Posts made by The Tree of Woe

The Amazing World of Gumball.

Because those individuals are stupid.

I've been trying to think of a good descriptor for them, because "Uncle Tom" is outmoded.

• Disproportionate ratio of PCs to Storytellers
• Transient roleplayer population
• Players are often expected to resolve situations without an ST present
• Games tend to be restricted to a relatively small geographic area ("the city") - this is changing, somewhat, on MUXes
• STs will often attempt to be conservative with exotic concepts and abilities to try and keep things on the rails - "anti-snowflake syndrome"
• Storytellers are often not familiar with an individual character's backstory or events that have influenced them IC

Those are the ones I can think of off the top of my head.

Subway salads.

I'll never get another sub there again.

I have said and will continue saying that a MUSH is more akin to a LARP than a tabletop, with many of the same hobgoblins. For the sanity of everyone else at the table, I shall decline to talk about those at this time.

@BetterJudgment Scott Walker was predicted 30 years ago in Robocop, down to the state.

It's almost eerie.

@Silver I will admit sometimes I'd love to RP, but I don't know the fuck's going on!

But really I think at times my desire not to stand around and chat makes me something of a pariah. I should probably take a cue from you and fuck with people's heads a little more.

@Pyrephox: The LARP circles around here call it the Cigarette Test and it's usually used to critique storytellers, but it can be used on players too.

"I went to get a pack of camels. A cabal of Assamites jumped out from behind the 7/11 and tried to bushwhack me." "Man, he failed the cigarette test."

Needing to lose weight and my doctor's wholly sensible advice of cutting back on carbs, especially after 6 PM.

It's gonna be a hungry summer....

I thought it was Pearl who got the musical number.

Back when I used to play face-to-face WoD tabletops, GMs tended not to believe me when I pointed that out, so don't feel bad.

The next great hurdle is making them understand that you're supposed to re-check your initiative in CWoD at the start of every turn.

In Revised and 20th Anniversary Edition, a botch is a roll where you get at least one '1' and no successes. Otherwise it is merely a failed check. So spending a willpower (automatic success) has the additional effect of ensuring that at worst you fail the die roll.

50 is ancient for a gorilla.

Thank @Silver for this one. John Cleese hosted a televised seminar on trolling.

Viscera Cleanup Detail. A game where you're a janitor (or janitors) who clean up the carnage left behind in sci-fi video games or movies. There's an expansion they give you with the game where you clean up after a Kill Bill-style movie fight scene and a Dynasty Warriors level.

If anybody's interested in cooperatively cleaning up the mess left on the Nostromo.... seriously, that place is a wreck.

@HelloRaptor Actually no, I wasn't talking about you. Inquire before you swear at people. You colossal narcissist.

I notice in all that you did not once actually counter my point about Awakening. Thanks!

"He threw a bic pen into a tree in front of me."

I don't feel sad about Christopher Lee's passing. What a life that man had. He got to play Dracula, Saruman, and he could kill you with a goddamn bic pen at range.

Dusty... from what I've heard, Dusty could be a difficult guy, but he calmed down when he got older, it seems, and he made peace with his family -- and a pro wrestler making it to almost 70 especially when they did the shit Dusty Rhodes did - fucking barbed-wire matches - is an achievement.

Thenomain's bitching about the Order of Hermes aside (if you want to know if something's good, check out the things he doesn't like), my problem with Awakening was that it specifically threw out something you really had to do to play Ascension -- pick up a book that wasn't a fucking game book and read it, whether that's The Emerald Tablet or the Qur'an or The Selfish Gene.

That's why I don't like Awakening - it's Mage for lazy intellects.

I loved CWoD because it bucked a trend by trying not to be futuristic, but modern. It was and is about the here-and-now viewed through a fantastic lens.

I love NWoD as a different flavor of the same thing. A little less tongue-in-cheek, a little more serious in some ways.

What I don't like about CWoD was the continued emphasis on futility. The problem with horror is that viewed in a broad sense, the protagonists are not supposed to succeed. And while that's fine every now and then, that shit gets real old real fast. I don't necessarily WANT to play in a game where the Nephandi/Baali/Technocracy/Wyrm/Whoever have it all locked down.