Posts made by Roz

@Thenomain Ah, I see.

You could put it on the template page itself inside noinclude tags. (Like how people often do to categorize their templates into a Template category without including that category on pages that use the template.)

I remember talk going around about making a sort of artist commission Tumblr that would gather different artists offering commissions, but I don't know if it ever got off the ground. But using the search or tag search will probably bring up stuff, especially if you sort it chronologically.

I've probably done commissions for as low as around $20, usually more sketchy works and/or from younger artists, but more established folks are going to probably be charging around what I mentioned. (And also it's kind of sad for artists who are way undercharging for work that comes out to like -- below minimum wage when you break it down by hour. And also makes it harder in general for artists to charge fair prices for their work.)

@tragedyjones said:

Shit, and here I am without Keira Knightly.

She's hanging out right by my office at Studio 54.

I have! I caught Vylla when she was doing a big commission to raise money for some hospital bills, so it was discounted from her usual rate. I paid $40, where I probably would have been paying $70-$90 otherwise. Art commissions can vary a whole hell of a lot as far as price goes, really. My best suggestion would be to browse around Tumblr and so a search for "commissions" or something else and start finding some artists whose style you like. I mean, I've commissioned art from literal high schoolers, because there are great artists around even that young taking commissions.

It's a whole lot of fun getting to see art of your characters, I'll tell you that!

So I was having a ball the other day looking back at my old domain and websites I had in high school on the Wayback Machine, and I found that I actually had a page where I'd recorded a bunch of RP characters that I never would have been able to remember nowadays. So I thought I'd combine them with my more recent characters that I do remember, because why not? This is -- vaguely chronological. When I started on MU*s, I was like eight or nine, so some stuff is kind of hard to remember.

From about 1995-2005
Redwall MUCK: Amani, Kaelin, Tafietin, Viana, Maphis, Swarttin, Steelcuff, Vikrin
SnarlRPG (Beast Wars): Sleekpaw
The Lion King MUCK: Kodoa
PokeMUCK: Viana (Staff), Mewtwo
After Colony 195 (Gundam Wing): Lady Une
X-Men MUCK/X-Men Movieverse MOO: Kelsey MacDougal, Renee Lambert

2009 Onwards
X-Men Movieverse: X-Factor (Formerly X-Men MUCK): Rosalind (Staff), Kelsey, Harrison, Jake, Brent, Adam, Richard
Second Pass (Pern): Sebastian
Steel & Stone (Game of Thrones): Banshee (Staff), Hardwicke, Rosanna
Mass Effect: Alpha & Omega: Roz (Staff), Alexei, Tau
Robots in Disguise (Transformers): Xandar (Staff), Knock Out, Grimlock, Flareup
Transformers: Lost & Found: Roz (Staff), Knock Out, Grimlock, Cyclonus
X-Factor (Marvel mutants post-X-Men): Roz (Staff), Alexandra, Richard
Arx: Valkieri, Calarian 1.0, Insaya 2.0, Bastien
Fear & Loathing: Rafael
Valorous Domain: Baldessare
Spirit Lake: Garrett, Mateo
The Network: Tamsin

Current
Arx: Aleksei, Berenice

So there we go!

@deadculture said:

What I would like to see is a MUSH based on the same world as Guy Gavriel Kay's Lions of Al-Rasan, A Song for Arbonne, etc. It's close enough to some themes in our world's medieval era to make it easy to play, extremely low-magic and very engaging, if you ever read either of those books.

HELLO I AM HERE TO UPVOTE YOU TWENTY TIMES

When everything at work is crazy for WEEKS because of THE BIG THING and you get to the day and you've done the work and you finish it that morning and everything goes off without a hitch.

@Coin Yeah, we've done gdocs on games I've been on as well. Helps defeat timezones and general time deficits.

@Coin said:

@Roz said:

Man, and I came over to totally yell about why we couldn't have a 1984 game instead.

That's it. @Roz, we need to make a game where there are three warring nation-states, one based on 1984, one based on BNW, and one based on F451; and these societies are all warring with each other trying to figure out which one is the most dystopic and can crush their citizens's sense of self more efficiently and with less dissidence. (It's a very cold war.)

We can call it Dystopia³.

I wish I could upvote this more than once.

Man, and I came over to totally yell about why we couldn't have a 1984 game instead.

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The year is 2045. Advancing technology has given us aircars, interactive holodisplays, and medigel. There are over 200,000 mutants in New York City alone.

In the past several decades, public opinion and public policy has turned steadily against mutant-kind. The government's attempt at a mutant spy force went up in flames five years ago after a disaster that destroyed most of Staten Island. Following the death of Charles Xavier last year, the vigilantes known as the X-Men have recently agreed to disband in order to keep Xavier's School - now run by the state - an open haven for adolescent mutants. New York's mutants largely live in the ghettoized Mutant Town, the only place happy to rent to and employ mutants.

This is the world that has helped to form Revelation, the mutant terrorist group that's embraced violence beyond anything the Brotherhood ever caused.

This is the world that has forced mutants from all walks of life together to form X-Factor Solutions, a Mutant Town business that offers whatever mutant services its employees can offer. They'll find your lost car keys... or provide highly-skilled bodyguards. Or anything in between, as long as you're paying.

The world may want to reject them. But that doesn't mean it doesn't /need/ them.

X-Factor is a brand new second-generation X-Men movieverse game with a cyberpunk feel. We are a roleplay-focused game with a friendly atmosphere and a playerbase that loves to hang out and chat. We use Faraday's FS3 system for chargen and combat.

Get in on the ground floor! X-Factor Solutions opens its doors soon!

There was totally another around before I hit Steel & Stone, but I can't for the life of me remember.

@tragedyjones said:

All white people have to watch Breaking Bad.

CAN'T MAKE ME

aka i probably will someday but i haven't gotten around to it

@Apu said:

Wouldn't be surprised if the people opening this were the same people who ran the other GoT/GoT-like games. Hope this one will stick and not implode.

Probably not the Steel & Stone crew -- I was of that number and still chat with most of the other staffers, so I likely would have heard. But possibly one of the others! I know there was a lot of chatter about starting a new GoT game after the last hubbub of conversation about GoT games in general. Or I guess possibly other S&S people that I'm not still in contact with.

Flight delays.

No, American Airlines, I don't want to change my connection to 6am from my connecting city of Chicago. Yes, please just leave me in the city where my friend actually is for another day instead.

Like it or not, there's a lot of RP going on on other mediums that sometimes can and will adapt well to MU*s if you give them some guidance, but we've got a bit of a barrier to entry. The games I staff on don't have an actual room on the game with the very basics of commands that @Three-Eyed-Crow mentioned, but we have that on our wiki, which is more easy to navigate for MU newbies anyways. And we've got client guides for SimpleMU and Atlantis for folks who have never used these programs before.

I think Tumblr RP confuses the hell out of most longtime MU RPers -- or at least me and most of my MU friends -- but it's where a lot of RP has gone and my games advertise there. And while the returns are not huge, we've gotten at least a few really cool people who just needed some guidance on the basics to get started and then were great.

Dammit. I only played about five minutes of Hakkon before wandering off, haven't bought the Deep Roads one yet, but this one looks cool.

If you like robots in your sci-fi, I staff on Transformers: Lost and Found which will, in fact, eventually have Firan's combat system installed (with permission). Our code-wiz Pax (Sparks on here) has just been crazed with RL.

I'm also working on a future Marvel mutants game on a general movieverse timeline that'll be using Faraday's system which will be open in a couple weeks.