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@Gashlycrumb

CoG is City of Glass - https://cityofglass.aresmush.com/

@Juniper Same

@tighearna
Genuinely curious question. I’m not extremely familiar with Hobbit/LotR lore and I know it’s not D&D so

I can understand on some level why your policies say to keep romantic rp between the same species but is this primarily aimed at the physical aspect?

Or is this just across the board because it’s not thing at all in the lore? (Again, I can see other reasoning for wanting to keep things separated on the physical aspect)

@Coin

Great read! Really enjoyed it!

@junipersky @Pyrephox

Yeah Four months I think is about how long it’s been! Good to know that’s like the average it seems. I’ll have to let him know.

My husband is finishing his degree this Spring and a while back he applied to his ideal job but it’s government thing so they’re very slow moving. He’s been agonizing over this for a while but yesterday he got the news that he’s been selected! It was a tentative job offer, but he did the intake stuff and is now waiting for the official word.

So he’s excited and I’m excited because this opens up a bunch of opportunities for us if he does get it (which I am confident that he will)!

Paul…Every Time.

City of Glass is pretty fun so far if you’re into WoD!

@Snackness I never really played on Arx. I did pick up a roster for like…a day but then never came back because I was too overwhelmed by the sheer amount of information because the game had already been around for so long. So I’m not sure if I can really make a fair comparison.

Part of me is inclined to say it might be a little more involved than Arx? But that’s just going off gut instinct and not knowing what all Arx has code wise.

Part of why I wanted to give Song of Avaria a try is because it reminded me a bit of an Arx but like the ‘getting in on the ground floor’ version which, for me, is easier to wrap my head around than coming in several years later.

Registration is currently closed while they deal with the influx from opening day.

I’m still wrapping my brain around a lot of it. It’s more code and lore heavy than any games I’ve played before but definitely interesting

@Rowan

I don’t play on Arx so I’m not sure if anything different has been stated on the game itself but this is from this post on the Arx game ad thread:

Come Feb 1st, requests turn off, and that’ll be it for the current characters canonical story save for one shots I or others might GM to test systems. And then, a bit down the road, Arx relaunches as a very different game, which I am extremely excited about. But just not yet. Time to go all in on a story first.

@Kassien There is! I think they might have initially been shown in Run Faster, but then there’s some others that are in other supplements.

i just found found this list:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/0tl0dveny7buro7/SR5 TOOL Life Modules.pdf?dl=0

ETA: I am also a sucker for a lifepath system even though I only used the SR5E one once

I’ll just add my two cents here that even though I’ve unfortunately had to just accept I like the idea of playing comic book character instead of actually playing them, all the times I’ve tried Excelsior out the staff has been great and they’ve really taken a lot of time and care with the backgrounds they’ve put together and trying to weave interesting character connections.

I’m really glad to see they’re still going strong.

Anxious Banana Chip

I would be interested in one whenever one becomes available!

Why is there a Vehicle Registration Fee that’s separate from Vehicle Registration Renewal? I paid my shit in August thinking I was ahead of the game. Still hadn’t gotten my tags but also my driver’s license had apparently expired in May so I renewed that. Got pulled over this weekend for unrelated reasons and they said my registration was expired.

Called the city this morning and they were like ‘that’s separate, you have to go through the dmv’, which you think I’d know by now because I’ve had to do this a hundred times but it’s too much to keep track of x.x

@Roz

I’ve noticed that too.

I think a lot of Gen Zers didn’t actually grow up on computers like we did. They grew up largely with ipads/tablets and smart phones. So they’re more familiar with the touch screens rather than traditional computers and so didn’t really learn the short cuts and stuff that come with frequent computer use.

First time participating in Fat Bear Week! It’s been fun. Grazer 100%

@Starr-Saphyre

There are rotating Seasons where your Actor takes on an entirely new persona and then there’s the downtime between seasons called a Hiatus where the Actors all hang out in the Dome as themselves.

it’s not for everyone but I’ve been playing it since it opened and it’s really just what you make of it. There have been Seasons I didn’t participate at all because of Life and seasons I went all in on and the Hiatus RP is always a good breather from one Season to the Next.

If your schedule is such that you have bursts of free time for live play and enjoy the horror genre you might like Silent Heaven (silentheaven.org). It’s set up to be slower paced on the metaplot level and is very character driven imo.

@Kestrel

I don’t have an ADD/ADHD diagnosis but I’ve suspected for a while I might have it on some level. I just haven’t made the effort to get it looked into because, well, I haven’t.

But I came to say that I also used to be a voracious reader. I was a frequent library visitor and always had my nose in a book. But it was like as soon as I graduated high school I stopped reading?? I don’t know when exactly I realized it. I’ve tried to pick up another book or two over the years but I can’t stick with it - and I do fully believe it’s in part because of this hobby because I would be reading but then want to check what was going on in any of my games. I am one and a half chapters in to ‘Needful Things’ by Stephen King and it’s been like that for almost 3 weeks.

I just had a conversation with my husband (again) recently about the fact I don’t have any other hobbies and it would be a lot healthier to try and work some other ones in and how when I do step away from the MUSHes I want to do things again.

To which I will say I have pulled back a lot in general and am only down to about 1 very active game and two games that are kind of on the back burner but I know he’s right and so I’m trying to start incorporating again a couple things I had enjoyed doing or been in the process of learning.

It won’t change overnight, but I just have to keep at it.

Can we also talk about how hard it is to really stick with any kind of habit-forming routine? It’s insanely easy for one little thing to knock me off weeks of progress in a routine and having to start from scratch again.