To those of us mostly in the WOD/COFD sphere, this is kind of like when Sundancer told us Polk wasn’t really that bad.

Seeing cool new characters that look like they might be fun to RP with but not wanting to instantly PM them and come off creepy/overexcited/stalkery/etc.

So even if @De-Villefort is right and all genres except for sci-fi and cyberpunk are filled with nothing but bad terrible people…

So what?

Sometimes it’s fun to play the villain. Do you think that any actor that gets the role of a villainous type absolutely hates their job while doing so? Do you think Alan Rickman or Christopher Lee cried in anguish every morning they woke up before going off to play their various famous villainous roles?

hi I’m new to the clique. what time are our weekly meetings on who to dogpile that week? I’m also signing on up bringing cups and ice.

@ten You can tell my em dashes are legit because I always use them — incorrectly.

@catzilla said in Real life happy:

I like a good meowdy

@Lemon-Fox said in Star Wars Age of Alliances: Hadrix and Cujo:

@SpilledBeanz Well good on Cujo. Ugh, I’ve been jonesing to log back on, and it’s good to see him actually take a stand on something, even if it took something this awful to get him to do so. We’ll see.

sharayr always gave me a really weird vibe. Never RP’d with the other guy though.

I wouldn’t.

I have a very big feeling that it was only taken care of is because it involves obviously illegal stuff.

@Cygnus I want conflict to come from the environment and NPCs. I don’t want to worry about my character getting ganked because another player thinks it’s fun.

If I want PVP, I’ll boot up Rivals or something similar.

I don’t care if all character stats are available for everyone.

But leave histories/backgrounds private. I enjoy a slower burn for learning about PCs and them learning about my PC.

@Ominous To me, a system is some sort of mechanics ruling for abilities/powers/etc. that gives some fairness/stability to the game.

It could be as simple as ‘any time you want to do something requiring a roll, roll a D6 and if you get a 5 or 6 you succeed’. Or it could be something as complex as I hear that FATAL system.

What’s your preference and why?

Does it matter on which ‘genre/game/etc’ it is?

Like, you’d play on a freeform vampire game but never a freeform werewolf game?

This question/curiosity came about in the superhero and Star Wars threads. (Some) people said freeform superhero is great but a freeform Star Wars game is ICK?

@Raistlin said in What's up with the two Age of Heroes games?:

@catzilla There’s a Star Wars game out now that uses traits. I don’t play there but not because of the system they use. I think it could work very well. You can check them out at https://swdarktimes.com/

This is exactly the game I was talking about. It was mentioned in that dumpster fire game thread and basically was snubbed by person/people because it DOESN’T have mechanics.

I discovered the MU world like “only” 10 years ago.

I still don’t know the difference between MUSH, MUX, etc.

@helvetica said in What's up with the two Age of Heroes games?:

@catzilla Narrative power sets (1-2 paragraph explanation of range and min/max impact) with a baseline skill to roll.

I did A LOT of forum PBP during my 20s-early 30s so this is what I’m used to.

But…

Why did people turn their nose up at the same idea for a Star Wars game?

Maybe this should be a new topic about freeform vs systems or something? I’d be interested in knowing further on the topic in general.

So for an OC-only/focused (refer to previous post in thread with questions about this…), what system would people use?

• Deviant the Renegades?
• FS3?
• What do the superhero MUSHes use?
• Some other system out there made specifically for superhero-ing?

INQUIRING MINDS WANT TO KNOW!

People like OC only/focused superhero games?

So like…

• Totally original (but inspired by X, Y, Z) ideas?
• Set in a known universe but OCs are allowed along with canon characters?
• Set in known universe, only OCs and canon characters (these are FC right?) are only NPC?

I have so many ideas…

@Prototart said in What's up with the two Age of Heroes games?:

the guy behind every giant desc with cut and paste names and giant ass cheeks grinding together and tits so big they have to “enter a room sideways,”

@Coin said in What's up with the two Age of Heroes games?:

@catzilla said in What's up with the two Age of Heroes games?:

Maybe one day we’ll have a superhero game not run by abusers.

Damn, why am I catching strays over here?

Which one is yours?