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@Collective said in Wheel of Time MU(SH|X):
....I wonder if I'd have the patience for the type of game that required hundreds of real-life hours to learn to pose slashing at somebody with a sword exactly the right way, according to the 'blademasters'. With tests.

@Sunny said in Wheel of Time MU(SH|X):

I'll play barring one of the few policy choices that make/break game for me; the setting enthuses me a great deal, and I'd certainly like playing it. Though if it's setup like the old games with tons of RL time invested...nope.

Just... no. I am a filthy casual these days, I just don't have the time to be anything else and by and large this hobby is leaning at that way.

I would likely not allow someone to start with a Heron out of chargen, but set the requirements for it at some attainable skill level and just require RP context to fit, not endless logs of RP. No heron-marked blade for a stableboy that just picked up a sword, but your veteran warrior? Sure. Example with Fate would be a Heron Marked stunt, set the requirement at something like Sword 6. I'd even let you get the stunt if you don't use the words pronate and supinate in your fighty emotes.

I would likely allow Aes Sedai right out of chargen, but, again to use a Fate/DFRPG example, make it like how DFRPG allows Full Wizard, but uses all your points. There are those people that like to start low, the raising from Novice to Accepted and Accepted to Aes Sedai are big events in a characters life and folks love to PRP those out... but if you don't want to? Meh. Go for it.

Just got a spam call from a Boothbay Harbor number. I blame you people.

@apos said in Earning stuff:

The whole reason they asked oocly if it was possible was to avoid looking bad by trying and failing.

I think that this is a bad assumption to make, though probably not wrong a lot of the time. If I was to ask if something was possible it wouldn't be to avoid trying and failing but to help shape the story. If the answer was an affirmative the followup question would be to be asked how/where to start, especially if the obvious places have been tried and gotten no where which led to the question of something being possible in the first place.

@olsson

He really is... but it is very well written.

***=Kingkiller spoilish***

Should add that in my head a Heron mark stunt/ability wouldn't be a combat bonus. The combat skill associated would be from the actual combat skills/stunts. The heron would give a social bonus/perk thingy. The sword doesn't make the man, etc etc.

@chibichibi I believe there is still Dresden files RPG code out there that could easily be applied to that sort of setting.

Its fate though, not everyone's cup of tea.

and for what it is worth you absolutely can get near instant feed back on your code in Evennia/Arxcode.

Just edit the code on your server, save the file without even exiting the editor, and on your client logged in to the server do an @reload before testing.

Joe Abercrombie's First Law Trilogy and all the stand alone books set after it/the short fiction to go with it. Just an awesome take on the typically fantasy story. Gritty, funny, and thoroughly entertaining. If i had to pick a favorite author it would be a tough choice between him and Sanderson.

@Tempest said in Wheel of Time MU(SH|X):

(Lemme have a snowflake spearmaiden warder on my AS plzkthx)

Don't you mean spearmaiden warder AND AS?

@Tempest said in Wheel of Time MU(SH|X):

Anything without Aiel as playable characters would make a lot of people sad,

I honestly ahbor pretty much everything about the Aiel so I personally wouldn't miss them, but I know a lot of people love them. Depending on the time period they could be added in somehow,

male channelers.. probably no. Not unless set during the books wth Asha'man.

Dark friends and black ajah are part of the theme and would be allowed, but need to be closely monitored to keep with the theme of secrecy.

And used/uses Fate which is unliked around these parts for some reason.

I admit it was a poor generalization. It's more that some outspoken posters given the impression of wide spread disdain.

Personally I think FATE is probably one of the best systems for collaborative MU

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@PuppyBreath said in Wheel of Time MU(SH|X):

Man, I loooved playing on Cuendillar, but I have a shitty memory and I wouldn't know how to play on a WoT game anymore without good files or reading some of the books again.

I envision a wiki pointing to some of the good web resources for theme info, the plot summaries, etc, while spelling out some of the big stuff I'd want reinterated on the wiki itself (the three oaths for example)

It's seems odd to argue over how mu access from a corporate environment would be allowed but every commercial firewall I can think of is deny by default for traffic. unless some enterprising system admin decided to put in a rule to allow everything (which absolutely does happen, but that's for the RL things I love for people me employeed) they would have to punch holes specifically for the ports that MUs use. Port 80 and 443 are virtually always allowed through, sometimes limited through a proxy and/or web filtering, but unless you're a company with strictly no outside web access those will be allowed.

And again the example of a hotel. A few big chains only allow 80, 443, IPSec ports and a few other protocols to transverse their guest networks.

I was one of those DS players that rarely made GMed scenes or got much in the way of votes so I loved that I could still advance with time as my characters story progressed. I think a limit on max points would have work to stop some of the dinosaur affect and maybe just everything else has to go to Fate points. I dunno.

Oathbringer is out today and I can't get my darn Audible app to download it

@arkandel said in The Wheel of Time:

... Also why did that Warder's axe break the Shield on Logain?

Me, after watching that. To be fair I don't think the axe broke the shield. It exploding and hitting everyone did. But that the shield was a physical thing for the axe to pass through was weird.

And yes. poor Perrin. completely unneeded.

It is interesting hearing how people who have never read the books are reacting to it all though. The Who is the Dragon Reborn? Seems to be working for them.

Maybe we have been spoiled by some of the really good fight choreography lately but it really does seem subpar. At this point I am fully expecting Aiel to be basically baton twirling X-treme martial artists

Hmm. Maybe base it in Katar. Has intrigue/conflict with Arad Doman, near near to Toman' Head for Seanchan shenanigans, potential for Aeil searching about, trollocs from Ways, etc.

I think it's really just a matter of personal preference. I personally way way preferred DF RPG over DFA. DFA just didn't grab me at all and lost my interest pretty quick when I was looking through it. I don't know how those two compare to Fate and Fate Accelerated but I'm not sure there is a best way

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