@junipersky Kids in high school you lowkey had a squish on?

I have a character who runs a bar, and I agreed to it (three characters in total donated to get the place up and running) simply because it has a lot of potential to generate RP.

Yeah, it can get out of hand, and what do you do when everyone on grid tries to show up?

But so far, it’s been a positive experience.

Hey all. we appreciate all the feedback we got on this thread and the interest expressed by folks. We’ve been refining the game and building our initial content, and while we are anticipating announcing a soft open within the week on the Advertising thread, we are looking to get a few people who would be interested in coming in before then to look over and offer some feedback.

If you’d be interested, shoot me a PM and I’ll give you the address. We’re looking to get some thoughts on specific mechanics and systems, as well as overall feedback on the game itself.

As a thank you for early interest and offer feedback, you’d get a bit of an earlier crack at a character. We’ll be adding roster of characters shortly, but for now you could choose to create one of the soon-to-be rosters or create your own concept. We also support OCs, if that is more of your interest.

PM me if interested.

Otherwise, look for our real ad to come out probably Thursday or Friday (unless the feedback is all catastrophic, haha!)

Thanks!

My previous post is made even more sad by my discovery of current events via finally logging into the Wyrdhold site.

sad minion

@Tez said in Prove Tez Wrong:

@Jennkryst That explains a lot about my household, including the faking coughing and ‘boo, you whore’ earlier today.

aheh aheh i’m sick 😞

You need Jesus

@Griatch Cool, thanks for the explanation. Yeah, I haven’t really come across any need for that in the kinds of games Ares is geared towards (more freeform, less immersive), but I can see where that could come in handy in other game types. Even in Ares, you could do it with some custom code in the desc plugin to dynamically adjust descs based on dynamic criteria, it’s just not built in.

@tsar said in Your Latest Batch of (Silly) Drama:

@dvoraen I’m about to have so many snails.

Does this mean you’re playing this game and are going to catch a lot of croblings snails?

@Pavel said in Liberation Drama!?:

This is a joke.

a close up of a man in a green elf costume with the words `` you sit on a throne of lies '' .

@Testament said in Plagiarism:

@Rathenhope

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Clearly you haven’t seen my Grindr matches.

@MisterBoring I could be wrong, but there’s no indication in the forum post that it was continuing after the initial ban.

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@Wizz Sounds about right.

Which means it is due for an x20 update on one of these games, who wants to step up and get weird?

@Arkandel said in Book Recs:

The Blacktongue Thief by Christopher Buehlman was, in my opinion, excellent.

The Daughter’s War by Buehlman came out this summer and is a prequel to The Blacktongue Thief. Very different than the Blacktongue Thief, but very good.

The Bright Sword by Lev Grossman. Another take on the Arthorian legend. If you enjoyed the Magicians you’ll probably like this

In almost ten years at my company, I have only ever gotten one bad review – one! out of almost twenty! – from a person who was my manager for all of two months. It was from someone who not only didn’t understand what my job was, but who regularly gave conflicting instructions in the same day, would ignore when I pointed this out to her, and then wondered why I couldn’t do both of these things that were in direct opposition to one another. This manager then proceeded to be mean to me for the next two years straight, all the way up until I moved to a different subdivision, and still tries to pull my current boss into almost everything I work on that she’s involved in.

Today she was forced to acknowledge that my work is fast, thoughtful, and high quality despite being related to a request that is urgent, complex, and so confusing to convey to our audience that we need spreadsheets of who gets what messaging, when, and from whom.

And she had to say the nice thing in front of an entire committee.

Including my boss.

win

@Pavel said in Admin Accountability:

All backstories usually start with “I was born” which is enough of a tragedy in itself.

truth

My gut reaction was to say that I’d prefer people be able to delete threads.

But, having missed the thread in question that I guess started this whole conversation, I have actually come around to thinking that threads should not be deleted.

Because it really bothers me that I don’t know which of you assholes were being assholes to a new game runner and I’ve been deprived of my opportunity to adjust my perceptions of you.

Godzilla Minus One was the live-action Grave of the Fireflies/Kaiju film mashup I never knew I needed in life.

It’s wonderful but also a gut punch.

It’s a privilege that can often feel like a punishment. I’ve done everything from applications to building to plot master to headwiz and I love, LOVE seeing people having fun and getting involved in things. I loved doing apps too, not only to help people really get what they were going for, but I think I called every problem player we ever had from their initial application/reaction to being asked to tweak things.

But it’s work. And I don’t know what’s popular now, it seems to flip flop back and forth, but I was always a firm believer in if you became staff you didn’t get XP for the stuff you ran. You could participate in things with your PCs and get XP, but unlike how PRP or volunteer GMs could be rewarded, that incentive went away when you ran things with your staffbit and you shouldn’t be running things on your PC at that point. The real reward was getting buy in from other players and getting them involved! And of course being able to dig into people’s sheets or backgrounds or plot notes or metaplot outlines or whatever that weren’t available to the general public.

While dealing with problem players is never, ever fun and no matter how hard you try there’s always going to be people that think you’re treating them unfairly, I still lean that it’s more privilege. It’s just the best feeling to entertain a grid full of players who keep coming back for more of your stories. To know that people are enjoying themselves and see them growing their own stories from seeds you threw out there or chasing a mystery that you put in a post one day that no one noticed for months. It’s just fun and when you have the time and bandwidth for it, worth the headaches that come with it.

@Pavel said in Echoes of the Past: Problem Players:

@Aria said in Echoes of the Past: Problem Players:

‘A close up of a man with a mustache and a suit.’

Fair True GIF

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