@admiral said in Regarding administration on MSB:
I think the Mods are doing a fine job. If someone starts a thread talking about how something is 'worse than Hitler' in the constructive area I can't imagine why removing it would be a problem.
That is not the thread anybody is talking about.
Most of the dead characters seem to have notes of "killed or captured by TFV". Given the vagueness, I'm assuming those are the people who dared to commit the horrible crime of idling out and/or freezing. My character specifically just has "killed by hunters" and my character's ghoul got a "killed by something?" (lol). Some people just have "Suicided?"
Seems less about inspiring plot and more telling people to fuck off. But that's just my take. If someone perma-freezes to make another character, sure kill them. I don't think idling out warrants that, though.
35-40 XP is a fair bit in 2E. It lets you build a complete character though.
The problem with WoD is 'starting' characters are never complete. So unless everybody in the game is a babyvamp, it feels weird.
I like 40xp. But I also like zero further XP gain after that. You get 40xp. Make your character. The end.
My preference is not popular though.
On a different note, please don't ever let people go past 100xp.
100+ xp in 2E is just off to la la land.
There's so much shit you have to handwave for a MUSH to make sense, that I don't think "wow, Joe hasn't been around for 6 weeks AND IS SUDDENLY BACK" is anywhere near gamebreaking and doesn't warrant that sort of policy. You can go a year of actively playing a game pretty easily without meeting half the other characters anyways, most people aren't going to notice.
@ganymede said in POLL: Vampire Requiem 2E Settings/Theme:
The absence of any tangible activity reward also did not slow BSG:U or Fifth Kingdom.
Or every Comic MU ever.
I've never understood the dire need for 'growth' on WoD games.
@Misadventure said:
you would have to be saying I am lying to stand by your point that 100% of the time it is motivated by anger or anything other than story and setting needs.
If I wasn't clear, that is exactly what I'm saying.
If you are BFFs with Joe, and he up and disappears off the face of the planet, I'm completely confident you aren't going to randomly decide to kill off his character because 'omg plot'.
Faraday appears to be super mega invested in turning this into rainbow unicorn times. Way more invested than anybody willing to argue with her about why she's wrong, anyways. It's not worth the time.
I will reiterate that the people who have said the board will die without the "negative parts" are 100% correct.
And not because "omg eff u i will quit msb if I can't yell at people" or anything, I've just seen already what happens to forum after forum when they start getting censored or try to be 'havens of positivity'.
They die. Nobody cares about that stuff at least not on the 'check the forum once a day or so' kind of scale. Without the 'bad stuff' you lose the reason to pay regular attention to the board. The Faradays/etc will stop posting too, because there will not be "positive friendly helpful threads!" every day. There never are. Once people stop checking the board daily, and it becomes a "oh I haven't looked in a few days, let's see if anybody posted a constructive thread! ...nope they didn't", they eventually stop bothering to check entirely.
Been there, done that.
If you haven't been there and done that, IDK what internet you've been on, but you must be new.
@Glitch said:
@Tempest Games with open sheets and a focus on outside enemies are common, if you're not limiting yourself to WoD games. They seem to manage just fine.
I'm aware, and have played on some. However...I'm not sure I've seen such a game where the characters are by definition mostly asshole monsters that prey on other beings.
Off the top of my head, The Fifth World had open sheets and the focus was on a war against NPC aliens, but all the PCs were...humans that were all on the same side.
@thenomain said in Regarding administration on MSB:
Except that this is not a job.
If the example that you can work with people who you don’t get along with, then that’s great and we could use more of that.
Solving this is kind of a community thing.
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You know, Tempest, for someone who says they’re not demonizing Faraday, you are using her as the straw man for things people have been saying about Wora for over a decade. That is a little demonizing. There are a lot of things that’s could be said about the logic without saying that her defending her viewpoints counts as dominating the thread, or mentioning her at all.
You’re tired of the discussion. We get it. Breathe.
It's not a straw man when she is literally saying it over and over and over across multiple pages of the thread.
You guys really need to lay off this "straw man that" "fallacy this". We get it. You went to college and took a Logic class.
@Sundown said:
This thread is pages and pages of irrational bandwagon dislike for the game, by people who aren't playing but are somehow sure it's a terrible place. This thread has made me deeply mistrust anything posted on this forum, it was so completely warped from the actual reality of the game.
Surprise. Some people can really enjoy a game where other people have had bad experiences and others question some of the policies.
The reason for forums like this is so you are forewarned of things/problems that are possibly common when you go in to form your own opinion.
Yeah, you really need to focus on how ethnically diverse the setting is, when it's going to be 200 years in the future after a nuclear war devastates the entire planet.
@MarsGrad said in CarrierRPI - a Survival Horror MUD:
And finally, that whole part of the history is just... window dressing. Sab already said it's not the focus of the story. It's just a pretense to get the characters into the right state of mind for the actual game.
This is the important part, I think.
@Pyrephox said:
Sadly, yes, some will. Or, and this has been my experience, escalate /insanely/. Like, "pose random NPC on public street being kinda a dick, so Other PC pulls out every supernatural power they have to curbstomp NPC into the pavement for no goddamned reason". Or one random scene where I had my PC in a bookstore, asking about a random book. NPC said, "Sorry, dude, already sold," so the other PC decides to try and turn it into a graphic torture scene to figure out where the book went.
Ahhhahaha. 
Part of my fear of STing is stuff like this. I've heard so many horror stories.
I think I have a problem. Been checking MSB every 10 minutes for this thread all morning.
So ready for a break from WoD.
I used to hate unfindable code, but now I've seen and had too many incidents of +where causing OOC drama to give a damn.
@ZombieGenesis said in DC Rebirth:
with a mediawiki all its own. We'll be using wikidot till the mediawiki is fully up and running but hopefully that won't take too long.
Wanted to add a yay for this. I know wikidot is the staple go-to for hero games, but damn mediawiki is so much better if someone can host it, or is willing to pay for it.
Wikis are important!
@friendlybee said in MSB, SJW, and other acronyms:
Yeah, I dunno. I guess I've seen some slapfights, but it feels to me more like 'omg its the 6 fingered man making a post! I must defeat them now!!!' more than 'these posts are particularly vitriolic and negative to a degree that demands almost 300 posts about whether its ok to have more than one person disagree with an opinion'.
I want to be the 6 fingered man.
We definitely need downvotes, but I guess that would infringe on the "safe space" so many people here seem to desperately need.
Sorry to hear that! There's still toooons of people available, so hopefully you find somebody you like. I think there's at most like 15 characters claimed so far, though admittedly most of them are of the 'flagship' variety.
I could be mistaken (hard to keep track of who's been made yet), but I think the only 'young' people claimed on the chica side are Kara and Cassie.
Seems like a nice crowd so far.