Posts made by Sunny

@Ganymede said in Dead Celebrities 2020:

@Quinn

There are very few people of that age who aren't really cringe-worthy.

And yet there aren't that many of them that go on the record as saying that sometimes women just need to be beaten.

It looks like The Trove library has Scion stuff; not linking directly, but it's easy to find. Buy the books if you use them a lot.

Taking baby kitty to the vet for her very first visit in like 5 minutes. I am a bundle of anxiety right now. She walked into the crate and went to sleep when I put it on the floor, having never seen it before. She is NOT a bundle of anxiety right now. eeeeeeeeeee.

eta: covid means they are going to take her awaaaaaaaay and I won't get her back til they're done. WHAT IF SHE GETS SCARED?!

listening to somebody try to lead to a specific answer for a question in a group discussion, rather than just telling people the answer. "what should you do in X...." when what they really want to say is "in the future, don't do Y". One takes two hours because NOBODY IS PICKING UP YOUR HINTS, and the other takes two fucking seconds. None of us can figure out what you want to hear, but it's REALLY FUCKING CLEAR you are looking for a specific answer.

turns out video game music really does help my concentration--

someday I will take less than "a few years" to listen to advice.

(that is a dirty lie)

I should also say that this question was "from staff", so that's where my answers are coming from. I agree entirely with those commenting that the most important thing is having other players engaged and interested in what you're running.

Staff doesn't really provide/engage with that beyond the policy level, but they DO engage with it: by clearly demonstrating that staff encourages PRPs and considers them to be a valid way to interact with the world. If staff make it clear by providing a solid framework for people to run plots, creates tools for people to do so, and incorporates information from those plots into their game resolution/IC communication methods, it makes it clear to the other players that PRPs are valid. If prps are valid, PRP runners will be engaged with by interested people. If you build it, they WILL come.

eta: emphasis on the fact that I did not name specific tools. it doesn't matter what the tools are. you just have to have clearly made tools for people to use. the effort here is literally what matters.

@Arkandel

Yeah, I think it's very important to frame this sort of policy as what's possible, rather than what's not allowed.

"You MAY use up to X or Y" rather than "You MAY NOT use over X or Y" provides the framework people need without being discouraging.

eta: (NO guidance is far worse than BAD guidance; choice paralysis and having absolutely no idea if staff is going to come down on you for something because you're guessing -- oh boy)

@Misadventure

There are a lot of other things involved that are useful and helpful, and I'm absolutely not speaking to all of them. This isn't an all-encompassing list, but these were examples themselves, to illustrate the "you need clearly defined policies surrounding PRPs" as the #1 most important thing to have. It literally does not matter WHAT the policies themselves are, they just need to support your game and be clear.

As far as "what are my limits", I am speaking to policy limits. Is there a power level cap for antagonists? Are there theme issues that I am not allowed to use? Can I kill PCs? If there's limits or rules around what a PRP runner can or can't do, they need to be clear. If there AREN'T limits, that also needs to be clear.

Very clear rules for both runners and those participating is my top need.

What is or is not PRP-acceptable?
What are my limits?
What power level am I allowed to use for NPCs?
What do I have to submit for approval?
Do I even NEED approval, or can I grab four buddies and hit a PRP room?
What do I do if somebody is disruptive?
What do I do if someone is mean?
When can I kick somebody out of my prp, and what do I have to do OOCly if I do that?

Not all encompassing, but having these SORTS of things defined -- having a framework and clear expectations -- makes it FAR easier to run plots. There is nothing better you can do than providing clarity. Other things are also useful, but this makes the largest impact.

Hour and a half until EA on BG3. I think the waiting is going to kill me. I took today off from work for this. So excited.

@mietze

I am so relieved. Congrats!!

ROFL.

@bear_necessities said in Is this hobby on it's last legs?:

Anyway, we have had this discussion like 300000000 times. The hobby isn't dying. The tentpole games are out there. Ares has several active games.

Like clockwork. It's September, of course we're having this conversation again. It literally happens every single September on this board and all previous mush tabloids.

ETA: Next one is scheduled for late November-early December, when the holidays hit, and after that, it will happen again over Spring Break, and then once more in June. Then we'll have it again next September. Almost like it's predictable based on some esoteric, strange, mystical and unknowable (school) schedule, the death of this hobby.

Fallcoast (nWoD) and City of Hope (oWoD) are the current tentpole games that I'm aware of. For text-based mmo, Arx -- highly active, lots of people. Lots of awesome smaller games out there too, which people are linking to.

Be aware that the culture in general in the last few years has shifted dramatically on most games away from competitiveness and towards collaboration, and there are a lot of behaviors that people used to get away with that folks will now HANDLE if you report them to staff!

The coworker that always laughs at my jokes is on vacay for a week.

Team meeting calls are really awk atm, let me tell you.

I'm cold.

If I turn my heater on it will be too hot.

sigh.

@Ominous

I am so happy to hear it!!!

@Roz

fucking laundry. we stop smelling ourselves after a certain point anyway, right? it's not like we have to worry about going out in PUBLIC. why do clothes still need to be clean? can anyone tell me that?

why is EVERYTHING so hard right now? literally everything. getting a cup of tea is a mountain I'm not sure I have the energy to climb. stupid.

eta: what's NOT hard? complaining about it, lol.