Liberation Drama!?

[Gashlycrumb]

@Popes said in Liberation Drama!?:

@Jynxbox I mean, just because all that’s true, doesn’t mean she’s not doing it wrong. She removed Glabro as a form from Garou for christsakes. That’s asinine and probably REALLY fucking petty.

@Jynxbox I mean, just because that’s all true, doesn’t mean she’s not doing it wrong. She’s put characters where the players wouldn’t have them go. She’s ordered players to have their characters do certain things. She’s ignored players who say “My PC wouldn’t do that,” to those orders, and then weeks or months later insisted that the player agreed and yelled at them for not RPing that their PC did that. She’s fudged rules “just this time” to protect her chosen IC leaders from their mistakes. She’s responded to, ‘I have a plan to gain some real power in my faction, something that Leader can’t just take away,’ with, ‘No. You must be genuinely loyal to Leader or change factions.’ I think probably most players consider that stuff to be crossing a line, and it’s not what she wrote on the box.

[Alamias]

@Pavel Ah, no. I’m being serious when I say Liberation rewrote the game. It goes far beyond just some house rules. Like for instance, and this is just a couple examples for Werewolf:

Only Homids can only shift to Lupus and Crinos. Only Lupus can shift to Homid, Chrinos, and Hispo. There is no Glabro form.
All gifts have been rewritten into a new somewhat tabular ‘path’ system (based off W:TF tiers)
The way rage works was rebuilt.

It’s a totally different game than W:TA aside from theme.

Etc. There were changes to Vamp too in regards to Disciplines, adding new tiers…etc.

[Gashlycrumb]

@Alamias Yep. In small part it’s sorta sensible – more stuff to spend XP on, slows down those maxed out sheets.

Considering how frustrated players were that they couldn’t get +jobs handled or, y’know, do much, because their GM was too busy rewriting the game system, and how offputting it is to new players to join a game wanting to play WoD20 and find a rewrite, it probably wasn’t anything close to worth it. Unless you count it being fun for Sun to write as the most/only important bit.

[Pavel]

And I thought their ‘unique’ Directors, Producers, Whatevers system was weird.

[Muscle Car]

@Pavel As a former Producer, it’s interning sans benefits.

[MisterBoring]

@Muscle-Car said in Liberation Drama!?:

As a former Producer, it’s interning sans benefits.

There are benefits to being ‘Staff’ at Lib?

[Pavel]

@MisterBoring You get to entirely rewrite a mechanic to the benefit of one of your PCs.

This is a joke.

[MisterBoring]

@Pavel said in Liberation Drama!?:

This is a joke.

[Pavel]

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[Gashlycrumb]

LiberationMUSH: Announcements
Message: 1/69 Author: Siren Wed Sep 9 2026
Player Ban: Addison/Bartok 18:14:56

Hello everyone,

These are my least favorite posts to write, but I believe strongly in transparency throughout these high staff-escalation actions.

Today, the Liberation team made the difficult choice to permanently ban Addison and Bartok’s player from our game. This was not a decision made lightly, or easily. Addison was a motivated player, and both extremely knowledgeable and passionate about the game.

But on the opposite side of the coin of that passion, was also a series of problematic behaviors and interactions between staff and players alike. While it’s certainly not against the rules to have disagreements with the direction of the game, or staff’s decisioning, discussions with Addison would often turn volatile and personal, with him repeatedly ignoring our wishes to stop the discussion. They would also often be accompanied by personal insults, accusations, and an overall lack of respect. You are always welcome to share constructive criticism with the Staff of this game, and your Director, but it’s important to understand that sometimes, a staff member is just not going to agree with you. Taking ‘no’ for an answer, and making the decision yourself to stay or leave the game is the healthy response.

Furthermore, Addison’s behavior began to spill over into impacting other player experiences. In the past few months, I’ve received a number of reports about him discouraging fellow players from RP in private communications, and complaining so much about our direction that they didn’t want to log on. There’s nothing in the rules about complaining to one another. God knows, we all do it – but when those complaints begin to negatively impact those around you it is, again, the healthy decision to make the choice to stay or go.

Addison had been warned about all of these behaviors in the past. This has been a lengthy and difficult decision for us as a team that’s spanned multiple months, but in the end, we felt it was untenable and unsustainable for ourselves and the player base.

Please reach out to me if you have any questions or concerns. I’m always here to talk. Well, unless I’m on a work meeting, or somesuch.

Siren, Kraken, and Typhon

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Who has the tea?

[Wyrmsign]

@Gashlycrumb Honestly, not much tea to this one. Pretty much what it says on the tin. He was rude, abusive and confrontational to players and staff with no provocation for…years. The only surprise is that it took this long for him to finally hit the last straw and be shown the door.

[MisterBoring]

@Wyrmsign Likely he finally upset the wrong subset of people.

[Jumpscare]

@MisterBoring said:

@Wyrmsign Likely he finally upset the wrong subset of people.

It doesn’t necessarily have to be a single event. It can be the culmination of many smaller incidents over time. It happens that way more often than we probably think it does.

[Gashlycrumb]

@Wyrmsign Yeah, but not any more so than any of the other kewl kids. I supposed it had to be something spectacular. But maybe it’s more likely he just got his Kewl Kid card revoked and has been subjected to a standard.

[Juniper]

Aw man, I already microwaved my popcorn.