Posts made by thesuntsar

@OldFrightful

Sooo...

About werewolves....

I utilize the @theories for the IG because we have several people in leadership positions and our times to play vary wildly. I've found them helpful for me to scan to get the gist of a situation my character might know about. I don't think they should replace any RP if at all possible, but it's nice to have a "report" for back up.

That said, I try to be brief because no one wants a 70 page novel of my rambling BS.

I don't know that I think "hording" and not sharing clues is really an issue on Arx. If anything (and I'm totally guilty of this) it's more: "oh you're looking for information on x-subject? Lemme see what I have" and digging up all the things. I try to give context and not just make it an info drop, but it happens. >.>

Running a scene for players where people work together, roll with the punches and don't mind when you make some booboos yourself.

Yeah, I absolutely have some types. I mostly play men with the occasional woman thrown in over a period of years.

1. Dour and grumpy but a good guy.
2. Very clearly a good guy-good guy.
3. Eccentric and possibly morally ambiguous.
4. Strong-willed and usually reasonable woman.

Building on my earlier post about being stood up, I think the core of that falls under what other people have mentioned. Being disrespectful of another player's time and basically wasting it by repeating causing them to wait around for you. I think this applies to other areas for me as well.

When a character contacts mine for a meeting. They meet... and they proceed to absolutely waste my evening by trying to bait my character for info while giving little to nothing in return. Couple that with several other scenes with the same player being mostly an e-peen waving competition (where only one peen was waved and it wasn't mine) and you've got a recipe for me not coming back for another one.

Which sucks, because I generally enjoy RPing and giving people information. But I don't enjoy being used as a vending machine.

@lithium Arx go boom.

When someone asks me more than once for a scene and then stands me up. Why you do this?

@saosmash OoooooOoooo. I am interested!

A supernatural/horror game that isn't focused on teenagers/early college students. I totally get the appeal of that genre, but it just isn't for me.

@lotherio In my situation, I paged the person who was repeatedly page bombing me about their ICSO. After repeatedly telling them knock it off, I did ask the other person if they were aware this was happening. Because frankly, I'd want to know if my RP buddy was being weird and creepy to other people.

@wretched I played on a game where a player was doing this to every person playing with her ICSO. I have a hard time imagining being that insecure I'd need to page the shit out of my PC's SO's RP partners and them so that I could track their every movement. Just geez.

@fortydeuce PCs that are capable of efficiently running or helping on investigations are in high demand. I find that I occasionally have to juggle stuff I might be doing to jump onto something more plotty. Which I don't mind at all! I like being involved. But you'll definitely run into that situation where there's more demand than you have hands.

@fortydeuce I currently play on Arx and have an investigative character and no retainer helping me. My PC has a high investigation skill, between that and PC helpers I haven't felt left out. You also pick up a lot of relevant @clues through RPing and networking with other characters. A retainer helping you is great, but I wouldn't be too concerned about not getting one immediately.

I binged watched Dark on Netflix this week and find myself mildly obsessed with Andreas Pietschmann:

I love playing short-term characters that have a set expiration date. My last game, I played several characters that either died because they had terrible luck or because they were bad guys and the end was coming as the plot was wrapping. Totally worthwhile. An XP incentive would be cool, but isn't really necessary for the people who already like this kind of RP.