@Meg does a picture even count as a shortrel

@Meg less shortrels to update that way.

@junipersky said in Long or Short? Application Process!:

Descriptions can kiss my ass.

Just reuse the same description. Chances are no one will notice. I’ve even done it with multiple characters on the same game.

Unsurprisingly, I prefer a shorter application process. Bullet points are my friend. I function best when I can exit chargen with a skeleton of a character that fits the game and spent time playing them to actually flesh them out.

you all can make it past chargen? I have a couple of places I log into now and then out of habit but play… months.

Made if through chargen? Years.

If I stick around long enough to get invested (probably past that 3 month mark we talk about), I’m more likely than not to stick to the bitter end.

Heck, I still login to some games now and then that have been closed for 5+ (crap, 10+ now for one) years, just to see if there’s any activity. I’m not the only one that lurks about those graveyards either.

Be the drama you want to see

Ashkuri’s doodles are awesome. Characters, postcards, random drawing from an offhand comment I made as a joke. Good stuff if you get a chance to take them up on it.

If they’re dead you don’t need to do shortrels for them

So there is another SW MU out there that runs on Ares using FATE? I can’t speak to it other than that it exists. Doesn’t use the funny dice above though.

Pigeon Too Fat To Fly

There was nothing special or secret about the pigeon. This just reminded me of it.

Not that it relates to a character… but making some stupid comment and having it show up visualized as actual art shortly after was pretty awesome

No shame there. DeVito is a great actor, but just isn’t the same without the lekku

@Popes Having done this? Ares is by far the easiest.

Channeling is a challenge though. From what I found there were a few options that didn’t involve starting from scratch:

Tat was generous enough to let me use the code for Spirit Lake with her magic system implemented with FS3. Had to do some modification but worked pretty great. Can check with her on that.

Fate plugin for Ares. The Dresden Files RPG is Fate based and really easy to adapt the magic system to channeling.

If you really don’t like Ares but are on board with the Fate system? Somewhere on the internet may still be the Dresden File RPG code for Penn or TinyMUX that was used to run that Dresden Files MU I forgot the name, but was fully implemented and pretty slick. Edit: Dark Spires was the name of the MU. The runner of it was active that that other MU board place but I’m not sure if they are here. They may know where to get the code if you ask around.

@Popes I started to with… I don’t know what their name is here, but then I got mugged by real life and had to call it quits. Had most of the building and channeling stuff done too.

Someone definitely should though.

@Meg said in Your Latest Batch of (Silly) Drama:

(Actually, I just play CS2 instead.)

Does CS2 even have shortrels?

@Arkandel said in Book Recs:

The Blacktongue Thief by Christopher Buehlman was, in my opinion, excellent.

The Daughter’s War by Buehlman came out this summer and is a prequel to The Blacktongue Thief. Very different than the Blacktongue Thief, but very good.

The Bright Sword by Lev Grossman. Another take on the Arthorian legend. If you enjoyed the Magicians you’ll probably like this

@ten said in MU Peeves Thread:

I learned if there’s no live and organic aspect to my RP, it fizzles. I may as well write-write – bummer.

I’m taking this as async vs live? I’m think I’m one of the odd ducks that can be just as in the moment with an async when its my turn to pose as a live one.

This may be a sort of RP survival mechanism since having the time to do actual live RP is such a rarity though.

I think I only had a couple of scenes with Sidney, but always wondered what happened to that guy.

Would laze about and ignore plot with again. Glad to see you’re still kicking around

I have given serious thought recently to having ChatGPT or similar fill out chargen apps for me. I just can’t bring myself to do it. I’ll RP until I pass out but write a background? Going on month 4 and no progress.

@peasoup said in The Arx Secrets Thread:

I stopped poking at it because everyone told her not to

Maybe this was already a thing and I just missed it but I feel like secrets needed a big disclaimer telling you to ignore other players when they told you this.