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A nice mild indica strain and 10 mg Lexapro daily. Holy shit, it's like a miracle, I feel like a person again.

Too bad I need to drive six hours for the indica and it's technically illegal where I live. >_____>

Any updates?

@auspice said in Good TV:

First image from The Mandalorian plus a list of directors for episodes.

TAIKA. TAAAAIKA.

I also approve of Jon Favreau as producer/writer. I like his work.

OK, damn. I didn't think I could get excited about anything Star Wars again.

@aria said in Good TV:

But.... in the same way that I love Killer Klowns from Outer Space and not in the whole "this has a place of high honor in the canon of nerd culture" way.

The show definitely has its ups and downs and takes a while to hit its stride. It's got some episodes that are just flat-out astounding TV ("The Body" five seasons in comes to mind) and entire arcs that are deeply cringe and uncomfortable. I dunno, it's one of those shows that grabbed onto culture and shook it up in a way that is really hard to define, and I imagine it's probably genuinely difficult to feel impressed by it watching it for the first time years and years later after even better TV series that were influenced by Buffy have come and gone.

@Coin

That level of local flavor would be awesome. I mean, I'm not typically a Vampire player but it is a little disappointing to browse a wiki and see setting info like, "This is the Hierophant, this is the Maiden, this is the Father, SPOOKY FONT OOOOOOOOOOOOOH rattle chains"

I mean, again I don't play, but just based on public info like that it seems like Covenants are a blank slate in the books with lots of customization options out there, but most games just play them 100% straight.

@apos said in What RPG SYSTEM do you want to play on a Mu*?:

@wizz said in What RPG SYSTEM do you want to play on a Mu*?:

I've said it a few times over the years, but my dream:

God Wars 2's map/movement and combat systems, integrated with like an RPI's social systems. Change the mechanics behind progression and powers and skills and whatnot to fit whatever theme, you could make it modern-day or fantasy, it would be really versatile and fun.

I'm going to need to read up more about this since it's piqued my curiosity, I keep seeing mud players mention God Wars and it seems to have a devoted following

GWII itself is suuuuuuper grindy, but the aforementioned systems are really cool.

Combat is AP-based and built around combos, unlocked by different styles that have special moves and such and it's a lot of fun; it's worth making a quickstart character and just trying it out.

I've said it a few times over the years, but my dream:

God Wars 2's map/movement and combat systems, integrated with like an RPI's social systems. Change the mechanics behind progression and powers and skills and whatnot to fit whatever theme, you could make it modern-day or fantasy, it would be really versatile and fun.

@cupcake Me and my kid LOVE Steven Universe.

Greg is basically my spirit animal.

@bad-at-lurking said in Potential Buffy Game:

Gamers are worse than strict constitutionists in their ability to nitpick and argue a thing until the soul of the thing is crushed under pedantic disagreement.

@sunny

Just to be clear, I'm not against it being a Buffy game and I think ZG said pretty clearly earlier that that is his intention, as a GM he wants to tell Buffy-style stories. Ain't nothin' wrong with that. Personally I love both shows very dearly, even if I love them for different reasons.

I just wanted to make sure we cleared up early on, like @Apos said, what the game is about and what kind of atmosphere the game is going for. There're not a ton of things less fun than feeling like you are not coming into a gaming group with the right expectations.

@ixokai said in Potential Buffy Game:

First of all I don't see this big distinction between the two. Angel's out of school and the tone goes a little more serious and dark, but not a lot. Angel's primary difference is the team is a little more formalized: the scoobies on Buffy are her friends, on Angel they're kinda employees, but since he's usually just employing any friend who can handle knowing anything.
The only serious difference between the two shows, to me, is that Buffy happens in high school and the main character makes a lot more jokes.

I don't think you understand the thematic differences of the show if you think you can break it down with "one's set in high school and has a higher joke ratio." Like, at all.

Angel has a completely different tone, a different message, a different storytelling style (can you tell me with a straight face that you think Buffy is noir?). Angel goes to very, very dark places and stays there, where Buffy dips its toes occasionally. The shows end on completely different pages.

That's what Ark is referring to, they're set in the same universe but they're capital-letters Not The Same Kinds Of Stories.

From an article that kind of highlights this point:

Unlike Sunnydale, Los Angeles actually exists, and the real-world setting completely changes the subtext of Angel’s fight against the demonic. In Sunnydale, demons are outward manifestations of universal anxieties and fears, preying on the vulnerable but otherwise remaining hidden. In Los Angeles, they walk among us, smiling as they take what’s ours and lure the opportunistic and amoral into their service.
Angel finally finds away to confront the Senior Partners of Wolfram and Heart. Accompanied by the undead lawyer Holland Manners, Angel enters an elevator that will presumably take him to Hell, where he can win the fight once and for all. But things aren’t so simple in the Angel universe.

“We have no intention of doing anything so prosaic as ‘winning,'” says Manners, scoffing at Angel’s efforts. “For us, there is no fight. That’s why winning doesn’t even enter into it. We go on.”

And then the elevator doors open, and Angel is back where he started: Los Angeles. Earth. Hell.

If Buffy the Vampire Slayer is a show about becoming, then Angel is about something far more challenging: existing. There is a rot to the world, one that threatens to infect us all—not in grand, dramatic ways, but mundane ones. Entropy and inertia are the natural order of things. According to Holland Manners, the world doesn’t work in spite of evil—it works with it.

I think we disagree about whether or not they can coexist on a game, because a game is going to have more than one storyteller and a whole heck of a lot more points of focus than one insular cast, but to dismissively handwave away the differences is really weird to me.

@ixokai said in Deep Shadows - Shadowrun 5th Edition MUSH - Help Wanted:

@wizz said in Deep Shadows - Shadowrun 5th Edition MUSH - Help Wanted:

@ixokai said in Deep Shadows - Shadowrun 5th Edition MUSH - Help Wanted:

@tragedyjones said in Deep Shadows - Shadowrun 5th Edition MUSH - Help Wanted:

@golgoth

Players are already expected to buy and/or download the book. Downloading chummer isn't the biggest hurdle, and it would make CG easier than self-coding it...right?

Doesn't this make a game 'for players who use windows only' then?

Uhh, what? I was pointing out they were talking about incorporating a windows-only app into the process of chargen and there are people who aren't on windows.

Nothing little finger smoking sinister.

An exaggerated response intended to provoke a smile and/or chuckle from human viewers. Beep boop.

@ixokai said in Deep Shadows - Shadowrun 5th Edition MUSH - Help Wanted:

@tragedyjones said in Deep Shadows - Shadowrun 5th Edition MUSH - Help Wanted:

@golgoth

Players are already expected to buy and/or download the book. Downloading chummer isn't the biggest hurdle, and it would make CG easier than self-coding it...right?

Doesn't this make a game 'for players who use windows only' then?

@bobotron said in Active Modern Day Games?:

@coin
The comics got crazy as things went on. Broken Masquerade, vampire reality TV, vampires making mindless zombie-vamps when they sired, all kinds of stuff.

Spike shot a Senior Partner with a pistol.

Not like, a magical pistol or one with holy bullets or anything.

Just...a regular ol' pistol. And the Senior Partner was all like "ow what the hell, ouch."

Yeah the comics were fucking stupid.

This isn't the place for old war stories probably, but holy shit was the one set in Vegas an actual dumpster fire.

@coin said in Potential Buffy Game:

"It did not move, the fluctuations of the Hellmouth's energies are quite different from those of the old Hellmouth."

I dunno, I like both options but there's something kind of extra cool about a Hellmouth moving.

Like...did someone move it, like @Bad-at-Lurking suggests? Who (or what) has that kind of power, and why would they want to do it? Did they need to, for something...else? Did it move itself?
What are the actual implications and ramifications of all that mystical/demonic energy being redirected from one location to another? (A Hellmouth that has been steeping in the magical resonance of India for the last three thousand years suddenly seals and bursts open again... in Ohio. SHENANIGANS GALORE)

@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.

@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

@coin

The whole concept of the Senior Partners as the kind of evil you can't even really fight, but you try because what else can you do is just....HRRRRRGGHHHHSOGOOD

*pain too real because good thing *

@coin said in Potential Buffy Game:

she was old when the Wolf, the Ram, and the Hart were bugs to be stepped on.

Can I just geek out for a second and say that to this day if I watch an episode, every time a character talks about them individually like that I still get crazy chills? God damn Angel was a great show.