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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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    somasatoriS

    @Pavel said in AI PBs:

    Alas, most research I’ve seen thus far has been on clinical applications of LLMs rather than their clinical impact.

    “I don’t need a therapist anymore, I talk to ChatGPT and it helps” - BPD patient I was working with

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  • 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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    @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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    O

    @somasatori Yeah, I hate abstract economic systems as well. Fluff needs crunch to support it. Without the crunch, it’s all just “I shot you with my laser. Nuh-uh, because I had my laser deflector field up!”. The only abstract money I have been somewhat OK with was based on cascading dice, where items had a cost and you had to roll over the cost with the die your current money die. If you failed, you still bought it, but you dropped a die size. If it was impossible to roll over the cost (so costs equal to or higher than your current die size), you simply couldn’t buy it. It made you somewhat take into consideration the economics of things. “Hmmm, I have a d10 money die. Do I want to risk buying that cost 8 item?”

  • 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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    EvilgraysonE

    One of our own needs a helping hand. Lem’s done a lot for the MU* community, and I figure it’s worth asking if we can help him out in turn. I won’t out who he is here, but he’s a great coder and a lovely guy who’s helped a lot of games.

    GoFundMe: Assist Lem’s family in securing housing

  • Video games, tabletop, etc.

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    RaistlinR

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

    Huge RPG Humble Bundle