@thrax said in Numetal/Retromux:
When Staff came to speak to her she did not hide, nor keep information from them. The thing I wonder is how can they ban someone for avoiding conflict from someone known to be a problem. Yes she did hide herself, but is that in itsself worth a full gameban?
Hiding yourself from players you have a no contact with in order to RP with them is something I think deserves a gameban, regardless of how open you are with staff.
It really feels like Ganymede has just decided to let Derp drive it into the ground out of some need to avoid losing face from reversing a decision.
Well, I’m reducing my MSB activity to lurking now. Gany just basically said that the only person who needed to be apologized to on MSB for what happened was Derp.
I get two things from reading stuff from this thread.
That I definitely am not the target audience for Lords & Ladies roleplay.
That Arx, even with all of it’s trouble throughout its history, is a pretty good example of ‘doing it right’ in our hobby.
Congrats to all you Arx players and staff for doing cool stuff.
@Trashcan said in AI In Poses:
“I don’t want to RP with GenAI because it’s not very good” is not going to age well as a position.
I think the better position is “I don’t want to RP with GenAI because I’m here to RP with real people.”
@Cygnus said in The 3-Month Players:
Without PVP acting as a failsafe, these players often cause games to fail because no one can stand not being able to meaningfully stand up to the bully.
The failsafe against toxic players should be staff action. Going PVP just because a player is toxic seems toxic in it’s own right.
@Pacha said in Empire Discussion Thread:
My assumption (perhaps false!) is that when opening a game one wants to develop a large and diverse base of players.
I feel like we’re reaching a point where new gamerunners are going to focus more on just running the game they want to run rather than running a game that attracts a large crowd.
Starting a new thread, for a new year.
First up, and this one hit me hard, David Lynch, legendary director of such weirdness as Eraserhead, Twin Peaks, and the original 1980s version of Dune.
Please stop. If you actually care, stop, step away, and come back in a few days or even a week or two. You’re making yourself look bad with each new post.
@somasatori Keep this up and people are going to expect you to start a game. 
@Yam said in Bad Stuff Happening IC:
I think negative bleed is less of a problem than someone just being a butt about things.
I sort of disagree with this, but I think it’s because different people and groups handle negative bleed differently.
Some circles take negative bleed and resolve it in a healthy manner, so it’s not a big problem.
Other groups (including a few major LARP organizations I can think of) seem to delight in using negative bleed to drive perceived rivals away to make sure their characters are dominant in all situations.
@Solastalgic said in Bad Stuff Happening IC:
I’m still also susceptible to bleed, but I can recognize it and do what I need to do to counter it.
It took me a long time to realize that the positive emotional stuff I get from RP I enjoy is also bleed. Bleed, in my opinion, regardless of what form it takes, is only bad if you don’t have a healthy way to manage it and the expectations it can create in a person. From what I’ve seen doing RP in various forms for 30 years, too much ‘positive’ bleed can also lead to some negative behaviors (usually in the form of someone going to deep into Mary Sue / Gary Stu territory).
When I have bleed, I usually don’t try to just stop it or counter it, I usually ask myself, “How can I take this and use it to inform the direction of the story going forward?” and “How can my bleed help me strengthen my RP?”
I put a lot of stock in using improv techniques to mitigate bleed in the middle of scenes too. If I play with a “Yes, And” mentality, I usually don’t feel as much bleed as I would if I’m trying to control more of the scene other than my character’s responses to the fiction the others create.
@Ominous said in Bad Stuff Happening IC:
Everyone is John Dread,
You didn’t put a comma between Everyone is John and Dread and I immediately started looking for a strange new hybrid of two really cool games.
James Ransone, actor in It, The Wire, and Generation Kill
In my local tabletop circle (which also includes one former LARP group), we sort of developed the “Are You Sure?” policy. Any time a PC would take an action that could feasibly result in bad stuff coming down the pipeline to them, the GM in question would say, “I must ask officially, Are You Sure?”
This was an official OOC signal in many games over the last 20 years that a PC was about to traipse into danger, and possibly wouldn’t come out of it, or at least not come out the way they went in. It’s honestly saved on a lot of upset and bleed over the years, and it’s something I’ll continue to use as I GM in the future.
It’s super frustrating when people do things that should only result in something negative happening to their characters only for them to throw an OOC fit and ask for a retcon or no consequences at all.
I’m all for consent, but in an RP environment, it has to be tempered with an understanding that sometimes a person’s character might take actions that have to result in consequences regardless of consent.
In my notes for my hypothetical game I run in the future, one of the game policies is going to reinforce that, but I don’t quite have a wording for it yet. For example, the character Benjamin willingly robs the local bank, and in the process gets spotted by multiple witnesses and a camera. The player of Benjamin, per that policy, has pre-consented to any logical consequences of that robbery (trouble with the law, potential ending of the characters story due to interacting with the law and going to jail or being killed while resisting arrest, being a fugitive, damage to their reputation for being a thief, etc.).
@Trashcan said in AI In Poses:
“I don’t want to RP with GenAI because it’s not very good” is not going to age well as a position.
I think the better position is “I don’t want to RP with GenAI because I’m here to RP with real people.”
I had heard about this (well, that there was going to be a Thundercats TTRPG) and desperately hoped it wasn’t going to use 5e.
@Wizz said in Celebrities We've Lost 2025:
People Mag willing to just jump on that conclusion within hours seems pretty irresponsible unless their sources are like…the son himself, so. still taking that with a small grain of salt. enormously tragic either way, those two were absolute legends and it makes me heartsick.
Well, he’s been arrested for the murder this morning.