populace had forgotten a lot of stuff
I think the neatest thing is that it wasn’t just forgetting about magic and history, but you could come down with a bit of amnesia, which my understanding is the whole reason for the journals, so you could write little reminders for yourself in case you forgot (and also so if/when you dropped the character and someone else picked them up, they obviously had a case of the forgets and the journals are right there to remind them of things)
@hellfrog said in Age Verification & Games:
@Ominous we’re still waiting for you to name one Nirvana song
Batman Theme.
@Purplelamia said in MU* Wishlists:
Lords & Ladies game
The Scorpion book for the FFG L5R game is set to drop soon-ish, somebody do the thing!
@Rucket Could be ‘uncover the secret history’, could be ‘never get a plot run because your timezone doesn’t line up with any STs authorized to run the plot’. I’d say 50/50?
@Livia said in MU* Wishlists:
some things named the same like Ventrue, Gangrel, Toreador bloodline etc.
I forget who told me, but apparently, they also didn’t originally mean for Forsaken to be as heavily spirit-centric like Apocalypse, and also randomly decided to make the anti-yiffing rules even worse.
At least one of which is solved entirely by CoD, so huzzah!
(none of this stops the haters from hating, but shrug
@Livia said in MU* Wishlists:
@Jennkryst said in MU* Wishlists:
@Livia said in MU* Wishlists:
Well that’s suspicious.
But I’ll take this opportunity to pine for Vampire the Requiem once again. All the WoD games have returned to 20th Anniv. edition of everything.
People are too invested in THE METAPLOT… which also sort of happened with Requiem/nWoD. ‘I am part of this bloodline, let me name-drop the person from the book instead of seeing if we should alter stuff for game setting’.
Which, I mean, fair. I still think that the ideal WoD game should build out a wiki of the world as players submit new characters. If the game is in New York City, staff obviously have NYC history in mind. But do they know who is in charge in Philadelphia? The first character submitted from that area gets to canonize the lore from there, and then it gets integrated. Second player now has to deal with Philly being Carthian (because who else would riot in both celebration AND defeat?)
That, or somehow be on LegallyDistinctEarthlikeLocation, as written in Trans-Ally Katherine Applegate’s second-greatest work, Everworld.
Everyone is running 20th edition and ignoring V5’s metaplot entirely so I’m not convinced about anything to do with the metplot, harrumph harrumph.
I more mean, everyone is Very Invested in Brujah not being a bloodline of the Gangrel Clan and etc and so on. For more examples, see all the arguments from when oWoD was taken out behind the chemical shed and shot / when nWoD first came out.
I just wannt play some Chronicles of Darkness, preferably Requiem but honestly I’d play any of 'em.
As long as we remember to include Mummy!
@MisterBoring This reminds me, over Covid I found an archive where she provided all of Remnants for free, I should see if it’s still around so I can finally finish it.
@Livia said in MU* Wishlists:
Well that’s suspicious.
But I’ll take this opportunity to pine for Vampire the Requiem once again. All the WoD games have returned to 20th Anniv. edition of everything.
People are too invested in THE METAPLOT… which also sort of happened with Requiem/nWoD. ‘I am part of this bloodline, let me name-drop the person from the book instead of seeing if we should alter stuff for game setting’.
Which, I mean, fair. I still think that the ideal WoD game should build out a wiki of the world as players submit new characters. If the game is in New York City, staff obviously have NYC history in mind. But do they know who is in charge in Philadelphia? The first character submitted from that area gets to canonize the lore from there, and then it gets integrated. Second player now has to deal with Philly being Carthian (because who else would riot in both celebration AND defeat?)
That, or somehow be on LegallyDistinctEarthlikeLocation, as written in Trans-Ally Katherine Applegate’s second-greatest work, Everworld.
Extremely controversial opinion: Minors on games aren’t inherently bad.
No wait, don’t ban me before I can explain!
So in the long-long ago, before Shadowrun: Denver endorsed blatant staff cheating which they continue refuse to walk it back or even apologize for it happening… there was a whole household of folks who played on there. Everyone was all on the same IP address, so there were extra steps added to account for who was which +alt, as there were (and still are) limits to the number of characters you can have.
Included among the players from there was a then-16-year-old, as well as their father (who eventually did join staff for a time and was not among the dirty cheating cheaters). There could have been others, but this was 2010 or so, my memory is more hyper-fixated on the aforementioned cheating and the players I actually did play with.
They also had a big colorful sign that was basically ‘this player is a minor, do not even consider stepping out of line around them, we will ban you immediately’. Basically, it was the boiler plate ‘if you’re under 18, you can play with a parent’s permission’ that actually got the permission, instead of just lying about their age as others might do.
Anyway, TLDR: protecc the kiddos from the creeps by keeping out the creeps.
Ah, but have you heard of the critically acclaimed MMORPG Final Fantasy 14? With an expanded free trial which you can play through the entirety of a Realm Reborn and the award winning Heavensward, and thrilling Stormblood expansions up to level 70 for free with no restrictions on play time?
@Yam said in Staff Bits Linking Handles:
We have a personality fingerprint that’s hard to smudge,
I feel attacked.
@Yam said in Staff Bits Linking Handles:
Out of curiosity I’m wondering if folk have ever had the opposite reaction of ‘ah him that motherfucker what a tool’, like maybe ‘ah him i love his themes/style/atmosphere i will check it out’.
Everything Darwin and @Wuff. They’re the two that immediately jump to mind, but there’s probably others.
@MisterBoring said in Staff Bits Linking Handles:
@InkGolem said in Staff Bits Linking Handles:
I think it absolutely should be considered best practice for staff bits to have an Ares handle linked.
I agree. How would you see this translate into non-Ares games?
Require staff list their characters in a +finger note, minimum… for extra chaos (as a joke), link to a BMD playlist featuring every character they have ever played.
@Faraday Yeah, but it’s not like they waited until the last couple of episodes to go ‘Oh Wow, Angels!’ Head Six was around from the Miniseries, Head Baltar is revealed in… uh… somewhere in Season 2. So I still wouldn’t say ‘the only way out of the corner was divine intervention’… the divine intervention was baked in from the start.
@Prototart said in MU Peeves Thread:
@RightMeow said in MU Peeves Thread:
My peeve is that this hobby is like a teenage toxic ex to me.
wow you look great these days girl
Thanks, bestie
@Faraday Eh, BSG had religious themes from the jump, I think it was more of an issue that they did the miniseries without knowing that they would get a show, and then didn’t know they would be renewed each season.
S2 was announced before S1 aired, but S3 wasn’t announced until S2 finished. Ditto S4, which was announced as the final season in the summer of 2007, after S3 aired, but before the Writer’s Strike (which is proooobably what led to the year hiatus during the mid-season finale of S4).
I’m not going to say that it wrecked the plot. BSG certainly wasn’t as zany as Lost (which jumped the shark because ABC wanted to turn Lost into a Greys Anatomy 20 season bonanza and refused to actually allow them an end-date. The writers DID know where they wanted to end up going, but the goal kept getting pushed back - see Billiam’s 28.4 hour 5-part deept dive into Lost
Anyway TLDR; if you want to mysterybox TV, you gotta know what you want from the start, and you need to make sure the executives give you the number of seasons to get there in the end, which is a problem because capitalism hates art, etc and so on.
@chorus They had a concept of an idea of a plan, and it seems like it finally formed around Season 3. Like… spoilers for a 17 year old show I guess…
The final 5 consisting of two characters not even introduced until S2, forgetting that Tyrol and Callie had a child, but Hera had to be a UNIQUE SPECIAL hybrid made out of love between Human/Cylon, so now we have to ring in a cheating plot with Hotdog, making Tigh a Cylon even though he’s known Adama for 30 years which means that all 8 models had to be made in 20 years, and the One’s had to reprogram everyone to forget the final 5 before hiding Tigh away…
Buuuuut… according to the Plan (movie), the Cylon Plan (plot device) was different from Head-Six’s ‘God has a plan for you, Gaius’ (quote that Tricia Helfer really hates, thankyouverymuch). Then again, it’s easier to go back and try to slot in ‘oh we had a secret plan all along, this is what it was, and also it ended by Episode (whatever)’ after the fact.
Anyway, I also endorse BSG Reactica for watching, it’s gotten me to go back and re-watch the episodes for a fresh reminder again.
@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.
I feel attacked.
