@Coin said:
@Roz said:
My therapist knows a whole lot about it now. It's alternately hilarious and frustrating the amount of background setup I have to give him just so I can talk about the actual emotional parts that's relevant to the therapy session.
Oh, man, I feel you on this so much.
"OKAY SO THERE ARE THESE THINGS CALLED PLOTS, WHICH ARE LIKE -- SPECIFIC STORY ARCS? AND THERE ARE GMS THAT RUN THEM AND IT'S REALLY HARD BUT THEN THERE'S ALSO THIS THING CALLED--" forever and ever
@RDC My friend really enjoyed it! That’s what I know.
@cupcake Yeah, I didn't last long at the recent party, mostly because of the lack of places and WOW I've apparently gotten really dependent on places and tabletalk. I was definitely being insular because it was just hard to keep track, and I was only there for a bit. Fortunately staff said they'll start getting places set up for future use!
The Raven Cycle by Maggie Stiefvater is pretty much my absolute fave. THAT IS THE ONLY HELPFUL THING I HAVE
@Derp I think that one's in your user settings: there's an "Enable In-Topic Searching" checkbox you can uncheck.
Let's be real, there are a lot of super shitty comics characters that have been written. There's no way for there not to be, just given the quantity of comics characters throughout the history of the medium.
Also, I have staffed on two different games (X-Men Movieverse MOO and its quasi-sequel X-Factor NYC) where FCs and OCs both existed without issue. It's not a magically impossible thing. It did probably help that both games were on the lower end of the power scale. (They were, as might be inferred from the name of the first game, grounded in the movieverse rather than the much more powerful comicsverse.)
@Sunny DA2 is the best Dragon Age and the anti-DA2 crew can BITE ME.
for #TeamFenris
@bear_necessities Seems like valuable info to know how much of a game's activity downturn is due to external forces they can't control vs internal forces they can. /shrughands
@moth The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay.
The Raven Cycle trilogy (starting with The Raven Boys). Actually, anything by Maggie Stiefvater, really.
Midnight's Children.
God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater.
The Golem and the Jinni.
The Secret History.
@arkandel said in FCs on Comic MUs:
@saosmash said in FCs on Comic MUs:
@arkandel I dunno, if you have an established rule that says no character squatting I think it's a lot easier to go "Hi there, you are barely meeting this FC's activity requirements. Please review our policy on character squatting.
Tell me if this scenario looks plausible to you.
Staff are conflict-averse; they don't want to get into the unpleasantness of reaching out to tell someone they can't have a character any more, explain why, dealing with arguments, etc. To dodge that bullet they make a rule ("you need to post at least one log every three weeks") to reduce this overhead on them since after that look guys, it's not us firing you, it's the rule! Only, of course, rules are way easier to trick than people as it's been shown very clearly in this and similar threads lately.
At that point staff have replaced a small problem with a larger one, but they still pick the easiest road for themselves - by not having to argue with people, rather than spare harm done to their game. That specific bit, this particular part is what makes them bad at their jobs. Anything before it is a mistake, and everyone makes those... ask any game runner. But at that point it's on them.
Does that make sense?
I mean, sure, obviously that's a thing that commonly happens. That's also just called bad staffing. You do need good staffing to make any sort of system like this work. There's no "this system will totally work even with lazy or conflict-averse staffers."
@insomniac7809 I only regret that I have but one upvote to give.
Okay but when do people start turning into cockroaches
@kanye-qwest said in FCs on Comic MUs:
Squirrel Girl is a joke, herself. She's a low powered character that somehow is always unbeatable. Off screen.
First of all how dare you
@arkandel I could probably help to manage something like that. I love mindless lists.
Um excuse me there is nothing inexplicable he has wings duh
on his feetsies
(he can't fly if he's wearing like fucking socks it's hilarious)
Yeah, mostly what I get from this question on true comics MU*s is "I'm really glad that when I was staffing on Marvel games that they were movieverse games." Same effect as the Marvel1963: not having to wade through tons of comics canon.
I love FCs, this all feels a whole lot like saying "we're setting this game at the beginning of Captain America: Civil War, but don't worry, Steve Rogers won't be the most important part."
@surreality said in X-Men Utopia MUX:
@ixokai Forms can make it easier. 'Fill in the blanks' on an actual web form is much easier even than filling out a template. It can help, anyway. There's autofill options and such, too.
If I ever get off my ass about doing a thing again, I can share an example.
The XF:NYC wiki is still up, so you can see some of our forms here. Just put in a name into one of the options and click through to see the input form. (It won't let you fill it out if you're not a user.)
