I’d actually be curious to see how Alveraxus handles this, when they get there. In many ways, a generational jump is episodic, and I know it’s a thought I’ve kicked around as a problem to solve when thinking about generational games or time jumps. Anyone playing there that can speak to it?
Posts made by Tez
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RE: Episodic Games & 'Down Time'
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RE: MU Peeves Thread
@helvetica said in MU Peeves Thread:
But also… I don’t want to play in some kind of pre-established utopia. I’d rather play fighting for one and building one. Having no adversity and no socially structured limitations on a game sounds boring as fuck.
@Roz said in MU Peeves Thread:
…But I absolutely don’t think it’s wrong for a game to explore or reflect these sorts of prejudices that exist IRL (either in modern days, or historically). Some people who have experienced prejudice or trauma don’t want to touch anything that resembles it in their hobby space, and some of those people actively want to engage with it in their hobby space. It’s just different preferences here.
Agree with you both here. I think what’s most important for me is just that it says on the box what you are getting into. I don’t want to find out a year in that actually I’ve been living under authoritarian jam control.
I quite enjoy playing scrappy underdogs fighting against a terrible status quo. @Yam and other friends have run some great little games that let me tell amazing stories in those kinds of worlds. You wanna talk wish-fulfillment, man. Fulfills my wishes to think we can overthrow corrupt institutions. :')
I get where game runners are coming from when they try to push against the tide. I think there’s a tendency to over-correct and avoid some of the more uncomfortable elements of theme because you always run the risk of getting the players who actually think it’s super cool and fun to run around slinging slurs and call it historical. They are not there to overthrow institutions. There are there to be institutions.
As ever, the problem is players.
It’s easier to just lean hard into a more progressive setting rather than navigate the sticky bits.
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RE: MU Peeves Thread
Side peeve: why do games insist that they are in beta for years? Why can’t we just admit that things change? ARX I BLAME YOU.
I admit, major theme changes do tweak me more. Minor clarifications, fine. You need that all the time. Major changes? Unless it’s a developing thing, it’s a little weird to insist major theme has always been like this, for real.
But systems always change in live games. Policies and theme always need clarification in live games. That’s not beta. That’s LIFE.
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RE: MU Peeves Thread
@GF And what percent of the population triggers the spawn of horrors on birth? All peasantry as well? Obviously the players are L&L, but how are you maintaining the necessary population to support the PC class if this is the case?
Are peasants free of this curse? (In which case, off with the cursed heads of the nobility!!) If they need fuck fruit, your logistics issues enter.
I have so many questions about this thematic approach.
Like the jams!!
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RE: MU Peeves Thread
@real_mirage said in MU Peeves Thread:
This one just has a unique world-building aspect that can lead to unique stories specific to the setting.
‘The Church has absolute control over all reproduction.’ is certainly a unique world-building aspect, and it seems particularly naive to gloss over that aspect of it in your post.
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RE: City of Glass - Discussion
@Floof Me where demon is concerned, tbh. I just start yelling until Flamingo shows up.
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RE: City of Glass - Discussion
@mietze said in City of Glass - Discussion:
…(which alas, is not demon or mage, but tbh I’ve been won over to the side of mages being really nifty)
Mage is great! And 2/3 of the people we ban. But it’s great!
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RE: City of Glass - Discussion
A pal who I DO NOT THINK is on this board pointed out a nice bundle if anyone is interested:
https://bundleofholding.com/presents/DarkEras
Starter Collection - $9.95
Chronicles of Darkness 2E Dark Eras 1 Dark Eras Storytellers Screen Tales of the Dark Eras
Bonus Collection - $25
Dark Eras 2 Dark Eras Companion Hurt Locker Victorian Lost
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RE: Installing Arxcode?
@Pavel That’s what you think. I’ve seen some ChatGPT in my day.
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RE: MU Peeves Thread
@Pavel said in MU Peeves Thread:
@Roz said in MU Peeves Thread:
@helvetica said in MU Peeves Thread:
@Roz Well, WoD has certainly made up for lost time, now.
oh no the second thing i know about oWoD is that they still fucked anyways
Except Vampires. Vampires can’t have sex.
@Roz said in MU Peeves Thread:
> oh no the second thing i know about oWoD is that they still fucked anyways
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RE: MU Peeves Thread
Before we start talking about being 42 years old, how long have the fuck fruit been around? Has the priesthood always been in control? Was this used to regulate births before the eldritch horror twins? What happens if there are twins? Are there two horrors?
And the jams!!
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RE: Installing Arxcode?
@Cobalt lmfao
FWIW, I tried following that whole thing on DO twice, a few months apart, each time taking a few cracks at it, and I still never got it up. I’m not saying you can’t. I am baby. I’m just saying the tutorial fails to address a number of things, unfortunately, around versions.
It’s one of the things that makes Ares so fucking nice in comparison.
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RE: MU Peeves Thread
@mietze That’s fair about the QUENCIES in this game canon, but I don’t love the worms in this plum. There are better ways to do it that don’t squick so hard.
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RE: MU Peeves Thread
@Snackness It gives me extra ick with the untamed tribes thing too.
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RE: MU Peeves Thread
@Meg said in MU Peeves Thread:
honestly, i don’t see the big deal about ovulation.
40 years old? Been around ovulation all your life, maybe?
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RE: Installing Arxcode?
@Cobalt Good luck. I’ve tried twice and crawled back in a box each time.
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RE: [BeipMU] Removing pose order spam from Ares games.
@Pavel said in [BeipMU] Removing pose order spam from Ares games.:
Though personally I just use the channel names like so:
^\<(Chat|Questions|PM|RP Requests)\>
This is what I do too:
^<(CharGen|Chat|RP Requests|Questions|Game|Staff|PM|Events)\>
Literally basically the same thing only with less consistency about putting \ before my < and >. KEEP EM GUESSING.
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RE: Elysium /MUSH
@Jumpscare Yep! Same place I got my PenDes numbers!
THANK GOODNESS FOR A MUDSTATS. I love data. For Ares games, there’s https://arescentral.aresmush.com/games too.