I’ve mentioned elsewhere that this game has sort of acted as a temporary replacement for MU*ing for me.

You get the full experience. Really!

• Gale: Banned from another well-known large game for alleged sex-pest behavior. He’s on his last chance here. Oh shit, it’s your first night in camp and he’s already paging you. Oh, he’s just doing so to tell you about his cat. That’s charming.

• Lae’Zel: Resident combat twink and self-appointed antagonist player, claims she does it for “roleplay reasons.” Exceedingly unpleasant to deal with IC’ly at first but surprisingly willing to deal with consequences and more of a collaborative roleplayer than you think. If you bother to scene with her.

• Wyll: Current Wyll grabbed this character on roster, isn’t really feeling it. People were polarized about the last Wyll, but staff booted him. Nobody talks about why.

• Shadowheart: She’s super chill but stoned all the time, might not respond to pages for days. Is async ok? She sure hopes so. Gets very excited when she discovers pics of her PB with different hair.

• Karlach: Everyone loves Karlach. It’s kind of unfair, she apped a little late after the main core of active players and missed out on some of the big plots and character ties, plus her main arc with Wyll got thrown for a loop when he got rostered. She posts a lot of great vignettes.

• Astarion: He’s an edgelord who already got warned once but seems genuine about trying to be better. Also he’s one of those guys who transfers the same character from MU* to MU* but somehow nobody notices. At least he seems self-aware.

• Halsin: Inoffensive guy who doesn’t get in the way for the most part, but isn’t really active. One of those people who apped a giant dude whose stats don’t make any sense. Also, he’s clearly just here for the TS.

• Minthara: Sure she died by falling down a pit but that’s ok, her player has a million copy-paste alts just like her. She’ll try to get you into a TS scene but it’s super-creepy.

• Jaheira: The legacy player from Alpha who’s just obsessed with getting their old alpha buddy (Minsc) back. Everyone else has moved on. Every conversation involves referencing a bunch of shit and people from ages ago.

• Minsc: Hasn’t MU*ed in years, Jaheira’s incessant pressure and his own frequent drinking habits convinced him to log back on, is surprised he’s having so much fun. It’s been so long the hamster schtick seems fresh again.

Just expressing a sigh of frustration at dancing around publicly asking for RP on a game when there are one or two people I just cannot fucking stand (not going to be spilling any tea here, sorry, my beefs are my own business) who seem to be omnipresent when I do so, and worse, tied up with a number of people I want to play with.

After a while it just gets fatiguing and this feels like was somewhat easier in the days of big games and lots of them (I fully welcome all accusations of rose-tinted glasses though har har).

Ok, back to Fat Bear Week.

Hands up if you feel like you’ve just hit a complete wall with social RP (and don’t get me started about bar RP)?

This isn’t really a “particular character” or “particular game” scenario, either. It’s in general.

Every time someone makes a reference to something I don’t recognize and I have to remind them I never set foot on Arx and I have no idea what the fuck they’re talking about –

And then they try to explain with another Arx-related reference

@sao Looks like you too understand Tortie Madness

@oknow said in Star Wars Age of Alliances: Hadrix and Cujo:

WTF has this thread DONE to BMD.

Jaysus.

This little board is all grown up now

@Evilgrayson

My absolute hate-favorite of a werewolf experience was playing a Get of Fenris who was unapproved by a new staffer after six months on the grid because they realized the character was black.

This was before the PB days so you had to, y’know, read descs and I very neutrally described him as such. I also made zero issue of it in RP.

Somebody thought this was un-thematic.

Decades later I’m still fucking mad.

@De-Villefort

As you’re someone who shouted out James SA Corey I wanted to note that the setting of the Expanse (which by the way I FUCKING LOVE) is pretty much a raging dystopia.

Earth has been environmentally wrecked and suffers from crippling inequality even with the existence of a paltry UBI (this is even before certain things in the show/books that happen to Earth later).

Mars is…uh, like some mad mashup of Soviets and Texas. Not the best standard of living there but I admire the Martians for their sense of communalism.

The Belters? Hahahahaha, hello exploitation.

This seting provides a shitty experience for a large number of people.

@junipersky

We only have the one. But she takes up the space of about three cats, in some intangible way.

Sure, she’s cute when she’s sleeping

Maybe Christmas decorations were bad idea

Markings inside and out

Sometimes she bullies her sister, too.

@Artemis said in MU Peeves Thread:

@helvetica Thank you. I checked out one game where characters were not required/encouraged to have descs, just pbs, and I was like …um I guess I’ll see myself out.

Yeah, I started in the pre-PB days and frankly, I have an easier time cranking out descs than I do finding PBs and collecting/tweaking pics, etc. No disrespect to people who feel the opposite.

I like reading descs if they’re not horrible but I also get that they can feel like an unfun chore and hurdle in the character app process.

Also. some people just don’t feel inspired to write them in the traditional “here is a paragraph or two” manner and just want to fill in the bare essentials and necessary info. I think that’s just fine, someone’s physical presence can be conveyed in a bunch of different ways.

Like Mietze mentioned above, I’ve gotten into the habit of just posing the clothing someone is wearing in-scene which I find less maddening than screwing around with outfit code, etc.

This a bit of an aside, so apologies in advance.

I get that branding is what it is and common parlance is what it is, but I truly wish things like LLMs and chatbots weren’t referred to as “AI.”

It’s like…calling a cheeselog a dildo. Yeah, they’re both vaguely similar in shape but confusing form for function is a terrible idea.

@Zephyr

Imagine taking this iconic sandbox people from multiple generations grew up on and deliberately extracting as much fun from it as possible.

It’s like a time gated monetized grind but with the added layer of absurdity stemming from the fact that nobody’s making money. What the fuck?

Roger Corman.

Still, 98 is a victory lap, so, hail Roger Corman.

@Kestrel

AND THE RED DAWN

As far as Dune goes, there was recently one of those one of those Modiphius rpg-settings-in-a-box for the tabletop set that was pretty good, even if it acknowledged a lot of the hated Brian Herbert canon in-setting. But whatever, that stuff worked fine for fluff (I bought the bundle).

Dune is absolutely made for Lords and Ladies in SPAEC if someone is into it. Hell, I am into it, I’m just well aware that

1. I am completely unable to create and launch a game by myself

2. I am a seething asshole who hates people and probably couldn’t work with anyone these days.

As far as Cyberpunk goes, who knows? I really never see cyberpunk unless it has orcs and dwarves and…meh. Shadowrun (despite the HBS crpgs being excellent) never really appealed to me.

Speaking of Modiphius, they also cranked out a fucking Homeworld RPG that I’m dying to get my eyes on.

@STD

My character has 12 dots to roll

CRITICAL FAILURE!

@Testament said in MU Peeves Thread:

Not having enough time to finish a fucking application.

Spending 3 weeks in chargen and realizing I just don’t have it in me (plus Ghost of Tsushima is finally hitting PC next month along with Homeworld 3, and it’s a non-zero chance I’ll be sucked into one of these).

Not really the same thing, but…

@Testament

I honestly lost the plot on this gods know how many posts ago but what I’m left with is a legitimate question —

Can you send clerical heads rolling down the stairs IC’ly in response to this? Because if the answer is yes it’s at least a bit of shameless wish fulfillment one can indulge in (as opposed to the real world where creeping theocracy is a thing you’re going to be stuck with in a lot of places).