I cannot think of a single tool that beats the tactile feel of dice, and a sheet of paper to doodle on, preferably with character stats on it. I prefer, myself, to sit at a table with straight-backed chairs, and a BattleMat
when appropriate.
Have someone write a log. Here are the logs of one of our campaigns. Four years. One giant rabbit hole. AD&D 2nd Edition.
Er, sorry, I have to go read all of these right now.
@arkandel said in Coming Soon: Arx, After the Reckoning:
@thenomain said in Coming Soon: Arx, After the Reckoning:
Options can be a bad thing if they distract from the gameplay or give an advantage that some might consider unfair, both things others have offered some concern over. This is normal. I wouldn’t want the rules to change my character or force me into unwelcome gameplay either.
What's 'unwelcome' is relative though.
This is why I said, "me" and "my" and "some". I fucking swear, sometimes I think people pick on things they don't like without realizing that they are not adding anything.
Seriously, "it depends" is a tautology. It's cliché. I'm going to ride @surreality into the weeds on this too, because it's argumentative without looking to solve an issue. So is "what works for some doesn't work for others." No kidding? Here, let me write that down in my journal. Clue Discovered: Nobody is the same.
Maybe what you meant to say was, "What do you consider unwelcome gameplay?" There. That's searching for information instead of making overall meaningless hand-waving toward our desire to be non-confrontational yet still make judgements against people's viewpoints.
Sheesh.
Options can be a bad thing if they distract from the gameplay or give an advantage that some might consider unfair, both things others have offered some concern over. This is normal. I wouldn’t want new rules to change my character or force me into unwelcome gameplay either.
However, I don’t see anything unfair so far and I’d be surprised if anyone was notably inconvenienced, tho it’s hard to comment on an incomplete system. I doubt it will end up game breaking, but if so then I expect to hear reviews about it here.
I adored Jem as a little girl. Fuck, I still do. I got the damn theme song stuck in my head the other day for no reason. will never grow up
That's totally outrageous.
I bet @Sparks would meet me there
And together be on a tear
So games all over do beware.
@miss-demeanor said in Silly things you'd been tempted to do on/for a MU*:
@ganymede said in Silly things you'd been tempted to do on/for a MU*:
@thenomain said in Silly things you'd been tempted to do on/for a MU*:
I once quit MUSHing.
Then came back.
We thought you were a goner, but --
The Theno came back. He just couldn't stay away.
Away, away, yea yea yea
He wouldn’t leave home, no, he wouldn’t stay away.
I once quit MUSHing.
Then came back.
So you hit up Google and end it with site:musoapbox.net
I agree with Faraday that pushing one thread for all help is messy.
@lithium said in World of Darkness -- Alternative Settings:
@thenomain No they really do not.
Tell that to the Harry Potter game I'm tweaking CoD code for. In order to treat the setting with respect, something needs to change.
You have your own opinion, but it's...well, tangenting this thread. I don't mind this, but you seem to want this discussion to split. I tried to bring it back home, and you're getting kind of snippy about it. So if you want to discuss this, fine. If you want it in a different thread, now is the perfect time to reply to a post as a quote in an entirely different thread. (I've done that my fair share of times.) If not, don't worry about it.
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edit: I just remembered the historical books that White Wolf/Onyx Path came out with. I cannot imagine almost any of them being possible without system tweaks. Vampire 1980s and Mage 1920s maybe being the exceptions. I don't think Mage Noir had anything but a few optional add-ons. The Vampire Chrome tweaks were brilliantly funny.
Alternate settings often require alternate rules, so the rulesets people want to engage in are important to a discussion about alternate settings.
I wish we had better tools for doing that.
I believe that having better tools for something makes a system more likely to be adopted. Tho if players want to do something a certain way, there's almost no amount of coding that can be done to encourage or discourage it.
This was the first Christmas I can remember without my older sister. My brother-in-law was doing well, but muted, and occasionally shaken.
And let me tell you all through watching it happen: No parent should ever have to bury their child. If any of you have ever had to, I give you my deepest sympathy.
Fuck. Cancer.
As a throw-out line, I remember when players decided to do things all on their own. Give a class full of artists a blank canvas and a goal and stand back.
Sometimes stand far back with a camera to film the drama, but hey.
I want to say that this habit was beaten out of them by staff for various reasons, but it also probably has a lot to do that we don't have the energy we used to. Kudos to those who do, but I get worn down by work on a regular basis and by the time I'm sitting here I don't want to worry about all the little things we worry about on Soapbox. Sometimes I want to sit down and see what comes of the play.
I can be pretty good at self-motivation when I'm not afraid of the consequences.
@darinelle said in The limits of IC/OOC responsibility:
@deadculture I mean I always /try/ to help. Sometimes it's just not possible.
Knowing that limit is one of the few true talents of making this hobby work. Congratulations on somehow being both understanding and reasonable. If you can teach this skill to those willing to learn, you'd probably do quite a bit of good.
@ganymede said in The limits of IC/OOC responsibility:
@thenomain said in The limits of IC/OOC responsibility:
If I can change your mind on a topic, then I feel like I am not completely bad at logic.
The result does not prove causation.
Still taking credit. Stealing it, really.
Backpack: $9.99
Shipping: $8.95
Is this backpack that good?
(edit: the leather backpack of holding is $70 right now, too, which if it's even halfway decent leather is a good deal. Most leather is more 'pressboard' of leather, and if the Rolltop Backpack of Holding is the same quality as a Jansport then $10 is pretty much what it's worth. $10 shipping tho? Dear god!)
(edit edit: More complains than compliments about the Adventurer's Leather Backpack of Holding. Bah!)
That reminds me:
Yoko Kanno.
I might not like everything she's done, but I know that she is so good that I will always recommend her.