen it should give it a try.