MU Peeves Thread

Third Eye

The lack of OC-only Superhero games frustrates me.

It always feel like the audience for supes games is so much players who want to play the comics characters, which sucks as someone who doesn’t but does think the world-saving adventures and powersets would theoretically be fun.

Rinel

@Sammich You might have luck asking around the MASKS community—it’s a popular rules-lite ttrpg about being a superhero, and I’m sure there are folks there who have similar interests. Idk if there’s a MU* that does what you want, but there’s probably decent forum/discord RP.

GF

@Sammich I’d play on such a game.

SpaceKhomeini

@Third-Eye said in MU Peeves Thread:

@Sammich said in MU Peeves Thread:

The lack of OC-only Superhero games frustrates me.

It always feel like the audience for supes games is so much players who want to play the comics characters, which sucks as someone who doesn’t but does think the world-saving adventures and powersets would theoretically be fun.

Yup, I am intensely with you on this. Plus — picking up a pregenned history and personality just feels a little bit like work to me. This is probably why I’ve never really tried too hard to go roster somewhere.

helvetica

@Third-Eye I’m a way bigger fan of OC superhero games (which is where we first met!). I’ve only ever stomached FC/OC games out of necessity because I like having superpowers that much.

And I legit dislike when game runners throw the whole kitchen sink in. Pick a lane. None of this DC+Marvel nonsense.

Roz

@helvetica said in MU Peeves Thread:

@Third-Eye I’m a way bigger fan of OC superhero games (which is where we first met!). I’ve only ever stomached FC/OC games out of necessity because I like having superpowers that much.

i hate to tell you this, but x-factor was FC/OC. just that a lot of the FC options from the x-men movies weren’t really accessible due to when the game was set.

unless you met third-eye on a TOTALLY DIFFERENT GAME THAN I THOUGHT in which case you can ignore me

helvetica

@Roz well as long as you hated to tell me this

Roz

@helvetica said in MU Peeves Thread:

@Roz well as long as you hated to tell me this

i HATED it. every moment. i just couldn’t live with myself.

Testament

My only experience I’ve had with FC/OC super based games is the fact that OC supers tend to get overlooked compared to FCs. Which sure, I suppose that’s to be expected. But at the same time a purely OC super game would be pretty fun. I suppose it’s a me thing, being wholly unable to play an already established character. And I’ve noticed it specifically only happens on super games.

GF

Just saying, Arx doesn’t allow you to app OCs, Lord of the Rings characters, and/or Game of Thrones characters.

Arkandel

@GF said in MU Peeves Thread:

Just saying, Arx doesn’t allow you to app OCs, Lord of the Rings characters, and/or Game of Thrones characters.

?

I figure it’s sarcasm but I don’t understand the context.

Snackness

Solstice

@Testament

Have noticed this as well. It turns into less RP and more elaborate collaborative fanfiction, and it’s a bit tiring if that’s not what you signed up for (or are an OC.)

helvetica

@Solstice said in MU Peeves Thread:

@Testament

less RP and more elaborate collaborative fanfiction

I feel that

Testament

Self peeve after the posts from earlier this week in this thread. As a GM, I’m often asked to do plenty of one-on-one scenes, largely because I have an entire Excel file dedicated to every character’s personal plot and I enjoy doing those kind of things. So pretty often I’m in a couple of private scenes at a time, be it on my staff bit or an NPC.

And now I look at the active scenes on my game and I get mildly self-conscious, as I have little desire to drive potential players away because of how the scene lists look.

tsar

@Testament said in MU Peeves Thread:

And now I look at the active scenes on my game and I get mildly self-conscious, as I have little desire to drive potential players away because of how the scene lists look.

Hi, I’m back. Are you having fun? Does your playerbase seem happy, drama-free-ish, and active by what you’d consider active?

Don’t let brain weasels weasel their way in.

Pyrephox

@Testament Honestly, never worry about running one-on-one scenes for PCs as a staff member. That’s amazing! Keep it up!

And just because people have peeves, doesn’t necessarily mean it’s a dealbreaker for them. I actually enjoy seeing all the active scenes, even the ones I’m not in and couldn’t join if I wanted to, because I know I might get some fun-to-read logs out of it, and when other people are RPing, then sometimes it means I get cool scenes that touch on those things, and then I feel like a part of a truly overarching narrative.

Testament

@tsar Oh I’m overthinking it, I’ll make no allusions about it. I admit I’m not the biggest fan of seeing a large number of private scenes, because there is a perspective that it might be exclusionary.

That said, the reason why I have all of my one on one staff based scenes is usually because it relates to a character’s personal story, and it’s up to the player if and when they want to reveal anything publicly.

There a lot of these scenes I have in my unshared scene section and I’m hoping that, eventually, I’ll be able to share them openly with players that are okay with me doing so.

hellfrog

I had no feelings about seeing the private scene lists in Ares until I was on a game where I felt pretty sure a couple of people were trying to make me uncomfortable. Then, seeing them in 90% of the scenes on the game went a good way towards that goal, because I sure did feel there was probably no escape.

helvetica

@hellfrog Word, I have quietly left a new game after experiencing someone who made me uncomfortable dominating the public Ares scenes list. That’s def been a benefit.