Best posts made by Too Old For This

If you mean for D&D 5E, then D&D Beyond is actually pretty baller. And there's an extension you can get that will put up a dice roller you can use for it too.

@tinuviel Understood. But I'm not trying to One True Way anything. I know what didn't work, in my experience, was any game where staff had PCs that they became invested in because those PC's then became more important than the game they were supposed to be running. At best, staff became absentee and uncaring of anything occurring beyond the spheres their characters were in. At worst, staff became blatantly abusive and aggressive. Neither of these are good. But that was my experience. I'm sure there are others who didn't mind, didn't care, or directly benefited that didn't see a problem.

@arkandel There is Teen Titans, and there is Teen Titans Go! The latter pays lip service to the former, but TTG! is very much a parody of its previous incarnation and it is hilarious. It deals with things in the worst way possible and makes it obvious that this is indeed the worst possible way to handle the situation and its funny af. I used to snob about this show, partly because I was still upset at the original TT show getting cancelled when it was getting so good... but then I got hooked into watching it. TTG! is unapologetic about being 'low-brow' and trying to appeal to the lowest common denominator. They even have an episode that covers this exact, specific thing. It refuses to take itself seriously and mocks both the viewers and itself mercilessly in a way that is too amusing to offend. So yes, TTG! is that friend from high school that lived on a level of stoned the rest of us could only stare at in shock and awe, coming up with shit that absolutely should not have worked but it did, it fucking did and holy fuck HOW?!!?

@l-b-heuschkel Or the bad guys looking to take over the world. I cannot express how often I wished for a good WoD MUSH where the players got to be the bad guys trying to take down the good guys. But I agree, you can't have both factions being playable PC's, it invites entirely too much backstabbing and pvp.

You seem like someone that's pissed into the wind a few times.

@ganymede

We all know the cat was the true mastermind.

@wretched ngl, I would fork over 10 bucks to watch Jason Momoa sit shirtless in a lawn chair and just shoot the shit with someone off-screen for two hours.

@cupcake I can't +1 that hard enough.

We bought mostly 'family' gifts this year. ie. things the entire family can enjoy. Namely, Amazon Fire Sticks for all the tv's and an Xbox One S for the living room, as well as a blue-ray player that also is in the living room. There may also have been a Chinese knockoff NES mini preloaded with 500 games. >.> <.< So that, then gift cards galore so we could let the kids buy up games and movies for said consoles. And a yearly subscription to Boomerang, because retro cartoons are still the best.

@headery said in MUs That We Would Love To Make (But Won't):

A superhero-themed game using the Masks: A New Generation tabletop system. OC characters in a super school or something. I really feel like Masks could work well in a MU.

I want this so hard right now... I love Masks as an RP system and the playbooks they offer give SUCH a wide variety to choose from!

@auspice The worst part is I even HAVE chapstick AND use it. I just... end up licking my lips without thinking!

@headery It would! Imagine having a big metro area with a number of 'sister cities' that all have 3-4 groups of superheroes... and the way Masks is set up you don't have to stress about feeling 'under' powered or like you're 'falling behind' because there's only so far you can go before you hit your 'hero' moment and either the character succeeds or fails, but either way the story ends and you start fresh!

OMG I WANT TO CUDDLE BUNNIES!!!

@headery I'm so very glad you brought this up. MASKS is generally very teen-based (they have a whole splatbook about the city and its superhero academy) buuuuuuuuuuuuut anything in there can easily be re-worded for adults, even 'golden years' aged adults. Some of the playbooks can't really be used for an adult without some hefty tweaking (The Innocent comes to mind).. but you could have an Innocent whose goal is to reform their aged self and at the end of their arc they 'become' a Reformed! So the teen version goes back to the past, and the current, more aged, adult version takes over as a Reformed.

And that's really kinda the best thing about MASKS. Its super flexible, and is based more on the RP than the dice. If you can come up with a plausible reason for X, chances are the game is set up to allow you to do it.

@surreality This sounds like conversations between me and my housemates.

Me: 'Hey guys, I could use some help cleaning up, there's a lot of stuff to do...'
Them: 'Oh sure, we can help.'
twenty minutes later while I'm elbow-deep in cleaning
Me: 'Guys? Are you.. gonna help?'
Them: 'What, now?!'
Me: 'Yes, now.' ((Internal Thought: Because when in the EVER have I requested unspecified future help of nebulous origins!))
Them: 'UGH. Fiiiiiiiiiiiine.'
ten minutes later
Me: 'Guys? Are you going to help?'
Them: 'I just want to finish this.. <insert whatever thing they are doing that can totally be paused and that they didn't actually start until after I asked for help the first time>'
Me: stares straight ahead and spends 30 glorious seconds imagining myself strangling said housemates, sighs, returns to cleaning
fifteen minutes later
Them: Okay, so what do you want us to do?
Me: Floors need to be vacuumed, garbage needs to go out, there's a box to go in the back of the car for Goodwill, and all those cardboard boxes need to be broken down and taken out. Also, you haven't changed your cats' litter in like, weeks. So maybe that too before they start peeing on the rug near the door again?' ((Because we've gone through three rugs already from this exact issue))
ten minutes later
Me: looking at the cat litter on the carpet because they changed it after they vacuumed, the brand new garbage bag that now has REEKING cat litter and vacuum bag leavings in it because they took out the trash before doing either of the other two, the box that's STILL sitting next to the door and hasn't gone out to the car, and the cardboard boxes are gone but all the bits of tape and packing peanuts and those little airbags are now littering the floor because they didn't take care of any of that stuff after breaking down the boxes

What follows is usually a ten minute coffee and Cat Cafe break for me, following by an argument with the housemates wherein they get pissy because I'm so demanding of their time and so picky about how things are done and how they don't understand why everything is their fault and how come I keep nagging at them to do, you know, basic things any human adult should be doing. My teenager picks up after himself better.

@squirreltalk As mentioned in my post, that is the only Playbook that cannot be easily adapted for both teens and adults. And that is only because you play a time-traveled younger version of yourself. Literally any other playbook can be easily used by all ages. Even the Newborn doesn't have to be young in terms of years. Think Dr. Who for that one if you want. Or it can be young in age but not in mind (Vision ala MCU).

The Bull, the Star, the Legacy, the Outsider, the Transformed, the Doomed, the Delinquent, the Brain, the Soldier, the Janus, the Scion, the Nova, the Nomad, the Reformed... even the Protege doesn't have to be young just inexperienced. But seriously... look at any of the playbooks available and the DC/Marvel influence becomes VERY clear. Most of the characters used as influence for the playbooks were not teenagers.

You also aren't confined to a single playbook. The Hero's Moment each character strives towards doesn't necessarily require the character's story to end. It might mean you simply... change paths. There's no need to worry about xp bloat or 'dinosaur' players going all One Ring on everyone, because its less about the Moves than the Influence. And Influence changes ALL the TIME. It affects you both positively and negatively, but always with an eye to progressing your story both individually and collectively.

NGL, one of the MOST fun games I ever played with friends was a Scooby-Doo-ish version of MASKS. We all picked playbooks that mirrored our favorite SD characters, grouped up, and went out to solve mysteries! I did a campaign where we did the full on Super Teen High School setting. The Young Adult hero group out to prove themselves. That group turned into the seasoned and older group of Mentor Heroes that each took on a protege/successor/child/etc. to teach.

The possibilities are damn near endless. The system is crunchy enough to resolve conflicts but flexible enough that it will never interfere with the story. And the story is literally what you make of it. True collaborative storytelling.

@Ghost I dunno, I think she picked the deceptive hardcore mode. IIRC, the family wanted a big church wedding and reception, hundreds of guests type wedding. So the guilt-tripping is real.

@lotherio I will probably catch flak for this but... Rock-A-Doodle? It was a silly kids movie but I always liked the setting and the idea that people could end up being sucked into it, turned into mice and things.

@Aria Yeah, I wasn't quite sure if it had been expectations of an actual church wedding/reception that can cost more than a down payment on a really nice house, or just something similar. I just remember you talking about it in thread awhile back and thinking that I was really glad the one time I got married, I told only my mother and we did it in the courthouse, my dress was like $40, I picked up on sale from Macy's.

@arkandel I use Dick, Jane, and Spot!