@bear_necessities said in Memorable Scenes:

When @ham’s character died to a fucking doorknob and we came back to the apartment we had all been sharing and saw his pillow (with the Barbie pillow case, I think??) and started crying.

one scene I think back to a lot was my first GM’d staff response on Arx with Valenzo.

he was the captain of a ship who had been cursed in some mysterious way thad had led to him being hunted by a pack of assassin demons and also coincidentally having a demon doppelganger known as a mirrorborn. the scene involved Valenzo deliberately calling the mirrorborn, who was trying to convince him to make a bargain to release it into the world in exchange for his protection. Val only knew bits and pieces about the nature of his curse, but two key things weighed on him – the assassin demons were extremely dangerous, but mirrorborn could only sustain themselves in the world outside their realm by preying on humans. realizing that by saving his own skin he’d be putting others at risk, he ultimately refused the bargain, and the demon left in disgust – after telling him his best friend’s life was in peril.

I remember this one so fondly because not only was it a defining moment for a character I really enjoyed playing and one that informed pretty much the rest of my time with him, but the GM was just amazing. I’ll always remember one pose, which was SO sinister and gave me RL goosebumps, that she conveyed in just a few words – basically just the demon leaning forward and touching the surface of the mirror when it looked like Val might let it out – but the implications and the tension were ramped up sooo much more by everything she didn’t say. masterful stuff that still makes me grin when I think about it, and really appreciate how magical this hobby can be.

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

https://swdarktimes.com looks… active. I dunno anything about it, but it was on the Ares list and it appears vaguely Star Wars.

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From the website:

Playstyle

Scenes are written collaboratively.

No dice.

No complicated skill system.

@Lemon-Fox said in Star Wars Age of Alliances: Hadrix and Cujo:

Quit to make a pointless statement?

what’s pointless about it?

@Faraday said in Bad Stuff Happening IC:

“Bleed”, to me, is something else. It’s a crossing of boundaries that’s more than just the simple emotional response.

the part I meant specifically when I originally brought up insanely uncomfortable amounts of bleed is where the boundaries between someone’s understanding of events as happening to their character and happening to them have gotten so hazy that they start taking purely IC things intensely personally, and it changes the way they make their characters behave and affects their relationships with other players.

bleed itself by the definition people have been providing here is absolutely something that happens to everyone and isn’t that extreme on its own, I think, as long as you’re being self aware enough to recognize it and manage it, as already mentioned.

@Evilgrayson

that last part read like something Liam Neeson should have been growling into a phone and now I feel like I missed something, lol.

@Testament said in MU Peeves Thread:

another mush-related forum website

@hellfrog

how many people? sure.

@Faraday said in Bad Stuff Happening IC:

I don’t know if it was just so alien to them that someone would willingly set their own character up for humiliation, or if they just genuinely thought I was dumb because my character did something stupid or what.

I don’t have any like professional psychology background or anything outside of personal experience to reinforce this opinion but I honestly think it’s projection. I think a lot of players have a very strong image of their own characters in their minds as someone who is strong/unflappable/cool, someone who can maybe suffer setbacks but not actual outright embarrassment, because it’s part of the power fantasy they play for. so having something happen to embarrass a character in their minds just doesn’t fit with that narrative and makes them upset.

also, separate but related, it’s kind of an unspoken problem how many players really do just suffer like insanely uncomfortable amounts of bleed.

@Roz

if the embarrassment feels like the other player’s intentions were to embarrass me as well on like an OOC level, I am 100% with them. but one of my fondest memories of the hobby was having my character unexpectedly embarrassed in front of others in a way that revealed something to me about him and their character, that we kept playing into and had so much fun with later.

it absolutely comes back to trust, though. I knew that player was trying to make a compelling twist in the story, not be cruel or petty to me.

yeah, I think the common denominator in all our opinions regardless of how we voted is going to be: we want a fun story, and a hugely important factor in what makes it fun is that it feels fair even if it’s a loss.

yesssss…ruin my character’s lives

bring all their dreams to naught

FILL THEIR MOUTHS WITH ASHES

@somasatori said in Celebrities We've Lost 2025:

Edit: Evidently, they were murdered by their son.

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.

@Lemon-Fox said in Star Wars Age of Alliances: Hadrix and Cujo:

@dvoraen You could app a character in? 2000 bonus xp right now.

it does line up with my own anecdotal experience to a degree, though I do need to qualify that with, it’s pretty split along political lines in my family and their homeschooling communities. because of course it is.

@somasatori said in Tough Calls:

To me, it seemed like this particular person was really focused on playing a comic relief character as his whole shtick.

“comic relief” stemming from a grossly inaccurate caricature of a severe impairment. they were basically asking for staffer permission/endorsement to mock a person with disabilities. the yikes factor is pretty high on this one for me.

@somasatori said in Tough Calls:

ah yes, brain damage. what a laugh riot

I gotta be honest, that alone would probably be enough for me to tell someone to take a while to reflect and grow somewhere else before trying to play a game I ran again.

I knew someone personally before and after a traumatic head injury and how it changed their entire life is still one of the most tragic and depressing things I’ve ever seen.

@Jumpscare said in Tough Calls:

PEOPHIN
It feels like the only true option I’ve been given is “make a new character”. When I keep asking about being less disruptive, I’m not getting a definitive answer on what exactly that means, so I am confused, admittingly.

I would prefer to play a dumb (likely brain damaged) and loud character who rushes headfirst into things, who is obnoxious and meant from a OOC perspective to be taken as a joke, while still having serious moments as it happens in rp. Is there a way for that to be okay?

@Cobalt said in Empty Night - A Dresdenverse Game:

How difficult would it be to get into the game without having read them?

Dresdenverse is generic urban fantasy with a very light veil that is self-enforcing. there are some very specific setting things that are important to know (vampires come in a bunch of different varieties, magic users are policed by a ruling council, etc) but glancing at the website they seem to cover the basics pretty well.

since the game does away with the characters and most of the plots from the books I’d say you could jump right in.