Posts made by Three-Eyed Crow

@kanye-qwest
There's this person on my floor who microwaves fish for lunch constantly. They will occupy a special circle of hell one day.

@alzie
I wasn't aware Dragon Age MUSH existed. At least, not a current/open one in that theme. Do they have a website or wiki? The Googles are bringing me questionable results.

I mean, it's all dice pools at the end of the day.

The things I think FS3 does to facilitate STing (and I think these are very important) are open +sheets, public and easily linkable documentation that's the same for everybody (nobody gets a mechanical advantage because they spent $30 on The Sniper Splat or some such). The chargen code is also very easy to customize and it's functional after install, whereas Random Homemade Chargen for even a simple system build around d6s/d8s/etc. is...often not functional.

A poll might be useful for this if you can add them to threads retroactively.

@arkandel said in Potential Game / Temperature Read:

@auspice said in Potential Game / Temperature Read:

Does anyone else remember, about 10-15 years ago, how Staff could be hands-off and players would entertain themselves? And it wasn't all BarRP? People ran plots for themselves, for their friends, etc...

I think part of that is nostalgia. And part is higher numbers and greater excitement when things were still relatively new and fresh.

I do actually think it's gotten worse over maybe the past decade, as the way we absorb/interact with entertainment has become more passive. You can log off now and find a ton of things to do the "work" of entertainment for you, whereas MUing requires some active participation, and after years of MMOs and on-demand stuff, I think that actually has gotten a bit harder to accept. I don't want to have too rose-colored a view of The Olden Days, but I feel like this is a societal change, not just a MU change.

I agree smaller player populations is also a part of it, though. It's all bigger stuff, imo, than one staffer can entirely change, beyond trying to encourage the culture they want on their game.

It's also about players...actually doing it. Some people just will without much prompting. Some just won't, no matter what you do. You can try to create an environment/culture that encourages it, and to create things to react to, but this is one of those things that depends on people taking ownership of their own fun. Which a staffer's control of is limited.

@auspice
See, of everything you pitched, I feel like The Expanse would be the 'easiest.' In that it's a known but not exhaustively mythology-y property and it's a clear fit for the system you want to use. While I don't think 'easiest' is the best way to resolve what kind of game to make, if it's also the game you want to make? There ya go.

And tbh I suspect that the people who want an Eclipse Phase Expanse game just want some kind of Eclipse Phase game, which shouldn't impact anything you do or want to work in.

Which one are you most passionate about? That's going to need to be what carries a person through the giant PITA that is running a game.

I think The Magicians and The Expanse are both decent settings for a MU, depending on the execution, though as you say The Expanse is a better natural fit for FS3 (not that I think The Magicians is un-doable, mind, if you don't want to get terribly crunchy with the magic stuff).

My only concern about the original sci-fi pitch is the "akin to Firefly" bit, because when I think Firefly I think small/tight-knit crew of a single ship, which I don't think is really replicate-able in a public game (I'm someone who found the world-building of Firefly very wonky and stuck with it for the crew dynamics). Even a small one. It is all about execution, though, and I think Arx demonstrates that original themes can attract an audience if they're done right (and that it frees you from certain canon expectations and allows you do make whatever the f changes you please).

@tnp said in FCs on Comic MUs:

I can think of one person wanting to be a female news reporter at the age of 20something.

Do you mean TV? Otherwise I'm not seeing the problem.

@zombiegenesis said in Good TV:

How is Season 2? I enjoyed Season 1 so much that I've been afraid to watch Season 2 in case it went downhill.

I like the direction they're going. It hasn't gone exactly the way I expected it to go, but that's for the good imo, and Ted Danson is being absolutely delightful.

@thenomain
The Good Place is probably my favorite thing on TV right now. Brings me joy every week.

@DariRyu
I started on consent-based games. Some were good! Some were terrible! It is a mixed bag, as with all things in life. I'll still play them if I find one that appeals to me, though I prefer games with some sort of conflict resolution system even if it's minimal and loosely used.

@ganymede
Admittedly, my brain goes to 'a little bit of immediate healing' as comparable to what a healing potion does. You do only get one shot with a particular wound during combat, though (if I'm dimly recalling how it works), so it might not be suited to your needs if you want to try and reapply it several times (there's +healing the doctor-types do outside combat that speeds healing but that might not also be quite what you'd want).

@ganymede
Combat/treat already does some healing (and combat/rally, which iirc both revives someone who's been KO'd and partially treats some damage). I feel like it'd work for the equivalent of an FF-style healing potion without rejiggering, depending on a person's needs.

@apos said in Make MSB great again!:

Anyways back on topic, I'd lean towards a single sticky'd post of current active games, because it trips me out that I have seen a few different subjects of people posting like, 'HEY ARE THERE ANY X GAMES STILL OPEN' which is a little fucked up that on the one forum actually dedicated to this hobby that someone needs to do that.

Yeah, every single response I want to post in those threads is link to the fucking ad section but...well...yeah...

A sticky would be nice, and putting the developing games in the Constructive section for the actual feedback the creators seem to want instead of the ad section would also be nice, and moving the defunct games to some kind of thread graveyard would be even nicer.

@faraday said in Make MSB great again!:

Enthusiastic player A: "It's totally grimdark. I love it. The players are so helpful."

Less enthusiastic player B: "Well it says it is grimdark but mostly what I see is just nobles playing house."

Are these reviews? Criticism? Is B's answer somehow less valid than A's just because he's not as positive about the game?

This question is pretty much how I came to my "Nobody but the OP and board admins can post in an advertisement thread" idea. There's a really thin line between a legitimate question and the kind of commentating/tangents this is trying to split off and it just seemed easier in theory to draw the line at NOBODY and NOTHING.

This is definitely a start, though, so I'm interested to see how it goes.

@rucket
It was a fleeting but treasured moment in time.

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Rep is sitting at exactly 1,500 right now. The magic hour. Or something. It's probably a sign I should retire from posting to maintain the round number. But then I'd have to come up with other time-wasters, so, nah.

@faraday said in Make MSB great again!:

ETA: I'd be fine with what @Three-Eyed-Crow said about the ad thread just being for an ad, but I didn't think this forum s/w could do that easily.

Oh, I'm not at all sure the thing that exists in my fantasy world would actually work on this forum as it exists in reality (and it does create the issue of funneling all questions into the general 'commentary' about the game, but I guess I'd personally prefer that). I get that it's kind of out of keeping with the spirit of the board in a lot of ways. But this is a rare opportunity to give feedback about the more logistical/organizational board stuff, and that's my big idea/hobby horse issue about the ad section.

I'm just happy there are clearly-posted guidelines at all now, tbh.