Posts made by Sunny

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If you're out and about around here (I cannot keep track of peoples' names here) PM me.

Totally not retired any more. Update time was a while ago, but hey!

KD: Emma, Evelyn, maybe another alt or two
Whispers in the Dark (BUFFY YAY): Victoria

I also played Rae@FtA.

Gwen is pretty much the bomb. I hope she shows up around here; she occasionally did pop in on WORA. Great lady, great coder. Once upon a time back when I could code, it was her stuff that I tore apart to figure out how it worked. Good stuff. Thanks for posting the link!!

@Corruption I don't mind; people express their hopes that things get better in different ways, and I'd never tell somebody they couldn't do something they thought would help. I appreciate the willingness to think of me.

Open Door sounds like it needs to have some unexplained spontaneous combustion happening, for srs. I feel so blessed with our local transit stuff, hearing horror stories like this. Uuuuugh.

@BetterJudgment said:

@Jeshin said:

Character Concept Contest (any setting, genre, or game)
http://optionalrealities.com/forums/index.php?topic=198.0

This might be the breakout contest for musoapbox users to take 1st, 2nd, and 3rd. No more pesky restrictions or game mechanics in it. Just good old character pitching.

Does this include character descriptions? I've managed to dig up a classic one I might want to flesh out and submit. (I think the character's name was Ishtar.)

I love you so hard right now.

I love you guys, thanks. I know it's just a signal of where I am right now, but reading all y'all saying horrible things about them is rather cathartic, and CERTAINLY makes me feel vindicated. I totally got a laugh out of it, too.

It sucks, it's awful, they're pretty wretched people, but like I used to tell my mom before she passed? At least I don't have to wake up and be them every morning. They have to live with themselves, and they are always going to be awful people. They'll miss out on SO MUCH good, being that way.

@WTFE said:

Why do the son and the daughter-in-law think they have a claim on the wedding ring over the husband who actually fucking bought the thing and was wed with the woman? These people need 9mm parabellum of pain relief straight into the brainpan.

Oh, it gets way better than this.

My dad PHYSICALLY MADE THE RING for her.

So, the whole blow-up with my sibling and his wife was over my mom's wedding ring. They wanted it -- apparently took it off of her just after she passed -- and my dad said 'no, give it back', and explosion. The reasoning behind my being an awful person is that I apparently did not make my dad give it to them nao.

@Kosh

You are awesome. What sort of help are you going to need? I'm pretty much tapped out for resources personally right now, but I still have the ability to hunt folks down to help. So! What do you neeeeeeeeed to assist in getting it off the ground? Please do. I miss Siobhan.

@Kosh

Please do. Another OGR sort of place would be fantastic. Just make sure it's more OGR and less Mu-Gateway and Storyteller's Circle.

@Arkandel said:

@Sunny said:

It's not. But it could very easily be used to cheat. Easily.

Well, sure it could, but so what? If I'm surrounded by friends having fun, is it really important if the ST faked a botch to add drama to the scene?

What's important is for me to have fun, not my character. In fact most of the time those two goals are mutually exclusive.

Can someone please explain to me why this does not apply to mushing?

@Arkandel said:

I never felt the screen was there to allow the ST to cheat

It's not. But it could very easily be used to cheat. Easily.

@Tempest said:

@Coin said:

@Sunny said:

How do you feel about your tabletop ST rolling dice behind a screen vs on the table without a screen?

Seriously. Hell, I had +roll/blind installed on The Reach when I was staffing there, and use it a lot on Eldritch.

Anyone who can't trust me as a storyteller should not play in scenes I run. I will look at your sheet. I will gauge your character. I will roll stuff secretly and ask you to roll blind. I like to keep the suspense as on the table as possible, especially when I'm running horror.

Eh, this is definitely not my cup of tea. Not sure how visible rolls affects anything, and there's a mountain of reasons for why obfuscating rolls is potentially not the greatest idea. (For one, it reminds me of Firan.)

The only (debateably) good thing from hiding rolls is ooc surprise on the player's behalf.

I was very specifically asking about tabletop in person, in which you're sitting around a table with everyone. I am still asking.

When you're playing tabletop, with a few friends around the table, how do you feel about your DM/ST/etc rolling behind the Dungeonmaster's Screen (or any number of other words they use to describe that thing that is sold for almost every game that hides what the DM is doing from the players without hiding their face or making them move from the table).

@Ganymede said:

@Sunny said:

The level of ugly is ridiculous.

Again, I'm a horrible person, but perhaps you should laugh about it with your older brother. Because nothing pisses off horrible people more than laughing at their horribleness. Except for me, of course: I'm a horrible clown. I want you to laugh along with me, as I pull you down to hell.

If they were willing to be in a room with me, absolutely. They aren't. I am almost to the point where I'm laughing about it in general, though.

@HelloRaptor said:

@Ganymede said:

@HelloRaptor said:

And set their own notes, and judge their own scenes. PVP even.

If it's just about trust, and you trust the people involved, these should be no problem. Maybe they aren't, to you. I personally see it as having to do with shit other than trust, but I appear to be in the minority here.

Sure. Make the +notes public. Make a 'log or it didn't happen' policy. Transparency helps to build trust.

Of course, no. Why do that? Let's just stick to the way we've been doing shit for years, pretending that players can't trust staff, and vice versa.

You're right. All the games should do that. Everyone will be completely reassured and we can all live happily in an ideal paradise. I look forward to the day that the world embraces that ideal, and we can have referees playing on one of the teams they're officiating for. Because as long as they're trustworthy, there's no possible way their direct involvement could influence their calls.

I was a fool to have doubted your vision.

How do you feel about your tabletop ST rolling dice behind a screen vs on the table without a screen?

@Ganymede said:

@HelloRaptor said:

And set their own notes, and judge their own scenes. PVP even.

If it's just about trust, and you trust the people involved, these should be no problem. Maybe they aren't, to you. I personally see it as having to do with shit other than trust, but I appear to be in the minority here.

Sure. Make the +notes public. Make a 'log or it didn't happen' policy. Transparency helps to build trust.

Of course, no. Why do that? Let's just stick to the way we've been doing shit for years, pretending that players can't trust staff, and vice versa.

This. A thousand times this. We really need to start treating one another like trustworthy adults, and then deal with the people that end up abusing that swiftly and permanently.

@Ganymede

Thanks, Gany. I'm not sure that I'm really the better person; I'm letting them both walk, and I'm not going to chase. If they ever want a relationship again, they can come to me. The level of ugly is ridiculous. I found out today it wasn't just me though; they have torn into my other brother and his wife as well (for the same reason -- we all told the sister-in-law that her hatred had no business in any of this) and said they won't have anything to do with them either, and that my brother and her will never be coming out here again.

Something tells me that will change when my father passes, but if I don't hear from them at all until then, you can bet I'm not going to be particularly understanding of their absence. The really sad thing is that I think the reason the fits are being thrown is because my dad refused to give them anything of mom's that they could pawn for cash. They were allowed to take any sort of memory anything, but nothing they could just go sell. Because obvious reasons.

@HelloRaptor said:

@Sunny

WoD is one thing, but this is actually dramatically different in several other genres. It's not an entirely reasonable issue across the board -- it might be entirely reasonable within the context of the games you enjoy/play on/play in, but it's nowhere near as universal as you're presenting it.

WoD, D&D, Pathfinder, Shadowrun, basically any game where potentially lethal conflict is pretty common.

D&D is included in here, as well as Pathfinder. Pern.. Many many original fantasy mushes. This is a cultural difference, it is not universal. And guess what? These games don't have the problems you're referring to, because the culture is vastly different.

My condolences. Like I said, there's going to be people for whom it's not an issue. If you're one of them, more power to you.

Uh, why? Condolences? I've no need for those. You're accusing Coin of ignoring shit while doing the exact same thing yourself. You are referring to a personal preference, here. A very specific genre of mushes have this culture, but it is not universal, and I'm not some weird exception in those other genres. That's just how they are. It's not 'a few people' don't have issues with it, it's a whole host of non-WoD players. You're wrong, man. This is your opinion, not fact, and again, it absolutely isn't universal. There's also no problem with that, just because you don't like it.

TR was used as an example because it's the single largest game that @Coin and I both played on the most recently. Since it's been a thing at basically every MU* and tabletop game I've ever played in, I could make the list more expansive, but I didn't think it was really necessary.

So, here's the deal, man. I am not saying that this isn't the case, that these aren't your experiences, that this isn't your opinion. I agree with you; in the WoD genre, this is how it is. What I am saying is that there are completely different mushing cultures out there that you apparently haven't been exposed to at all, and saying that this perspective is universal is flat out wrong. It happens on other games, and it works on other games. Quite well, with everyone having plenty of fun.

Since you're just ignoring shit and repeating yourself, I'll bow out.

Pot. Kettle. Black.

@HelloRaptor

WoD is one thing, but this is actually dramatically different in several other genres. It's not an entirely reasonable issue across the board -- it might be entirely reasonable within the context of the games you enjoy/play on/play in, but it's nowhere near as universal as you're presenting it. It's rather the norm in at least two genres, every LARP game I've ever played in/was a storyteller for, and I'd say in 75% of the tabletop games I've played, the GM has a character in it. .

People bitching on TR really shouldn't be used as a litmus for something being reasonable or not.

Edited to add: As an example, I played on a game for a while that to get certain abilities, you had to run the plot for yourself / your character and include other people. This is far less cut and dry than presented.