@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.
If I’m setting, it’s in media res, and it will be some blend of silly/horny.
@Ominous said in MU Peeves Thread:
characters just buy generic “adventuring gear”
Bold of you to assume I didnt comb the equipment list and track individual bars of soap or what kind of fabric my gloves are made of.
@helvetica said in MU Peeves Thread:
Is raising a skill mid-scene really that rampant of a problem that we really need to twist ourselves into knots over this? Like, do people do this for real or is this some mythologized outlier situation? Rather than preemptively punish everyone for one theoretical idiot, why not simply toss out that idiot if and when this occurs?
I gotta tell you, I was just in a scene rolling quite possibly my highest skill the entire time… and I still (hilariously, in a fun way) got my ass kicked by the dice. Specifically, basically a huge chicken attacked my ass. You can raise a skill all you want. It’s no guarantee.
Followup question - if a game makes it so you can only raise things via +job… do staffers processing those jobs also have to make sure you’re not doing any RP before raising stuff, lest THE DIRTY CHEATING happen, or whatever?
@hellfrog said in MU Peeves Thread:
If you want people to justify their xp choices with rp logs or something, well - stop. It’s not reasonable.
Depends on the system. Raising PUNCH, sure. Gaining an ENTIRE ARMY with Followers? Maybe a log about it.
@Gashlycrumb said in MU Peeves Thread:
One of my many unpopular opinions is that MUs can and should be very like tabletop, but this is one area where that doesn’t fit – if everybody in my gaming group participates one session except Phil, who stares at his phone for five hours instead, and I give everybody but Phil XP, good. Everybody on the MU can’t participate, though, only a limited number can join the event, and then I give those lucky ones extra XP? Meh.
I have always liked the catchup xp of TR, in theory at least. Maybe not an automatic gain, but if a dinosaur and a newbie both RP the same amount, the newbie gets bonus to catch up.
It is always annoying on games with universal xp tick. Like, if Im not there in the first couple of months, it feels like I am forever behind.
@Ominous said in MU Peeves Thread:
@Gashlycrumb I am also anti-XP as is probably well-known or know-ish at this point. If we have to go with advancement of that sort, I’d prefer a system where you set a skill or two that’s being worked on by the character, and, after some time, maybe with some random elements, it increases.
I’d also like maybe Milestones blended with catchup? Like ‘the plot has progressed so far, anyone with X major milestones gains a minor one (basically a skill swap, rather than a flat +1 or something), anyone with more gain a bigger bonus’
But I haven’t even done napkin math on it, let alone proper thinks.
@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?