Posts made by WTFE

Experts Say Best Option Now is Keeping Nation As Comfortable As Possible Till End

That about sums up the American political landscape and its toxicity these days.

Me? I'm all about the popcorn.

My son's artistic abilities are improving.

Custodius is of the "'No' means you didn't use enough rohypnol" persuasion when it comes to welcome. The fact that he was once staff and was booted does not preclude an "incognito" (wink, wink) return.

@Cirno said:

Not that it matters, because I'm pulling out of this thread.

There have been [ 2 ] messages since the flouncing "I'm leaving" message.

I assume that now that Cirno has stopped huffing glue (or whatever it is he's doing when he's not bored and trolling) there will be more impetus in getting an ignore feature into the BBS software?

Shit. I didn't catch that. Sorry.

This is why we laugh at you.

@ThugHeaven said:

Did this die or something?

Please don't tease like that!

@Misadventure said:

Why not? Criminals get their comeuppence?

It's just not the kind of literature/movie/whatever that goes over big in China, so seeing it in game form--and translated game form to boot--is a big surprise.

OK, this is seriously something I never expected to be sold in China, not to mention translated and sold in China.

I apologize, then. I assumed you were one of the west coasters whining about EST-centrism.

You want fun? Enter CST into the time zone field. It appears some twats somewhere think CST is GMT-6 instead of the proper GMT+8.

Aw, it's so CUTE when Americans are given a taste of their own treatment of the rest of the world!

@Thisnameistaken said:

• Moving on, I have an additional question. What is your favorite game to TT, as ST or player?

Depends on the genre. The game I've run the most is C&S (in various editions), but the game I enjoyed running the most was the aforementioned CORPS/Law & Order-like kitbash.

As a player, I think classic Traveller with the Traveller's Digest modifications was my all-time favourite.

@Thenomain said:

That to me is like saying theme is just background noise. If you don't have theme, you really do have a sea of bland made of bland-atoms made of bland-quarks. Even a non-compelling theme is better than no theme at all.

Theme ≠ plot. If a plot doesn't resolve, nor move visibly toward resolution, it isn't a plot. It's an unfortunate series of events. The whole point of a plot is that it resolves. If all you have is background events that illustrate a point of the game or that set the tone of it, you have a theme, not a plot.

There's absolutely nothing wrong with a plot ending by beginning something new. But there must be an end in sight or it's just background noise.

@Thenomain said:

The metaplot had an ending, which is where I feel it failed as a metaplot.

I'm not sure it's possible for me to disagree with something more strongly than I disagree with this.

If your metaplot has no ending it is wankery. It's never-ending meta-"plots" in particular that I ignore and/or get driven off by when playing games. A plot almost by definition (and maybe actually by definition) is the resolution of a conflict. No resolution? It's just an unfortunate series of events.

@tragedyjones said:

• Do/did you play in a tabletop game now or in the past?

I did and would do again if I could find anybody to RP with. It's emphatically not a "thing" here so I've been in a 15-year dry spell.

• What games(s) do/did you play as tabletop?

What game you got?

Seriously, I had over 200 RPGs. That's the core games. I also had most of the supplements for these games. (Basically if I liked a game I bought its supplements.) Of course I didn't play all of them; most of them I mined for ideas. I could play any of them though and was often called upon to run a game of something that caught someone's eye when the regular game couldn't work out for some reason or another.

Most common games played regularly, however, were Traveller (often played in the setting but using the CORPS rule system), HARP (don't judge me!), BESM (I said don't judge me!), and a CORPS-based modern-day police procedural campaign that ran for a looooooooooong time. (Think a Law & Order-inspired game and you've got it about right.) Interspersed between these were attempts at Everway and various flavours of Star Trek that never quite caught on.

In the distant, distant past I was big on C&S, Universe, Dragonquest, and Rolemaster (DON'T JUDGE ME!).

• Are/were you the GM/ST/DM at your tabletop?

I switched regularly between running and playing. We had a pretty decent (if fluid) group of adults who recognized that not everybody wanted to run all the time and not everybody wanted to play all the time. We switched between us when the time was right.

• Would you tabletop if you had the opportunity?

In a heartbeat.

• Do you have the opportunity but choose NOT to tabletop?

No. I have no opportunity.

@Thenomain said:

Why would %[...] be insane?

It wouldn't be. Plain […] was an insane choice. %[…] is sufficiently distinct that it's perfectly fine.