Posts made by tragedyjones

@Alamias Do you think OOC masquerade was at least in part because of the technology of the times? Few people could play and visit a website. Hell when I started my web browser was text based.

This post is starting as a discussion. What did you do 1, 5, 10 or more years ago in games that you regret? What do you still believe is a proper and right decision?

My answer follows:

I started my "modern" MU career in 2010-2011. I had played in the 90s, and a small bit on a Scion game in the aughts, but my real heavy return was on NYC Mush. I played Werewolf and Vampire (and briefly Mage) and staffed as well.

I introduced my ex girlfriend and we played together there, and then briefly on HM, and then for a long fucking time on The Reach.

It doesn't seem that long ago, but when I started on TR, when I began STAFFING, was still in my 20s (barely, I'm 37 now). But I had opinions on games and how to play them. Some of them I feel were right and some I feel may have been misguided.

Strong opinion I now regret? ICA always equals ICC. If you did something that my character felt justified a certain response, I'd respond as such. I engaged in some serious (and not so serious) PVP - from hacking and stalking, to financial warfare, to outright murder (or Torpor, which is often just as bad). I always put my character's decisions front and center, they were the lead character of their own film.

This is, I reflect back, more than a little bit of a dick move. I always say I try to stick as close to Tabletop as possible, and in tabletop, the PCs are the protagonists, the ones who matter. On a MU, every PC presumably matters to the person playing them. I didn't consider their OOC feelings, usually. It was OOCly to me "just business".

tl;dr on that front I was a dick to you, probably. My B.

A strong opinion I still hold, is that a game needs to stick to the fucking theme of whatever game it is meant to be. If you are a Chronicles of Darkness game, you should either reflect the books, or mak eit clear what you are doing. Tone should be, while not consistent and omnipresent in every scene, reinforced and supported. Significant departures from established lore, such as Pure-Forsaken handholding, or Vampire's being completely nice and sweet and just humans with cool goth powers, should either be frowned upon and removed, or else reflected in the game's specific lore and story. Don't punish a player for playing the game you advertise to be playing.

@hedgehog said in Aberrant Second Edition:

Is Kraig Blackwelder actually any part of this, since it was originally his development?

I don't believe so.

I have passed a copy it TC core onto a code I know because Storypath has much potential.

@Sanguine said in City of Shadows:

@tragedyjones I've skimmed the stuff, but waiting to look at it in depth until it comes out. You're gonna play, right? RIGHT?!

Do you want me to lie to you?

Have you guys taken a look at the Contagion chronicles stuff coming out?

Just realized this today. There is now more time between today and VtR than between VtM and VtR.

I will try and check out the discord et all after the holidays.

My sole exposure to Modiphius is their excellent Fallout: Wasteland Warfare mini game. It is A++

I started because I was a teenager in 1996 and didn't know any IRL players and it was more fun than BBS games.

I am behind, nearly done Season 2, but how the fuck is Riverdale some of the best Vampire the Requiem inspiration? If you picture the various parents and children as, well, sires and childer, and the numerous and complicated groups as Covenants and/or coteries, it is great. Basically the main characters are the rare kindred in a larger setting.

@admiral said in General Video Game Thread:

Fallout 76 is worth buying. That is all. Carry on.

This is true.

Is anyone going to be playing Fallout 76 on the Xbox besides me?

My wedding ring finally arrived!

@auspice said in Do you read the book(s)?:

I didn't answer the poll because there's no 'sorta' field.

I read what I need for what I'm doing. And then I absorb more as I go along. If I read it all up front, I don't actually grok what I'm reading and none of it makes sense, so I retain nothing. But if I read what I need for CG, then hit the grid and take in more as I go, applying it situationally... that's how I learn best.

There was but I did something terribly wrong

I, too, skip the fiction unless I am reading the book in hand physically. Not sure why that is.

Wow this did not turn out as I had intended in the input fields. JUST DISCUSS BELOW >_>

Spinning off a little from the Social Stats thread, I was wondering how many people read the rulebooks for games they play on. Do you devour the content, mechanics, fluff and all? Do you skim the character creation and wing it? Do you just hope people will be nice and helpful?

@ganymede said in Social Stats in the World of Darkness:

And you're right. We're joking or lying
But let's suppose that to be true. All the more reason to abolish social and mental combat, and simply rely on our wits and writing, as players, to convince others to do what we want.

Some of us are neither witty nor skilled writers. I mean obviously not me, but some of us!

If I were to ever run a game again I would attempt to weave the preferred use of social skills into the fabric of the game at conception. It sets a precedent and stops people from having massively divergent (not wrong) ideas from wasting their time.