Posts made by ThatGuyThere

@Auspice said in RL Anger:

But I swear to god, people who are just picky eaters who want free food catered to their preferences drive me up a wall. Esp. the 'I only eat like a five year old' types.

I'm sorry. Grow up. Learn to try new foods. I was never more offended than the time my roommate wanted to introduce us to his girlfriend, we invited her to dinner, I cooked a big meal, she showed up... and snubbed the whole thing and refused to even try any because 'I only eat pizza, nuggets, and burgers.'

I have to put a hunk of the blame for that diet on the parents, I would not have gotten away with that even at five. Dinner was made if i didn't try something the option was not eat. My parents would never have forced me to eat something and if I tried something and didn't like it that was one thing but if I just straight up refused to try something I would have not eaten that night.
I am afraid if I invited an adult to dinner and they did something like that i would just shrug and eat and not for a second feel bad about it.

I was packing up old books to move to storage today and I came across a series I am a bit surprised hasn't mentioned her, though that might be due to age.
Thieves' World, compact setting, one city on the edge of an Empire, Lost of faction to plot against each other, and it is fantasy that is dark enough it makes Game of Thrones look positively bright.

That language makes me wonder what they would think about places like Roll20 since I would consider that "more than a character creation game aid" given it's dice and mapping tools.
I wonder if anyone has asked about that?

Most likely nothing but a not small portion of players hate when the channel command is not what they expect, either needing a = or a + before the channel title.
My solution is always start with no prefix that trial and error til i get is right.

@Misadventure said in RL Anger:

@Sunny Do you think any of them actually play on MU*s?

I would say it is likely, there is an entire section of that board devoted to RPG table top gaming, and given that the Venn diagram of Table top players and MU players has significant overlap I would say it is almost a certainty some do MU.
Sadly, what I have seen from their behavior here while likely to get someone shown the door on most games would be a unique thing to see on games.

I understand what you are saying from a thematic point of view but that does not jibe at all with my experience in mushes with mechanical systems.
Granted that is limited to WoD and Star Wars games but I have most often seen people led with their biggest gun first.
Now is it in theme for Spidey to go all out versus a jewelry thief, not of course not it is a frequent thing in the comics of Spidey either mentioning or thinking how much he has to hold back against normal humans. However if there is no significant mechanical drawback for doing it I think we would see it in game more often than not. Especially since this is an OC game so you would not have Spidey, you would have Alt-Spidey and it would be easy enough to bang out a personality and background where you would have similar powers and no compunction against using them on over matched foes.
If you are going to house rule it when/if it becomes a problem you should likely house rule it to prevent it from becoming a problem.
Also are Advantages intended to be an occasional boost? the ones with trade offs such as All out attack, defensive attack etc have nothing written into them that limits their use.

@Runescryer
Not @Lithium but I will toss out the place where I think it is the most broken.
If you have two people who are the same PL and they each follow the games' advice of buying saves and attacks to PL level then a fight between them will be a one shot ko 25 percent of the time. Which while maybe fitting for some genres never felt like Superheroes to me.

@Auspice
I will give GURPS credit, I enjoy a lot of their settings, especially Infinite Worlds. But like Savage Worlds I buy books for the settings and than run games set in those settings in different systems.

@Arkandel
I would lean toward not trying to piss you off.
I have heard a few different non-horror fans refer to vampires as "Draculas." I think it is mainly done out of not caring and Dracula being the most famous vampire story to most North Americans. Kind of like how most non-wrestling fans refer to all pro wrestling as either WWE or WWF, or non-RPG folk refer to all games as D+D. Not done to intentionally upset but more done out of a lack of giving a shit.

Edit: Now if the person has been corrected a couple of times and persists, doing it to piss you off becomes more likely.

@Tempest said in Wheel of Time MU(SH|X):

@WildBaboons said in Wheel of Time MU(SH|X):

It's been a while since I've look at it.. but from what I recall and previous experience it's far too crunchy for what I'm looking for.

On a scale of 1-10 how much crunch are you looking for?

1 - Descriptive traits, no numbers no dice. (Comic MUSH)

3 - FATE, descriptive traits with minimal numbers and dice.

5 - nWoD, numbers and dice everywhere but very simplistic

8 - L5R, numbers and dice everywhere and lots of 'feat' type things to modify stuff. (Fuzzy here, only played L5R once, been a while.)

10 - d20 with feats, talents, spells, enchanted items (angreal), armor class, THAC0, etc.

I'm no tabletop expert, so my chart is probably off. Sue me.

Chart is not bad though I would say these ratings are based on a 1-20 scale since there are games like Traveller and Gurps out there that are much more complex than D20 not to mention any system ever published by GDW if we want to dig back into the mists of history.

I too miss Hockey Night in Canada. I grew up close enough to the boarder that we could get Canadian shows during the days of broadcast.

While the are great in the regular season I just can't see the Caps as contenders they are the NHL version of the Atlanta Hawks to me.

@Ganymede said in Good TV:

There's a reason why Backes and Oshie went elsewhere. They wanted to play for contenders.

I wasn't going to respond so as not to clutter up the thread with too much hockey talk but I have to set the record straight.
Half of that statement is a damned lie, as Oshie left the Blues for the Capitals.

I was really tempted to make a Flyers joke but realized as a Blues fan ... and well glass houses all around.
Sad story of my hockey fandom I grew up a Northstars fan, then when they moved I picked another team, well since the Norris was the only division I cared about that limited my options. Blackhawks and Redwings were eliminated instantly from the proceedings leaving me the choice of Leafs or Blues. I picked Blues for Bret Hull.
The point of this story is that I made bad decisions in my teen years, but at least not bad enough to choose to cheer for the Mapleleafs.

@Tempest said in Making Territory Relevent:

@Ganymede said in Making Territory Relevent:

You can disagree all you want. I'm just taking my response from basic economic theories.

These are games, where most players are primarily focused on their ego and stroking their epeen because those are the themes of the games.

That just means that the ability to stroke ego and epeen are the commodities, basic economics would still apply.
Ganny aptly said what economics isn't a study of, but I will go ahead and say what it is. It is the study of how limited resources are used to satisfy unlimited wants. (There is always unlimited wants.)
If your players want titles for no other reason than ego that is fine, make sure there is a limited number of them and players will fight just as strongly for them as powergamers would over limited set of mechanical benefits.

@Thenomain said in Good TV:

@Gingerlily said in Good TV:

@Thenomain

He blogged about football!

... How long before we remove his nerd cred?

If that was enough to remove his nerd cred it was gone long ago. Two of his first paying stories we sci fi sports in Amazing Magazine.
One was called the Last Superbowl in a world where real sports died because of interest in computer sports. (Writen well before the rise in E-Sports.)
I am the one odd guy who likes a lot of his work but couldn't hack my way through the Song of Fire and Ice.

Commenting more in general than about saving goats in particular, for me it is more about making the stakes matter personally to the PC.
I have played character living in a van where basic survival was everything and had great fun, I have also been in literal save the world plots that were boring because my PC had no skin in the game.
For example the table top D+D game I am in is about saving the world, but my characters stake in it is that the big bad's underlings killed his best friend back when we were level 3 (current level is 17) my characters motivation is still on getting vengeance for his friend while saving the world is a nice bonus.

I have never been a fan of mini-games on a mush, I don't mind if they are there even if they give benefits to other but to me the mini-game defeats the purpose of why I log on.
When i log on it is because I want to RP with other people, even a great mu* based mini-game is meh to me because if I wanted to play a computer based game without other people well I have a console for that, or any of the various games I have on PC. I enjoy both forms but to me they scratch two completely different entertainment itches.

@Lithium said in POLL: Super Hero MU Gut Check:

@fatefan Right, but there's no rules for someone to /actively/ dodge either, afaik, I could be misremembering, it's been more than a few years.

There was in Marvel Superheroes Advanced Edition, it took place of an attack for the round and your opponents chance to hit was either shifted 2,4, or 6 columns depending on the color you got on a agility roll.

@The-Tree-of-Woe
I think the biggest issue standing in the way of a superhero game with a system is MU* culture.
Even on games with published systems there is a avoidance/resistance to using systems, for superhero games the problem gets exacerbated by having to pick which system to use and likely alienating some of those who want a system. Just take DC and Marvel for example between the two of them they have 7 licensed systems. Pick any one of them and you will get folks willing to argue well past the point of common sense why a different choice should have been made. So by picking a system you have angried up the blood of your player base either by just having one or by having the wrong one, for a system that would be used in maybe a third of the scenes if that.
Whiles I would like a superhero game that actually used a system (not just had one around but where the player base bought in and used it) that wasn't Mutants and Masterminds, (Yes I do see what I did there) but I can also understand staff not opening up an addition headache for little benefit.

@Tempest
there would still be plenty of FC teenage mutants around Anole, Rockslide, X-23, Hellion, Pixie etc were all around during the Utopia era. there has never been an X-Man era with out some annoying teens, well except the late 80s when all the teen chars were either New Mutants or being trained by X-Factor.