@arkandel said in The Basketball Thread:
Hot take: Lebron could take an Eastern Conference team consisted of myself, the guy who drove my bus this morning, the cashier at the Tim Horton's around the corner and my cat to the NBA Finals.
The real accomplishment will be taking more than one game from whomever wins game 7 tonight.
As much as I dislike Harden I will have to cheer for Houston tonight. I have been dreading Warriors -Cavs for for the last 6 months.
I agree and would definitely not approve the character on the game, I would just make to to leave enough blame for the original creators of the character as well as those that play them on mushes.
@prototart said in Let's talk about TS.:
totally weird gross creep the way p much everybody with any sort of pheromone power basically is always a weird gross creep (see literally not figuratively everybody who's ever played dakken or empath on a game)
To be fair that is how Empath was written for the most part to, especially after the Nova Roma retcon.
I too am an American but some things just look better spelt the British way, for example armour and theatre look off to me using US spellings. However I will spell center and color like an American until the day I die.
Edit: I grew up close enough to Canada to receive Canadian broadcast television so that might explain my mixed spelling tendencies.
@thenomain said in Hello MSBites! Grade your administrators.:
Entry level community theatre is the exact same way. It's easy to spot a stable influence once you see what happens behind the scenes.
I will agree with this analogy, each theatre is a community, and I do see each of the actual games we play on as communities, but I wouldn't see a board on-line where people talked about theatre and community theatres to be communities either just like here.
Though as an interesting bit of data I am part f message boards that discuss pro wrestling, general sports, and Big Brother (reality TV show) as well as here. The wrestling and general sports ones don't have any pretense of community while here and Big Bro one do but there is far more contention on the Big Brother one and here. I am honestly curious at to weather the topics are natural more contentious which causes the desire for communal feelings as a response or if the sense of attempts at forcing community lead to contention, or if it is just random small amounts of data my brain wants to force into a pattern because that is what brains do.
@arkandel said in Hello MSBites! Grade your administrators.:
People in general don't dislike each other. I don't believe that.
Believe it or not, I genuinely dislike people in general, not just here or in gaming but in life. I don't keep track of who I argue with from one point to the next in 90 percent of cases but trust me my baseline view of humanity is thinly veiled dislike.
I think a big part of the issue is trying to force the concept of community on people who for the most part only have MUSHing in common and generally dislike each other while MUSHing.
@jaded
Or the fact the vehicles didn't track heat (at least in the edition at the time I played) so if hit with a flamer instead of getting more heat there was a chance they just cooked off regardless of armor. In a long term tabletop Mechwarrior/Battletech campaign one of the players started with a Firestarter (I think that was the name, light mech whose main weapon was flamers) it quickly became the vehicle slayer of the group.
@arkandel said in 'Inspired by' rather 'This Work: The Mu':
For me the greatest issue with original settings is that player buy-in is hard.
My issue is similar to this though I am not sure if buy in is the right term for my issue, for me the hard part is not buying in, if I like the general premise i have no issues investing the time to make the character and run in plot things the issue comes in when it is time for social RP, not the big issues those usually gets covered in the wiki so I know how a settings government works but what do the people do for leisure time, is there theatre in the setting what is it like? What spectator activities are there? Heck even weather patterns all help me get into social RP (and in the case of weather is has been shown RL to have a dramatic effect on moods), in a real world or published setting a lot of this is out there. In most original settings it is not.
What i have found in original settings is that I will play the heck out of the plots but tend to drift away from social RP and since most scenes are social I end up pretty disconnected from the game.
While I am all in favor of not having FCs in a game, I think one of the big issues with inspired by a genre rather than a singular property is there is a lot more decision making over head before you start. For example lets take a vampire, are they affected by crosses? What about garlic? Wolfsbane? Running water? Will a stake in the heart kill them or render them immobile or kill them but if someone moves the stake from the corpse they pop back up? etc. All this leads to a big task of getting and keeping everyone on the same page.
If you have more than one super you then have even more things like how does a vamp biting a werewolf effect both sides, which race tends to be stronger and so on. I think that is the big reason single property games flourish is that someone has already made most of the decisions on how the world works.
@rizbunz
Though it seems like the ship has sailed it could be a fun game. And I would be happy to see a superhero game not set on the eastern seaboard of the US.
@jennkryst
Wait are those for real? I never know they existed and now I want them. Something about children's books set in that setting makes me want to read them just to see how the car crashes.
Just a quick Question since the original post was up and gone while i had to actually be productive for a couple of hours, what is Genosha?
The only think I can come up with in my head is Marvel's Island country just off the cost of Africa that get decimated a lot and alternates being a repressive country built on the back of mutant slave labor and being a country for mutants.
@royal said in Favorite music streaming service?:
Could have been worse. Could have been Five Finger Death Punch. The best cover band in the world.
You misspelled Me First and the Gimme Gimmes really badly there.
Pandora was my vote so other. It has been around long enough it's algorithm knows what I like and with careful pruning each of the stations I have is set perfectly to the moods I have when I choose them. What more could I want?
For a specific instance where I want to her an exact song,I youtube it.
Mildly off topic but every time I open up this thread I hear Salt and Peppa in my head, then I realize how old that song is and by extension how old I am.
@pyrephox said in Let's talk about TS.:
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@ganymede said in Let's talk about TS.:
Jake the One-Eyed Trouser Snake.
The Flesh Spear of Destiny.
Russell the Milk-Spitting Muscle.
Misplaced Baby Fist.
Squirtle.I can keep going, I guess.
I feel you should! Extra points if it could also be the name for a D&D weapon or artifact.
Rod of Monstrous Size?
If you are going the D+D magic item route we have to go with the best.
Rod of Lordly Might.
The first questions I ask when things get psychical is what rating is preferred for the scene, MPAA ratings that is for example PG13 would likely means a quick fade to black, etc on up, it helps to set a tone with having to get overly sharing on a OOC level. It also solves an issue where if Player A prefers one level and Player B the other they know to fond other players with desires more along the same lines.
I know nothing about Reign but I played in a One Roll game, Godlike, which was world war 2 with superheroes. And while it fit the tone the mechanics were pretty high lethality so you might want to make sure you players are prepared for that.
Fox cancelled a bunch today, I never watched Brooklyn 99 but I did Last Man on Earth and the Mick and both of those got the axe as well.
I am not sure I have a type though there are a few concepts I recycle a bit I tend to play a bit of everything.
The one constant is I play characters that will do just about anything to avoid authority over others in any way. I have gotten suckered into being a leader type a couple of times on MUs and the headaches always leave fun in the dust so now I bake that avoidance into the character from jump., The other thing I always include is a trapdoor that can be used as the ooc reason the character is gone if I decide to bounce from the game. That way I can give those that would be affected at least an IC reason that can be reacted to or ignored as desired once I am gone.