Coin got it. Where I play, a PrP has become systemized. There is an expectation that it have a point, an ending, or at the very least a risk/reward setup. Some people are good at winging it, but the last five years in the realms of WoD that's been discouraged.
I think we're seeing a reversal of that, but I still see the letters "PrP" and cringe.
@Tux said in Fate's Harvest BETA Live (Full Open Soon):
VASpider is playing Gisa.
Thank you for the update. The More We Know(tm).
@Thenomain I understood that speech somewhat differently. It wasn't that spreading was the problem, it was spreading without regard to the environment that made humans somewhat unique.
If you think deer care about its impact on the environment, you don't know deer. No, animals don't have any regard to the environment. It's the environment, including other species and sometimes its own, that throws up the problems that creates the rules under which we define positive evolution.
@Thenomain said in RL Anger:
… not even evolution has solved overpopulation.
Sure it has. We just don't particularly want to experience its solution.
Reduced effectiveness in breeding? Yeah, no, that's alright.
Oh, wait, you mean death. We experience this solution all the time, though as higher thinking animals we are kind of shit in dealing with it. We work pretty hard to avoid it thus expanding our ability to breed. This is evolution working as intended.
If you mean disease, this isn't our evolutionary response to overpopulation, this is a consequence of it. Evolution isn't solving nothing...well, our evolution isn't. The disease is certainly taking advantage of it.
All of this means that: Evolution doesn't give one shit about the environment, and neither does any animal or plant life. At best, they're taking advantage of changing situations such as natural enemies being reduced or removed entirely when transplanted to a different ecosystem. Or dying off because of same.
The Matrix's "mankind as virus" speech is utter nonsense.
@Ide said in XP systems:
I liked the vote review system with a panel of players on Aether as well. I don't remember the specifics -- I think votes were anonymous but with no explanation? @Thenomain I summon thee.
Reccs were a small paragraph of text that were anonymous to players so a blind group of 10 players would vote if the reccs for that character that month were worth 0-3, with 3 meant to be pretty rare.
Getting a rotating group of 10 players together once a month (so about 20 players, different sets each month if possible) became stressful. It was reduced to 5 later on, which would be my bare minimum to make this system work.
After the process, the players got to see the nominations for themselves, including the name of the person who submitted the good vibes.
Nowadays it's the occasional bonus kudos, one at a time.
I would say that we kept her balanced on Haunted Memories in Changeling since we had a lot to do and intelligent players, but I see that as the exception.
edit: Once when she was 'elected' Queen of Autumn, about a third of the active Freehold walked out on her Crowning. Okay, about a third of the Freehold walked out on everyone's Crowning. It's very hard to be a leader when a majority of your flock willfully ignore you. I don't think any of us sabotaged her Season rule, though. None of us went that far. I don't think any, or certainly not many, of us wanted to sabotage the game to spite anyone else. I may not have agreed with or sometimes didn't like a bunch of you, but I respected the effort everyone put in. I think we all did, when the smoke cleared.
@Apu said in Dead Celebrity Thread:
I think the idea was to have the second season take place before Serenity, so Wash could come back.
Sometimes you have to look at the time passed and the age of the actors and not do something based on that.
@The_Supremes said in XP systems:
@Thenomain said in XP systems:
Roughly around 60-80 players for pulling 10, 40+ for pulling 5. This really only works if the people who help are fairly random; if the same five or ten people are seeing the nominations then half of the system isn't working; the half where people get to see how awesome their peers think this other person is.
Do you not anonymize the recipient of the +recc as well as the author?
No. Everyone gets to see the things said about a specific character. I'm trying to imagine how it would look if the recipient were also anonymous, but things like "an amazing plot about two penguins and the police car" would probably out them pretty quick.
@Ominous said in Fate's Harvest BETA Live (Full Open Soon):
Changeling is one of the few WoD settings I have been interested in, but I don't have any of the books. Do I need the books to know what I am doing to play here?
On the whole, for any RPG, read the book. If you have to borrow it from someone you know online, try to do so. If you like Changeling, throw some money Onyx Path's way just like you would any artist you enjoy.
@WTFE said in Dead Celebrity Thread:
I'm calling Buzz Aldrin for 2016 too.
The guy's too ornery to die. He'll turn into hardwood before he's dead. Or, apparently, die while doing things that people half his age couldn't even attempt.
Way back in the dawn of time just as NorCon PernMush (the original) was starting up, I helped code for a simple ElfQuest game called TwoMoonsMush. We only had elven magic as skills and the time scale was long enough that we created a learning system where regardless of anything else, given enough time your, say, Fire Magic would increase. The curve was diminishing returns, so the older you were the slower that would go. I can see this working with a system that got you more starting points for later age to simulate the learning you missed before creating the player.
Anyhow, it worked remarkably well, and could be enhanced by occasional RP points. This being based on a Chaosium system, we would give people a random very low amount if they showed that they learned something about their magic by failing, or something like that. It was also a percentile system, so people would see the small point increase over time, whether it was RL months or years.
This is the only time I have ever applied calculus to my real life.
I Em Mytee:
..: Gifts :..................................................................
Half Moon's Gift .................................. Scent Beneath the Surface
Gift of Shaping .................................................... Unlocked
Gift of Weather (not unlocked) .................... Heavens Unleashed (Glory)
Nature's Gift ....................................... Nature's Lure (Cunning)
Black Earth, Red Hunger (Glory)
Knotted Paths (Honor)
@Apu
He punched a paparazzi reporter. Always my hero.
I would use it to set scenes, and to remind people that having an open conversations about magic in the Starbucks isn't a great idea.
I would not use it for environmental emits. I would use it to name specific NPCs and stat them. I would use it as a way to complain that it's not accurate or varied enough, which is what I do with my own weather code. If my NPC barista has a Charisma of 1, would the crowd be smaller when he's on duty?
I would want to know what the point of it was before I looked into installing it, and I would answer the question: does this goal fit my game or enhance role play? Alternatively, can I use it to enhance other code? How fast will the police be called based on the crowd and mood and location? How likely would a missed gunshot hit an observer? How fast can they clear the scene? How many are walking, how many in cars?
Ok, can I use it to pre-fill Places code? Man, the cafe would be impossible to scene in because of all the college students taking up the tables. Sure, group of 2, take a table for 6 because you need to spread out 5 books and a computer and still steal an outlet across the room to charge your phone.
@VulgarKitten
I would RP with you there but I've been tacitly banned from Arx, sssssssoooooooo...
Consider Donjon, a system of improv where the players dictate what happens. Players dictate some, and the storyteller dictates others. You can simplify it further and re-skin it. Your character sheet can be not unlike the "mystery dinner" stuff. Motivations, a little light rules, and numerical counters so they can't get too far afield.
An idea.
Only from the main post.
Would this work for street-level traffic, to? I think that would be cool, and I'd install it and react to it in the same way that I do weather, et al.
Code update: Added a few non-standard Auspices, found that my code was stupid in the head about Auspice Skills, and fixed it. New Families arrive, old Dynasties leave. Changes are afoot.
Cobalt has several of us making sure she remains out, because she wants to be out. If she wants to come back, it will be because she wants to come back.
But that describes exactly the WoD Mu*er's current use of time & temp systems: A default, not a requirement. It provides a framework from which you can easier write that set, a writer's tool. If you decide to ignore it for reasons of etc. etc., then it's a tool that you don't need. Me? I love the tool, and I know quite a few people who use it. (c.f., WoD)
I'm not sure how useful a population calculator would be, or if it would be as useful as, say, a weather system that tries to accurately calculate not only rainfall but accumulation based on regional drainage and ground absorption rates. Or if a builder could just say: It's between 4 and 6 so let's describe the place as 'crowded'. I can see the benefits and drawbacks in both.
@zombiegenesis said in Discussion - RPG System For OC Hero Game:
Supers Revised Edition: This is my TT groups current favorite superhero RPG.
Then go with this.
If you go with something you're not passionate about, making the game will be much, much harder.
I voted Big Eyes Small Mouth Ultimate in hopes that someone will read this comment and let me borrow their copy.