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  • This is mostly for maintenance and board-wide stuff from admin.

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    juniperskyJ
    And they are gone forever now. Edit: Our troll would be appaled I decided gender neutral is better.

  • This is a place for game runners to post about their games. Discussion on those games will happen elsewhere. Please respect this!

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    @Raeras Page me in game, DM me here, or feel free to join our Discord. I’ll be glad to let your through the character creation.

  • Conversations and questions about current, upcoming, and advertised games and the hobby as a whole.

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    GashlycrumbG
    @MisterBoring said: For me, it’s safer to just avoid using Children as NPCs / PCs in a MU because it seems to always attract really crusty people before too long, This. I like child PCs, actually. I’ve played one and had fun. I’ve played with them and had a lot of fun watching how my PCs respond to children. The game I ran that was a success allowed child PCs. This was actually a deal between myself and the person who hosted it. He agreed to host on the conditions that I, one, allow them, and two, keep the banhammer in arm’s reach and not hesitate to remove pedos. He liked to play child PCs and wanted a game where he could play one and not have to spend a bunch of his hobby-fun-times fending off pervs. Certainly it’s not cool to pass the fending-off-pervs responsibilities to players, and the fending has certainly got to be done, so it’s a gamerunner’s task. Avoiding this gross job by disallowing child characters is a reasonable solution. I am with you on the complaints about the child NPCs and pets that get posed as immersion-breakingly unrealisticly angelic and perfect. Babies are cute but mostly they don’t croon cutely, they scream and puke at inconvenient times or are unconscious, and if your pet is a perfect circus-and-service dog you need the skill to train that.

  • When you want to talk about HOW to do something when running a game, bring it here: Code, Theme, Policies, Game Design.

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    SockMonkeyS
    @Gashlycrumb Also, chances are most of the people you (general not specific) have a problem with have a similar opinion of you so 1) Why would they care? 2) Why would they be surprised? People are allowed to avoid games because of Staff (whether your own issue or in support of someone else) so it seems hypocritical to not allow Staff the same option especially when they’re the one putting in the effort to run the game.

  • Please post a playlist if you feel comfortable doing so, and if you are looking for old friends – try here! If you are looking for old enemies, consider a nap.

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    ThionoxialT
    So I doubt anyone will know who I am but I figured I’d introduce myself. I used to be Thionoxial on MCM (I left like 18 years ago or something like that, maybe 15? LONG TIME AGO) - I was the fachead for their evil faction and plotstaff. I used to be Einara (Zelosian idealist working for the CIS who secretly helped the Jedi alot) on Star Wars: Generations I used to play Ioanna on a VTM Dark Ages game set in Iberia. I played (until I had a nervous breakdown over my gender) a daeva lawyer based on Elle from Legally Blonde on some VTM Revised game, but only for a few months, about 5-6 years ago during COVID. pronouns are she/her if your cis and straight, she/they if your cis and queer, or they/she if your trans. (yes its complicated so am I). I have a B.S. in Physics with minors in astrophysics and mathematics. I’m 43 and I’ve been mushing since I was ~9. I’ve been trying to be on computers less the past year so I can live life instead of writing about it, life is too short. Other facts about me: My mom died 3 weeks ago and the last thing she ever said to me was (she was transphobic) that she spent her whole life fighting her urge to be a boy and never realized other girls didn’t feel that way. I used to be a buddhist but I’ve been an atheist for ~3 weeks now. There is nothing else interesting about me. I just wanted to introduce myself. Musical tastes: punk/post-punk Reading: scifi/fantasy Favorite Authors: Tolkien, Brandon Sanderson, Elizabeth Moon, Ursula K. LeGuin I play a LOT of online tabletop. I’m currently in a VTM Dark Ages campaign and an Exalted vs WOD campaign.

  • Gloves off, but don’t be a total asshole.

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    GashlycrumbG
    A Song of Ice and Fire/Game of Thrones is a really rape-y IP. Child-rape-y, even. Rools were, no child sexy stuff at all, and Horrible bad things might happen to your PC without your by-the-instance consent, but you can always FTB on them, and SA isn’t one – if you don’t want your PC to experience that, the PC/NPC(s) in the position to do it will just happen to chose not to, as would-be-rapist-PC agency is of less interest than your well-being. The trouble with this is that when people do choose to portray SA, the players portraying the characters surrounding them do not. I don’t know anything about Haven, but coded systems specifically for SA are obviously saying that you expect and want it to be a significant part of the game. I don’t think that few MUSH players want that and most would prefer the opposite. The question is how far can one go to downplay or remove it from the setting before a dark gritty setting is too adulterated with strawberry mousse? (Probably pretty darn far, to be honest, I’ve never thought, ‘It’s just not realistic that nobody’s raping somebody around here’ even in grimdarq WoD-worlds.)

  • Comments, criticism, suggestions, feedback?

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    JennkrystJ
    There is a little floaty ball over the text blinker, and I hate it. I know it’s there for accessibility reasons, to find the cursor, but it’s freaking me out.

  • The place to put non-game things.

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    @hellfrog Costume designer for The Carol Burnett Show and the spinoff Mama’s Family season one, the latter leading to one of his ten Prime Time Emmy awards. Mama’s Family is still comfort food TV for me 40 years on. Rest easy, Bob, and thanks for the memories.

  • Video games, tabletop, etc.

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    looks at Among Us update with the Judge role looks at @meg and @tez, drops off below Innersloth video that says everything necessary https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pqX21F0c_w0