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  • This is mostly for maintenance and board-wide stuff from admin.

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    TezT

    Serves me right for seeing what would happen if I lifted the registration freeze.

  • This is a place for game runners to post about their games. Discussion on those games will happen elsewhere. Please respect this!

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    KarmaBumK
    Address: pern.gaslightswitch.com port 4201 Portal: https://pern.gaslightswitch.com/

    We have a few people looking to play Impression on-camera, so we’ll be running a hatching in August, with events kicking off in earnest on the 29th of June.

    It’s a good time to join if you’ve ever wanted to play Candidacy, Impression and weyrlinghood as a character arc. Our “process” is low-key, so you won’t need to write an app or jump through any hoops. Just create a character, sign up to Impress, and go about your regular RP.

    We also have a few big story moments coming up in July, so it’s a good time to join if you’ve ever wanted to play Pern regardless of Candidacy.

  • Conversations and questions about current, upcoming, and advertised games and the hobby as a whole.

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    R

    I feel like, as others have said above, there’s a difference between Player vs Player conflict and Character vs Character conflict. Yes, sometimes people get frustrated or upset and CvC becomes PvP, but most of the stress and toxicity I’ve seen from games on which competition of that sort was encouraged comes from PvP, where the egos of the players get involved and it’s less about losing the character (sometimes it is) and more about just losing.

    I have no interest in high-stakes Player vs Player conflict. If I did, I would play PvP video games or play competitive chess or try to become a professional poker player. I love high-stakes Character vs Character conflict, when done with a player who you trust in search of a better story for all involved. I find it elevates the heart-rate almost as much as high-stakes PvP, and has a much better chance of a positive outcome.

    I wish that there were more games that were open to CvC conflict (alongside PvE) but whose staff came down hard on any attempts to turn CvC into PvP. And if I had more time in my life, I would absolutely run the one I’ve designed.

  • When you want to talk about HOW to do something when running a game, bring it here: Code, Theme, Policies, Game Design.

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    D

    @sao said in “All the World’s a MUSH”: Genre as Destiny in Collaborative Roleplay Behaviour:

    @dvoraen the part where you had to acknowledge how many years you have been in this hobby

    “Yes.”

    Next question.

  • Please post a playlist if you feel comfortable doing so, and if you are looking for old friends -- try here! If you are looking for old enemies, consider a nap.

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    CygnusC

    @catzilla I misunderstood, I thought this was your played-by list. I also played with Isrieal, iirc that changeling was originally a vampire on a game before the concept was reworked.

  • Gloves off, but don't be a total asshole.

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    WizzW

    @Pavel

    I’ll always remember a confrontation here years back where this one poster was just absolutely ripping a headstaffer a new b-hole, some of hands down the most contemptuous vitriol I had seen…because the guy refused to hand over the reins to an 80’s cartoon-based Transformers game instead of closing it. just wildly out of proportion and cruel stuff because they wanted to keep pretending to be a motorcycle that turns into a break-dancing robot, it was kind of amazing.

  • Comments, criticism, suggestions, feedback?

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    D

    @Testament But is the D&D related to the setting of Seven Nations?!

  • The place to put non-game things.

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    WizzW

    @Roz said in Pets!:

    @Wizz said in Pets!:

    hey. hey, dummy, there’s nothing up there…

    what are you talking about? there’s a cat up there!

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    @dvoraen said in Pets!:

    @Wizz Look at that pretty kitty facey whisker facey face. ❤ 😻

    Alucard is, indeed, the most facey whisker facey face 🥰

  • Video games, tabletop, etc.

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    RaistlinR

    You get a ton of stuff even at the $15 level.

    Huge RPG Humble Bundle