@hellfrog said:

@Ominous said:

What are khati?

they were animal people. Catgirls, snakeboys, etc

@Apos said:

Depends on the region. Arx doesn’t have nobility any longer, and hasn’t for quite a long time. Luxen is a republic, and recently overthrew their nobility as a counter-revolution to a coup attempt. One very significant NPC polity is a mercantile oligarchy. Arx 1 was the entire PC population underneath a single crown, which was held by a PC. This is very much not the case here, as the different regions are very much divided and separate states, and no PCs are in control of them. But even for the feudal other states, they each have some quirks that probably aren’t quite how people would think of feudal, like in terms of succession.

I like that no PCs are in charge of any of the states. Leave room for people to be movers and shakers, but don’t create a reliance on waiting for a PC to make a decision that impacts an entire nation. Big from me here.

@Purplelamia said in MU* Wishlists:

I would like to see a Lords & Ladies game like Castle D’Image, or Crossroads, where it’s accessible, engaged players and staff, friendly but without having to learn a slew of backplot and systems like Arx, which I found kind of overwhelming. Evennia is a very complex system, with a lot going on.

Perhaps it was also back when I first played, but it was a time when I was naive and didn’t know everyone’s drama, though I was too young and dumb not to get swept up in it. I’d love to avoid that for a second round.

Maybe they are around though, and I just don’t knwo where to look.

I kind of get what you’re saying but I feel I should ask what do you mean by “learn a slew of backplot”? I think fantasy/L&L helps when there’s some level of depth to the setting, or do you mean the weight of years of history that Arx had?

@hellfrog said in Age Verification & Games:

@Ominous we’re still waiting for you to name one Nirvana song

omg, needed that laugh.

I havent checked on this thread in like a week but I just want to say that I believe @Prototart . I had very much similar experiences or had friends have those experiences with everyone involved.
I think I mostly avoided comic games after that but Covid was like 50 years ago and time blends together.

I generally dislike time gates and justifications re: xp.
I think folks should do what they want within the normal rules of the game.

Good lord, I haven’t heard HAM in a while. But yeah everything stated is true.

@Ashkuri said in When is the last time you played?:

So at 93 responses so far, looks like:

• 45% of forum users actively RPing (in the last month)
• 55% of forum users not actively RPing (in the last month)

Not a bad ratio tbh

@junipersky

i am late to this but it’s been a year+.

waiting for some place so i can write about excessively frilly sleeves for @dvoraen lol

@somasatori said in MU Peeves Thread:

@Prototart said in MU Peeves Thread:

@catzilla said in MU Peeves Thread:

@allthecookies said in MU Peeves Thread:

@Coin

It hurt my brain to see the whole thing go down.

Story time?

If it’s what I think it’s about, here is my measured and fair synopsis:

Guy: “I hate everything about the setting I’m connected to, and I refuse to do anything proactive about it. I remain a fully blank slate and it’s everybody else’s problem, and also fault.”
Staffer: “jesus christ you can do things for yourself”
Guy: “You are not a nice person.”
Other guy: “This is akin to a police shooting.”

Except it went on for twenty minutes.

this isn’t very MUSHmaxxing of him.

fuckin hell.

maybe I shoulda bought those 6 7 chicken nuggets if I gotta read this zoomer slang

I want a short app process.

But it also helps me to kinda flesh out a character as I go rather than go in with a Malazan: Book of the Fallen length background.

Sometimes I have a concept that I want to work on and flesh out.

@dvoraen said in General Video Game Thread:

Does anyone else increasingly feel like you have no time ever for recreation? Here’s an idea of my backlog, assuming I did full completions including postgame:

• finish Octopath Traveler I - 20h? (Postgame quests and bosses)
• Octopath Traveler II - 120h?
• Dragon Quest I-III (HD-2D) - 200h? <- hard to judge; probably higher
• Dragon Quest VII Reimagined - 150h? <- estimate due to 200h on DQXI
• Horizon: Forbidden West - 70h?
• God of War: Ragnarok - 70h?

Now let’s add in stuff just released or soon to launch that will undoubtedly consume focus!

• Windrose (EA launch) - > 50h easily I’m sure; depends on content.
• Soulmask (1.0) - > 100h if I commit to it

I’m doomed.

Yes, I feel this way.

I beat DQ1-3 but I need to finish Octopath Zero and DQ7.

It also doesn’t help that I spend about 3-4 hours a day painting now lol.

@Wikibara said in Real life happy:

@Rucket
Sending positive vibes.

Thank you!

Ima big care bear, I wanna PvE.

If anything has to be PvP, I’d rather it be fun IC drama like, “Oh my gods can you believe Davion wore white after Labor Day” or something dumb like that. I would rather focus on making my character go through their own issues/face their own demons than have to worry PvP.

@Rucket said in Real life happy:

I, uh, have a crazy job interview on Monday. I really can’t believe it but going to prep this weekend and hope Monday goes well!

Quoting my own post to say I had a 2nd one on Thursday and hope to hear something early next week about Interview #3.

I, uh, have a crazy job interview on Monday. I really can’t believe it but going to prep this weekend and hope Monday goes well!

@Clarion said in Tales of Zalanthas:

I was reading through all the quality of life improvements and theme changes and feeling increasingly optimistic until I got to:

ERP will not be supported. The focus of Tales of Zalanthas is swords and sorcery; exploration, ambition, danger, and survival in a harsh world. Intimacy may exist off-screen as part of story, but explicit sexual content or sexual violence will not be part of the game or allowed.

NO SEX ALLOWED IN THE DESERT.

I don’t know if that kind of policy in 2026 is gonna play out how they want.

Well our president seems to want to beef with the Pope like a French king from the 1300s so may as ban the sexy times in the Year of our Lord 2026

Hey, very cool putting up a new game. Best of luck! I hope it thrives.

@MisterBoring said in RP Safari - Pacing Styles:

I’ve thought up a new pacing style:

Tedium game pacing. The MU will be connected to a generic incremental idle game (like Cookie Clicker), and each player will be given a number of pose tokens. Each pose will cost a number of tokens based on length, and if you run out of tokens, you must play the idle game to generate more tokens, which can also be spent to make the idle game work faster. Scenes will progress at a speed decided by the various players progression in the idle game generating the tokens.

Now I’m imagining TS scenes being on hold for days while people play cookie clicker to be able to put out their next pose.