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@Ominous said in Coded Systems vs PDF Sheets:
The only downside is that everyone can see your stats, so, if you’re trying to keep that hidden, coded stats it has to be.
At this point, it should be pretty simple for the staff of a game to create a Google Drive folder or something equivalent to hold the PDFs in a fashion that each character’s sheet can only be accessed by the player of the character and the staff of the game.
@catzilla said in Freeform or Systems?:
This question/curiosity came about in the superhero and Star Wars threads. (Some) people said freeform superhero is great but a freeform Star Wars game is ICK?
I was one of the people you’re referencing from the Star Wars thread and it really does just boil down to the ground everyone else has already covered, for me.
I like light systems, I like crunchy systems. freeform is something I engaged with when I was much younger, but years of exposure to enormously unfun strangers make the thought of joining a freeform game in the year of our lord 2026 incredibly unappealing, regardless of genre.
I also just enjoy the “game” aspect of roleplaying games. interacting with cleverly designed mechanics is fun and interesting to me.
@Raistlin said in Coded Systems vs PDF Sheets:
Would you avoid a game if it used PDF character sheets instead of a coded chargen/web-based character creation system?
No, as long as the staff on that game had control of the database of PDF sheets and were alerted if anyone was to update their sheet outside of what was allowed by the rules of the game.
@Colette I am pro-Rogue, pro-bondage, pro-catsuit, and pro-sexy-times.
@Prototart was pointing out Rouge-players have traditionally used her powers as an excuse to hyperfixate on fetish/bondage RP that ‘tee-hee, kinky and saves people from dying while touching her’, and occasionally drift into a barely-legal area.
You mistook this to mean these players were giving her Bondage powers.
Also, the difference is spandex vs latex, obvs.
@helvetica said in Freeform or Systems?:
We can play different places.
No, we must all play on the singular Uber-Game.
@Roz my anxiety shot through the roof reading this.
Parameters are important, but it harshes my vibe when poses take a backseat to a wall of dice roll output.
ETA: It’s also totally chill that crunchy mechanics are some folks’ happy place. We can play different places.
@Ominous when i staffed on a mutant/superpowers game with freeform powers, we had no system. there was no dice and no rolling. there was no book. powers were defined by writing them out and defining whatever limits needed to be defined for that power, with the overall power level of the game just being controlled by the humans doing approvals.
I need the restriction of a system, and even then I get paralysed by choice more often than I’d care to reflect on. If I can be anything, I end up being nothing.
