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MU Peeves Thread
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@shit-piss-love said in MU Peeves Thread:
@IoleRae said in MU Peeves Thread:
@shit-piss-love said in MU Peeves Thread:
The issue has been that folks those groups are of child-raising age or have otherwise busy lives, so not reliable or regular in availability.
Yeah, there’s no getting around this, unfortunately. You want people with other things going on in their lives (way less headache and drama than with the nolifers), but that makes it hard for scheduling. We could really never do more than two sessions a month, and I rarely had everybody at the table we had scheduled for it. This was the same as with my meatspace tabletop game though too, so I think that’s just how it works.
The solution is obviously just to sabotage my friends lives so that they have more time to play make believe games.
LOL, yeah.
My actual advice is to pad your numbers; if you need 6 players to have a good time, schedule 10. Setup the game so “between sessions” the characters are doing something that means they can be left in town / at camp / doing something else when they don’t show up.
Make the adjustments on the game side, rather than the player-finding side.
the entity previously known as Sunny
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@IoleRae said in MU Peeves Thread:
LOL, yeah.
My actual advice is to pad your numbers; if you need 6 players to have a good time, schedule 10. Setup the game so “between sessions” the characters are doing something that means they can be left in town / at camp / doing something else when they don’t show up.
Make the adjustments on the game side, rather than the player-finding side.
This is good advice. I have tried this once however in the past and what happened was, of course, now everyone was regularly available and 8 people at the table was just too much. Can’t win!
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@IoleRae I used to use Dahan’s Saga Edition code to help run in-person tabletop Star Wars games. It was great for leveling up, creating NPCs, etc.
And then life found a way… to screw up scheduling.
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i hate that this thread is just endless scroll and i bet there’s a setting to make things paginate but also i’d rather post a gripe about it
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@hellfrog said in MU Peeves Thread:
i hate that this thread is just endless scroll and i bet there’s a setting to make things paginate but also i’d rather post a gripe about it
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@shit-piss-love Oh thank god, bless you
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Wusses. TAKE IT ALL AT ONCE rawr!!
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I don't know what I'm doing. Poke at Seven Nations sevennations.aresmush.com port 2021
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@Testament I’ve been on a roll today.
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Hey, asshole* in the game that looks for new names on WHO and then slides into private messages with a bunch of nonsense, followed by ‘sorry if I seem flirty’…
Just. Fucking. Don’t.
It’s easy enough to finger you* and see that your* PC has been on grid a million years yet is somehow MUCH smaller than my two day old one, that they have attained zero promotions in their organizations, and together with this low-effort ‘trawling the newbie pool for TS’ fishing expedition, the lack of effort visible in your* shit spelling, grammar and punctuation just makes it a hundred times more puzzling and infuriating that you* expect this to fucking work.
About the only redeeming quality you* showed was in not flipping the fuck out (as expected) when I told you* to fuck off with that shit, but the fact that you* get to be a slimy shit and I’m the one that has to worry about being harassed off this game by yet another incel or incel-adjacent fuckstick still pisses me off.
*Not aimed at anybody here, none of you would do this. I just needed to vent.
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@eye8urcake I have no idea which game this was, obviously – but please drop a note to the admins on it. That kind of behaviour is something I’d definitely not want to see on mine but if no one ever tells, there’s no way for the admins to know that it’s happening.
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@L-B-Heuschkel I did, I’m just still pissed off people are still so fucking dense as to do this at all.
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@eye8urcake man I feel like i know five of these guys.
I draw things! http://www.mahaldoodles.com
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@crawfish but there’s only a couple with atrocious writing. I have thoughts on who it’s apt to be.
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@Taika I concur.
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I’m pretty bummed that I can’t find a game to just hang out on any more. Idk if it’s a change in game culture or a change in me or what, but I’m having to treat games like my D&D sessions, ie. it’s only worth logging in when there’s something scheduled that I’m interested in which happens once a week or so at best. Satisfying pickup RP is incredibly rare, very few people ask me to scene. I’m learning to adjust but I don’t like it.
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@Snackness said in MU Peeves Thread:
Idk if it’s a change in game culture
I think yes, that’s what it is.
Hanging out online and picking up RP is a relic of my youth. I can’t imagine I’m the only one. For me, it’s just… I weigh the loss of pop-up RP as less significant than the gain of not having to wait around online for RP that may or may not happen.
I agree that it’s a bummer sometimes, but it’s a necessary shift for me. Alas.
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@Snackness I chalk a lot of it up to ‘burn out’ and ‘rl fucking sucks for a lot of people right now’. I tend to assume that people just don’t always have the oomph to try and snag randos, or they have the energy to hop on and chill, but not necessarily rp.
It can definitely make being pro-active feel more like a chore or depressing, but on the other side of the coin… everything is so hard right now. I feel like adding ‘pressure to perform’ is apt to make it worse, not better. I’ve gotten to where I toss out lil hits of xp when I see people out and rping to try and encourage that and reward the effort - cause sometimes it’s an effort to go out and find a place and make a scene happen.
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I do think that there’s been a shift in the game cultures I’m used to (in the sense that on many games people just don’t hang out on grid hoping for someone to come join them, which is how I found the majority of my let’s meet someone new play before.) But I do think it’s a little change in me too, where if I wait around too long and nobody seems to want to jump in, I’ll drift out a lot more quickly because of how it makes me feel. I don’t have the emotional tolerance to wait before worry sets in for as long as I used to. Which definitely cuts down on the opportunities, because I know that usually eventually at least one person will respond, if I can wait it out long enough.
It’s a little weird because mushing/RPing really is a mood elevator for me (no matter what kind it is really). I think that’s largely because I am what I would call a quiet extrovert (I don’t like being the life of the party RL, but do best when I get to be around a variety of people and that’s a good way to recharge for me). Due to covid and a few other things my volunteering has gone from a significant part of my life to pretty much almost zip. MUSHing can be a great outlet because it combines two things I adore (writing/storytelling AND other people)! And it’s usually one of the last things I “drop” due to stress (if I’m failing to log in/totally don’t want to think about or do RP/MUSHing it means I’m just not in a great place if it’s gotten SO bad that I don’t want to do that) rather than one of the first things I clear from my plate. But everything’s a little more fragile now, I think. Not in a psycho way, but just I don’t now how to describe it–just not wanting to add onto other people’s stress levels, and my own being frayed, and I think so many people are kind of right along in that groove now too.
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@Taika It’s in these situations that I really appreciate Ares ability to have asynchronous scenes.
Yes, I know it’s not everyone’s thing, but it’s helped me out a lot to be able to have scenes but not always the time. I sneak too many poses in at my workstation.
