Posts made by Roz

For any of my fellow wiki admins who haven't tried it out, utilizing Semantic MediaWiki and then Semantic Forms to provide users a form to fill out for character pages, logs, etc. can be super powerful and fantastic.

@pixidusty Hey there! If you want to turn off autocorrect for your whole computer, so to the System Preferences app, select Keyboard, and go to the Text tab. There's a checkbox there for "Correct spelling automatically" you can uncheck. You might need to restart applications for it to stick for them.

The Terminal is in your main Applications folder in the Utilities subfolder, or just do a spotlight search for Terminal. It's Mac's native line command application.

Thanks for the response! It has definitely seemed like WoD's commonality is a big part of its draw, and how familiar so many players are with the system.

@Arkandel said:

I like investing in a game, and it's hard to do that on home-grown or not as well known systems that'll invariably end up having a very small number of players. Roleplay tends to be incestuous and limited in these cases and momentum is very difficult to build.

What would you actually constitute as a large enough game?

So. I've been playing MU*s for almost two decades now, and staffing on various games for many years. Right now I help run a Transformers game and a Mass Effect game, the latter of which is currently wrapping up, with plans for a new, unrelated game. A lot of my staffing has been on limited consent game without stats, apart from a stint on the old Game of Thrones game Steel & Stone, which used Faraday.

Here's the thing: in all those years, I've never wound up on a WoD game. Nothing against them, I've just always ended up on games with themes based on things I'm already interested in (comic books, specific other books or movies, etc.). So I've totally missed out on what's now (was it always?) the most popular MUSH/MUX genre.

So here's my question: what do people love about WoD? What aspects of the system? Could be really broad strokes thoughts, but I'm just really curious. We're planning on using Faraday for our new game, and the Transformers game will be using Firan's combat system, but I'm curious to know what broad or specific items people really enjoy about WoD, because I'd love to just have a broader knowledge about what players out there are enjoying.

Anyone interested in rambling?

For me personally, I don't really get RPing within the constraints of certain immovable events. I find it stifling and like I can't make a meaningful impact. I prefer games that start at the end of a given canon or, if they're in the middle of a canon, for them to simply become an AU driven by the players. For games I've staffed, that's generally how we've always done it.

I was super surprised not to get someone from BoD knocking on our door when I was staffing on the old Steel & Stone GoT game a few years ago. It was a thing pretty commonly spoken about in regards to other GoT games.

At the end of the day, the real reason people on this thread have a recoil factor in regards to BoD is not really because of the IP issues, it's about the really public behavior of the owners.

That's what everyone wants to hear when they're having a super shitty situation. The ways in which it could be worse.

Really, the reason it becomes complicated is because there are assholes who get told "hey, these are my pronouns" and the assholes go "fuck you and your pronouns."

I heard a comparison once where it's like your name is Robert and you like to go by Robert and some asshole is like, hah hah no I'm gonna call you Bob, and you go, hey please call me Robert that's what I like to go by, and the asshole is all, HAH HAH NOPE. People act like it's SUCH AN IMPOSITION, and yeah sometimes it goes against your instinct and you have to be more conscious of it, but really if someone tells you their preference and you refuse, you're pretty much just an asshole.

Fucking giant universities.

I've been taking classes at NYU to get a professional certificate in my field. The classes were great, I did great in them, all A's, great time.

Soon after finishing my last class, it disappears from my records in their online systems. (All your classes are always there when you check your grades, just some are blank until your grades are posted.) I email the school to be like, uhhh this class disappeared from my online records in the system. ???

They email back to be like, oh here's a PDF with instructions to check your grades!!!

Thanks, NYU.

@Sunny said:

@Roz I was getting between 1-3 XP per scene (not per plot), and tore people up pretty regularly (which meant higher danger level so I more often than not everyone got 3xp). Plus I got the initial tier XP, then I started getting the monthly tier XP when they switched to that system.

Yeah, to me that seems like a lot. (Although I say that without intimate knowledge of the usual process of earning XP on WoD games.) Personally I feel like I wouldn't want an incentive system that really did make it so that certain people could basically zoom ahead with their stats or something like that. I'm cool with incentives, but at a more minor bonus level.

@Sunny said:

@Roz

Oh god, I got SO MUCH XP with Soleil@TR for running plots and STing and throwing events and the like. While their system is set up to catch people up eventually, I was at one point HUNDREDS of experience ahead of people that started around the similar time, just for my STing.

Jeez, I mean, that just sounds like the incentive system they set up is just way bloated. Like, I can totally get frustration if people get crazy amounts of XP for it.

I guess I have a hard time imagining people getting oodles of XP. People here have mentioned someone running 4 PRPs in a day? How is that possible? Am I just totally naive because I play on smaller games where PRPs are a once a month or fewer occurrence? I might just not have the perspective of having been on a game that has the volume of players where I can see these types of concerns happening.

I do think a real PRP needs to be more than one scene. I think players running a one-off GMed scene is great and awesome and should be encouraged, but I don't think it constitutes a plot. For my game specifically, the incentive is minimal and not really something you could get oodles of anything through. (Actually, I'm realizing now that all the specifics I'm talking about haven't been fully formalized, because our stat/xp/combat system hasn't been fully installed. But it's going to be something along the lines of an extra luck point like on FS3, for those familiar, not even just a regular XP point.)

@Miss-Demeanor said:

Why would someone run a plot on their staffbit when they could get xp for running it from their character bit instead?

Because some plots are staff plots and some plots are PRPs. I've done both as a staffer. The differentiating line is usually that the staff plots are tied in and related to the game metaplot. I've also been on a staff but had a plot idea entirely separate from the game metaplot that I ran as a player.

We give a small XP bonus for players who run a plot. This is because running plots is difficult, requires a lot more work and time than regular RP, and have a significant benefit to the game. In my head I don't think of it as an incentive more as just a present for doing a nice thing for the game, but practically it's certainly an incentive.

Most of my MU* career I haven't actually seen or done much in the way of incentives just because I've been on consent games without stats or XP to, like. Give bumps on. But the people I've staffed with and I have always tried to be really welcoming and supportive to player GMs and grateful for the plots they've run, which I know from experience goes a long way.

@The-Tree-of-Woe said:

One thing I'm really enjoying is Starscream's political ambitions running full-stop into an Optimus-shaped wall, and Optimus isn't really doing anything other than getting really annoyed.

Today Starscream learned it's a real pisser when someone is both incorruptible and has sharpened their acumen by fighting Megatron for four million years.

BUT I'M THE CHOSEN ONE!!!!

I haven't been on Robots in Disguise in a good while, so don't know how they're doing, and haven't played on any other Transformers game.

Except mine, which is Transformers: Lost and Found, so obviously I'll mention it. Our ad is here! We're focused on limited post-war space adventures and seeing if the Autobots and Decepticons can crew together without murder. We're still new, in Alpha testing, etc., but we're past the very early "there are like three people here" stages to a more consistent and present playerbase.

@Miss-Demeanor said:

Okay, chiming in as a mom!

I have never breastfed my kids in public. I'm just not personally comfortable with whipping out my boobs unless large quantities of alcohol are involved. That said, I have nothing against women that DO breastfeed in public. They should, however, expect that at least occasionally, people are going to glance at them. Its human nature. If you're looking around and your brain suddenly goes 'BOOB!', you're going to go for a second look, if only to verify.

Totally agree. But if you sit there and stare at the boob, you should work on your self-control.

@Admiral said:

Breastfeeding is a natural function.

So is defecating and urinating. I don't want to see people do that in public either.

Keep your tittyballs in your shirts.

Okay, guys can keep their shirts on at all times too, then.

@Silver said:

@Roz said:

I specifically meant normalizing the act of breastfeeding, although I certainly think anywhere guys can go around topless, women should be able to. I live in NYC where that's specifically the law.

Interesting fact: In Texas the law for Indecent Exposure explicitly prohibits the display of "anus or genitals" for purposes of sexual gratification in a public place. Breasts and nipples of both sexes are not mentioned, and due to common female anatomy a woman literally would have to bend over while naked and spread her business to display the so prohibited area. Because of that a naked woman casually walking around in public cannot be charged with Indecent Exposure in Texas.

Guys still have to put something over their junk because nobody wants to see that. Seriously. And if they're showing if off in Starbucks they go to jail.

A+ fun fact

@Glitch Not everyone will, but it's a pretty common difficulty mothers face when they're just trying to feed their kids. I know why people have the reaction, but my point is that that reaction is on them and not reason to tell moms they can't feed their kids certain places.

I'm not a mom, but I am a woman, and the percentage of my life I've had guys objectify my breasts is high enough that it's like -- what, sorry, my boobs are making you uncomfortable now? Yeah, well, guys have made me uncomfortable about them for years, so maybe you can suck it up a bit.

I specifically meant normalizing the act of breastfeeding, although I certainly think anywhere guys can go around topless, women should be able to. I live in NYC where that's specifically the law.

@Glitch Okay so maybe that percentage of the population should try to chill a little more instead of telling moms to go feed their kids in areas they deem "appropriate." The solution is normalizing the whole thing, not putting it in a closet.