Posts made by saosmash

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@Coin I like it.

@Coin It's a lot easier these days since a lot of my appstaffing is in re: Transformers.

@mietze Ooh! Are you in the child welfare system? I am too! I do parent rep in dependencies. And I find it amazing how little idea people have about how being an orphan actually works in this day and age considering how much they want to app orphans all the time.

I tend to discourage people apping sex workers generally, though, because it's a topic I insist be handled respectfully, and most people in RP don't really do that.

Sometimes when I am playing a character with a law background (it's the canon's fault not mine I swear) I have requests to translate my poses out of legalese and into English. To everyone that this has happened to, I apologize.

IC conflict =/= OOC conflict.

You can -- and I do -- RP out conflict with another character while both players are gleefully clutching each other and cackling over how terrible it is. It's not PvP. PvP is when your goals oppose those of another player and you are working against each other's IC goals.

RP without IC conflict is boring. RP without OOC conflict is the only RP I want to have.

@lithium It's just factually untrue that in all MU**s ever there is always PvP. Players can cooperate with each other to create story in a PvE setting where nobody hates each other. Even players who don't like each other that much can still cooperate, not unlike coworkers with a common goal.

@bored I use meta a lot, but usually it's to make fun of my own characters or to add much-needed levity to a pose that would otherwise be too much sturm and drang. Esp when I am playing the lawful good paladin whose weapon of choice is the crossbow of regulatory minutiae with the a quiver full of the bolts of red tape, sometimes you gotta do something to remind people that you've got a sense of humor even if your character does not.

I also sometimes will spend more time describing a physical action, but only when I'm deliberately drawing attention to something in my character's body language that might otherwise be revealing -- I hate thought posing, but if I think my character's mood is readable, I use his physical body to betray the details for people who feel like paying attention to that kind of crap. IDK. There's no set rule of NEVER SPEND EXTRA WORDS but I share the antipathy to length for its own sake. It's not the size that counts, it's technique! And so on.

I also find it fun when I'm running a scene if someone does something uniquely cool and has an applicable skill on their +sheet, I'll ask them to +roll it, and then I'll add their successes as a modifier to the combat roll -- so for example, if you have acrobatics on your sheet and you do a cool flip while you're shooting at people, I'll give you the acrobatics roll's mod on the combat roll. This is a dumb example because acrobatics doesn't actually help you shoot at people, but generally I just want to find ways to use code toys to actively reward players who are posing creatively.

This feeds back into the one time I played Seventh Sea and it was amazing -- I just love being able to give players a little something extra back if they give me a little something extra first.

@mietze OK, I loled.

You know what's worse than nodding and smiling? 'X ohs and nods.' 'X ohs and smiles softly.'

Fuck. That's not even a verb! (╯°□°)╯︵ ┻━┻

And just once I want to smile loudly.

You don't need six lines to nod and smile as a decent pose. But if a nod and a smile is your only pose, are you giving your rp partner enough to work with? Clearly it depends on the nod and smile!

We've frequently had a coded diceword to verify rolls. I've never seen someone actually try to spoof a dice roll, though.

COOL NEWBIES ARE THE BEST.

Yeah, I mean, people with unhealthy relationships with each other using MU** as a way to punish/manipulate/otherwise damage their already unhealthy relationship is shitty to everyone, both the partner in question and the innocent bystanders. That said, I think to assume that the shitty behavior is coming just because people happen to be a couple in RL is probably a mistake.

@Arkandel said:

@saosmash said:

"You can't do that" is a terrible thing to have to say as a GM.

There's however a flipside to it - the player who believes they can do anything if only they make some form of roll. Anything at all.

Encounter a completely new supernatural phenomenon with zero information about it? Let me roll wits+occult-5+willpower (when they know on average they'll get at least one success this way).

When it comes to IC actions there's nothing my players can't try. But there is very much such a thing as a task they can't - at the time - succeed at.

That is a very annoying but true corollary -- "I can so do that" is basically players asserting "you're not the boss of me" and there are times a gamerunner needs to crack down. I am bad at this and it's why I very rarely run for my tabletop group anymore (a more rowdy and rambunctious group of purposeful derailers you never did see).

I guess you could say it's a balance.

"You can't do that" is a terrible thing to have to say as a GM. I feel like the longer I do this the more I learn to deal with players running off on tangents I don't expect and I'd so much rather come out at the end of a TP with a story we built together than force the herd of cats to do what I want. It's definitely something that has taken some learning, though, since I started.

I don't fudge rolls without telling players I'm doing it, i.e., OK I'm disregarding the results of that roll, and I'm not doing it unless someone's dice are ruining what would otherwise be a super cool moment. I.e., @roz can't fucking roll to snipe a shot to save her life.

Couples who play together are just people with a close connection to another person. I game with several of my very best friends -- I don't imagine I would be less inclined to treat a spouse or boyfriend with more affection and consideration than I do a BFF.

I was playing on Pern games via AOL -- we RPed primarily in chat rooms and on email mailing lists, spammy as hell -- and some of my friends went to this thing called a MOO, so I followed them. This was in 1999 or so.