@Ominous On the forum PBP and Discord game side of the RP world, I see a lot of 21-25+ minimum age.

@Faraday said in Age Verification & Games:

@Juniper said in Age Verification & Games:

TBH I’m not worried about minors infesting my spaces because they’re not interested in the level of effort that is required to get invested in this stuff

I don’t think that’s true at all. My oldest plays on discord with a bunch of other teens. They are aware of MUSHing; have helped me playtest a few things on Ares. They write fanfiction. My youngest likes Dwarf Fortress and clunky RPGs grafted onto Starcraft, neither of which is that far afield from MUDs.

Agreed. Saying NO kids/teens are interested in MUSHing (or insert other old school thing here) because it’s old/outdated is like saying no kids/teens were interested in D&D in the early 2000s because it was old/outdated back then.

Plenty of minors and young adults like old school things. Are they the majority? Certainly not, but they’re out there.

@hellfrog The people who truly do change aren’t going around saying ‘hey, I was SOECentipede from Hello Kitty MU! I used to be terrible but now I’m great!’

instead they have probably either left the hobby like Pavel said or are truly such a changed person that they keep their head down, RP, have fun, and maybe make a friend or two like the rest of us.

@Faraday This is good to know! I’ll definitely look into it next time I try build a game.

I do enjoy all the features of Ares but that COFD plug-in got me so confused and I eventually gave up lol.

Staff shouldn’t necessarily have their ‘player’ Ares handle connected to a game they’re running. Maybe they don’t want their haters/creepers/etc. knowing that they’re running the Hello Kitty game. However, I do think if they create a new handle for their game, they link THAT handle to whatever PCs they are playing on their game.

People don’t necessarily need to know that Player Catzilla is running Hello Kitty Island but they should know that Staff Bit Dogzilla is linked to PCs Joe Bob and Susie Q.

@KarmaBum said in Neon Protocol:

@catzilla said in Neon Protocol:

I didn’t see this before posting. Now I’m 99% sure it’s her.

I’m almost positive it’s not the same person.

I can certainly believe that as well. Like I originally said, there’s plenty of crazies out there.

ETA For those of us not in the know who is Haruki and what is The Becoming and are they related at all.

Double post

I just checked out the Roster list. Out of the 14 PCs available, only 5 are female and one of those 5 is an old woman that is sure not to be a threat to any potential quest to collect all the peen on the game.

There’s so many crazies out there but this feels very jujube/inuki/chokitypok coded to me.

Just saying.

ETA

@helvetica said in Neon Protocol:

@bear_necessities baking in romantic threads between staff alt and roster, and centralizing staff alt to plot, is reminiscent of that Neitherlands admin

I didn’t see this before posting. Now I’m 99% sure it’s her.

@MisterBoring said in MU Peeves Thread:

@bear_necessities said in MU Peeves Thread:

IDK how to explain it better, I just feel like staff should be upfront about who their PCs are.

I agree with this. I also believe that staff should not include their PCs in the scenes they are running. In my experience it often leads to Mary Sue / Gary Stu behavior.

At the VERY MOST, I could see them using their PC like, ‘hey I found this spooky rock, can you guys go investigate it?’

But then again, a NPC could do that as well.

@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

@ham said in MU Peeves Thread:

I’m very sure this has been posted here before, but it has come up again in my RP life and it continues to frustrate me.

If someone is setting a scene for you, YOU then need to engage THEM. Don’t pose yourself doing your own thing and make them basically set twice. DEFINITELY don’t pose AVOIDING them and make them chase you.

It’s obnoxious.

I always ask people ‘do you want to set or you want me to set?’

So when they tell me to set, and I do, then they do their OWN set…

I agree that there shouldn’t be any limits and I never understood why staff are against it.

Whatever the PCs can, NPCs can do better. Bring out that near endgame monster/villain/situation you weren’t sure you’d get to use if the players get too ‘powerful’.

@Rucket said in What's up with the two Age of Heroes games?:

I havent checked on this thread in like a week but I just want to say that I believe @Prototart . I had very much similar experiences or had friends have those experiences with everyone involved.
I think I mostly avoided comic games after that but Covid was like 50 years ago and time blends together.

It’s fine though because Chaucer is totally a cool guy now.

@MisterBoring

@hellfrog said in What's up with the two Age of Heroes games?:

@Prototart damn imagine being LC or WW and NOT supporting the girlies. Historic hobby L

From what little I know about Ruby, we all know that she’s picking LC for two very certain assets that appeal to Ruby’s target audience and nothing else.

I don’t care if all character stats are available for everyone.

But leave histories/backgrounds private. I enjoy a slower burn for learning about PCs and them learning about my PC.

@Ominous To me, a system is some sort of mechanics ruling for abilities/powers/etc. that gives some fairness/stability to the game.

It could be as simple as ‘any time you want to do something requiring a roll, roll a D6 and if you get a 5 or 6 you succeed’. Or it could be something as complex as I hear that FATAL system.

What’s your preference and why?

Does it matter on which ‘genre/game/etc’ it is?

Like, you’d play on a freeform vampire game but never a freeform werewolf game?

This question/curiosity came about in the superhero and Star Wars threads. (Some) people said freeform superhero is great but a freeform Star Wars game is ICK?

@Raistlin said in What's up with the two Age of Heroes games?:

@catzilla There’s a Star Wars game out now that uses traits. I don’t play there but not because of the system they use. I think it could work very well. You can check them out at https://swdarktimes.com/

This is exactly the game I was talking about. It was mentioned in that dumpster fire game thread and basically was snubbed by person/people because it DOESN’T have mechanics.

I discovered the MU world like “only” 10 years ago.

I still don’t know the difference between MUSH, MUX, etc.