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These are so good!

No, I am all for this command!

As long as there is also an +interest/fistfight Jane, +interest/coffeehousephilosophicalbs Jane, +interest/embarrassself Jane, etc.

@Sundown

I'm sorry, this is a very long post, and I don't really feel like I can address all the points in it one by one. If I were you I'd reread the bit you wrote about feeling distant from snotty-nosed barefoot kids while complimenting the family with a castle and a piano. That does say something, but I don't think it's about the kids or the Arab world.

I will say that comparing Nazism and Islam the way you do in the latter paragraphs doesn't really seem to make much sense. Nazism is a pretty specific political ideology. Islam is a very diverse religion and, in fact, plenty of Muslims do denounce the kinds of Islam that support and justify terror attacks. It is possible to renounce radical and extremist varieties of Islam without renouncing other forms of Islam, or Islam as a whole, and many Muslims do so. It's kind of sucky to ignore the ones who have been persecuted and killed by extremists for being moderates and secular activists, while still considering themselves Muslims.

@derp said in Changeling the Lost: 2nd Edition:

@thenomain said in Changeling the Lost: 2nd Edition:

It only starts to work when you apply the guilt onto the character's foundational personality (where The Wyrd's psychoactive nature taps into), which seems to me to be a silly act of an RPG reducing player agency over their character.

No, it works when you take into account that it's in their very magical nature to do this.

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In this specific case, you are playing a person who has had their agency taken away in order to fill some sort of meta-tropey-idea-thing. I cannot stress this enough -- if agency is your thing, changeling is not the game for you. You're gonna have a bad time of it. Or you're just gonna ignore the rest of the theme anyway.

We can fight about the limits of player agency all we want, but at the end of the day, changeling is still the most flexible system by far, so.

I do think there is a difference between 'your nature was magically altered so you now have these particular feelings in accordance to what that nature IS' and 'your nature was magically altered and now you feel guilty about it'.

What's public dignity?

On the one hand, this sounds like it could be really neat.

On the other hand, I'd feel a terrible pressure to try to be funny, and that can't possibly end well!

@Ghost said in MU*, Youth, and LGBT+ Identity:

@mietze Yes, because it was in reference to your post/concept.

It really reads like you were replying to an argument @mietze didn't make. The actual argument was in the rest of the sentence that you left out of the initial quote. It feels like you just read the start of the post and replied to that, ignoring the rest.

@Tinuviel said in TS - Danger zone:

@Arkandel said in TS - Danger zone:

@magee101 Or impossible. You can't clone yourself in real life as much, but Life is one flexible Arcanum.

Okay, now we get to the important questions.
Is boning your clone incest, or masturbation?

Incest. Unless you're going to somehow meld together the clones, complete with memories, after the deed, maybe?

@Arkandel said in TS - Danger zone:

How long does a scene need to be before it gets to TS (feel free to include foreplay as part of TS)? What's ideal for you?

For example do most of your TS scenes get right to it once the scene begins? Are they the logical followup of a separate scene leading directly to it? Do you ever just start TS at the end of a completely chaste RP?

I've started scenes that were understood to be pretty much specifically for TS purposes, more or less, and then had hardly any sex happen because it gets too late on account of all the scene setting, so that's a thing. But typically they just happen at the end of romantic or flirty or just awkwardly sexually tense RP.

Sometimes the RP leading up to it is completely chaste, but there's always just some kind of IC segue that makes sense, it's not like <OOC> Okay now that we've wrapped up the minutes of the wizard gardening association, let's get boning.

Also bonus question! Do you ever pause in the middle of TS then pick it up at a later time?

Sometimes more than once. As in the same scene happens over three different sessions, at least. Usually when there's some kind of emotional or sexual development going on, I guess? Like, oh... let's not fade to black there, I want to see how they react to this.

@juneko said in The Savage Skies - Discussion Thread:

@faraday
I understand this perspective entirely, and I think that there is room for "shades of gray" in media which portrays Imperial Japanese soldiers. However, I also think that it would be enlightening to wonder, for a moment, why there are no movies like this from the Chinese perspective.

Sinophobia, Japanophilia, Cold War propaganda, etc?

It's no wronger than writing smutty fanfic about characters on a TV show.

Crop the face really tight, assume the actress bulked up for the role! Like Christian Bale. Solved.

@Jennkryst said in PB 'realism':

AS FOR PBS AFFECTING MY RP... also yes. If there are two players/characters using the same person, I will go out of my way to mistake one for the other, as punishment for them not combing the wiki to make sure their CHOSEN PB was not already in circulation (something else I'll do, like a creeper).

With some actors, you can have different people use the same PB, but if you pick the right role they look very different, have very different styles and vibes and everything. That works!

I sometimes wonder why fantasy/science-fiction settings have to copy our familiar forms of bigotry and discrimination for the sake of 'realism'. Especially when they're game settings, and create a hostile environment for a lot of possible character concepts and for players who'd rather not have to deal with it in their games too. Besides, there are whole untapped realms of speculative bigotry.

With historical games, fuzziness and alternate political history are fine, but deliberately whitewashing the setting sits poorly with me. I kind of feel like it trivializes the issues to pretend you can have the fun stuff without the horribleness that was historically attached and, besides, it starts to feel incoherent. Can you have imperialism and colonialism without the racism, for example? But I'm a history grad student, so this could just be me!

However, I don't think historical accuracy should be policed, particularly when it comes to the nastiness of the period! More importantly, it really should be fine for characters to be exceptional, to have modern sensibilities, to be able to get away with things that others might not. Are they active abolitionists, socialists or women's rights pioneers? Are they scandalous figures that get away with deviating from the norms by being amazing? If so, how do they feel about it? There are all sorts of ways one can engage with the problematic nature of a historical setting without being ground down by it for the sake of supposed realism, anyway. For me, that's actually part of the draw. It's not just about the tragic, angsty, historical oppression porn. Not that there's anything wrong with that!

You might end up with a grid full of exceptions, and there might be some friction if two players with different approaches to how they handle the setting cross paths. Not to mention that some people really, really like to use historical accuracy as an excuse to be assholes, and that's exhausting to deal with. So I can understand not wanting to deal with that.

I enjoy running PrPs. I haven't tried any on Reno because there are bits of second edition I'm still not completely comfortable with, but I'll probably try something simple on the Hunter/Law/Crime/Mortal side of things.

Reasons why I haven't signed up to any PrPs other than the starting Hunter plot yet:

If I see 5 characters signed up to a PrP, I might begin to think that's plenty and I shouldn't take up room unless it's a scene that really appeals to me. Outside social scenes, with the understanding that people are just mingling and may go off to do their own thing, 6+ people in a scene can start to look overcrowded. I may still give it a try, but I'm just less likely to.

I can't justify my character being there. This happens with some contrived scene setups or events that require a character to have taken some sort of off-screen initiative to be involved. I'm not complaining about this, I think it's great and it often helps move scenes along, it just means that sometimes I won't be feeling creative enough to come up with an excuse to have my character there.

And sometimes, something about the tone of the writeup suggests it's not for my character. This is a good thing! Sometimes (particularly with Mortal or Hunter) I have a character that is relatively low-key on the weirdness meter, your average Jane getting used to things, who goes on a PrP with a harmless description and is suddenly thrust into a world of fiery tentacle alien-demons taking over bodies for their Venusian dragon king, in grand explicit detail.

And there might be an amazing story to tell there, but I have to RP the aftermath of that. And I feel like politely requesting that my character take a blow to the head and suffer cartoon amnesia.

Which is why I like to suggest what kind of scene it's going to be in my +event descriptions, so people can avoid them or join them as they please, and I like it when others do the same. If I avoid a scene because of something like that, it's not you, it's me.