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

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    TezT
    Sorry for the downtime. Did an appalling number of upgrades while fixing the gif button. We’ve upgraded a few so let me know if you see anything broken. Feedback here.

  • 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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    If there is gonna be an Arx 2, I honestly can’t wait.

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

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    KestrelK
    For people who have either created games, or are at any stage of the creative process to attempt it, I’m wondering: Are there aspects of your game design that exist almost as an intentional net to filter certain player temperaments? Some examples might be an arbitrary chargen requirement meant to excite/repel certain players out the gate. Or purposely overdeveloping social skill options, because you find Might Is Right style players offputting. For my part, I recently found myself deep-diving some studies on how preferences for certain genres and literary themes correlate with certain personality traits. It has me second-guessing the genre I want to focus on, and looking into ways to incorporate themes that might better appeal to players I’d like having. I remember also talking to a game dev who was very hurt by how badly some bad actors had spoken about a game they’d made. On the other hand, I said it was actually a very good sign that such shitty players find the game unplayable, and a sign of good game design — since it didn’t have the kinds of tools they needed to fully enable shittiness, but was rife with prosocial and storytelling tools they found pointless.

  • 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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    @Tez said: @helvetica said in MU Peeves Thread: @Ominous said in MU Peeves Thread: @spiriferida For L&L, really play up the politics, intrigue, animosity between rival families, and management aspects to the level that no one has time to knock boots on screen. Demand characters have so many administrative skills, they become virtually unfuckable. Joke’s on you, I’m into that shit I mean, isn’t “admin assistant” office sex an entire genre as well? We all know who does the real work while ahem getting fucked over. (I’m being cliche. I don’t really think every admin assistant everywhere does everything for said admin while they do nothing.)

  • Comments, criticism, suggestions, feedback?

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    @Pavel I wanted to make a joke about Pavlovian responses and adapt it to "Pavel"ovian, but at 2:16am I couldn’t bring it all together. This is me putting you on notice that it might happen one day, or never.

  • The place to put non-game things.

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    GashlycrumbG
    @Pavel I getcha there. But if the client is lying to you, you can’t really help them explore reality. And that’s not your fault. And one thing abusers often do is present things with the roles reversed so they’re the victim who needs validation. (My ex succeeded in doing with his therapist, and with a significant portion of my friends’ group. He soon began to abuse them, so they all went, “Oh shit, G was right,” and dropped him hard, but years later some of those friends are still ashamed and uncomfortable and this is sad to me because it wasn’t their damn fault.) I think for therapists it’s kinda like that thing where opiate addicts try to sue doctors who prescribed for them based on their lies about pain. The doctors turn around and sue them for fraud. (This is why, in more recent years, those transphobes who think it’s a gotcha to ‘prove’ that gender-affirming care is over/wrongly prescribed by lying about their gender to a doctor and getting a script, as if not having magical truth-detecting powers is malpractice, have just written dumb articles about their fraud where they don’t mention their informed consent form, and not gone to court.)

  • Video games, tabletop, etc.

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    I’m pretty hyped for this game. The physical game is pricey, but it seems like you get a bunch of stuff in the boxed set. Also worth mentioning there is still a PDF level you can pledge at, and $30 seems pretty reasonable if there’s as much game-content as I assume there is (especially since I’ve heard each of the 7 playbooks is pretty hefty). This has reminded me to back it