@junipersky Games like Exalted and Shadowrun time-gate how long it takes you to learn stuff.

@Colette I am pro-Rogue, pro-bondage, pro-catsuit, and pro-sexy-times.

@Prototart was pointing out Rouge-players have traditionally used her powers as an excuse to hyperfixate on fetish/bondage RP that ‘tee-hee, kinky and saves people from dying while touching her’, and occasionally drift into a barely-legal area.

You mistook this to mean these players were giving her Bondage powers.

Also, the difference is spandex vs latex, obvs.

@helvetica said in Freeform or Systems?:

We can play different places.

No, we must all play on the singular Uber-Game.

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

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

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

Rogue with bondage powers

I think you keep confusing what people mean by this. Everyone agrees skin-to-skin contact with Rogue will drain powers. Its just the solution is always ‘put Rogue in a full body bondage-esque catsuit so there’s never skin to be touched’.

Few ever thinks to just put a restraining collar on her during day to day slice of life scenes. Like someone couldn’t make one aesthetically pleasing, or waterproof. People remembering that not only is she able to control her powers, but she isn’t even getting her flying brick power set from Carol Danvers any more either. Going with that is a breath of fresh air.

Well, yeah. You don’t have Danger Bondage Sexy Times if you do it that way!

I like a mix of both - dice for resolution of your stuff, but stick some narrative-bending things in the dice. Prime examples here are the FFG dice, both the Genesys rules and L5R.

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

Rogue with bondage powers

I think you keep confusing what people mean by this. Everyone agrees skin-to-skin contact with Rogue will drain powers. Its just the solution is always ‘put Rogue in a full body bondage-esque catsuit so there’s never skin to be touched’.

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

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

@Juniper You just have to do some manner of limbo to get through the door. Side-limbo

You put one huge boob in, you take one huge boob out, you put one huge boob in… but you don’t shake 'em because they weigh more than your ability to lift…

This is incredibly close.

You boob the first through the door breastily, give the door. Then get confused because there is something hard between them, so brain default to trying to get it off before you realize it is a door frame and it is unimpressed with your mad lewd skillz.

The next step is important - don’t go back in. Instead, you must…

… with the frame as your pivot-point.

Finally, you must breast boobily (like when you boob breastily, but in reverse) to finally free yourself from the door.

@MisterBoring said in Hello, Survey, and Looking for Recs:

@Pavel said in Hello, Survey, and Looking for Recs:

We have WoD. MUDders don’t. >_>

Haven of the Embraced is / was a thing.

And yet it was not called Haven: the Embraced? Fake fans.

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

dredging up of ancient dramas over who slighted who in a game I probably never heard of a decade or more ago

I know Im late to the party, but…

@bear_necessities said in When is the last time you played?:

@catzilla said in When is the last time you played?:

run a silly one shot that will (probably) not have an effect on the setting.

so, curious, how could a game get you to run a plot that could have an effect on the setting, affect the metaplot or change the world in some sort of way? Is it just as simple as keeping that “You can do whatever you want here as long as it doesn’t break the world” on the tin or would you need something else?

Also not catzilla, but!

A way to help plot along is, perhaps, inject bureaucracy.

No, wait, let me explain before you run away!

For all of its other problems, a lack of plot allowances is not one that Shadowrun: Denver has. Because Shadowrun has quantifiable resources, you need cash for gear and rent and etc. You can’t just handwaive payments like you do with Resources or Wealth merits like you do with Chronicles or WoD or Exalted or [other example game].

Sure you could get cash to pay for things, but there is still an in-depth system used to purchase gear - so much that some players specifically made fixer PCs to do all the paperwork for other people.

This is Shadowrun in general. Denver adds detailed rules for players to circumvent this whole process and instead go get the SWAG themselves. Five Finger Discount style. Sure, you could go through the request process to get SWAG and wait (time). Or you can go PLOT for it and get it faster, and possibly cheaper.

@Ominous This erasure of our Sith Lord and Savior, Darth Darth Binks.

Marica Lucas, of ‘make Star Wars good’ fame.

@Tez said in When is the last time you played?:

r/BMD

Do they have an r/MSB so we can Nelson-laugh at the host getting bought out from under them?

@Gashlycrumb said in MU Peeves Thread:

Age: Blooming

This feels cursed.

@Jennkryst said in When is the last time you played?:

@Babs said in When is the last time you played?:

you all can make it past chargen?

My Otaku sits in chargen at Shadowrun Denver Fifteen years waiting for staff to officially unban them for any/all, since they were soft-unbanned/only got banned in the first place because of fuckery.

It has been two months, yet the fuckery continues.

@somasatori said in Numetal/Retromux:

To be fair, Jenn, I feel like the act of asking about unplayable/disallowed character types is kind of your version of MUSHing.

In the Otaku-specific instance, at the time I entered chargen they were legal. There was some fuckery that occurred that I went over elsewhere and can go over again, sure why not. But later.

Edit: Nagah are very much the unplayable thing I ask about, because sexy sneks. Mummies are more a meme at this point.

@Gashlycrumb said in Numetal/Retromux:

@Kestrel said in Numetal/Retromux:

Maybe they end up with fewer interested, but much higher-investment players, and they like it that way.

An aside: Almost certainly not.

That was the stated reason for arduous chargens in the past. But my observation is that the quicker a player gets into RP, the more likely they are to stay. 30 minutes to chargen, fast approval and you get into a fun scene right off? You will connect again. A few fun scenes in as many visits? You’re hooked and likely to play for a pretty long time. Six hours of work to chargen, days waiting for approval? That’s where you get the people who stop logging in before they even know they got approved. It seems counter-intuitive that they’d not be invested after all that time, but ask B.F. Skinner.

Then there’s my dumb ass, logging into the 16 year old account on Shadowrun Denver to see about unlocking Otaku after a decade-old bit of fuckery.

@Wikibara said in Numetal/Retromux:

@Jennkryst
“Please, share a hate message, it means a lot to us.”

Riiight.

Bad faith is bad faith, and its starting to look like jumping to the ‘everyone is racist’ conclusion is your default approach to things.

@Wikibara ‘can you believe the shit someone from [game] sent me?’

Possibility 1) ‘They do not play there’ big oopsy doodle apologies all around.
Possibility 2) ‘Holy shit this other person does actually play there, let us purge the bad actor’

… like, tracking the bad actors is half the point of the community.

@Wikibara said in Numetal/Retromux:

no plans to dox anyone involved

Circling back to this, right here, this is the problem. Because you could have just posted a screenshot and people could have immediately seen whether or not the comments came from anyone affiliated with the game.