@Gashlycrumb said in Tough Calls:
I requested to have a conversation with a staffer where they didn’t stop responding with no warning before the discussion got anywhere, and instead of taking my point (that this was chronic and problematic) staffer appeared to be more interested in being offended at how I phrased this
Did you think that one was gonna go over well with this person
@Muse I will post here again when I can offer the Doodles!
I sometimes do commissions but it’s stressful to price them (and occasionally stressful to get paid for them), so I haven’t lately. Typically when I’m on a game I do offer random doodles, Halloween costume characters, Christmas postcards, etc to the playerbase, I’m just not on a MU right now. Hopefully will be again soon!
Anyone who you already know will be a poor fit in the community you are curating, or a poor fit for your leadership style. It is your personal choice, and your intuition will best guide it.
@Cobalt Yeah, of course. That is kind of you to say. I’m glad you like it.
@Cobalt it is, hook me up with a reference image? Either here or DM is ok. Some kind of played-by or that sort of thing.
EDIT: NM, I found pictures on the Empire site itself
I have some time today. Post a character desc and short(!) blurb about who they are, link a reference image, and I can doodle them
Quality not guaranteed lol
If someone says “we should RP sometime” and you actually do want to RP with them, a good response is “sounds great, what day next week works for you?”
If you just answer “we should rp sometime” with “yeah, we should!” then everyone’s going to explode into a pile of brainweasels and never get the scene going. Somebody has to ask, somebody has to pick a time, effort.
Effort is required to make any hobby fun. Art, music, dog training, knitting, being good at Call of Duty, gardening…
And building a MUSH
And being a player on a MUSH
You get out of it what you put into it. Effort.
@Pavel No matter whether they are or aren’t entitled to set a rule like that, no one is setting interaction rules or even saying such rules should be set.
That I know of.
@RightMeow said in RPing with Everybody (or not):
No one but me gets to decide how I spend my energy and who I RP with or don’t RP with
you do not get to tell a person who they must interact with like you own or control them.
I think everyone would agree with that. What game/context is this happening on/did this happen on?
Nobody in this thread has advocated for even any hypothetical game policy in which “interaction rules” are enforced.
Use clear indicators (like raising a hand, saying “Out of character,” or using designated text channels) when you need to speak as yourself, ask rule questions, or clarify something
Beg pardon?
New Mexico represent
Masquerade was set in Albuquerque. When I went, I was able to navigate a little based on what I remembered from the MUSH, lol.
@Snackness When you’re done making my character for me can you code my game for me? My idea is so good I just need a coder
@Gashlycrumb said in Historical Games Round 75:
The tabletop game I’m running has all these historical -isms
A TTRPG works for historical games for the same reasons a private MUSH would, it’s a known quantity of like-minded people. A public MUSH is a different animal.
@Gashlycrumb said in Missed Settings:
Really, Westerns seem like a very easy setting to run.
There are a few historical -isms to navigate in those
I have bad experiences with “the -isms” on games. Some of those experiences still make me very sad and very angry OOC, years later. What happened to me in the name of “theme” was wrong, and it sucked.
But on a broader view than that: Books and movies can and do tell stories about these social injustices and those who overcome them, as they should. But a MU is not a book/movie. A MU does not have a single author/filmmaker viewpoint, a MU’s content cannot be completely verified or monitored. A MU is about many narratives and many interpretations, for better and worse.
Player A might be great at writing a powerful and nuanced struggle, but Player B might be mid and Player C is reductive and fetishy about it. Public games are not made of just Player As. Everyone has at least once run into some well-meaning person out there who is RPing the world’s worst representation of an oppressed minority.
These stories need to be told. Is a Public MU* the best medium in which to tell them and give them the care and nuance that they deserve? I don’t know that it is. Private, maybe.
@Aria said in Missed Settings:
The thing is, the first person that I brought the idea to was like, “But what about the racism, Aria?!”
This comment made me go and read through this thread about MU* historical accuracy again. I guess some players find it disruptive to delete The -Isms from a historical setting, some find it disruptive not to delete that, and (like your friend and yourself) these types don’t easily mesh together.
@somasatori that is my point, though. It’s not upfront until AI starts really being asked about. In your own snip there, Catzilla is thinking you didn’t use AI based on the content of your previous posts. It’s not clear.
AI is a personal choice. You can use it or not. It’s just good to be clear about its use.
