That was kind of half the fun of The Network for me. Sometimes, with no memory of why or how, you’d just realize wait. I’m a PHENOMENAL ballerina? WTF?!?
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RE: MU Peeves Threadposted in Rough and Rowdy
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RE: MU Peeves Threadposted in Rough and Rowdy
@Ominous said in MU Peeves Thread:
I think it’s more of a “Git Good Waveform.” The exact skill the XP is ultimately going to go toward is spread across multiple possibilities until the player observes a particular skill needing to suddenly be increased during a dire moment, which causes the waveform to collapse into the needed skill.
I call it the “Personal Narrative Swerve Particle”. Where a character builds a narrative of being focused on one group of things suddenly becomes a master of something completely unrelated. So like when a violent druglord suddenly becomes the world’s foremost expert on neurosurgery.
One version of this I refer to as the “Oh You Didn’t Know Corollary”, where the character in question suddenly remembers their previous life as a teacher at Harvard Medical.
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RE: MU Peeves Threadposted in Rough and Rowdy
all the hypothetical scenarios about jumping from like 1 to 10 in a skill immediately makes me picture the Matrix movies where they instantly upload knowledge and both
a) cracks my shit up, picturing some random dumb hyuck suddenly rolling their eyes back into their skull just so they can solve the mystery in one scene or win the arm wrestling match or whatever
b) kinda makes me wish for a game where that mechanic was explicitly part of the setting, maybe for Mysterious Reasons. sometimes characters are suddenly just inexplicably experts at something they’ve never done before, what’s happening???
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RE: Mostly Finished M&M 4E Projectposted in Rough and Rowdy
I don’t play M&M but I also won’t pretend this isn’t impressive as hell. Great job!
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RE: MU Peeves Threadposted in Rough and Rowdy
If I’m setting, it’s in media res, and it will be some blend of silly/horny.
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RE: MU Peeves Threadposted in Rough and Rowdy
@catzilla
They need to know your set first so they can decide the best way to ignore it. Duh.But yes. Enraging.
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RE: MU Peeves Threadposted in Rough and Rowdy
@ham said in MU Peeves Thread:
I’m very sure this has been posted here before, but it has come up again in my RP life and it continues to frustrate me.
If someone is setting a scene for you, YOU then need to engage THEM. Don’t pose yourself doing your own thing and make them basically set twice. DEFINITELY don’t pose AVOIDING them and make them chase you.
It’s obnoxious.
I always ask people ‘do you want to set or you want me to set?’
So when they tell me to set, and I do, then they do their OWN set…
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RE: MU Peeves Threadposted in Rough and Rowdy
@Ominous said in MU Peeves Thread:
characters just buy generic “adventuring gear”
Bold of you to assume I didnt comb the equipment list and track individual bars of soap or what kind of fabric my gloves are made of.
