Posts made by ZombieGenesis

Yeah, I'm a big fan of the Unisystem. Usually, all you have to do is house rule a limit on Dexterity and it brings most of the problems it might have right under control.

@Bad-at-Lurking I think that's a great idea. I briefly ran a similar game once(though it just combined Buffy, Supernatural, and Highlander) that used the Cinematic Unisystem.

I'll start by saying I treat romantic and sexual RP like I do any other RP which means I communicate very openly about it. I tend to be an OOC chatterbox that likes to discuss things like RP goals and desires so we at least know what direction we're heading in scene-wise.

@Arkandel said in The ethics of IC romance, TS, etc:

• If your PC is going to cheat IC on another character do you feel obligated to let your partner's player know?

I think so, yes. For me, this is likely to have come up in the "are there any things you'd like to avoid during our RP" parts of the conversation. For some people, cheating can be a very sensitive topic with OOC repercussions. If I'm playing a character who may not be the most loyal I let my partner know that and if they say they'd rather not have that happen in the relationship I work around it. I never want my IC actions to affect someone negatively OOCly and that's where communication comes in.

• Do you think you are responsible for a character whose roleplay is related to yours if your paths are to separate? In other words do you feel guilty someone else's PC might become quote/unquote unplayable because of your IC choices?

I would say no, not generally. I think this falls back on communication again. If you're open and honest about the RP and you give people a chance to opt-out then I think you've done your job.

For example, on my semi-private game Blood Falls we explore a lot of horror tropes but we are always very clear on what topics the RP might involve and give people a chance to either opt-out or discuss things with the scene runner to see if they can modify the content so that it's digestible for them. Everyone has been very cool with either reworking the scene or understanding that, unfortunately, the scene just isn't for them this time around and finding another scene to take part in.

• Very closely related to the above, what if the choice that takes a PC mostly off the table is OOC? For instance if you stop being active on my PC's spouse to play an alt with Theno's PC. Do I have the moral high ground to get pissed off?

Maybe? Did I just leave and not tell you? Did I not give you a reason for why I was leaving that character? Did I not give you a chance to find closure for your character and give them a way to move on? Then, yeah, I can see someone being a little pissed off at that.

• When it comes to TS what's the correct way to suggest it? Do you let the RP become more explicit until the big words come out or you get told no? Do you page the other player first and explicitly ask if they want to do it? Something else?

I think it depends on the person you're playing with. I've been with some partners who were very clear about their intent and desire for how a scene goes(once when I was playing Batman opposite a Zatanna she was very clear about it and even offered to cast a sex spell on Bruce if ICly he wasn't into her). Other times, I've RPed with people who came across very much like they were not interested in RPing the sex part of the RP and I've paged them with something like "Fade to black" and they've either responded with "Yes, please!" or "Uh, not unless you want to..." This is also a good example of when previous communication could have helped(knowing where RP can possibly lead) and having a +prefs system.

• Assuming OOC consent between adult players is there anything in an IC relationship, including TS, that you consider unethical? No, I'm not going to give examples since I'm keeping this classy! But you can.

Providing there is OOC consent between all parties involved then, no, there is nothing I consider unethical in RP.

• Any other choices not found in this short list. I'm sure it's far from complete.

I'll throw one out that got me once on a game. The characters are in a relationship, have slept together multiple times, and then I get OOCly informed that the character is pregnant with his child. I was not comfortable with that. To be fair, I never said "no kids" because the topic of getting pregnant never came up. That was a situation where playing my character became very difficult because of the IC and OOC drama related to that RP.

Went right from watching El Camino to seeing this. Very sad. RIP Robert Forster.

I'll just put this here. Anyone want to make this happen?

Coming from a mostly comic MU background I've always just rolled with whatever. We'd either decide who would win and why ahead of time and work our way to that point or wait till we were deep in the fight and figure out who should win based on RP. It could get hairy when you're the hero and the villain doesn't want to get captured but, most of the time, we'd work things out. The important thing was that the end of the RP, regardless of who "won", both(or all) characters should have open avenues to future RP as a result of the scene.

This is pretty much exclusively how I've played for the last year or so. A few friends were interested in MUing but were intimidated by joining existing games so I created a private server for us. We've since evolved to using Ares for the web functionality and we have great fun with it.

All of my dogs are named after Star Wars characters.

This is Jaina.

And this is Aayla.

My little buddy, Yoda.

Aron Eisenberg(Nog from DS9)

@Auspice It is a subscription service but it's one of the more reasonable subs; I think it's $4/month? It's the best $4/month I spend to be honest. They have a ton of old horror movies and are starting to get a lot of exclusives. Deadtectives, the upcoming Creepshow anthology show, and I think they have the exclusive streaming rights to NOS4A2 though I could be wrong on that one. And, as Surreality said, they do offer a 7 day free trial so you can hit and run pretty cleanly.

@Auspice It's a Shudder exclusive and it's really well done. Shudder is doing a lot of stuff right lately and I'm very excited about their upcoming Creep Show anthology series.

Okay, here's another awful movie: Bound to Vengeance. I watch a lot of awful horror and can make it through almost anything. Sometimes I'm rewarded by finding hidden gems like Deadtectives. Then there are the rare times I find a movie I just can't finish and this was one of them. They managed to make a revenge torture film boring and blew out even my suspension of disbelief for some things. Just an awful movie.

@Derp Ah. Been a while since I've read the books. Might have to dig them out now and read through them again.

Raistlin was always different looking than Caramon. Even as kids Raistlin was sickly and frail. While the test broke his body it had been damaged to begin with. Oddly they are described as identical twins with one note, Paladine says something about "identical twins" being one person split in two. In this case, Caramon got the body and Raistlin got the brains.

@Derp I was so excited for that movie. Dragonlance Chronicles and Legends make up 6 of my favorite fantasy novels. The movie had everything going for it; great setting, great story, great cast. Yet they still managed to muck it up horribly.

@Auspice He-Man Movie in 2021

I'm all for a Masters of the Universe movie just maybe not THIS MOTU movie.

@Cupcake I haven't seen Swiped but it may lead to a future movie that falls into this category for me. The lead actor in that movie (Noah Centineo) has been cast as..(it pains me to even think it)...He-Man in the upcoming Masters of the Universe movie.