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@WTFE Also, by not reading some of the blog articles you missed one of the more important quotes which I will paraphrase as 'The story of tabletop games is the story of the world not your characters.' What you should have done is exactly the thing the professor suggested, roll some new characters. Maybe even roll up the characters that shot down your original characters.

Surprise! It turned out that the first chapter of this book was told from the perspective of someone who dies at the very beginning. I can't think of any famous authors who started a doorstopper series that is now a major HBO show in the same manner.

@somasatori

Maybe Haslett's Moral Capitalism? Corporations are started by someone with an idea and investors. As it grows and employees join the company, they gain stock. When the investors and the owner want out, they can sell their shares to the employees and it becomes an employee owned business, like Publix.

@Tempest Violent, dark, weird fantasy D&D retroclone with a misogynist undercurrent, since the pictures of people being harmed are all of women. (Though, maybe he is a feminist and is showing that women can be just as badass and die in gruesome ways as a man can, since all of the heroes doing badass things and not dying are also women. It rubbed me the wrong way, however.)

It's by James Raggi, who also did Death Frost Doom (good but killer dungeon where the only winning move is not to explore it which works if you drop it into a pre-existing campaign), Better than Any Man (very good adventure/campaign), Hammers of the God (great adventure that can be dropped into any campaign), Fuck for Satan (very bad and a sadistic killer dungeon), The God that Crawls (good with the right GM, killer dungeon), the Grinding Gear (good with the right GM, killer dungeon), the Tower of the Stargazer (very good and modular, can be dropped into any campaign), and the Monolith from Beyond Space and Time (bad). He has a bit of a bad reputation (supposedly he supports some neo-nazi) and the misogynistic undercurrent also seems to be there. However, he definitely writes some great weird fantasy dungeons of the lethal variety.

@Coin said in What Types of Games Would People Like To See?:

Man, people complain about dinosaurs and power creep on normal games; I can't imagine the amount of whining and bitching there'd be on a game where there are literal tiers of power and if you're below someone else you're basically like a fly. Lol.

If done well and players weren't what they are, it could be pretty awesome, playing politics and toadying up to bigger powers; however, players will be what they are, and that definitely will not happen.

@Lain If the writer is a lazy, a set of "commandments" would work. Just a bullet point list of thou shalts and thou shalt nots.

• Thou shalt rise when any noble enters the room.

• Thou shalt always be on hands and knees when the emperor is present.

• Thou shalt not look at the emperor, lest his guards behead you.

• Thou shalt always give Duke Biganmighty a 20 stroke handicap on his golf game and let him have a do-over when he hits the ball into a water hazard. First round at the bar is on him.

@Wizz said in What Types of Games Would People Like To See?:

Now if only I could code worth two shits.

The statement that has ended a many MU* concepts.

@Kanye-Qwest

No, but here is a consolation prize.

@Macha said in What Types of Games Would People Like To See?:

NSFW Sam L Jackson

The NSWF tag is redundant when paired with Samuel L. Jackson.

@Apos Sure, I can write a story for Superman too. That's not the problem. The problem is when the Green Arrow and the kid from X-Men 2 who can change the channels on TV by blinking go with Superman on a mission. How do I provide a plot that will adequately challenge Superman and not vaporize the other two let alone allow them to contribute to the resolution?

@Kanye-Qwest This is a general response, not a specific one directed to you or Arx. Address xp bloat. Enforce niche protection. Create enough Superman-level plots to keep Superman busy so he doesn't have the time to sneeze hard in the direction of the Green Arrow-level plots, literally blowing them away, and run plenty of Green Arrow-level plots too, so Green Arrow has something to do.

@SixRegrets

I would just ramble. Put down your ideas, and then worry about sorting them into something more composed once you have them all down and can look at them.

@Tempest

On that note, I call dibs on the nickname "Croaker."

@tinuviel That was the point of my post. Institutionalizing courts of public opinion, especially ones like MSB, are a bad idea.

@Wizz

I highly recommend the first book in The Black Company series. In my opinion it is the best of the series and is also the shortest, so it is a quick read. Very dark setting and also trigger warnings for murder, mind control, war rape involving adults and children, and every other kind of human atrocity committed in a war. Thankfully, the protagonists don't commit any of these except for murder, and they're usually murdering the ones doing the other things.

I have wanted to do a few murder mystery games. This would only work as very short term MU*s.

You guys.

@kanye-qwest My bad. I just assume all things awesome in fantasy are written by Sanderson or Pratchett and as First Law isn't comedic...

@packrat

I reviewed the Dune movie in this thread: https://musoapbox.net/topic/221/good-or-new-movies-review/1776 and part of meaning in saying it showed promise in the beginning was the clever ways in which the movie was teaching the audience about the world without heavy exposition. There was a lot of show don't tell. There was David Attenborough giving a lesson on Dune. There was the lesson about spice that Paul watched. Use the voice to make me give you a glass of water. The shield scene was flubbed, though, as they never explain how the shields work, only showing that they exist and blue means you're protected and red means you're screwed.

I don't think they need a miniseries, Though, Sci-Fi Channel did that in the early 00's, but they needed to stop the movie earlier in the book than they did, so they would have more time to world build and develope the characters.

How about something other than Yet Another World of Darkness MU*? How much longer until we run out of US cities "By Night?" What's left, Chattanooga by Night? Butte by Night?

@darc said in San Francisco: Paris of the West:

@admiral Our 'Resources' merit will be appropriately scaled for San Francisco's living costs, have no fear.

Resources 3 - Warren Buffet
Resources 4 - Vladimir Putin
Resources 5 - Scrooge McDuck