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@magee101 said in Fear and Loathing:

@ThatGuyThere
Aha, I only ever used Grave Dirt Caul, shoulda looked at it's Shroud thanks for the heads up.

Way off topic for the thread but Yes grave dirt shroud is very nice, at 1 you can't be suffocated and take no damage from grapples two is the boosted armor, three is spend 3 plasm to down grade all damage from a metal or earthen weapons and the rule specifically mentions it does work on bullets.

Back to closer to on topic the relationship between keys and powers is one of the big reasons I can see a game excluding sin-eater, except for mage, every other splat is you buy power dot you get to do one more thing, with SE you get to do one new thing per key you possess, so the progression while not the geometric explosion of abilities mage has it out paces the other games in regards to utility, using the shroud example if i have shroud 1 along grave dirt and stillness keys when I buy shroud 2 not only do I get the ability to turn into heavy tank with grave dirt but when stealth is required instead of tank I get to be invisible. For most splats those two powers tend to be on separate tracks often with one being considered out of clan/tribe/etc so being more expensive than base.

I pretty much agree with @Arkandel's take on this.
I love me some Dick Grayson I have all 153 issues of his first Nightwing solo comic, he is quite likely my favorite character in comics, but guess what put him in the Bat-suit I stop buying, because he is not Batman, and forcing him into that role when every reader knows in a year or two Bruce will be back does a disservice both to the Batman title and to the Dick Grayson character.
I has no issues with buying new comics with new characters, but when I pick up Wonder Woman comic I want it to be about Wonder Woman, ditto for any other character.
DC for the most part gets this, Marvel trying to cram new characters with old names at me. Riri Williams is a fine character, hell I like her better than Tony Stark who I have never been a huge fan of. If they put out an Iron Heart title staring her I would likely buy it, at least a couple issues to give it a try. Hell I bought War Machine with Rhodes in the armor more frequently than Ironman when both were being published, but I will not buy a series titled Iron Man staring Riri.
New characters and diversity are both great things but let them build their own identities forcing them into the roles of the established characters often while removing said established characters mostly seems to aggravate the audience.

@wretched said in Game Design: Avoiding Min-Maxing:

@the-sands But that's the entire reason modifiers exist in nWoD. For situational advantages/disadvantages. They would still have the same dice pool for treating a gunshot wound, for the reasons I previously mentioned, but a test on the subject matter that the int 5 guy never actually went to school on, I would most definitely say he would take a -modifier for. That's not the ST being a dick, that's just looking at the situation and going 'yeah that is probably a factor in this roll' the same as doing parkour in an arena evenly coated with crisco.

@Wretched is being more generous than I would be here, I was was running a tabletop or a scene and the Int 5 Med ! guy was wanting to do much beyond first aid stuff I would just tell them with medicine one your character lacks the knowledge and move on.

@tragedyjones said in Sin City Chronicles:

• Every year, The Compact shall appoint 6 citizens from each Society to act as enforcers of the Compact among their own.

• Members of any Society may be blacklisted by a majority vote of that societies Enforcers, or a 2/3 majority of all enforcers.

Just a quick math related nitpick, with a voting pool of six a simple majority is already a two thirds majority since the smallest majority would be 4-2 which is also a two thirds majority since 3-3 would lack any majority.

@Meg said in RL things I love:

At my uni you had 24 hours from your last final to vacate, this was not always strictly enforced at he beginning of the week but was at the end, cause the RAs couldn't leave til everyone on their floor had.
Doing it the week before would make a lot of sense but from my experience the couple of weeks before finals were filled with finishing projects, end of semester parties and preparing for finals. I mean I never threw anything out because of moving but I also am the child of packrat parents and have the same tendencies, but I can definitely see reasons for some of the "Just toss it." mentality at the time.

@three-eyed-crow said in Game Design: Avoiding Min-Maxing:

This sort of gets at...how much is a dice system responsible for making players feel validated and important to the story? And this is not a minor thing. This is maybe the most important responsibility a GM has.

I would disagree with this statement completely, to me it is not the responsibility for the GM to do anything by be fair and upfront. For example if i am running a heavy combat plot to mention that so people can make a decision about participating. Or if it is something investigation heavy mention that etc.
If a runner says hey this will be fight-y I don't think they have any obligation to throw in something to let a non-fighty person have a moment to shine. I also do thing that if a plot is billed as an investigation the GM should though in a combat just because a tank showed up and wanted someone to punch.
No one feeling of validation is ever anyone else's responsibility especially not in a game.

@Anadventurer
My issue has nothing to do with TS, mine is purely a logistical one, if one rule is has been stated it won't be enforced then how would any player know which other rules are real and which are also on the not enforced tier?

@Meg
Plus in your late 20s you have a lot more mature perceptive on life and the value of not wasting things than most people in the dorms who tend to be in the 18-22 range.

@the-sands
Not really since shooting most guns works the same you point and pull trigger, but I would tell someone with low firearms they couldn't field strip a weapon, and yes I have made someone without firearms skill roll to figure out they needed to take the safety off on a weapon before firing it.

Sorry this is likely a stupid question but HEB?

Since it is on topic and because I am somewhat curious what other people think about it I will share how i handle social rolls in table top, both against PCs and NPCs. (I am a big believer in the mechanics of anything effecting PCs and NPCs in the same manner.)
Not non-supernatural social skill instead of the roll controlling action modifies them.
For example intimidate, if one character is trying to intimidate another and succeeds then while the targets character still has autonomy of action acting against the character that intimidated him would incur a penalty.
Or for everyone's favorite seduction no roll should force sex but instead the seducers would apply a penalty to the targets actions because the targets is distracted by thinking desirous thoughts whether they are ever acted on or not.
Or if you want to use social combat to benefit someone use leadership to give an inspiring speech and those following your goals for the next scene get a bonus.
That why the social combat crowd does get some bang for their buck, while the agency crowd still has final say over the actions of the character even if those action become less likely to succeed.
As much as I dislike the world of NWoD 2.0 one good thing is the conditions, and this could be used to codify this a bit, for example a successful seduction gives the condition call Flustered and it is given a set effect and a set way to resolve it. Leadership could give an inspired Condition that gives a bonus until resolved, etc. It would involved more overhead in the initial set up but would be a middle ground.

Question then, if it is disrespectful to an author to have a unapproved game, (not that I think it is but it is what you have stated.) Then wouldn't be equally disrespectful to play on one such as Elendor, which we know one of the co-heads of your game has done?
Or is it only disrespectful to the authors you consider friends?
I don't agree with your position but you are free to feel that way, however hypocrisy that only some authors should not be in your view disrespected that I find a unpalatable.

I think talking to inanimate objects is fine, it is when you hear them respond that the issue starts.

@faraday
My first example of GM Fiat came from before what I knew what the word fiat meant. It was in I think 4th grade we had just picked up the Basic Set of Dungeons and Dragons. (Old red Box set) In the first session one of the characters wanted to punch an NPC, no where in those rules is there any word about hand to hand combat so the GM at the time had to make something up.

@Alzie
Hate to break it to you but I guarantee Knights of Sidonia was not the first to do that either.
It is a fairly standard colony ship set up. I make zero claims about who did it first but it is a very old Sci Fi trope.

@surreality
I feel your pain. If I had a dollar for every time an extended family member thought I should start a comic book shop or sell my collection to buy some other thing then I would likely have more that I would earn running a comic shop. Thankfully my immediate family is not like that.
On a side not I am much happier now that comics are a hobby to me again and not an addiction. About 7 years back I was buying something along the lines of 70 titles a month and enjoying it very little and buying more out of habit or because I have always bought than out of enjoyment. In 2011 I quit cold turkey, and didn't buy again until last year, now I buy here and there when things look good to me without getting a bunch and I have found I enjoy them a lot more. Some of it might be a change in product but I think most of it is that i am buying because I enjoy reading them again rather than it being Wednesday and time to buy the comics.

@arkandel said in Make it fun for Me!:

For example I love flowery purple prose, but I'm well aware that's not for everyone; if I choose to not play with (generic) you very often because you prefer short prose that's completely my choice and we don't need to be mortal enemies! It's just... a thing.

This exactly, probably the only person that I have met on a MU that I would refer to as a friend instead of internet friend I almost never RP because while we have similar other interest and enjoy talking OOCly our play styles do not match so while on occasion we do rp for the most part we talk over pages.

@Tempest
I don't play on there currently but when I did, TS and sexual themes were present but no more so then you would run into on your average WoD game.

LU is some of the best entertainment wrestling easily available in the US.
I personally prefer RoH but that is mainly based o nthe quality of in ring action, production value and storyline-wise LU is superior, even if you are not a wrestling person the storylines are quite fun.