Posts made by ThatGuyThere

@Social-Diseases said in POLL: Super Hero MU Gut Check:

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

@Social-Diseases
You mean an X-Men game set in Utopia, don't you?

Pretty much, but there are non-X characters you could work there.

Like, the West Coast Avengers compound was open as Avengers Academy around the same time, The Order still existed, and there are plenty of lower-key Marvel chars who'd work fine in SanFran. There are only a couple of Marvel characters you can't justify removing from the New York area, but they ARE pretty big ones.

Also active in San Fran in that era would be Hellcat, (Patsy Walker- Hellstorm) and Son of Satan, (Damian Hellstorm). Pasty and Hank McCoy are even friends from their time in the Avengers and Defenders together.

@Bobotron
Yeah thatwould work and give the players some fun in coming up with the technobabble, which with the group I normally table top with would quickly become the highlights of the sessions.

@RnMissionRun
For MUSH suitability, regular cortex should work fine, though I would avoid the cortex + flavors that deal a lot with specific relationships mechanically, for example Smallville and Firefly, (Serenity uses cortex not plus) since characters on Mushes are a lot less connected to each other than the chars in a tabletop.

I think Leverage would be the right answer for a Cortex Star Trek hack, change the roles to departments like Security, Science, Medical, etc; if i remember right Leverage had 5 roles, so coming up with a similar number of ST based departments would not be hard.
I would drop that flashback thing since that was more unique to the Leverage TV show and ST shows have never had many of them, instead use the standard plot point set up and it would be good enough for government work or RP.

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.

@fatefan
It is the same system they used for Starwars and most of their other stuff. I have a ton of experience with the system but none with the Metabarons in particular though I do have one of the supplements they put out for it.
As to the system itself I think it lends it self nicely to high action type of games, however opinions on it are pretty polarized as a lot of folks hate it.

@Arkandel
All I can saw is you must have worked with far chiller people in the past than I have.
Sure watching the movie is fine, but then comes the talking about it afterwards when someone asks what did you think? Not work related i give an honest opinion, work related I have to ponder how to express it with out angering anyone so I don't have to deal with some point less grudge for /months/, yes I have literally worked with people who would hold a grudge about something stupid like that and it turns work into even more of a chore than work already is. (Real example, mentioning owning a Randy Moss Vikings jersey got me on a co-workers shit-list, note not wearing it, not bringing it to the office but mentioning it existed.)
This is why I have the policy of not talking about anything not work related at work unless I know the person fairly well. Even so I tone down any opinion to about one quarter normal intensity.

@Arkandel
I sympathize with that dude but my reasons for hating an outing like that have nothing to do with not liking entertainment, because I definitely does, in fact I see work as only a way to afford entertainment, but I so hate the 'social team building activities' that a former employer would have. Since you cannot really relax and enjoy them because you still have to be on work behavior. and I would much rather be working than having to fake enjoying myself at some activity I just want to end.

To keep this on topic, I do so love my current employer because his idea of work based social stuff consists of a Christmas party once a year at an excellent restaurant.

I only have one comment for phone code. For the love of God do not require players to keep track of fake phone numbers. I have a old ass phone RL and I can still call someone using the name of the person so if your code makes me +call a string of numbers instead of +call Bob you are a bad person.

Totally off topic but I thought of it because of the auto correct thing.
A couple of days ago my phone auto corrected mess to merp ... I am pretty sure that means it just rolled on the fumble chart and lost an arm.

@Cupcake said in Good TV:

Did anyone watch the RL GLOW back in the day? I loved the Netflix series, and it got me super nostalgic for it. When I was 11 I was torn between my mixed desires of wanting to be a GLOW wrestler, roller derby diva, actress, or astronaut.

I did, but back in the day and even to a lessened extent currently I will watch just about anything wrestling. I have not seen the Netflix series since I don't have Netflix. (I have horrible data usage limits, 20 gig a month total so don't watch TV online)
It was alright but even then as a kid I realized the wrestling was subpar, but I had already been spoiled by watching Flair/Race matches.

Edit to Add: to same myself from accusations by the SJW brigade there was a lot of good female wrestling around at the time of Glow, such as Candi Devine, Wendi Richter and Madusa Miceli in the AWA and while hard to find in the US, though available to order form the Apter Mags All-Japan Womens Wrestling.
Note to though who are not fans, the mythical beast was spelled medusa, but the female wrestler was Madusa.

@Arkandel
Not sure on what average would be but I think the ideal would be fairly small, at least as fair as the map goes. Say 10-20 rooms not counting what players choose to build.
That should be enough to give diverse area and also set tone, after all a well made grid will set tone. Look at HM it's grid was exception and really added to the feel of game being in Vienna. Another example from fiction would be the differences in how Gotham and Metropolis are depicted visually, Suicide Slum the worst part of Metro is often drawn in far brighter colors than any part of Gotham, this ties into the mood and the stories set there.
I have used this analogy before but will repeat it, the grid for a game is like the sets of a play, you can put on show with out any sets and have it turn out beautifully, but when done well sets definitely can add to the quality of a production. A grid is the same way you could likely make a game without one but a good grid can enhance the whole.

To me a grid is necessary to make the game feel like a one continuous story rather that a sequence of skits.
To address the point Faraday made, no I don't think the person who walks to x and send out the +meetmes benefits from that action but I think all players benefits from having multiple scenes at location because it makes that location matter. If an event then happens to the location it gives people a reason to care.
Blow up a bar my character has been to a bunch he will likely investigate, blow up a random bar he has never been to or heard of until the post about it blowing up and why investigate or care.
I don't wander the grid to find RP but I do learn a few places on it that my character would frequent for easy scene suggestion.
If every time I go to a scene it is in a location that has never been mentioned before, like it tend to be in temp rooms then it the game to be quickly becomes a series of SNL skits to me, if done well perfectly enjoyable but the actions of one not really impacting the next.
I will admit this also becomes an effort issue for me, random person seeking rp I go sure and pick a spot, low effort to try rping with someone new. Making and descing a temp room changing the effort to enjoyment ratio enough for me to not be the one to do it, I shift the job to the other player of the scene doesn't happen. It might be laziness on my part but I think an effort free space to meet folks is a benefit to the game.

@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.

@Pandora said in Lords and Ladies Game:

just like it's not human nature to speed in motor vehicles, even though a lot of people do it.

I will call bullshit on this comment, being impatient and choosing the option with negligible gain and possible catastrophic loss rather than being patient is pretty much text book human nature.

I have to agree with Pandora. If you want to encourage public RP you also have to have good place code to make it manageable.
Players will zerg rush any public scene that get above 3 people so you have to have the ability to handle that expansion of people that allows the scene to incorporate the new people without totally crushing the scene the initial folks were having. Plus places cuts down on the spam from large scenes which is a lot of the issue with large scenes to begin with.

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

@HelloProject
That is a great response by the band member. If i was the dude who screwed up the ticket buy I would go to the concert because of it.

Thread necro but for good cause.

http://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/214278/Vampire-the-Masquerade-V5-prealpha-playtest

It is a free product, looks like the scenario included builds on the events of the Berlin LARP.

@Coin
That is probably the best review of Inception I have seen.
As a avid SF reader in my youth, my thoughts on Inception were that is was a god enjoyable movie. I enjoyed the story and the effects, I don't think it was mind blowing or original, but originality in any genre of movie is a pretty rare thing. I have seen it a couple of times and it holds up as an enjoyable re-watch especially if you are in the mood for SF but are watching a movie with non-SF people because it is not what most non-fans envision as SF it can get past a lot of the standard objections.

But "realism" is terribly imprecise, I know English is already a horribly imprecise language but "realism" is one of the worst offenders in that regard because everyone has a different idea as to what is realistic especially in regard to a game system, since we run into things like "how often should a trained professional it a man-sized target while shooting?" as the FS3 thread a while back showed even if the results are actually realistic they can still be perceived as non-realistic.
I purposely choose "sub-optimal" as the term to use because I wanted to acknowledge the mathematical differences in the choices but did not want to you a definite pejorative term like "worse" since I do not believe the chose to be worse it is simply a choice, much like I do not hold min-maxing against those who choose to do it, just two different choices to made in the same rules framework. I guess less efficient could work as well but to me that sounds more negative.