Also, another great world builder is Robert Heinlein. He's able to make a believable world in a singular work, which seems to function and act on its own accord and how the reader supposes it should without having to stretch it out into multiple books. You can see this in The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress, and even in Starship Troopers.
But yeah, about Bump In The Night...
(It's raining in California, by the way. Thought everyone should know.)
I took a class in college on Tolkien, specifically on the Lord of the Rings cycle and the Silmarillion. I had read Tolkien when I was a kid and, upon reading it as an adult, realized how dry and boring a lot of it is. He's great at world-building, for sure. I agree with @Arkandel there, but as a writer~
What systems in particular? Like V20? Or were you thinking more M20 (or multisphere)?
I hate that, absolutely hate it. When I was writing more and getting paid for it, I would get the same question. "So what's your day job?" Mind you, I did have one, but it wasn't my real focus in life -- wasn't what I wanted to do at all. It seems like the creative community in general is just completely discounted. When my wife was doing pretty well with her music (some of it's getting sampled on the new IAMX album, if you're into them, by the way), she'd still get that same question. I don't understand it at all. Why can't your passion be your day job? What makes us assume that in order to have a "job," you need to be locked in a cubicle or office 9 hours a day (or more)? Meh.
You can't be told about how cool Exalted is; you have to be shown. </morpheus>
But seriously, the game's an eastern fantasy-based system that incorporates a lot of anime-like systems into a very rich and detailed world. All of the splats from WoD are there in some fashion if you squint a bit, and there's so much lore that it's one of the fullest games I've ever played. Plus, you get bonus dice for describing your actions in a cool way (stunt dice). The character types (Exalts) are all very different from one another with a lot of history built into them.
Redemption's a big theme for the Solar Exalted, who went crazy at the end of the First Age and started committing great depravities on humans and other Exalts alike. They were ousted by the Dragon-Blooded (Terrestrial Exalted) who seek to remain in power. I'm not sure about 3rd Ed, but in 2nd Ed, the leader of the Dragon-Blooded had just come back from the Yomi Hells and was basically made into an evil, evil creature.
Protecting creation is another big theme, since you've got the Deathlords and their Abyssal Exalted, and the Fair Folk on the edges of Creation in the Wyld. So you have to be a big damn hero and save the world, more or less. It's just fun, and doesn't have the grind that D&D does, nor the inherent WHY ME that WoD does.
Also to be clear: this person is not an ex. We met when I was 12, at a week long summer camp, and he was 17. I exchanged 2 or 3 letters with him--and then had no contact written or otherwise for..30 years.
Honestly, that is creepy as fuck. Both that a 17 year old would exchange letters with a 12 year old, and that he would come back as a 47 year old trying to find the now-older 12 year old he wanted to bang in his later teen years. I'm sorry you had to go through that.
@Ganymede said in FATE/Disapora/Similar:
@Lithium said in FATE/Disapora/Similar:
CoD is actually a fairly solid system if you remove all the supernatural splats and abilities from it. As mortal only it's fairly balanced.
I concur.
Indeed.
Yeah, I usually don't look at wikis until I'm mid-scene, especially if someone's @desc is like "He is a tall man with eyes and a face" so they could get approved.
My normal RP thing is to throw myself into every possible plot I can, then usually find the people I met in those plots and see if they're available, and make use of my clan/covenant/court/sphere channels as a last resort.
Now that it's out, I should probably pick up the PDF. I initially supported the Kickstarter, but ran out of money right before the end of it. Soooo... Tell us more. 
Maybe guys would feel scared in that way though, dunno.
The first year I was married (so about 9 years ago), someone I knew from my early college years figured out where I was and contacted me. Without getting into heavy detail about my life back then or anything, she caused a lot of problems and wound up showing up on our doorstep through the traditional methods of stalking before the Facebook era. She even made an overture that I had to choose my late wife over her. I was more angry than scared, and it all started because my job at the time kept an employee listing with employee pictures on their website.
@Ataru Any time, sir! I am super excited for the possibility of a new Dune game, and if you need any help~
I adore @Bennie's idea and would play that in a heartbeat, myself. You should also check out the video game "Walk of the Living," which is more or less FTL but with zombies and post apocalyptic stuff than spaceships.
I could see how it'd work. Instead of splats like Vampire and the like, you could replace with House, Tlielaxu, Bene Gesserit, etc., and do minor modifications to merits. Sword based fighting styles could sub in for the swordmasters of ginaz, and you could retain most of the skills without having to adjust for much. Computer would still be relevant despite the lore regarding thinking machines following the Butlerian Jihad.
I could see using some powers from the splats and converting them into purchased powers. Obfuscate 1/4 could become a power used by face changers that could just come as part of that template. Dominate could be slightly altered to fit the Bene Gesserit voice and powers of suggestion. Things like Status could be used for noble rank. If you set a cap on nobility for, say, barons below the faction leader -- you could set it so that Status 1 (Atreides) might mean a squire or non-landed knight. Status 2 being a knight, 3 being a baronette, 4 being baron, and 5 as the leader of the faction in your lore (Count, for example).
Combat is typically quick if you have a decent st running stuff and people setting up poses before their turns. I could see it working pretty well, myself.
Edit to add: on my phone. Sorry for typos and the like.
I shall look around my external to see if I still have the decomps from the place! If not, you could definitely use CoD as a baseline and that code's pretty easy to find these days. Theno has his on git, iirc.
@Glitch and I were working on something Fate 3.0 before my life went from normal to insane mode about two years ago. Maybe he's still got it laying about and would be cool with sharing it?
It looks like we've got a motley crew of potential staffers ready to make Mop Crusade MUX between the three of us.
All you need are some good chemistry recipes and a zamboni and you're doin' fine.
But yes, I'd be fully down with playing on an original sci-fi game where all of the big damned heroes/Lords of the Universe are concerned about saving the station and fighting off the aliens while the players are mostly just regular dudes/ettes fixing the intercom, mopping the floors, occasionally beating a bug monster to death with said mop, and so on.
Having seen the first bit of this show, I can safely say it'd work well on a MUSH.
"Hey guys, let's go do all this constructive stuff and make sure that we're safe and have shelter, and collect food and supp-"
"NO LET'S ALL FIGHT AND FUUUUUUCK~"
