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Robert Conrad

https://losangeles.cbslocal.com/2020/02/08/report-actor-robert-conrad-dies-at-84/

@Ghost said in Tyche Banned:

Tyche didnt really seem to have interest in interfacing with anyone constructively on the forum. He mostly just haunted political threads to ruffle feathers using superskeeeery alt-rightisms to watch people's reactions. Not surprised to see this, but ultimately I question why he wasted his time to begin with.

For the only reason that matters to people like that: personal lulz.

Kraft Mac & Cheese (with hot dogs cut up)
Top Ramen
Instant Oatmeal
Chicken Noodle Soup
Chef Boyardee Ravioli
Hormel Chili
Hot Pockets

Done with The Witcher. Over, it was good. The time jumps made it hard to absorb the lore, for someone that's never played the game before. But, looks like that's not going to be an issue for Season 2. Jaskeir is now my Bardic ideal...

On to Season 2 of Lost In Space

Came across my Facebook feed: 2020 Democratic Candidates as RPGs...

https://mobile.twitter.com/leftoblique/status/1207397691174440960

Once the holidays are over, my regular TT group will be back in action. Homebrew campaign. I'm playing a 7th level Human Rogue with the Arcane Trickster subclass. With the Misty Step & Shadowblade spells and a Wand of Magic Missile.

Loving playing a Burst DPS. I've been 1-shotting a lot of the lieutenant-tier charactes we face, and hitting even the boss-tier enemies hard.

Very interesting idea. I'm not a coder, but I had a similar structuring idea a while back in thinking of a Comic Book Multiverse concept. Most of the time, the Universes would remain separate with their own list of characters, so you could have multiple versions and interpretations of, say, Superman, Captain America, Thor, Batman, etc., across the Network. Each Universe would also have it's own staff to run things and enforce theme/concept. So, you could have Universes like: mixed Marvel/DC, pure Marvel, pure DC, Marvel Cinematic Universe, DC Movie-verse, X-Men movies, Arrow-verse, Young Justice, Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes, Earth-2 DC, Ultimate Marvel, and so on. Every so often, there would be cross-over events.

@Jaded I'm waiting to hear if there's anything even remotely like a lootbox system, regardless of what they call it, or forced multi-player before I buy Fallen Order or any other EA game.

Are you using the old website & address for the relaunch?

+1 for Mukluk

@bored Actually, in the show, the main brothel is based out of an old, multi-story hotel. Not like 40 workers there, but definitely around 2 dozen.

Also, there's always the option of a player establishing their own, rival business.

And while the series is heavily social and personal-story themed, there's still a good amount of action and politics in it as well. Black market. Smuggling in refugees. Fenian-style uprisings. Murder mysteries. Magic is more in the background than all-pervasive.

@Arkandel And, as I mentioned before, the ramifications for those could be...

-Any print shop used to make the propaganda burns down. No print shop wants to work with the PC, now
-As word gets around that the girlfriend is a vocal 'critch lover', the financial connections start drying up or no longer responding to her requests
-Vandalism of the character's house (rocks & bricks thrown through windows; nasty, flaming bags of manure flung) while the speech/fundraiser is going on. Or it's only PC's that attend the event; no NPC's attend, so the PC is only 'preaching to the choir' and won't change any minds.

Now, the point isn't to discourage PC's from trying to change the status quo, but to show that the status quo won't be changed so easily. Societal advancements can occur, but they'll be small victories; sometimes Pyrrhic ones, and always requiring sacrifices. You won't get voting rights for fae, but maybe you can overturn a curfew proclamation that only applies to the fae.

@Arkandel Yeah, that's going to take a fairly strong 'Storyteller' hand on the part of Staff to maintain the theme. Like 'mysterious' robberies, vandalisms, and physical attacks on the enlightened PC's and their property. Also, social ostracism by NPC's.

However, then you run into the problem of attracting players that want to run a 'KKK' faction to do all that stuff....

@The-Sands I understand that the proposal regarding speech OOC is more 'on-hands' than many people prefer, but IMO, there needs to be a set of hard limits when it comes to a game where, by the nature of it's theme, people can come in and start gaslighting, as we've seen before.

If the OOC restrictions become too much of an issue, an 'anything goes' com channel can always be added.

@Ghost Believe, I've been thinking about all those aspects you've mentioned and how they can derail things. At the same time, keeping it Fae-centric only would deny some of the really well-done 'redemption' arc stories that people can come up with.

So, just some further thoughts....

1. Keep the setting, ditch the main characters. I'm a firm believer of letting the players be the prime movers of a game's story. And if everything is being done by a small number of FC's, which is a necessity for a TV/Movie series, you get player squabbles over 'first come' FC's, others 'not playing the character right', idle times, and so on.

2. Limit human characters to 1 or 2 per player, and you have to have a fae character before creating a human, then 3 fae characters before you can app a second human. That maintains the fae/human interactions, but limits the amount of human focus in favor of the Fae.

3. Very strict rules regarding OOC language and conduct. As in, no use of 'modern' slurs, period; no use of setting slurs outside of the grid; alongside the standard Wheaton's Law prevailing rule. Yes, there will be those that complain about 'free speech' and 'oppressive rules'; in my mind they're free to go elsewhere. Building a game means building a community; building a community means agreeing to a certain set of shared social behaviors.

@Arkandel Well, there's lots of intriguing possibilities. Including the fact that there's 2 whole other continents besides Tir-Na-Noc and the one the Burgue is on.Other potential cities to be based in. Lots of faction (Constabulary, Black Raven, the Hidden One cult of the Fauns. You can also frame any interesting historical issue of the Edwardian period into the game; the Faeries, at least, are an obvious expy for the Irish at the time, so toss in some Fenians and'the Irish Question' in that context. Also, the conflict between the Burgue and the Pact (a little more Spanish-Inquisition-y human group on the same continent).

So, the answer is: really, anything that makes a fantasy version of that time period interesting.

@The-Sands Understandable, and I understand about the precision aspect.

So, the idea was bounced around in another thread about a MU based on the Amazon series Carnival Row; all about fae and humans in a fantasy Edwardian England. I'm sure that interested parties are working on adaptations using Changeling (Dreaming or Lost), but apparently, there's an official free RPG from Monte Cook using the Cypher System.

https://nerdist.com/article/carnival-row-rpg-download-free/

@Ghost Right. I wasn't saying that Star Wars was outside that collective, just that those problems aren't unique to Star Wars games.

@Ghost Those are also the issues with literally every fandom game: comics, Trek, WoD...