Posts made by SquirrelTalk

For my money I'm more interested in Cyberpunk 20XX/RED/whathaveyou as a setting than I am with Shadowrun.

@ominous shrug! I didn't think people with important titles married each other, generally. Just hadn't thought about it much.

@ominous I'd assume they'd inherit the title of whichever person involved in their procreation had the title, and marriage would still be important, but admittedly I haven't thought through the gritty details.

I also like the idea of a kind of Demon/Magic Realm L&L game, whether the tone is full on anime or what. Vampires and orcs and fairies and elves, demons who are either monstrous or suspiciously human looking in appearance; friggin... cat people or whatnot. Could be fun.

I suppose you could just eliminate gender as a concept. Have everyone functionally capable of both ends of procreation. Tends to draw a very female-body-oriented kind of playerbase, but.

So far I just do it because:

A) The client is easier to keep at hand than one tab among many.

B) Ares, to my knowledge, can't currently be programmed to highlight certain words and names in a different color.

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C) It also, to my knowledge, can't be programmed to make sound notifications when certain words appear in the client to let me know someone trying to get my attention or whatnot.

That and it lets me connect to ares games and non-ares games on the same client, though I'm not sure how big a factor that is necessarily.

Introducing live speech/vr into RP sounds incredibly awkward, especially if your voice doesn't, uh, fit your character. Also it makes it kinda tricky to do awesome combat poses or describing things happening. That stuff's fine for tabletop games, but the average 'run plots and RP isolated scenes' superhero mush would be weeeeiiiirrrd.

Really I think we just need A) A new thing that lets us more or less what we do on MUs, but with better/more convenient functionality, and B) find some way for people to actually find out about that thing when/if it exists.

@zombiegenesis No need to be defensive, I wasn't attacking you. You presented an idea, and I pointed out what I perceived to be flaws in the idea; that's all.

That said, streaming the matches would take a lot of time; to say nothing of the time spent on recreating their characters and moves in the create-a-character. And 2K games can't have intergender matches, which would be prohibitive. And, again, I don't care for the randomized outcomes that would result. At that point you're not really playing a competitor so much as talking trash between livestreams.

Though there IS a market for that! https://www.twitch.tv/edwardbosco Runs 2K wrestling shows usually once or twice a week using chat's created characters, and they roleplay a bit in the chat. It seems like good fun.

But I wouldn't attach a MUSH to it.

I'd also encourage people to have lots of alt characters, not just for variety, but so they can fill the roster with good guys and bad guys and varied gimmicks; and always have people on hand even just for unimportant matches if their 'main' character is wrapped up in a big feud or something. I think I'd let everyone have one (but only one) big scary 'monster' character if they want one; and I'd encourage people to also have/emit/spoof characters that are managers/valets, referees or interviewers just so they can always have some kind of role; even if referees would otherwise just be a mechanic of the system.

@carma Shit talking, physical assaults, cheating during matches, corrupt officials; combatants momentarily BECOMING officials with agendas, partnerships forming and then imploding into violence, evil stables that take power over the wrestling organization; all kinds of good stuff in a world where a pull-apart brawl or protracted beat down could reasonably erupt over the slightest act of disrespect or misunderstanding.

@zombiegenesis Using a video game is A) Impractical because even the people who can afford/want to get it will have to jump through hoops to play with each other, and B) Not ideal because it robs the match of personality or drama and becomes a random number generator in regards to move and outcomes.

There are tabletop RPG systems specifically for playing out wrestling matches, and, frankly, I think if people have a very specific idea of what they want to have happen/what they want the outcome to be, they should be free to freeform it as well; with the system in place for whatever combination of fairness and outcome resolution they could be good for.

I have random smatterings of ideas for a system, but they aren't really coagulated into a coherent whole, and hell if I'd know how to code them, much less create and test them.

@il-volpe At least, in the ideal game in my head, they are. If by some miracle someone actually makes a Pro Wrestling MU, they could always decide to do it differently. I'd give pretty much anything a try at this point, but I think the characters actually being their characters is the most fun way to go for non-match scenes.

I think my main case against wanting a hyper crazy 'in the future there is only wrestling to settle internation/interstellar conflicts' route is... I'd like a wrestling game to feel like a good wrestling show/story. I feel like crazy alternate takes are best suited for after the basics prove successful somewhere.

In my experience, the broadly defined 'social scenes' work best when they incorporate/reflect on/build on current goings on, plots, and relationships that are developing, or that people have been affected by. I've never really been able to overcome the awkwardness of just bumping into someone my character doesn't know somewhere without a OOC plan for what comes of it.

@il-volpe I haven't seen that show, but in this metaphor, she's Zoya.

@zombiegenesis I'd shoot for a middle ground, where the setting is relatively grounded and modern, but wrestling and the things that happen in it are totally real. Maybe with some insane bits, like a royal family who will only accept a prince as a worthy heir to the throne if they've accomplished something in Pro Wrestling.

I have a copy of Wild World Wrestling, which apparently used to be a WWF/WWE RPG in a previous edition, but I don't have a mind for how to translate mechanics to an MU.

There's at least one other Pro Wrestling tabletop RPG out there, but its name escapes me, and it treats Wrestling as just a show, and incorporates elements of the performers behind the wrestlers, which I don't want nearly as much.

Unrelatedly, I don't remember if I've said this before, but I'd go nuts for a Pro Wrestling mush. Loads of colorful characters with exaggerated issues that are all solved by fighting each other; an expectation that some good guys will become bad guys; and some bad guys will become good guys when convenient for the narrative/a good fued. The occasional wrestling undead mortician. It'd be awesome.

Are furries even still that stigmatized at this point? I feel like that's a holdover from the early aughts. At any rate, playing a different creature sounds more fun and creative than just playing tiny humans.

@de-villefort Dude, they're telling you to set up your social scenes so they HAVE a purpose. Talk with the other player about what you'd like to accomplish. Don't just go in with an order for a number three combo meal and a bad attitude. Put together scenes that make sense.

@de-villefort Loads of people love Superman. I know there'd be people who agree with you, but I think you're projecting a little bit.