Posts made by Ominous

@greenflashlight said in Critters!:

plz pet my tummers

but also dont touch or i bite

@tinuviel said in Player Omsbudsman?:

Not necessarily. Just that someone thinks it's worth bitching about, or they're bored and want to bitch about something, or that they just like bitching...

I am also in the "I don't like the art style train.". I have passed over so many good western shows and anime. I will turn away a webcomic for the same reason.

@misadventure

I am going to disagree with this idea. First hand experience on that Arx off-shoot Elf game taught me that doesn't work. I took a character that was at the highest echelon of his faction, which was the ruling council of that faction. Other factions had different rulership types - of note, two of the neighboring factions were autocracies of sorts. Those two factions were gobbling up territory and the our faction was puttering around with each council member doing their own thing, instead of unifying the resources of the whole faction to compete. I kept pushing for meeting with the other heads to discuss things and get organized but I would only hear crickets back. I am of the opinion that they took top of the pyramid positions because they wanted the shiny title only.

Also, Firan was government by council. Boy was that fun.

Anyways, I agree with most everyone else. Roster turnover, abuses of power, shiny title syndrome, etc. means players are shit and can't be trusted with all the power. Top position should be an NPC for stability and oversight and seconds in command, King's Council, viziers, powers behind the throne, etc. can be held by players.

@runescryer

GI Joe meets Esoterrorists.

@mietze said in Another leave of absence:

Please be good to Gany (I know you will!).

(I hate to reuse this one, but I am honestly shocked at the lack of relevant gifs for the search terms "salute" and "cat.")

@lotherio

I refer to Mouseguard RPG both for the design of its order - a group of mice knights who go around doing Jedi type things - and for its feel - insignificant people trying to survive in a giant, merciless world. You can get the same feeling with zombies, apocalyptic scenarios, and Cthulhu-esque settings, but zombies has the problems of needing zombies, which I have always found boring and are now thankfully overdone so other people finally agree; apocalyptic scenarios go too far, feeling hopeless and bleak; and Cthulhu needs big unknowable gods and weird horror, when the natural world can be dangerous and horrifying enough to bring the feeling of insignificant humans heroically holding back the enormous forces of the world.

@lotherio

I would go with humans. 'Small verse," while flavorful, has the stigma of being furry-adjacent, if not just plain furry. I guess you could use halfling sized people instead of humans, which would effectively double the size of the world in relation, but I think you can translate "small verse" to full-sized humans. Just replace a snake in Mouseguard with a giant snake for humans. Replace owls with wyverns or dragons. If you want your forests to have giant trees, Redwoods are a thing, so just make your fantastical redwoods fantastically larger.

The thread is called "MUs That We Would Love To Make (But Won't)" not "Let's Argue About BaRP." Time to keep this thread from getting completely derailed.

Esoterrorists, the SCP universe, and Unknown Armies meet the Mouseguard RPG and Symbaroum. PCs belong to a Jedi-like order of mage-knights who go around escorting merchants, investigating mystical happenings, slaying monsters both mundane and arcane, and rooting out evil cultist plots. The investigative skills in the GUMSHOE system that Esoterrorists uses would have to be changed to reflect the less advanced technology levels, but I think Symbaroum's mastery system would combine well with it.

The problem with this idea is that it would be very storyteller intensive. All of the missions would require someone running them.

I did not know someone did a new He-Man series. I had hoped that someone would take it and do something magical with it like the new She-Ra series. Unfortunately, from what I have been reading, I have once again been taught the lesson that it is foolish to believe in magic.

Reading a description of the setting for Hidden Legacy, it sounds a bit like the D&D Birthright campaign setting only set in modern times.

I'm watching it now, and all I can think of is sympathy for Japan. All those expensive, empty stadiums and facilities. Countries never make back what they spend for these events, but that's definitely true for Japan in this case.

@arkandel said in The basketball thread:

And it can be almost zero stakes for team owners especially in large markets because fans are gonna go buy tickets to their games and merchandise anyway. The New York Knicks for instance have been absolute shit for twenty five years and they're making money over fist, so...

Which is why I support nationalizing all sports franchises, including college teams; tying teams to municipalities; and allowing for the development of new teams.

@ganymede said in Good Anime:

I think this is what keeps me away from anime these days, honestly. I just don't get this, at all.

Vicarious escapism through power fantasy.

There are some good anime that play with it and turn it on its head a bit. Overlord takes it and makes the overpowered protagonist a villain with no sex drive (so the harem is a non-reciprocated harem and not in the usual anime nice guy manner) because he is a lich and, while being only a collection of bones, can't get and doesn't care to have a boner. In the vein of Death from Discworld, you need glands to have urges like that.

@saturna said in Good Anime:

1. Made in Abyss: There's a town built around a giant hole (abyss!) and orphans make a living by retrieving artifacts from it. One girl in particular is trying to go as deep as she can to find her mother, who is either lost down there or dead.

There are some squicky bits to this one, especially in the manga.

4. Jujutsu Kaisen: I'm sure it's been mentioned. It's fantastic. People who can see curses, and used curse energy, get rid of curses!

You have excellent taste, Brother.

5: Ascendance of a Bookworm: A bookish girl reincarnates in another world, into the body of a sickly little girl. This is fine, as long as she has books, right? WRONG. There are very few books, they're hella expensive, and she basically has to go through the entire process from papyrus and parchment, to bound books. All while people question these FANTASTIC ideas of hers.

Another good one. Though, I read the manga, so cannot comment to the anime. It is my favorite female protagonist isekai, because the plot doesn't revolve around romance like most female isekais. She just wants her books, goddammit!

9. The Ancient Magus' Bride: I don't even know where to begin. It's so good. Sooooo good.

I like the look of this, and I keep trying to watch it. However, the female protagonist reminds me of my ex in a few ways, and I have to stop.

@lotherio said in MUs That We Would Love To Make (But Won't):

Not to be rude but I think this is the issue I keep seeing in your responses. You keep speaking in absolutes. Modern moral/tech just can't be done, its boring. Most RPG settings are about keeping secrets. Literally, there are plenty that are PvE with open info (no OOC masques).

There are plenty of other games out there. Sure plenty of games where its kept a secret, but plenty of other games too. Its coming off argumentative. Most games are not WoD where you can't talk about whether or not your some supernatural being.

***Those are some cute spiders.***

@ganymede

Holy crap. I just re-read an old thread on EnWorld about the differenced between D&D editions and how they cater to players who prefer Combat as Sport vs. Combat as War. A particular point of contention was that in Combat as War, being pragmatic and fighting dirty wins over being heroic, which didn't jive with players who wanted to play heroic PCs. The Combat as War folks pointed out that, if victory in a fair fight is a sure thing for you, there isn't anything heroic about it to begin with. There's nothing more heroic than challenging the forces of evil to a fair fight in a CaW game. Your character will be wishing for death by the end, but it will be very heroic.

@solstice said in Good Anime:

Interspecies Reviewers was an unabashedly perverted masterpiece that knew what it wanted to be and didn't hold any punches.

I don't know about that. I'm pretty sure it wanted to be stream-able.

@de-villefort said in Bad TV:

Please, protect your family. Protect yourself. Don't make my mistake.

@de-villefort said in Good Anime:

The sheer amount of empty dialog and whining in most anime drives me crazy.

It's padding to delay the eventual catch up of the anime to the manga.