One time I was rping with @roz and she gave me the perfect setup for my character to say, “I am Cerberus at the gates and you are on my goddamned front lawn,” and I will never forget how much joy this gave me, and I am literally building a character concept for a game that doesn’t yet exist based on that old character and this moment in my heart.
I’m such a drama queen.
I pay for D&D a couple of times a week. My brother is a professional DM and I am a sucker & I both want to support him and genuinely enjoy his GMing, so.
I agree with Pyre tho. I’m not generally averse to paying for products I enjoy but if the MU I am playing on is a product it’s going to change my expectations. Then again I’ve probably spent more money for less satisfaction by buying stupid shit on phone games over the years, so… who knows.
@Ashkuri This is why I will always start scenes in media res now and never put a closed door in between my players and action. I have learned.
@Yam don’t let the assholes win, honey. Learn to thrive on spite
Yeah if there’s something to figure out, I like going in with a few potential pathways in mind and then dropping them all and rolling with whatever the players come up with in terms of how to get there. Having a set solution to a problem is a way to frustrate yourself AND your players!
@Gashlycrumb Different requests take different amounts of time and energy and skipping one for awhile because you aren’t feeling it is an extremely reasonable thing to do.
It is definitely possible to go to the other extreme and it is extremely draining of player enthusiasm to set and wait forever for a response. I have waited forever for responses. I am not going to go into the specifics, but I get it. I just don’t think it’s fair to assume X staffer hates me or that there’s some other player favoritism reason why this one request is a pain in the ass while others are not.
And if you really feel like you can’t trust the staff in a game, stop playing there.
@Yam I always want to write a novella. Character creation is basically the only thing I know how to do.
@MisterBoring certified letter? who has that kind of cash!?
@Yam what are we fighting about, being good at other people? on THIS internet?
Making your RP fun for other people for me is all about reading other people’s poses, responding to what’s actually there and riffing on it. RP chemistry develops from the way you can bounce off the other player so I always want to be both reactive and proactive in terms of giving my partner something to react to. Also my sense of humor is dumb and it is everywhere.
@junipersky I literally made Aureth 5’9" and he was 37 when we started and going a lil prematurely gray because I liked posing about his hair. He got… so much ass. Lmao. I can’t remember how old he was when the game ended but he was still doing just fine.
Edit: I looked it up, he was 50.
My first MOO was Harper’s Tale in… 99 I think. I was on a lot of PBEMs and chatrooms before that, starting when I was about 12.
I voted for “just fuck me up,” because if I trust the GM, that’s generally where I’m at. I have a few absolute hard “nos” (and I have… even rped around one or two of them with a GM that I trusted) but generally speaking, the bad stuff happening to PCs is where a lot of the development comes from.
But like, I’m not a magical unicorn and if something bad happens to my PC that feels unearned or like it doesn’t belong in the story I’m sure I’ll still probably be upset.
Yea it’s exactly the same as getting scammed by AI, sorry. I’m being scammed. You are tricking me into interacting with AI. It doesn’t matter to me at all that my time instead of money is being wasted. It’s the same basic betrayal either way.
This is specifically re: text, not images. I’ve used AI images before - made by other people because I lack the knack for prompts, not because of moral authority or whatever. I probably won’t again, because the more this stuff becomes pervasive the less comfortable I get with it. I have taken an AI image and brought it to a flesh and blood artist and paid them to draw a character based on it, though, and I felt okay about that.
Re: text, that is the meat of the thing.
On this first night of hanukkah, I am celebrating a personal transition. I keep thinking about how, on a night when there is that famous story about oil that should have lasted for one night lasting miraculously for eight, I am leaving my job of eleven years for a better one. The oil burned a lot longer than it reasonably should have, and by the end of this year I am burned the fuck out, but now I’m escaping.
@Tez can confirm you have had to tell my dumb ass to knock shit off and I never thought of it as a warning. Just oh god I’ve embarrassed my friend by behaving badly on her game in a perceivable way.
everyone get fucked*
*unless you would rather not, really it is a personal choice
Like I can ask someone to leave my table for any reason and you can choose not to play at my table for any reason. One of the reasons I don’t staff anymore is I spend all my grace for my job and I don’t have a lot to get shit on as a volunteer anymore. So now I don’t even HAVE a table.