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@Colette said in What's up with the two Age of Heroes games?:

Maybe you should put less trust into the gossip you’re getting.

I was present for all of this shit. Even as fucked as my memory can be, I trust it way more than I trust someone who’s told a bunch of lies that are laughably transparent to anyone who ever had the misfortune of dealing with staff on UH or HA.

I was super off on 7 years, tho. Chalk it up to sleeping four hours across three days. Going off the logs I can find, looks like it was closer to 3.

PS for the record and since someone asked me, the person who uses the handle @Ruby on Ares is emphatically not the Ruby that I have referenced. Ares Ruby is charming, while UH Ruby (common characters: Rogue, Lara Croft, Wonder Woman) is a mendacious cretin who spent years viciously attacking any woman who tried to speak out against the predators she attached herself to.

PPS, yes, I wish MSB still existed as an archive, the behavior of basically everyone involved was on full display.

catzilla

I don’t care if all character stats are available for everyone.

But leave histories/backgrounds private. I enjoy a slower burn for learning about PCs and them learning about my PC.

Solstice

Yes, I would avoid a game with PDF sheets, because I am tired of dealing with them at work.

At least put it in an excel sheet or something so you can run some formulas in there.

Edit: See below!

Juniper

I’m not here to do homework.

Pavel

@Coin said in Coded Systems vs PDF Sheets:

@Ominous said in Coded Systems vs PDF Sheets:

@MisterBoring said in Coded Systems vs PDF Sheets:

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.

Everyone has to be able to see the stats if you’re just doing pdfs; otherwise, how do they know you’re rolling right? “Yes, I totally have five dots in every attribute and skill. You can’t see the pdf, but it’s totally there.”

At this point in the hobby, if I don’t trust the other players on the game I’m on, I’m unlikely to give it much importance. Like, are we not past lying about stats? FFS.

Exactly. You manipulate or rely on corrupt staff to give you the stats you want. This isn’t third grade.

Pavel

@EyeofProvidence You had me all excited that @IoleRae had returned, but no you’re replying to a four year old post instead.

MisterBoring

@Raistlin said in Coded Systems vs PDF Sheets:

That said, I’m also a fan of transparency with character stats. Too many bad experiences with the “OOC Masquerade” from WoD games.

Me too, but I understand some people enjoy that Masq stuff, so having the PDFs kept somewhere away from prying eyes would be ideal in that regard. If no Masq, then just have them somewhere that staff can easily see when players are updating the important bits of the sheet. If a character in a fantasy game suddenly has 18 Strength when they had 7 the week prior, staff need to notice that stuff. And yes, I’ve had a few poor experiences in games where the players kept their own sheets privately.

MisterBoring

@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.

Wizz

@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.

MisterBoring

@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.

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