Posts made by Roz

@Coin said in Avatar / Korra game considerations:

@Roz said in Avatar / Korra game considerations:

I have a half-baked idea but it involves -- if there's gonna be sheets, and stats for bending expertise, it would also be cool if people could spend XP on the other bending styles (other than their own) as an indicator of how well they've studied those styles to counter. (I thought of this after being reminded of a scene early in S1 on TLA where Aang is chatting with the Fire Nation guards while captured and is all "Huh you guys have probably never fought an Air Bender, huh." A big part of Aang's effectiveness in the series ended up just being that people had totally lost the experience of studying the styles of air bending.)

My custom-baked Avatar system has as its core Attributes the four elements + Spirit, and each one governs something different (Fire is Power; Water is Change; Earth is Temperance; Air is Freedom ...) and when you bend you roll the appropriate Attribute, but having the others is part of everyone; everyone has a little bit of each element; Benders just channel their main one into their Bending Art. What you're suggesting would be represented by having better levels of the others to better understanding the theory behind other Bending techniques.

Mm, I guess. My line of thinking would be more about the skill end of things. Like if you have the elements as attributes, I feel like you'd want to also have skills to represent developing the actual techniques. Like how Katara had plenty of waterbending potential from the start of the show (attribute, in your example), but she had to learn how to use it (skill, in mine). What I'm talking about would specifically be about learning technique.

I have a half-baked idea but it involves -- if there's gonna be sheets, and stats for bending expertise, it would also be cool if people could spend XP on the other bending styles (other than their own) as an indicator of how well they've studied those styles to counter. (I thought of this after being reminded of a scene early in S1 on TLA where Aang is chatting with the Fire Nation guards while captured and is all "Huh you guys have probably never fought an Air Bender, huh." A big part of Aang's effectiveness in the series ended up just being that people had totally lost the experience of studying the styles of air bending.)

@Meg said in Avatar / Korra game considerations:

@Kanye-Qwest and, you couldn't justify airbenders if you set it before korra and after aang.

That's a big one. I think you have to go pre-Sozin or post-Korra.

Setting it before Korra would also make having a centralized and diverse location for play pretty difficult. Sure, you could set it in Ba Sing Se, which is a huge city, but it means that anyone who wants to play someone from outside the Earth Kingdom has to jump through mental hoops, and I feel like you'd end up with a constant sort of "is this a super weird, inexplicable number of other nation benders to be living here."

@Ominous

There is no movie in Ba Sing Se.

@Ominous What?

@Ominous What movie?

@Kanye-Qwest said in Avatar / Korra game considerations:

Also, no lily white blond people.

This bit is actually interesting for me to think about, because I feel like you'd have to explicitly say it somewhere, because players are still gonna default to white PBs. (Even if you do say it somewhere, they're gonna default.) But I'm pretty sure that there's just no white people in the Avatar setting.

@fatefan I would LOVE an Avatar game. I honestly think that Republic City is a fantastic setting, given its existence as a centralized locale and the diversity of its populace. It allows people to bring in characters from all over but have a reason to be in the same place. I'd definitely rate "Opportunities for easily grouping together PCs in scenes" pretty highly, as I feel like it often gets forgotten in MU* development.

@Pacha I don't think you're being at all combative! I totally get your point regarding the value of undeniable diversity and the message that sends to players. And having a few examples of it among a roster the size of Arx's doesn't contradict your overall point.

@Pacha said in Diversity Representation in MU*ing:

@Roz said in Diversity Representation in MU*ing:

There are definitely LGBT rosters @saosmash has written. Jasher is explicitly gay, although I know that generally when she writes non-straight rosters she leaves it more "they definitely have same-sex attraction but whether that means gay or bi or pan is up to player interpretation." Lysander is like that, and I know there have been a couple others that now I can't remember off the top of my head. I also wrote Holden as a roster to have a deceased husband, and I leave where on the sexuality spectrum he falls to his players.
EDIT: Oh I also remember Filshiar is written to indicate leaning ace/aro.

Cool, happy to be corrected then! I just never recalled having seen one. Which I suppose it is good that there are some. It would be nice if there were more than four out of however many hundred though. (obviously there are characters where it is not mentioned either way and you can take them either way, which is what I had done.)

Oh yeah, it's definitely more than four, but however many it actually is, it's a definite minority. Just wanted to highlight some cool rosters, tbh, cause I also like seeing them!

@Pacha said in Diversity Representation in MU*ing:

@Ominous

On the subject of roster games I know there have been problems in Arx, for example, of people taking non-white characters off the roster and just rewriting them as white. Though I believe staff there have cracked down on this a lot.

I don't recall ever seeing a specifically non-cishet roster character on Arx. There are plenty of characters that specifically mention heterosexual stuff "He was always flirting with ladies" or so forth, but I can't remember ever seeing a roster character specifically written as LGBT.

There are definitely LGBT rosters @saosmash has written. Jasher is explicitly gay, although I know that generally when she writes non-straight rosters she leaves it more "they definitely have same-sex attraction but whether that means gay or bi or pan is up to player interpretation." Lysander is like that, and I know there have been a couple others that now I can't remember off the top of my head. I also wrote Holden as a roster to have a deceased husband, and I leave where on the sexuality spectrum he falls to his players.

EDIT: Oh I also remember Filshiar is written to indicate leaning ace/aro.

@Wretched said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:

So, at the beginning of Covid my brother had to move in with us because his IRL imploded. My big brain forgot (with all the chaos, them not being on site etc) to tell the landlord. Today she told us we have to be out in a month. Evicted.

FML

Along with what everyone else says, make sure you look up your state's laws about eviction. Often landlords will "evict" a tenant by just telling them they have until X date to get out but in a way that's not a legal eviction notice. Make sure you're getting the full required process for eviction. And check your lease.

@Botulism IME the admin never delete whole threads, but they might move it or lock it for you.

At least your boss can't see you crying at work when you're working from home!

Woo.

@Kestrel said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:

I run a business and I try to do it as ethically as I can. I'm my only employee currently but perhaps that will change at some point in future.

I'm very over people saying to me, 'So you're a Leftist, eh? But you run a business, huh? Isn't that just a wee bit hypocritical of you? Your politics don't seem to align.'

That's not how this works. That's not how any of this works. Legit stahp. Why do people not understand the concept of criticising systems while being forced to operate within them or starve.

@Kanye-Qwest said in Good TV:

@Roz yeah tbh anything suffers when compared to ATLA.

tru tru

I do love Korra, and I'm gonna do a rewatch, but they definitely didn't have their footing as firm from the getgo like they did with ATLA. And tonally it's really different, so if you go into LOK expecting more of ATLA, you're just set up for disappointment. A little distance helps, I think, in just letting those expectations relax.

@Rinel Korra is definitely very different, and I feel like it almost suffers in comparison if you move to it right from the high of ATLA. Season 2 is definitely its rockiest point, though; 3 and 4 move into an upswing.

@Rinel Have you checked out Wattpad?

@Rinel Ahh. Yeah, I mean, that makes sense, the purpose of AO3 has always been as a repository of fanworks. Are you just looking for some sort of archive for your writing?