MU Peeves Thread
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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.
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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.
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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.
I draw things! http://www.mahaldoodles.com
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@crawfish but there’s only a couple with atrocious writing. I have thoughts on who it’s apt to be.
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@Taika I concur.
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I’m pretty bummed that I can’t find a game to just hang out on any more. Idk if it’s a change in game culture or a change in me or what, but I’m having to treat games like my D&D sessions, ie. it’s only worth logging in when there’s something scheduled that I’m interested in which happens once a week or so at best. Satisfying pickup RP is incredibly rare, very few people ask me to scene. I’m learning to adjust but I don’t like it.
