It really feels like Ganymede has just decided to let Derp drive it into the ground out of some need to avoid losing face from reversing a decision.

Well, I’m reducing my MSB activity to lurking now. Gany just basically said that the only person who needed to be apologized to on MSB for what happened was Derp.

I get two things from reading stuff from this thread.

1. That I definitely am not the target audience for Lords & Ladies roleplay.

2. That Arx, even with all of it’s trouble throughout its history, is a pretty good example of ‘doing it right’ in our hobby.

Congrats to all you Arx players and staff for doing cool stuff.

Starting a new thread, for a new year.

First up, and this one hit me hard, David Lynch, legendary director of such weirdness as Eraserhead, Twin Peaks, and the original 1980s version of Dune.

@hobos

Please stop. If you actually care, stop, step away, and come back in a few days or even a week or two. You’re making yourself look bad with each new post.

Bring back Victorian era drug problems!

I want a post apocalyptic game surrounding the events at one of the last settlements in the world struggling to survive against all manner of obstacles and threats.

@Jennkryst

I’m gonna have to run a one shot of the MMPR RPG in his honor.

Well, after that interaction with Ghost and some other odd shit I’ve seen today, I added MSB to my firewall block list. I don’t need that shit in my life anymore.

@Roz Totally. I’m all for people trying to repair relationships, but deception is not the way to make that happen.

Now, if someone came to me and was like, I want to rebuild the bridge and move on from this and in the process offered to make a new character to help push some plot I was trying to push, I’d probably see that as an olive branch.

If I’m in the mood to do space trucking, I’m usually not trying to RP. I’m just trying to chill and get loads of neutrino power cells for battleship guns from one side of the galaxy to the next, in the most efficient way possible.

I’m also not trying to stare at a wall of text while doing it, so I’m usually playing Elite or any number of other various space sims out there that accomplish the same stuff.

Just want to say… thanks for this.

@GF said in Comic Games Are Still Fun!:

There is probably something profound or insightful to say about how HAM was formed because the staff of their previous game quit en masse after the head staffer started treating them as badly as he treated the peon players, only for the response game built from that exodus to seem to go exactly the same route.

I’m starting to believe that a combination of institutional memory and “make victims lest you be victims” (to quote an RL friend) are modus operandi for a portion of the tabletop (and online, and live) RPG community.

My peeve remains wanting to start a character on a game somewhere knowing full well I don’t honestly know if I have the time to play enough to avoid getting idled out.

I’m pretty sure I’ve stolen plenty of stuff for RP purposes over the years. I’m also as sure that I’ve never done it consciously. I’ll just adapt something into my RP for some character and randomly get paged asking if I’m player of X from game Y.

I will post this here, as I did there.

At this point he should just rename the site MuDerpBox.

Even though I don’t actually play any Ares games, I still think what @Faraday does is great for the community.

Congratulations on hitting a big development milestone!

@Tez

I think the thing that irks me the most about these situations is the specific version of this where:

• The specific consequences for a specific action are warned about both IC to many PCs and OOC through various OOC channels.
• Alternative methods to approach the current danger are offered both IC and OOC through many PCs and OOC channels.
• A single PC comes forward, and even though they are prearmed with the information that action X will have result Y 100% of the time, choose to take action X regardless of the consequences.
• That player immediately throws a shit fit because that’s not what should happen to their PC.

The first example I can think of this happening actually happened on a PBP forum game loosely based on various space faring scifi stuff like Traveller, Warhammer 40K, and Disney’s The Black Hole. The characters discovered a previously undiscovered artificial planet was on a collision course with a hub world, and if left unchecked would have dire consequences. They had roughly a year of in game time to deal with the issue, and several options were presented by staff for the players to do so.

One of these options involved reassembling the control system on the planet and it was noted both via IC play and OOC communication that attempts to reassemble the control system with less than the required number of parts would be terminal for any players directly involved.

A PC, who will be referred to as Sam from here forward, was given all of this information, and through regular adventures with their crew along side some political bargains with other PCs, managed to acquire 3 of the 4 pieces of the device, and though warned both IC and OOC that attempting to reassemble the control device now would be a VERY BAD IDEA INDEED, they chose to go alone to do this. When they opened the request for the scene, the staffer involved in running it sent the player a private message asking for confirmation that they wanted to proceed down this guaranteed suicide mission. Their response was “I just want to get this plot over with.”.

After sneaking past a few patrols of security robots, the character arrived at the core of the planet, reassembled the incomplete device, turned it on, and was promptly vaporized when the planet exploded.

Cue 3 week long tantrum on every board they could get access to after their access was modified because their character died.