Jack Black has surprised me in a few movies lately. I watched Goosebumps on a dare but actually very much enjoyed it.
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RE: Good or New Movies Review
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RE: Social Systems
@ortallus said in Social Systems:
Again, maybe hyperbolic, but this is when using full on magic to influence someone's thoughts. Now, take the magic out of the equation and I don't care what your 'persuasion' skill is, if I think sending in my troops is a bad idea for me, them, or my homeland, and you've offered nothing to convince me otherwise, then yeah, I'm not going to budge either. If your character has seduction over 9,000, but my character doesn't like were-badgers, I'm not going to TS with you.
In the TT game the issue was the player would not listen to anything regarding being convinced otherwise. The Song of Ice and Fire RPG offers a fantastic intrigue system where each player picks their desired outcome (I don't want to commit troops vs I want you to commit troops) and starting stances (I forget what they are exactly but you can pick something like "Very Against" or something) and then the intrigue starts and it's like a mini-game with each player whittling down the other players intrigue points (like health points) to get their objective. It could include things like straight out convincing, intimidation, blackmail, etc and so on. No one had a problem with burning a fate point to not send troops we would have just like to have seen HOW the intrigue played out. We felt it could have led to some great RP and character defining moments. Instead all we got was "I want you to send in some troops" countered with "No!" Not very fun or exciting.
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RE: Heroes & Villains MUX
Close! I have some friends testing the systems by making their characters now. I have a bit of last minute tidying to do and then I'm hoping to post the address after dinner. So just a few more hours.
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RE: Calaveras: Adult Fiction Drama MU
I'm working on a Mike type from Breaking Bad/Better Call Saul. Hoping to have him approved tonight or tomorrow.
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RE: Good or New Movies Review
The movie Mom and Dad starring Nicolas Cage and Selma Blair was amazingly good, IMO. It's billed as a horror-comedy blend but it plays it all pretty straight. The movie may not be for everyone, though, as it does depict pretty graphic violence against both women and children. I thought it was a pretty smart movie though, I very much enjoyed it.
As for the stars, you get what you expect from Nicolas Cage. You either like him or you don't, nothing here is going to change that. Selma Blair, however, blew me away.
Anyway, if you're looking for a different take on the "zombie" or "mass psychosis" genre and don't mind violence against women and children I highly recommend this movie.
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RE: Social Systems
@Thenomain Most of the systems I use (Savage Worlds and A Song of Ice and Fire) actually have you set a social objective before you enter into the social conflict. Each player starts by stating what their goal is in this conflict and then the two players (or more) RP and roll around how to achieve those goals. I think it's just easy for combat because the implied goal is "I bring you to 0 health".
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RE: Heroes & Villains MUX
Game Update!
We've hit a little slump. I blame myself. This year has not started the best for me so I have only recently gotten back to being on regularly. I also blame my use of the Marvel Heroic RPG. It just did not catch on. I still think Cortex Plus is a great system and could work on a game...just not this one apparently.
I'm not giving up, however. I have plans in the works to phase out the Marvel RPG for something easier for casual players to slip into. We're discussing the exacts on the game now but I'm hoping to start implementing it next week or the week after.
So we're down but not out. I love this game, the RP I've had, and the people I've met running it and I have no intention of letting it go.
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RE: Where to play?
Yeah, aside from what Faraday said, I can only think of one other game: that Empire hero game. We seem to be in a dry spot but I've heard of some good games in the works so hopefully that will change soon.
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RE: Good TV
I don't know if it's going to be good or not but I am super excited for Stargate Origins. Stargate is one of my all-time favorite movies and SG-1 is one of my all-time favorite TV shows so this has me super stoked.
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RE: Twinking in RP MU*
I'm okay with it in the form of having a concept and maximizing the idea of that concept. I think it goes both ways, I once played a big and strong boxer who was not very bright. I made sure his mental stats were below average and took some disadvantages that actually came into play through RP. What I hate are the people who take, say, Strength 5 (in a system where 5 is max human) and describe their character as being thin and possibly even "frail".
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RE: Heroes & Villains MUX
I just wanted to use this post to reach out to a few different types of people...
Players who have left: I'm hoping to lure you back with a new character generation system and RP! Things hit a hard slump at the beginning of the year with me being sick and out of sorts and people just really did not take to the Marvel Heroic RPG. Well, both of those are fixed(I hope)! I'm feeling much better and we now have our new traits-lite Power Grid system live. I'm also hoping to lure back old staff and to start running scenes again starting next week(I'll be running a scene every Monday night). So if you've let a character idle out I'm going to leave them open for you to return for another week(till 4.15.19). After that I'll return all idle characters to the general application pool.
Staffers who have left: Come back! LOL Even if it's just to your players I'd love for all of you to come on back. I'd also adore it if we could get back to running 1 scene a week a piece(right now I'm doing Mondays but I could switch to Sunday or Tuesday if Monday suits someone else better).
To everyone else: It's a new day of H&V MUX and there are a ton of characters open to app. A lot of high profile characters in fact so if you're at all interested please check us out at hvmush.com. Thanks.
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RE: The Football Thread
If this gets overturned I'm gonna be super pissed.
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RE: Social 'Combat': the hill I will die on (because I took 0 things for physical combat)
I'm not really sure what the focus of this post is supposed to be but I'll say this, I'm a fan of social combat being played out just like or in a similar way to physical combat. If I have a character that I think should fight like an MMA pro I invest points in it and go with the +rolls. If I want someone who is super willful or is a seduction master or an expert politician it's "Well, then we just RP it and things go your way" and I don't like that.
I want to invest points into the things my character is good at and have it played out with rolls, you know? I'm not my character and I like taking some of the decisions out of my hand. If the roll fails, I roll with it and RP accordingly.
Now I see why some people have a problem with that type of a system, I just don't. To me there's not much difference between physical combat "fuck, my character is dead" and social combat, "fuck, you seduced my character and now we've slept together ICly" or something like that. Now everything has context, sure, and these are just broad strokes but, in essence, I'm a fan of social combat.
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Vampire the Requiem 2.0 Bloodline Resources
I'm working on a nWoD 2.0 c-gen system and I'm trying to find some good info on 2nd Edition Bloodlines. Was wondering if anyone had any good sites or fan-made material or anything? Thanks.
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RE: Heroes & Villains MUX
We continue to press on! As of today I've put all idled out characters into the general app pool so there are A TON of characters available for application.
I'm also scheduling scenes every Monday. We're looking to start around 6pm ET and be done with the main scene around 9pm.
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RE: What's missing in MUSHdom?
@ixokai 5E has actually made me a fan of some classes that I wasn't a fan of before, namely the Monk, the Warlord(the Battlemaster archetype for the fighter), and...the Bard. There's really not a class I would not play in 5E. And there is a shocking amount of variety and versatility in every class. I played in a TT game where we were all clerics and we were all very different and the group was shockingly well balanced. I definitely suggest giving 5E a look.
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RE: Action/Super-Spy Style MU
I do remember that game and actually have a copy signed by the staff at Palladium Games.
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RE: Heroes & Villains MUX
That's my plan. When we reopen to have a "pre-opening" for returning players to reclaim characters from the original opening.