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I think someone said in a thread earlier this month that MSB is 100% dead.

After reading more of this thread, I kind of want to find people to do a group application that I am referring to as “Project: Misery Boat”. The intent is to be the most unsuccessful, tragic group of PCs a game has ever seen. Horrible misfortune will hit them in every major scene they are in. Limbs lost, houses burnt, property stolen, loved ones annihilated by foul magic.Nothing is off limits for the Misery Boat.

@Yam said in Other People:

I was def curious about how often most RPers even consider Other People’s fun.

I’m so worried about other people’s fun and happiness that my therapist wishes I would just be a selfish asshole once a month.

Post your dead famous people here.

@Pavel I think most people aren’t going to shed a tear for him after all the terrible stuff he said in the last 5-7 years of his life.

@Lemon-Fox

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

( Is there any other threads that keep getting dug up every couple of months like this one?)

The Liberation thread gets dug up pretty regularly, but at a slower clip than this one.

@Ashkuri said in Other People:

What do you do in your RP to make it fun for other people?

Well, in my RL / non-MU groups, I usually end up getting asked to run the thing, so for those, I do a lot.

On MUs, I try and make characters that aren’t spotlight hogs. Yeah, sometimes I might make a character that comes from a smaller faction in game or whatever, but I don’t make that the core conceit of the character, and I usually try and make my character act in supporting roles to the other characters.

My work informed me today that they figured out how to deal with one of our major issues at work, and in doing so, are throwing work/life balance in the trash.

@Yam said in Bad Stuff Happening IC:

I think negative bleed is less of a problem than someone just being a butt about things.

I sort of disagree with this, but I think it’s because different people and groups handle negative bleed differently.

Some circles take negative bleed and resolve it in a healthy manner, so it’s not a big problem.

Other groups (including a few major LARP organizations I can think of) seem to delight in using negative bleed to drive perceived rivals away to make sure their characters are dominant in all situations.

@Solastalgic said in Bad Stuff Happening IC:

I’m still also susceptible to bleed, but I can recognize it and do what I need to do to counter it.

It took me a long time to realize that the positive emotional stuff I get from RP I enjoy is also bleed. Bleed, in my opinion, regardless of what form it takes, is only bad if you don’t have a healthy way to manage it and the expectations it can create in a person. From what I’ve seen doing RP in various forms for 30 years, too much ‘positive’ bleed can also lead to some negative behaviors (usually in the form of someone going to deep into Mary Sue / Gary Stu territory).

When I have bleed, I usually don’t try to just stop it or counter it, I usually ask myself, “How can I take this and use it to inform the direction of the story going forward?” and “How can my bleed help me strengthen my RP?”

I put a lot of stock in using improv techniques to mitigate bleed in the middle of scenes too. If I play with a “Yes, And” mentality, I usually don’t feel as much bleed as I would if I’m trying to control more of the scene other than my character’s responses to the fiction the others create.

@somasatori said in Bad Stuff Happening IC:

Trophy tends towards the gritty fantasy

You forgot golf

@Ominous said in Bad Stuff Happening IC:

Everyone is John Dread,

You didn’t put a comma between Everyone is John and Dread and I immediately started looking for a strange new hybrid of two really cool games.

James Ransone, actor in It, The Wire, and Generation Kill

In my local tabletop circle (which also includes one former LARP group), we sort of developed the “Are You Sure?” policy. Any time a PC would take an action that could feasibly result in bad stuff coming down the pipeline to them, the GM in question would say, “I must ask officially, Are You Sure?”

This was an official OOC signal in many games over the last 20 years that a PC was about to traipse into danger, and possibly wouldn’t come out of it, or at least not come out the way they went in. It’s honestly saved on a lot of upset and bleed over the years, and it’s something I’ll continue to use as I GM in the future.

It’s super frustrating when people do things that should only result in something negative happening to their characters only for them to throw an OOC fit and ask for a retcon or no consequences at all.

I’m all for consent, but in an RP environment, it has to be tempered with an understanding that sometimes a person’s character might take actions that have to result in consequences regardless of consent.

In my notes for my hypothetical game I run in the future, one of the game policies is going to reinforce that, but I don’t quite have a wording for it yet. For example, the character Benjamin willingly robs the local bank, and in the process gets spotted by multiple witnesses and a camera. The player of Benjamin, per that policy, has pre-consented to any logical consequences of that robbery (trouble with the law, potential ending of the characters story due to interacting with the law and going to jail or being killed while resisting arrest, being a fugitive, damage to their reputation for being a thief, etc.).

@Trashcan said in AI In Poses:

“I don’t want to RP with GenAI because it’s not very good” is not going to age well as a position.

I think the better position is “I don’t want to RP with GenAI because I’m here to RP with real people.”

I had heard about this (well, that there was going to be a Thundercats TTRPG) and desperately hoped it wasn’t going to use 5e.

@Wizz said in Celebrities We've Lost 2025:

People Mag willing to just jump on that conclusion within hours seems pretty irresponsible unless their sources are like…the son himself, so. still taking that with a small grain of salt. enormously tragic either way, those two were absolute legends and it makes me heartsick.

Well, he’s been arrested for the murder this morning.