Best posts made by Thenomain

Straightforward:

• Adding Clarity's Perception bonuses into the main sheet. (Done.)
• Kenning on the sheet. (Done.)
• Goblin Debt has me giggling in glee. Sure, use "Truth & Lies" a million times. I dare you.

Not Straightforward:

• The interaction of Clarity, Icons, and Touchstones will be challenging.
• There are more Conditions, and Fae-Touched start with some. That'll be interesting to integrate.
• Still deciding the best way to do Contracts in this system. The easy way for me is more involved for the player. Not much, but not entirely natural.

Bbbllleeeehhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh...fun.

We all feeling good? Yeah? Nice and positive atmosphere? Cool. We deserve it.

A lot of us reading know what it's like to be in a room RPing and know that another character is there invisible, listening. Back in the day this can mean that the conversation changes, quite suddenly and suspiciously, from undermining one character's plans to the movie night.

Does this still happen? I don't know; the last game I've been on with this as a consideration we had to open a job with staff and wait a few days for an answer. But in talking who knows who else is a vampire or a witch, that does seem to be dead in the community. I'd give it about a decade in the ground at this point.

But there's more to OOC Masq then knowing the potential power set of characters that your character might have reason to play against. Ghost's example is one. Mine is another. I don't think that's dead, but I also don't think it's unhealthy.

But it's not cut and dry. "You can't know I'm here. I can't help that there's no code supporting invisibility." Things that we decide our characters know IC based on decisions we make OOC affect other characters. This is a tool, intrinsically nether good or bad.

The key to me is if it's fun and reasonable. Is it plausible? Cool. Is it reasonable in the IC nature of the game? Awesome!

I know there are people already lining up their responses with those like "that's never happened to me" or "I'm not responsible for the fun of others" or "just don't make a game where that's possible". Pretend this post doesn't exist because it doesn't affect you, your play style, or the kind of games that you play. Here's your cookie and feeling of self-worth. I'm honestly kind of jealous.

For the rest of us? Let it roll!

@Kay

Funny. I was thinking: What did the rest of you do that he'd want to put me in charge of anything?

@griatch said in Make Evennia 'more accessible' - ideas?:

Not sure this can really be more front and center than it is now - the virtualenv is described (with a link to the glossary for extra detail) and activated for the first time as part of the very installation steps that installs and starts Evennia.

And never brought up again.

In the Quickstart, setting the environment is Step 4, starting Evennia is Step 10.

In the Linux setup, it's mentioned five code boxes before starting Evennia.

All of the steps in the middle are run once, and only once, for installation.

In the Administration docs "Start Stop Reload" it is not mentioned at all.

Knowing what virtualenv is and does is an intermediate topic and for some game-runners they might not even need to find out, just that it needs to be done. The documentation is not good at stressing that it needs to be done.

There is now a statement in the very last paragraph of the virtualenv glossary statement, but in none of these instances does "front and center" come to mind.

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edit to readers: Griatch and I are also talking about this on the Evennia Discord/IRC. A lot of this has been at least considered by the time you get there. I don't dislike the Evennia documentation, I just think it could be better for us utter newbs and I'm passionate about helping.

MUCH PASSION. SO CRITIQUE. WOW.

@Derp said in Changeling: The Lost Update [CofD]:

@Thenomain said in Changeling: The Lost Update [CofD]:

@Kay

Funny. I was thinking: What did the rest of you do that he'd want to put me in charge of anything?

With much wisdom comes much suffering?

I was thinking more about the salt mine that is my soul.

Thenomain.

Why did you think you had to ask?

edit: Except for Nvidia for automated driver downloads, where my gamer tag is: IHateForcedOptInSystems

I do.

Double Post Theatre!

@Ganymede said in When To Stop Listening To Those Voices:

Our game culture hates assholes and degenerates.

Does it? Because there is no reason an asshole can’t also be generating events. I can think of quite a few assholes that people tolerated or even flocked to in a sort of cult of personality situation. VASpider isn’t even at the top of that list.

We have gotten better than the previous decade, more self-confident, more willing to let others in, but the degenerate still exists, the asshole still thrives. It’s been a short while since I’ve seen a popular game run by a PHB (Psycho Hose-Beast), and I’ll take that for as long as it lasts.

I agree with and like your sentiments otherwise, but this one cried out for correction.f

@thebird

The discussion with my game group during Origins (where there were two less expensive game table companies there) was that something happened after Game Chic fell apart after succeeding on Shark Tank, suggesting a connection. Maybe they over-reached, maybe they were harassed by the investor(s), maybe a combination of both.

Sometimes it's hard as hell to scale under the force of your own popular idea. I hope that they learned something and will restructure and try again.

@Kestrel said in MU Things I Love:

Am I weird for getting a kick out of this?

In a hobby of people pretending to be vampires and elves? Hahahaahahaha. Hardly. Revel knowing you're playing a compelling character.

I have learned too late that being an adult is stupidly time-consuming. I mean it; all I'm trying to do is set up a new account on a different cellphone carrier. I've been on the phone for longer than 20 minutes. Because their credit check system is down, I've been on hold for about 10 of that. How on earth do we manage to get anything done? No wonder that the human race can't manage to get off our home planet.

On the positive side, there's no hold music.

edit: After another almost 10 minutes on hold they turned the hold music back on.

@JaySherman said:

When is it appropriate to close a game?

When it cannot be supported.
or
When its story is done.

@Gingerlily

I thought about it when I read the article and I'd have to get paid more than a bit to decide that going to a sweat-box full of strangers and unfamiliar politics is worth it. Get me a new bike and I'll tear it up.

From the game's Discord chat:

Utahsaint
So is it Vault 1A, or Vault 1, Eh? :D

Demona
However you wanna say it.

Posting this from an ArsTechnica article about someone who's trying to crowdfund a controlling stake in Twitter (yes, really, but that's not why I'm posting). This exchange had me grinning very, very wide. Enjoy.

cdclndc wrote:

Kane2207 wrote:
Quote:

The White House countered, saying Trump has a constitutional right to use Twitter.

Wait, what? Twitter is written into the constitution?

Yep. The 28th Amendment. Also known as the Covfefe clause.

(heeheehee)

@Misadventure said in RL Anger:

People apparently feel that they should have an outraged opinion about everything, and lay in wait.

I blame Geraldo Rivera. Seriously, fuck the 80s for starting this shit.

@Aria

@Auspice said in RL things I love:

@TwoGunBob

The biggest issue now with Avalon Hill is 'do you have the hours in the day.' So many of their games take so damn long to play.

Two words for you: Twilight Imperium.

It took my gaming group I kid you not 5 hours to set up and learn how to play and get through the first turn. That is a rulebook that is desperate need of shortening and possibly a cleaner translation from whatever nerd language it was written in into English. (I honestly think it was German.)