Posts made by The Tree of Woe

@Bristled Thistle said:

Bloodsucking Viking/Lobster Boat Captain with a penchant for seduction, blood magic, foul-mouthed honesty, kindred-on-kindred violence, and building up the city's main docks into something to be proud of.

I'm not a fan of throwing the baby out with the bathwater. Alternate continuities are fine, but really if you have some kind of intrinsic opposition to the characters and events of a setting then you don't REALLY want to play in that setting.

Your idea sounds good, by the way.

YES. MORE. MORE.

Yessssssss....

This:

http://www.thehindu.com/sport/football/qatar-to-be-stripped-of-2022-world-cup-fifa-whistleblower/article7291607.ece

People behaving like shitty, mouth-breathing cunts over competition between A Song of Ice and Fire roleplaying venues is absurdist poetry.

Keep it up! Act like bigger cunts! Live the book! Valar morghulis!

I'm not really into the full straight razor as a casual thing - honestly I'd just slit my own throat - but I do recommend switching from plastic razors to a metal safety razor. The learning curve's not high, and the shave is both much faster and amazing.

Nobody seems to want to play with me either, sometimes. Don't feel bad.

Right now I'll just grind my frickin' teeth at all the candy bullshit Demons get.

Came, saw, sent you an Overlord app.

Now see, I don't like the Sith Fanboying, but the Sorcerer in The Old Republic did it right.

Do you want to do the kinda evil thing, the evil thing, or the super evil thing? There is a right answer, and it involves force lightning.

I never understood the train of thought that goes "I love this setting, and I'd love to play in it, except we need to throw out everything about it." Amber without the Princes and Princesses, Transformers without Optimus or Megatron (c'mon, it didn't even work when the actual SHOW did it), Star Wars without Luke, Leia, Lando et al.

I mean, I guess I understand that you don't want those characters usurping the story? But it's a little like throwing the baby out with the bathwater, innit?

Actually FATE would be the perfect system for it, since it adapts very well to narrative flow, and can account for someone like Benedict saying "Well, you may have reckoned on these guys, but you didn't count on my five hundred thousand reinforcements."

Amber is a series of ten short novels and some short stories written by the late, great Roger Zelazny from a period ranging from the 70s to the early 90s.

Simple version: all conceivable realities are the shadows cast by two polar dimension primes -- "Amber", the city of which all cities are but a shadow, and the Courts of Chaos, which is a little bit like a giant Dali painting if you had to live in it and it was ruled by massive, feuding noble houses. Amber is ruled by one noble house, whose founder was a rebel against and refugee from the Courts of Chaos. His children spent a very long time being absolute shits, until the shittiest of them woke up from a coma and drank a very big glass of grow-up juice.

Do you have an address for your place? Also, who's free on either side? I admit, it would be fun as hell to play Overlord, and add a little Fabulousness to the Decepticon High Command meetings.

It needs to be able to handle a broad variety of things, from sci-fi level weaponry and gear to sword-and-sorcery... and fairly adjudicate when they interact.

One thing I'm really enjoying is Starscream's political ambitions running full-stop into an Optimus-shaped wall, and Optimus isn't really doing anything other than getting really annoyed.

Today Starscream learned it's a real pisser when someone is both incorruptible and has sharpened their acumen by fighting Megatron for four million years.

I knew Molly Ringwald coming back to movies would herald the return of the 1980s.

At the grave of John Hughes, a moldy, worm-eaten claw just erupted from the earth, clutching a Breakfast Club script.

I always wanted to play Kup and have like a major personal feud with Shockwave. When you think of how many of Kup's friends Big Purple must've sent to the smelting pool over the years...

"I am Chief of Security for all of Cybertron! And I am severely understaffed!"

For the readers out there, Tanith Lee passed away Sunday.