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@mietze said in If you work hard, son, maybe someday you'll RP:

I think then a game's population reaches a certain level of expectation of that is ironically when it tends to go way out of control, because people no longer give a shit about any kind of vision but their individual one, and that gets real chaotic real fast.

I think there is a little cause and effect in here. Games grow larger, often but not always, because there is a very loose hold over the 'vision' by staff, thus there is more freedom to play what and how one wants to play. So more people play. So their vision becomes the driving force of their part of the game, thus there is more freedom, so more people play... it turns into a spiral of doom all from one particular design decision.

@admiral Yup. Knee to the groin usually shuts down all questions.

@Sunny All urban fantasy games are just Star Wars games in a Pre-Old Republic era. >_>

@faraday said in Difference between an NPC and a Staff PC?:

Even in TTRPGs, having NPCs with major roles helping the PCs can be problematic.

Depends on the 'major role'. Elrond, or Mon Mothma would be grand NPCs. Gandalf and Kenobi would be good for lower-levelled characters to hang around with and/or die to prove just how serious the BBEG is, etc. They can be good, it's all in how they're used.

@kay So long as it sits just long enough for the rice to eventually become a gooey mess of rice and sauce, I'm so in.

@Packrat

@Derp And how, exactly, is it creepy to expect people to give you their full attention when you're roleplaying with them?

If you want to play four different games at a time, whatever, but I expect you to pay attention. Otherwise, you're just wasting my time and anyone else's in the scene.

No, I'm not "too young to be tired all the time." I work long hours, raise three children, and go fuck yourself I'm tired.

@il-volpe said in Roster Characters & WoD?:

Wot means roster character?

Ninety-nine times out of a hundred, it means the second option you gave.

@surreality said in Our Tendency Towards Absolutes:

@Tinuviel said in Our Tendency Towards Absolutes:

The idea of this place is to talk about problems, and solve problems, and bring issues to light. Not to talk about the people talking about things.

Eh, there's some of that in the non-game section. People are people-ing fairly well.

Yeah, that doesn't remotely alter my point. You want to do it, that's fine, but one can't expect everyone to be expressing outpourings of love, or whatever, when that's not the idea. We do the support and love thing by solving problems. The solving bit comes with a fair bit of arguing, but frankly I wouldn't bother arguing with people I didn't care about enough to want to change their mind.

@thenomain 'Noirpunk' conjured images of Blade Runner to my mind. I've no idea if this is accurate, but that's what I got.

@il-volpe Or like... just make your own character and not bother with the faff of a roster?

@surreality Is this one person on one game, or a symbol of a greater issue?

I mean it sounds like the former, and some folks are going to be shitbirds no matter how much we talk about it, or decry it, or submit a formal MSB Resolution (since some people think we can do that) of objection.

@testament said in RL Anger:

viral laryngitis that she gave me

I hate the roster style for the same reasons as above, with the addition of a roster character never feels like my character. I feel like just an actor, pulled in to play a role, when what I want to be is a writer as well.

My character is mine. I made it. I know it. I'm the driver and I built the engine.

There is a difference, I think, between simply writing someone off and actively making their time worse. I write people off all the time in an "I did not enjoy my time with this person, so I will not spend any more time on this person" sort of way, but I don't go out of my way to get them shunned.

The former is fine, and I'd say responsible behaviour. The latter needs to be punished as harassment.

@coin said in RL Anger:

Unless you think it's too soon to see each other's mucus-dripping nostrils and stuffy noses and red eyes and shit

The true test of any relationship.

@derp Oh, I know you're not saying they're wrong. That's what I meant, even those of us arguing against them or saying we hate them aren't saying they're inherently the devil.

I do think they make more problems than they solve, they're a headache to work with, and they're a climbing wall instead of a door.

@Derp said in Difference between an NPC and a Staff PC?:

Are you the only one that plays this NPC?

The only way this question should ever be a "yes" is if you're literally the only staffer on said game, as @faraday has been for the last little while that I've been paying attention.

@Derp said in Difference between an NPC and a Staff PC?:

You don't get to just arbitrarily decide that a player isn't worth your time, and therefore doesn't get access to said NPC

There's "access" and then there's "must sit for hours reading their drivel."

@Derp said in Difference between an NPC and a Staff PC?:

If a staffer on my game said that, I'd probably fire them.

If a staffer on your game said that, then it's your responsibility to find someone else to RP the NPC, since you find screen time a necessity.

@coin That just means she cares.