Wheel of Time. Fourth Age (post books). L&L

@labsunlimited Somehow my Get Philodox, son of Golgol Fangs-First, who decided ‘You know, kicking ass and being physically strong isn’t bad, but what about strength of character, including empathy, folks?’ not only hit Elder in play, but also helped run the tribe for most of an org larp chronicle, understood this. But, hey. What do I know, I just read the book.

@labsunlimited Like, they made me write in a whole ass breeding program into my background. When, you know, for most tribes Pure Breed will often just happen. Normal ass, no pure breed kin can drop a pure breed 5 kid, because sometimes that just happens, and they did not understand this. Because it’s not just genetic, it’s fucking spiritual too.

@catzilla

The tl’dr is that my PC, the burn out gifted kid pure breed 5 shadow lord philodox was tasked to sit in on a meeting between a packmate ahroun black fury, and the douchebag, newly fostern shadow lord philodox regarding a black fury PC cub’s education. It went about as well as one could expect. (Poorly. There was some player drama from elsewhere involved. (I love my packmates from that game, the shit that player said is all of it lies and slander and I see them on this board. You fucking know who you are.)

So I put the +job in reporting, and Scylla demanded a scene over it with all of the parties save the cub. So we went, and this guy would not fucking sit down, demanding ‘due respect’ as a fostern from a bunch of cliath. Which, to those who don’t know, is basically the college freshman telling the high school seniors to shut up and do what he says. It doesn’t work like Scylla and that fuckwad think it does. Until someone’s ass gets beat, but that’s Werewolf.

The scene went, then we started talking and, like, trying to have a productive conversation with Scylla about, you know, how Werewolf works and why we think she adjudicated incorrectly. I put my whole ass on the line, having played an Elder Philodox in a goddamn NATIONAL LARP ORG, and never losing my seat, which means I know I was doing something right because my sheet was total ass. Things got a little heated, and I just was like ‘Fuck this. You have more interest in sucking the male PC’s dick rather than listening to sense from three female PCs’ in more polite terms, then logged off and never logged in again.

Also, her ideas about how Pure Breed worked were really eugenicist and creepy in hindsight.

Then there was Scylla’s complete inability to, you know, understand Werewolf at all. Jesus christ her philodox npc made me cry at how bad at it she was. Though I’m pretty sure half of it was just how conflict averse the whole thing was. Especially since a scene with my pack, where we clearly were in the right, devolved into an ooc discussion that made me just quit the fucking game because of how badly she ran that shit.

So, uh, anyone want to join me and rule over the galaxy as headwiz and staff? I can’t pay you, but I can promise a sane environment, a good setting, and lightsabers without too many hoops.

@Roo

It’s 2025. No one under 18 is playing these games. Fuck it, make some private, lockable rooms and let people bone. It’s fine. No one cares.

@Hobbie said in Star Wars Age of Alliances: Hadrix and Cujo:

@Popes said in Star Wars Age of Alliances: Hadrix and Cujo:

In other news, anyone got an AoA DB dump, I want to make a revenge game.

Do not do this.

Not just for your mental health (some things are best left behind), but because the codebase is an absolute mess at the best of times. What remains of the good Yeti-code is bridged by unneeded hacks, badly implemented FOTM, and a #1 that had the VISUAL flag set for a number of years.

Okay so maybe it is just for your mental health.

@Roo said in Star Wars Age of Alliances: Hadrix and Cujo:

So, I heard Cujo went off and fired Maelstrom - not sure why, but sounds like new drama! Any details out there?

I have a sordid tale.

First off, I was one of the ones who said the game had changed for the better. I’m sorry, I was wrong, but not in the way you might think.

This tale goes way back. Way back to the days when United Heroes exploded due to the actions of, well Ruby. That crazy bitch is still around. Still on HAM as Rogue and Wonder Woman. She’s also on AoA as Rey. For a long time, she seemed fine. Wildly different from the crazy control beast she is over on the cape game. I was wrong.

I was in a scene with her and a handful of others, just hanging out in one of the Jedi enclaves. A little slice of life social thing to farm some XP and be low key. My Jedi, who is a former Sith who was brought out of it by some fantastic RP by the, now former, Ben Solo (who is an old friend of mine and a solid dude who features more in a little bit) who was functioning as her Jedi teacher. The question was ICly asked where he was, and a flippant joke was made about him being in the wilderness, flying a ship somewhere or with his girlfriend.

About twenty minutes later, Ben and said OC girlfriend (who was one of Mael’s alts) get paged by Cujo. A TWO AND A HALF HOUR rant about how FCs aren’t supposed to play with OCs one on one, where they should not be in romantic relationships with OCs. Where they in the name of all that is holy should not get MARRIED and have CHILDREN (which wasn’t even a THING with those two) because BY GOD that would give an ORIGINAL CHARACTER undue LEVERAGE over the PRECIOUS THEME.

The precious theme of foreverwar with the Sith who, despite having like maybe half the number of PCs as the Rebellion, aren’t allowed to actually permanantly lose. There was a couple board posts made, outlining the policy or whatever. And it calmed down for about a day.

Til Saturday when Cujo @newpassed Mael. Because she stressed him out.

At this point, Ben and Mael are walking, I’m walking, and it wouldn’t surprise me if others are gonna follow. Ben has been DRIVING some real good RP on that bit and showing up to stuff on his Mando. And people are gonna ask questions about why a handful of real active players just aren’t there anymore.

Adding on to this, Cujo is, apparently, trying to make Ruby and someone else staff. That someone else is the player of Jean Grey on HAM. Also a crazy fuckhead control freak. So that’s a good time.

In other news, anyone got an AoA DB dump, I want to make a revenge game. With plot, and staff that don’t treat it like it’s a Pern game from 1996.

@Jennkryst said in Numetal/Retromux:

@Pavel said in Numetal/Retromux:

L&L are Arx

L&L5R! L5Arx!

I would absolutely play a L&L game set in Rokugan. Someone do this. Now.

@Jynxbox I mean, just because all that’s true, doesn’t mean she’s not doing it wrong. She removed Glabro as a form from Garou for christsakes. That’s asinine and probably REALLY fucking petty.

@KarmaBum said in Lords and Ladies Game Design:

Oh yeah. Also a Wheel of Time game.

Weird no one mentioned it in all this L&L talk. Seems like a freebie.

@Third-Eye said in Lords and Ladies Game Design:

The version of WoT I want isn’t an L&L game but idk what other people would want.

I thought I mentioned it. May have been another thread. 4th age, Dragon’s Peace politics.

@Roz Mostly because we exiles call this person the footnazi. Because when they played Juri Han, the two things that were emphasized most were how young and scarily hot she is and lovingly detailed descriptions of her bare feet in every other pose. It’s the goddamn Wizzard comic in action. No, we do not want to be in your magical realm!

@Raistlin said in Games we want, but will almost certainly never have:

Back to games we want but won’t see…

Street Fighter / Mortal Kombat: I think both actually have themes you could build a MU around. Street Fighter is almost superheroics meets espionage while Mortal Kombat could be modern fantasy.

TMNT: One of my favorite things from my youth. I loved playing the old RPG and would love to play on a MU set in the TMNT universe.

Transformers: I know there are one or two out there but I find their themes confusing. I’d like a simple G1 Transformers game set on Earth and maybe Cybertron. Perhaps with a plot working up to the original 1986 movie(Unicron).

One exists. It’s called Match of the Millennium. It has SNK and other stuff too. Sadly, a chunk of us quit recently when staff decided to promote a foot fetishist, pedo nazi to a place of plot importance, and instead of going ‘oh, we’ll ban them’, instead doubled down.

@Artemis said in Games we want, but will almost certainly never have:

i just want a good old L&L mush to scratch my regency era itch gdi

Wheel. Of. Time. Fourth. Age. L&L

Getting this shit L I V E

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Message: 4/42 Author: Gwendolyn Sat Jan 4 2025
State of the Game? 17:44:05

Happy New Year, all. Welcome to 2025. I hope it goes well for everyone.

In the spirit of fresh starts, I wanted to ask if there could be an update on the state of Liberation? We all know the game has been basically frozen from the top down for a while now. Many of us genuinely sympathize that RL can happen and take us away from our beloved hobbies.

But it’s been a long time now. Confusion has grown into concern and that concern is now turning into unrest. I know several players who have already left and several more who are looking to leave. Not because they don’t like this game or the people in it, but because we’ve been left in the dark for so long with no clue if the game is abandoned, on hiatus, rebooting, coming back…anything.

Some official word from on high would do wonders to help answer the questions that have been floating around since this past summer. I hope everything is okay…but I suspect it isn’t, and my heart goes out to anyone who is suffering hard times right now.

We don’t need personal details, either. Simply the answer to this burning question: “Is Liberation going to reopen to activity anytime soon?”

Then, swiftly after

[Public] Siren says, “Hello folks. I was the one who removed Gwendolyn’s post from the +bb board. While I understand where she was coming from, and empathize with (and adore) her as a player, I didn’t think it was going to lead to a particularly productive discussion. It also minimizes the work that myself, Reverie, Wormwood, and Ceres – as well as all of you players – have been doing to keep things moving and fun around here. Though I do know that she was not alone in her sentiment of a feeling of slowness lately. I’ll refer to Sundance’s post (1/47) about the slow moving jobs until the New Year, which we have only just turned the corner on. Thanks everyone for continuing to stay positive, and have fun on this game we all adore.”

This might get real spicy.

Jubilee doesn’t do shit except idle in her room and TS Noriko and complain about things involving the X-Men happening and then justifying why she can’t go to these events.

Heroes Assemble is such a stupid fucking game where half the cool characters should be set open because their players are useless.

I’m going to start writing a setting document soon.<tm> Proooobably going to use Cairhien as the quote-unquote hub. Though with Traveling being a thing, people will be able to go wherever pretty much.

IN PROGRESS.

So I’ve been thinking about it. I’ll run this game. I’ll herd these cats and hit people with sticks.

I just can’t code anything. And I’m not a huge ares fan, even though it’d make everything but Channeling easy.

So if any kind helpers out there want involved or have suggestions, I’ll listen.

@Rinel

Lanfear did not survive.

Cyndane survived.

Yes, I am being pedantic.