@Cobalt UA is my “If I ever actually have time to build a game from scratch, it will be this” game.

Update: I have also just been reminded that it’s in competition with a “LARP-Rules WoD” game.

@Yam If we all had a dollar for every time this happened, we’d all be oligarchs.

@Pavel said in MU Peeves Thread:

I want to add that while it takes work to make any hobby fun, if it’s consistently more work than fun, then it might be time to reassess.

Agreed. The moment it becomes more work than fun is the moment it’s an unpaid internship, and those are largely gross.

@Jennkryst You could always do the simplest thing. Have an Ares or MUSH instance spun up for the non-Mech stuff, and run a dedicated MekHQ box for the larger scale stuff, and just manually copy character data between the two.

Is the die roller equally fancy?

@Jennkryst said in Missed Settings:

Exalted: Essence

I was so happy when Essence came out. I like Exalted as a setting, but omg are the mechanics of base Exalted so overly complicated.

@Ominous said in Missed Settings:

A Nobilis server?

I would love to see this, but at the same time, feel like the flighty nature of most MU Players, wouldn’t that just fall apart almost over night? I could see it as a 100% roster game, but if it was all player created Nobles & Imperators, I don’t see how you survive the churn rate most games have.

June Lockhart, 100, famous for being the mom in Lassie and Lost In Space.

@somasatori I totally agree with this. Each character in the roster could have a set of links to the important world lore that drives their character to help people find what they need to know.

@somasatori said in General Video Game Thread:

I don’t really know 5e as much as Revised/20th but the Anarchs are effectively the Sabbat now?

So the quick run down is: The Camarilla lost some major cities (London & Vienna among others) and some major players (Hardestat the Younger and the entire Tremere Council) to Hunters, and the Sabbat quietly packed up their shit and went to fight monsters in the wilderness (quite literally) leaving only small packs of instigators behind to run guerrilla strikes on the Camarilla to funnel resources into the larger Sabbat operation. With the lack of focused Sabbat activity and the Camarilla crackdown on anyone not a member of the Ivory Tower, the Anarchs basically get treated like the Sabbat in a lot of cities, and they respond as one might expect (also they got reinforced by the Ministry / Followers of Set).

I look at it like this:

1. If someone builds a game and puts it up on a server, generally the game comes in one of two forms: a sandbox where the staff only exists to help people get through character creation and otherwise enforce OOC behavior rules, or a curated story where the staff exists to tell a specific main story involving all of the characters approved for play.
2. I don’t believe any staff (on either type of game) should advocate for everyone RPing with everyone being required. There’s plenty of OOC drama that exists between individual players across the hobby that trying to force that is going to be bad.
3. I do believe that staff on games with curated main stories are 100% correct in requiring all players to interface with said story regularly, and are totally allowed to, and should, boot anyone that tries their hardest to avoid that, as games with staff driven plots should be looking for players interested in participating in those plots over people just looking for a new place for their circle to play.
4. I do believe that staff should incentivize players opening up their RP circles as much as they feel comfortable in doing.
5. I do believe that there are circles of players who plant themselves on games with the sole intention of only RPing with their own circle and ignoring the entire rest of the game. Usually they’re harmless, but I have been witness to a few instances where it was 100% toxic. I think that has to be monitored to a certain extent and dealt with if it becomes apparent that they’re toxic. Usually these people are not interested in doing the work to give themselves a private space to RP in.

@RightMeow said in RPing with Everybody (or not):

I give you a server so you have to do what I say ranks right up there with the working spouse telling the homemaking spouse that they have no say to their identity.

Then why do games expect players to follow the rules?

Even though I’m pretty certain that L&L (and to a certain extent, roster) games aren’t my bag, there’s a certain part of me that wants to give this a try, mostly because I’d be getting in at the ground floor.

I’m very curious to how much they’re going to tap into the wide and wacky world of Mystara for the game, as the local setting seems pretty generic compared to the giant mish-mash of stuff that actually exists in Mystara (not to mention the second campaign setting conveniently tucked inside the planet).

While I don’t personally have time to play there, it does look like it scratches an itch created by the Venn diagram of OSR fans and Ares fans.

@somasatori All 2e merits are done. Everything was reorganized, I’ve updated the lookup_data.py to reflect the new groupings. If you want to drag stuff over and test it against main, feel free. I’m going to start working on the legacy merits next.

@Pavel said in Star Wars Age of Alliances: Hadrix and Cujo:

Good, sane, active. Pick two.

It’s the triangle of MU staff.

@somasatori I forked your github to work on the merit dictionaries without causing you to get millions of notifications from git.

If you want to peek at what I’m up to, my most recent work is in https://github.com/wagenbach/PyReach-Revision/tree/main/world/cofd/meritsredux. When I’m done, I’ll let you know and you can merge the fork back into the main if you want, or just copy files over individually.

@Juniper said in The great escape (from Microsoft):

Windows ran fine on it but I do wonder if it’s just so old that it needs something more lightweight. If you know any distributions that are particularly well suited to ancient shitboxes, I’d appreciate a recommendation.

Have you tried Bodhi Linux?

@Pavel said in The great escape (from Microsoft):

And because Microsoft is… well… Microsoft, you may have to check/update this setting every few updates or so. I’ve definitely had to chase up stupid settings changes that updates have made counter to my desires.

Yep. So far I haven’t had to re-enable that on my Windows machine. I’m guessing since it getting reactivated in an update would mess up a lot of business deals, they don’t touch that setting with update packages. Only time will tell though.

If you can’t escape Windows, but want to escape Copilot, you can use Group Policy Editor to disable Copilot permanently. (Microsoft is required to leave this setting in their OS by the many many many companies that either don’t want to deal with AI stuff at all, or have contracts with other AI firms for their AI nonsense, so it’s just a part of all versions of Windows.)

Just run gpedit.msc, find User Configuration > Administrative Templates > Windows Components > Windows Copilot. There’s a policy called “Turn off Windows Copilot”. Enable that, and voila, no more pesky Microsoft AI on your system.