Best posts made by Tempest

@Roz My life is a lie.

The teardrop tattoo brings it all together.

@Arkandel

Into the Badlands could be pretty dope. I'm pretty sure there's a crowd around who are always talking about wanting a post-apoc game. The problem is they probably want more Fallout-y?

@Ganymede said in A Constructive Thread About People We Might Not Like:

@Ghost said in A Constructive Thread About People We Might Not Like:

Well, VASpider is just the first one in the stocks.

The fuck she is.

People have bad-mouthed @Tempest. A lot. Yet she hasn't garnered the same amount of discussion. Why? Because she doesn't have a pattern of bad behavior that can be verified by multiple sources who otherwise do not have anything to do with one another.

What about the people who drive some Star Wars to the ground. Rex/Sovereign? Elsa? None of them have risen to this level, but a lot of people have come out against them.

Custodius doesn't even have this level of infamy here.

Innocent people -- even guilty people -- have not gotten the same treatment.

Thanks for the laugh @Ganymede.

You guys have some seriously thin skin and fragile egos around here, if I'm even getting mentioned in the same breath as those people.

@HelloProject

The sandbox trend is very, very dull and it makes WoD-MUs specifically feel like they're barely 1-step removed from being Shang these days. It honestly makes MUing a chore sometimes. If you don't have a clique to RP with, you get to go out in public and endure the lower quartile of MUers who can barely string together a series of 3 coherent sentences littered with typos (nevermind the content of those sentences being anything you can work with to ignite/continue a scene with) or are playing a 4'6" ghoul/wolfblooded fuckslut who expects to be taken seriously when she's not spinning on her 6'7" viking daddy's dick. (oh god is this slutshaming?)

Two of the things fuelling this, imo.

It's very rare these days for staff to want to put in the effort (or understand how) to build a world/setting that players can actually impact or has anything going on. So the players actually motivated to "do stuff"...have nothing to do, and they have no ongoing problems that need solving to work with to fuel the scenes of dragging the less motivated players into shit. A lot of the time, there is just nothing meaningful to talk about in public RP, because there is nothing going on in the game, so...people go to what's easy, hooking-up and fucking.

The other part is that players seem to be less interested in story. This is to say, people will /loudly/ claim to want story, metaplot, etc, but really they just want story when they want it, how they want it. Which is perfectly fine, theoretically, except a lot of them will skip +events, make no effort to be involved in the game, ignore the game's setting/theme, then complain how the game has nothing going on because nobody is running them the 1 specific thing they want (mind you they never tried to locate an ST for that thing, either), or the story isn't focused on what they made their character for, etc.

The one exception, and the thing that always gets a sizable chunk of people frothing at the mouth to play, are games where you can shove your dice down other people's throats willy-nilly.

/endrant

P.S. A Mistborn game /sounds/ awesome, if you just scratched out the plot from the actual books and did your own thing in the setting. Hell, you could just overwrite the book plot, do it with some twists and just bitchslap anybody who does anything stupid with info from the books or whatever. The question is how would you combat 'everybody wants to be mistborn'? You can't just rule them out completely, because that's just boring as fuck. But would anybody make anything /besides/ mistborn? Any sort of 'staff picks who gets to be mistborn' would probably end poorly (see every Star Wars game with limited Force Users).

@Kanye-Qwest IDK about you, but I die on every hill.

Funny timing on this topic, huh.