I recently watched all four seasons of a series called Evil that was originally a Paramount+ show and can highly recommend it.

It revolves around a small team of people who investigate demonic or supernatural events for the catholic church. One of them is a atheist tech-guy, one is a psychologist, and one is an aspiring priest. They try to find the reasoned and logical explanations for events before the church gives the okay to come in slinging holy water around.

Also, if you are a fan of Star Trek there is a different Paramount+ show called Star Trek: Strange New Worlds that is honestly the best Star Trek show put out in a long, long, time but most people don’t even know it exists.

You get Paramount+ for free if you have a Walmart monthly subscription service for the free deliveries so I have been going through their catalog. They also have the Daily Show.

Is this game still open? I couldn’t connect.

@Mushling-0 said in Numetal/Retromux:

but regardless I don’t like to see someone slut-shamed.

Sluts should be celebrated, not shamed.

I’m going to go on a little rant here but stick with me, I promise it is on topic.

DarkMetal was the most well designed WoD MUSH to ever exist. Wanna fight about it? Here we go!

The reason your players are burning out after 3 months is that there are no stakes in your game.
I hate to sound like one of /those/ people but… game devs today are too soft on their players.
It practically takes an act of God to kill off someone’s character so they get stuck with the same character for long periods of time, or they make alts and that results in burn out just as quick because they can never find in-depth character development with their focus divided between multiple alts.

Dark Metal got a few things right that no one else did.

1. Anyone could die at any time.
2. There were safe zones for each sphere if you wanted to just do soft RP. You never needed to be in danger as long as you stayed in your zone.
3. Making a new character was fast and easy! If you died it wasn’t a big deal.
4. Staff didn’t give a s*** what you played, as long as you played, so approval was automated.

On Dark Metal you had to fight tooth and nail to survive long enough to get to a point you could walk in the mixed spaces without being in danger of being made into someone’s midnight snack and you were never fully safe.

You had to struggle to become enough of a bad-ass not to have to live in fear all the time. I can not emphasize enough how important that feeling of progression is to the health of a game.

People want their actions and choices to matter.
When they don’t, people get bored and they wander off.
It’s the same reason people add stakes and drama to TV shows. If nothing changes, there is no point.

If you want your game to survive, learn to crush your players hopes and dreams. Learn to let players kill each other off.

Character churn will save your game from player churn.

@Tez said in AI Megathread:

@SpaceKhomeini ChatGPT is actually really bad at smut.

Try https://perchance.org/ai-story-generator it will write pretty much anything you ask it too.

@somasatori said in Dies Irae:

The power levels of characters in Dies Irae are at a low to medium level …

@somasatori said in Dies Irae:

Mage: the Ascension and Changeling: the Dreaming as its core rulesets …

One of these two statements must be untrue.

Today I got the itch to WoD again. I tried out LiberationMUSH but the part of creating a character I always hated the most was the formating of the +selfstat nonsense so I thought I would try ChatGPT and see if it would do the work for me.

It was surprisingly good. It formatted everything nicely and even gave me helpful suggestions. Out of curiosity I asked it if it knew about LiberationMUSH specifically and it said it did. I started asking it questions to test how much it knew.

I asked it to summarize what people had posted online about LiberationMUSH and the answer I got was… interesting.

It told me that the game was most well known for the vampire sex parties, Polk (One of the administrators) wildly abusing the rules for their own benefit, and a debate about the number of nipples a person has influencing the amount of gnosis they have.

The last statement included a link to this forum which is how I found you all.

So the next time you are thinking about trying out a new game, ask ChatGPT about it. You might find something interesting.

@RiotDawn Check Jenn’s other devices. If they ever logged in from a phone that phone or a different web browser on the main PC might have the log in information stored in the password files.
That’s about all you can do.