MU Peeves Thread
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@Snackness I will math out a sheet for you, but you’ll have to figure out all the +infos and +notes and whatnot.
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Having a character somewhere but not having RP’d in over a month or so
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@catzilla This is me. ._.
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almost every single Ares game, existing and in the works, using FS3 just because it’s what people have gotten used to by necessity.
love and respect FS3 for what it was intended for, and I know this probably sounds ridiculous to anyone who just doesn’t care that much about systems, but personally, it kills my enthusiasm immediately whenever I visit a game’s site for the first time and see it in the wiki for supernatural/fantasy settings. I find the “square peg, round hole” of it all really frustrating.
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@Wizz I think it’s great for sci-fi which is why I’m implementing it on my game, but yeah I imagine it would require a fair bit of customization to make it fit on other themes.
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I do agree in one sense. I am craving, desperately craving, anywhere to get my WoD/Dark Urban Fantasy fix, but there are only a couple of kind of dubious places to get that right now.
The beauty of Ares is that it allows someone with no technical expertise to get a game up and running (I did this!) as long as you use the tools provided and don’t try to reinvent the wheel. So it allows a lot of games that would never have seen the light of day previously to actually exist.
Because Ares allows plugins, my understanding is that it can theoretically support any number of RPG systems; it just needs someone to create and maintain the plugin that others then use. If someone was to make a fully working WoD plugin for Ares, I have no doubt the games would come.
However, I think FS3 is just so flexible that it can adapt to any number of settings, and also, there are some experts who have got the combat on it down to such a science that most things can be “made to fit” FS3 even if it isn’t their intended/natural home.
I think we are more likely to see WoD but made to work in FS3 before we see fully featured WoD in Ares, for that reason.
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I’d love to do some kind of modified Kids on Bikes system with Ares but I wouldn’t have a clue on how to set that up. I think FS3 is easiest because it gives you a clean sheet and you can get going right away, which is why most games use it. It is a square peg / round hole situation but I’d rather that than no games.
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That. FS3 would not have been my first choice – I have a literal complete game system of my own design sitting right next to me – but FS3 has one thing that Imagines doesn’t: It’s coded and integrated with Ares.
Isn’t that the issue for a lot of us? We may have a little code savvy but not quite that much. Custom code is a buttpain to maintain a lot of the time, too.
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@Pacha said in MU Peeves Thread:
However, I think FS3 is just so flexible that it can adapt to any number of settings, and also, there are some experts who have got the combat on it down to such a science that most things can be “made to fit” FS3 even if it isn’t their intended/natural home.
this is specifically what I find frustrating in play – you will never forget that FS3’s being bent out of shape to accommodate something it wasn’t meant to do and that just takes away a lot of the fun for me. I enjoy the “game” part of “roleplaying game” as much as the RP.
Ares is wonderful, I am glad it’s easy to set up and run for so many people and yes, 1000000% I am happy that there are still games out there for that reason, but I think the perception a lot of people have that FS3 = Ares and how few try the other plug-ins is just personally a bummer.
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@Pacha said in MU Peeves Thread:
There is a game I am on where I signed up for an event. At the event, was a particular person.
This person, for want of a better word, has a bit of a fan club on this game. People talk about this person a lot; they seem to have a lot of close friends, and people respond super enthusiastically when they do things, log on etc. etc.
I do not begrudge this person any of this, and to be honest, they do not seem to do anything to encourage it. From my point of view they do not do anything to -warrant- it, either. But, I am prepared to accept that is very subjective.
In this event, which was just a one-shot adventure-type thing with some light combat, I ended up nearly walking out part way through because this person’s fan club was so busy gushing over this person and trying to interact with this person that my character was totally ignored.
This happened multiple times, where the rest of the group just played as though my character was not there. As an example, my character did X thing on their turn. I checked it with the GM, rolled for it, it was in my pose. Nobody referenced it in their pose, acknowledged it had happened, or anything like that.
In the next round, this person does a very similar thing (similar enough to the point of being redundant in the circumstances). The rest of the group are falling over themselves to (ic and ooc) tell this person how clever they are, how cool and badass their idea was. Even the GM referenced them doing this thing in their pose, ignoring that my character had already done it.
It’s not a major thing, but man is it irritating. I wasn’t going to mention it, but the talk of cliquey groups brought it all rushing back! I have been kind of light on the details as I don’t dislike any of these people or want them to feel bad. However, if the purpose of the scene is a self-congratulatory, feel-good session with your in-group, maybe don’t paste it as a public event and invite people you’re not really interested in including.
I JUST FOUND OUT THIS WAS ABOUT ME.
Man. At first I thought I just didn’t remember this happening, but I think I just never read this post to realize it was about me. I’m sorry to have been in a position to make someone feel ignored, I’m also baffled at the idea that I don’t warrant people being excited to see me, lol. Not even in an offended way just an oh man, I had no idea someone was sitting there feeling this way. Like, I assume I’m just a blip on other people’s radar!
Anyway, I hope the OP is feeling better these days.
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Hey there!
I am slightly amazed you figured this out at all, let alone after so much time! But upon referring to this post:
https://brandmuday.mythicus.net/topic/121/tsar-s-playlist?_=1761253660522
I think you are actually spot on, so great detective work!
As I mentioned in the post, I don’t dislike you (or anyone else from that scene) in any way. I was just using this thread for its purpose, which was to vent about some irritation I had about it on the day.
Honestly, I have not spent the intervening time stressing about it or plotting heinous acts of revenge, so we are all good as far as I am concerned! In fact, I would go so far as to say that my gripe was not with you at all, so much as how the others in that scene responded to your character vs how they responded to mine.
TO CLARIFY! (since I now remember this!) I think you absolutely warrant people being happy to see you. But despite my being as nice as I knew how to be on that game, what I remember I would often see was…
Pacha logs on
Pacha greets folks
crickets
Tsar logs on, a short or a long time after
It is one minute after midnight on January first
Which I completely appreciate is an unreasonable thing to be grumpy about, especially given that this is mostly down to random chance, people can say hi to whom they like, I don’t know who was awake and at their screens yada yada…so it could absolutely have been an “all in my head” thing.
But in my defence, this is a peeves thread, not a fully justified and reasonable grievances thread!
In any case, yes, I am all good, and I hope you are too.
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@Pacha said in MU Peeves Thread:
Honestly, I have not spent the intervening time stressing about it or plotting heinous acts of revenge,
lol oh thank god, what a relief.
TBH me finding out at all was a total fluke of someone mentioning it in my presence and I was like what?
And yeah, you’re totally okay using this forum for its purposes. I can completely understand logging onto places and feeling like the other players don’t really notice that I’m there or I’m just existing around the outskirts. I think it happens to pretty much everyone at some point, and it almost always sucks.
If you see me out in the wild sometime, drop me a page! Maybe we can get a scene in!
