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@tempest You forgot City By the Bay.

It's so difficult to not post food gifs right now.
You are really, really trying my self-control. 😐

You want crunchy? There's still a Champions/Hero Games game out there. That's pretty crunchy. Could use new blood to actually.

@Pondscum said:

You're looking for this:
https://github.com/wyrdathru/TheCreationist.
https://github.com/wyrdathru/TheCreationist/releases

It was Daranos' player that wrote the program and I'm not sure if he's still supporting it/working on it or not. It was much better than A2A however, which was the standard 16 colour one which everyone used.

I know Daranos' player reads this forum, so you could put maybe put a shout out for him.

Thanks for chiming in, @Pondscum !

I was slowly pushing toward adding in support for different MU* engines and automated colouring via patterns and rules, but since I've barely touched any text-based games lately, it's been less of a priority.

@Tempest , I used it on Windows 10 recently but only for the briefest few seconds. If you (or anyone else still using it?) have any problems and/or feature requests, just nudge me on MSB or log a ticket on Github.

@RDC said:

It's pretty impossible to separate whether WC's system was good from whether the staff was good; it was a very subjective system. I think, IIRC, that Surreality says the system was adapted from one she proposed for a game before WC existed? She said that they bastardized and ruined her original concept without permission if I'm remembering right. Anyway, the system was pretty horrible. It was broken in some real obvious ways.

If it was adapted from the system created for Manifestation: Hong Kong, yep, that one was the horribly broken bastardization of mine. It sounds like it got worse from there, and it's hard to get worse than 'look we don't understand this crap we just want to write up spiffy powers to make us the specialest snowflakes so we can get on with our lesbian fairy sex, so here we're going with this version that removes the benefits of the system and leaves it horribly broken so we can get back to artificially inseminating one another with our magic nymph tongue-tentacles'.

I wish I was kidding. I'm not kidding. 😞 I'm not even kidding a little.

Edit: Oh -- and no, the creator of Windy City (whose RL name I know but I don't know what name she used on WC so I can't name the name here, sorry!) did NOT have permission to take the system written for M:HK, broken or not. 😕

Addendum on this one: The combat system wasn't my nightmare. I just had a core stat block at the time, without the combat system in place. I don't remember who did MHK's, so I have no idea what happened from there. (It may not even have had one to speak of; I don't even recall if MHK and the game it was based on were 'consent games with stats' or not, and they may very well have been.)

Haha, I did. I can't remember my characters from there, and the wiki is dead. 😞

I still really like the cavalry ladies and the archery/bounty hunter people.

@BetterJudgment

Policies that limit the RP potential

I understand that 'fifty years of marching from the Shire to Gondor' is the desire, but fuck, that's moronic.

Nice, thanks! 🙂