Posts made by Wizz

My only "meh" about this is that will technically be 3 games in Nevada. Ho-hum.
BUT YAY 2ED

My options on a Friday night:

• Bite the bullet, hire a sitter, get out and try to meet somebody.

• Buy a gallon of gin, cry myself to sleep.

DECISIONS DECISIONS
*pours some gin *

@Arkandel said in Magicians Game:

One of the really hard parts to convey in a game - because they are not difficult but hard - is just how dangerous magic was in the Magicians' universe.

Magic fucked you up. One slip and you were fucked. Entire classes had been known to disappear - and that's while they were getting tutored in prestigious schools, not picking up tricks by street wizards.

In games that ain't gonna happen because, well, risk.

Quentin ends the first book with (SPOILERS?? I GUESS????????) magical wooden prostheses and white hair, so it's not like you can't make risk interesting in this universe, it doesn't have to be straight-up death to be tense or entertaining.

@Cupcake said in What do you WANT to play most?:

Avatar:The Last Airbender/Legend of Korra, or Into the Badlands. Very cinematic oriented combat with an alternative world setting.

I just powered through Legend of Korra for the first time and I would be so, so behind an Avatar game, or really any sort of wuxia setting.

My next choice would be what it's always been, a game that is just meant to be wacky gonzo stress relief, like Buffy with a heavy dose of Todd and the Book of Pure Evil.

Supreme Power and the second volume Squadron Supreme from Marvel are pretty great.
You don't need to have read anything before it and before the series moves on into dumb multiverse hijinks in the third volume it's pretty solid and self-contained.
It takes the basic origin story of Superman, alien baby found in a cornfield by some country folk only HOSHIT the government finds the crash site, takes him and tries to raise him instead and that goes...not well. It's a neat deconstruction of Superman and the Justice League, super powers in general, American culture, etc. etc.

@Nein said in All Original Supers Game:

@Wizz Just as a framework of reference so people know the world in which they exist, really. It's not a necessary thing. It just provides a spawning ground that's familiar.

Personally I would find that off-putting without setting elements that take center stage, like some sort of super-hero genocide like @Lithium mentioned. At that point though it's not really just a game "set in" the DC or Marvel universes, it's a game about a comic book apocalyptic scenario (as an example, or you could do far-future or distant-past, etc. etc.). Just having the set pieces float around without being able to reference the iconic faces is weird to me, but that's (again) personal opinion.

I don't really understand the appeal of using the settings but not the characters. Why not just make an entirely original game?

@Bobotron

TOO LATE ALVA! TOOOOOOOOOOOO LATE!!!!!!!!!!!

(I think you mean Shadow's Kiss?)

From days of yore onwards:

Outbound call center for customer satisfaction and scientific surveys
Pizza dude
Staff at a rehab school for "troubled" teens
Deli guy in a grocery store
Several factory temp jobs
Administrator for another rehab school
Classy shoe sales guy
Night security for an extended-stay hotel
Photo lab tech
Electronics department drudge
Shift supervisor at a doggie daycare
Electronics department drudge 2: the drudgening
Home Depot call center rep
USAA call center rep
Dispatch supervisor for a Medicaid patient transportation network

...My resume is just fucking bazonkers.

@ixokai said in Star Wars: Insurgency:

Its not 'shoehorning' Luke (a staff alt)

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I appreciate the transparency, I really like the setting, and I actually like Fate, but FCs are strike one and staff-played FCs are strikes two and three for me. Purely personal preference and opinion but I wouldn't touch the place unless Beta saw FCs done away with altogether.

@Thenomain
Goddamnit, I was trying to find a way to make that pun work and not give up pork, because trichinosis is so scary

@Goyim
I'd also accept a singing contest where the judges throw raw pork at the contestant if the audience loves them. The stakes couldn't be higher!!!!!!!!

Any updates? Good news, bad news, weird news????

THE PEOPLE NEED TO KNOW

I treated myself to a burger-and-brauts place called Dog Haus near my work after a week from hell implementing a new project.

$10 burger, but holy shit it was worth all the dollars. It was almost a religious experience. I have never enjoyed one that much.

Juuuuuust finished the OA.

That was...

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@Cupcake said in Good TV:

That is some fucked up Mage the Awakening brand shit, yo.

Hap is a pretty much textbook-perfect Mad One.

Dude, you have at least one fan of this idea who thinks it stands on its own merits. I would absolutely love to see a more freeform sort of game that isn't tied down to a specific IP like this and I've been boiling over with character ideas. I really wish I could offer more than just encouragement right now

Ultimately, do what you feel is right in your heart!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I found this life-changing picture and immediately wrote a 32-page background for a character, WHERE ARE MY SPACE ADVENTURES

@Auspice
I just have no idea where to look anymore. Admittedly I make this a lot harder for myself in that the kind of women I tend to be very attracted to are modern, liberal, living-their-dream types who always seem to have zero interest in children (or at least, they're the only ones who make dating profiles in my area).

Slowly coming to grips with the realization that single-dad life being "admirable" doesn't mean it's attractive, at least in the online dating scene, in a place and time in my life where that's pretty much the only dating scene. Blegh.