MU Peeves Thread
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I had a char with maxed out skills because it was their focus in life. It’s all they wanted to do. I spent RL years investing and RPing and justifying and they were just the top of their game. We were in a scene and I was like YES! This is their moment. Everything they’ve worked for. This is finally when they will shine.
Roll.
Critical Failure.
I’m not going to lie I just stared at my screen for a long moment in silence and then started laughing. I’m sure I looked insane IRL. I mean I rolled with it, but damn.
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@Jenn I loved the design of The Network but just didn’t jive with the theme. I wish there were more MU*s like it around.
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not that you indicated this wasn’t the case necessarily but this is why I vastly prefer systems that have some sort of meta currency that allows you to stack rolls in your favor/allows you to reroll them, lmao. it’s fun to roll with a failure at a pivotal moment and it can even make a much more interesting story, but dammit, sometimes you just wanna do what you’re supposed to be able to do!
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It really just doesn’t bother me. It’s like @jenn said. Last weekend I learned that a friend of mine (a) is Ojibwe and (b) speaks Norwegian. I’ve known him for nearly twenty years,
My immediate reaction to people spending XP in the middle of a scene is “Noo! Wrong!” but after taking a moment to contemplate how this relates to that all-important question “So fucking what?” I don’t see it as being a real problem.
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@Gashlycrumb said in MU Peeves Thread:
My immediate reaction to people spending XP in the middle of a scene is “Noo! Wrong!” but after taking a moment to contemplate how this relates to that all-important question “So fucking what?” I don’t see it as being a real problem.
As I said, it’s a fringe issue, and only for some people (like myself), and most people who have this as a peeve it’s a low priority peeve at best, not something that would cause me to avoid a game. That said, if I ran a game, it would have an XP room and leaving mid scene to go use the XP room and come back would be forbidden. And I would suspect that having that policy wouldn’t be a game killer.
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Peeve, the (bad) public chat comedian. Everything is a fumbled attempt at a joke and a convo killer. We are nothing but a captive audience to them, and they refuse to engage with players in any way that doesn’t center around them.
If you’re gonna’ go up there with a mic at least be funny, aaaaa.
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@Yam the trouble is that people like this are generally bad at comedy due to a fundamental inability to read the room.
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@Yam The abundance of this sort of thing is why comedy-themes give me The Fear even when they’re totally great game settings. Discworld comes to mind. (Though I guess that short-lived Discword MUSH was actually pretty good, and my fear unfounded in that case?)
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@Yam said in MU Peeves Thread:
Peeve, the (bad) public chat comedian. Everything is a fumbled attempt at a joke and a convo killer. We are nothing but a captive audience to them, and they refuse to engage with players in any way that doesn’t center around them.
If you’re gonna’ go up there with a mic at least be funny, aaaaa.
I feel attacked.
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@Yam said in MU Peeves Thread:
Peeve, the (bad) public chat comedian. Everything is a fumbled attempt at a joke and a convo killer. We are nothing but a captive audience to them, and they refuse to engage with players in any way that doesn’t center around them.
If you’re gonna’ go up there with a mic at least be funny, aaaaa.
what’s the deal with airplane food amirite
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@hellfrog said in MU Peeves Thread:
@Yam said in MU Peeves Thread:
Peeve, the (bad) public chat comedian. Everything is a fumbled attempt at a joke and a convo killer. We are nothing but a captive audience to them, and they refuse to engage with players in any way that doesn’t center around them.
If you’re gonna’ go up there with a mic at least be funny, aaaaa.
what’s the deal with airplane food amirite
Said during a funeral scene
Game-runner of Silent Heaven, a small-town horror MU.
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@Jumpscare said in MU Peeves Thread:
@hellfrog said in MU Peeves Thread:
@Yam said in MU Peeves Thread:
Peeve, the (bad) public chat comedian. Everything is a fumbled attempt at a joke and a convo killer. We are nothing but a captive audience to them, and they refuse to engage with players in any way that doesn’t center around them.
If you’re gonna’ go up there with a mic at least be funny, aaaaa.
what’s the deal with airplane food amirite
Said during a funeral scene
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@Yam Imagine a horror game where seven out of every ten characters ICly are this person and they all do it at each other all the time and you have my peeve.
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@BurnNotice said in MU Peeves Thread:
Imagine a horror game where seven out of every ten characters ICly are this person
Now I want to group app a bunch of failed comedians moving together to a creepy small town to try and rebuild after getting booed out of The Comedy Store.
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@BurnNotice why are you attacking Silent Heaven like this?
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It feels weird and disingenious for game runners to have an undisclosed PC (or PCs plural, possibly) that are seemingly central to story. Like, I get on one hand that staff sometimes just want to PLAY and not have everyone climbing over themselves to play with the staff PC because they are the staff PC and they THINK they’ll get story out of it … but if your staff PC is already “the story”, why not just be clear about it?
IDK, it’s weird.
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@bear_necessities Seeing if I understand correctly – In this situation you’re talking about, there’s a particular player that is crucial to the overall game plot and it came out that this crucial player is an undisclosed staff PC? However other (non staff) players cannot be/aren’t equally crucial?
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Possibly a new peeve of mine (I’m still mulling it over and trying to decide whether it irritates me or not):
When a player is trying to do certain scenes to help them establish a new character and get used to playing that character and speaking in that voice, but others are trying to handwave that stuff and just operate as though the character has always been around and has in depth IC knowledge of current events with no actual scenes to back that up.
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