@hellfrog said: @Tez this is actually the secret. If you want people to want more rp with you, rp curiosity about their characters. That’s it, that’s literally all it takes. This usually yields good results for my PCs over the years. I have one character right now that is doing such and everyone is suspicious of them for some reason. There are other characters that are as nice, curious, etc. as them but for whatever reason, other PCs are suspicious of mine only. I’ve been absolutely amused over it OOCly but my PC is just confused why they can’t make friends.

@Gashlycrumb Jeremy Allen White is Gene Wilder if the chocolate factory were a cartel front.

Ahahahhaa… my robotics team made it to the state level again. Which is amazing and I’m so proud of them!!! And I’m totally so freaking tired x.x. I was looking forward to having my Wednesday and Friday nights back!!

tis not, alas. At least not in the state that I would like it to be. I’ve been studying for boards, moved to a new city, and recently got a new job, my partner lost their job, then got another job – anyhow, my time has been abysmal in terms of hobbies. I had to shut down the droplets that I was using to save money, though I have the backups for them and intend to get back into it once things settle. Though I dunno, maybe it would be usable. Someone got my old evennia Cyberpunk code working and is (or at least was last I checked many months ago) running a game set in Night City in 2077, so anything is possible with the indomitable human spirit

I’m still going through the approval process here but I thought it was nice that the initial feedback I got was helpful. I’m familiar with COFD but not Deviant itself so it was appreciated that I got ‘hey things mostly check out but this needs to be changed and here’s some suggestions’ rather than ‘shit’s wrong, fix it’, which is the response I’ve gotten from some games semi-recently.

Zeb will be on Philadelphia Gaming Expo Friday Night Live, November 6, 9:30 pm Eastern.

Thanks for the kind words! We’re happy to answer questions about the game as they come up, and we’ll try to check in here regularly. We did want to talk a little bit about the grid style. We’ve actually avoided doing a street-by-street geographic reproduction of the city; instead, the boroughs that are built – we’ve covered a little over half of the thirty-two-plus-one so far, as @Evilgrayson mentioned – are abstracted into regions that get represented on the grid as rooms. “Battersea,” for example, is a single room (one of a half-dozen that make up all of Wandsworth), and RP-able spaces in Battersea (like the Power Station, and sometimes individual neighborhoods when warranted) are linked off it. So, when you want to go from the Oxford and Cambridge Club to Harrods and don’t want to use +hangout/jump, you don’t go along Pall Mall to St James’ Street to Piccadilly to the A4 to the Brompton Road to Harrods: you just go from St James’ to Knightsbridge to Harrods. The idea is to make London navigable from the sort of high level view you get from, e.g., Google Maps, rather than requiring knowledge of the city and its streets and landmarks. Additionally, boroughs become more abstracted (get fewer rooms) the further they are from the city center. e.g., Hillingdon – though the second largest borough by land area – has half the rooms that Westminster does. Because Westminster has a lot more of what people think of as “London” in it than Hillingdon does. The great majority of what’s built is restaurants, clubs, museums, etc. – things that get cataloged in +hangouts. We love poking around grids and we’ve put some surprises in for people who do, but you can get by just fine never using anything but +hangout/jump and +meet. As far as an in-game map, stay tuned! We’re looking at how we can provide something that’s helpful but not overwhelming.

@Testament I generally am unaffected by celebrity deaths— But I grew up watching TNG with my father. Patrick Stewart’s passing has made me depressed.

T’Challa the bobcat has returned to the wildlife sanctuary where he lives.

@Raistlin Obligatory ‘we already have this at home’ joke.

Three months in and we have a robust cast of characters! Along with multiple current events and plots on-going, Mounts are being introduced to the system and a new planet will open up on the grid with a shorter sub-plot as an introduction. But players aren’t just limited to what planets are listed in ‘Locations’. It is a living grid that is effected by the playerbase. Things like the Cron Drift Asteroid Belt has been added due to the actions of the Partisans, for example. The galaxy is your playground. Here are just some of the current events and still many more to come! Changing of the Guard - Tavren Pashe, the founder and leader of the Coalition, has been confirmed MIA presumed KIA. With his last act as a freedom fighter taking place on Beldarone, the Coalition and their allies are facing a mystery of what happened to him, why, and if they can fix what is broken. But with the Beldaroni being naturally isolationist, progress has been slow and stymied. Rising Tensions - After numerous counter-attacks against Imperial movement on Daiyu, the Partisans have successfully moved the needle when it comes to sabotage and aggression. Several missions have put a dent in the Empire’s grip on Daiyu, but have also brought on unwanted attention and scrutiny. They are currently assembling a hidden asteroid base in the Cron Drift, preparing to further escalate the battlefronts with stolen and salvaged starfighters in order to take their efforts to the skies and beyond Daiyu itself. The Houses Always Win - On Beldarone, the ruling Houses each have a stake in the level of Imperial occupation. For House Draugvist, it has proven to be lucrative so long as the Empire doesn’t go digging too deeply. An impending audit risks digging up an illegal smuggling ring of ionite, and Talon Karrde has seized on the opportunity for unknown reasons. He has hired on a group of agents tasked with heading the audit off at the pass and steering blame away from House Draugvist. The reward for such promises to be worth it’s weight in illegal goods. Daiyu Politics - Nils Creville has been the Imperial-installed governor of Daiyu since the planet’s seizure soon after the formation of the Empire. However, with the recent uptick of resentment and violent ‘protests’ (read: attacks) from the populace, Moff Pilter has installed a Deputy Governor to rein it all in. This man is an unknown player in Daiyu’s political theater, and his appearance spells trouble for those who oppose the Empire… and for Nils’s job security. Imperial Outpost - In further response to the increase of civilian unrest and seditious behaviors, Moff Pilter (overseer of the Hocatar Sector) has petitioned for a bolstering of Imperial forces at the garrison in Nevaris. Further, the construction of an outpost outside of Kessivar has been ordered to be built. This outpost, if allowed to be constructed, will tighten the Empire’s grip on the planet. But to attack the construction or to sabotage its progress is likely to make waves, as well.

@Dreampipe I read this today and just the ‘end of an era’ aspect of it is a huge bummer, and I feel for all the people who lost their jobs, of course. Part of me is a little relieved at Mass Effect 5’s cancellation, though, I’ve gotta admit. I didn’t really want to see whatever the Saudi Wealth Fund Approved version of ME was going to be. The legacy of ME and DA (and BioWare’s other games) is still mostly intact for me on an emotional level, and maybe that’s the best we were gonna get at this point.

@dvoraen said: I still feel like I can’t manage something “professional” level in this regard to save my life. Reminder that technically the only difference between an amateur and a professional is you pay a professional for their work; it does not by any means need to be GOOD.

As mentioned here: I have.a number of cousins Dave. https://www.peacetigers.com/

@Deviant JK Rowling has claimed that she came up with the whole ‘wizard school’ idea independently of Yolen (in 1991), Pratchett (1983), Murphy (1974) and LeGuin (1968). LeGuin said that her own Roke Island wizard’s school was inspired by T.H. White having mentioned the folkloric wizard school Domdaniel in The Sword In the Stone (1938). Domdaniel is known to English speakers from One Thousand and One Arabian Nights. But Rowling says it’s coincidence, and the other authors have, wisely, not bothered to argue. [image: gotta-love-pete-v0-kct6x1ip5mfe1.jpeg?width=1080&crop=smart&auto=webp&s=3edd398fbc7ddd0d5df9c4779674afe7dc431980]