@Ominous I mean, why ask the question “what about this game is different from Arx” when Arx is no longer around? Even if it is a 100% complete rip-off of Arx, the comparison doesn’t matter anymore because Arx isn’t a thing and hasn’t been a thing for a few years now.
And Arx was, for all intents and purposes, an extremely successful game for several years so people found stuff to RP about clearly lol
Any truth to the rumor that Inkling is Tek? Asking for a friend.
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.
@Ashkuri pretty sure they spun this off from a TT / discord game which isn’t bad but the help files really need cleaning up.
@Ominous I tooled around with a Delta Green concept MUSH for precisely half a minute, mostly couldn’t figure out a centralized location where everyone would interact with one another since (I think) the whole idea is that you have a Normal Life until you are called in to Do Stuff and then you go back to your Normal Life? And I didn’t want to run a town mush.
All I really want btw is the ability to ride my horse, wear a cowboy hat, and rob trains/stagecoaches and maybe fight monsters. I’d like to be a bad guy, and not a bad guy that’s really a good guy and all the bad guys are actually good and it’s only the NPCs that are actually bad!! I just want to be bad. Let me be a bad guy. Thanks.
@Gashlycrumb tbh that’s too many words for me to read but sure yes go ahead I’ll play for at least 2 months before I flake lol 
@KarmaBum said in Missed Settings:
But not historically accurate cowboys.
More like Wild Imaginary West - https://runefoundry.com/products/wild-imaginary-west-rpg?srsltid=AfmBOooAEp1NVTXF0ZeDBoSmAawCkPK1_tbzkyC8kqVi8MVvUz60WwxQ
@Gashlycrumb this is what I want, make this for me, thank you.
@Gashlycrumb every time I set out to do something in the Western world, I either go Wyoming or Colorado.
@Gashlycrumb said in Missed Settings:
Really, Westerns seem like a very easy setting to run. It’s weird that there are not more of them. And now I’m tempted to make one just 'cause.
DO IT I DARE YOU.
@Ominous It was both one of the weirdest and coolest ‘game’ moments I’ve ever had. I never LARPed before, so to see everyone in their garb and acting like their characters the whole time was so strange, but I got to meet some pretty awesome people. I’ve lost touch with the core group now mostly, but we stayed friends a long while!
Who did you play? I can’t remember my character’s name, I think it was Tourmaline. I had another alt too but fucked if I know what their name was.
ETA: Actually I looked through my email and apparently I was Madelynn.
@Muscle-Car oh man i am definitely thinking of a different game called Crossroads, sorry to disappoint. The one I played was a L&L game not a WoD one 
@Ominous I PLAYED ON CROSSROADS MUSH!!! I actually went to the LARP they did <.<
I helped run a Zombie game awhile back because it really was a dream setting of mine. The reality was the constant threat of ZOMBIES EAT U combined with a lack of meaningful systems for resource gathering kinda made the whole thing get old rather quickly? Like, either you are fighting zombies, or you’re running from zombies, or you’re talking about how scared you are because you just fought / are going to fight zombies, and it’s just a rinse & repeat.
That’s the issue with a lot of themes, IMO. The setting seems cool, but there’s just nothing to do.
My missed setting? Cowboys. It’s never going to happen.
Modeus Operandi, which was one of the 3 or 4 MUDS they had on AOL at the time. It was some where in the world is Carmen Sandiago spy game and I loved it.
The platform went pay to play and there was so much uproar about it. I ended up spending a significant time RPing in chat rooms and then found “groups” that were essentially running MUSHes in chats and IMs.
Simpler times lol
@Rathenhope Admittedly did not know she was even still alive. Sad though!
@Tori you always had such a way with words and your descs were beautiful, I loved buying your stuff on arx