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VTM: Bloodlines 2
https://youtu.be/6PM0vb8UCzM

I think, and this may seem a bit callous, but a lot of the onus is on the players themselves. Much of the time the people that end up being in 'the spotlight' are there simply because they look at the scene/situation and they take action.

I've been in scenes//ST'd scenes so many times where the squeaky wheel talking about not getting time to shine are about as proactive as that box of baking powder you forgot about in the back of a kitchen cabinet.

"Waugggh, she healed them before I did, Daphne did this action and i didn't get to do anything!" Well Daphne fucking paged me/posed doing the thing! There was no one set up to be the stars of most/almost all the scenes I run. Is it the ST's responsibility to pick up the crowbar to separate the wallflower from their perch? Do I really have to listen to someone who's only contribution is 20/20 hindsight and regret? At what point is it the players responsibility to just act?

For me, I am the star of my story, Luke and Liea and Han can be having a little menage-a-wookie over Palpatine's corpse as the grand finale of their victory lap of badassness, my focus is still on me, and my actions in the world, where some people may be doing heroic stuff, and that doesn't actually detract from my story.

Pick yer niche, do yer shit. Join things and be proactive.

@tempest Yes so much. Tho at the same time every time somone starts an argument with 'This is the world of DARQUNESS not the world of **Fluffy Bunnies!!' I kinda start to ignore them.

**or whatever derisive term they choose

The people running the game should be clear about just how much their alternate reality deviates from the real one. The people playing the game should also keep that in mind. Since the WoD however is set in a modern analouge of our world, it's really easy to forget the differences.

@puppybreath I hope he's okay! Give him all the love. Lily sends hers too.

Tonight? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hm1YFszJWbQ
Right now it's everywhere, Florida Man memes and Cocaine, and the decision that one of our fictional politicians will be named Dick Everyman.

Happy 3rd birthday to my Lilymonster

@BetterJudgment I'm just gonna use this in TS.

she pulls down your pants and presses her head in to <censored/redacted/bleep>

ooc Me: "It tastes like cornstarch that has clumped up from sweat! You like that?!"

@Admiral A few reasons.

A) We are in fact going over everything from the ground up. My goal is a game with a strong foundation to last a significant amount of time.
B) This is my very first game I am more or less in charge of building and the learning curve is real.
C) While we have a number of lovely staff making great spheres, I am running largely without any support structure for non sphere specific stuff and have had 0 luck finding a creative partner for story feedback and creative processing, I am not used to working in a void. How will I know my ideas are good?!
D) This is a hobby, I am approaching it as a hobby, building and writing and concepting as things come, rather than like a job with a deadline. I want to make a game i want to play in, not 'Generic WoD #4526'
E) I wont talk about the previous bumps and blocks and hangups and growing pains. Also See B.
F) ADHD

The support and anticipation for this project has been unreal and I all of you who are sticking by and waiting for it. I hope to live up to what hype there is.

@auspice @AeriaNyx Fuuuuuck Welbutrin. Fuck that shit to heck.

So Hi, Depression here. + Anxiety and probably ADHD (diagnosed as a kid, 'inconclusive' because of some fancy test of theirs as an adult).

I was on welbutrin for a bit. They told me to give it time. I gave it months.

it made everything worse. Sure on good days i was good. Except that happened once in a blue moon. Oh the bad days (much more common) my temper was like trhe tide in a storm. All over the fucking place and way more dramatic than ever. Oh and then the sadness. The 'my Rp partner had to go early, clearly they hate me, i am awful, I know, lets cry over imagined slights!' Like full on bawling over nothing.

I should mention, they also were giving me a generic Ritalin at the same time. A drug i told them i took in high school that gave me headaches and made me paranoid. Welbutrin was also something my mother was on and she had a terrible reaction to it.

But hey i quit the ADHD one and stayed on Welbutrin, trying to be compliant, but no, sorry, just FUCK THAT DRUG. I am glad it works for some but... now.

This year i started marijuana. It's not covered by insurance, but for the first time in over a decade i have motivation and ambition again. I have started eating healthier, exercising on the regular, even when inconvenient, to the point that I now crave exercise. As a result my tastes have changed, and while i get the munchies urge, it's usually for better stuff than i used to eat. I've lost ~25lbs.

I havent been to my psych doctor in over a year however, and i kinda have anxiety about that. All my life i got hammered into my head 'Drugz R Bad' I grew up during D.A.R.E., and I fear conversing with my doctor about it, because I am 99% sure she's gonna be 'Stop the weed and try this other drug that'll take months to determine if it works or not and may make you insane again!

Sorry i needed to go off for a bit.

Fuck Welbutrin (unless it works for you then yay but really you are a mutant because fuck that drug)

@Ganymede

@Kanye-Qwest I don't think that at all, nor was it what i said. But there is a difference between 'This staffer likes to run scenes for the Cavanaugh Family Group because they click well.' and 'This Staffer like to TS with Henry Hung Hunkenstien, for the plot.'

I FUKKIN LOVESCENTED CANDLES!!

Ahem.

But i do. Especially Clove/Vanilla/pumpkin rich warm scents...

Oh and Anything evergreen, gimme a candle that smells like 12345697 Christmas trees, thanks.

Fuck 'scented' candles that dont actually fill my home with smell.

@Ghost Obligatory 'Why are you even here man?!'

Umbrella Academy Season 2 is official, woo.

So, I like watching things, many different varieties of things, and I hear it's not an uncommon hobby. Movies, TV shows, Comic Books, Novels, Games. many of these have specific themes and styles, be they Noir, Comedy, Action, Suspense, Whatever the fuck the Awesomesauce that was into the Spiderverse was...

So I am curious, through which lens, if any, do you see the world when you are MUing? Does it change between characters? Does it change between scenes? Do you rely entirely on the game itself or add your own flavor?

When i was younger, it was very Tim Burton mixed with 8mm, I went through a phase that was more edgelord than normal with Underworld/jason Statham stuff, Rawr battle badass unf.

These days i focus on more of the absurd, my internal dialogue is way more 'What we Do in the Shadows', I mean sure i am playing a spooky dark forest dwelling demigod... but my interest comes from how he interacts with people and the world and how bizarre and strange it can be. See new changelings introduced to cell phone 'contracts'.

@surreality said in X-Cards:

We do already kinda have this as a 'page the GM' kind of thing, if someone wants to make a quiet exit without speaking up to all and sundry.

p GM=This is hitting an RL limit for me due to <X>. I'd like an out this round, via <Reasonably Possible Y, ex: 'hears a noise outside to investigate and will meet up with the party later', 'is knocked out and carried home by the others', 'gets an emergency call from Bob and must go', etc.> if at all possible.

So what if we standardized something like this in game. Just made it part of the culture. A Player should feel comfortable saying 'Hey, this is something I am sensitive to and would like to find a way for me and my PC to not interact it.' and the GM/ST/DM Simply smiles, understands, gives them an out, or something else to do in the meanwhile, and every opportunity to rejoin once past said impasse after. You guard the hall! Your babysitter fell through, so you gotta hunt the monster another day. With 0 stigma.

Tangent I mean some folks will have to come to grips that their yum is not everyone else's yum. And that if your yum is someone else's yuck, that there is nothing wrong with that either and you dont have to push your yum on them. But also that if their yum is your yuck, you don't get to demean them for it either. I married a Vegetarian 12.5 years ago, I promise that it's okay to still be great friends while not liking the same things. End tangent