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.

If I’m in the mood to do space trucking, I’m usually not trying to RP. I’m just trying to chill and get loads of neutrino power cells for battleship guns from one side of the galaxy to the next, in the most efficient way possible.

I’m also not trying to stare at a wall of text while doing it, so I’m usually playing Elite or any number of other various space sims out there that accomplish the same stuff.

For me, I think it comes down to the intention of the staff from the start. If the staff intend to ensure that every PC has a moment or two in the spotlight and want to run big specific plots, then I would hope the radio of plot-running people to players skews a bit more toward the plot-runners. On the other hand, if the staff are really only building a set for people to play in, and not worried about having an arching plot throughout the life of the game, then the ratio can skew toward the players.

@GF said in Comic Games Are Still Fun!:

There is probably something profound or insightful to say about how HAM was formed because the staff of their previous game quit en masse after the head staffer started treating them as badly as he treated the peon players, only for the response game built from that exodus to seem to go exactly the same route.

I’m starting to believe that a combination of institutional memory and “make victims lest you be victims” (to quote an RL friend) are modus operandi for a portion of the tabletop (and online, and live) RPG community.

Just want to say… thanks for this.

My peeve remains wanting to start a character on a game somewhere knowing full well I don’t honestly know if I have the time to play enough to avoid getting idled out.

This is a terribly minor first world RL peeve, but I have to share it because it just happened and I am upset.

When the bag of pita chips runs out before the hummus does is so irritating. And I bought them both at the same time. I just want to be able to eat my hummus without running out of pita chips.

I will post this here, as I did there.

At this point he should just rename the site MuDerpBox.

Klaus Teuber, legendary game designer most famous for Settlers of Catan.

@Tez