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@goblin

Duuuuuuuude, that is a great creative team. I am psyched!

@wizz said in Interest check: pure OC superhero game:

The only thing that would be really problematic is that the core of a character is the balance between Mythic and Mundane, ie if you have too much of one or the other you technically are supposed to retire your PC and they're supposed to be constantly in flux, which is another mechanic that doesn't really make sense for superheroes.

Not to be too much of a doofus here by quoting myself, but to brainstorm this some more, you could arguably make this into a very interesting superhero-y thing if there was some setting element that meant all characters were supposed to fluctuate between like, street-level and cosmic a la Doctor Manhattan, for example...

@theonceler said in Interest check: pure OC superhero game:

No built in 'all superpowers come from <a thing>' nonsense which limits character concepts.

Actually all superpowers do come from A Thing, like some sort of SCIENCE!-y collapse/explosion of an LHC kinda thing that randomly empowers people all over the globe, and the only way heroes don't become weird super-detached godlike assholes (again, late-arc Doc Manhattan) is to maintain their secret identities.

The City of Mist mechanic I'm referring to gives each character four "cards" that represent either a supernatural powerset or a mundane story element that's kind of equivalent to a Chronicles of Darkness Anchor, something that ties the character to mortality. If you lose a mundane card, you gain a supernatural card and vice versa, and your power tier/level/whatever obviously fluctuates depending on how many supernatural vs. how many mundane cards you have. If you lose your last mundane card, your character becomes a completely supernatural entity with no trace of humanity left and basically runs amok as an NPC, and if you lose your last supernatural card you (obvs) become completely mundane and you're stuck on the other side of the Veil.

This COULD be made into something very comic book, ie like how Superman works at the Daily Planet as Clark Kent to both monitor global crises and maintain his ties to people. If he were to lose the job for whatever reason, he'd go sulk in his weird alien Fortress of Solitude and become just a little more out of touch with the people he's supposed to be protecting. (Which, come to think of it, is something I'm pretty sure I regurgitated from the book verbatim as an example they used.)

Not everybody's bag, and that is a very super specific setting that does restrict like ALIENS AND MUTANTS AND GODS or whatever, but it could be cool IMO.

(Sorry OP for all the word vomit BTW, haha. If you want me to split this off into a discussion topic that is absolutely fine.)

@Chet said in Vietnam War MUSH:

This is a troubleshooter trick used by mobster stockbrokers.

We take the surface, and look at the elements we can see, that are apparent to us alone, at the time of the analysis of the surface layer.

We put them all in a lexicon, all these elements, and then we put the elements back in, with a new surface layer, something else, like a sci-fi theme.

...Translated from Chet-ese, "Yeah, I wanted to adapt a sci-fi setting."

Right?

@Three-Eyed-Crow

100% agree. I actually find a lot in the books cringe-worthy and gross (in the way GRRM did not intend) and I kinda gave up on the series before the show came along, Cersei being one of the reasons. Dude just did not know how to write her headspace and her chapters were always a struggle to get through, for sure. I was always like, "come on, this is not a person." I honestly think it comes back to how difficult it can be for men to write women.

Hahaha, no, just as a general rule of thumb most of us would expect a straight answer to the question.

@Arkandel
I MEAN IF WINTER WAS REALLY COMING WHY IS IT SO HOT AMIRITE

You should spend some time developing the themes and scale you want as well as the setting. Picking an interesting place is important, but how involved are the various powers at play, and how zany are things going to get?

Like, going back to the whole Buffy vs Angel thing, Buffy was largely agnostic about a lot of the Higher Power stuff? They maybe nudged events here and there, but Buffy herself didn't really seem to care either way about them and her villains tended to be very small scale and personal (until the finale with the First Evil anyway); she just wanted to grow up and live her life. Angel's entire life was constantly screwed with by the Powers That Be, and his whole thing was destiny and fate and ancient prophecies and his villains tended to be (on the whole) huge and impersonal.

Where is the game going to land on that scale? Are there "tiers" of cosmic involvement that players can opt into and out of? Stuff to think about, maybe!

@deathbird said in MU Things I Love:

@Ominous said in MU Things I Love:

Was it a quality TS pose?

It was studded with..uh... prose.

Were they at least trying their best? Because y'know this godforsaken year I would totally be willing to accept that in a sort of compassionate "carry on, my wayward son" sort of way.

@Arkandel

Yyyyeah, I had mixed feelings about it. On one hand it felt like major plot rush, same as everything else this season...but on the other hand, it was like, damn. It really nailed home how hard and cold and...Stark (ba-dum PSH) the children have become, and while I'm not sure that we will I kind of hope that we see some kind of fallout for it in Season 8, like the show will acknowledge how rushed and unjust the trial was via Jon, even if Littlefinger was a piece of shit and seeing him get his was super satisfying.

@secretfire said in Potential Buffy Game:

But I don't think, from the beginning, you should really get into a 'rut'. I think the way you will be pushed is very, very strongly towards people who will just want to do school RP until the end of time, and if you do that, eventually the game will die (sooner rather then later).

Rather than constantly criticizing the way you think other people want to play, I think it'd be helpful to focus on something else. Like, keep talking about your zany immigrant demon plothook you want so bad, maybe you'll eventually sell it. Stop predicting doom already because that's probably the most obnoxious thing to do in a development thread.

Plz and thnx

Playing CP2077 has made me want a MU* so, so badly. I am thrilled to see this is still going somewhere.

@Three-Eyed-Crow said in Good TV:

I gleefully enjoyed hating on the entire run of NBC's terrible version of 'Dracula' a couple years ago

That show was such a guilty pleasure. I really enjoyed all the "weird science" elements and am just plain a sucker for most vampire media unless it's of the young adult variety.

@zombiegenesis said in Potential Buffy Game:

For what "tier" the game will be on I'm thinking we're going to start small. The first "season" may focus on something localized and personal, something specific to Dayton.

Just throwing ideas against the wall, but you could have two grids with two different themes, Dayton for small town Buffy shenanigans and like, Columbus or Cleveland for gritty life in the big city.

Other games have done something similar.

@carma said in Interest in Cyberpunk MU*?:

Like I'm on a Moto G6 and here are the steps just to get through one command...

That's basically your entire problem in a nutshell. As much as it sucks for some people who don't have any other means to access them, MU*s were never designed to be played via modern smart phones.

The syntax takes some getting used to on a computer and keyboard, but it's much more efficient for that configuration, which is the standard. You're arguing about efficiency like playing on smartphones is the norm and it just isn't.

But you're right, this subject really does deserve it's own thread rather than hijacking this one.

Huuuuuge deposit, which I can either put on a credit card or just dump all at once for several hundred dollars more. Biweekly payments that will chomp my paycheck. And this may take six weeks or more. All just so I can finish the paperwork and see my kid on a regular basis. Totally fucking worth it but still guuuuhhhhhhhhhh.

@Wretched Thanks!

I'd like some input from anyone familiar with Fate!

So what I'm considering is two (2) types of characters, Mortal and Monster.

Monster PCs will be given a much higher pool of points in Cgen to spend on powers (still not 100% sure what this number should be), BUT they will not have a refresh score -- they can only earn Fate points through play by accepting compels like NPCs, and these disappear at the start of the week when mortal chars earn refresh. All Monsters will also have a Hunger stress track (for blood, flesh, human souls, baby heads, whatev) and I'm thinking that it would work to allow Monsters to take hits on this track to pay for the things people use Fate points for -- rerolls, bonuses, powers, refusing compels, tagging Aspects, etc, anything but narrative changes.

Thoughts?

@reason said in Interest in Cyberpunk MU*?:

@prototart said in Interest in Cyberpunk MU*?:

i didn’t read any of this and im drunk but can i play judy

You'd have to settle for a PC roughly inspired by Judy, as CP:Red doesn't take place in 2077 -- it takes place about 30 years earlier.

JUDY IS ALL
JUDY IS E T E R N A L

@Ganymede

THE ENNUI OF THE OF THE RULING CLASS AND THE HORRIFYING DIVERSIONS THEY CREATE TO AVOID IT ARE DARKLY FUNNY OK

@jinshei Holy crap, that'd be awesome! Thanks!