@labsunlimited said in Re: Dies Irae:

@somasatori said in Re: Dies Irae:

As it stands, Dies Irae has a great shot at being a GarouMUX-but-for-Fera given the way the population is set up, but that would require somehow convincing folks to shutter spheres. The problem being: we don’t know what spheres are required to keep the lights on. We also don’t really know what themes the game has as a whole.

I entirely support a turn towards becoming the San Diego Zoo of Darkness.

If we get rid of the casual 90s racism where every sphere hates eachother, and instead cross-sphere alliances form… the Zoo can also include Fae, Wiznerds, and Vampires!

Unfortunately, no Mummy, so the game is cursed to die, I don’t make the rules.

@Buttercup I’ve thought about an L5R type roster game, but I’d want to use the 5e ruleset with the fancy FFG dice, so getting it coded is tricksier than usual.

@RedRocket said in TV series, news, recommendations:

@Jennkryst ecoterrorism being good is the foundational idea of the world of darkness: werewolf game. It’s always been fashionable to fight back against the elite. Besides, clean air and water benefits everyone except all the dead people you had to make to get it.

Sure. But ecofasicm is not ecoterrorism, so…

@RedRocket I think it’s more ‘there is some dude in the upper echelons of Disney who either thinks making Thanos an eco fascist was clever let’s keep pushing that over and over again’ OR they actually agree with it, so keep pushing it over and over again.

Which is why ‘Andor good, but Disney doing problems’… and I include ‘not enough Andor’ as a problem they are doing.

I will never stop ranting about only getting two seasons of Andor. If there is only one person ranting, that person is me. If there are no people ranting, it is because I am dead.

I thought of another one… L5R Winter Court. RIP.

My only problem is every time I think about this, I try and ‘yes, AND…’ more onto it. Like Exalted Dreams of the First Age can do L&L stuff… but also Exalted so go forth and slay armies. Or Battletech, so L&L with stompy Mechs and probably die when a missile RNG into the head and blows up the cockpit (and/or other robot things, re: Lancer or Eldritch Automata). Or Girl by Moonlight and everyone is also Magical Girl. Or (insert more mad ravings here.)

@Raistlin said in TV series, news, recommendations:

@RedRocket I love both Evil and Strange New Worlds. I’m a huge Trekkie and, for me, SNW the best Trek they’ve put out since TNG.

This is Lower Decks erasure but I’ll allow it on account of Lower Decks being cancelled after S5.

Edit: Also because Gorn Puppets.

@Ominous said in Re: Dies Irae:

It’s all relative. Maybe they are comparing the setting to Kill Six Billion Demons or Dragonball Super.

At last check, you have to spend XP on a cellphone if you want to use it for data searches in plots, so.

(This is fine and part of an effort to make Resources not the one stat to rule them all because people just buy everything, it’s just a thing.)

Da Pope

@Gashlycrumb said in Lords and Ladies Game Design:

but also does not suffer any consequences for inaction

Have the commoners invent the guillotine.

@Roadspike My only thing here, and it may be addressed and I just didn’t see it, is something like a ‘you have until X day/time to reply, or this is escalating.’ If they need more time because vacation or OOC events, that’s fine it can be delayed for a short time, but this is another way to (hopefully) prevent folks from doing the ‘we never got a chance to be involved’.

This also may or may not address @MisterBoring’s followup, a big flashing sign about how the RP is going to be affected if they don’t do anything, I dunno. People still probably going to complain, but now you have a sign to yeet at them when they do.

@bear_necessities said in Lords and Ladies Game Design:

@Ominous said in Lords and Ladies Game Design:

Alice, Bob, and Carol, a trio of town guards, could be the ones to come across the zombie horde and report it to their sergeant, the commander of the town guard, or the mayor.

But what happens when Alice, Bob & Carol, a trio of town guards, come across a zombie horde and horde that information to themselves because they want the plot? IDK there’s no real perfect way to ensure everyone gets a bite of the plot cake except to just put the information out there for everyone.

They probably die trying to fight it, new mystery where did they go?

@Floof said in Games we want, but will almost certainly never have:

I have no idea how it’d work but I’ve always kind of wanted a game inspired by Ark: Survival Evolved/Ascended

So not exactly this, but I was half dabbling with a Monster Hunter or Horizon type game idea at one point. I never got far, but like… go hunt things and upgrade your SWAG and improve the village etc etc.

@Gashlycrumb said in Lords and Ladies Game Design:

The PC is supposed to be Machiavelli, but what I see is Mr. Magoo.

So Magoo, it’s Machiavellian

@Raistlin said in Lords and Ladies Game Design:

A player genuinely trying to portray a brilliant tactician might benefit from dice mechanics that help bridge the gap, while someone just going through the motions and expecting the dice to do all the heavy lifting is missing the point of collaborative storytelling.

The counterargument is the equally bad-faith ‘oops, you wrote one wrong word in your pose, which you may or may not have OOCly known would destroy the whole thing, so we’re going to pretend the character rolled a botch instead of looking at how many successes are on the dice’

Long have I wanted to do an Exalted Drams of the First Age (vibes not mechanics) L&L game.

@Pavel said in Games we want, but will almost certainly never have:

Whenever someone mentions The Magicians I get it confused with The Librarian(s) and I feel the urge to watch those movies (and the subsequent TV series) and then make a game out of it. Somehow.

This is literally just nWoD Mysterium, and it’s great.

@Raistlin said in Games we want, but will almost certainly never have:

Batman and the Turtles dealing with Gotham’s rogues gallery while maybe facing off against Shredder and the Foot Clan would be amazing

My only problem with this is that Daredevil is right there, conveniently also in NYC so the Turtles don’t need to move, the chemical spill that blinded Murdock was the Ooze that mutated the turtles, and Foot Clan and the Hand are both part of the same ominous ninja-body.

Though it is a different group of baddies, to be sure.

Double post, but obviously solution is to yeet different sphere rules, and unify them all into a singular system with 1:1 powers, so Dresden Files +strength is +strength, no matter if wuff or vamp.

Alternatively, Exalted lulz.