If people have left Elite Dangerous and alhave been considering looking back in, there is currently a trade war going on with 55x markup of certain items. Also depending on how long you’ve been gone, Thargoid war is over (for now) and we have hot rod boosting through FTL. Also space legs/walking around (just not inside your own ship, for some reason).

@lordbelh Pick a pic, describe the pic, wheee

@Raistlin said in Best Games with Roster Characters?:

@Jennkryst said in Best Games with Roster Characters?:

@Buttercup main problem is decision paralysis once I get past the basics, followed by no rush to un-paralyze because no code.

Run it using Ares with the PDF Sheet plugin and use form fillable PDF sheets. I’d honestly love to see more games do something like this.

How well, if at all, does this handle the fancy dice?

@Buttercup main problem is decision paralysis once I get past the basics, followed by no rush to un-paralyze because no code.

@Prototart said in MU Peeves Thread:

@Jennkryst said in MU Peeves Thread:

@Prototart what ever happened to bribing players with XP for desc work?!?

i could’ve been bribed for it and never even asked???

Will pay XP for descs on game, just as soon as we finish kidnapping the coder to make +sheet and +roll and such.

@Prototart what ever happened to bribing players with XP for desc work?!?

@Ominous said in The 3-Month Players:

@RedRocket said in The 3-Month Players:

The same thing is true of people who hang out in bars just to hook up for TS. Why are you on a roleplay game with a complicated combat and stat system when you could just go to one of many games where you can literally be anything and bang anything you can imagine.

Some people like plot with their porn or porn with their plot. Romance novels sell better than Hustlers. DeepThroat, the highest grossing pornographic film, made $22.6 million inflation adjusted at the box office; Fifty Shades of Gray grossed $569 million. Sure, you could log onto Shang, find a willing partner, and hammer out your best IKEA instructions for Peg A going into Slot B with gusto, but where’s the flirting, the foreplay, the slow simmer, the romance?

This, but also because I like to jokingly roll to see how well folks perform. It’s all steamy and great until you botch and now it’s even better because botches lead to the silly in-jokes about how you accidentally headbutt each other or somebody farted at the wrong time.

@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?