Posts made by ThatGuyThere

@Hexagon
One of the few places I will give CoH props is the use of reality levels.
A PC can set themselves to see the appropriate levels and in a mixed scene poses can be made to one reality to simulate things like chimerical or spiritual activities. Same with desc having components to each reality as needed.
Though all things are set to a base level so for example a wraith PC walks into a bar, everyone sees the PC object enter, if you look at the PC you see whatever nothing here description the player set but those set to see wraith things would see that line as well as the wraith desc.
For poses the basic ones go to everyone where f: would show to just the fae sighted folks. And w: poses go to just the wraith people etc.

@SG
Never played Labrynth Lord, but then I am not big on the OSR in general.
I will give Savage Worlds Credit for producing great settings many of them are well worth the read for enjoyment purposes and of course stealing ideas from.

@Arkandel
I don't see any conflict of interest involved. Now if Bob and Joe's player transfers info between the two of them then yes that is an issue but on him/her more than you as the runner.
If that doesn't take place and no one uses an alt to somehow benefit their other alt in the course of play then I see no issue with it. Now it might require some hoop jumping in storytelling to make sure Joe and Bob don't end up in the same place when it might make sense for them to through purely IC means but I don't see the situation in general as a problematic one.

@WTFE
To me Savage Worlds falls into what I call "The middle valley". What i mean by that is that is is not simple enough to be a really rules light game, but it is also not robust enough to engaging as a game. I have played in a couple of campaigns using it in groups where I was the only common element. Both times I had fun in the game for the story being told but every time that it was necessary to engage the mechanics the games became a chore. I would honestly rather just sit around a table telling a story without any sort of system then use Savage Worlds.
I can honestly say out of every system I have played, (nearly two dozen) Savage Worlds is the only one I would refuse to be in a game using.

@SG said in Rate A Concept:

A savage worlds Rifts game.

There would be dimensions with different SW suppliments, likea Weird Wars dimension, a Deadlands dimension, and the Rifts world dimension to go total gonzo.

The opening arc would start with a normal every day world with project Arrowhead from The Mist happening.

If the PCs shut that down, the second chapter will be Unforseen Consequences from Half Life taking place, wtih the 7 hour war. This will open the rifts for the starting player base, giving access to Rifts Earth, and the premise to acquire technology and allies in order to take Earth back from the Combine.

I had a half assed outline for the campaign, and think it could be done in about a year if there was a semi interested group of players.

But then life got busy and I've little time to follow through.

I like the idea but would prefer almost any system to be used rather then Savage Worlds.

@Arkandel said in Shadows Over Reno:
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But complaining about +jobs being slow after we've been told they will be slow seems silly. In fact it can prove very counter-productive; I'd rather they take a long time than Wendigo being forced to hire bad people just to make the trains run on time.

Not on Reno so no dog in this fight but there is a rather huge difference to me between slow and no word in 6 days.
To me slow would be in the 3 to 4 day range, I agree hiring bad staff is not the answer but I don't think someone complaining on a six days with no progress is anyway in the wrong either.

That is how I got my current cat.
The person that owned it had five or six cats and when they moved just kicked them out of the house and moved on. This was in the summer so me and a couple of other neighbors put out water, then when winter hit I started putting out food too since I might not have wanted another pet at the time (I already had a cat at the time who was very anti-social with other animals) I was not going to have them starve.
The good part is that by the next summer all of the abandoned animals had found homes with various people in the neighborhood including my current cat with me , since my other cat was very old and ended up passing.

@Misadventure said in Good TV:

As long as it wasn't Atlantis Attacks.

Hey I liked Atlantis Attacks, but that is mostly because I am a sucker for anything involving the Serpent Crown since most of that history played out in the old Marvel-Two-in-One title and in Suby's vastly underrated 60s solo series, which was thankfully reprinted in the late 70s.

@tragedyjones said in Good TV:

So I watched my first episode of Flash today. Because Supergirl. Crossover is fun so far even if the "4 night event" was a little disingenuous of the advertising.

But Part One of the crossover is the most true to comics thing ever put on TV.
Very Minor Spoiler: Despite the Crossover hype Supergirl was a normal Supergirl ep with the cross over only happening in the last scene.
Trust me this is how a metric shit ton of first parts of actual cross overs are, not to mention all the times a guest appear gets hyped on a cover to literally last a page or two.
While it most likely mildly deceptive advertising, I like to think of it as an homage to the medium that spawned the characters.

I am kinda in both camps on this one. To me RPing is primarily a social activity, if it was just the placing myself in a role and gaming aspect there are video games that do that better and far more time efficiently then MU* could ever dream of, and I am far more likely to RP with someone I find pleasant OOCly then someone unpleasant or a blank slate OOCly. However I almost never give out RL information to people I RP with even those I consider friends and have RPed with across multiple games over many years.

That was one of my favorites sites back in the day.
I think my favorite was Freaks: The Scene.

@Kanye-Qwest said in Coming Soon: Arx, After the Reckoning:

@WTFE said in Coming Soon: Arx, After the Reckoning:

But no amount of repeating the mantra "just use a temp email" is going to change the fact (and yes, it is actually a fact) that requiring email for a pretendy fun-time game is an idiotic decision from the get-go. Especially given, again, the history that is paired with such requirements.

So do you promise that an email requirement will keep you away? Asking for a friend!

That's some high quality staffing right there.

@Gilette
For me personally I criticize form because it is the only clue I have as to what the intent actually is.
A better clue is behavior after apology but that usually requires opening yourself but to the possibility of being burned by that person again, so before even taking that step I look to form. It is not going to be 100 percent accurate but nothing is but I feel it is far better then just blindly accepting someone is contrite.

@Goyim said in Coming Soon: Arx, After the Reckoning:

I swear Arx has more OOC politics than IC ones.

Never been on Arx but that statement describes at least 95 percent of all game ever.

@Kanye-Qwest said in Coming Soon: Arx, After the Reckoning:

@Thenomain You didn't shit on the game, you said that anyone who thought there was a valid reason for email requirement to play refuses to see/use logic.

So what is the logic behind an e-mail requirement? I mean I am like @Arkandel and have a game e-mail that has nothing close to my RL info attached to it so I will play on games with that requirement, but I have yet to see a sound reason to require an e-mail.
It can't be to prove identity because it is super easy to have multiple e-mails with different identities as both Ark and I show.

@Warma-Sheen said in The Apology Thread:

So mine was an regret-expressed non-apology.

Which is something I fully support. I think there is a lot more to be gain from honest communication even when the parties do not agree and will not come to an agreement then there is from performing a social dance one does not mean.
I think that is one of the reasons people tend to look over apologies so closely is that through both fiction and modern media we see far to many non-pologies.

@Warma-Sheen said in The Apology Thread:

But I don't think that's something to apologize for. I had certain experiences and expectations and other people had different ones. That's life. Not everyone agrees. Trying to craft that into an apology would definitely be pandering to people.

If you don't think it is something to apologize for why would you want to craft an apology for it? That is the type of behavior that completely devalues apologies in general.

I do apologize for things I regret and feel sorry for but there are things I have done that others have thought horrible that I do not think I was wrong on and while I will acknowledge that I might have erred I would never apologize for those things. To do so would be dishonest which I feel I would then have to apologize for oddly enough.

@Monogram
If the bread you eat is bland you are most definitely eating the wrong bread.

Given that one of the character now listed is a referred to as a Viper pilot I would assume Battle Star... something that starts with U.

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.