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Remember the maxim that has been quoted her already you get what you reward.
Rewards for running plots will also get you some bare minimum plots. I remember one I went to didn't know anyone in it but signed up for it.
Get there and the opening pose is we all see a woman running from some zombies then combat commenced. No character interaction no story just here is something throw dice at it. I know some people rail against non-events like pizza parties, but that was just as much of a non-event. Sure it had combat but there was never a sense our chars were threatened and certainly no attempt to make the scene any more then a dice fest. Now such scenes are fine if that is what you want but then the same can be said for the pizza parties.
My point is be very careful how you structure the reward, and what exactly you choose to reward, because while many will follow the spirit and take the incentive and provide stories just as many will do the minimum to get the carrot.

@Songtress
Yup, the boot Roman soldiers wore was the caliga, and he got the nickname because as a child he liked to hang around with the military and dress up as a soldier.

@Cobaltasaurus said in Retail "Horror" Stories:
d the personnel manager has said she'll put my fall schedule into affect a week or so before school starts. We'll see if this comes true come September.

I hope this happens for you. My only similar experience was not a pleasant one.
Slightly off topic cause it is food service but not retail. My first college job was working as a dishwasher in a restaurant. I started in the summer and had already registered for fall. One of the classes I took was a Monday night class, after being on the job for a few weeks and generally liking it but being scheduled every Monday night, I go into my manager, and said Starting in September I need Monday nights off because I have a night class if that is an issue let me know so I can change my class schedule. There were other sections of the same class with open spots I had just picked the night class on a whim. He says It won't be a problem. Cool I work the rest of the summer. Schedules were made weekly so I went in two weeks before classes started to remind the manager, again I was told it was not an issue.
So the schedule for the first week comes out and I ma set for Monday. I go in talk to the manager and he changes it. Second week scheduled for Monday, I skip class and work it talking to the manager again and being assured tit will not happen again. Third week, I am working Monday on the schedule I switch shifts with a co-worker, then tell my manager if I am scheduled for a Monday again I am done. That Friday we get the schedule for the next week. I am listed as working that next Monday, so I work that Friday then head out of town for the weekend, missing the shifts I normally worked and was scheduled for on the weekend. I then return home to a lot of messages from the place, I then called in dead. No really, in the smarmy way that only an 19 year old can I called in and told the guy I would not be coming in again "Because I am like dead or something."

@tyche said in Table-top gadgets:

Except me, as GM they get paranoid when they hear dice rolling, so it's easier for me to swipe roll them silently on my phone or surface.

That is precisely why you should roll real dice as the GM. Making the players paranoid is roughly half the fun of GMing. Trust me on this, during a random scene just roll a few dice with no purpose whatsoever, it works best when the players are talking among themselves at the time and then grin as they try to figure out what might be happening. This has had an unforeseen benefit because now my current group is so used to purposeless rolls that I can sneak in roles that do have a purpose into scenes without causing the OOC paranoia because they think it is just me messing with them.

@fatefan
Well there is Arx, not sure if it is gritty but that was kind of the feel i got from the ad, I am sure the many people here that play there can correct me if my thought on that is wrong.

@HorrorHound said in Pokemon Go:

From 2000-20012 I was without a cellphone at all. It made job-duties stupid difficult, but my life far better and disconnected. The looks of horror I would get, you know, were a bonus.

I so agree with this, it is the reason exactly two people I work with have my cell phone number, it is a small company and i know those two would only call if it is actually important, (and well they are the two with the power to fire me.) any one else or other less important issues, it can wait til the next morning I get in.

@botulism said in Diceless/Stats Optional:

@seraphim73 No, more PERMANENT Story Points. Temporary points come and go. Permanent is what you refresh to after a story ends.

So you start with 12 permanent story points (let's call them PST). A few Traits in cgen can cost PST, but not many. So say you start the game with 12. This means you start each story with 12 temporary, spendable points.

Things IC can give more, and you can go over that 12 - there's no max. At the end of a story, though, you reset to your PST (12).

Inexperienced lets you start with a higher PST.

My question on this would be how on a mush do you decide when the story points refresh? Every scene? Every week as x time? Etc, because not everyone involved will be on the same story track so refresh at the end of a story is kind of meaningless and can be contradictory. For example in the last week I was in two PRPs they were run by different people, PrP A started scene ended final scene scheduled, PrP B started and finished before the final scene from PrP A. Under the story point thing at which point would Story points refresh?

@Misadventure said in The 100: The Mush:

As I said, I'm not addressing the specific person's actions, which provide context and some chance of sussing out actual motivations or attitudes.

TL;DR

"I'm sorry X was taken that way" does not equal insincere all by itself.

It might be sincere but I would not call it an apology no matter how sincere. To me the core of an apology in the expression of contrition, the taking of fault onto oneself. That is nowhere in that statement. I was never on 100 MUSH and have zero first have knowledge of specifics but that is not an apology sincere or not.
For example:
I am sorry there are homeless people. That is a sincere statement from me. That is also not an apology.

I'm deathly allergic to cats and guess what, I don't go places there are cats. If a cat were in the grocery store I might not say something like that lady did but I don't see how if I did how it would make me "wrong"?

Would you still say I'm wrong if there were laws against animals in grocery stores in my state?

Yes it would. Unless you are a member of law enforcement it is not your job to enforce laws.
If the lady "allergic" to dog had went to talk to the store manager I have no problem with that. Hell if she had asked Cupcake and dog to move to a different part of the store so she could grab some items near them again no problem with that, trying to guilt someone else into not bringing a dog in where the store allows it makes that person a dick.

@ortallus
I think you are misunderstanding my position. I am not against social skills I am against the idea that they are should only work on NPCs.
And yes I do think if they are an NPC only thing then they are mostly pointless since I would say 75 % of mushing (at least in my experience) has dealt with the interaction between PCs. True not all of it is diced out or need to be but I think that any system that is being used should be used for the majority of situations where mechanical arbitration is needed/desired.

@tek
I said in my post I would not call it abusive but the fact remain you and I do not decide what words can be used. It was used in a correct way.
It was not hyperbole when Ghost used the word, it was a stretch in my opinion true, but I would rather him stretch every word ever then say be silent when someone plays word usage police.
Was it used in the way you would? I think that is an obvious no. Was it used in a way that I would? Again no.
Was it used in a way that deserved him getting harangued by you? I think that is a no again.

@surreality said in RL Anger:

@ThatGuyThere A lot of people do, actually. I know a lot of folks who don't want to exclude anyone from the ceremony,

That boggles my mind, to me getting invited to the ceremony but not the reception would be like being invited to set up decorations to the party but not to attend the party.
By the time I finished college I had been to probably close to one hundred weddings in my life between friends and two large extended families.
The ceremony is the pain you sit through to get to the fun, I would rather be left off both then not get the good part after dealing with the other. I would not even pretend to consider going to a ceremony without the reception attached.

@seraphim73 said in Social Systems:

If you have, for instance, just "Melee" and "Ranged" skills, I think that "Convince" or even "Social" is totally fine. But if you have "Blades," "Bludgeons," "Spears," and "Unarmed," or "Pistols," "Rifles," and "Throwing," then you should probably have "Persuade" and "Deceive" or "Convince" and "Schmooze" or some other words that give you 2-3 social skills.

I think Theno is the one that used to say game design is mind control, in some cases I definitely agree and this is a good example.
If you have a lot more combat than social skills you are conditioning the players to view combat the bulk of the focus, where if you have a Fight skill and seven varieties of social interaction skills you are conditioning your players to view the social side as an intricate dance while the fighty side as a side aspect.

@Admiral said in Coming Soon: Supernatural: Lost & Found:

If I was going to do a Supernatural MUSH I'd just set it in like, the 1980s. And make it based out of the road house.

<crescent kicks a bunch of people> ... Oh sorry saw 1980s and Roadhouse in the same sentence and misunderstood.

I mean this as an honest question, if families are that bad why deal with them?
I mean my father was not abusive or racist or horrible but he was also distant, uncaring and generally not the sort of person I would want to be around. I have not spoken or seen him in two decades. I still keep in contact with other relatives on that side of the family but not him. I understand family bonds are tight but if someone is a negative influence on your life family or not I have to wonder why anyone would keep them around.

@quinn said in Encouraging Proactive Players:

@ThatGuyThere How do you do that though without having a staff member always be around in every room any RP is happening in just in case someone wants to RP researching something related to a plot? Seriously asking.

Mostly it was done with a quick page or by mail. I know there is little real difference to me but the page/mail route seems like normal player to GM interaction, and +request feels like filling out forms. I am pretty sure this is due to when I started mushing. Back then pretty much everything was handled by mail so I learned to accept it, +jobs didn't exist til I was set in my ways so I avoid it.

I don't think an attraction would put me off playing a character. a relationship might but an attraction can be played with out it ever developing into actual romance.

I have always wanted to be on a jury. I have gotten called in three times but never selected. Only time I minded getting called in was when it was for a day I had already scheduled off for vacation.

@three-eyed-crow said in Encouraging Proactive Players:

@faraday
In my experience, unfortunately, you'll get more complaints and bad feelings about "exclusion" if a private event is posted publicly where everyone can see, than you will if who can see it is locked.

Not only that but most people don't like to be exclusionary but sometimes the tools point that way, for example I will occasionally run short plots. My participation limits for them is a hard max of four in a scene. that is just my limit for what I manage in a scene without it feeling stressful as hell. If you put up a +event with a max signups of four i have found two things happen, it tends to get filled quickly and then you catch a lot of why can't i be in your event too, and then on the night of the thing you are lucky if you have 3 of the 4 who signed up on. So I tend to not use +events but @mail to do the scheduling which then limits it to those I know well enough to personally ask.

@Auspice said in Shadowhunters MUSH:

OK. That could be a lot of fun. Plus, y'know, younger generation. They could just go and get a home insemination kit. >.>

Thanks you for pointing this out. Going a bit off topic here but that is one thing that has always annoyed me about the whole dwindling population trope if you are in any setting with modern or better technology reproduction through sexual intercourse is not particularly required for bloodlines continuing.