Posts made by ThatGuyThere

@Meg said in How do you keep OOC lounges from becoming trash?:

@ThatGuyThere

Someone didn't read my full-post. Instead, they wanted to mansplain shit to me like I wouldn't understand that people could live in 'communal' spaces.

No I read you post I just disagreed with it. Making a separate room for bunks strikes me as breaking IC reality when what happens in one bunk could be seen by all others. Separate places in one room would make since since whispered conversations could be held but people would still notice two people in one bunk from the rest of the room. So exactly why in IC reality would someone in center of bunk room not be able to see actions happening in Bunk 37-A then I will consider them to be separate room worthy.

@Meg said in How do you keep OOC lounges from becoming trash?:

Oh come on, what theme doesn't fit with a 'personal room'?

Off the top of my head Battlestar Galactica after all look at the show unless you were fairly high up you lived in a communal space.

@Gilette said in How do you keep OOC lounges from becoming trash?:

If you log on, you should be there to play. I'm not actually sure what the purpose is with these spaces beyond some kind of thought that games must have a place to "hang out."

While I will agree most OOC rooms/lounges whatever you want to call them are pretty bad places and even the best of them have very toxic moments. I do see them as serving a purpose.
First and most obvious they provide a place to park your bit while you check boards, handle any job stuffs, and read mail. True I can do these from a grid room but often I log on when I have an hour free to do things like that but you really can scene in a hour of time, so if someone entered the room I would have to be all like sorry not here to RP just do other things and feel like an ass, the OOC room solves that issue. (So would a private build but I rarely make one of those on a game unless my char runs a business or something.)
Second I am one of those people that thinks creating a OOC game community is very much a necessary and good thing on a game. The OOC lounge is one way of facilitating that, one change I would make is that I would have the base +ooc command drop folks in the quiet room and then have the ooc lounge as an exit off there. So people just wanting to leave the grid for a bit can do so without being annoyed but those wanting to chat/ have a bs session/ what have you can do that with only the added effort of one command.

@Rarest-Pepe said in What do you WANT to play most?:

I don't want to spend too much of my time repeating myself ad infinitum before I get to that point.

Sorry to break it to you but the nature of existence is pretty much repeating yourself ad infinitum until you get to that point. See pretty much every career option.

@Gilette said in PC antagonism done right:

Well, how else do you handle someone with a fragile ego? Kid gloves.

My personal option is, to use the English phrase, send them to Coventry. Basically, ignore them, avoid rping with them, if stuck in a scene don't acknowledge them etc, before long you become whom they choose to avoid.

@Seraphim73 said in PC antagonism done right:

We all know by now (whether it's true on a particular game or not) that NPC opposition is just there to be a speedbump,

Off topic but if that has truly been the case for most of the games you have been on, you have run into some shitty GMs, or conversely I have been blessed with running into a lot of good ones.

@Thenomain said in What do you WANT to play most?:

@ThatGuyThere said in What do you WANT to play most?:

Although I did not vote this I think my dream MU* would be a Castle Falkenstien game that focused on adventure, that said I know it would never happen.

Nowadays we call that 7th Sea.

I bet it will happen.

I really don't see 7th Sea as that close to Castle Falkenstein, I like both but 7th sea lacks sea powered mechs and the presence of the fae. Granted those two things might have been changed in the newest edition, I have not read it yet.

Although I did not vote this I think my dream MU* would be a Castle Falkenstien game that focused on adventure, that said I know it would never happen.
Edit: My actual vote went to Superhero but with the caveat that is be all OC and actually using a game system of some sort, and having that system not be Mutants and Masterminds.

And there there is the cousin of the telenuke, which is a well prepared sniper, either with supernatural bonuses or not. Not quite as guaranteed but equally lacking in RP.

the big plus in using 5th ed is that the numbers have flattened a lot. Granted power levels are not close to equal but you will run into a lot less of the I only hit on a nat 20 than you would with 3.5, the big difference not is not in hit chance but how much more damage and other effects that the higher levels can spring on you with each hit.

While it is not necessarily my preference WoD is by far what i have played the most on MU*s and likely will continue to be so, mainly for the reasons of familiarity and most importantly the poison pills in WoD are the ones I can handle swallowing the best.
All genres have their own little things that tend to be everywhere in that genre and are distasteful so I think a lot of selecting a genre end up being which flavor of crap is least revolting.

Off topic to the game but on topic to the paladin discussion, third edition also introduced paladins of concepts, can't remember which book it was in. One of my favorite characters was a Paladin of Tyranny that the rest of the PCs hated but stuck with because he was effective and quite lawful so was able to build a minimum trust level.

@VulgarKitten
Well in a lot of the languages descended from Latin the -a denotes female. So I think it is likely done to present as feminine especially since for most games after a few months of play a lot of the popular real names are taken so fake names abound.

@surreality said in RL Anger:

Without the thing he's screaming about sucking so badly, I would actually be dead right now. Full stop. There's not a question, an 'if', or 'maybe' there.

Surr I agree with you a lot, but because something works one time no matter how personally that one time is does not mean it doesn't suck.
My mother's life was saved when she was 16 by not wearing a seat belt. I literally would never have existed if she had worn a seat belt that one time but wearing a seat belt is still smart. I am very glad medical care saved your live but that does not mean that the system of medical care in the US does not suck.

@Three-Eyed-Crow said in Full spoilers: Iron Fist:

Iron Fist is...also a martial artist but played by a less good actor with less good writing than Daredevil (and also less good stunt doubling. I don't know how much Charlie Cox actually does in DD in terms of stunt work, but either him or his stunt people deserve major props because that is some of the best choreography you'll get on TV)? I don't know why THIS guy, out of all the Marvel bench-warmers that could've shone in their own show.

My guess would be we have an Iron Fist show because we have a Luke Cage show and given how closely those characters are tied but publishing history they likely wanted them to be together in the upcoming Heroes For Hire show. (Yes I know the show will using the name of Marvel famous non-team but I will not call it that.)

TV Tropes sees it our way, though that is not really the best source.

I have always heard it used as the one you have the lowest number in. From the olden days of random char gen it was the stat you dumped your worst roll in.
Not sure when it first came into use but I know I heard it used that way when I was in junior high so mid-late 80s.

I think it is a good idea to attempt to grow their market, though honestly i would never use it.
The main draw for tabletops to me is the in personal social interaction which would be pretty much lost on the computer, but I am not big on on-line tabletops in general. From my limited experience with them they have tended to combine the main downsides of table tops with the main downsides of mushing with little gain.

Allan Moore while being a wonderful author most of the time has the inability to get along with anyone over a mid to long term time frame. That said to get this on topic, recommendations for things written by Moore.
Not going to mention the really famous ones since everyone knows about them but on the less famous side,

Ballad of Halo Jones. Sci Fi from the UK very character driven not a lot of action, main character is an everywoman who ends up effecting the course of planets. The entire thing was collected into one volume in 2001 and AFAIK has not be reprinted since so might be hard to find.

Tom Strong. Very pulp, the title character is a scientist adventurer, very not dark compared to most of Moore's work.

@Ganymede
It is pretty much all Catholics really. The Irish tend to have the stereotype as a left over of anti-immigration feelings in the 1850s.
I come from a family that is half German Catholic and half Irish Catholic numbers get scary large on both sides except for the immediate family in my case.