An Amber MUX that focuses on the theme and genre of Zelazny's books instead of reorienting toward a Firan-style High Fussiness in Amber.
And uses code that wasn't extracted from the guts of mosquitoes trapped in Amber.
An Amber MUX that focuses on the theme and genre of Zelazny's books instead of reorienting toward a Firan-style High Fussiness in Amber.
And uses code that wasn't extracted from the guts of mosquitoes trapped in Amber.
@Misadventure said:
Who, alive today, would you blame?
People who fly the Stars and Bars or the Bonnie Blue Flag without understanding what they mean.
People who fly the Stars and Bars or the Bonnie Blue Flag who absolutely understand what they mean.
Individuals who serve or have served in the U.S. government or the military who fly either flag, doubly so.
People who build monuments to Stonewall Jackson.
People who name bridges, schools, or hospitals after confederate generals.
People who refuse to admit their state turned traitor over the right to own slaves, even after you read said state's secession declaration aloud, to them.
People who support Voter ID laws.
People who use gerrymandering to put a political stranglehold on any area with a large minority population.
Politicians who punish participants in SNAP for a statistically insignificant amount of fraud instead of coming down on the crooked shop owners who must be in on it for SNAP fraud to happen, at all, period.
It's a long list. I blame them. I absolutely blame them.
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This is a pure Sabbat MUX looking to explore both the subtleties of living your un-life within an ecclesiarchy that expects, nay demands you to throw out your humanity like a used condom, where the hypocrite may be your only hope in the face of the true believer.
The year is 2015, and the Sabbat has suffered tribulation in the wake of the False Gehenna, as a emboldened Camarilla lashed out to give it a black eye, and its own internal politics nearly tore the sect apart from within.
Temoch the Jackal has emerged from obscurity to claim the Regent's seat, and his ecclesiastical reforms are shaking the Sabbat to its foundations. The Harbingers of Skulls have emerged into the light, taking childer at an astonishing rate as they step up their war against the disgusting Giovanni.
Sascha Vykos is dead. Whether the Inquisition's accusations of diabolism were truth or politics, the legendary Ronin Priscus is just another gravestone in Francisco Domingo de Polonia's garden. With its death, the Tzimisce are forced to confront five centuries of history, and the notion that perhaps they entrusted too much of their clan's dark hopes to the creature now ironically called Caine's Angel.
The game allows the standard array of Lasombra, Tzimisce, and the Antitribu, plus Serpents of the Light, Salubri Antitribu, Harbingers of Skulls (!)... everything Sabbat except for Kiasyd, Blood Brothers, and Telyavs is okay, pretty much.
For those looking for that sweet, sweet Sabbat candy, Serpents of the Light are Thaumaturgy and Necromancy-OK. Koldunic sorcerers will be coming down the pipe before too long.
The game is also Mortal-OK, though as a personal aside, I always wonder about the masochistic streak of anyone who'd play a human on a Sabbat game....
@HelloProject In my experience it can be a long fucking list that's subject to change but might just have "your splat existing at all" on it.
@Silver said:
Interesting bit of history: Egyptians had a system of civil service called Corvee, in which every Egyptian was expected to spend a portion of their life in service to the kingdom. I don't remember how long that service was or how it was figured, but once it was finished they went about their lives free of their service. The people who made the pyramids were normal Egyptians fulfilling their service within Corvee. There were slaves in Egypt but typically they were a minority of the labor force.
As far as I can recall, Egypt, Greece, Rome, Persia, et al had slaves but their economic systems weren't dependent on a massive slave caste. While that's hardly equitable there's a measurable difference between slavery as practiced in the old empires and the chattel slavery practiced by European colonies in the Americas.
Here's the thing about chattel slavery. To support your economy, you need a lot of slaves. As in, slaves outnumber free individuals by a significant percentage. This can only end in disaster. Haiti is the textbook example of the chattel slavery death spiral. Even if the Confederacy had forced the Union to sue for peace, we would've likely had to invade again a few decades down the line if only to pacify the unrest on our border.
Of course, it's just as likely the CSA would've turned to the UK for help. Heh. Heh. Ah hah hah hah hah.
I'll swear up and down, right and left, that the schism was the best thing that happened to Camarilla genre. The Gangrel were a non-entity, and are better as independent individualists who join the Camarilla if they feel like it but usually can't be arsed. The Assamites bringing a huge fraction of their sorcerers to the Camarilla, on the other hand, meant the Tremere don't have a bullshit monopoly on mojo, forcing them to be competitive. Which makes them much more interesting to play.
From a narrative perspective, FFIX is probably my favorite Final Fantasy. It showed that if your protagonist is forward-looking, the narrative won't be overwhelmingly dark no matter how dire events are. And events are dire. There wasn't a civilization in that game except for dwarftown that didn't get in an on-scene FITAWNL.
VI is great, but they chose to completely abandon linear story halfway through the game in favor of all-optional sidequests once you've got the Falcon. All you need to do is get enough of the characters together to storm Kefka's tower.
I always got the impression VII's narrative was about truth and lies, and how sometimes the truth can break your will--but if you're strong, in the end it will always set you free.
I liked VIII, because in the end I'm as much of a sucker for a romance as anybody else. In the end Squall does what he does because he fell in love, and it made him brave. That's a good enough narrative transformation for me.
If there were widespread slave revolts (and there would've been), I have no doubt the UK would've intervened.
In exchange for the CSA becoming Victoria's personal muppet. Love the boot, boys...
@Bobotron If you do it, I'll play a Vizier. Not even a sorcerer.
Going out to an evening of mindless entertainment and paying six dollars for a freaking gin and tonic. Seriously, I had a lovely time.
I don't think most FCs would be accumulating XP either. They'd get their sheet and then go with it. OCs, we'd need to work out a system.
Have people not yet learned that a Storyteller System game with NO STORYTELLERS is no game at all?
Amazing World of Gumball is visually jarring sometimes but it is incredibly well-written with great gags and pacing. It included maybe the best dozens put-down I've ever heard:
"Your mother's so ugly that even the warts on her face spell out 'UGLY' in braille."
It's just that CN is resorting to the formula it's used since Ed, Edd, N' Eddy of finding something that sucks and padding out the schedule with it. Mostly, I'm getting tired of "retard humor", where the joke is that the protagonist is, quite literally, mentally retarded.
There's a fine line between The Mayor of Townsville (hilarious) and Uncle Grandpa (not) but I don't know enough about comedy to give that lecture.
@fatefan I would cut New Mutants off RIGHT after they captured Sugar Man and retrieved X-Man, because that's when DNA's arc started to go off the rails and that story was actually pretty cool.
I'm going to be playing a Ventrue member of the Ordo Dracul, possibly an Architect of the Monolith if they don't SUCK after Coin gets through rewriting their perks.
I've played Nosferatu a ton, but am looking to get away from the mold of someone mostly motivated by loneliness and try someone mostly motivated both by desire for knowledge and the power that comes with it, because power rocks.
After watching Kingsman, I really want to play up the OD as a sort of "elegant if sinister" secret society. And see what insane gadgets and tricks Coin will let me get away with.
Visually a lot of those shows are dated. As clever as Animaniacs is, it looks primitive. So do shows I love like Dexter's Lab and the Powerpuff Girls. I get the distinct impression Cartoon Network is cycling either down or up to some kind of shift, because there's even more filler on both it and Boomerang than I remember.
However, even Adult Swim (which I remember as mostly feculent post-modernism, haha, it's funny because it's incoherent) has gotten a laugh out of me. Jack & Triumph is really stupid and an absolute riot if you can accept that. And I thought I was going to hate China, Il. until they spent an entire episode teasing a godzilla battle between Hulk Hogan and Steve Urkel on dinosaur testosterone -- and they delivered.
USA is still out there but it mostly runs standard network content with the exception of WWE, which is leaning heavily towards its subscription network (they're even sending feelers into producing non-wrestling content, which is... weird).
I was thinking more of the X-Men centric Marvel game. Or call it the West Coast-centric Marvel game.
So did the Trial of Megatron take place in your game? Because as awesome as that is, the Cons are in a WEIRD place right now, since all of their potential leaders have either renounced the spot or are dead. I think the only one who's neither is Overlord, who got... fired into a sun or something?
I actually really like where it's going, because even a four million year-long war has to end SOMETIME. And when you've been fighting for that long, how the heck do you build a peace?