@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.

1. That I definitely am not the target audience for Lords & Ladies roleplay.

2. 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.

@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.

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.

@hobos

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.

Also: I can’t make anyone else on this forum switch topics from your dumpster fire of a character to the dumpster fire of Eddie and the people on Staff that did toxic shit to you. Mostly because you keep running back in here and throwing gasoline on your character dumpster fire and making it a much bigger, brighter spectacle than the other.

@Juniper said in Numetal/Retromux:

Most people want to be special in some way, sometimes tactfully and sometimes… not. I think we all get to have more fun when we’re not veering aggressively away from being “cringe”.

The vast majority of players in our hobby understand how to make unique special characters without trying their damnedest to drive it into everyone’s faces at 100 miles an hour.

June Lockhart, 100, famous for being the mom in Lassie and Lost In Space.

@somasatori I totally agree with this. Each character in the roster could have a set of links to the important world lore that drives their character to help people find what they need to know.

@somasatori said in General Video Game Thread:

I don’t really know 5e as much as Revised/20th but the Anarchs are effectively the Sabbat now?

So the quick run down is: The Camarilla lost some major cities (London & Vienna among others) and some major players (Hardestat the Younger and the entire Tremere Council) to Hunters, and the Sabbat quietly packed up their shit and went to fight monsters in the wilderness (quite literally) leaving only small packs of instigators behind to run guerrilla strikes on the Camarilla to funnel resources into the larger Sabbat operation. With the lack of focused Sabbat activity and the Camarilla crackdown on anyone not a member of the Ivory Tower, the Anarchs basically get treated like the Sabbat in a lot of cities, and they respond as one might expect (also they got reinforced by the Ministry / Followers of Set).

I look at it like this:

1. If someone builds a game and puts it up on a server, generally the game comes in one of two forms: a sandbox where the staff only exists to help people get through character creation and otherwise enforce OOC behavior rules, or a curated story where the staff exists to tell a specific main story involving all of the characters approved for play.
2. I don’t believe any staff (on either type of game) should advocate for everyone RPing with everyone being required. There’s plenty of OOC drama that exists between individual players across the hobby that trying to force that is going to be bad.
3. I do believe that staff on games with curated main stories are 100% correct in requiring all players to interface with said story regularly, and are totally allowed to, and should, boot anyone that tries their hardest to avoid that, as games with staff driven plots should be looking for players interested in participating in those plots over people just looking for a new place for their circle to play.
4. I do believe that staff should incentivize players opening up their RP circles as much as they feel comfortable in doing.
5. I do believe that there are circles of players who plant themselves on games with the sole intention of only RPing with their own circle and ignoring the entire rest of the game. Usually they’re harmless, but I have been witness to a few instances where it was 100% toxic. I think that has to be monitored to a certain extent and dealt with if it becomes apparent that they’re toxic. Usually these people are not interested in doing the work to give themselves a private space to RP in.

@RightMeow said in RPing with Everybody (or not):

I give you a server so you have to do what I say ranks right up there with the working spouse telling the homemaking spouse that they have no say to their identity.

Then why do games expect players to follow the rules?

Even though I’m pretty certain that L&L (and to a certain extent, roster) games aren’t my bag, there’s a certain part of me that wants to give this a try, mostly because I’d be getting in at the ground floor.

I’m very curious to how much they’re going to tap into the wide and wacky world of Mystara for the game, as the local setting seems pretty generic compared to the giant mish-mash of stuff that actually exists in Mystara (not to mention the second campaign setting conveniently tucked inside the planet).

While I don’t personally have time to play there, it does look like it scratches an itch created by the Venn diagram of OSR fans and Ares fans.

@somasatori All 2e merits are done. Everything was reorganized, I’ve updated the lookup_data.py to reflect the new groupings. If you want to drag stuff over and test it against main, feel free. I’m going to start working on the legacy merits next.

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

Good, sane, active. Pick two.

It’s the triangle of MU staff.

@somasatori I forked your github to work on the merit dictionaries without causing you to get millions of notifications from git.

If you want to peek at what I’m up to, my most recent work is in https://github.com/wagenbach/PyReach-Revision/tree/main/world/cofd/meritsredux. When I’m done, I’ll let you know and you can merge the fork back into the main if you want, or just copy files over individually.