MLS (Major League Soccer, aka second-tier football in any other nation) games begin with two key announcements. 1) You can't keep the balls. 2) Don't throw things onto the field.
Ahh, soccer.
MLS (Major League Soccer, aka second-tier football in any other nation) games begin with two key announcements. 1) You can't keep the balls. 2) Don't throw things onto the field.
Ahh, soccer.
@Auspice said in Cheap or Free Games!:
@Faceless said in Cheap or Free Games!:
@Auspice I'll probably give it a whirl then. I tend to enjoy the games like Civ. Star Wars Rebellion 4 Lyfe.
I'd say it's worth trying while on sale. I liked it, but some of the people I tried to get to play with me didn't enjoy it. They also aren't big on the Civ-type games.
I try Eternal Legend from time to time and I simply do not understand what I'm expected to do. Even on easy, the only reason my nation isn't ground into paste is because the other nations aren't attacking (because I'm on easy). The learning curve is a huge barrier to me, so unless I search online for tutorials I suspect I'm going to continue being stuck.
The one aspect I did understand and did quite well in was the mini-combat grid, but then I used to play Archon.
Started playing "Beyond Good & Evil", and I believe I now know where the beginning of Mass Effect came from. So far, so fun.
@Insomnia said in Cheap or Free Games!:
Beyond Good and Evil is available for the Club Ubi 30 thingy they have going on. Go get it. It's worth getting Uplay. Seriously underrated game finally getting a sequel. Go get it!
Now available.
@WTFE said in Historical Mu* - Looking for interested Staff:
I have never figured out what motivates MU*ers (beyond sheer bloody-mindedness, I mean).
Sure you have. It's a question like saying, "I don't know what motivates hackers." Are we talking white-hats? Gray-hats? Security professionals? Script kiddies? Reporters who probably should've reported to the proper authorities before saying 'look at this list of personal information that I easily hacked'?
I think most people who RP do it for a combination of "power fantasy", "wallowing in the setting/theme", and "love of the game system". There is no easy grid of breaking down one over the other, than the well researched rule-of thumb that is Bartle's Taxonomy, though I think you need to look beyond Bartle when you're looking at role-player types, as his study was for Mud/MMO games.
I don't disagree with the bulk of your assessment of the human mentality, but I wanted to interject this tangent.
Missed this one.
Yeah, it definitely has a board game aspect to it.
This isn't a bad thing. One of the most interesting RPGs I've looked into, FreeMarket, uses a mini card game as a story-telling plus conflict resolution system.
As long as there is "role-playing" and "game" involved, that's fantastic. One-Roll Engine has a system (Reign) for running nations which can be easily mixed into your character role-play.
Anyway, if it did have a board game aspect to it, I don't think that's a downside.
@Warma-Sheen said in Leadership, Spotlight, and PCs of Staffers:
Maybe it would be better for everyone to stop making different rules for staff and players as though they were two different species and instead hold people accountable for being people.
@Ganymede, this is what I've always meant when I said "Staff are just Players with extra responsibilities." This, above, is pretty much what I meant.
Er, tangent for us Dinos.
@Autumn said in Historical Mu* - Looking for interested Staff:
Generic City by Night
Bland By Night, but that's the idea.
The complaint is that players and staff don't hold onto the theme and setting. While it's my issue with a Historical game, I'm not going to complain about someone who wants to run its theme to the hilt, where just as much discussion occurs about the setting as playing in it. This would be a good thing. Staff should always be involved with the setting, forming it, supporting it, maintaining it, treating it as if it was real.
Players will follow.
Note to @GangOfDolls: Have you seen Eclipse Phase. Phew!
Of course they can make you give it back. It's their ball.
@Ganymede said in Leadership, Spotlight, and PCs of Staffers:
Everything is circumstantial.
I'm not sure this point has been adequately made. Let me try this.
is circumstantial.
The problem I see with statements like this is that people read it as meaning "I can do whatever I want as long as I can justify it." Not the way it should probably be read, and I think is a fairer interpretation, "Each situation calls for interpreting the rules in light of that situation." Similar situations are judged similarly. Situations are compared not only on their similarities, but also on their differences. It's not something you get to argue, because the similarities and differences are a matter of record
What's not a matter of record is which differences lead to what changes in the outcome. Most of us are lazy creatures doing make-believe for fun. We don't want to have to exercise the logic muscles to train ourselves for that level of objective thinking. Objective thinking isn't exactly "fun", a subjective term, but it certainly seems to make the fantastic staffers stand heads and shoulders above the crowd.
But what about the crowd? What tools can you give to the crowd to make up for the more subjective thinking that we do when we're lazy or don't want to deal with it?
I got nothin'.
I feel, in the end of my internal logical debate, that as long as nobody is disenfranchised by the play, then I don't care who does what. Is everyone having fun? Or at least are people having the same fun having opportunities? Then who cares.
The problem is as @Ganymede said earlier, that there are far too few people who can manage both running a game and having an even view of things, or even playing a game and having same. In staff we call them bad staffers, in players we know who shares a scene and who doesn't. One of my biggest peeve about players who are more active than I am is how well they share plot or if they are a black hole of activity.
These are the kinds of rules that I would accept would be a good baseline, but I really don't believe there is an Answer to the questions raised in the initial post.
I'd rather pay what you want directly to Evil Hat's web site. Also something you can do.
I collect RPGs.
I don't play these RPGs, but I read them. I collect what ideas they have, the world-building and systems, and I imagine what it would be like to play these games if there was enough time in the world to do so.
Right now my favorite systems to collect have been Apocalypse World and Fate Core, but more of the former than the latter. I'd love to collect Invisible Sun, but as it Kickstarted at nearly $200, hahahahaNO.
@skew said in Welcome to Fallen World MUX!:
Also, punk lesbian Acanthus are canon. The picture's right there in the book!
I would once again like to say that I feel it would've been absolutely perfect if her pits weren't shaven.
Manhattan: Highest percentage of punk lesbians per capita in a Pentacle assembly in the United States.
I am quite enjoying this game. I feel like the theme is just starting to click in, but I enjoy a slow burn for plots.
@Insomnia said in Shameless Self-Promotion (Again!):
Thanksgiving isn't until next Monday.
You can keep your scalp until then.
If anyone knows what avatar making service or program Moiren used, please let her know so that she can make one without the top of her head cut off. Only appropriate for Thanksgiving.
(Jokes and jokes!)
@Miss-Demeanor said in RL Anger:
@Thenomain I have to ask. Was s/he asking if you even lift?
No. he looked like one of those unfortunate men who tho is now a college Senior or recent graduate, never grew out of his Sophomore year and never will.
Someone called me "brah" to my face, without one ounce of irony, sarcasm, or self-awareness.
It was..a sad day.