Multisphere pressure

[Noraaa]

I think some of this is also our storyteller ADHD coming out, and getting distracted with shiny new opportunities without having the discipline to understand we’ve taken too much onto our plates and cannot possibly deliver on the promises our brains make to us when we’re having all of these cool shower thoughts.

I am immensely guilty of this myself.

[Pavel]

@Noraaa I don’t have the ST ADHD but I definitely have the character concept ADHD, wherein a character concept kicks down my door at three am and screams in my half-awoken face “HELLO YOU ARE NOW OBSESSED WITH BRIAN FUCKING BLESSED FOR NO REASON HERE MAKE A CHARACTER AND MAKE IT FIT WOD.”

[somasatori]

@Pavel said in Multisphere pressure:

@Noraaa I don’t have the ST ADHD but I definitely have the character concept ADHD, wherein a character concept kicks down my door at three am and screams in my half-awoken face “HELLO YOU ARE NOW OBSESSED WITH BRIAN FUCKING BLESSED FOR NO REASON HERE MAKE A CHARACTER AND MAKE IT FIT WOD.”

Unfortunately I have both ST and concept ADHD. And a condition on the second is a sense of immediate excitement as soon as someone brings up something cool.

I was thinking of ways to trick myself if I were to run a game again, such as having multiple “spheres” as being groups of factions with the same template; Hunter conspiracies and compacts grouped together, are an example, or building up a great deal of story and PrP/staff support around specific Vampire Covenants, so you have your Invictus “sphere,” then your Ordo Dracul “sphere” and so on. Cognitive reframing around running MUSHes.

[Noraaa]

@somasatori said in Multisphere pressure:

@Pavel said in Multisphere pressure:

@Noraaa I don’t have the ST ADHD but I definitely have the character concept ADHD, wherein a character concept kicks down my door at three am and screams in my half-awoken face “HELLO YOU ARE NOW OBSESSED WITH BRIAN FUCKING BLESSED FOR NO REASON HERE MAKE A CHARACTER AND MAKE IT FIT WOD.”

Unfortunately I have both ST and concept ADHD.

YOU DON’T SAY

[somasatori]

@Noraaa said in Multisphere pressure:

YOU DON’T SAY

Shock and surprise of the decade~

[Pavel]

@somasatori said in Multisphere pressure:

Cognitive reframing around running MUSHes.

I don’t think you can CBT yourself into better MU design.

[Warma Sheen]

I also think the multisphere pull is MOAR alts, not just for themselves, but for others.

I can only ever play one character at a time, but I know many players who loved to just load up on alts. And in most cases it is mostly about odds of finding RP. The more spheres, the more alts. The more alts, the more chances at finding RP. I suspect… that some of them are looking for a “specific” type of RP. And the more alts you can get, the more chances you have of playing with and/or finding that specific type of RP.

Against that, all other concerns become less important.

In this community, people acting against their own self-interest is exceptionally common, unfortunately. Sure, they’d have a better chance with a game that’s healthy and thriving and not spread threadbare. But. You know. Logic.

[somasatori]

@Warma-Sheen said in Multisphere pressure:

I suspect… that some of them are looking for a “specific” type of RP.

The other meaning of the acronym “CBT”

[MisterBoring]

@somasatori said in Multisphere pressure:

The other meaning of the acronym “CBT”

Classic Battletech?

[Jennkryst]

@MisterBoring said in Multisphere pressure:

@somasatori said in Multisphere pressure:

The other meaning of the acronym “CBT”

Classic Battletech?

I regret that I was not paying attention to the forum, because I definitely was going to go there. STOMPY ROBUTTS!

[Wuff]

@Jennkryst said in Multisphere pressure:

@MisterBoring said in Multisphere pressure:

@somasatori said in Multisphere pressure:

The other meaning of the acronym “CBT”

Classic Battletech?

I regret that I was not paying attention to the forum, because I definitely was going to go there. STOMPY ROBUTTS!

[Jennkryst]

@Wuff