@bear_necessities idk why she needs you to speak for her but here we are

@Faraday said in Grid vs Web Scenes:

Are we getting more players from other mediums though?

yes. we were always surprised on arx just how many people kept coming in that had no MU* experience at all.

@Gashlycrumb we sure could

@MisterBoring it’s always about specific incidents. People just don’t own up to them because they don’t want the scrutiny - for a variety of reasons, I’m sure.

‘async’ to me reads as ‘we are going into this expecting it will be ongoing for days, weeks, or even months’ and i just cannot

@Third-Eye said in RP Safari - Pacing Styles:

Standard Live or more staggered/distracted live if I’m at work, which I’ve usually seen defined as poses can take like 20 mins+ to come in but you’re still done in a day or two and consistently paying attention. I prefer a relatively brisk pace for the improv feel of it but both are fine.

i was going to post my own preferences but THIRD EYE BLIND already did it. Sometimes my normal poses take 10-15 minutes, but that’s because i’m old and my brain is slow and i’m not a great writer. But hopefully, that shows in the poses and I don’t seem like I’m not paying attention. I try hard to be ‘in the moment’ because I hate it so much when I can tell my scene partners are distracted - my mental disability goes nuts.

@Pyrephox honestly farming systems are the best kind of minigames for MU, they don’t rely on timing or getting 8 people to pay attention for 3 hours

i would definitely not. dabbling in paid DnD, even my strong belief that storytellers should be allowed to do what they want was tested by the annoyance and expectation of “i am paying for this”.

any time anyone ever suggested arx be monetized in some way, I broke out in full body shudders

@Gashlycrumb said in MU Peeves Thread:

@Trashcan said in MU Peeves Thread:

You’re certainly free to decide this doesn’t match your preference, but it’s not really fair to decry it as a miscarriage of justice.

A miscarriage of justice? Haha.

But really, the expectation that everybody gets a turn and the GM doesn’t skip yours because they kinda feel like it is not something that needs to be explicitly stated in a policy. It’s how gaming works. It is fair to decry it as rude fuckery, which is what we talk about here.

disagree. if you are odious or rude to a staffer, or you no-sell when they try to include you, or you just are high maintenance and take up too much gm time? These are all perfectly valid and fair reasons to skip players, leave them out of things, or refuse to GM for them.

make no mistake, doling out reward currency just for activity would absolutely attract players. 100% of those will be the players you don’t want dominating your game

@Pavel said in Web-based CharGen or in-game CharGen:

@hellfrog said in Web-based CharGen or in-game CharGen:

yeah applications are to tell you about the player more than the character, I think. "Name a non-fictional woman that is smarter than you’ would be a perfect application prompt.

Faraday and Cobalt. Next question.

you’re in, buddy!

yeah applications are to tell you about the player more than the character, I think. "Name a non-fictional woman that is smarter than you’ would be a perfect application prompt.

@SockMonkey a sad day! WAAH

@Yam I think you hit on something I found really significant in my time in the mines. Don’t leave it to your players to enforce your theme, if it matters to you.

web based is so nice. telnet travels on the devil’s whispers

YAY snow dogs

no, I was just high and only half-reading, replying to a post from 12 years ago

@helvetica i was trying to respond to yam, not throw strays at you! sorry bb

@RightMeow IS it important? I have fielded dozens of ‘why don’t more people want to rp with me’ type questions. I have never fielded "I am not having fun, how can I have fun?’

To answer seriously, I’m somewhere with Sao and Yam. I’d love to always have a scene setting idea, but that’s not me. What I CAN try to do is engage and respond to whatever my scene partner is putting out there. Try to find something about them or what they are doing to be genuinely interested in. I like to ask questions IC that inspire/require character building - that’s probably not fun for EVERYONE but it does work.

dragon riders but instead of being cool and fighting each other they are kind of like lawnmowers burning caustic braum hair out of the atmosphere iirc and also if the dragons have sex their riders have sex