Posts made by Three-Eyed Crow

@silverado
Yes, in that there aren't any other good options.

@pyrephox said in GMs and Players:

Like it or not, there's a power differential there within the context of the setting, and I think it needs to be kept in mind. With NPCs, really just...fade to black would be my preference. Do what you want on your PCs, although be aware that if people know you're staff, some of them will try to get into your pants for the perceived extra bennies of being involved with you, and other players may end up feeling that they can't be honest about their desire (or not) to engage in a romantic relationship IC because they're worried about retaliation, whether that is warranted by your behavior or not.

This is my feeling and my general preference, though I tend to think if it's causing problems it's a symptom of a larger one rather than the problem in and of itself.

@misterboring said in GMs and Players:

I'm not sure how to actually combat this phenomenon because it's specifically related to people just not going the extra mile to see how things fit together on a specific game. Maybe work on slapping that info on the front page of the game's website somewhere, or a big link to it. I dunno.

Having tried personally sending important thematic information to players in a personal job, as well as having it posted in normal places? No. No, I can't, and think it's just always going to happen, though one has to try to serve those who will read stuff somewhere as best one can.

I'm not sure what 'paged RP' is or how it differs from other kinds of async or messenger/text scenes?

@carma said in Decriminalise Pretty:

@tinuviel said in Decriminalise Pretty:

we're all pretty

On one game, I created an unattractive character. Based on my sheet alone, I was accused of being a troll. I just didn't want people hitting on my character.

In my experience, and my experience includes playing an 80-year-old dowager who got hit on by people who didn't read her desc and had a REAL interesting interpretation of what I was posing I guess, there is no such thing as a character who won't get hit on.

Maybe this differs on games with Attractiveness stats? IDK, I don't play those. But pretty much every character is soap opera-level attractive and that's fine/not really remarked upon unless someone is overbearing about it OOC one way or another. I've always assumed we're dealing with worlds where characters are actor/model-pretty and that's just normal in the cinematic reality we play in.

The Age of Legends would be fun as fuck, but it almost ceases to be a WoT MUSH. Which might be desirable, though with the newly renewed popularity of the property due to the series it'd be nice to see something that follows it more closely.

@krmbm
Yeah, this seems like something Traits + a d20 roller would work fine for if you just aren't going to sweat some aspects of magic in the code and intend to be more freefrom. FS3 isn't actually a very good generic dice roller, even if it is sometimes shoe-horned into that role as well.

I think you can do a narrowly-focused, cooperative Wheel of Time game, accepting that it wouldn't be the game everyone would want (lol) but the magic that feels canonical is definitely where it breaks down for FS3 unless someone has time to do extensive recoding (and if you're making the decision to use FS3 you usually don't want to do extensive recoding).

@greenflashlight said in Girl Scout Cookies:

The caramel and coconut ones. The flavor combination is excellent and the texture of them is perfect.

I could inhale boxes of Samoas.

Also have a fondness for Thin Mints.

Game Pass by itself is starting to look more and more appealing to me as a PC gamer, and with it in mind the acquisition of this library makes a ton of sense, even with the insane price-tag.

It is pure glory. Thank you so much @Crawfish and @thesuntsar !!!!

It shall hang upon my wall, and never be explained.

I was OK with the wife-killing initially but it doesn't feel like they've done anything particularly worthwhile with it in terms of Perrin's character (and it makes other stuff they are doing more cringe than it'd otherwise be). In general I'm fine with the characterization of the Emond's Fielders with the exception that everyone's character except Moiraine's could use some more time and attention, but Perrin's the one I feel like they did a little dirty. Maybe the writers will sit down and fix him in the off-season.

Overall, I enjoyed the season pretty decently. I still think the major issue with it was the short episode order, which I hope changes (supposedly the show's getting more money next year but I didn't think the budget was, per se, the problem, so I'll be curious to see how they use it). On a base level I'm glad that money and attention to quality are being put behind genre TV. The WoT seems successful by whatever metrics Amazon was hoping for, which means more places will be willing to try more stuff like it. The finale was kind a mess but I'm among those who think the climax of EotW was also kind of a mess, so I guess it's a wash for me. I do think some of what it did wasn't good long-term when it comes to making it feel like there are actual stakes for these characters. They can't bring people back from the dead every week (one would hope). The big battle stuff is the kind of thing that would've had more impact if it'd been set up over...well, another episode or two, but that's a core issue the show either can change or it can't.

The books aren't terribly precious to me, as the actual story was never what appealed to me about Wheel of Time. I always found the strength of the material to be more in its world-building and, occasionally in its better moments, individual character relationships. The latter kind of is a problem for me right now, the Emond's Fielders don't really feel like people I'm terribly invested in, but at least some of that seems to be down to the issues COVID caused in filming and in theory can be fixed with some more attention to character moments over spectacle (when the show let its actors display personalities, they generally did a decent job with it). The show does, I think, capture a certain amount of the feel of the world as I pictured it. Not perfectly, but it evokes it well enough for my tastes, even if it's another version of it. I'm looking forward to the second season, I think on balance it was good not great, but I was entertained and a lot of my issues with it are pretty fixable.

@wizz said in The Wheel of Time:

I don't mean this as a personal attack but like, it really doesn't surprise me that the first season plot has been so stitched together and rushed because I imagine the fan pressure to get to the popular parts of the setting and plot in the series after so many years in production limbo must be just like overwhelmingly insane.

I really hope they get 10 episodes next year, or at least 90-minute finales and premiers. I've had my issues with this season but they've been primarily clunky pacing and hand-waved/rushed characterization, and all of that's solved by another episode or two.

@arkandel
I can't speak for anyone else, but it'd make me feel worse about it. While I don't entirely love the choice, I do get how being inadvertently responsible for the death of someone he loves fits into Perrin's larger arc in the books. If she was evil all along that feels like it lets him off the hook and takes away the thing about it that's actually interesting.

My understanding is game-runners have control over how much Luck is rewarded per scene/how it's rewarded/game-specific Achievements. They just actually have to...do it.

@rucket
Same, though it does make me more side-eye about the heavy hand of Amazon on some other aspects of the show (the 'Who is the dragon reborn mystery box I don't think is an actual mystery' in particular). The showrunner seems thoughtful and smart about the adaptation choices he's making thus far, though, and I'm eager to see where it goes in its second season.

My issue with the Perrin thing is what a non-character his wife was. Fridging issues aside...this was a person with no lines and the show did not successfully make me feel emotionally invested in that relationship. I don't actually think Master Luhhan would've been better if the first episode still wasn't going to give that relationship any screentime. I also don't think it would've taken much. Mat's family situation felt a lot more fleshed-out than Perrin's marriage because of like 1 or 2 minutes of effort to show his parents sucking.

I think a 90-minute pilot with some more time in Emond's Field would've made me feel better about all the Two Rivers stuff, but apparently that's not what Amazon wanted and the show has subsequently been a lot better in terms of characterization.

IDK how I feel about the ogier design. Loial looked like just kind of a lumpy dude? Maybe it'll grow on me as he's in more scenes, though.