Posts made by Prototart

@lotherio said in FCs on Comic MUs:

In any canon with cutoff, as comics have been around like, a century+ and such, there is a crazy level of history to any pre-cutoff that has been explored in canon with timetravel and back story that defining can't be just selecting a cutoff point and assuming everyone knows what is meant even.

Sure but isn't that what theme files are for? Giving an actionable sense of where stuff is at and the feel and the theme you're going for?

I don't think you need to've read every single comic a character was in to know enough to play them in a way they're recognizably them, there are a ton of wiki places now that aren't crap and I mean tbh you can get literally every comic ever made online without spending a dime anymore if you want to

I think maybe the issue isn't how "limiting" canon places are but just how insanely pedantic a ton of the old ones were with detail? Like, I remember places that expected you to do a bg that mentioned literally every single thing that's ever happened to that char and were just, "of a skill isn't written up you don't have it even if it's a completely basic life skill almost everyone picks up"

I've clearly been out of this forever, I've been on like two games in 4 years, but I really think a canon place would do totally fine as long as you made it clear a bg by Tolstoy and power entries that talk about how your powers work based in physics aren't remotely needed to get a char

@arkandel said in FCs on Comic MUs:

@kanye-qwest But there's no reason the time period can't be defined either for the entire game or the character in question.

"This is Rebirth Superman".

(In fact, to me, there's no other way that makes sense but there are so many hybrid MU* out there I guess I must be a minority)

Right? Like... pretty much every comic game I played on until I took an, idk, 6-ish year break had a theme that was just "it's (Marvel/DC), this is when it's set."

And those places always had plenty of players so I really, genuinely dunno what changed that made everybody decide you just couldn't do a comic place that anybody'd play on unless it was potpourri

@ixokai said in FCs on Comic MUs:

To tie, "plays iconic character" to "able to run good plot" together is something I don't feel comfortable with.

Yeah there are a ton of I guess "iconic" characters that I don't necessarily see as necessarily the starting point of stuff? If that makes any sense

Like if you wanna play Flash I don't think you should be required to run stuff where Weather Wizard robs a diamond exchange (tho tbh i'd kind of hope you'd want to?)

But with... like Nick Fury or somebody like that, I do think that's a char you shouldn't take unless you WANT to run spy stuff

Xavier specifically should probably be a plot char/npc/whatever, but I also think people tend to forget how many periods in the books he wasn't around/wasn't even connected to the X-Men

You need him as a background point as why there are X-Men but you don't need him for there to actually be X-Men

@paris said in Make MSB great again!:

@arkandel This site enables harassment.

alt take:

this site is one of the only places some people feel like they're able to safely speak up about the abuse they witness or are subject to

@arkandel

tbh I think that if it's a game where, like, actually documentably messed up stuff has or keeps going down then you really really really need to append, idk, "thread contains evidence of staff (doing whatever that's bad)" or whatever to an ad instead of just "link: discussion thread"

my dumb idea that'd never work and tbh would sadly attract like the creepiest people ever is Costume Quest

Target had donkey kong air fresheners

they weren't banana scented

hows that even legally allowed