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

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    TezT

    Serves me right for seeing what would happen if I lifted the registration freeze.

  • 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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    KarmaBumK
    Address: pern.gaslightswitch.com port 4201 Portal: https://pern.gaslightswitch.com/

    We have a few people looking to play Impression on-camera, so we’ll be running a hatching in August, with events kicking off in earnest on the 29th of June.

    It’s a good time to join if you’ve ever wanted to play Candidacy, Impression and weyrlinghood as a character arc. Our “process” is low-key, so you won’t need to write an app or jump through any hoops. Just create a character, sign up to Impress, and go about your regular RP.

    We also have a few big story moments coming up in July, so it’s a good time to join if you’ve ever wanted to play Pern regardless of Candidacy.

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

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    GashlycrumbG

    @Jenn said in RPing with Everybody (or not):

    @Gashlycrumb

    All of that seems fair. But, I’m not sure that the expectations I would have for staff and ST’s to be inviting and inclusive would be the same as the onus I think is on players. It’s GREAT if players are or can and want to be. But. They don’t owe it to a game to include folks, as long as they’re not actively pushing people out and away.

    Yes – I don’t think expectations for staff should be the same as for players. And I don’t think expectations for IC leaders should be the same either.

    Still, as player complaints go, this theme-and-varients is common: GM has a three-day turnover time for +requests from Group A, and runs plot-scenes for them every week or two, while we in Group B wait two weeks for a +request response and GM takes a month and a half to give Group B “You visit the chapel and the priest tells you to fuck off,” minimal sort of things.

    With IC leaders, it’s more common, but maybe less complained about, because of those different expectations. Faced with an IC leader who was unavailable and unpleasant to play with, I just asked the GM to give me ways to access plot without that person, and was annoyed that GM would not do it. Though honestly, I think it’s utter rubbish to put gatekeepy players in positions of IC power that allow them to gatekeep. (UNLESS you are going to also allow the natural IC consequences of this to smack them inna face.)

    There’s also the reverse – Ages ago my PC was the police chief. There was a PC cop who was a problem player. He would basically wander around and interrupt people’s RP to harass them, commit unlawful searches, false arrests, etc, etc. He did not follow orders, would not RP getting dressed down by his boss, would not accept a dressing-down in an @mail as IC, and staff refused to let me fire him. (Inexplicably, since they also admitted that they really just wished he’d go away.)

  • 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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    TrashcanT

    @Gashlycrumb
    The most relevant piece of information here is probably the system you are pasting the data into rather than the fact that these are coming through email. Is this a cloud-based solution, or does your organization run it on premises? Is it one of the big ones or something nobody outside your org has probably ever heard of?

  • 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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    devuD

    @devu a woman in a white dress is standing in a hallway with her arms outstretched in front of a fire extinguisher .

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

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    @Cygnus said in Numetal/Retromux:

    @MisterBoring Earlier in the thread talked about the secret giovanni discord separate from the game discord where Chaos went to talk shit about players, so it’s safe to say he’s a part of it. I’ve been away for a long while though, I don’t even know who’s still on staff other than the tags on the post of Eddie getting banned for doing all the shit I said he was.

    Definitely telling though that a staffer from that game came in to say there’s never been reports about Eddie and the game is fine, yet this is what they’re posting on site.

    @Cygnus Dude you literally live in your dream world. Even when it has already been pointed out I wasn’t lying you are still yammering on about lying. Which other users here pointed out to you. No one said there was no issues with Eddie. In fact, I stated that dude was a complete pecker cheese. Maybe not in those exact words. All I said is there was no reports/logs/receipts of him being a sex pest other than your constant saying that he is, which you still haven’t provided anything other than if you say it enough people will believe it. I wasn’t in the conversation for why he was banned so I can’t enlighten you anymore than what was in the post.

    Secondly the conspiracy of this super secret giovanni discord chat is only slightly true. In that it was super secret when we played on Liberation because Sundance would flip shit on anyone talking on discord. You want to know what the super secret chat is 98% about? Me sharing little weiner memes and us talking about RL stuff and our travels because we are all friends who have been playing games together for a very long time. The other 2% might be a minor vent session or us organizing something we want to do in game because of we live in different time zones.

    It’s only super secret to you, because when Blossom wanted to bring you into the family. I veto’d it because of the speshul snowflake behavior you exhibit. You are not a team player you are a ‘how does this benefit me and how can I be the brightest star in the sky’. That isn’t how the family operates. It was nothing against your rp, your writing, or even you on an OOC level. It was simply because you were not the right fit for what we are looking for.

    As for the special staff treatment Fiorenza/Blossom got or myself? We closed the Giovanni down to condense everything to Cam for the betterment of the sphere. I literally have zero characters now. I am working on one now but guess what I am not asking for xp or any of that stuff. I’m getting a base level character despite this being the second character I have had to forcefully retire. The first being my Sabbat when I took over as the storyteller.

    As for us being some clique that only rp’d with each other that is just another delusion of your mind. Me and Fio ran multiple events inviting every sphere, cause Retro allows Intersphere play, and were constantly reaching out to bring new players in for rp. Did we have some family only stuff? Yeah, we did ghostly stuff together as we should.

    Oh, and for the people wondering what sort of ‘creepy’ things she sent him. Which, he obviously gave her his address willingly. I talked to her about it. It was a stuffed animal bat for his birthday because she felt bad when he felt like he was going to have a shitty birthday. You repay her by coming to these forums and trying to sling shit that she is some sort of treacherous human being sending you some sort of heinous stuff like gargantuan dongers or whatever else is considered ‘creepy’. Which, if true, and she was sending you creepy shit why did you not contact the police? Like WTF is Sundance going to do if she was sending you creepy stuff ban her from a mush? Yeah, that would stop it.

    Your story has more holes than colander.

    Sephiroth

  • Comments, criticism, suggestions, feedback?

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    @Testament But is the D&D related to the setting of Seven Nations?!

  • The place to put non-game things.

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    JumpscareJ

    If you compare RPing by yourself to an artist doodling in the margins, suddenly it makes sense.

  • Video games, tabletop, etc.

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    @Meg Oh Meeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeg~ Your dream job (role) has apparently landed in Among Us.

    https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/945360/view/497205194887529404

    Make sure to tell @Tez about it so you can both fight over who gets to be sussying or sussssssying (<- sibilant because reasons).