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@Cadi

I really like the Poirot movies. Haven't read the books, though.

@faraday said in How do you like things GMed?:

It really depends on the players and the setup. If 12 MU players show up to a +event expecting a scene where they get to fight the Big Bad, and it's over in 5 minutes because Joe got a lucky hit and got all the glory? I think you're gonna have 9 or 10 pretty annoyed "I showed up for this?!" MU players. It's a very different environment than a TTRPG.

I agree. That's a failing in current MU* design.

If the players felt like they were on rails, you've failed (even if they actually weren't). If they leave fulfilled because they felt like they influenced the outcome, who cares if the GM had a specific outcome in mind? No one will ever know the difference.

The Quantum Ogre is one of the oldest discussions in the OSR. I lean on the "never" side of illusionism, but, if you truly can pull it off and somehow guarantee that the players are never able to discover the illusionism, have at it. I don't trust myself to not screw it up.

http://hackslashmaster.blogspot.com/2011/09/on-how-illusion-can-rob-your-game-of.html?m=1

http://hackslashmaster.blogspot.com/2011/09/on-slaying-quantum-ogre.html?m=1

http://hackslashmaster.blogspot.com/2011/09/on-ressurecting-quantum-ogre-and-having.html?m=1

http://hackslashmaster.blogspot.com/2013/07/on-corpse-of-quantum-ogre.html?m=1

@eye8urcake

It has been. It's how I knew what it was when I saw it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wz4TZh76QKc

Deduction games, especially hidden movement games, are my favorite board game genre. I sadly don't get enough in real life as my friends are mainly boring Eurogamers, who like stock games and efficiency games, so I am turning here to scratch that itch. This thread is to see if A) people actually scroll down and look at this forum topic and B) people would be interested in giving this a go.

Letters from Whitechapel
The game is thematically focused on the police (up to 5 players controlling 5, no more or less, officers) hunting down Jack the Ripper (1 player) in the Whitechapel district of London. The game is based on four "nights" of play where Jack the Ripper kills a woman, a starting location the police know, and flees back to his lair, an unchanging location that he selected before the start of play, by moving around on numbered circles. Jack's movements along the circles are hidden, he doesn't have a piece on the board, and each turn he writes down where he moves to from his current written down spot, so a record of where he has been is kept. He has a few tricks up his sleeve to help him evade police, but each night, he gets fewer tricks.

The police hope to corner him, arrest him, or be able to declare his base's location at the end of the game. They do this by searching for clues at numbered circles surrounding the separate movement locations they use. If Jack has been at a circle they search, it gets marked with a clue marker. Jack has 15 turns to get back to his base by the end of the night or he loses. If he gets back to his base at the end of the fourth night and the police name the wrong circle as his base (a last chance at the very end for them to catch him), he wins.

Explanation of Rules: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f7UKJE0bcwk

Current Thoughts of Play-by-Post Rules
I will likely have six actions due every day - three by the police and three by Jack - at 11 am (police), 1 pm (Jack), 5 pm (police), 7 pm (Jack), 11 pm (police), 1 am (Jack) with a helper or me posting results an hour after the deadline (I work 3-11 pm and frequently get forced overtime to 7 am, so I sure as hell am not going to be awake at 11 am or even 1 pm, thus a helper will be needed for these times to work). Jack will be controlled by either one player or a team of four players discussing options with main control of Jack rotating each game night. Jack's actions will be PMed to me and my helper. The police will be controlled by everyone else with one poster having main control ever game nights, which will be resolved simultaneously (a difference from the board game). If there is enough interest, I might rotate main control of the police more frequently than after every game night, so more people get a chance to shine as the Chief.

@Sunny Thank you,

You can't evaluate how you spend your time in a vacuum. You have to weigh its pros and cons with the pros and cons of the possible alternatives. I work not because my job is interesting and enjoyable. I work because I don't want to live on the street. I play MUs not because it is the most enjoyable hobby. I play MUs because it is free and doesn't require me to have RL friends living nearby.

@Tyche

I love that video and show it to the inmates from time to time. "It's gotten so bad even the Aryan Brotherhood is stepping in to break up my ass-kickings" always gets a laugh.

You might still be able to MU*. Ares has the ability to allow for play by post style MU*ing. It's not really my thing, so I don't know much about it, but I know a few people around here are really into it.

@krmbm Software can inform culture and culture can inform software.

I love gifs that are used in a humorous manner. About 1-3 per page is good. After that it gets to be too much.

My confused Ryan Reynolds in the Shadowrun thread is comedic gold, you philistines!

@Rinel

@Rinel

@Tinuviel My interpretation of @Misadventure's statement was that they were trying to point out that people are sexual beings at all ages, one's understanding of their sexuality and expression of such changes and matures over time, and pretending and shaming youths for being sexual creatures is harmful. I might be reading waaay too much into it, though. And while that may be true, considering how hamfisted most of the writing is on MU*s with adult characters, exploring that particular subject requires sensitivity, nuance, understanding, and a great deal of maturity that most players simply don't have.

An adorable birb who apparently only performs as a doubles act: https://youtu.be/6q73jTm0Wd4

@Cupcake

I mean if we're honest. I haven't had a good toe-curling, wing-glowing orgasm in years

@Derp said in Dating in the 2020's:

You know. Using Facebook to facilitate having a sex life. Bringing it back to its roots.

I remember the days of Facebook requiring you to have a college email address to sign up. Fun times.

Maybe all MU*s should have a version of a +kinks system only covering things that they are OK with RPing out, instead of just sexual preferences.

These guys seem awfully enthused about giant robot maids sucking.

@Auspice