I have NO IDEA how, but this little punk has figured out how to open my kitchen cabinets and drawers and it's practically all she does now. She finds it especially funny to climb into them at 3 AM and startle me awake by knocking shit out of them, and then loudly complain when I try to take her out. 
@Rinel said in TS - Danger zone:
I'm not saying that it's wrong not to be ashamed. I just don't like the implication that people who are are weird. Humans have a lot of hangups. Frequently about sex!
This is maybe just semantic, but I didn't mean to say that people who have sexual hang-ups are weird (hello, I am a human and thus have hang-ups!), I just meant the constant over-analysing of TS itself is strange to me and maybe a bit harmful in the way some people approach it, to themselves and others.
Not being someone's friend isn't the same as bullying or treating poorly. So conversation should be had, but there's nothing really that a teacher can do.
I feel like I maybe did not explain the situation well enough. I was pretty upset when I posted it and didn't even get the full story from his teacher until later that day, I apologize. My son did not have three friends individually come up and tell him over the course of the day or whatever, this was something that happened in the classroom all at once. For some reason the subject of religion came up, and when he admitted he did not believe in God, three of his classmates who also happened to have been his friends since the beginning of the school year said they wouldn't be anymore, and other children in the classroom joined in.
Some kids were defending him thankfully, but it was a nightmare, several kids were all telling him at once that they would not be his friend or involve him anymore, and that absolutely is bullying. When he went to the teacher she copped out instead of taking it seriously by saying she couldn't force them to be his friend, which wasn't the issue and she later admitted to me was wrong of her.
Again, as mentioned above, if my son had been Muslim or Jewish or Hindu or anything else, this would be so cut and dry. But for some reason when the discrimination is against agnostics or atheists many people in the US suck their teeth and hem and haw about stopping it, it's a double standard and it fucking sucks.
Luckily, the teacher did the right thing yesterday and dedicated some class time to talking about accepting others for their differences instead of excluding them, and the kids involved were very open to it and my kid was able to patch things up with them.
I appreciate the input and/or the empathy, peeps. This was quite a trip.
Yyyyeah, I was the kid behind a closed door with a PC and internet access and I still remember in pretty vivid detail some really uncomfortable moments in this hobby as a very young teen, even though it had to be clear OOC that I was not an adult. I had no idea how to handle them because my engagement with the hobby was really secretive, my dad especially being really paranoid and weird about the whole thing but never coping with it in a healthy (or tech savvy and effective) way.
Hats off to the parents in this thread who are very actively involved with their kids' engagement, I really would have killed to have that and will definitely be taking a page or two from your books if/when my son ever gets into it.
I already promised someone I was going to lead a small village in song and get an innocent old man committed to an asylum, I can dig it
Yeah, being mentally ill and being racist and bigoted are not by any means mutually exclusive.
A game somewhere between Jonathan Strange And Mister Norrel and Fullmetal Alchemist centering around a country where mages are drafted into the military and police, and formal pacts have been drafted with Hell and Faerie to bolster their forces, but they are being manipulated to mysterious ends by these and other inhuman powers. And there's dragonriders in the royal air force because HELL YEAH.
This has been living in this fairly amorphous shape in my mind rent free for a while now and I pick at it sometimes when I entertain the fantasy of making a game, haha.
Rick and Morty.
No, seriously, is City of Hope still a thing? An old-as-dirt Son of Ether mad scientist who straight up doesn't give a fuck, has like a shitty garage lab behind a Taco Bell or something and wanders through the the World of Darkness just ruining lives, with a mortal+ little buddy who desperately tries to prevent him from doing too much damage and somehow manages to make things so much worse, because they themselves are incompetent and naive.
I've got to say, this is one of the most inane things to argue about that I've ever seen here.
Dunno if it really needed to be said at this point, but I'm shelving this for I'm not sure how long. I was having a ton of fun writing theme files and playing with FATE but I really haven't had the exposure to the hobby I feel like I need to actually run a game in a long time.
Hopefully I can come back to this some day, I am still super fond of the idea.
@Misadventure
Man I instinctively hate that just looking at it.
I am feeling pretty tired of the negative experiences I have been having in this hobby and no longer think the positives outweigh the emotional harm, and I also feel like maybe I can't get over some difficult and negative things about myself until I have some actual distance to do some healing. I don't know if or when I might come back, I thought I could maybe take a break and come back but after having tried a few times now I don't think so.
I really wish weaponizing other people's vulnerabilities wasn't such a common or acceptable thing even for a lot of "normal" and even popular people in this community (eta: the MU* community just to be clear, not just MSB, lol) but that just is what it is.
I also don't like who I have become when I log in here, I'm a much more petty, cynical and bitter dude than I ever wanted to be, so this is a more definite goodbye to the forum.
We've had some good times and I appreciate the opportunity to flex our creativity and share some laffs.
If you want to keep in touch, my Discord is nthnl#4369, send me a message with your username here if it's not obvious.
Otherwise, keep on keepin' on MSB. Bye!
I never got a chance to play any of the MU*s. 
But one setting idea I think we batted around here at least once was a mirror world during the search for the Dragon. You have a sort of secret war going on between the White Tower and the Black Ajah/Darkfriends and False Dragons can pop up here and there, with the ultimate goal of fulfilling enough of the prophesies to legitimize them as the Dragon Reborn (if you die or get gentled, obvs you are not the guy).
The Boys was great, and I say this as someone who absolutely hates Garth Ennis and his juvenile "edgy" garbage. The material actually made it into the hands of competent writers, and was pretty compelling. I'd be excited to see an OC supers game with the same themes, but I think it would be extremely difficult to pull it/a game set in the universe of the show or comics off maturely and safely. Kinda seems like it could easily just turn into a creep magnet.
Oh god...it's happening again...the Magening...
The game makes it pretty clear IMO how unacceptable it is and shows you the consequences in a very stark way with what happens to Evelyn.
I really don't think it's trying to "trick" you into indulging.
I still stand by my original opinion when this discussion first came up. I personally don't think moderation is the end of the world free speech murdering fascist apocalypse everyone seems to think it is here, I've been a member of forums with much larger, happier populations with entire moderator teams and they do just fine, it honestly isn't that bad.
You can try to replace a moderator's job with automated forum features but there will ALWAYS be a degree of housekeeping that requires the ability to make decisions a script just can't replace, it's just the way it is.
Personally, the harder we push against it, the less interest I've had in coming here and participating -- but DISCLAIMER that is just me, and who gives a shit.
My son and I just finished She-Ra and the Princesses of Power and uh, man. A high adventure, pulpy swords-and-sorcery-and-sci-fi game would be ridic amounts of fun.
It got me snagging the Masters of Umdaar FAE book and paging through it. Now if only I could code worth two shits. >____>
@thatguythere said in Make MSB great again!:
any positive stuff will remain while the negative gets booted.
... To the other board, on the same forum, where anyone who wants to can see it. Again, why does it matter so much that people can't drag any and every single issue into the ad? How does that behavior not seem the tiniest bit petty?
'Cause I'll be blunt, even for the legitimate issues, to me almost...eh, seven or eight times out of ten, it's seemed like the major blowouts here have been as much about if not more about the spectacle and wallowing in the ensuing meltdown, rather than finding any real resolution or justice. I'm just saying.