I have, on occasion, wanted to do video essay deep dives into THE CULTURE, if for no other reason than to have it compiled and learn about some of the history (and maybe serve as advertising for the community?)

But oh god do I not know where to even start.

@Ashkuri said:

This is in GG and not R&R

BOLD OF YOU TO ASSUME THAT WILL STOP ME FROM GOING CAPS LOCK CRUISE CONTROL!

@Thionoxial said:

@Jennkryst

I have never seen multitheme on an oWOD mush really enhance the game. It can work on say…nWOD, but not on oWOD.

Mages in particular just don’t work well with other themes. The problem is usually mage players. And there’s no…reason? to have vampires and garou together.

These games almost always work better as single-sphere games focused on that sphere. Again, for oWOD.

This is part of the ‘scratch off the inherent every sphere hating each other’ I was talking about. Almost every sphere has mention somewhere in one of their books where ‘on the surface, they hate each other. Here are a bunch of ideas for how they actually work together behind the scenes’.

You are correct about ‘what ruleset’ regarding dnd, and also why people (including myself) hate 4e. I don’t know what the answer to that would be.

Theoretically copy/paste D&D lore onto non-D&D rules. Success will vary.

Regarding Star Wars:

I’ve played SW games for 20 years and I’m a bit burnt out on it

Fair.

@Thionoxial said:

My wishlist:

1. A VTM game set somewhere interesting. I’ve been working on a setting/ruleset called ‘Olympus Mons by Night’ for >12 years now. I’m too old to run a mush, no freetime, but I’d love to see something interesting. And not multisphere. That NEVER works.

Multi-sphere works, you just have to scratch off the ‘everyone hates everyone else’ badness.

2. Scifi space opera where I can be a blue/green/purple skinned alien girl and do mad science or psychic bullshit.

There is a new Star Wars game, and another in the works, but might not count.

3. I’d like to see a REGULAR FUCKING TABLETOP FANTASY GAME IN A REGULAR CITY, based not around tabletop stuff but like - game of thrones style. Not low magic. More like…what if BG3 was a mush? Or Spelljammer? None of you will know what Spelljammer is, I’m old.

I’ve pitched Spelljammer a few times, everyone in the hobby is old. Okay, most people in the hobby are old. Definitely old enough to know about it because the terrible 5e version dropped after COVID, plus the Spelljammer ship that showed up in BG3.

… the problem is going to always be what ruleset. D&D 4e is the only truly balanced version of D&D, and that balance comes with a cost (which is most people hate it).

4. A technocracy game where players are ONLY technocrats, and the real life world is so messed up because the Traditions took over behind the scenes and are spreading anti-vaxx stuff/anti-science stuff/chaos to try and wear down the Consensus, so your kinda like scrappy x-com agents fighting against the anti-science crusaders of the Hemetic Order.

While I agree that everyone overlooks the bad side of the Traditions, there’s plenty of bad sides of the Technocracy there to make everyone being on thier side a bit… tricksy.

@Prototart said in GIF Button Broken:

@Pavel

but im lazy

TOO LAZY!

@Pavel said in MU Peeves Thread:

Tempted, now, to write some passive-aggressive code snippet that looks for the words ‘how do I’ on a game’s Help or Newbie channel and just pages with “have you tried fuckin’ lookin’ it up, champ?”

ETA: I’ll be nice and make it only send for characters created 30+ days ago.

Shadowrun Denver has a great thing on the game itself: +document/find. It searches every +help or +policy file on the game, and in the past people have passive aggressively answered questions with ‘+document/find [word]’.

Sure is a shame about the other bits.

SPACESHIP

@Aria said in MU Peeves Thread:

a fucking weirdo about it

As a(n honest) fucking weirdo about it, I am randomly reminded of that one NYC CoD game (not the Ares one, but I forget what the name was) where someone got extremely heavy-handed about my WerewolfLawyer chargen build, then heavy handed leading the first scene to the smut, then (allegedly) got extremely ick’d out by me trying to recruit other people to make a pack where they insist I telegraphed the implication that smut happened on channel.

Zany shenanigans were afoot, I just bounced entirely.

Now only the coolest of kids get my smut, after taking an intensive multi-choice questionnaire. Good Luck!

@Pavel said in MU Peeves Thread:

@Third-Eye said in MU Peeves Thread:

Gdoc porn with a friend

The last thing I want is Google giving me an AI summary of my TS.

I think if enough of us dedicate ourselves enough, we could finally break AI for good.

@Pavel said in Arx:

@howyadoin said in Arx:

Arx also had a secret system that tied most into some aspect of the metaplot or history, giving every character something they could pursue out the gate that was more or less “theirs” and could hook in to wider story arcs.

To clarify, this was a system about Character Secrets, not a system that was secret.

No, the systems were secrets, too. Every time I tried to learn a system to be able to answer questions on help chan or to try to recruit folks, it always ended in more confusion.

@Prototart said in Age Verification & Games:

@hellfrog said in Age Verification & Games:

@Prototart the Prince Batman soundtrack was the first cassette tape I ever bought for myself with my own allowance

I don’t remember mine but there’s a really good chance it was one of those Cleopatra Records cover CDs.

Mine was the Ninja Turtles Pseudo-Musical thing.

@Roz said in Arx:

the practice existed long before the Big Plot Point of Forgetting

SO FAR AS ANYONE REMEMBERS, WOULD BE A SHAME IF THEY FORGOT WHEN THE FORGETTING REALLY STARTED

@Roz said in Arx:

populace had forgotten a lot of stuff

I think the neatest thing is that it wasn’t just forgetting about magic and history, but you could come down with a bit of amnesia, which my understanding is the whole reason for the journals, so you could write little reminders for yourself in case you forgot (and also so if/when you dropped the character and someone else picked them up, they obviously had a case of the forgets and the journals are right there to remind them of things)

@Prototart No, I mean Glitter-Edward Batman.

@hellfrog said in Age Verification & Games:

@Ominous we’re still waiting for you to name one Nirvana song

Batman Theme.

@Purplelamia said in MU* Wishlists:

Lords & Ladies game

The Scorpion book for the FFG L5R game is set to drop soon-ish, somebody do the thing!

@Rucket Could be ‘uncover the secret history’, could be ‘never get a plot run because your timezone doesn’t line up with any STs authorized to run the plot’. I’d say 50/50?

@Livia said in MU* Wishlists:

some things named the same like Ventrue, Gangrel, Toreador bloodline etc.

I forget who told me, but apparently, they also didn’t originally mean for Forsaken to be as heavily spirit-centric like Apocalypse, and also randomly decided to make the anti-yiffing rules even worse.

At least one of which is solved entirely by CoD, so huzzah!

(none of this stops the haters from hating, but shrug

@Livia said in MU* Wishlists:

@Jennkryst said in MU* Wishlists:

@Livia said in MU* Wishlists:

Well that’s suspicious.

But I’ll take this opportunity to pine for Vampire the Requiem once again. All the WoD games have returned to 20th Anniv. edition of everything.

People are too invested in THE METAPLOT… which also sort of happened with Requiem/nWoD. ‘I am part of this bloodline, let me name-drop the person from the book instead of seeing if we should alter stuff for game setting’.

Which, I mean, fair. I still think that the ideal WoD game should build out a wiki of the world as players submit new characters. If the game is in New York City, staff obviously have NYC history in mind. But do they know who is in charge in Philadelphia? The first character submitted from that area gets to canonize the lore from there, and then it gets integrated. Second player now has to deal with Philly being Carthian (because who else would riot in both celebration AND defeat?)

That, or somehow be on LegallyDistinctEarthlikeLocation, as written in Trans-Ally Katherine Applegate’s second-greatest work, Everworld.

Everyone is running 20th edition and ignoring V5’s metaplot entirely so I’m not convinced about anything to do with the metplot, harrumph harrumph.

I more mean, everyone is Very Invested in Brujah not being a bloodline of the Gangrel Clan and etc and so on. For more examples, see all the arguments from when oWoD was taken out behind the chemical shed and shot / when nWoD first came out.

I just wannt play some Chronicles of Darkness, preferably Requiem but honestly I’d play any of 'em.

As long as we remember to include Mummy!

@MisterBoring This reminds me, over Covid I found an archive where she provided all of Remnants for free, I should see if it’s still around so I can finally finish it.