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MU Peeves Thread
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@mietze said in MU Peeves Thread:
I don’t think it’s wrong to log in primarily because you want to maintain social contacts with the people you enjoy the company of.
This. We have a few players who, well, frankly don’t actually play. They’re active participants in the community all the same, just not in the classic sense. Nothing wrong with that.
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@Wizz said in MU Peeves Thread:
MU*dom is such a tiny corner of the larger RP hobby, and it’s easy to forget that p. much a bajillion other formats exist that not only will very likely scratch that itch if you just give them a chance, but might even come to be more enjoyable in some ways.
I’ve had to admit to myself repeatedly, and honestly as recently as this week, that I don’t actually want to play or even run a MU*. The way prose flows in the MU* format doesn’t actually engage me and I don’t feel like I’m getting the necessary return on my time investment.
What I want is to run RPGs on a regular cadence with a reliable pool of players. My joy is in building a premise that sparks creative engagement, figuring out what players are trying to achieve with the characters they’ve created, and then delivering experiences that allow them to realize those desires in ways both expected and surprising.
I’ve tried many different formats of games over the years and MU* came closest, but I know I’m still not as into it as many are for the format itself. Maybe the exact thing that I need doesn’t yet exist.
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Could be RL could be MU peeves, but when you start up an old laptop looking for something and it auto-opens your MUSH client and tries to automatically log in to a game you no longer play at while you frantically try to hit cancel.
This has happened to me more than once. I need to stop having things auto connect. Sorry person playing that roster now, I wasn’t trying to hack you I swear!
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I have had huge success with using mush as a platform alongside Fantasy Grounds for stat and sheet stuff, with a reliable group of players for an OTT game. We don’t have anything running right now but the online tabletop model (schedule game sessions, everyone show up at the same time) might do what you’re looking for.
the entity previously known as Sunny
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@IoleRae said in MU Peeves Thread:
I have had huge success with using mush as a platform alongside Fantasy Grounds for stat and sheet stuff, with a reliable group of players for an OTT game. We don’t have anything running right now but the online tabletop model (schedule game sessions, everyone show up at the same time) might do what you’re looking for.
When I’ve been able to keep a group going reliably we’ve used Roll20 and that’s been great, especially for the Blades in the Dark and Scum & Villainy games where there are some excellent interactive sheets available. The issue has been that folks those groups are of child-raising age or have otherwise busy lives, so not reliable or regular in availability.
I could start looking for open tables or try to assemble a game blind but that’s a very daunting proposition. A big advantage of MU* games is that you get plenty of time to meet and vet other players before you start devoting the time investment of GMing.
tldr; Sounds like I need to find another way to expand the pool of players I can draw from
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@shit-piss-love said in MU Peeves Thread:
The issue has been that folks those groups are of child-raising age or have otherwise busy lives, so not reliable or regular in availability.
Yeah, there’s no getting around this, unfortunately. You want people with other things going on in their lives (way less headache and drama than with the nolifers), but that makes it hard for scheduling. We could really never do more than two sessions a month, and I rarely had everybody at the table we had scheduled for it. This was the same as with my meatspace tabletop game though too, so I think that’s just how it works.
the entity previously known as Sunny
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@IoleRae said in MU Peeves Thread:
@shit-piss-love said in MU Peeves Thread:
The issue has been that folks those groups are of child-raising age or have otherwise busy lives, so not reliable or regular in availability.
Yeah, there’s no getting around this, unfortunately. You want people with other things going on in their lives (way less headache and drama than with the nolifers), but that makes it hard for scheduling. We could really never do more than two sessions a month, and I rarely had everybody at the table we had scheduled for it. This was the same as with my meatspace tabletop game though too, so I think that’s just how it works.
The solution is obviously just to sabotage my friends lives so that they have more time to play make believe games.
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@shit-piss-love said in MU Peeves Thread:
@IoleRae said in MU Peeves Thread:
@shit-piss-love said in MU Peeves Thread:
The issue has been that folks those groups are of child-raising age or have otherwise busy lives, so not reliable or regular in availability.
Yeah, there’s no getting around this, unfortunately. You want people with other things going on in their lives (way less headache and drama than with the nolifers), but that makes it hard for scheduling. We could really never do more than two sessions a month, and I rarely had everybody at the table we had scheduled for it. This was the same as with my meatspace tabletop game though too, so I think that’s just how it works.
The solution is obviously just to sabotage my friends lives so that they have more time to play make believe games.
LOL, yeah.
My actual advice is to pad your numbers; if you need 6 players to have a good time, schedule 10. Setup the game so “between sessions” the characters are doing something that means they can be left in town / at camp / doing something else when they don’t show up.
Make the adjustments on the game side, rather than the player-finding side.
the entity previously known as Sunny
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@IoleRae said in MU Peeves Thread:
LOL, yeah.
My actual advice is to pad your numbers; if you need 6 players to have a good time, schedule 10. Setup the game so “between sessions” the characters are doing something that means they can be left in town / at camp / doing something else when they don’t show up.
Make the adjustments on the game side, rather than the player-finding side.
This is good advice. I have tried this once however in the past and what happened was, of course, now everyone was regularly available and 8 people at the table was just too much. Can’t win!
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@IoleRae I used to use Dahan’s Saga Edition code to help run in-person tabletop Star Wars games. It was great for leveling up, creating NPCs, etc.
And then life found a way… to screw up scheduling.
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i hate that this thread is just endless scroll and i bet there’s a setting to make things paginate but also i’d rather post a gripe about it
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@hellfrog said in MU Peeves Thread:
i hate that this thread is just endless scroll and i bet there’s a setting to make things paginate but also i’d rather post a gripe about it
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@shit-piss-love Oh thank god, bless you
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Wusses. TAKE IT ALL AT ONCE rawr!!
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I don't know what I'm doing. Poke at Seven Nations sevennations.aresmush.com port 2021
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@Testament I’ve been on a roll today.
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Hey, asshole* in the game that looks for new names on WHO and then slides into private messages with a bunch of nonsense, followed by ‘sorry if I seem flirty’…
Just. Fucking. Don’t.
It’s easy enough to finger you* and see that your* PC has been on grid a million years yet is somehow MUCH smaller than my two day old one, that they have attained zero promotions in their organizations, and together with this low-effort ‘trawling the newbie pool for TS’ fishing expedition, the lack of effort visible in your* shit spelling, grammar and punctuation just makes it a hundred times more puzzling and infuriating that you* expect this to fucking work.
About the only redeeming quality you* showed was in not flipping the fuck out (as expected) when I told you* to fuck off with that shit, but the fact that you* get to be a slimy shit and I’m the one that has to worry about being harassed off this game by yet another incel or incel-adjacent fuckstick still pisses me off.
*Not aimed at anybody here, none of you would do this. I just needed to vent.
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@eye8urcake I have no idea which game this was, obviously – but please drop a note to the admins on it. That kind of behaviour is something I’d definitely not want to see on mine but if no one ever tells, there’s no way for the admins to know that it’s happening.
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@L-B-Heuschkel I did, I’m just still pissed off people are still so fucking dense as to do this at all.
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@eye8urcake man I feel like i know five of these guys.
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