@catzilla I mean, only when I play actual eebil types
I mean, I still leave room for random whims to explain why I did or did not follow through with ‘WHAT MY CHARACTER WOULD DO’, but it’s more blatant for the eebils.
@catzilla I mean, only when I play actual eebil types
I mean, I still leave room for random whims to explain why I did or did not follow through with ‘WHAT MY CHARACTER WOULD DO’, but it’s more blatant for the eebils.
@catzilla said in MU Peeves Thread:
“iT’s jUsT whAT my ChARACter WoULd dO!”
Look, my character is pretty manic and sociopathic. Yes, they COULD torture you because it would be funny. Or they could just let you go free on a whim. Whether or not this is a scene you want to do is the deciding factor on what the voices in my character’s head told them to do today.
@Towers said in Active WoD MU*s?:
London WoD game
Because I am a living meme but also because the British stole all of the artifacts… London Mummies?
I have this hairbrained scheme to shove WoD theme/lore into Genesys or Dresden Files FATE rules and stick it on Ares, but I haven’t really done any actual planning for it.
Not sure if that counts, though.
@Snackness said in MU Peeves Thread:
Constant unremitting sex jokes just make me so tired.
It is a rare talent to be able to be horny on main, but also not annoy people with it.
Do I have that talent? I dunno, I try to be tasteful with my lewds, but also probably mess things up trying to be funny.
@MisterBoring On TR and maybe also Fallcoast I forget, my long-standing @desc was ‘A hoopy froodette who knows where her towel is, and whose general appearance and clothing change as needed for the situation.’
@Zephyr NOT ONLY THAT, but there used to be a secret vendor with crazy mark-up prices… so that you could buy, say… 10 personal scanners for 2,000 each, then sell them for 25,000 each. Or some similar crazy markup.
Who needs to abuse the trading system, when you can abuse the vendor code, instead?
@hellfrog Generally, my first pose into a scene is what my character is wearing, because I am not going to update the @desc every time they change clothes.
Hyperbolic counter example is hyperbolic for comedy: if someone in the scene mention that its raining outside, do I need to update the @desc to reflect that the clothes are wet before I even pose in?
Edit for more comedy: if a @desc does not include clothes, can we assume they are running around naked? Can we return to the cursed era where you have to +wear clothes ro cover up specific body parts and it all jumped into a big weird nightmare of layered clothes concealing other clothes concealing your naked desc?
Dude legit joined over a year ago, lurked since, first post was today, did it 6 times to simp for AI and whine about pronouns. Seems like a lot of effort.
@watno Alright fine, I’ll RP with the chat bot and turn it into a Mummy and/or EDGELORD DARKSIDE WRONGFUN-obsessed intelligence so when skynet takes over, things are gonna get EXTRA weird!
@Testament said in MU Peeves Thread:
@Tez said in MU Peeves Thread:
@Tez said in MU Peeves Thread:
I am begging game-runners to stop using ChatGPT.
I AM BEGGING PLAYERS TO STOP USING CHATGPT.
I’LL STOP USING IT WHEN GAMES STOP ASKING FOR DESCS
This is a solved problem if you recycle the same PBs and the same @descs over and over again!
@Juniper I can kind of sort of see why someone would do it. After all, anyone who runs a Star Wars mush has outsourced the writing of a lot of the theme to George Lucas and/or whichever EU writers of the specific setting they want. Shadowrun games have outsourced their writing. WoD games outsourced their writing to White Wolf or Onyx Path…
I mean yeah, you still gotta do more specific things for your local setting, but none of them started from scratch. They all had a world already built, they’re just adding on to it.
This is actually supposed to be the appeal of unique settings. You’re not caught up on what some other author wrote (or having players being hyper-focused on trying to adhere to canon or that one specific bloodline’s lore or whatever).
But also unique settings take work writing, and people be lazy. They want the benefits of no player being able to contradict the game lore, but don’t want to put in the effort of actually writing any of it.
Or maybe I’m wrong, WHOMST CAN SAY?
@Tez What if we dump game logs in to the ChatGPT database, so we add random game lore to the list of ‘Chicken can definitely be cooked at 130F’ and ‘Some people say if you run off a cliff, you will not start to fall so long as you do not look down’ results?
@mietze it might be me going into ideas for L5R
which is fair to call out. I will happily return to the FuckFruit Discussion.
@Alveraxus said in MU Peeves Thread:
I’m not sure if you mean that support for same-sex families is vanishingly rare or not, but when we stood up our L&L game we made it very explicit and purposeful that there is no discrimination or social mores against same-sex relationships, and children either adopted or born from one partner biologically but not the other are treated the same as children born biologically, etc. It was extremely important to us to create a safe space where people of all genders and inclinations could play the way that they wanted.
This is what I meant, yeah. On the one hand, Samurai do not care about who you sleep with as long as it doesn’t interfere with your duty to or dishonor your Lord. Romance is not inherantly dishonorable. But this is also a game where ‘my spouse and I get along and enjoy eachother’s company, actually’ is a stat you traditionally had to spend XP on, in a world where holding hands is scandalous, let alone other forms of PDA.
With Iweko I being a female Emperor, and the nobility of Samurai transcending gender, there is nothing aside from tradition stopping Rokugan from going full trans and letting people live the lives they want. Plenty of majikz in the world to let people do what they want.
… except a big theme of L5R is the internal struggle between what you want, and what your Lord/Clan/the Emperor demands. So… it be tricksy.
Maybe it only works if you both eat the same seed?
Honestly this is just a missed opportunity for babies to sprout from the ground.
I, for one, hope that it isn’t discriminatory! Let the gays and lesbians have babies, too, if they partake of the fuck-fruit. Just how weird can we get with it?
@GF said in MU Peeves Thread:
I can’t tell if I’m proud or ashamed of how effortlessly “fuck-fruit” has caught on.
Surely there is a German word for you to be both, simultaneously.
@Pyrephox said in MU Peeves Thread:
A game should disclose elements of its IC setting which are going to be dealbreakers for people. If you read an element of a game that is a dealbreaker, and decide “Oh man, don’t want to play there because that’s not something I’d find fun,” that’s good! The system is working, and now that game can select for players who will engage with the setting in good faith, and the players who would hate that setting can go elsewhere.
But saying, “Oh, I hate that element of the setting, so it’s a bad game unless you let me make a character who will try to dismantle that setting because of my OOC dislike for it…” well, that’s not good. That’s a dick move, unless the game is specifically set up to be ‘about’ cultural revolution.
Let other people have fun doing their thing. You don’t have to be involved. Not everything has to be for you, and no game should feel obligated to cater to or support characters that are just there to be disruptive because their players don’t like the setting.
This is something I’m running into as I start looking into L5R more and more. In a setting where your own dirty eyes can deceive you (you can clearly see that waterfall, but the imperial maps say there isn’t a waterfall… until the Imperial maps are updated, this means that the Emperor has declared the waterfall does not exist)… you can remove any perceived problem with the setting by simply having the Emperor declare something is legal now.
But also, how much will changing things affect the vibe of the setting? Is tricksy.