It really feels like Ganymede has just decided to let Derp drive it into the ground out of some need to avoid losing face from reversing a decision.

Well, I’m reducing my MSB activity to lurking now. Gany just basically said that the only person who needed to be apologized to on MSB for what happened was Derp.

I get two things from reading stuff from this thread.

1. That I definitely am not the target audience for Lords & Ladies roleplay.

2. That Arx, even with all of it’s trouble throughout its history, is a pretty good example of ‘doing it right’ in our hobby.

Congrats to all you Arx players and staff for doing cool stuff.

Starting a new thread, for a new year.

First up, and this one hit me hard, David Lynch, legendary director of such weirdness as Eraserhead, Twin Peaks, and the original 1980s version of Dune.

@hobos

Please stop. If you actually care, stop, step away, and come back in a few days or even a week or two. You’re making yourself look bad with each new post.

Bring back Victorian era drug problems!

I want a post apocalyptic game surrounding the events at one of the last settlements in the world struggling to survive against all manner of obstacles and threats.

@Jennkryst

I’m gonna have to run a one shot of the MMPR RPG in his honor.

Well, after that interaction with Ghost and some other odd shit I’ve seen today, I added MSB to my firewall block list. I don’t need that shit in my life anymore.

@Roz Totally. I’m all for people trying to repair relationships, but deception is not the way to make that happen.

Now, if someone came to me and was like, I want to rebuild the bridge and move on from this and in the process offered to make a new character to help push some plot I was trying to push, I’d probably see that as an olive branch.

I’m not sure if it’s the same person every time, but I’ve run into players finding out that certain plots are restricted to certain IC groups that their PC isn’t part of, then immediately using every social engineering thing they can think of both IC and OOC to ingratiate their way into the plot, in some cases going so far as to use OOC RP support tools (meet and such) to circumvent coded locks on sections of the grid. They inevitably get caught, and then go into social engineering mode to try and cover their misbehavior and get out of it, often times seeding multiple versions of the OOC narrative through multiple staffers to confuse them and get off light. In one particularly humorous case, they didn’t know that 3 of the staff bits were actually the same person, the head staffer, who just used multiple staff bits to make dividing up the work easier, and when they tried their nonsense, they immediately got the boot. They’re still out there as far as I can tell. It would be nice to definitely find out whether they’re a random group of unrelated people, or just one stubborn person committed to a fallacy.

I didn’t even realize Crunchyroll did an Anime Awards, but it also dawns on me that any Award ‘show’ presented by an anime company is probably going to be heavily biased.

Is there an Awards show for Anime independent of the companies that produce it somewhere else?

Solo Leveling definitely doesn’t stack up to a lot of those other shows ‘nominated’, but I won’t deny that I enjoyed watching it. Personally, out of those options, I enjoyed Dan Da Dan and Kaiju No. 8 the most. Can’t comment on Apothecary Diaries because it’s honestly not my thing, and I’m not done with Frieren yet, so I’m still deciding on that one.

I just desperately want a solid science / math AI to do something newsworthy, like invent a 3d printer resin with no toxic fumes, or cure a disease. I feel like by the time that comes around, people are going to distrust AI in general so much that they just ignore it. I can see it now:

Science AI model releases an open source schematic for a water powered drive system for cars that gets 450 miles to a gallon of water and can drive at freeway speeds. crickets

@Raistlin Dang. I knew he wasn’t doing well, health wise.

@Faraday said in Best Games with Roster Characters?:

Ares also has a partial FFG Plugin based around the Genesys system. I don’t know how well it would adapt to L5R but you could probably at least steal some of the dice code.

I think you could probably steal most of the code. I just looked at it on Github and I think it mostly does what you want already, the code work would be reducing it down from 6 types of dice to 2.

Genesys has 6 dice types (Boost, Ability, Proficiency, Setback, Difficulty, and Challenge), where L5R only has 2 (Ring and Skill). Advantages (the L5R version of Talents) are pretty easy to implement too, as I believe the majority of them just let you reroll 2 of your dice in specific situations.

The dice for L5R 5th Edition could just be converted to a pair of charts and use regular dice. Then the code compares the d6 and d12s to their appropriate chart and the output would just be a list of results rather than worrying about the fancy symbols.

Then players choose what to keep and what to discard.

I’m sure there’s probably a coder somewhere that could do the whole nine yards though in an automated formatted wonder code thing.

Is it sad that I’ve met people whose natural writing and RP are so bad that I assumed they were LLMs incorrectly?

@STD Ah, then I’m curious as to what their numbers looked like through the various seasons. Might help to answer some questions about the 3 month thing.

@Ominous Have there been any games previously that ran on a seasonal format? If not, it might be something to take a chance on. If nothing else, it gives the people who are going to stay around more things to be interested in as time goes on.

@Ominous What if they were duels to the death and always included PCs? Are they BarP then?